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Coast Guard: Replacement of HH-65 Helicopter Engine

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Over the last several years, the Coast Guard has experienced what it considers to be serious reliability and safety problems with its workhorse HH-65 helicopter used for key missions, such as search and rescue, migrant and drug interdiction, and homeland security. Annually, the HH-65 contributes to saving 375 lives and assists on 2,065 drug interdiction cases, according to the Coast Guard. An increasing trend … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grants Management: Despite Efforts to Improve Weed and Seed Program Management, Challenges Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Weed and Seed program, within the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP), aims to prevent and reduce violent crime in targeted neighborhoods, but it cannot optimize its effectiveness without sound management practices. In 1999, GAO made four recommendations to the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS) to improve the program's management, including (1) developing adequate internal cont… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Trade Organization: U.S. Companies' Views on China's Implementation of Its Commitments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As the second largest source of foreign direct investment in China, U.S. companies continue their keen interest in China's implementation of its World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments. China's 2001 WTO commitments include specific pledges to increase market access, liberalize foreign investment, continue fundamental market reforms, and improve the rule of law. In 2002, GAO reported on selected U.S. compani… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Peace Corps: Status of Initiatives to Improve Volunteer Safety and Security

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "About 7,500 Peace Corps volunteers currently serve in 70 countries. The administration intends to increase this number to about 14,000. Volunteers often live in areas with limited access to reliable communications, police, or medical services. As Americans, they may be viewed as relatively wealthy and, hence, good targets for crime. In this testimony, GAO summarizes findings from its 2002 report Peace Corps: Initiat… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Government: Initiatives Sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget Have Made Mixed Progress

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "One of the five priorities in the President's Management Agenda is the expansion of electronic (e-) government--the use of Internet applications to enhance access to and delivery of government information and services. To this end, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has sponsored 25 high-profile e-government initiatives. The initiatives were selected on the basis of value to citizens, potential improvement in… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regulatory Programs: Opportunities to Enhance Oversight of the Real Estate Appraisal Industry

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The appraisal and mortgage lending industry has changed dramatically since the passage of Title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989. Some have concluded that the problems Title XI was intended to address--the risk to the federal deposit insurance funds and the lack of uniform standards and qualifications--no longer exist. This statement is based on GAO's May 14, 2003, repor… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Observations Related to Reserve Compensation, Selective Reenlistment Bonuses, and Mail Delivery to Deployed Troops

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. military has deployed high numbers of active duty and reserve troops to fight the global war on terrorism and for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ensuring that U.S. military forces are adequately compensated and that the morale of deployed troops remains high have been priorities for the Congress and the Department of Defense (DOD). In response to congressional ma… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Prepositioning: Observations on Army and Marine Corps Programs During Operation Iraqi Freedom and Beyond

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Cold War, the Department of Defense (DOD) has increased its reliance on prepositioned stocks of military equipment and supplies, primarily because it can no longer plan on having a large forward troop presence. Prepositioned stocks are stored on ships and on land in the Persian Gulf and other regions around the world. Prepositioning allows the military to respond rapidly to conflicts. Ideally, units need o… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HB-Line Special Nuclear Material Campaigns: Model-Based Project Management

Description: This study is to show how a model was used to enable management to better estimate production capabilities to ensure contract milestones/commitments are met, to cope with fast changing project baselines and project missions, to ensure the project will meet the negotiated throughput, and to eliminate unnecessary but costly design changes.
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Chang, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analytical Method for Measuring Total Protium and Total Deuterium in a Gas Mixture Containing H2, D2, and HD Via Gas Chromatography

Description: A new analytical technique has been developed that measures both total protium (H) and deuterium (D) in a gas mixture containing H2, D2, and HD. This new analytical technique uses a micro gas chromatograph (GC) with two molecular sieve columns. One column uses D2 as the carrier gas and the other uses H2 as the carrier gas. Laboratory tests have shown that when used in this configuration the GC can measure both total protium and total deuterium, each with a sensitivity of less than 20 ppm. This … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: SESSIONS, HENRY
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A simple way to characterize linear coupling in a storage ring

Description: The techniques of normal form analysis, well known in the literature, can be used to provide a straightforward characterization of linear betatron dynamics in a coupled lattice. Here, we consider both the beam distribution and the betatron oscillations in a storage ring, assuming that the beam emittances and betatron actions respectively are provided as parameters. We find that the beta functions for uncoupled motion generalize in a simple way to the coupled case. Defined in the way that we pro… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Wolski, Andrzej
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transcript of 9-11 Commission Hearing 8, March 24, 2004

Description: Transcript of the eighth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States held March 23-24, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing investigated the formulation and conduct of U.S. counterterrorism policy, with particular emphasis on the period from the August 1998 embassy bombings to September 11, 2001. The Commission heard from current and former top-level administration officials. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Staff Statement: Intelligence Policy

Description: Official statement issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States describing preliminary findings regarding the use of intelligence agencies in countering terrorism. This statement focuses on the role of of the Central Intelligence Agency as an instrument of national policy.
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transcript of 9-11 Commission Hearing 8, March 23, 2004

Description: Transcript of the eighth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States held March 23-24, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing investigated the formulation and conduct of U.S. counterterrorism policy, with particular emphasis on the period from the August 1998 embassy bombings to September 11, 2001. The Commission heard from current and former top-level administration officials. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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STELLA-II: DEMONSTRATION OF MONOENERGETIC LASER ACCELERATION.

