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Flying Cars and Drones Pose Policy Challenges for Managing and Regulating Low-Altitude Airspace

Description: This report discusses the possibility that flying cars may soon become a reality. Development and marketing efforts are bringing to the fore new policy and regulatory challenges regarding the control of low-altitude airspace, safety, noise, privacy, and landowner rights. They also are raising new questions about the appropriate roles of federal, state, and local authorities in regulating and managing these operations.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Elias, Bart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enforcing U.S. Trade Laws: Section 301 and China

Description: This report discusses the Trump Administration's decision to proceed with a Section 301 case against China's intellectual property rights (IPR) policies and their intent to impose 25% ad valorem tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products. It also looks at past use of Section 301 against China.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Argentina

Description: This report discusses Argentina's political and economic situation, U.S. foreign aid to Argentina, trade and investment issues, and U.S. Congressional interest.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Judicial Opinions of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh

Description: This report provides tabular listings of 306 cases in which Judge Kavanaugh authored a majority, concurring, or dissenting opinion. Arguably, these written opinions provide the greatest insight into Judge Kavanaugh's judicial approach, as a judge's vote or decision to join an opinion authored by a colleague may not necessarily represent full agreement with a colleague's views.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Garcia, Michael John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mexico: Evolution of the Mérida Initiative, 2007-2019

Description: This report begins with a brief discussion of security challenges in Mexico and Mexico's security strategy. It then provides information on congressional funding and oversight of the Mérida Initiative, with details about each of the program's four pillars. The report concludes by raising policy issues that Congress may wish to consider.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Seelke, Clare Ribando
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rapid embryonic accretion of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the brain of an altricial bird with an aquatic-based maternal diet

Description: This article communicates the results of a study conducted on red-winged blackbirds where brain phospholipid composition during development was measured and diet was manipulated. The dietary study confirmed that nestling brains are sensitive to fatty acid supply. The findings of this article suggest that Red-winged blackbirds may be able to advance cognitive development relative to other altricial species owing to their aquatic maternal diet.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Price, Edwin R.; Sirsat, Sarah K. G.; Sirsat, Tushar S.; Venables, Barney J. & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
Partner: UNT College of Science

[Jerry and Ted placing a SAR marker]

Description: Photograph of Jerry Cope and Ted E. Wilson, from the Arlington Chapter (#7) of TXSSAR, burying a SAR marker piece in the ground in front of Edward Monroe Polk's headstone. There are shovels behind Wilson and the markers for Evelyn Allison Polk and Rosine Blair Polk are on either side.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Edward Monroe Polk's headstone and SAR emblem]

Description: Photograph of Edward Monroe Polk's headstone at the Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana, Texas. At the base is a newly added SAR emblem that has been buried so that only the face of the piece is visible.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jerry and Ted at Edward Monroe Polk's headstone]

Description: Photograph of Jerry Cope and Ted E. Wilson, from the Arlington Chapter (#7) of TXSSAR, after placing a SAR marker piece in the ground in front of Edward Monroe Polk's headstone. There are shovels behind Wilson and the markers for Evelyn Allison Polk and Rosine Blair Polk are on either side.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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