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Financial Audit: Accounting and Internal Control Issues Identified During GAO's 2000 FDIC Financial Statement Audits

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In May 2001, GAO issued its opinions on the calendar year 2000 financial statements of the Bank Insurance Fund, Savings Association Insurance Fund, and FSLIC Resolution Fund. GAO also issued its opinion on the effectiveness of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) internal control as of December 31, 2000, and its evaluation of FDIC's compliance with selected provisions of laws and regulations for t… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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FBI Official's Congressional Testimony Was Inaccurate Because He Failed to Present Certain Information That Had Been Made Available to Him About the Wen Ho Lee Investigation

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses information that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided to Congress on its investigation of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist formerly employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. GAO focuses on whether the congressional testimony of Neil J. Gallagher, Assistant Director of the FBI's National Security Committee, was false or purposely misleading. GAO found that part of Mr. Gallagher's… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medicare Contracting Reform: Opportunities and Challenges in Contracting for Claims Administration Services

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Discussions about how to reform and modernize the Medicare Program have, in part, focused on whether the structure that was adopted in 1965 is optimal today. Questions have been raised about whether the program could benefit from changes to the way that Medicare's claims processing contractors are chosen and the jobs they do. Medicare could benefit from full and open competition and its relative flexibility to promo… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Military Personnel: Perceptions of Retention-Critical Personnel Are Similar to Those of Other Enlisted Personnel

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the Department of Defense's 1999 broad-based survey of active duty personnel to help shed light on why servicemembers in critical occupational areas might be leaving the military. From comparing the responses of retention-critical personnel against other enlisted personnel, GAO concludes that personnel in retention-critical occupations are not being "pushed out" of the military by their exp… more
Date: June 28, 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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DOD Competitive Sourcing: A-76 Program Has Been Augmented by Broader Reinvention Options

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of the Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-76, which establishes federal policy for the performance of recurring commercial activities. DOD has been a leader among federal agencies in the use of the A-76 process and at one point planned to use the process to study more than 200,000 positions over several years. However, the number of positions p… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrodynamic Modeling of a Multi-Pulse X-Ray Converter Target for DARHT - II

Description: In phase two of the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility (DARHT-II), four electron beam pulses of variable pulse length strike an X-ray converter target to produce time-resolved X-ray image. An important requirement for the converter target is to minimize the hydrodynamic expansion of the converter material so that there is enough material to generate the required X-ray dose for all four pulses. Minimizing the hydrodynamic expansion is also important from the standpoint of beam tra… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Ho, D. D. M.; Chen, Y. J.; Harte, J. & Young, D.
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Financial Risk: An Overview of Market and Policy Considerations

Description: This report sets out a framework for considering the issue of financial risk and its regulation. First, basic concepts and the state of the art in private risk management are discussed. Then, scenarios for financial crises that may require government intervention are explored. The next section deals with the development and the shortcomings of tools available to regulators to prevent or cope with crises. The report ends with an analysis of current trends in financial markets and their implicati… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Polymers for Chemical Sensors Using Hydrosilylation Chemistry

Description: Sorbent and functionalized polymers play a key role in a diverse set of fields, including chemical sensors, separation membranes, solid phase extraction techniques, and chromatography. Sorbent polymers are critical to a number of sensor array or "electronic nose" systems. The responses of the sensors in the array give rise to patterns that can be used to distinguish one compound from another, provided that a sufficiently diverse set of sensing materials is present in the array. Figure 1 illustr… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Grate, Jay W.; Kaganove, Steven N. & Nelson, David A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemometric Classification of Unknown Vapors by Conversion of Sensor Array Pattern Vectors to Vapor Descriptors: Extension from Mass-Transducing Sensors To Volume-Transducing Sensors

Description: A new chemometric method was recently described for classifying unknowns by transforming the vector containing the responses from a multivariate detector to a vector containing descriptors of the detected analyte (Grate et al. 1999). This approach was derived for sensor arrays where each sensor's signal is proportional to the amount of vapor sorbed by a polymer on the sensor surface. In this case, the response is proportional to the partition coefficient, K, and the concentration of the vapor i… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Grate, Jay W. & Wise, Barry M.
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Acquisition of building geometry in the simulation of energy performance

Description: Building geometry is essential to any simulation of building performance. This paper examines the importing of building geometry into simulation of energy performance from the users' point of view. It lists performance requirements for graphic user interfaces that input building geometry, and discusses the basic options in moving from two- to three-dimensional definition of geometry and the ways to import that geometry into energy simulation. The obvious answer lies in software interoperability… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Bazjanac, Vladimir
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Calibration of the Site-Scale Saturated Zone Flow Model

Description: The purpose of the flow calibration analysis work is to provide Performance Assessment (PA) with the calibrated site-scale saturated zone (SZ) flow model that will be used to make radionuclide transport calculations. As such, it is one of the most important models developed in the Yucca Mountain project. This model will be a culmination of much of our knowledge of the SZ flow system. The objective of this study is to provide a defensible site-scale SZ flow and transport model that can be used f… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Zyvoloski, G. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDUSTRY-DRIVEN CONSORTIUM FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF DOMESTIC STRIPPER WELLS

