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Understanding Similarities and Differences between Accrual and Cash Deficits: Update for Fiscal Year 2007, an E-supplement to GAO-07-117SP

Description: Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The unified budget deficit--sometimes called the "cash deficit"--and the net operating cost-- sometimes called the "accrual deficit"--are two key measures of the government's annual fiscal position. The cash deficit provides information on the government's current cash flow and borrowing needs. The accrual deficit provides information on the current cost of government-- the amount of resources use… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Office of Personnel Management: Improvements Needed to Ensure Successful Retirement Systems Modernization

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Through its Retirement Systems Modernization (RSM) program, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is modernizing the paper intensive processes and antiquated information systems it uses to support the retirement of civilian federal employees. RSM is intended to deploy new or modified systems beginning in February 2008 to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency's retirement program. GAO… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Bank Fees: Federal Banking Regulators Could Better Ensure That Consumers Have Required Disclosure Documents Prior to Opening Checking or Savings Accounts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2006, consumers paid over $36 billion in fees associated with checking and savings accounts, raising questions about consumers' awareness of their accounts' terms and conditions. GAO was asked to review (1) trends in the types and amounts of checking and deposit account fees since 2000, (2) how federal banking regulators address such fees in their oversight of depository institutions, and (3) the ext… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Feasibility of Outsourcing the Management and Operation of the Capitol Power Plant

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Capitol Power Plant (CPP), managed by the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), provides heating and cooling for the U.S. Capitol and surrounding facilities. This plant, which provides steam and chilled water year-round for about 16 million square feet of space in 24 facilities, consists of 4 main components--the steam plant, the East Refrigeration Plant, the West Refrigeration Plant, and the administratio… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Medicaid Demonstration Waivers: Recent HHS Approvals Continue to Raise Cost and Oversight Concerns

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Medicaid, a joint federal and state program, finances health care for 60 million low-income people. Section 1115 of the Social Security Act authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive certain federal Medicaid requirements and allow demonstration projects that are likely to promote Medicaid objectives. Under federal policy, states must show that federal spending for proposed demonstrat… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Congressional Directives: Selected Agencies' Processes for Responding to Funding Instructions

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In recent years, congressional concern and public debate have increased about the nature and growing number of earmarks. This report seeks to provide Congress and the public with an understanding of how agencies respond to congressional funding directions by examining how selected executive branch agencies translate these directions from Congress into governmental activities. There have been numerous ca… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Supplemental Appropriations: Opportunities Exist to Increase Transparency and Provide Additional Controls

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Supplemental appropriations laws (supplementals) are a tool for policymakers to address needs that arise after the fiscal year has begun. Supplementals provide important and necessary flexibility but some have questioned whether supplementals are used just to meet the needs of unforeseen events or whether they also include funding for activities that could be covered in regular appropriations acts. GAO … more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Reprocessed Single-Use Medical Devices: FDA Oversight Has Increased, and Available Information Does Not Indicate That Use Presents an Elevated Health Risk

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for reviewing the safety and effectiveness of medical devices. The decision to label a device as single-use or reusable rests with the manufacturer. To market a reusable device, a manufacturer must provide data demonstrating to FDA's satisfaction that the device can be cleaned and sterilized w… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Improper Payments: Status of Agencies' Efforts to Address Improper Payment and Recovery Auditing Requirements

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government is accountable for how its agencies and grantees spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and is responsible for safeguarding those funds against improper payments and recouping those funds when improper payments occur. The Congress enacted the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA) and section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, commonly … more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Nuclear Security: Action May Be Needed to Reassess the Security of NRC-Licensed Research Reactors

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "There are 37 research reactors in the United States, mostly located on college campuses. Of these, 33 reactors are licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Four are operated by the Department of Energy (DOE) and are located at three national laboratories. Although less powerful than commercial nuclear power reactors, research reactors may still be attractive targets for terrori… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Zeaxanthin Radical Cation Formation in Minor Light-Harvesting Complexes of Higher Plant Antenna

Description: Previous work on intact thylakoid membranes showed that transient formation of a zeaxanthin radical cation was correlated with regulation of photosynthetic light-harvesting via energy-dependent quenching. A molecular mechanism for such quenching was proposed to involve charge transfer within a chlorophyll-zeaxanthin heterodimer. Using near infrared (880-1100 nm) transient absorption spectroscopy, we demonstrate that carotenoid (mainly zeaxanthin) radical cation generation occurs solely in isola… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Avenson, Thomas H.; Ahn, Tae Kyu; Zigmantas, Donatas; Niyogi, Krishna K.; Li, Zhirong; Ballottari, Matteo et al.
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The Multi-Scale Mass Transfer Processes Controlling Natural Attenuation and Engineered Remediation: An IFC Focused on Hanford’s 300 Area Uranium Plume Quality Assurance Project Plan

Description: The purpose of the project is to conduct research at an Integrated Field-Scale Research Challenge Site in the Hanford Site 300 Area, CERCLA OU 300-FF-5 (Figure 1), to investigate multi-scale mass transfer processes associated with a subsurface uranium plume impacting both the vadose zone and groundwater. The project will investigate a series of science questions posed for research related to the effect of spatial heterogeneities, the importance of scale, coupled interactions between biogeochemi… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Fix, N. J.
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Hydrogen Separation Membranes - Annual Report for FY 2007.

