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Aviation Safety: Improved Data Collection Needed for Effective Oversight of Air Ambulance Industry

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Air ambulance transport is widely regarded as improving the chances of survival for trauma victims and other critical patients. However, in recent years, the number of air ambulance accidents has led to increased industry scrutiny by government agencies, the public, the media, and the industry itself. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which provides safety oversight, has been called upon by the… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ELECTRON AVALANCHE MODEL OF DIELECTRIC-VACUUM SURFACE BREAKDOWN

Description: The model assumes that an 'initiating event' results in positive ions on the surface near the anode and reverses the direction of the normal component of electric field so that electrons in vacuum are attracted to the dielectric locally. A sequence of surface electron avalanches progresses in steps from the anode to the cathode. For 200 kV across 1 cm, the spacing of avalanches is predicted to be about 13 microns. The time for avalanches to step from the anode to the cathode is predicted to be … more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Lauer, E J
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Beryllium Health and Safety Committee Data Reporting Task Force

Description: On December 8, 1999, the Department of Energy (DOE) published Title 10 CFR 850 (hereafter referred to as the Rule) to establish a chronic beryllium disease prevention program (CBDPP) to: {sm_bullet} reduce the number of workers currently exposed to beryllium in the course of their work at DOE facilities managed by DOE or its contractors, {sm_bullet} minimize the levels of, and potential for, expos exposure to beryllium, and {sm_bullet} establish medical surveillance requirements to ensure early… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: MacQueen, D. H.
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Recent Developments in the Site-Specific Immobilization of Proteins onto Solid Supports

Description: Immobilization of proteins onto surfaces is of great importance in numerous applications, including protein analysis, drug screening, and medical diagnostics, among others. The success of all these technologies relies on the immobilization technique employed to attach a protein to the corresponding surface. Non-specific physical adsorption or chemical cross-linking with appropriate surfaces results in the immobilization of the protein in random orientations. Site-specific covalent attachment, o… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Camarero, J A
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Short sequence motifs, overrepresented in mammalian conservednon-coding sequences

Description: Background: A substantial fraction of non-coding DNAsequences of multicellular eukaryotes is under selective constraint. Inparticular, ~;5 percent of the human genome consists of conservednon-coding sequences (CNSs). CNSs differ from other genomic sequences intheir nucleotide composition and must play important functional roles,which mostly remain obscure.Results: We investigated relative abundancesof short sequence motifs in all human CNSs present in the human/mousewhole-genome alignments vs. … more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Minovitsky, Simon; Stegmaier, Philip; Kel, Alexander; Kondrashov,Alexey S. & Dubchak, Inna
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Business Tax Issues in 2007

Description: This report discusses the information related to business tax issues in the year 2007. It also discusses the business tax legislation, 2001-2006.
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
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Modeling the Mechano-Chemistry of NTPases

Description: This project is to develop theoretical framework for protein motors based on experimental data. Protein motors use chemical and electrochemical energies to perform mechanical work. Protein motors are machines of life. They are essential for many biological processes, including cell division, DNA transcription, replication, etc. Understanding the working mechanisms of protein motors has both scientific and medical/clinical significances, including revealing the physiological origins of certain d… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Xing, J
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TRANSPORT OF WASTE SIMULANTS IN PJM VENT LINES

Description: The experimental work was conducted to determine whether there is a potential for waste simulant to transport or 'creep' up the air link line and contaminate the pulse jet vent system, and possibly cause long term restriction of the air link line. Additionally, if simulant creep occurred, establish operating parameters for washing down the line. The amount of the addition of flush fluids and mixer downtime must be quantified.
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Qureshi, Z
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Report, Oct 2004 - Nov. 2006, High Performance Flexible Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Description: This report summarizes the work performed for the program entitled “High Performance Flexible Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell” under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC36-04GO14351 for the U. S. Department of Energy. The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate a single modular stack that generates electricity from a variety of fuels (hydrogen and other fuels such as biomass, distributed natural gas, etc.) and when operated in the reverse mode, produces hydrogen from steam. This project has… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Guan, Jie & Minh, Nguyen
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Final Report: Biological and Synthetic Nanostructures Controlled at the Atomistic Level

