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Access Granted: Building Bridges to Inclusion

Description: Program for the 2018 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference. This year's theme "Access Granted: Building Bridges to Inclusion" features speakers and presenters related to topics such as coalition building, faith/belief systems and non-faith tradition, Minority Serving Institution(MSI), gender identity and expression, citizenship and immigration, organizational change, and leadership and mentoring.
Date: February 22, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice

Description: This article uses high-throughput screening to identify two phytochemicals that are effective in promoting resilience against stress by moduling brain synaptic plasticity and peripheral inflammation.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Wang, Jun; Hodes, Georgia E.; Zhang, Hongxing; Zhang, Song; Zhao, Wei; Golden, Sam A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa Cells

Description: This article describes a facile one-step method to synthesize stable collodial gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) loaded with a combination of two anticancer therapeutics, -bleomycin and doxorubicin
Date: February 13, 2018
Creator: Farooq, Muhammad U.; Novosad, Valentyn; Rozhkova, Elena A.; Wali, Hussain; Ali, Asghar; Fateh, Ahmed A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Medicare Trigger

Description: This report analyzes the financing of Medicare and its impact on the federal budget. It includes a discussion of the Medicare "trigger," which requires certain actions to be taken should general revenue funding be expected to exceed a certain proportion of total Medicare outlays within a certain number of years.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Davis, Patricia A.; Garvey, Todd & Davis, Christopher M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons

Description: This report provides basic information about U.S. and Russian nonstrategic nuclear weapons. It begins with a brief discussion of how these weapons have appeared in public debates in the past few decades, then summarizes the differences between strategic and nonstrategic nuclear weapons. It then provides some historical background, describing the numbers and types of nonstrategic nuclear weapons deployed by both nations during the Cold War and in the past decade; the policies that guided the dep… more
Date: February 13, 2018
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HPSCI Memorandum Sparks Debate Over FISA Application Requirements

Description: This report discusses the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and its authority to allow the government to undertake electronic surveillance programs of people suspected of engaging in foreign intelligence activity along with recent debate regarding the issue.
Date: February 14, 2018
Creator: Liu, Edward C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Employees' Retirement System: Summary of Recent Trends

Description: This report describes recent trends in the characteristics of annuitants and current employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) as well as the financial status of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF).
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Isaacs, Katelin P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small Business Administration and Job Creation

Description: This report discusses the Small Business Administration's programs and their impact on job creation. It examines the economic research on net job creation to identify the types of businesses that appear to create the most jobs, examines the possible implications this research might have for Congress and the SBA, and examines the arguments for providing federal assistance to small businesses.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform

Description: This report discusses the structure, powers, and funding of the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform and provides an overview of the parliamentary procedures the chambers may use to consider its recommendations.
Date: February 21, 2018
Creator: Lynch, Megan S. & Saturno, James V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guide to Committee Activity Reports: Purpose, Rules, and Contents

Description: This report provides a discussion of the types of information that may be included in the activity reports, variations across reports and time, and the filing process. A table provides a comparison of the committee activity reports and other congressional publications, including the types of information found in each as well as their timeframe for coverage and publication.
Date: February 15, 2018
Creator: Brudnick, Ida A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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