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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Congressional Interest and Executive Enforcement

Description: This report briefly discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act of 1977 (FCPA), which was intended to prevent corporate bribery of foreign officials. Criticisms of the act's operation and scope began almost immediately after its passage and have continued. This report discusses these criticisms.
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Energy Policy

Description: This report discusses nuclear energy issues currently facing Congress, such as federal incentives for new commercial reactors, radioactive waste management policy, research and development priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, and security against terrorist attacks.
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Holt, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Security: National Archives and Records Administration Needs to Implement Key Program Elements and Controls

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is responsible for preserving access to government documents and other records of historical significance and overseeing records management throughout the federal government. NARA relies on the use of information systems to receive, process, store, and track government records. As such, NARA is tasked with preserving and maintaining access to incre… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell": A Legal Analysis

Description: In recent years, several Members of Congress have expressed interest in amending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," (DADT) a legislation that requires those of homosexual orientation in the military to keep quiet about their orientation in order to maintain "morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion." At least two bills that would repeal the law and replace it with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - H.R. 1283 and S. 3065 - have been introduced in the 111th Congr… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Feder, Jody
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[Ariana Guardado with students]

Description: Photograph of Ariana Guardado, a Teach North Texas program member, working with four students. They are working with activity sheets and on the smart board behind them is a slide that reads "How to Count... -Once you have counted all that you can count on one item you will continue the process of counting other items until there is nothing to count at that station. - You have 6 minutes per station, you will continue to the next station when you hear this...".
Date: October 21, 2010
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[TNT Master Teachers]

Description: Photograph of the Teach North Texas program Master Teachers. They are standing in a line and are (L-R) Carron Collier, Teresa Walls, Becky Osborne, Kevin Hughes, Cindy Woods, and Kris Sherman.
Date: October 21, 2010
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[Student making a cell]

Description: Photograph of a student that is in the Teach North Texas program making a model eukaryotic cell. Next to him is another student and they are sitting at tables in a classroom lab. The teachers desk is visible behind them.
Date: October 21, 2010
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[TNT member cutting yarn]

Description: Photograph of a Teach North Texas program member working with a group of students. She is cutting off a piece of yarn for them to use in building model eukaryotic cells. There are several Play-Doh cans on the table and name-cards. Two of the name-cards read "Zempoalteca" and "McCarty". Behind the teacher are other tables with more students.
Date: October 21, 2010
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[Serena Hobbs with students]

Description: Photograph of Serena Hobbs, a Teach North Texas program member, working with three students. They are taking notes about the characteristics of flowers and plants in a classroom. One of the students is holding the plants in his hands while the others are looking at one in a pot.
Date: October 21, 2010
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[Serena Hobbs helping students]

Description: Photograph of Serena Hobbs, a Teach North Texas program member, working with three students. They are counting a specific part of the flowers that are at their desk group. There is a potted Peace Lily, a sunflower, and a few Daisy Chrysanthemums.
Date: October 21, 2010
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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An Assessment of Molecular Dynamic Force Fields for Silica for Use in Simulating Laser Damage Mitigation

Description: We compare force fields (FF's) that have been used in molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of silica in order to assess their applicability for use in simulating IR-laser damage mitigation. Although pairwise FF?s obtained by fitting quantum mechanical calculations such as the BKS and CHIK potentials have been shown to reproduce many of the properties of silica including the stability of silica polymorphs and the densification of the liquid, we show that melting temperatures and fictive temperatur… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Soules, T F; Gilmer, G H; Matthews, M J; Stolken, J S & Feit, M D
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the U.S. Iron and Steel Industry An ENERGY STAR(R) Guide for Energy and Plant Managers

Description: Energy is an important cost factor in the U.S iron and steel industry. Energy efficiency improvement is an important way to reduce these costs and to increase predictable earnings, especially in times of high energy price volatility. There are a variety of opportunities available at individual plants in the U.S. iron and steel industry to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner. This Energy Guide discusses energy efficiency practices and energy-efficient technologies that can be im… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Worrell, Ernst; Blinde, Paul; Neelis, Maarten; Blomen, Eliane & Masanet, Eric
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memory-bit selection and recording by rotating fields in vortex-core cross-point architecture

Description: In one of our earlier studies [Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 022509 (2008)], we proposed a concept of robust information storage, recording and readout, which can be implementaed in nonvolatile magnetic random-access memories and is based on the energetically degenerated twofold ground states of vortex-core magnetizations. In the present study, we experimentally demonstrate reliable memory-bit selection and information recording in vortex-core cross-point architecture, specifically using a two-by-two v… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Yu, Young-Sang; Jung, Hyunsung; Lee, Ki-Suk; Fischer, Peter & Kim, Sang-Koog
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bimetallic Lithium Borohydrides Toward Reversible Hydrogen Storage

Description: Borohydrides such as LiBH{sub 4} have been studied as candidates for hydrogen storage because of their high hydrogen contents (18.4 wt% for LiBH{sub 4}). Limited success has been made in reducing the dehydrogenation temperature by adding reactants such as metals, metal oxides and metal halides. However, full rehydrogenation has not been realized because of multi-step decomposition processes and the stable intermediate species produced. It is suggested that adding second cation in LiBH{sub 4} ma… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Au, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Modeling in Support of a Roadway Accident

Description: The United States Forest Service-Savannah River (USFS) routinely performs prescribed fires at the Savannah River Site (SRS), a Department of Energy (DOE) facility located in southwest South Carolina. This facility covers {approx}800 square kilometers and is mainly wooded except for scattered industrial areas containing facilities used in managing nuclear materials for national defense and waste processing. Prescribed fires of forest undergrowth are necessary to reduce the risk of inadvertent wi… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Buckley, R. & Hunter, C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparing the use of 4.6 um lasers versus 10.6 um lasers for mitigating damage site growth on fused silica surfaces

Description: The advantage of using mid-infrared (IR) 4.6 {micro}m lasers, versus far-infrared 10.6 {micro}m lasers, for mitigating damage growth on fused silica is investigated. In contrast to fused silica's high absorption at 10.6 {micro}m, silica absorption at 4.6 {micro}m is two orders of magnitude less. The much reduced absorption at 4.6 {micro}m enables deep heat penetration into fused silica when it is heated using the mid-IR laser, which in turn leads to more effective mitigation of damage sites wit… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Yang, S T; Matthews, M J; Elhadj, S; Cooke, D; Guss, G M; Draggoo, V G et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Improved Method of Mitigating Laser Induced Surface Damage Growth in Fused Silica Using a Rastered, Pulsed CO2 Laser

Description: A new method of mitigating (arresting) the growth of large (>200 m diameter and depth) laser induced surface damage on fused silica has been developed that successfully addresses several issues encountered with our previously-reported large site mitigation technique. As in the previous work, a tightly-focused 10.6 {micro}m CO{sub 2} laser spot is scanned over the damage site by galvanometer steering mirrors. In contrast to the previous work, the laser is pulsed instead of CW, with the pulse … more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Bass, I L; Guss, G M; Nostrand, M J & Wegner, P L
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Densification and residual stress induced by CO2 laser-based mitigation of SiO2 surfaces

Description: Knowing the ultimate surface morphology resulting from CO{sub 2} laser mitigation of induced laser damage is important both for determining adequate treatment protocols, and for preventing deleterious intensification upon subsequent illumination of downstream optics. Physical effects such as evaporation, viscous flow and densification can strongly affect the final morphology of the treated site. Evaporation is a strong function of temperature and will play a leading role in determining pit shap… more
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Feit, M D; Matthews, M J; Soules, T F & Stolken, J S
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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