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Social Security Administration: Strategic Workforce Planning Needed to Address Human Capital Challenges Facing the Disability Determination Services

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "SSA oversees and fully funds primarily state-operated DDSs that determine whether applicants are eligible for disability benefits. The disability examiners employed by the DDSs play a key role in determining benefit eligibility. This report examines (1) the challenges the DDSs face today in retaining and recruiting examiners and enhancing their expertise; (2) the extent to which the DDSs engage in workforce pl… more
Date: January 27, 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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Law Enforcement: Information on Timeliness of Criminal Fingerprint Submissions to the FBI

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "By positively confirming identifications and linking relevant records of arrests and prosecutions, fingerprint analysis provides a basis for making fundamental criminal justice decisions regarding detention, charging, bail, and sentencing. In 1999, the FBI implemented the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)--a computerized system for storing, comparing, and exchanging fingerprint dat… more
Date: January 27, 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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Mutual Funds: Additional Disclosures Could Increase Transparency of Fees and Other Practices

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Concerns have been raised over whether the disclosures of mutual fund fees and other fund practices are sufficiently fair and transparent to investors. Our June 2003 report, Mutual Funds: Greater Transparency Needed in Disclosures to Investors, GAO-03- 763, reviewed (1) how mutual funds disclose their fees and related trading costs and options for improving these disclosures, (2) changes in how mutual funds pay for … more
Date: January 27, 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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Defense Management: Issues in Contracting for Lodging and Temporary Office Space at MacDill Air Force Base

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the September 11, 2001, attacks and the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have been activated and mobilized to military installations across the country. Some installations, like MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, where more than 3,000 reservists have been mobilized, have had to arrange for off-base lodging in local hotels and apartment buildings… more
Date: January 27, 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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High Energy Physics Division semiannual report of research activities, January 1, 2003 - June 30, 2003.

Description: This report describes the research conducted in the High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory during the period of January 1 through June 30, 2003. Topics covered here include experimental and theoretical particle physics, advanced accelerator physics, detector development, and experimental facilities research. Lists of Division publications and colloquia are included.
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Spinka, H.; Nodulman, L.; Goodman, M.; Repond, J.; Cadman, R.; Ayres, D. S. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EARLY ENTRANCE COPRODUCTION PLANT

Description: The overall objective of this project is the three phase development of an Early Entrance Coproduction Plant (EECP) which uses petroleum coke to produce at least one product from at least two of the following three categories: (1) electric power (or heat), (2) fuels, and (3) chemicals using ChevronTexaco's proprietary gasification technology. The objective of Phase I is to determine the feasibility and define the concept for the EECP located at a specific site; develop a Research, Development, … more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Brent, Fred D.; Shah, Lalit; Berry, Earl; Schrader, Charles H.; Anderson, John; He, Ming et al.
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 successfully completed. The project was then re-directed to the making of iron units. In 2000, U.S. Steel teamed up with Calderon for a joint effort which will last 42 months to produce directly reduced iron with the potential of converting it into molten iron or steel consistent with the Roadmap recommendations of 1998 prepared by the St… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Calderon, Albert & Calderon, Reina
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report for Research Conducted at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego from 2/2002 to 8/2003 for ''Aerosol and Cloud-Field Radiative Effects in the Tropical Western Pacific: Analyses and General Circulation Model Parameterizations''

Description: OAK-B135 Final report from the University of California San Diego for an ongoing research project that was moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory where proposed work will be completed. The research uses measurements made by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program to quantify the effects of aerosols and clouds on the Earth's energy balance in the climatically important Tropical Western Pacific.
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Vogelmann, A. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hadron calorimeters for future hadron colliders

Description: Hadron calorimeters are essential for jet and neutrino physics at collider experiments. Current hadron calorimeters for the ATLAS and CMS detectors are described. Increased energy and luminosity of future hadron colliders place constraints on detector technology. Difficulties for operation of the current detectors in future hadron collider environments are discussed. New experiments for future colliders should take notice of physics processes during jet evolution that place fundamental limits o… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Freeman, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Staff Statement: The Four Flights

Description: Official statement issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States describing preliminary findings regarding how the individuals who carried out the 9/11 attacks defeated the civil aviation security system of the United States.
Date: January 27, 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: The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attacks

Description: Official statement issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States describing preliminary findings regarding how the individuals who carried out the 9/11 attacks defeated the civil aviation security system of the United States.
Date: January 27, 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 7, January 27, 2004

Description: Transcript of the seventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States held January 26-27, 2004 at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The two-day investigative hearing developed facts and circumstances relating to border and aviation security. The Commission heard from current and former officials from the public and private sectors, concluding with testimony from Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security James M. Loy. In addition to wi… more
Date: January 27, 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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Experimental Characterization of an Ultra-Fast Thomson Scattering X-Ray Source With Three-Dimensional Time and Frequency-Domain Analysis

