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Embassy Construction: Better Long-term Planning Will Enhance Program Decision-making

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The State Department has determined that about 80 percent of overseas U.S. diplomatic facilities lack adequate security and may be vulnerable to terrorist attack. In September 1998, State expanded its capital construction program to accelerate replacing its most vulnerable embassies and consulates by acquiring sites and preparing plans at 10 priority locations. This report summarizes (1) the status of the 10 p… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Depot Maintenance: Key Financial Issues for Consolidations at Pearl Harbor and Elsewhere Are Still Unresolved

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1998, the Navy consolidated the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Hawaii. Because of concerns about some aspects of the consolidation, the Navy began a test project, commonly called the Pearl Harbor pilot, to determine if integrating the management, operations, and funding of the shipyard and the intermediate maintenance facility can result in greater efficiency… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' Third Expenditure Plan

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) third expenditure plan for its systems modernization project. GAO found that the plan satisfied the conditions specified in Treasury's 1998 and 1999 appropriations acts and that IRS was making progress towards satisfying Congress' direction on the Custodial Accounting Project (CAP) and Security and Technology Infrastructure Release (STIR) Project. Althou… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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In/Si(111): Self-assembled one and two-dimensional electrongases

Description: We present angle-resolved photoemission measurements forultrathin In films on Si(111). Depending on the coverage, this systemself-organizes into a metallic monolayer with either 4x1 or sqrt7 x sqrt3symmetry relative to the substrate. Electronically, they behave likeideal one- and two-dimensional electron gases (1DEG and 2DEG),respectively. The 4x1 system has atomic chains of In whose energy bandsdisperse only parallel to the chains, while for the sqrt7 x sqrt3 system,the dominant reciprocal spa… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Rotenberg, Eli; Yeom, H. W.; Takeda, S.; Matsuda, I.; Horikoshi, K.; Schaefer, J. et al.
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Optimization of the 8 GeV AP3-P1 Lattice for Antiproton Transfers

Description: During 8 GeV antiproton transfers between the Accumulator to the Main Injector, the antiprotons must travel through four separate beam lines, AP3, AP1, P2, and P1. This note describes the optimization of a single lattice that describes these beam lines for 8 GeV antiproton transfers from the Accumulator to the Main Injector and 8 GeV proton transfers from the Main Injector to the Accumulator.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: McGinnis, Dave
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FIRE HAZARDS ANALYSIS - BUSTED BUTTE

Description: The purpose of this fire hazards analysis (FHA) is to assess the risk from fire within individual fire areas at the Busted Butte Test Facility and to ascertain whether the DOE fire safety objectives are met. The objective, identified in DOE Order 420.1, Section 4.2, is to establish requirements for a comprehensive fire and related hazards protection program for facilities sufficient to minimize the potential for: (1) The occurrence of a fire related event. (2) A fire that causes an unacceptable… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Longwell, R.; Keifer, J. & Goodin, S.
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Comparison of de-noising techniques for FIRST images

Description: Data obtained through scientific observations are often contaminated by noise and artifacts from various sources. As a result, a first step in mining these data is to isolate the signal of interest by minimizing the effects of the contaminations. Once the data has been cleaned or de-noised, data mining can proceed as usual. In this paper, we describe our work in denoising astronomical images from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey. We are mining this survey t… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Fodor, I K & Kamath, C
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Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Description: This report provides information about A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Flag Protection.This report is divided into two reports.The first report gives a brief history of the flag protection issue and the other summarizes the two decisions of the United States supreme court.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Luckey, John
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3(omega) Power Balance Procedure on the NIF

Description: This document defines the detailed NIF full system shot procedure to obtain 8% power balance as specified by the SDR002 3.2.1.04. Because the 48 quads of the NIF will be set up over a period of five years, obtaining power balance will naturally be accomplished in two steps. First, as each quad is brought online, the four laser beams within each quad will be tuned by setting the PABTS splitter ratios so that each beam will give the same laser power on target during low energy square pulse shots.… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Glenzer, S.; Jones, O.; Speck, D. R.; Munro, D.; Lerche, R.; Salmon, T. et al.
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Improving development planning in a natural gas storage field through simulation-optimization uncertainty analyses

Description: This is the second of two papers describing the application of simulation-optimization methods to a gas storage field development planning problem. The first paper began by giving a detailed description of the field and earlier efforts to model the effects of selected field development options on the field's productivity. It then outlined the basic steps required to apply a combination of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and the genetic algorithm (GA) to explore a much larger universe of field… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Johnson, V M
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Multilateral Development Banks: Procedures for U.S. Participation

Description: This report discusses the process for U.S. involvement in each of the seven multilateral development institutions which the U.S. is a part of. The U.S. Treasury Department manages U.S. participation, in consultation with other agencies. Congress has a major role in the formulation of U.S. policy, though this differs in several important respects from the role it exercises over U.S. agencies.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
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Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI): Research, Technology, and Related Programs

