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DOD Financial Management: The Army Faces Significant Challenges in Achieving Audit Readiness for Its Military Pay

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Army could not readily identify the population of Army military payroll accounts given its existing procedures and systems. The Army and DFAS-IN did not have an effective, repeatable process for identifying the population of active duty payroll records. For example, it took 3 months and repeated attempts before DFAS-IN could provide a population of service members who received active duty Army milit… more
Date: March 22, 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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Motor Carrier Safety: New Applicant Reviews Should Expand to Identify Freight Carriers Evading Detection

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "FMCSA does not determine the total number of chameleon carriers within the motor carrier industry. Such a determination would require FMCSA to investigate each of the tens of thousands of new applicants that register annually and then complete a legal process for some of these suspected chameleon carriers, an effort for which FMCSA does not have sufficient resources. Rather, FMCSA’s attempt to identify … more
Date: March 22, 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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Defined Contribution Plans: Approaches in Other Countries Offer Beneficial Strategies in Several Areas

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In overseeing DC plans and service providers, regulatory agencies in the countries GAO reviewed use risk-based approaches to target practices deemed most likely to harm participants and to develop preventative measures. While the role of service providers varies, DC plans and service providers in the 4 countries GAO reviewed are overseen by multiple agencies—primarily a pensions regulator and a securiti… more
Date: March 22, 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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DOD Financial Management: The Army Faces Significant Challenges in Achieving Audit Readiness for Its Military Pay

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We found that the Army could not readily identify a complete population of Army payroll accounts for fiscal year 2010, given existing procedures and systems. The Army and DFAS-IN did not have an effective, repeatable process for identifying the population of active duty payroll accounts. In addition, the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), DOD’s central source for personnel information, did not have an effec… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pipeline Safety: Collecting Data and Sharing Information on Federally Unregulated Gathering Pipelines Could Help Enhance Safety

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "While the safety risks of onshore gathering pipelines that are not regulated by PHMSA are generally considered to be lower than for other types of pipelines, PHMSA does not collect comprehensive data to identify the safety risks of unregulated gathering pipelines. In response to a GAO survey, state pipeline safety agencies cited construction quality, maintenance practices, unknown or uncertain locations… more
Date: March 22, 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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Department of Homeland Security: Preliminary Observations on DHS's Efforts to Improve Employee Morale

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Over time, federal surveys have consistently found that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees are less satisfied with their jobs than the government-wide average. In the 2004 Office of Personnel Management’s federal employee survey—a tool that measures employees’ perceptions of whether and to what extent conditions characterizing successful organizations are present in their agency—56 percent of DHS… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Detection of volatile organic compounds using surface enhanced Raman scattering

Description: The authors present the detection of volatile organic compounds directly in their vapor phase by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates based on lithographically-defined two-dimensional rectangular array of nanopillars. The type of nanopillars is known as the tapered pillars. For the tapered pillars, SERS enhancement arises from the nanofocusing effect due to the sharp tip on top. SERS experiments were carried out on these substrates using various concentrations of toluene vapor. T… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Chang, A. S.; Maiti, A.; Ileri, N.; Bora, M.; Larson, C. C.; Britten, J. A. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recovery Act: SeaMicro Volume Server Power Reduction Research Development

Description: Cloud data centers are projected to be the fastest growing segment of the server market through 2015, according to IDC. Increasingly people and businesses rely on the Cloud to deliver digital content quickly and efficiently. Recovery Act funding from the Department of Energy has helped SeaMicro's technologies enhance the total cost of operation, performance and energy efficiency in large data center and Cloud environments. SeaMicro's innovative supercomputer fabric connects thousands of process… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Lauterbach, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Micro-Analysis of Actinide Minerals for Nuclear Forensics and Treaty Verification

Description: Micro-Raman spectroscopy has been demonstrated to be a viable tool for nondestructive determination of the crystal phase of relevant minerals. Collecting spectra on particles down to 5 microns in size was completed. Some minerals studied were weak scatterers and were better studied with the other techniques. A decent graphical software package should easily be able to compare collected spectra to a spectral library as well as subtract out matrix vibration peaks. Due to the success and unequivoc… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: M. Morey, M. Manard, R. Russo, G. Havrilla
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laboratory Directed Research and Development FY2011 Annual Report

Description: A premier applied-science laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has earned the reputation as a leader in providing science and technology solutions to the most pressing national and global security problems. The LDRD Program, established by Congress at all DOE national laboratories in 1991, is LLNL's most important single resource for fostering excellent science and technology for today's needs and tomorrow's challenges. The LDRD internally directed research and development … more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Craig, W; Sketchley, J & Kotta, P
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimating the Bias of Local Polynomial Approximations Using the Peano Kernel

Description: These presentation visuals define local polynomial approximations, give formulas for bias and random components of the error, and express bias error in terms of the Peano kernel. They further derive constants that give figures of merit, and show the figures of merit for 3 common weighting functions. The Peano kernel theorem yields estimates for the bias error for local-polynomial-approximation smoothing that are superior in several ways to the error estimates in the current literature.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Blair, J., and Machorro, E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compensating State and Local Governments for the Tax-Exempt Status of Federal Lands: What Is Fair and Consistent?

Description: This report provides information about the Compensating State and Local Governments for the Tax-Exempt Status of Federal Lands .State and local governments provide a wide variety of services-education, social services etc.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Gorte, Ross W. & Lynee, Corn M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomistic Time-Domain Simulations of Light-Harvesting and Charge-Transfer Dynamics in Novel Nanoscale Materials for Solar Hydrogen Production.

Description: Funded by the DOE grant (i) we continued to study and analyze the atomistic detail of the electron transfer (ET) across the chromophore-TiO2 interface in Gratzel cell systems for solar hydrogen production. (ii) We extensively investigated the nature of photoexcited states and excited state dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots (QD) designed for photovoltaic applications. (iii) We continued a newly initiated research direction focusing on excited state properties and electron-phonon interaction… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Prezhdo, Oleg V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theoretical Studies of Hydrogen Storage Alloys.

Description: Theoretical calculations were carried out to search for lightweight alloys that can be used to reversibly store hydrogen in mobile applications, such as automobiles. Our primary focus was on magnesium based alloys. While MgH{sub 2} is in many respects a promising hydrogen storage material, there are two serious problems which need to be solved in order to make it useful: (i) the binding energy of the hydrogen atoms in the hydride is too large, causing the release temperature to be too high, and… more
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Jonsson, Hannes
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Challenge of Individual Income Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening

Description: Congressional interest in a major reform of the individual income tax that would broaden the base and use the additional tax revenues to lower rates and/or reduce the deficit has increased. This report discusses ways in which the tax base can be broadened, tax expenditures, and impediments to broadening the base/eliminating or reducing expenditures.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G. & Hungerford, Thomas L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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