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Foster Youth: HHS Actions Could Improve Coordination of Services and Monitoring of States' Independent Living Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To improve outcomes for youth leaving foster care, Congress passed the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which increased the allocation of federal funds for independent living programs from $70 million to $140 million. This report reviews (1) how states' funding allocations changed to serve youth after FCIA, (2) the extent to which states have expanded services and age groups of foster youth … more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Defense: Further Actions Are Needed to Effectively Address Business Management Problems and Overcome Key Business Transformation Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In March 2004, GAO testified before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Senate Committee on Armed Services on the impact and causes of financial and related business weaknesses on the Department of Defense's (DOD) operations and the status of DOD reform efforts. GAO's reports continue to show that fundamental problems with DOD's financial management and related business operations result in … more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flu Vaccine: Recent Supply Shortages Underscore Ongoing Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Influenza is associated with an average of 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States. Persons who are aged 65 and older, people with chronic medical conditions, children younger than 2 years, and pregnant women are more likely to get severe complications from influenza than other people. The best way to prevent influenza is to be vaccinated each fall. In early October… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Tightly Coupled Particle-Fluid Model for DNA-Laden Flows in Complex Microscale Geometries

Description: We present a stable and convergent method for the computation of flows of DNA-laden fluids in microchannels with complex geometry. The numerical strategy combines a ball-rod model representation for polymers tightly coupled with a projection method for incompressible viscous flow. We use Cartesian grid embedded boundary methods to discretize the fluid equations in the presence of complex domain boundaries. A sample calculation is presented showing flow through a packed array microchannel in 2D.
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Trebotich, D; Miller, G H; Colella, P; Graves, D T; Martin, D F & Schwartz, P O
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FY 2004 Annual Report: DOE Project on Heavy Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag

Description: The objective of this report is: (1) Provide guidance to industry in the reduction of aerodynamic drag of heavy truck vehicles; and (2) Establish a database of experimental, computational, and conceptual design information, and demonstrate potential of new drag-reduction devices. The approaches used were: (1) Develop and demonstrate the ability to simulate and analyze aerodynamic flow around heavy truck vehicles using existing and advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools; (2) Through a… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: McCallen, R. C.; Salari, K.; Ortega, J.; Castellucci, P.; Eastwood, C.; Whittaker, K. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Co2 geological sequestration

Description: Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. A particular concern is that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) may be rising fast because of increased industrialization. CO{sub 2} is a so-called ''greenhouse gas'' that traps infrared radiation and may contribute to global warming. Scientists project that greenhouse gases such as CO{sub 2} will make the arctic warmer, which would melt glaciers and raise sea levels. Evidence suggests that climate change may … more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Xu, Tianfu
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Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of HMX

Description: Nucleation-growth kinetic expressions are derived for thermal decomposition of HMX from a variety of thermal analysis data types, including mass loss for isothermal and constant rate heating in an open pan and heat flow for isothermal and constant rate heating in open and closed pans. Conditions are identified in which thermal runaway is small to nonexistent, which typically means temperatures less than 255 C and heating rates less than 1 C/min. Activation energies are typically in the 140 to 1… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Burnham, A K & Weese, R K
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Dose-dependent misrejoining of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in human fibroblasts: Experimental and theoretical study for high and low LET radiation

Description: Misrejoining of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) was measured in human primary fibroblasts after exposure to X-rays and high LET particles (He, N and Fe) in the dose range 10-80 Gy. To measure joining of wrong DNA ends, the integrity of a 3.2 Mbp restriction fragment was analyzed directly after exposure and after 16 hr of repair incubation. It was found that the misrejoining frequency for X-rays was non-linearly related to dose, with less probability of misrejoining at low doses than at high dos… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Rydberg, Bjorn; Cooper, Brian; Cooper, Priscilla K.; Holley, William & Chatterjee, Aloke
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Technical Report for DOE grant ER63467-1020269-0008388 ''International Innovation & Diffusion of Environmental Technologies: The Case of NOX''

Description: This research traces the development of nitrogen dioxide (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution control devices for coal-fired power plants in the United States, Japan, and Germany. This is of particular interest because of the timing of regulation in each country. While the US was an early adopter of SO2 regulations, it did not adopt stringent NOX regulations until the 1990s. Both Japan and Germany adopted stringent NOX regulations earlier. As such, advanced control techniques such as select… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Popp, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CONFIGURATION GENERATOR MODEL