Description: The Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI) was the Clinton Administration's package of R&D (to develop renewable energy sources and more energy efficient technologies), targeted tax credits (to encourage purchase and deployment of more efficient technologies), and voluntary information programs (to help businesses and schools be better informed when making purchasing and operating decisions that involve energy use and emissions). This report describes the R&D, voluntary information program… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Simpson, Michael M.
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Nuclear Criticality Safety Bounding Analysis for the In-Tank Precipitation (ITP) Process

Description: This report focuses solely on the accumulation of uranium and plutonium during In-Tank Precipitation process (ITP) processing and precipitate storage. The concentration of uranium and plutonium from solution into the smaller volume of precipitate represents a possible concern for criticality.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Chandler, M.C.
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Message passing vs. shared address space on a cluster of SMPs

Description: The emergence of scalable computer architectures using clusters of PCs or PC-SMPs with commodity networking has made them attractive platforms for high-end scientific computing. Currently, message passing (MP) and shared address space (SAS) are the two leading programming paradigms for these systems. MP has been standardized with MPI, and is the most common and mature parallel programming approach. However, MP code development can be extremely difficult, especially for irregularly structured co… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Shan, Hongzhang; Singh, Jaswinder Pal; Oliker, Leonid & Biswas, Rupak
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Model-Based Reliability Analysis

Description: Modeling, in conjunction with testing, is a rich source of insight. Model parameters are easily controlled and monitoring can be done unobtrusively. The ability to inject faults without otherwise affecting performance is particularly critical. Many iterations can be done quickly with a model while varying parameters and conditions based on a small number of validation tests. The objective of Model-Based Reliability Analysis (MBRA) is to identify ways to capitalize on the insights gained from mo… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Bierbaum, Rene L.; Brown, Thomas d. & Kerschen, Thomas J.
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Exploring the microscopic origin of exchange bias with photo-electron emission microscopy (PEEM)

Description: It is well known that magnetic exchange coupling across the ferromagnet--antiferromagnet interface results in a unidirectional magnetic anisotropy of the ferromagnetic layer, called exchange bias. Despite large experimental and theoretical efforts, the origin of exchange bias is still controversial, mainly because detection of the interfacial magnetic structure is difficult. We have applied photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) on several ferromagnet - antiferromagnet thin-film structures an… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Scholl, A.; Nolting, F.; Stohr, J.; Regan, T.; Luning, J.; Seo, J.W. et al.
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Experimental Facilities Division/User Program Division technical progress report 1999-2000.

Description: In October 1999, the two divisions of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), the Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) and the Experimental Facilities Division (XFD), were reorganized into four divisions (see high-level APS organizational chart, Fig. 1.1). In addition to ASD and XFD, two new divisions were created, the APS Operations Division (AOD), to oversee APS operations, and the User Program Division (UPD), to serve the APS user community by developing and maintaining the highest quality user tech… more
Date: January 22, 2001
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Wind Turbine Wake Measurements in the Operating Region of a Tail Vain

Description: In conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Unsteady Aerodynamics Experiment (UAE) at NASA Ames, we measured the wake of an upwind 10-meter (m) diameter wind turbine in the typical region of a tail vane. The experiment was performed in a 24.4-by-36.6-m wind tunnel. We placed two sonic anemometers 0.58 rotor diameters downwind of the rotor at hub height. One was positioned nominally behind the nacelle at 9% radius and the second was placed 2-m outboard at 49% radius. … more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Larwood, S.
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Facility Effluent Monitoring Plan for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Balance-of-Plant Facilities

Description: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Pacific Northwest) operates a number of Research and Development facilities for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the Hanford Site. According to DOE Order 5400.1, a written environmental monitoring plan is required for each site, facility, or process that uses, generates, releases, or manages significant pollutants or hazardous materials. Facility Effluent Monitoring Plans (FEMPs) have been developed on the Hanford Site to document the facility ef… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Ballinger, Marcel Y & Shields, Keith D
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Tenth Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Materials and Processes: A Summary of Discussion Sessions

Description: The 10th Workshop on Silicon Solar Cell Materials and Processes was held in Copper Mountain, Colorado, on August 13-16, 2000. The workshop was attended by 85 scientists and engineers from 15 international photovoltaic (PV) companies and 24 research institutions. Review and poster presentations were augmented by discussion sessions to address the recent progress and critical issues in meeting the goals for Si in the PV Industry Roadmap. The theme of the workshop was Si Photovoltaics: 10 Years of… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Tan, T.; Swanson, D.; Sinton, R. & Sopori, B.
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Increased Oil Recovery from Mature Oil Fields Using Gelled Polymer Treatments

Description: This report describes the progress of the first year of a three-year research program. This program is aimed at reducing barriers to the widespread use of gelled polymer treatments by (1) developing methods to predict gel behavior during placement in matrix rock and fractures, (2) determining the persistence of permeability reduction after gel placement, and (3) developing methods to design production well treatments to control water production.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Willhite, G.P.; Green, D.W. & McCool, C.S.
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