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Rental Housing Programs: Excluding Servicemembers' Housing Allowances from Income Determinations Would Increase Eligibility, but Other Factors May Limit Program Use

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Although the Department of Defense (DOD) pays active-duty servicemembers who do not live in military housing a Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) to help them afford private market residences, expected growth at some military installations has raised concerns about whether nearby communities will have enough affordable rental housing for incoming personnel. In response to a congressional mandate, GAO ass… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Special Operations Forces: Several Human Capital Challenges Must Be Addressed to Meet Expanded Role

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Global War on Terrorism, the Department of Defense (DOD) has taken steps to expand the role of the United States Special Operations Command (Command) and its forces. In response, the Command has transformed its headquarters to coordinate counterterrorism activities, and DOD has increased funding and the number of special operations forces positions. Given the expanded mission, it is critical t… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Treasury's Bank Enterprise Award Program: Impact on Investments in Distressed Communities Is Difficult to Determine, but Likely Not Significant

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Established in 1994, the Department of the Treasury's Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) program provides cash awards to banks that increase their investments in community development financial institutions (CDFI) and lending in economically distressed communities. CDFIs are specialized institutions that provide financial services to areas and populations underserved by conventional lenders and investors. In 2… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Sex Offender Registry: New Hire Data Has Potential for Updating Addresses of Convicted Sex Offenders

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the 1990s, several heinous crimes put the issue of the sexual abuse of children onto the nation's policy agenda. Sexual crimes against children and adults are often perpetrated by individuals known to their victims and these crimes devastate families and communities. To safeguard children and their families, Congress enacted a series of laws between 1994 and 2003 that required sex offenders to regist… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation Security Administration: Oversight of Explosive Detection Systems Maintenance Contracts Can Be Strengthened

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Mandated to screen all checked baggage by using explosive detection systems at airports by December 31, 2003, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed two types of screening equipment: explosive detection systems (EDS), which use computer-aided tomography X-rays to recognize explosives, and explosive trace detection (ETD) systems, which use chemical analysis to detect explosive resi… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coast Guard: Observations on the Preparation, Response, and Recovery Missions Related to Hurricane Katrina

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Hurricane Katrina was one of the largest natural disasters in our nation's history. Significant federal, state, and local resources were mobilized to respond to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, including those of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard played a key role in the planning, response, and recovery efforts for Hurricane Katrina in three mission areas: search and rescue, marine pollution response… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Security Assistance: Lapses in Human Rights Screening in North African Countries Indicate Need for Further Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are important U.S. allies in the war on terrorism. The United States provides these countries with security assistance, however, Congress restricts funding when credible evidence exists that foreign security units have committed gross human rights violations. GAO (1) describes the goals of U.S. security assistance to these countries and examines U.S. agencies' assessment of… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Elastic electron scattering from formic acid

Description: Following our earlier study on the dynamics of low energy electron attachment to formic acid, we report the results of elastic low-energy electron collisions with formic acid. Momentum transfer and angular differential cross sections were obtained by performing fixed-nuclei calculations employing the complex Kohn variational method. We make a brief description of the technique used to account for the polar nature of this polyatomic target and compare our results with available experimental data. more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Trevisan, Cynthia S.; Orel, Ann E. & Rescigno, Thomas N.
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Development of a Performance-Based Industrial Energy Efficiency Indicator for Corn Refining Plants.

Description: Organizations that implement strategic energy management programs have the potential to achieve sustained energy savings if the programs are carried out properly. A key opportunity for achieving energy savings that plant managers can take is to determine an appropriate level of energy performance by comparing their plant's performance with that of similar plants in the same industry. Manufacturing facilities can set energy efficiency targets by using performance-based indicators. The U.S. Envir… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Boyd, G. A. & Sciences, Decision and Information
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Exploring Metric Symmetry

Description: Relatively minor perturbations to a crystal structure can in some cases result in apparently large changes in symmetry. Changes in space group or even lattice can be induced by heavy metal or halide soaking (Dauter et al, 2001), flash freezing (Skrzypczak-Jankun et al, 1996), and Se-Met substitution (Poulsen et al, 2001). Relations between various space groups and lattices can provide insight in the underlying structural causes for the symmetry or lattice transformations. Furthermore, these rel… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Zwart, P. H.; Grosse-Kunstleve, R. W. & Adams, P. D.
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Development of a 2D Vlasov Solver for Single-Pass Systems

Description: Direct numerical methods for solving the Vlasov equationoffer some advantages over macroparticle simulations, as they do notsuffer from the numerical noise inherent in using a number ofmacroparticles smaller than the bunch population. Unfortunately thesemethods are more time-consuming and generally considered impractical in afull 6D phase space. However, in a lower-dimension phase space they maybecome attractive if the beam dynamics is sensitive to the presence ofsmall charge-density fluctuatio… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Venturini, Marco; Warnock, Robert & Zholents, Alexander
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Strange Particle Production in $p+p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 200GeV

