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September 11: More Effective Collaboration Could Enhance Charitable Organizations' Contributions in Disasters

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Surveys suggest that as many as two-thirds of American households have donated money to charitable organizations to aid in the response to the September 11 disasters. To provide the public with information on the role of charitable aid in assisting those affected by the attacks, GAO was asked to report on the amount of donations charities raised and distributed, the accountability measures in place to prevent … more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Waivers of the Small Business Administration's Nonmanufacturer Rule Have Limited Effect

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, the Small Business Administration (SBA) conducts a program for developing small businesses that are owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Participants can receive contracts under acquisitions that federal agencies offer to the 8(a) program as well as business development assistance from SBA. A firm that receives a supply contract under the 8(… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Securities and Exchange Commission: Actions Needed to Improve Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Selection Process

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 created, among other things, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to oversee audits of public companies. A divided Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appointed the first PCAOB on October 25, 2002. Amid allegations that the SEC Chairman withheld relevant information from the other Commissioners concerning the suitability of the newly appointed PCAOB chairman… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Veterans' Benefits: Claims Processing Timeliness Performance Measures Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, asked GAO to assist the Committee in its oversight of the Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) efforts to improve compensation and pension claims processing. As part of this effort, GAO assessed (1) whether VBA's key timeliness measure clearly reflects its performance and (2) whether it has adequate data to measure the timelin… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Joint Officer Development Has Improved, but a Strategic Approach Is Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "DOD has increasingly engaged in multiservice and multinational operations. Congress enacted the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, in part, so that DOD's military leaders would be better prepared to plan, support, and conduct joint operations. GAO assessed DOD actions to implement provisions in the law that address the development of officers in joint matters and evaluated impe… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of the LBNL positron emission mammography camera

Description: We present the construction status of the LBNL Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) camera, which utilizes a PET detector module with depth of interaction measurement consisting of 64 LSO crystals (3x3x30 mm3) coupled on one end to a single photomultiplier tube (PMT) and on the opposite end to a 64 pixel array of silicon photodiodes (PDs). The PMT provides an accurate timing pulse, the PDs identify the crystal of interaction, the sum provides a total energy signal, and the PD/(PD+PMT) ratio dete… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Huber, Jennifer S.; Choong, Woon-Seng; Wang, Jimmy; Maltz, Jonathon S.; Qi, Jinyi; Mandelli, Emanuele et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhancing the Atomic-Level Understanding of co2 Mineral Sequestration Mechanisms via Advanced Computational Modeling

Description: Fossil fuels currently provide 85% of the world's energy needs, with the majority coming from coal, due to its low cost, wide availability, and high energy content. The extensive use of coalfired power assumes that the resulting CO{sub 2} emissions can be vented to the atmosphere. However, exponentially increasing atmospheric CO{sub 2} levels have brought this assumption under critical review. Over the last decade, this discussion has evolved from whether exponentially increasing anthropogenic … more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Chizmeshya, A. V. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Crossflow Filter Check Out Test Report

Description: As part of the reconstitution of 512-S, a functional test of the Crossflow Filter located in the North Cell of Building 512-S was conducted from July 22 through August 14, 2002. This test was performed in two parts. The first part used water as the process feed. The second part used simulant salt solution, simulant sludge, and monosodium titanate (MST) at various solids loadings as the process feed. The test was designed to demonstrate the cross-flow filter's ability to perform solid-liquid sep… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jones, R.T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Addendum to the Composite Analysis for the E-Area Vaults and Saltstone Disposal Facilities

Description: Revision 1 of the Composite Analysis (CA) Addendum has been prepared to respond to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities Federal Review Group review of the CA. This addendum to the composite analysis responds to the conditions of approval. The composite analysis was performed on the two active SRS low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. The facilities are the Z-Area Saltstone Disposal Facility and the E-Area Vaults Disposal Facility. The analysis calcu… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Cook, J. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Echo Meadows Project Winter Artificial Recharge.

Description: This report discusses the findings of the Echo Meadows Project (BPA Project 2001-015-00). The main purpose of this project is to artificially recharge an alluvial aquifer, WITH water from Umatilla River during the winter high flow period. In turn, this recharged aquifer will discharge an increased flow of cool groundwater back to the river, thereby improving Umatilla River water quality and temperature. A considerable side benefit is that the Umatilla River should improve as a habitat for migra… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Ziari, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation for Disposing Saltcake to Saltstone

Description: This Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation is performed in accordance with Department of Energy Order 435.1, Radioactive Waste Management. This evaluation is performed in order to determine whether saltcake currently stored in the Tank Farms, when separated from supernate, meets WIR requirements and can therefore be managed as Low Level Waste and disposed in the Saltstone Production and Disposal Facility in Z-Area.
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jones, R.T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The QCD string spectrum and conformal field theory

Description: The low energy excitation spectrum of the critical Wilson surface is discussed between the roughening transition and the continuum limit of lattice QCD. The fine structure of the spectrum is interpreted within the framework of two-dimensional conformal field theory.
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Juge, Keisuke Jimmy; Kuti, Julius & Morningstar, Colin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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B physics, BTeV, and all that

Description: The status of ''flavor physics'' in our pursuit of knowledge in elementary particle physics is discussed. Then, the BTeV experiment, planned for the Fermilab Tevatron collider, is described briefly and its physics reach is discussed. Comparisons are made to the current B physics experiments at e{sup +}e{sup -} facilities and to the LHCb experiment, planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Butler, Joel N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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First CDF II heavy flavor physics results with the silicon vertex trigger

Description: The renewed CDF II experiment recently re-started data taking. The data collected lately already provides insight in the heavy flavor capabilities of this p{bar p} experiment. As a benchmark of these possibilities we present two preliminary results: the measurement of the branching fractions BR(D{sup o} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}) and BR(D{sup o} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -}) relative to BR(D{sup o} {yields} K{sup {+-}} {pi}{sup {-+}}) and the measurement of the invariant mass difference betw… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Cerri, A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low Dose Studies with Focused X-rays in Cell and Tissue Models: Mechanisms of Bystander and Genomic Instability Responses

Description: The management of the risks of exposure of people to ionizing radiation is important in relation to its uses in industry and medicine, also to natural and man-made radiation in the environment. The vase majority of exposures are at a very low level of radiation dose. The risks are of inducing cancer in the exposed individuals and a smaller risk of inducing genetic damage that can be transmitted to children conceived after exposure. Studies of these risks in exposed population studies with any a… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Michael, Barry D.; Held, Kathryn & Prise, Kevin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applicability of International and DOE Target Values to ALD Destructive Measurement Applications

Description: International Target values and target value applicability are a function of the nuclear material processing campaign or application for which the accountability measurement method is being applied. Safeguarding significant quantities of nuclear-grade materials requires that accountability measurements be as accurate, precise, and representative as practically possible. In general, the ITV provides a benchmark for determining generic acceptability of the performance of the various accountabilit… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Holland, M.K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Finite Element Analysis Enhancement or B-25 Container Dynamic Compaction

Description: The document describes initial structural finite element modeling for dynamic compaction of B-25 containers buried in Engineered Trench number 1 at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, South Carolina. Dynamic compaction is the practice of dropping a heavy weight to compact material that has been placed in the subsurface for disposal. B-25s placed in Engineered Trench number 1 contain low-level radioactive waste. Dynamic compaction of buried B-25s is an option that c… more
Date: December 19, 2002
Creator: Jones, W. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Blockbuster]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at
Date: December 19, 2002, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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