Description: Monoenergetic laser acceleration of trapped microbunches has been demonstrated for the first time. An inverse free electron laser (IFEL) is used to create microbunches, which are then accelerated by a second IFEL using a tapered undulatos. An adjustable magnetic field chicane is located between the two IFELs and is used to control the phase of the microbunches with respect to the laser field in the second IFEL. The IFELs are driven by a single lases beam from a high peak power CO{sub 2} laser. … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: KIMURA,W. D. BABZIEN,M. BEN-ZVI,I. GALLARDO,J. C. KUSCHE,K. P. POGORELSKY,I. V. SKARITKA,J. YAKIMENKO,V. ET AL.
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Review of Practice for Deeply Embedded/Buried Npp Structures Subject to Seismic Loadings.

Description: Motivated by many design considerations, several conceptual designs for advanced reactors have proposed that the entire reactor building and a significant portion of the steam generator building will be either partially or completely embedded below grade. For the analysis of seismic events, the soil-structure interaction (SSI) effect and passive earth pressure for these types of deeply embedded structures will have a significant influence on the predicted seismic response. Sponsored by the US N… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Xu, J.; Hofmayer, C.; Miller, C. & Graves, H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayers and Surface-Attached Interlocking Molecules Using Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

Description: Quantitative knowledge of the fundamental structure and substrate binding, as well as the direct measurement of conformational changes, are essential to the development of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and surface-attached interlocking molecules, catenanes and rotaxanes. These monolayers are vital to development of nano-mechanical, molecular electronic, and biological/chemical sensor applications. This dissertation investigates properties of functionalized SAMs in sulfur-gold based adsorbed … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Willey, T & Willey, T
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CONCEPTS FOR CAPACITIVELY RF-SHIELDED BELLOWS IN CRYOGENIC STRUCTURES.

Description: Bellows are frequently required in accelerators and colliders. Usually RF-shields with spring fingers are employed to screen the bellows. The lack of accessibility in cryogenic systems can be a problem and asks for alternate solutions to eliminate possible overheating, sparking, etc that occurred in intensive beams. This note addresses an alternate kind of RF shield, which uses capacitive contact instead of mechanical contact. The analysis, as well as numerical example of a superconducting cavi… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: ZHAO,Y. HAHN,H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and Status of the Visa II Experiment.

Description: VISA II is the follow-up project to the successful Visible to Infrared SASE Amplifier (VISA) experiment at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) in Brookhaven National Lab (BNL). This paper will report the motivation for and status of the two main experiments associated with the VISA II program. One goal of VISA II is to perform an experimental study of the physics of a chirped beam SASE FEL at the upgraded facilities of the ATF. This requires a linearization of the transport line to preserve ene… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Andonian, G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DNA Damage Quantitation by Alkaline Gel Electrophoresis.

Description: Physical and chemical agents in the environment, those used in clinical applications, or encountered during recreational exposures to sunlight, induce damages in DNA. Understanding the biological impact of these agents requires quantitation of the levels of such damages in laboratory test systems as well as in field or clinical samples. Alkaline gel electrophoresis provides a sensitive (down to {approx} a few lesions/5Mb), rapid method of direct quantitation of a wide variety of DNA damages in … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Sutherland, B. M.; Bennett, P. V. & Sutherland, J. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defining and Testing the Influence of Servo System Response on Machine Tool Compliance

Description: Compliance can be defined as the measurement of displacement per unit of force applied e.g. nano-meters per Newton (m/N). Compliance is the reciprocal of stiffness. High stiffness means low compliance and visa versa. It is an important factor in machine tool characteristics because it reflects the ability of the machine axis to maintain a desired position as it encounters a force or torque. Static compliance is a measurement made with a constant force applied e.g. the average depth of cut. Dyna… more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Hopkins, D J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Practical SQE on a Large Multi-Disciplinary HPC Development Team

Description: In this paper we will discuss several software engineering practices that have proven useful in a large multidisciplinary physics code development project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the project discussed here, as with many large scale efforts in HPC scientific computing, we have had to balance the competing demands of being a stable ''production'' code that our user base can rely on with being a platform for research into new physics, models, and software architectures. Much … more
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Neely, J R
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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