Description: ''The Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology Topical Report'' prescribes an approach to the methodology for performing postclosure criticality analyses within the monitored geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. An essential component of the methodology is the ''Configuration Generator Model for In-Package Criticality'' that provides a tool to evaluate the probabilities of degraded configurations achieving a critical state. The configuration generator model is a risk-informed, perfor… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Alsaed, A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laser Coupling to Reduced-Scale Targets at the Early Light Program of the National Ignition Facility

Description: A platform for analysis of material properties under extreme conditions, where a sample is bathed in radiation with a high temperature, is under development. This hot environment is produced with a laser by depositing maximum energy into a small, high-Z can. Such targets were recently included in an experimental campaign using the first four of the 192 beams of the National Ignition Facility, under construction at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These target… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Hinkel, D. E.; Schneider, M. B.; Baldis, H. A.; Bower, D.; Campbell, K. M.; Celeste, J. R. et al.
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Kinetics of HMX and CP Decomposition and Their Extrapolation for Lifetime Assessment

Description: Decomposition kinetics are determined for HMX (nitramine octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine) and CP (2-(5-cyanotetrazalato) pentaammine cobalt (III) perchlorate) separately and together. For high levels of thermal stress, the two materials decompose faster as a mixture than individually. This effect is observed both in high-temperature thermal analysis experiments and in long-term thermal aging experiments. An Arrhenius plot of the 10% level of HMX decomposition by itself from a d… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Burnham, A K; Weese, R K & Andrzejewski, W J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Amendments in the House: Types and Forms

Description: This report briefly discusses the amending process, which is central to the consideration of legislation by the House of Representatives, and the rules, practices, and precedents that underlie this process frequently depend on distinguishing among amendments based on their type and form. Simply put, not all amendments are equal in a procedural sense, and the form or type of amendment frequently determines what further amendments may be offered, and therefore what alternatives the House may choo… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Antiferromagnetism in Pr3In: Singlet/triplet physics withfrustration

Description: We present neutron diffraction, magnetic susceptibility and specific heat data for a single-crystal sample of the cubic (Cu{sub 3}Au structure) compound Pr{sub 3}In. This compound is believed to have a singlet ({Lambda}{sub 1}) groundstate and a low-lying triplet ({Lambda}{sub 4}) excited state. In addition, nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions are frustrated in this structure. Antiferromagnetic order occurs below T{sub N} = 12K with propagation vector (0, 0, 0.5 {center_dot}{delta})… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Christianson, A. D.; Lawrence, J. M.; Zarestky, J. L.; Suzuki, H.; Thompson, J. D.; Hundley, M. F. et al.
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Effect of Oxalate on the Recycle of Neptunium Filtrate Solution by Anion Exchange

Description: A series of laboratory column runs has been performed that demonstrates the recovery of neptunium (Np) containing up to 0.05 M oxalate. Np losses were generally less than one percent to the raffinate for feed solutions that contained 2 to 10 g Np/L. Up to 16 percent Np losses were observed with lower Np feed concentrations, but those losses were attributed to the shortened residence times rather than the higher oxalate to Np ratios. Losses in the plant are expected to be significantly less due … more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Kyser, E
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of Potential Impacts of Microbial Activity on Drift Chemistry

Description: ''Evaluation of Potential Impacts of Microbial Activity on Drift Chemistry'' focuses on the potential for microbial communities that could be active in repository emplacement drifts to influence the in-drift bulk chemical environment. This report feeds analyses to support the inclusion or exclusion of features, events, and processes (FEPs) in the total system performance assessment (TSPA) for the license application (LA), but this work is not expected to generate direct feeds to the TSPA-LA. Th… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Wang, Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Debt Limit: The Ongoing Need for Increases

Description: The surpluses over the four fiscal years 1998-2001 reduced debt held by the public by $448 billion. More than offsetting this debt reduction, the surpluses credited to debt-holding government accounts (which generally must invest the surpluses in federal debt), increased their holdings by $853 billion over the same period. The combination ($853 billion minus $448 billion) raised total federal debt by $405 billion. During 2002, debt subject to limit increased enough to reach the then current sta… more
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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