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Driver's License Security: Federal Leadership Needed to Address Remaining Vulnerabilities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To verify license applicants' identity, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have procedures that may detect counterfeit documents. For example, all states are now verifying key personal information, such as Social Security numbers (SSN) through online queries to a Social Security Administration (SSA) database, a significant increase from about a decade ago. This effort helps ensure that the ident… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status of Open World Exchange Program's Efforts to Strengthen Financial Management and Performance Measurement

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since our 2004 report, Open World has taken a number of steps to address our recommendations on financial management controls, and has also generally followed leading financial management practices. For example, to address our recommendations, Open World (1) contracted with an independent public accountant to perform an assessment of its ability to be audited; (2) developed Financial Procedures and Direc… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Readiness: Navy Needs to Assess Risks to Its Strategy to Improve Ship Readiness

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recent data show variations in the material readiness of different types of ships, but do not reveal any clear trends of improvement or decline for the period from 2008 to 2012. The Navy uses a variety of means to collect, analyze, and track the material readiness of its surface combatant and amphibious warfare ships. Three data sources the Navy uses to provide information on the material readiness of s… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security: DHS Requires More Disciplined Investment Management to Help Meet Mission Needs

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In summary, we found that 68 of the 71 programs that responded to our survey reported that they experienced funding instability, faced workforce shortfalls, or that their planned capabilities changed after initiation. Most respondentsreported a combination of these challenges. We have previously reported that these challenges increase the likelihood acquisition programs will cost more and take longer to deliv… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Private Health Plans: Selected Current Issues

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In March 2012, GAO issued a report on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Advantage (MA) quality bonus payment demonstration—a demonstration CMS initiated rather than implementing the quality bonus program established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Compared to the PPACA quality bonus program, CMS’s demonstration increases the number of plans eligible for… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Crystalline Ceramic Waste Forms: Report Detailing Data Collection In Support Of Potential FY13 Pilot Scale Melter Test

Description: The research conducted in this work package is aimed at taking advantage of the long term thermodynamic stability of crystalline ceramics to create more durable waste forms (as compared to high level waste glass) in order to reduce the reliance on engineered and natural barrier systems. Durable ceramic waste forms that incorporate a wide range of radionuclides have the potential to broaden the available disposal options and to lower the storage and disposal costs associated with advanced fuel c… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Brinkman, K. S.; Amoroso, J.; Marra, J. C. & Fox, K. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Parameterization and Analysis of 3-D Solar Radiative Transfer in Clouds: Final Report

Description: This document reports on the research that we have done over the course of our two-year project. The report also covers the research done on this project during a 1 year no-cost extension of the grant. Our work has had two main, inter-related thrusts: The first thrust was to characterize the response of stratocumulus cloud structure and dynamics to systematic changes in cloud infrared radiative cooling and solar heating using one-dimensional radiative transfer models. The second was to couple a… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Harrington, Jerry Y.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ITER Diagnostic First Wal

Description: The ITER Diagnostic Division is responsible for designing and procuring the First Wall Blankets that are mounted on the vacuum vessel port plugs at both the upper and equatorial levels This paper will discuss the effects of the diagnostic aperture shape and configuration on the coolant circuit design. The DFW design is driven in large part by the need to conform the coolant arrangement to a wide variety of diagnostic apertures combined with the more severe heating conditions at the surface faci… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: G. Douglas Loesser, et. al.
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DOE Workshop; Pan-Gass Conference on the Representation of Atmospheric Processes in Weather and Climate Models

Description: This is the first meeting of the whole new GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Atmospheric System Study (GASS) project that has been formed from the merger of the GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Project and the GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Studies (GABLS). As such, this meeting will play a major role in energizing GEWEX work in the area of atmospheric parameterizations of clouds, convection, stable boundary layers, and aerosol-cloud interactions for the numerical models used fo… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Morrison, PI Hugh
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HVAC & Building Management Control System Energy Efficiency Replacements

Description: The project objective was the replacement of an aging, un-repairable HVAC system which has grown inefficient and a huge energy consumer with low energy and efficient HVAC units, and installation of energy efficient building control technologies at City's YMCA Community Center.
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Hernandez, Adriana
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remote Monitoring of the Structural Health of Hydrokinetic Composite Turbine Blades

Description: A health monitoring approach is investigated for hydrokinetic turbine blade applications. In-service monitoring is critical due to the difficult environment for blade inspection and the cost of inspection downtime. Composite blade designs have advantages that include long life in marine environments and great control over mechanical properties. Experimental strain characteristics are determined for static loads and free-vibration loads. These experiments are designed to simulate the dynamic cha… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Chandrashekhara, J.L. Rovey K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FINAL REPORT FOR INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATORY SURVEY SUMMARY AND RESULTS FOR THE HEMATITE DECOMMISSIONING PROJECT, FESTUS, MISSOURI

Description: ORAU conducted confirmatory surveys of the Hematite site during the period of June 12 through June 13, 2012. The survey activities included in-process inspections, document review, walkover surveys, sampling activities, and laboratory analysis of split samples. WEC was forthcoming with information relating to practices, procedures, and surface scan results. Scans performed by the WEC technician were extremely thorough and methodical. The WEC and ORAU technicians identified the same areas of ele… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Bailey, Erika N. & Lee, Jason D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies

Description: This report provides background on regulatory requirements, controversies and legal challenges to mountaintop mining, and recent Administration actions. Congressional interest in these issues also is discussed, including legislation in the 111th Congress seeking to restrict the practice of mountaintop mining and other legislation intended to block the Obama Administration’s regulatory actions. Attention to EPA’s veto of the West Virginia mining permit and other federal agency actions has increa… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel age impacts on gaseous fission product capture during separations

Description: As a result of fuel reprocessing, volatile radionuclides will be released from the facility stack if no processes are put in place to remove them. The radionuclides that are of concern in this document are 3H, 14C, 85Kr, and 129 Rosnick 2007 I. The question we attempt to answer is how efficient must this removal process be for each of these radionuclides? To answer this question, we examine the three regulations that may impact the degree to which these radionuclides must be reduced before proc… more
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Jubin, Robert T.; Soelberg, Nicolas R.; Strachan, Denis M. & Ilas, G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Down-regulation of the caffeic acid O-methyltransferase gene in switchgrass reveals a novel monolignol analog

Description: Article on the down-regulation of the caffeic acid O-methyltransferase gene in switchgrass revealing a novel monolignol analog.
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Tschaplinski, Timothy J.; Standaert, Robert F.; Engle, Nancy L.; Martin, Madhavi Z.; Sangha, Amandeep K.; Parks, Jerry M. et al.
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