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Immigration Enforcement: Better Data and Controls Are Needed to Assure Consistency with the Supreme Court Decision on Long-Term Alien Detention

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Supreme Court's June 2001 ruling, Zadvydas v. Davis, held that indefinite detention of certain removable aliens was unlawful if their removal was not likely in the reasonably foreseeable future, even if they were deemed to be a threat to the community or a flight risk. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducts post order custody reviews of removable aliens to determine if continued deten… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Military Housing: Opportunities Exist to Better Explain Family Housing O&M Budget Requests and Increase Visibility Over Reprogramming of Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The military services have owned and operated much housing on their installations but increasingly are privatizing housing, relying on the private sector to manage the renovation, construction, and maintenance of existing and new homes for military families. Funding to operate and maintain existing government-owned housing is provided through the family housing operation and maintenance (O&M) appropriations. T… more
Date: May 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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Contract Management: Impact of Strategy to Mitigate Effects of Contract Bundling on Small Business is Uncertain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To achieve efficiencies and respond to procurement reforms, agencies have consolidated their procurement contracts--that is, combined existing smaller contracts into fewer larger contracts. To ensure contract bundling--a subset of contract consolidation--does not unfairly disadvantage small businesses, the President tasked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop a strategy that would hold agencies… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Properties of RR Lyrae stars in the Inner Regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Description: We present the radial velocities, metallicities and the K-band magnitudes of 74 RR Lyrae stars in the inner regions of the LMC. The intermediated resolution spectra and the infrared images were obtained with FORS1 at the ESO VLT and with the SOFI infrared imager at the ESO NTT. The best 43 RR Lyrae with measured velocities yield an observed velocity dispersion of {sigma}=61{+-} 7 km s{sup -1}. We obtain a true LMC RR Lyrae velocity dispersion of {sigma}=53 km s{sup -1}, which is higher than the… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Borissova, J; Minniti, D; Rejkuba, M; Alves, D; Cook, K H & Freeman, K C
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An efficient parallel termination detection algorithm

Description: Information local to any one processor is insufficient to monitor the overall progress of most distributed computations. Typically, a second distributed computation for detecting termination of the main computation is necessary. In order to be a useful computational tool, the termination detection routine must operate concurrently with the main computation, adding minimal overhead, and it must promptly and correctly detect termination when it occurs. In this paper, we present a new algorithm fo… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Baker, A H; Crivelli, S & Jessup, E R
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Analysis of Cladding Residues from the Dissolution of Irradiated Dresden-1 Reactor Fuel

Description: The primary goal of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of the chop-leach spent fuel dissolution process, with nitric acid dissolvent, for removing actinides and fission products from Zircaloy cladding to produce a cladding capable of meeting low-level waste (LLW) disposal criteria. Analysis of the cladding shows that actinides are present in the cladding at concentrations 50 to 400 times greater than the acceptable TRU limit in LLW. It appears that the nitric acid used for dissolution (init… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: KESSINGER, GF.
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Characterization, Dilution, and Aging Study of a River Protection Project Sample from Tank 241-AW-101

Description: As part of the program to provide pretreatment development and testing services to support the River Protection Project-Waste Treatment Plant (RPP-WTP) mission to treat Hanford tank waste, a approximate 15 L sample of waste from Tank 241-AW-101 was received at the Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC). The waste sample was characterized and diluted to provide feed for pretreatment testing. The characterization data provides a basis for rational development of pretreatment processes, determina… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: HAY, M.S.
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Evaporation of Hanford Tank Sample AN-107 Mixed with Recycles

Description: A proof-of-technology demonstration for the Hanford River Protection Project (RPP) Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) was performed by the Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). As part of this demonstration, a sample of as-received Tank AN-107 waste was mixed with surrogate recycle and then evaporated to concentrate the mixture. A second test was conducted in which surrogate recycle was initially concentrated, then mixed with as-recei… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: CRAWFORD, C
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Binuclear Non-heme Iron Catalysts

Description: This project involved the investigation of the ability of non-heme iron metalloenzyme reactivity model complexes to catalyze the oxidation of alkane and arene molecules. The objectives were to synthesize a series of non-heme mononuclear and dinuclear iron complexes, characterize their electronic structure and reactivity properties, characterize intermediates formed during oxygen atom transfer chemistry, and elucidate the mechanisms and specificity of the reactions.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Caradonna, J. P.
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After-hours power status of office equipment and energy use of miscellaneous plug-load equipment

Description: This research was conducted in support of two branches of the EPA ENERGY STAR program, whose overall goal is to reduce, through voluntary market-based means, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. The primary objective was to collect data for the ENERGY STAR Office Equipment program on the after-hours power state of computers, monitors, printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines, and multi-function devices. We also collected data for the ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings branch on the t… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Roberson, Judy A.; Webber, Carrie A.; McWhinney, Marla C.; Brown, Richard E.; Pinckard, Marageret J. & Busch, John F.
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A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach for the Design of Mold Topography that Leads to Desired Ingot Surface and Microstructure in Aluminum Casting.

