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International Environment: U.S. Actions to Fulfill Commitments Under Five Key Agreements

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The United States is bound by five international environmental agreements related to climate change (Framework Convention), desertification (Desertification Convention), the earth's ozone layer (Montreal Protocol), endangered species (CITES), and North American environmental cooperation (North American Agreement). However, the United States fell short of meeting a commitment or pledge in two areas--provi… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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2002 Update of the 155mm Lightweight Howitzer

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report describes the schedule, cost, and technical status of the 155mm Lightweight Howitzer program. The Army-Marine Corps Lightweight Howitzer Joint Program Office directs this program's development, with a British company as the prime contractor. Since GAO's April 2000 report (See GAO-01-603R), all key milestones have slipped because a 2-year low-rate initial production phase has been added to provide pr… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Significant Challenges Need to Be Addressed

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) enhances the security of the nation's cyber and physical public and private infrastructure. Federal agencies and other public and private entities rely extensively on computerized systems and electronic data to support their missions. CIP issues involve developing a national CIP strategy, improving analysis and warning capabilities, improving information sharing on threats an… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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HUD Human Capital Management: Comprehensive Strategic Workforce Planning Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Looming retirements during the next 5 years at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have brought the need for workforce planning to the forefront. HUD has done some workforce planning and has determined how many staff it needs to meet its current workload, but it does not have a comprehensive strategic workforce plan to guide its recruiting, hiring, and other key human capital efforts. Workfor… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Foreign Assistance: Disaster Recovery Program Addressed Intended Purposes, but USAID Needs Greater Flexibility to Improve Its Response Capability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In the fall of 1998, when hurricanes Mitch and Georges struck Central America and the Caribbean, the United States and other donors responded by providing emergency relief, such as food, water, medical supplies, and temporary shelter. Also, In May 1999, Congress passed emergency supplemental legislation that provided $621 million for a disaster recovery and reconstruction fund for the affected countries, as we… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HUD Management: HUD's High-Risk Program Areas and Management Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the high-risk program areas and management challenges at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For many years, management and oversight weaknesses have made its programs vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. The current administration has placed improving HUD's management among its highest priorities and wants to remove the high-risk designation from all HUD … more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the planned National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Today's polar-orbiting environmental satellite program is a complex infrastructure encompassing two satellite systems, supporting ground stations, and four central data processing centers that provide general weather information and specialized environmental products to a variety of users, including weat… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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UNIVERSAL BEHAVIOR OF CHARGED PARTICLE PRODUCTION IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS.

Description: The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Two observations indicate universal behavior of charged particle production in heavy ion collisions. The first is that forward particle production, over a range of energies, follows a universal limiting curve with a non-trivial centrality dependence. The second arises from comparisons with pp/… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: STEINBERG,P. A. FOR THE PHOBOS COLLABORATION
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Understanding the response of commercial and institutional organizations to the California energy crisis. A report to the California Energy Commission - Sylvia Bender, Project Manager

Description: Beginning in the summer of 2000, California experienced serious energy supply problems, sharp increases in wholesale (and retail) electricity and natural gas prices, and isolated blackouts. In response to the rapidly worsening electricity situation in California in late 2000, the state set, as an initial goal, the reduction of the state's peak demand for the summer of 2001 by 5,000 megawatts. To meet this goal, the governor and legislature took a variety of steps to enhance supply, encourage ra… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Lutzenhiser, Loren; Janda, Kathryn; Kunkle, Rick & Payne, Christopher
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UNIVERSAL BEHAVIOR OF CHARGED PARTICLE PRODUCTION IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS AT RHIC ENERGIES.

Description: The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Two observations indicate universal behavior of charged particle production in heavy ion collisions. The first is that forward particle production, over a range of energies, follows a universal limiting curve with a non-trivial centrality dependence. The second arises from comparisons with pp/… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Steinberg, P. A. & COLLABORATION, FOR THE PHOBOS
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X-Ray Optics Research for the Linac Coherent Light Source: Interaction of Ultra-Short X-Ray Laser Pulses with Optical Materials

Description: Free electron lasers operating in the 0.1 to 1.5 nm wavelength have been proposed for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and DESY (Germany). The unprecedented brightness and associated fluence predicted for pulses <300 fs pose new challenges for optical components. A criterion for optical component design is required, implying an understanding of x-ray-matter interactions at these extreme conditions. In our experimental effort, the extreme conditions are simulated by currently available … more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Kuba, J; Wootton, A; Bionta, R M; Shepherd, R; Dunn, J; Smith, R F et al.
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Polarization for Background Reduction in EDXRF - The Technique That Would Not Work

