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Inter-American Foundation: Allegations of Improper Contracting and Personnel Actions at the Foundation

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO investigated the allegations that Adolfo Franco, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), violated contracting regulations and personnel policies in his attempts to hire Carlos Urquidi for the auditor position at IAF, focusing on if IAF violated: (1) Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) in procuring the services of Mr. Urquidi; … more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Security: Many NASA Missions-Critical Systems Face Serious Risks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) information security program, focusing on: (1) whether NASA's mission-critical information systems are vulnerable to unauthorized access; (2) whether NASA is effectively managing information systems security; and (3) what NASA is doing to address the risk of unauthorized access to mission… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate Change: Observations on the April 1999 Report on Climate Change Programs

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed activities relating to climate change programs, focusing on: (1) the Energy Information Administration's report on federal expenditures for climate change activities; and (2) a limitation--set forth in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) appropriations act for fiscal year (FY) 1999--that was designed to prevent the agency from taking specified regulatory act… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Novel interferometer spectrometer for sensitive stellar radial velocimetry

Description: We describe a new kind of stellar radial velocimeter based on the series combination of a wide angle Michelson interferometer and a disperser, and which we call a fringing spectrometer. The simplest instrument response of the interferometer produces smaller instrumental noise, and the low resolution requirements of the disperser allows high efficiency and creates an etendue capability which is two orders of magnitude larger than current radial velocimeters. The instrument is compact, inexpensiv… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Erskine, D & Ge, J
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Salt Lake City

Description: Since its designation as a national Clean City in 1994, Salt Lake Clean Cities has put more than 2,600 alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) on community streets. The 82 business, nonprofit, and government agencies that comprise the coalition are all dedicated to cleaning the air by reducing vehicle exhaust. Salt Lake Clean Cities has the third largest compressed natural gas and propane-refueling infrastructure in the country, with 98 locations available. They sponsor an annual ''Spring Soiree'' to … more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Greater Long Island

Description: This coalition was the culmination a two-year joint effort by Long Island Lighting Company and the Long Island Regional Planning Board. The group's first alternative fuel project was a single fill compressed natural gas station and a converted Chevrolet Caprice. Since then, the coalition has made steady progress in the alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) market. They have over 400 AFVs and 21 fueling stations in their operating area. Thanks to strong partnerships with local publ… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Coachella Valley

Description: Southern California's Coachella Valley became a Clean Cities region in 1996. Since then, they've made great strides. SunLine Transit, the regional public transit provider, was the first transit provider to replace its entire fleet with compressed natural gas buses. They've also built the foundation for a nationally recognized model in the clean air movement, by partnering with Southern California Gas Company to install a refueling station and developing a curriculum for AFV maintenance with the… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
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Environmental Life Cycle Implications of Fuel Oxygenate Production from California Biomass

Description: Historically, more than 90% of the excess agricultural residue produced in California (approximately 10 million dry metric tons per year) has been disposed through open-field burning. Concerns about air quality have prompted federal, state, and local air quality agencies to tighten regulations related to this burning and to look at disposal alternatives. One use of this biomass is as an oxygenated fuel. This report focuses on quantifying and comparing the comprehensive environmental flows over … more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kadam, K. L.; Camobreco, V. J.; Glazebrook, B. E.; Forrest, L. H.; Jacobson, W. A.; Simeroth, D. C. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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STP: A Stochastic Tunneling Algorithm for Global Optimization

Description: A stochastic approach to solving continuous function global optimization problems is presented. It builds on the tunneling approach to deterministic optimization presented by Barhen et al, by combining a series of local descents with stochastic searches. The method uses a rejection-based stochastic procedure to locate new local minima descent regions and a fixed Lipschitz-like constant to reject unpromising regions in the search space, thereby increasing the efficiency of the tunneling process.… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Oblow, E.M.
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Screening Test Results of Fatigue Properties of type 316LN Stainless Steel in Mercury

Description: Fully reversed, load-controlled uniaxial push-pull fatigue tests at room temperature have been performed in air and in mercury on specimens of type 316LN stainless steel. The results indicate a significant influence of mercury on fatigue properties. Compared to specimens tested in air, specimens tested in mercury had reproducibly shorter fatigue lives (by a factor of 2-3), and fracture faces exhibiting intergranular cracking. Preliminary indications are that crack initiation in each environment… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Pawel, S. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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POLARIZED PROTONS TRACKING IN THE AGS AND RHIC.