Description: We present strange particle spectra and yields measured atmid-rapidity in sqrt text s=200 GeV proton-proton (p+p) collisions atRHIC. We find that the previously observed universal transverse mass(mathrm mT \equiv\sqrt mathrm p_T 2+\mathrm m2) scaling of hadronproduction in p+p collisions seems to break down at higher \mt and thatthere is a difference in the shape of the \mt spectrum between baryonsand mesons. We observe mid-rapidity anti-baryon to baryon ratios nearunity for Lambda and Xi baryo… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Abelev, B. I.; Adams, J.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Ahammed, Z.; Amonett, J.; Anderson, B. D. et al.
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Mitigating the Impacts of Uncontrolled Air Flow on Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Demand in Non-Residential Buildings

Description: This multi-faceted study evaluated several aspects of uncontrolled air flows in commercial buildings in both Northern and Southern climates. Field data were collected from 25 small commercial buildings in New York State to understand baseline conditions for Northern buildings. Laboratory wall assembly testing was completed at Syracuse University to understand the impact of typical air leakage pathways on heat and moisture transport within wall assemblies for both Northern and Southern building … more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Henderson, Hugh I.; Zhang, Jensen; Cummings, James B. & Brennan, Terry
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Elastic-Wavefield Seismic Stratigraphy: A New Seismic Imaging Technology

Description: The purpose of our research has been to develop and demonstrate a seismic technology that will provide the oil and gas industry a better methodology for understanding reservoir and seal architectures and for improving interpretations of hydrocarbon systems. Our research goal was to expand the valuable science of seismic stratigraphy beyond the constraints of compressional (P-P) seismic data by using all modes (P-P, P-SV, SH-SH, SV-SV, SV-P) of a seismic elastic wavefield to define depositional … more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Hardage, Bob A.; Backus, Milo M.; DeAngelo, Michael V.; Fomel, Sergey; Fouad, Khaled; Graebner, Robert J. et al.
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Process Design for the Biocatalysis of Value-Added Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide

Description: This report describes results toward developing a process to sequester CO{sub 2} centered on the enzyme pyruvate carboxylase. The process involves the use of bacteria to convert CO{sub 2} and glucose as a co-substrate and generates succinic acid as a commodity chemical product. The phases of research have included strain development and process development. Though we continue to work on one important component of strain development, the research has principally focused on process development. I… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Eiteman, Mark A.
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Software Roadmap to Plug and Play Petaflop/s

Description: In the next five years, the DOE expects to build systemsthat approach a petaflop in scale. In the near term (two years), DOE willhave several near-petaflops systems that are 10 percent to 25 percent ofa peraflop-scale system. A common feature of these precursors to petaflopsystems (such as the Cray XT3 or the IBM BlueGene/L) is that they rely onan unprecedented degree of concurrency, which puts stress on every aspectof HPC system design. Such complex systems will likely break current bestpracti… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Kramer, Bill; Carter, Jonathan; Skinner, David; Oliker, Lenny; Husbands, Parry; Hargrove, Paul et al.
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Beneficial Reuse of San Ardo Produced Water

Description: This DOE funded study was performed to evaluate the potential for treatment and beneficial reuse of produced water from the San Ardo oilfield in Monterey County, CA. The potential benefits of a successful full-scale implementation of this project include improvements in oil production efficiency and additional recoverable oil reserves as well as the addition of a new reclaimed water resource. The overall project was conducted in two Phases. Phase I identified and evaluated potential end uses fo… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Liske, Robert A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Biosciences Program Report for Year Three

Description: In May 2002, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) signed Assistance Instrument Number DE-FC09-02CH11109 with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to support the Environmental Biosciences Program (EBP). This funding instrument replaces DOE Assistance Instrument Number DE-FC02-98CH10902. EBP is an integrated, multidisciplinary scientific research program, employing a range of research initiatives to identify, study and resolve environmental health risks. These initiatives are c… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Mohr, Lawrence C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program

Description: This report summarizes the work performed for Phase I (October 2001 - August 2006) under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC26-01NT41245 for the U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) entitled 'Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program'. The program focuses on the development of a low-cost, high-performance 3-to-10-kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system suitable for a broad spectrum of power-generation applications. During Phase I … more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Minh, Nguyen
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Development of Low-Cost Integrated Composite Seal for SOFC: Materials and Design Methodologies

Description: This report summarizes the work conducted by UConn SOFC seal development team during the Phase I program and no cost extension. The work included composite seal sample fabrication, materials characterizations, leak testing, mechanical strength testing, chemical stability study and acoustic-based diagnostic methods. Materials characterization work revealed a set of attractive material properties including low bulk permeability, high electrical resistivity, good mechanical robustness. Composite s… more
Date: July 31, 2006
Creator: Huang, Xinyu; Ridgeway, Kristoffer; Narasimhan, Srivatsan; Timin, Serg; Huang, Wei; Ozevin, Didem et al.
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