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Combating Terrorism: Use of National Guard Response Teams Is Unclear

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the creation of 10 National Guard Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection (RAID) teams, focusing on: (1) obtaining the views of federal, state, and local officials regarding the role of RAID teams in response plans; (2) determining whether there are other federal, state, or local government entities that can perform similar functions to the RAID teams; and (3)… more
Date: May 21, 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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Ballistic Missile Defense: More Common Systems and Components Could Result in Cost Savings

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to incorporate common subsystems and components in its ballistic missile defense acquisition programs, focusing on: (1) the key benefits that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and service officials believe could be achieved through commonality; (2) what BMDO and the services have done to incorporate commonality into their programs; and (3) … more
Date: May 21, 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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Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO identified actions the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking to develop year 2000 business continuity and contingency plans (BCCP)."
Date: May 21, 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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Veterans' Affairs: Potential Costs of Changes in Licensing Requirement Outweigh Benefit

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether changing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care personnel licensing requirements would effect VA's health care system, focusing on: (1) comparing VA's physician employment requirements and processes with those of other federal agencies; (2) comparing VA's requirements with those of private sector health care organizations; (3) th… more
Date: May 21, 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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Farmer Mac: Revised Charter Enhances Secondary Market Activity, but Growth Depends on Various Factors

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the progress that the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) has made in achieving its statutory mission and examined its future viability, focusing on: (1) actions taken by Farmer Mac to promote the development of a secondary market, including the introduction of new programs and products; the standardization of loan processes, including loan d… more
Date: May 21, 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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Development and application of NDE methods for monolithic and continuous fiber ceramic matrix composites.

Description: Monolithic structural ceramics and continuous fiber ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are being developed for application in many thermally and chemically aggressive environments where structural reliability is paramount. We have recently developed advanced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods that can detect distributed ''defects'' such as density gradients and machining-induced damage in monolithic materials, as well as delamination, porosity, and throughwall cracks, in CMC materials. These… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Ellingson, W. A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The effects of neutron irradiation on fracture toughness of austenitic stainless steels.

Description: Austenitic stainless steels are used extensively as structural alloys in reactor pressure vessel internal components because of their superior fracture toughness properties. However, exposure to high levels of neutron irradiation for extended periods leads to significant reduction in the fracture resistance of these steels. This paper presents results of fracture toughness J-R curve tests on four heats of Type 304 stainless steel that were irradiated to fluence levels of {approx}0.3 and 0.9 x 1… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Chopra, O. K.; Gruber, E. E. & Shack, W. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Specification for Sandwich Panels B and C Layer MDT Supports D0 Upgrade Forward Muon Tracking System

Description: The panels will be used to fabricate B and C layer MDT octant supports. The octant support arrangements can be seen on the accompanying figures, Fig 1 and Fig 2. Currently we are considering buying 60 inch wide rectangular panels and cutting and splicing them-to-the octant shape. Proposals for octant panels cut to size and panels of different width will be considered.
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Levand, T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Lipscomb]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 21, 1999, 11:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Non-Equilibrium Superconductivity and Quasiparticle Dynamics in YBaCuO

Description: The authors use optical pump, coherent terahertz probe spectroscopy to transiently excite nonequilibrium populations of quasiparticles in YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7.{delta}} and monitor, with picosecond resolution, the superfluid and quasiparticle dynamics.
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Siders, J. L. W.; Jacobs, R. N.; Siders, C. W.; Trugman, S. A. & Taylor, A. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculation of Shipboard Fire Conditions

Description: Successful techniques have been developed for simulating some experimental shipboard fires. The experimental fues were staged in Holds 4 and 5 of the Mayo Lykes, a test ship operated by the United States Coast Guard Fire and Safiety Test Detachment at Little Sand Island in Mobile Bay, Alabama. The tests simulated an engine-room or galley fire in the compartment adjacent to simulated hazardous cargo. The purpose of these tests was to determine the effect the fires in Hold 4 had on the cargo in H… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Cole, J.K.; Koski, J.A. & Wix, S.D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ultrafast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Using a Photoexcited Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs Tip

Description: The authors report ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy using a low-temperature-grown GaAs tip photoexcited by 100-fs, 800-nm pulses. They use this tip to detect picosecond transients on a coplanar stripline and demonstrate a temporal resolution of 1.7 ps. A dependence of the transient signal upon spatial position of the tip is revealed, indicating that the signal arises from areas on the sample smaller than {approximately}20nm.
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Donati, G. P.; Rodriguez, G. & Taylor, A. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ohio's first ethanol-fueled light-duty fleet: Clean cities alternative fuel information series case study

