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Federal Employees' Retirement System: Benefits and Financing

Description: This report discusses the retirement systems in place for federal employees. Most civilian federal employees who were hired before 1984 are covered by the Civil Service Retirement System, and contribute 7.0% of their pay to a retirement fund. Federal employees hired in 1984 or later are covered by the Federal Employees' Retirement System and contribute 0.8% of their pay to a retirement fund. Both require participants to contribute toward the cost of their pensions through a payroll tax. This re… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Isaacs, Katelin P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bitcoin: Questions, Answers, and Analysis of Legal Issues

Description: This report has three major sections. The first section answers some basic questions about Bitcoin and the operation of the Bitcoin network and its interaction with the current dollar-based monetary system. The second section summarizes likely reasons for and against widespread Bitcoin adoption. The third section discusses legal and regulatory matters that have been raised by Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Elwell, Craig K.; Murphy, M. M. & Seitzinger, Michael V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thailand: Background and U.S. Relations

Description: This report looks at the relationship between the U.S. and Thailand, in particular, recent rivalries between populist political forces, nepotism in government, and Thai relationships with neighboring countries.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma & Dolven, Ben
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financing the U.S. Trade Deficit

Description: This report provides an overview of the U.S. balance of payments, an explanation of the broader role of capital flows in the U.S. economy, an explanation of how the country finances its trade deficit or a trade surplus, and the implications for Congress and the country of the large inflows of capital from abroad.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Jackson, James K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small Business Innovation Research: DOD's Program Supports Weapon Systems, but Lacks Comprehensive Data on Technology Transition Outcomes

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs within the military departments use a variety of practices and tools to facilitate technology transition--the act of passing technologies developed in the science and technology environment on to users such as weapon system acquisition programs or warfighters in the field. GAO identified some common transition practices and tools across SBIR program… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Army Corps of Engineers: Cost Increases in Flood Control Projects and Improving Communication with Nonfederal Sponsors

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The majority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) flood control projects budgeted for construction from fiscal years 2004 to 2012 experienced cost increases, including inflation. Specifically, 59 of 87 flood control projects during this period experienced increases from their original authorized cost to their current estimated project cost or their total expenditures at closeout, according to in… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cruise Vessels: Most Required Security and Safety Measures Have Been Implemented, but Concerns Remain About Crime Reporting

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The cruise industry and federal agencies have implemented 11 of 15 Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) provisions, but implementation of 4 provisions requires the development of regulations and policy, and is underway. Officials from all five cruise lines GAO met with said most required measures were in place when the CVSSA was enacted. According to U.S. Coast Guard officials, a notice of prop… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Laws: Summaries of Major Statutes Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency

Description: This report is a summary of the body of federal environmental statutes that together constitute the main authorities of EPA, but this report is not comprehensive in terms of discussing all federal statutes that may authorize certain activities of the agency.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Bearden, David M.; Copeland, Claudia; Luther, Linda; McCarthy, James E.; Tiemann, Mary; Esworthy, Robert et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Turkey: Background and U.S. Relations

Description: Several Turkish domestic and foreign policy issues have significant relevance for U.S. interests. This report provides background information on Turkey and discusses possible policy options for Members of Congress and the Obama Administration.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Zanotti, Jim
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT: Underwater Active Acoustic Monitoring Network For Marine And Hydrokinetic Energy Projects

Description: This project saw the completion of the design and development of a second generation, high frequency (90-120 kHz) Subsurface-Threat Detection Sonar Network (SDSN). The system was deployed, operated, and tested in Cobscook Bay, Maine near the site the Ocean Renewable Power Company TidGen™ power unit. This effort resulted in a very successful demonstration of the SDSN detection, tracking, localization, and classification capabilities in a high current, MHK environment as measured by results from … more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Stein, Peter J. & Edson, Patrick L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Saltstone 3QCY13 TCLP Results

Description: A Saltstone waste form was prepared in the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) from a Tank 50H sample and Z-Area premix material for the third quarter of calendar year 2013 (3QCY13). After a 63 day cure, samples of the saltstone were collected, and the waste form was shown to meet the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Regulations (SCHWMR) R.61-79.261.24 and R.61-79.268.48(a) requirements for a nonhazardous waste form with respect to RCRA metals and underlying hazardous constituent… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Miller, D. H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report for DUSEL R&D: BetaCage: A Screener of Ultra-Low-Level Radioactive Surface Contamination

Description: The eventual full-size, radiopure BetaCage will be a low-background, atmospheric-pressure neon drift chamber with unprecedented sensitivity to emitters of low-energy electrons and alpha particles. We expect that the prototype BetaCage already developed will be an excellent screener of alpha particles. Both the prototype and final BetaCage will provide new infrastructure for rare-event science.
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Golwala, Sunil R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Verification & Validation of High-Order Short-Characteristics-Based Deterministic Transport Methodology on Unstructured Grids

Description: The research team has developed a practical, high-order, discrete-ordinates, short characteristics neutron transport code for three-dimensional configurations represented on unstructured tetrahedral grids that can be used for realistic reactor physics applications at both the assembly and core levels. This project will perform a comprehensive verification and validation of this new computational tool against both a continuous-energy Monte Carlo simulation (e.g. MCNP) and experimentally measured… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Azmy, Yousry & Wang, Yaqi
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Understanding the Subsurface Reactive Transport of Transuranic Contaminants at DOE Sites

Description: Our primary hypothesis is that actinides can interact with surfaces in fundamentally different ways than other metals, metalloids, and oxyanions and that this fundamental difference requires new approaches to studying and modeling transuranic sorption to minerals and geomedia. This project supports a key mission of the SBR program to develop sufficient scientific understanding such that DOE sites will be able to incorporate coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes into decision maki… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Barnett, Mark O.; Albrecht-Schmitt, Thomas E.; Saiers, James E. & Shuh, David K.
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Microstructure and Property Evolution in Advanced Cladding and Duct Materials Under Long-Term Irradiation at Elevated Temperature: Critical Experiments

Description: The in-service degradation of reactor core materials is related to underlying changes in the irradiated microstructure. During reactor operation, structural components and cladding experience displacement of atoms by collisions with neutrons at temperatures at which the radiation-induced defects are mobile, leading to microstructure evolution under irradiation that can degrade material properties. At the doses and temperatures relevant to fast reactor operation, the microstructure evolves by mi… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Was, Gary; Jiao, Zhijie; Allen, Todd & Yang, Yong
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives

Description: Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score expressive writing autobiographical essays that were used for the following publications: Jenkins, S. R., Shamji, J., Straup, M., & Boals, A. (2022). Beyond traits and states: Interpersonal decentering is also activated social information processing. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111332. and Jenkins, S. R., Austin, H., & Boals, A. (2013).… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Wilson, Joshua & Beaber, Kristi
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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