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Long-Term Care: Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services for Elderly Individuals Varies Considerably

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As the baby boomers age, spending on long-term care for the elderly could quadruple by 2050. The growing demand for long-term care will put pressure on federal and state budgets because long-term care relies heavily on public financing, particularly Medicaid. Nursing home care traditionally has accounted for most Medicaid long-term care expenditures, but the high costs of such care and the preference of many i… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Long-Term Care: Elderly Individuals Could Find Significant Variation in the Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As the baby boomers age, spending on long-term care for the elderly could quadruple by 2050. The growing demand for long-term care will put pressure on federal and state budgets because long-term care relies heavily on public financing, particularly Medicaid. Nursing home care traditionally has accounted for most Medicaid long-term care expenditures, but the high costs of such care and the preference of many individ… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Information Technology: Management Making Important Progress in Addressing Key Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In March of this year, GAO testified before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, about the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) information technology (IT) program, and the strides that the Secretary had made in improving departmental leadership and management of this critical area--including the hiring of a chief information officer. At the Subcommittee's request, … more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Worker Protection: Labor's Efforts to Enforce Protections for Day Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Day laborers generally are individuals who work and get paid on a daily or short-term basis. To find work, they often congregate on street corners and wait for employers to drive by and offer them work. Day laborers may also be employed by temporary staffing agencies that assign them work on a daily basis with client employers. Day laborers have an informal relationship with the labor market, often working for… more
Date: September 26, 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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Information Technology: Greater Use of Best Practices Can Reduce Risks in Acquiring Defense Health Care System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report examines the acquisition of the Composite Health Care System (CHCS) II. It is one in a series of reports reviewing the Department of Defense's use of best practices in acquiring information technology systems. CHCS II is expected to cost about $1 billion to deliver full capability to almost 1,100 health facilities worldwide by 2008. GAO's objectives were to determine (1) what progress has been made… more
Date: September 26, 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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Highway Infrastructure: Physical Conditions of the Interstate Highway System Have Improved, but Congestion and Other Pressure Continue

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Interstate Highway System has become central to transportation in the United States. It extends over 46,000 miles in length and includes 210,000 lane miles. The System carries over 24 percent of all vehicle miles traveling in the nation, while making up just 2.5 percent of total lane miles. Funding for the Interstate Highway System has been a major part of total highway funding since 1954 when interstate highwa… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Distance Education: Growth in Distance Education Programs and Implications for Federal Education Policy

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Increasingly, the issues of distance education and federal student aid intersect. About one in every 13 postsecondary students enrolls in at least one distance education course, and the Department of Education estimates that the number of students involved in distance education has tripled in just 4 years. As the largest provider of financial aid to postsecondary students, the federal government has a considerable i… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of Environmental Variables on the Susceptibility of Alloy 22 to Environmentally Assisted Cracking

Description: In its current design, the high-level nuclear waste containers include an external layer of Alloy 22 (NO6022). This material was selected to provide long-term corrosion resistance since if water enters in contact with the containers, they may undergo corrosion. The model for the degradation of the containers includes three modes of corrosion, namely general corrosion, localized corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking (EAC). The objective of the current research was to quantify the susce… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Fix, D. V.; Estill, J. C.; King, K. J.; Day, S. D. & Rebak, R. B.
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Enhanced Trace-Fiber Color Discrimination by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: A Quantitative and Qualitative Tool for the Analysis of Dyes Extracted from Sub-millimeter Nylon Fibers

Description: The application of electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) to trace-fiber color analysis is explored using acidic dyes commonly employed to color nylon-based fibers, as well as extracts from dyed nylon fibers. Qualitative information about constituent dyes and quantitative information about the relative amounts of those dyes present on a single fiber become readily available using this technique. Sample requirements for establishing the color-identity of different samples (i.e., comp… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Secondary Waste Considerations for Vitrification of Sodium-Bearing Waste at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center FY-2001 Status Report

Description: The Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) is considering vitrification to process liquid sodium-bearing waste. Preliminary studies were completed to evaluate the potential secondary wastes from the melter off-gas clean up systems. Projected secondary wastes comprise acidic and caustic scrubber solutions, HEPA filters, activated carbon, and ion exchange media. Possible treatment methods, waste forms, and disposal sites are evaluated from radiological and mercury contamination e… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Herbst, A. K.; Kirkham, R. J. & Losinski, S. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geotechnical Analysis Report for July 2000-June 2001

Description: This Geotechnical Analysis Report (GAR) presents and interprets the geotechnical data from the underground excavations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The data, which are obtained as part of a regular monitoring program, are used to characterize conditions, to compare actual performance to the design assumptions, and to evaluate and forecast the performance of the underground excavations during operations. GARs have been available to the public since 1983. During the Site and Prelimi… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Solutions, Westinghouse TRU
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New results for a photon-photon collider

Description: We present new results from studies in progress on physics at a two-photon collider. We report on the sensitivity to top squark parameters of MSSM Higgs boson production in two-photon collisions; Higgs boson decay to two photons; radion production in models of warped extra dimensions; chargino pair production; sensitivity to the trilinear Higgs boson coupling; charged Higgs boson pair production; and we discuss the backgrounds produced by resolved photon-photon interactions.
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: al., David Asner et
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Hadron production at RHIC - chemical freeze-out, effective masses and expanding matter.