Description: Nanotechnology holds great promise for many application fields, ranging from the semiconductor industry to medical research and national security. Novel, nanostructured materials are the fundamental building blocks upon which all these future nanotechnologies will be based. In this Strategic Initiative (SI) we conducted a combined theoretical and experimental investigation of the modeling, synthesis, characterization, and design techniques which are required to fabricate semiconducting and meta… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Williamson, A & van Buuren, T
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TYPE B RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL PACKAGE FAILURE MODES AND CONTENTS COMPLIANCE

Description: Type B radioactive material package failures can occur due to any one of the following: inadequate design, manufacture, and maintenance of packages, load conditions beyond those anticipated in the regulations, and improper package loading and operation. The rigorous package design evaluations performed in the certification process, robust package manufacture quality assurance programs, and demanding load conditions prescribed in the regulations are all well established. This paper focuses on th… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Watkins, R; Steve Hensel, S & Allen Smith, A
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AdS/CFT and QCD

Description: The AdS/CFT correspondence between string theory in AdS space and conformal .eld theories in physical spacetime leads to an analytic, semi-classical model for strongly-coupled QCD which has scale invariance and dimensional counting at short distances and color confinement at large distances. Although QCD is not conformally invariant, one can nevertheless use the mathematical representation of the conformal group in five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space to construct a first approximation to the … more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Brodsky, Stanley J. & de Teramond, Guy F.
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Directly Imaging Fast Reaction Fronts

Description: Direct observation of fast intermetallic phase formation in Reactive Multilayer Foils (RMLFs) has been achieved. Snap-shots of the reaction appear to show development of mass-thickness contrast of the unmixed Al and Ni layers and an intermetallic phase. Electron imaging of these RMLF reaction fronts have never been attained in the past. The reaction front travels at {approx}10 meters per second as the nanoscale layers mix in an exothermic chain reaction, thus making traditional in situ electron… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Kim, J. S.; LaGrange, T. B.; Reed, B. W.; Campbell, G. H. & Browning, N. D.
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Exemptions to the Prohibition on Circumvention

Description: This report reviews the statutory basis for the triennial exemptions, explains the Copyright Office's rule-making process pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), summarizes the exemptions granted and rejected in 2006, and describes public reactions to the 2006 exemptions.
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Manuel, Kate M. & Yeh, Brian T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) Renewal: Core Labor Standards Issues: A Brief Overview

Description: This report is a brief overview of key issues addressed in CRS Report RL33864, Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) Renewal: Core Labor Standards Issues. This report (1) identifies key labor provisions in the current TPA law and how they have translated into free trade agreements negotiated under it; (2) presents some legislative options, and summarizes arguments for and against listing enforceable core labor standards as a principal negotiating objective; and (3) looks at possible outcomes and impl… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Bolle, Mary Jane
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HEND: A Database for High Energy Nuclear Data

Description: We propose to develop a high-energy heavy-ion experimental database and make it accessible to the scientific community through an on-line interface. The database will be searchable and cross-indexed with relevant publications, including published detector descriptions. It should eventually contain all published data from older heavy-ion programs such as the Bevalac, AGS, SPS and FNAL fixed-target programs, as well as published data from current programs at RHIC and new facilities at GSI (FAIR),… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Brown, David & Vogt, Ramona
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Nanotechnology in Science and Art

Description: The burgeoning field of nanotechnology opens windows between science and art. Exploration of this interplay encourages interaction between scientists, artists and educators alike. The image below serves as an example of the fertile ground for exchange. The substrate that this image captures is made of silicon, the material from which computer chips are made. A thin ({approx}1 nm thick) chemical coating was applied homogeneously to the silicon. Specific regions of the coating, 600 nm wide (appro… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Bearinger, J.
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Diagnostics for the Combustion Science Workbench

Description: As the cost of computers declines relative to outfitting andmaintaining laser spectroscopy laboratories, computers will account foran increasing proportion of the research conducted in fundamentalcombustion science. W.C. Gardiner foresaw that progress will be limitedby the ability to understand the implications of what has been computedand to draw inferences about the elementary components of the combustionmodels. Yet the diagnostics that are routinely applied to computerexperiments have change… more
Date: February 21, 2007
Creator: Grcar, J. F.; Day, M. S. & Bell, J. B.
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