Description: A code, SPINK, to track polarized particles in a circular accelerator, in particular RHIC [1], is been used to: find conditions for safely crossing depolarizing resonances, using Siberian Snakes; find the best conditions to match the spin of the injected beam to the ring lattice; study the operation of Spin Rotators and study the beam-beam effects in a polarized proton collider.
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Luccio, A. U.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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Fast Drift CRID with GEM

Description: The only available technique at the present time, to perform particle identification up to 40-50 GeV/c in a 4{pi} solenoidal geometry using the Cherenkov ring imaging method is the use of gaseous detectors tilled with either TMAE or TEA photocathodes, and a combination of the gaseous, and solid or liquid radiators. If one would consider building such a device, one may want to investigate alternative methods of building a single-electron detector. This paper investigates the feasibility of using… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Va'Vra, Jaroslav
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Clean Cities Award Winning Coalition: Greater Philadelphia

Description: Always going beyond expectations, the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program provides its stakeholders with excellent resources to implement alternative fuel projects. They are known as one of the most successful coalitions in the Clean Cities Program, and are a member-funded organization comprised of large government organizations, utilities, and non-profit groups in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The coalition aggressively promotes alternative fuel vehicle acquisitions; their public o… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kaiser, ICF
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ASCI terascale simulation environmental implementation

Description: The ASCI Blue-Pacific Sustained Stewardship TeraOp/s computer demonstrated 1.2 TeraOP/s in September 1998. Two thirds of the system was delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in early October 1999 and the remainder in December 1998. Since that time ASCI scientists have been performing ''full-system'' runs of remarkable scientific value in Quantum Chemistry, Biology, Molecular Dynamics, Turbulence, Neutron Transport and Astrophysics. In addition, there has been an intensive ASCI… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Seager, M K
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Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 406: Area 3 Building 03-74 and Building 03-58 Under ground Discharge Points and Corrective Action Unit 429: Area 3 Building 03-55 and Area 9 Building 09-52 Underground Discharge Points, Tonopah Test Range, Nevada

Description: This Corrective Action Investigation Plan (CAIP) has been developed in accordance with the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (FFACO) that was agreed to by the US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV); the State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP); and the US Department of Defense (FFACO, 1996). The CAIP is a document that provides or references all of the specific information for investigation activities associated with Corrective Action Units (CAU… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Nevada Operations Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Natural attentuation of tritium in vadose zone moisture and ground water at a Lawrence Livermore site in Northern California, USA

Description: Tritium used in explosives experiments and buried in unlined landfills at a remote Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) site has resulted in three ground water tritium plumes. Using an innovative approach, we determined that despite ground water tritium activities of up to 1.5 million picoCuries per liter (pCi/L) in some locations, natural attenuation processes are significantly limiting the migration of tritium to environmental receptors. We used soil vapor and moisture tritium activi… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Green-Horner, L; Lamarre, A L; Madrid, V M; Oberderdorfer, J A; Taffett, M J & Woodward, R K
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[News Clip: Briefcase]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 20, 1999, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Development and testing of an aerosol/stratus cloud parameterization scheme for middle and high latitudes. Final technical progress report, November 1, 1994--October 31, 1998

Description: At the present time, general circulation models (GCMs) poorly represent clouds, to the extent that they cannot be relied upon to simulate the climatic effects of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, or of anthropogenic perturbations to concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) or ice nuclei (IN). The long-term objective of this research was the development of an aerosol/cloud microphysics parameterization of mixed-phase stratus and boundary-layer clouds which responds to varia… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Kreidenweis, S. M. & Cotton, W. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inelastic Constitutive Properties and shear Localization in Tennessee Marble

Description: Shear bands and faults are ubiquitous features of brittle rock deformation at a variety of length scales. Despite the prevalence of these features, understandhg of their inception remains rudimentary. Laboratory experiments suggest a casual association of localization of deformation (faulting) with peak stress, but more detailed examination reveals that localization can precede or follow the peak. Rudnicki and Rice (1975, hereafter abbreviated as RR) have suggested a the- ory of the inception o… more
Date: May 20, 1999
Creator: Holcomb, David J. & Rudnicki, J.W.
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