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Consumer Finance: College Students and Credit Cards

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Credit cards offer clear advantages to college students because they provide an interest free loan until the payment is due and a convenient noncash payment option for both routine transactions and emergencies. If used responsibly, credit cards allow students to build up credit histories that will increase their access to credit in the future. However, if college students have not learned sound financial manag… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Transportation: Critical Areas NASA Needs to Address in Managing Its Reusable Launch Vehicle Program

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) X-33 and X-34 reusable launch vehicle programs. The two programs experienced difficulties achieving their goals primarily because NASA did not develop realistic cost estimates, timely acquisition and risk management plans, and adequate and realistic performance goals. In particular, neither program fully (1) assessed the costs associ… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GAO's Work at the FBI: Access to Data, Documents, and Personnel

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO has issued about 50 products during the last five years that include information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) operations and activities. When GAO initiates work with federal agencies, it formally notifies key officials about the planned review and meets with them to discuss objectives. In the course of its work, GAO routinely receives large amounts of information, some of it highly sensitive, … more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Station: Inadequate Planning and Design Led to Propulsion Module Project Failure

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) contract with Boeing Reusable Space Systems to build the now-canceled follow-on propulsion module for the International Space Station. GAO found that the initial propulsion module project did not meet performance, cost, and schedule goals largely because NASA proceeded with Boeing's proposal without following fundamental processes… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement

Description: Fluctuations in the multiplicities and momentum distributions of particles emitted in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been widely considered as probes of thermalization and the statistical nature of particle production in such reactions. The characteristic behavior of temperature and pion multiplicity fluctuations in the final state has been proposed as a tool for the measurement of the specific heat and, specifically, for the detection of a critical point in the nuclear matter phase dia… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Asakawa, M.; Heinz, U. & Muller, B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The next linear collider damping ring lattices

Description: We report on the lattice design of the Next Linear Collider (NLC) damping rings. The damping rings are required to provide low emittance electron and positron bunch trains to the NLC linacs, at a rate of 120 Hz. We present an optical design, based on a theoretical minimum emittance (TME) lattice, to produce the required normalized extracted beam emittances gex = 3 mm-mrad and gey = 0.02 mm mrad. An assessment of dynamic aperture and non-linear effects is given. The positron pre-damping ring, re… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Wolski, Andrzej & Corlett, John N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and Validation of Marker-Aided Selection Methods for Wood Property Traits in Loblolly Pine and Hybrid Poplar

Description: Wood properties influence pulp and paper quality. Certainly, overall pulp yields are directly related to the cellulose content, changes in hemicellulose content are associated with changes in pulp cohesiveness, and pulping efficiency is related to lignin content. Despite the importance of wood properties on product quality, little progress has been made in improving such traits because current methods of assessing wood and fiber characteristics are time-consuming, expensive, and often imprecise… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Tuskan, G.A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Dallas 2012]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 20, 2001, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Study of Positronium in Low-k Dielectric Films by means of 2D-Angular Correlation Experiments at a High-Intensity Slow-Positron Beam

Description: Depth-resolved measurements of the two-dimensional angular correlation of annihilation radiation (2D-ACAR) were performed at the high-intensity slow-positron beam of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We studied the formation of positronium in thin films of methyl-silsesquioxane (MSSQ) spin-on glass containing open-volume defects in the size of voids. Samples with different average void sizes were investigated and positronium formation could be found in all cases. The width of the angular … more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Gessmann, T; Petkov, M P; Weber, M H; Lynn, K G; Rodbell, K P; Asoka-Kumar, P et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flow and Fracture of Bulk Metallic Glass Alloys and their Composites

Description: The fracture and plastic deformation mechanisms of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be bulk metallic glass and a composite utilizing a crystalline reinforcement phase are reviewed. The relationship between stress state, free volume and shear band formation are discussed. Positron annihilation techniques were used to confirm the predicted increase in free volume after plastic straining. Strain localization and failure were examined for a wide range of stress states. Finally, methods for toughening metallic glasses… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Flores, K M; Suh, D; Howell, R; Asoka-Kumar, P & Dauskardt, R H
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Vietnam-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement

Description: This report outlines the terms of the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), identifies U.S. and Vietnamese motivations for entering into the deal, analyzes the reasons for Vietnam's delay in signing the agreement, and explains Congress' role in the process of restoring normal trade relations treatment to Vietnam.
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-Efficiency Steam Electrolyzer