Description: The properties of the strongly interacting matter produced at RHIC are investigated within a chemical and thermal equilibrium chiral SU(3) {sigma}-{omega} approach. The focus is on the freeze-out conditions, the effective masses for the produced hadrons and the expansion of the system. For the freeze-out conditions the commonly adopted noninteracting gas calculations yield temperatures and chemical potentials close to or above the critical temperature for the chiral phase transition, but withou… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Zschiesche, D.; Schramm, S.; Schaffner-Bielich, J.; Stocker, H. & Greiner, W.
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X-ray lenses fabricated by deep x-ray lithography.

Description: Refractive x-ray lenses have been fabricated using deep x-ray lithography. Lenses were produced directly in 1- to 6-mm-thick sheets of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) with as many as 100 cylindrical lenses along the optical axis. The fabrication process consists of exposing the PMMA sheets to high-energy synchrotron radiation through a mask of 50-micron-thick gold on silicon and subsequent development in ketone. The lenses are suitable for use in synchrotron radiation from a bending magnet at the… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Mancini, D. C.; Moldovan, N.; Divan, R.; DeCarlo, F. & Yaeger, J.
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Large historical changes of fossil-fuel black carbon aerosols

Description: Anthropogenic emissions of fine black carbon (BC) particles, the principal light-absorbing atmospheric aerosol, have varied during the past century in response to changes of fossil-fuel utilization, technology developments, and emission controls. We estimate historical trends of fossil-fuel BC emissions in six regions that represent about two-thirds of present day emissions and extrapolate these to global emissions from 1875 onward. Qualitative features in these trends show rapid increase in th… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Novakov, T.; Ramanathan, V.; Hansen, J.E.; Kirchstetter, T.W.; Sato, M.; Sinton, J.E. et al.
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Summary of the Supplemental Model Reports Supporting the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology Topical Report

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) has committed to a series of model reports documenting the methodology to be utilized in the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology Topical Report (YMP 2000). These model reports detail and provide validation of the methodology to be utilized for criticality analyses related to: (1) Waste form/waste package degradation; (2) Waste package isotopic inventory; (3) Criticality potential of degraded waste form/… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Brownson, D. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shutdown and closure of the experimental breeder reactor - II.

Description: The Department of Energy mandated the termination of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) Program, effective October 1, 1994. To comply with this decision, Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) prepared a plan providing detailed requirements to maintain the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) in a radiologically and industrially safe condition, including removal of all irradiated fuel assemblies from the reactor plant, and removal and stabilization of the primary and secondary sodium, a liqu… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Michelbacher, J. A.; Baily, C. E.; Baird, D. K.; Henslee, S. P.; Knight, C. J. & Rosenberg, K. E.
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SCFA lead lab technical assistance at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Baseline review of three groundwater plumes

Description: During the closeout session, members of the technical assistance team conveyed to the site how impressed they were at the thoroughness of the site's investigation and attempts at remediation. Team members were uniformly pleased at the skilled detection work to identify sources, make quick remediation decisions, and change course when a strategy did not work well. The technical assistance team also noted that, to their knowledge, this is the only DOE site at which a world-class scientist has had… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Hazen, Terry; Evans, John C.; Looney, Brian B.; Phelps, Tommy J. & Sullivan, Terry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proteccion Del Trabajador: Los Esfuerzos del Departmento de Trabajo de Hacer Complir la Proteccion de los Jornaleros Se Beneficiaria Con Mejores Datos y Orientacion

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is the Spanish-language version of GAO-02-925. Day laborers generally are individuals who work and get paid on a daily or short-term basis. To find work, they often congregate on street corners and wait for employers to drive by and offer them work. Day laborers may also be employed by temporary staffing agencies that assign them work on a daily basis with client employers. Day laborers have an informal r… more
Date: September 26, 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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Average Nuclear Level Densities and Radiative Strength Functions in {sup 56,57}FE from Primary (Gamma)-Ray Spectra

Description: An experimental primary {gamma}-ray spectrum vs. excitation-energy bin (P(E{sub x}, E{sub {gamma}}) matrix) in a light-ion reaction is obtained for {sup 56,57}Fe isotopes using a subtraction method. By factorizing the P(E{sub x}, E{sub {gamma}}) matrix according to the Axel-Brink hypothesis the nuclear level density and the radiative strength function (RSF) in {sup 56,57}Fe are extracted simultaneously. A step structure is observed in the level density for both isotopes, and is interpreted as t… more
Date: September 26, 2002
Creator: Tavukcu, E.; Becker, J. A.; Bernstein, L. A.; Garrett, P. E.; Guttormsen, M.; Mitchell, G. E. et al.
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