Description: As with all electromagnet radiation, polarization of x-rays is a general phenomenon. Such polarization has been known since the classic experiments of Barkla in 1906. The general implementation of polarization to x-ray analysis had to await the fixed geometry of energy-dispersive systems. The means of optimizing these systems is shown in this review paper. Improved detection limits are the result.
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Ryon, R W
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Scalable Analysis Techniques for Microprocessor Performance Counter Metrics

Description: Contemporary microprocessors provide a rich set of integrated performance counters that allow application developers and system architects alike the opportunity to gather important information about workload behaviors. These counters can capture instruction, memory, and operating system behaviors. Current techniques for analyzing data produced from these counters use raw counts, ratios, and visualization techniques to help users make decisions about their application source code. While these te… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Ahn, D H & Vetter, J S
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An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Scalable Scientific Applications

Description: Although programming models and languages appear to be converging, the computational workloads and communication patterns for scientific applications vary dramatically, depending, in part, on the nature of the problem the applications are solving. In this paper, we investigate the scalability, architectural requirements, and inherent behavioral characteristics of eight scalable scientific applications. We provide a comparative analysis of these applications and isolate their performance charact… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Vetter, J S & Yoo, A
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Asserting Performance Expectations (Formerly Performance Assertions: A Performance Diagnosis Tool)

Description: Traditional techniques for performance analysis provide a means for extracting and analyzing raw performance information from applications. Users then reason about and compare this raw performance data to their performance expectations for important application constructs. This comparison can be tedious, difficult, and error-prone for the scale and complexity of today's architectures and software systems. To address this situation, we present a methodology and prototype that allows users to ass… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Vetter, J S & Worley, P
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Discriminating between west-side sources of nutrients and organiccarbon contributing to algal growth and oxygen demand in the San JoaquinRiver

Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the Salt and Mud Slough tributaries as sources of oxygen demanding materials entering the San Joaquin River (SJR). Mud Slough and Salt Slough are the main drainage arteries of the Grasslands Watershed, a 370,000-acre area west of the SJR, covering portions of Merced and Fresno Counties. Although these tributaries of the SJR are typically classified as agricultural, they are also heavily influenced by Federal, State and private wetlands. The majority … more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Wstringfellow@lbl.gov
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A New Understanding of Chemical Agent Release

Description: The evolution of thickened chemical agent released at supersonic velocities, due to a missile defense intercept or a properly functioning warhead, has been misunderstood. Current and historical experimental and modeling efforts have attributed agent breakup to a variety of droplet breakup mechanisms. According to this model, drops of agent fragment into subsequent generations of smaller drops until a stable drop size is reached. Recent experimental data conducted in a supersonic wind tunnel sho… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Nakafuji, Glen; Greenman, Roxana & Theofanous, Theo
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Department of Homeland Security: Should the Transportation Security Administration be Included?

Description: President George W. Bush has unveiled a plan to create a new Department of Homeland Security (H.R. 5005, introduced by request). The new department would be formed by consolidating all or part of 22 of the more than 100 different government organizations that are currently involved in antiterrorist activities. As part of this proposal, the recently created Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would be removed from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and transferred to the new entity.… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues

Description: This report briefly examines the accounting system that failed to provide a clear picture of the firm’s true condition, the independent auditors and board members who were unwilling to challenge Enron’s management, the Wall Street stock analysts and bond raters who missed the trouble ahead, the rules governing employer stock in company pension plans, and the unregulated energy derivatives trading that was the core of Enron’s business. The report also describes related legislation that has recei… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Jickling, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heterogeneous Shallow-Shelf Carbonate Buildups in the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado: Targets for Increased Oil Production and Reserves Using Horizontal Drilling Techniques

Description: This report covers research activities for the second half of the second project year (October 6, 2001, through April 5, 2002). This work includes description and analysis of cores, correlation of geophysical well logs, reservoir mapping, petrographic description of thin sections, cross plotting of permeability and porosity data, and development of horizontal drilling strategies for the Little Ute and Sleeping Ute fields in Montezuma County, Colorado. Geological characterization on a local scal… more
Date: July 24, 2002
Creator: Wray, Laura L.; Eby, David E. & Chidsey, Thomas C., Jr.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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