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Human Service Programs: Demonstration Projects Could Identify Ways to Simplify Policies and Facilitate Technology Enhancements to Reduce Administrative Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The cost of administering human service programs has been a long-standing concern among policy makers interested in ensuring that federal programs are run in a cost-efficient manner so that federal funds go directly to helping vulnerable people. Little is known about how administrative costs compare among programs, or about opportunities to better manage these costs. GAO looked at (1) how administrative… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Mortgage Products: Impact on Defaults Remains Unclear, but Disclosure of Risks to Borrowers Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Alternative mortgage products (AMPs) can make homes more affordable by allowing borrowers to defer repayment of principal or part of the interest for the first few years of the mortgage. Recent growth in AMP lending has heightened the importance of borrowers' understanding and lenders' management of AMP risks. This report discusses the (1) recent trends in the AMP market, (2) potential AMP risks for bor… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An optimal point spread function subtraction algorithm for high-contrast imaging: a demonstration with angular differential imaging

Description: Direct imaging of exoplanets is limited by bright quasi-static speckles in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This limitation can be reduced by subtraction of reference PSF images. We have developed an algorithm to construct an optimal reference PSF image from an arbitrary set of reference images. This image is built as a linear combination of all available images and is optimized independently inside multiple subsections of the image to ensure that the absolute minimum residu… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Lafreniere, D; Marois, C; Doyon, R; Artigau, E & Nadeau, D
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-D-24, 119-D Sample Building Drywell, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2006-004

Description: The 100-D-24 Sample Building Drywell waste site was a drywell that received drainage from a floor drain in the 119-D Sample Building. Confirmatory sampling was conducted on November 3, 2005. The waste site meets the remedial action objectives specified in the Remaining Sites ROD. The results of confirmatory sampling show that residual contaminant concentrations do not preclude any future uses and allow for unrestricted use of shallow zone soils. The results also demonstrate that residual contam… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oak Ridge Reservation Physical Characteristics and Natural Resources

Description: The topography, geology, hydrology, vegetation, and wildlife of the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) provide a complex and intricate array of resources that directly impact land stewardship and use decisions (Fig. 1). The purpose of this document is to consolidate general information regarding the natural resources and physical characteristics of the ORR. The ORR, encompassing 33,114 acres (13,401 ha) of federally owned land and three Department of Energy (DOE) installations, is located in Roane and… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Parr, P. D. & Hughes, J. F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns

Description: A carbon credit market is developing in the United States. Information is needed by buyers and sellers of carbon credits so that the market functions equitably and efficiently. Analyses have been conducted to determine the optimal forest management regime to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester car… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Kronrad, Gary D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interactive Supercomputing’s Star-P Platform

Description: The thesis of this extended abstract is simple. High productivity comes from high level infrastructures. To measure this, we introduce a methodology that goes beyond the tradition of timing software in serial and tuned parallel modes. We perform a classroom productivity study involving 29 students who have written a homework exercise in a low level language (MPI message passing) and a high level language (Star-P with MATLAB client). Our conclusions indicate what perhaps should be of little surp… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Edelman, Alan; Husbands, Parry & Leibman, Steve
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proceedings of the 28th Seismic Research Review: Ground-Based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Technologies

Description: These proceedings contain papers prepared for the 28th Seismic Research Review: Ground-Based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Technologies, held 19-21 September, 2006 in Orlando, Florida. These papers represent the combined research related to ground-based nuclear explosion monitoring funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Comprehensive Nuclear-Te… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Wetovsky, Marvin A.; Benson, Jody & Patterson, Eileen F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remedial Design/Remedial Action Work Plan for Operable Units 6-05 and 10-04, Phase III

Description: The remedial design/remedial action for Operable Unit 6-05 (Waste Area Group 6) and Operable Unit 10-04 (Waste Area Group 10) - collectively called Operable Unit 10-04 has been divided into four phases. Phase I consists of developing and implementing institutional controls at Operable Unit 10-04 sites and developing and implementing Idaho National Laboratory-wide plans for both institutional controls and ecological monitoring. Phase II will remediate sites contaminated with trinitrotoluene and … more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Wells, R. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modeling and the Sputter Deposition of Coatings Onto Spherical Capsules

Description: The sputter deposition of coatings onto capsules of polymer and oxide shells as well as solid metal spheres is accomplished using a chambered substrate platform. Oxides and metal coatings are sputter deposited through a screen-aperture array onto a 0.3-1.2 mm diameter, solid spheres and hollow shells. Each shell is contained within its own individual chamber within a larger array. Ultrasonic vibration is the method used to produce a random bounce of each capsule within each chamber, in order to… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Jankowski, Alan Frederic & Hayes, Jeffrey P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dual Readout Calorimetry for High-Quality Energy Measurements - Chapter 3 R&D for Future Particle Physics Experiments (Task B)

Description: We report of the design, constrcution, commissioning, and beamtests of a prototype calorimeter. This calorimeter is of a novel design so as to equalize its response to electromagnetic and hadronic energy deposits of equal primary energy. Thus its response to jets is independent of the jet's electromagnetic versus hadronic composition. The beamtests show that the prototype satisfies the design requirements. The design, construction and the results of beamtests have been published in several pape… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Paar, Hans P. & Wigmans, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improving Switching Performance of Power MOSFETs Used in High Rep-Rate, Short Pulse, High-Power Pulsers

Description: As their switching and power handling characteristics improve, solid-state devices are finding new applications in pulsed power. This is particularly true of applications that require fast trains of short duration pulses. High voltage (600-1200V) MOSFETs are especially well suited for use in these systems, as they can switch at significant peak power levels and are easily gated on and off very quickly. MOSFET operation at the shortest pulse durations is not constrained by the intrinsic capabili… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Cook, E G
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal

Description: This report discusses the civilian nuclear waste disposal and its most recent developments, Nuclear Utility Lawsuits, Nuclear Spent Fuel Legislation and current Policy and Regulation.
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Holt, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analyses in Support of Z-Pinch IFE and Actinide Transmutation - LLNL Progress Report for FY-06

Description: This report documents results of LLNL's work in support of two studies being conducted by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL): the development of the Z-pinch driven inertial fusion energy (Z-IFE), and the use of Z-pinch driven inertial fusion as a neutron source to destroy actinides from fission reactor spent fuel. LLNL's efforts in FY06 included: (1) Development of a systems code for Z-IFE and use of the code to examine the operating parameter space in terms of design variables such as the Z-pi… more
Date: September 19, 2006
Creator: Meier, W. R.; Moir, R. W. & Abbott, R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Curtis King: Interview Number 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Curtis King: Interview Number 2 in 2006. This video features a personal interview with founder and president of TBAAL Curtis King highlighting his path to creating the organization and the importance it has to the community, especially for youth.
Date: September 19, 2006
Duration: 43 minutes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.773743 -96.797841
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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