Description: In 1996, the State of Ohio established a project to demonstrate the effectiveness of ethanol as an alternative to gasoline in its fleet operations. All vehicles in the study were 1996 model year Ford Tauruses: ten were flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs) and three were standard gasoline models. Overall, the State of Ohio's staff has been pleased with the Taurus FFVs. The vehicles perform well and meet the operators' needs.
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Whalen, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas Phase Molecular Dynamics

Description: The goal of this research is the understanding of elementary chemical and physical processes important in the combustion of fossil fuels. Interest centers on reactions involving short-lived chemical intermediates and their properties. High-resolution high-sensitivity laser absorption methods are augmented by high temperature flow-tube reaction kinetics studies with mass spectrometric sampling. These experiments provide information on the energy levels, structures and reactivity of molecular fle… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Hall, G. E.; Prrese, J. M.; Sears, T. J. & Weston, R. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhanced radiological work planning

Description: The purpose of this standard is to provide Project Hanford Management Contractors (PHMC) with guidance for ensuring radiological considerations are adequately addressed throughout the work planning process. Incorporating radiological controls in the planning process is a requirement of the Hanford Site Radiological Control Manual (HSRCM-I), Chapter 3, Part 1. This standard is applicable to all PHMC contractors and subcontractors. The essential elements of this standard will be incorporated into… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: DECKER, W.A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Web-Based Training Applications in Safeguards and Security

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) requires all employees who hold a security clearance and have access to classified information and/or special nuclear material to be trained in the area of Safeguards and Security. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, personnel who are responsible for training have capitalized on this communication medium to develop and deliver Web-based training. Unlike traditional computer based training where the student was required to find a workstation where the trai… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Lopez, R.L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tank plan for tank 241-C-104 retrieval testing

Description: Tank 241-C-104 has been identified as one of the first tanks to be retrieved for high-level waste pretreatment and immobilization. Retrieval of the tank waste will require dilution. Laboratory tests are needed to determine the amount of dilution required for safe retrieval and transfer of feed. The proposed laboratory tests are described in this document.
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: HERTING, D.L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HANSF 1.3 user's manual

Description: The HANSF analysis tool is an integrated model considering phenomena inside a multi-canister overpack (MCO) spent nuclear fuel container such as fuel oxidation, convective and radiative heat transfer, and the potential for fission product release. It may be used for all phases of spent fuel disposition including cold vacuum drying, transportation, and storage. This manual reflects HANSF version 1.3, a revised version of version 1.2a. HANSF 1.3 was written to add new models for axial nodalizatio… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: PLYS, M.G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary and abstracts: Applied Research Units and Projects 1996 UCETF Program

Description: The Urban Consortium (UC), created by PTI, is a network of jurisdictions with populations of over 250,000. The UC provides a platform for research and enterprise through its Energy, Environmental, Transportation, and Telecommunications and Information Task Forces. The UC provides a unique creative forum where elected and appointed officials and technical managers identify, test, and validate practical ways to improve the provision of public services and, where possible, generate new revenue opp… more
Date: May 21, 1999
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Criticality safety evaluation report for the multi-canister overpack

Description: This criticality evaluation is for Spent N Reactor fuel unloaded from the existing canisters in both KE and KW Basins, and loaded into multiple canister overpack (MCO) containers with specially built baskets containing a maximum of either 54 Mark 1V or 48 Mark IA fuel assemblies. The criticality evaluations include loading baskets into the cask-MCO, operations at the Cold Vacuum Drying Facility, and storage in the Canister Storage Building. Many conservatisms have been built into this analysis,… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: KESSLER, S.F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas-Phase Molecular Dynamics: Vibrational Dynamics of Polyatomic Molecules

Description: The goal of this research is the understanding of elementary chemical and physical processes important in the combustion of fossil fuels. Interest centers on reactions and properties of short-lived chemical intermediates. High-resolution, high-sensitivity, laser absorption methods are augmented by high- temperature, flow-tube reaction kinetics studies with mass-spectrometic sampling. These experiments provide information on the energy levels, structures and reactivity of molecular free radical … more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Muckerman, J. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Physical and Engineering Aspects of High Current EBIS

Description: Some applications of an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) require intensities of highly charged ions significantly greater than those which have been achieved in present EBIS sources. For example, the ion source for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) must be capable of generating 3 x 10{sup 9} ions of Au{sup 35+} or 2 x 10{sup 9} ions of U{sup 45+} per pulse. In this case, if the fraction of ions of interest is 20% of the total ion space charge, the… more
Date: May 21, 1999
Creator: Pikin, A. & Prelec, K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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