Description: The objective of this work is to develop dense ceramic membranes for separating hydrogen from other gaseous components in a nongalvanic mode, i.e., without using an external power supply or electrical circuitry.
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Chen, L.; Dorris, S. E.; Emerson, J. E.; Lee, T. H.; Park, C. Y.; Picciolo, J. J. et al.
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ACRF Instrumentation Status: New, Current, and Future - January 2008

Description: The purpose of this report is to provide status of the ingest software used to process instrument data for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility (ACRF). The report is divided into 4 sections: (1) for news about ingests currently under development, (2) for current production ingests, (3) for future ingest development plans, and (4) for information on retired ingests. Please note that datastreams beginning in “xxx” indicate cases where ingests run at multiple ACR… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Koontz, A. S.; Choudhury, S.; Ermold, B. D. & Gaustad, K. L.
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Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for the Cement Industry

Description: This report provides information on the energy savings, costs, and carbon dioxide emissions reductions associated with implementation of a number of technologies and measures applicable to the cement industry. The technologies and measures include both state-of-the-art measures that are currently in use in cement enterprises worldwide as well as advanced measures that are either only in limited use or are near commercialization. This report focuses mainly on retrofit measures using commercially… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Price, Lynn; Worrell, Ernst; Galitsky, Christina & Price, Lynn
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Renewable Energy Feasibility Study Leading to Development of the Native Spirit Solar Energy Facility

Description: DOE-funded renewable energy feasibility study conducted by Red Mountain Tribal Energy on behalf of the Southwest Tribal Energy Consortium (SWTEC). During the course of the study, SWTEC members considered multiple options for the organization structure, selected a proposed organization structure, and drafted a Memorandum of Understanding for the SWTEC organization. High-level resource assessments for SWTEC members were completed; surveys were developed and completed to determine each member’s in… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Stewart, Carolyn & LeBeau, Tracey
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Characterizing Computation-Communication Overlap in Message-Passing Systems

Description: Effective overlap of computation and communication is a well understood technique for latency hiding and can yield significant performance gains for applications on high-end computers. In this report, we describe an instrumentation framework developed for message-passing systems to characterize the degree of overlap of communication with computation in the execution of parallel applications. The inability to obtain precise time-stamps for pertinent communication events is a significant problem,… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Bernholdt, David E.; Nieplocha, Jarek; Sadayappan, P.; Shet, Aniruddha G. & Tipparaju, Vinod
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Submittal of Final Post-Closure Inspection Letter Report for Corrective Action Unit 91: Area 3 U-3fi Injection Well, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, Revision 0, December 2007

Description: This letter serves as the post-closure monitoring letter report for the above Corrective Action Unit (CAU) for calendar year 2007. CAU 91 is inspected every six months. The first inspection was conducted on March 29,2007, and the second inspection was conducted on September 27, 2007. Vegetation growth around the edge of the aboveground monument concrete pad was observed during the March inspection. This vegetation was removed on May 24,2007. All access roads, fences, gates, and signs were in ex… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: National Security Technologies, LLC
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Opportunities, Barriers and Actions for Industrial Demand Response in California

Description: In 2006 the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) formed an Industrial Demand Response Team to investigate opportunities and barriers to implementation of Automated Demand Response (Auto-DR) systems in California industries. Auto-DR is an open, interoperable communications and technology platform designed to: Provide customers with automated, electronic price and reliability signals; Provide customers with capability to automate customized DR strategies; Automate DR, providing utilities with d… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: McKane, Aimee T.; Piette, Mary Ann; Faulkner, David; Ghatikar, Girish; Radspieler Jr., Anthony; Adesola, Bunmi et al.
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Input from Key Stakeholders in the National Security Technology Incubator

Description: This report documents the input from key stakeholders of the National Security Technology Incubator (NSTI) in developing a new technology incubator and related programs for southern New Mexico. The technology incubator is being developed as part of the National Security Preparedness Project (NSPP), funded by a Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant. This report includes identification of key stakeholders as well as a description and analysis of their in… more
Date: January 31, 2008
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EDC-37 Deflagration Rates at Elevated Pressures

Description: We report deflagration rates on EDC-37 at high pressures. Experiments are conducted using the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory High Pressure Strand Burner (HPSB) apparatus. The HPSB contains a deflagrating sample in a small volume, high pressure chamber. The sample consists of nine, 6.35 mm diameter, 6.35 mm length cylinders stacked on end, with burn wires placed between cylinders. Sample deflagration is limited to the cross-sectional surface of the cylinder by coating the cylindrical sur… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Maienschein, J L & Koerner, J G
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Mobility Chains Analysis of Technologies for Passenger Cars and Light Duty Vehicles Fueled With Biofuels : Application of the Greet Model to Project the Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future (RBAEF) Project.

Description: The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future (RBAEF) is a multi-institution, multiple-sponsor research project. The primary focus of the project is to analyze and assess the potential of transportation fuels derived from cellulosic biomass in the years 2015 to 2030. For this project, researchers at Dartmouth College and Princeton University designed and simulated an advanced fermentation process to produce fuel ethanol/protein, a thermochemical process to produce Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD) … more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Wu, M.; Wu, Y.; Wang, M & Systems, Energy
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AC Losses in the MICE Channel Magnets -- Is This a Curse or aBlessing?

Description: This report discusses the AC losses in the MICE channelmagnets during magnet charging and discharging. This report talks aboutthe three types of AC losses in the MICE magnets; the hysteretic AC lossin the superconductor, the coupling AC loss in the superconductor and theeddy current AC loss in the magnet mandrel and support structure. AClosses increase the heat load at 4 K. The added heat load increases thetemperature of the second stage of the cooler. In addition, AC losscontributes to the tem… more
Date: January 31, 2008
Creator: Green, M. A.; Wu, H.; Wang, L.; Kai, L. L.; Jia, L. X. & Yang, S. Q.
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