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JFMIP White Paper: Parallel Operation of Software: Is it a Desirable Software Transition Technique?

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The JFMIP White Paper, "Parallel Operation of Software: Is It A Desirable Software System Transition Technique?" is intended to assist agencies when developing appropriate risk mitigation strategies when to new financial systems, especially commercial off-the-shelf software where existing business processes must be reengineered to avoid software customization. This White Paper updates selected informatio… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terrorism Insurance: Alternative Programs for Protecting Insurance Consumers

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Before September 11, insurance coverage for losses from terrorism was a normal feature of insurance contracts. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have changed insurers' perceptions of their risk exposure. Both insurers and reinsurers say that they do not know how much to charge for this coverage, and because they cannot predict future losses, they may exclude terrorism insurance from future contr… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terrorism Insurance: Alternative Programs for Protecting Insurance Consumers

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Before September 11, insurance coverage for losses from terrorism was a normal feature of insurance contracts. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have changed insurers' perceptions of their risk exposure. Both insurers and reinsurers say that they do not know how much to charge for this coverage and because they cannot predict future losses, they may exclude terrorism insurance from future contra… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Underground Corrosion of Activated Metals in an Arid Vadose Zone Environment

Description: The subsurface radioactive disposal site located at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory contains neutron-activated metals from nonfuel nuclear-reactor- core components. A long-term corrosion test is being conducted to obtain site-specific corrosion rates to support efforts to more accurately estimate the transfer of activated elements in an arid vadose zone environment. The tests use nonradioactive metal coupons representing the prominent neutron-activated material burie… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Adler Flitton, M. K.; Mizia, R. E. & Bishop, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Single-Family Housing: Current Information Systems Do Not Fully Support the Business Processes at HUD's Homeownership Centers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) homeownership centers use more than 20 different information systems implemented by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters, including seven major systems, databases developed by the centers, and various different telephone systems. Some of these technologies were implemented before FHA formed the centers and transferred some responsibilitie… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Kodak]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 24, 2001, 4:00 p.m.
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Industrial Use of Distributed Generation in Real-Time Energy and Ancillary Service Markets

Description: Industrial consumers of energy now have the opportunity to participate directly in electricity generation. This report seeks to give the reader (1) insights into the various types of generation services that distributed generation (DG) units could provide, (2) a mechanism to evaluate the economics of using DG, (3) an overview of the status of DG deployment in selected states, and (4) a summary of the communication technologies involved with DG and what testing activities are needed to encourage… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Hudson, C.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PHASE II CALDERON PROCESS TO PRODUCE DIRECT REDUCED IRON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Description: This project was initially targeted to the making of coke for blast furnaces by using proprietary technology of Calderon in a phased approach, and Phase I was completed. The project was then re-directed to the making of iron units. U.S. Steel teamed up with Calderon for a joint effort which will last 30 months to produce directly reduced iron with the potential of converting it into molten iron (hot metal) consistent with the Roadmap recommendations of 1998 prepared by the Steel Industry in coo… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Calderon, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of the Radioactive Sludge from the ORNL MVST Waste Tanks

Description: Over the last several years most of the sludge and liquid from the Liquid Low-Level Waste (LLLW) tanks at ORNL has been transferred and consolidated in the Melton Valley Storage Tanks (MVST). The contents of the MVST tanks at the time the sludge samples were collected for this report included the original inventory in the MVSTs along with the sludge and liquid from the Bethel Valley Evaporator Service Tanks (BVEST), Old Hydrofracture (OHF) tanks, and the Gunite and Associated Tanks (GAAT). Duri… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Keller, J.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fiscal Year 2001 Status Report for the Investigation of Reactivity Effects Due to Perturbations in Cross-Section Temperature

Description: The objective of the current work is to calculate changes in system multiplication due to perturbations in cross-section temperature. Moreover, the study is intended to investigate cross-section perturbations using ENDF/B-VI data which are the most up-to-date cross-section information currently available in the United States. The purpose of this letter report is to document the work that has been completed during the 2001 fiscal year. In addition, the report provides the current status of the t… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Dunn, M.E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Broadband Internet Access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs

Description: Some policymakers, believing that disparities in broadband access across American society could have adverse economic and social consequences on those left behind, assert that the federal government should play a more active role to avoid a “digital divide” in broadband access. One approach is for the federal government to provide financial assistance to support broadband deployment in underserved areas. Others, however, believe that federal assistance for broadband deployment is not appropriat… more
Date: October 24, 2001
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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