Description: We present a detailed comparison of the measured characteristics of Thomson backscattered x-rays produced at the PLEIADES (Picosecond Laser-Electron Interaction for the Dynamic Evaluation of Structures) facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to predicted results from a newly developed, fully three-dimensional time and frequency-domain code. Based on the relativistic differential cross section, this code has the capability to calculate time and space dependent spectra of the x-ray ph… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Kuba, J; Slaughter, D R; Fittinghoff, D N; Barty, C J; Hartouni, E P; Anderson, S G et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cuba: Issues for the 108th Congress

Description: This report gives an overview of Cuba's issues for the 108th Congress. The contents include the most recent developments, political and economic conditions, U.S. policy towards Cuba, issues in the U.S.- Cuban relations, legislations and relations in the 107th congress, and legislative initiatives in the 108th Congress.
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Three-dimensional time and frequency-domain theory of femtosecond x-ray pulse generation through Thomson Scattering

Description: The generation of high intensity, ultra-short x-ray pulses enables exciting new experimental capabilities, such as femtosecond pump-probe experiments used to temporally resolve material structural dynamics on atomic time scales. Thomson backscattering of a high intensity laser pulse with a bright relativistic electron bunch is a promising method for producing such high brightness x-ray pulses in the 10-100 keV range within a compact facility. While a variety of methods for producing sub-picosec… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Brown, W J & Hartemann, F V
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Wet-Etching Tools for Precision Optical Figuring

Description: This FY03 final report on Wet Etch Figuring involves a 2D thermal tool. Its purpose is to flatten (0.3 to 1 mm thickness) sheets of glass faster thus cheaper than conventional sub aperture tools. An array of resistors on a circuit board was used to heat acid over the glass Optical Path Difference (OPD) thick spots and at times this heating extended over the most of the glass aperture. Where the acid is heated on the glass it dissolves faster. A self-referencing interferometer measured the glass… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Rushford, M C; Dixit, S N; Hyde, R; Britten, J A; Nissen, J; Aasen, M et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Two-parameter Failure Model Improves Time-independent and Time-dependent Failure Predictions

Description: A new analytical model for predicting failure under a generalized, triaxial stress state was developed by the author and initially reported in 1984. The model was validated for predicting failure under elevated-temperature creep-rupture conditions. Biaxial data for three alloy steels, Types 304 and 316 stainless steels and Inconel 600, demonstrated two to three orders of magnitude reduction in the scatter of predicted versus observed creep-rupture times as compared to the classical failure mode… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Huddleston, R L
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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9-11 Commission Hearing #7, January 27, 2004, Part 4

Description: Recording of the seventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on January 26-27 at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This hearing specifically addresses the topics of border and aviation security. In addition, several staff statements from the Commission were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the staff statement on the four flights in addition to the seventh panel on acts of courage in the… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Duration: 51 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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9-11 Commission Hearing #7, January 27, 2004, Part 5

Description: Recording of the seventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on January 26-27 at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This hearing specifically addresses the topics of border and aviation security. In addition, several staff statements from the Commission were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the eighth panel on risk management after September 11, with testimony from James M. Loy.
Date: January 27, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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9-11 Commission Hearing #7, January 27, 2004, Part 2

Description: Recording of the seventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on January 26-27 at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This hearing specifically addresses the topics of border and aviation security. In addition, several staff statements from the Commission were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section contains the fifth panel on aviation security on 9/11: the regulators with testimony from Jane F. Garvey, C… more
Date: January 27, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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9-11 Commission Hearing #7, January 27, 2004, Part 1

Description: Recording of the seventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on January 26-27 at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. This hearing specifically addresses the topics of border and aviation security. In addition, several staff statements from the Commission were delivered during the course of the proceedings. This section includes the staff statement on the aviation security system and the 9/11 attacks in addition to the fifth … more
Date: January 27, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applicability of the Spin-orbit Sum Rule for the Actinide 5? States

Description: The branching ratio of core-valence transitions in x-ray absorption spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy is linearly related to the expectation value of the spin-orbit operator of the valence states. Here, we analyze the measured branching ratio of the N{sub 4,5} edges acquired by electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a transmission electron microscope, and synchrotron-radiation-based x-ray absorption. Results show that the spin-orbit sum rule can be applied to actinide 5f states, … more
Date: January 27, 2004
Creator: Chung, B. W.; Tobin, J. G.; Moore, K. T.; van der Laan, G.; Schwartz, A. J. & Wall, M. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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