Description: A stabilized equal-order velocity-pressure finite element algorithm is presented for the analysis of flow in porous media and in the solidification of binary alloys. The adopted governing macroscopic conservation equations of momentum, energy and species transport are derived from their microscopic counterparts using the volume-averaging method. The analysis is performed in a single domain with a fixed numerical grid. The fluid flow scheme developed includes SUPG (streamline-upwind/Petrov-Galer… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Dr. Zabaras, N. & Samanta, D.
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Summary of workshop session F on electron-cloud instabilities

Description: We summarize Session F of the ECLOUD 04 workshop. This session was dedicated to beam instabilities driven by electron cloud. Specifically, we discuss the principal observations of electron-cloud instabilities, analytical models, simulation codes and the next steps that need to be taken to arrive at a predictive theory.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Zimmermann, Frank & Wolski, Andrzej
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Heat Transfer Enhancement in Separated and Vortex Flows

Description: This document summarizes the research performance done at the Heat Transfer Laboratory of the University of Minnesota on heat transfer and energy separation in separated and vortex flow supported by DOE in the period September 1, 1998--August 31, 2003. Unsteady and complicated flow structures in separated or vortex flows are the main reason for a poor understanding of heat transfer under such conditions. The research from the University of Minnesota focused on the following important aspects of… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Goldstein, Richard J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Average Neutron Total Cross Sections in the Unresolved Energy Range From ORELA High Resolutio Transmission Measurements

Description: Average values of the neutron total cross sections of {sup 233}U, {sup 235}U, {sup 238}U, and {sup 239}Pu have been obtained in the unresolved resonance energy range from high-resolution transmission measurements performed at ORELA in the past two decades. The cross sections were generated by correcting the effective total cross sections for the self-shielding effects due to the resonance structure of the data. The self-shielding factors were found by calculating the effective and true cross se… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Derrien, H
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Testing LMC Microlensing Scenarios: The Discrimination Power of the SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey

Description: Characterizing the nature and spatial distribution of the lensing objects that produce the observed microlensing optical depth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) remains an open problem. They present an appraisal of the ability of the SuperMACHO Project, a next-generation microlensing survey pointed toward the LMC, to discriminate between various proposed lensing populations. they consider two scenarios: lensing by a uniform foreground screen of objects and self-lensing of LMC stars. The o… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Rest, A.; Stubbs, C.; Becker, A. C.; Miknaitis, G. A.; Miceli, A.; Covarrubias, R. et al.
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Filtration of a Hanford Site Tank 241-AN-102 Waste Sample with Alternate Sr/TRU Precipitation Conditions at Bench and Pilot Scales

Description: In support of the design of the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the Savannah River Technology Center has conducted crossflow ultrafiltration tests on the bench scale with both a radioactive sample and simulants and at pilot scale with simulants. The waste tested was from Tank 241-AN-102, which underwent isotopic dilution with strontium nitrate to reduce the soluble (superscript 90)Sr concentration, and sodium permanganate precipitation to remove selected transuranic species. Experimental work va… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Zamecnik, John R.; Poirier, Michael R.; Duignan, Mark R.; Nash, Charles A. & Baich, Mark A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Convergent Coarseness Regulation for Segmented Images

Description: In segmentation of remotely sensed images, the number of pixel classes and their spectral representations are often unknown a priori. Even with prior knowledge, pixels with spectral components from multiple classes lead to classification errors and undesired small region artifacts. Coarseness regulation for segmented images is proposed as an efficient novel technique for handling these problems. Beginning with an over-segmented image, perceptually similar connected regions are iteratively merge… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Paglieroni, D W
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Authorization and Appropriations for FY2005: Defense

Description: Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions appropriations bills, recessions, and budget reconciliation bills. The process begins with the President's budget request and it bounded by the rules of the House and Senate, the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and current program authorizations. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes eac… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Daggett, Stephen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Discovery of New Eruptive Cataclysmic Variables using the MACHO Database

Description: We report the results of a search in the MACHO light-curve database aiming to find new cataclysmic variables. The targets were selected from variables toward the Magellanic Clouds and Galactic bulge using as main criteria the amplitude of photometric variability and color indices. These criteria provided a total of 3720 variables, which were visually inspected for novae, recurrent novae or dwarf novae eruptions. Dwarf novae type outbursts were recognized in 28 objects while a second sample of 3… more
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Cieslinski, D; Diaz, M P; Drake, A J & Cook, K H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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