Description: The Pennsylvania State University, under contract to the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory will establish, promote, and manage a national industry-driven Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) that will be focused on improving the production performance of domestic petroleum and/or natural gas stripper wells. The consortium creates a partnership with the US petroleum and natural gas industries and trade associations, state funding agencies, academia, and the National Energy… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Morrison, Joel L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improving the Methods Used to Evaluate Voluntary Energy-Efficiency Programs

Description: Despite progress that has been made in recent years, further improvements are needed in the methodologies commonly used to evaluate the energy savings arising from voluntary energy-efficiency programs. These voluntary programs are characterized by the fact that they do not involve mandatory codes or standards but instead use information and incentives to further the adoption of energy-efficient technologies and practices. Voluntary programs frequently are aimed at long-term transformation of ma… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Schweitzer, M.
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Alpha particle response characterization of CdZnTe

Description: The coplanar-grid as well as other electron-only detection techniques are effective in overcoming some of the material problems of CdZnTe and, consequently, have led to efficient gamma-ray detectors with good energy resolution while operating at room temperature. The performance of these detectors is limited by the degree of uniformity in both electron generation and transport. Despite recent progress in the growth of CdZnTe material, small variations in these properties remain a barrier to the… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Amman, Mark; Lee, Julie S. & Luke, Paul N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Power Supply Control and Monitoring for the SNS Ring and Transport System

Description: There are approximately 300 magnet power supplies in the SNS accumulator ring and transport lines. Control and monitoring of the these converters will be primarily accomplished with a new Power Supply Interface and Controller (PSI/PSC) system developed for the SNS project. This PSI/PSC system provides all analog and digital commands and status readbacks in one fiber isolated module. With a maximum rate of 10KHz, the PSI/PSC must be supplemented with higher speed systems for the wide bandwidth p… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Lambiase, R.; Oerter, B.; Peng, S. & Smith, J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemometric Classification of Unknown Vapors by Conversion of Sensor Array Pattern Vectors to Vapor Descriptors: Extension from Mass-Transducing Sensors To Volume-Transducing Sensors

Description: A new chemometric method was recently described for classifying unknowns by transforming the vector containing the responses from a multivariate detector to a vector containing descriptors of the detected analyte (Grate et al. 1999). This approach was derived for sensor arrays where each sensor's signal is proportional to the amount of vapor sorbed by a polymer on the sensor surface. In this case, the response is proportional to the partition coefficient, K, and the concentration of the vapor i… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Grate, Jay W
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effect of Roll Waves on the Hydrodynamics of Falling Films Observed in Vertical Column Absorbers

Description: A thin falling film is well suited to simultaneous heat and mass transfer because of the small thermal resistance through the film and because of the large contact surface achievable at low flow rates. The film enters as a smooth laminar flow and quickly transitions into small-amplitude wavy flow. The waves grown in length and amplitude and are identified as roll waves. This flow regime is termed wavy-laminar flow, and modern heat and mass transfer equipment operate in this complicated transiti… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Miller, W.A.
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Understanding And Addressing Equipment Limitations Through Testing

Description: Safeguards demands have brought about the use of new, advanced equipment. These new systems are typically more complex than previous systems sometimes making use of dense circuitry and complex controls that can bring out previously unseen susceptibilities to various environmental conditions. In addition to possibly being susceptible to ambient conditions such as temperature and humidity, there may be a misunderstanding regarding the operational limitations of the equipment. Will a radiation det… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Chiaro, P.J.
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Use of Sonic Technology for Drilling through and Installing Wells Below ''Competent'' Confining Units

Description: Drilling through ''competent'' confining units for characterization purposes is an activity of concern in the environmental industry. The scenario of concern is when the aquifer above the confining unit is contaminated and the underlying aquifer is uncontaminated or contaminant levels are unknown.
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Vangelas, K.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement Methodology of the Fissile Mass Flow Monitor for the HEU Transparency Implementation Instrumentation in Russia

Description: The highly enriched uranium (HEU) Transparency Agreement between the U.S. and Russian Federation (RF) requires implementation of transparency measures in the Russian facilities that are supplying product low enriched uranium (LEU) to the U.S. from down blended weapon-grade HEU material. To satisfy the agreement's non-proliferation objectives, the U.S. DOE is implementing the fissile mass flow monitor (FMFM) instrumentation developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The FMFM provides unattended… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Uckan, T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Polymers for Chemical Sensors Using Hydrosilylation Chemistry

Description: Sorbent and functionalized polymers play a key role in a diverse set of fields, including chemical sensors, separation membranes, solid phase extraction techniques, and chromatography. Sorbent polymers are critical to a number of sensor array or ''electronic nose'' systems. The responses of the sensors in the array give rise to patterns that can be used to distinguish one compound from another, provided that a sufficiently diverse set of sensing materials is present in the array. Figure 1 illus… more
Date: June 28, 2001
Creator: Grate, Jay W; Kaganove, Steven N & Nelson, David A
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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