Description: We are developing a novel high-efficiency, high-temperature steam electrolyzer. Although water or steam electrolysis is well known to be one of the cleanest ways to produce hydrogen, widespread utilization is hindered by high operational costs because of high electricity consumption. To decrease the electrical power input requirements in electrolysis, our approach uses natural gas as an anode depolarizer. This approach essentially replaces one unit of electricity with one equivalent-energy unit… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Pham, A. Q.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Performance of PFS, the Compaq Sierra Product's Parallel File System

Description: In FY 2000 Livermore Computing took delivery of serial number one of the Compaq Sierra high performance cluster product. The Sierra product employs a derivative of the Tru64 UNIX operating system called Tru-Cluster, which provides a cluster-wide parallel file system called PFS. This report documents the observed performance of PFS along with the performance of some of the underlying file system components. Testing reveals that the underlying AdvFS file system does a good job of read-ahead and w… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Uselton, A C
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Melt Rate Improvement for DWPF MB3: Sugar Addition Test

Description: In order to meet certain production goals, the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) has focused on implementing a more temporally efficient method of waste vitrification. Changes in frit composition and alterations in the feed preparation process were investigated to determine if melt rate could be improved. The addition of sugar as an alternative reductant to formic acid was investigated for Macrobatch 3 (MB3).
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Josephs, J. E. & Stone, M. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of Lower-hybrid Drift Turbulence in a Reconnecting Current Sheet

Description: We present a detailed study of fluctuations in a laboratory current sheet undergoing magnetic reconnection. The measurements reveal the presence of lower-hybrid-frequency range fluctuations on the edge of current sheets produced in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX). The measured fluctuation characteristics are consistent with theoretical predictions for the lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI). Our observations suggest that the LHDI does not provide any significant turbulent resistivi… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Carter, T.A.; Ji, H.; Trintchouk, F.; Yamada, M. & Kulsrud, R.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solution Deposition Approaches To Coated Conductor Fabrication on Biaxially Textured Ni-W Alloy Substrates

Description: Sol-gel processing of La{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} (LZO) was used to process buffer layers on biaxially textured Ni-3 at.%W substrates. A reel-to-reel continuous dip-coating unit was used to deposit the solution buffers. Epitaxial LZO films have been obtained through continuous processing on Ni-3 at.%W substrates with strong texture and uniform microstructure. The carbon content in these films were analyzed using proton resonance Rutherford Backscattering (RBS). The process parameters have been m… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Sathyamurthy, S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lower-Temperature Subsurface Layout and Ventilation Concepts

Description: This analysis combines work scope identified as subsurface facility (SSF) low temperature (LT) Facilities System and SSF LT Ventilation System in the Technical Work Plan for Subsurface Design Section FY 01 Work Activities (CRWMS M&O 2001b, pp. 6 and 7, and pp. 13 and 14). In accordance with this technical work plan (TWP), this analysis is performed using AP-3.10Q, Analyses and Models. It also incorporates the procedure AP-SI.1Q, Software Management. The purpose of this analysis is to develo… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Linden, Christine L. & Thomas, Edward G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analytical Solution for Subsurface Gas Flow to a Well Induced by Surface Pressure Fluctuations

Description: A simple analytical model is presented for predicting subsurface gas flow to a vadose zone well in response to atmospheric pressure fluctuations (barometric pumping). The effective radial permeability (kr) in the vicinity of the well is determined during model calibration using less than two weeks of data. By combining the flow solution with a solution for the vertical gas pressure, only atmospheric pressure data are required to predict the induced flow through a well. The ability to quantitati… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Rossabi, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instream Biological Assessment of NPDES Point Source Discharges at the Savannah River Site, 2000

Description: The Savannah River Site (SRS) currently has 31 NPDES outfalls that have been permitted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) to discharge to SRS streams and the Savannah River. In order to determine the cumulative impacts of these discharges to the receiving streams, a study plan was developed to perform in-stream assessments of the fish assemblages, macroinvertebrate assemblages, and habitats of the receiving streams. These studies were designed to detec… more
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Specht, Winona L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[A letter from Steven Weber]

Description: Document of a letter from Steven Weber to J'aime Joiner with attachments of other documents. Weber is telling Joiner about the Black Tie Dinner's 20th-anniversary celebration. He is also requesting Joiner to become a sponsor of the Black Tie Dinner.
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Black Tie Dinner, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Information for audio and lighting]

Description: Document of the rigging, audio, and lighting invoice from Eagle Audio &Lighting, Inc. The invoice has the information of how many staging, sound, and lighting items the Balck Tie Dinner needs for the event and the estimated costs of the production services.
Date: June 20, 2001
Creator: Black Tie Dinner, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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