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Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE's Efforts to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia's Nuclear Cities Face Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "TThe United States and Russia began an ambitious nonproliferation program, the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI), to create sustainable job opportunities for weapons scientists in Russia's closed nuclear cities and to help Russia accelerate the downsizing of its nuclear weapons complex in in 1998. The program, however, poses a daunting challenge. The nuclear cities are geographically and economically isolated, a… more
Date: May 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Longer Time Between Moves Related to Higher Satisfaction and Retention

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "About one-third of all military service members make permanent change of station (PCS) moves each year. These moves, which may involve the members' dependents and household goods, are a considerable cost to both the government and individual service members. Not all relocation and moving costs are covered by the government. Reimbursements are based on what property a member was authorized to move and weight … more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Security: Weak Controls Place Interior's Financial and Other Data at Risk

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews information system general controls over the financial systems maintained by the Department of the Interior at its National Business Center (NBC) in Denver, Colorado. GAO found that although the Denver center has made progress in correcting previously cited computer security weaknesses, additional weaknesses affect the Denver center's information system control environment. These weaknesse… more
Date: July 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Housing: DOD Needs to Address Long-Standing Requirements Determination Problems

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the Department of Defense's (DOD) family housing program. GAO discusses (1) whether DOD has implemented a standard process for determining the required military housing based on housing available in the private sector and (2) how an increase in the housing allowance is likely to affect the need for housing on military installations over the long term. Despite calls from Congress, GAO, and D… more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Special Minimum Wage Program: Centers Offer Employment and Support Services to Workers With Disabilities, But Labor Should Improve Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To prevent the curtailment of employment opportunities for disabled persons, the Fair Labor Standards Act allows employers to pay individuals less than the minimum wage if they have a physical or mental disability that impairs their earning or productive capacity. The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administers the special minimum wage program. More than 5,600 employers nationwide pay specia… more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Warfare: Comprehensive Strategy Needed for Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To suppress enemy air defenses, U.S. armed forces use specialized aircraft designed to neutralize, destroy, or temporarily degrade enemy air defense systems through either physical attack or electronic warfare. Concerns have been raised that the Air Force's decision to retire EF-111 and F-4G suppression aircraft, combined with a growing threat from increasingly sophisticated enemy air defenses, has created a g… more
Date: January 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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General Services Administration: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the General Services Administration's (GSA) performance report for fiscal year 2000 and its performance plan for fiscal year 2002 to assess GSA's progress in achieving key outcomes important to its mission. GAO found that some goals were met or exceeded and others were not met. For fiscal year 2002, GSA set up a strategy to better meet these goals. Overall, GSA's fiscal year 2000 performanc… more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mass Transit: Many Management Successes at WMATA, but Capital Planning Could Be Enhanced

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In recent years, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) public transit system has experienced problems with the safety and reliability of its transit services, including equipment breakdowns, delays in scheduled service, unprecedented crowding on trains, and some accidents and tunnel fires. At the same time, WMATA's ridership is at an all time high and WMATA managers expect the number of … more
Date: July 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Privacy: Too Soon to Assess the Privacy Provisions in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report provides information on (1) the efficacy and adequacy of remedies provided by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 in addressing attempts to obtain financial information by false pretenses and (2) suggestions for additional legislation or regulatory action to address threats to the privacy of financial information, from financial institutions. As of March 2001, federal regulatory and enforcement agen… more
Date: May 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Regulation: NRC's Assurances of Decommissioning Funding During Utility Restructuring Could Be Improved

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In most of the requests approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to transfer licenses to own or operate nuclear power plants, the financial arrangements have sought to ensure that adequate funds will be available to decommission those plants. However, when new owners proposed to continue relying on periodic deposits to external sinking funds, NRC's reviews were not always rigorous enough to ensure … more
Date: December 3, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Fabry-Perot Velocimeter Records

Description: Program demonstration and user instructions are presented for FabryVB5. This computer program was created for use in analyzing Fabry-Perot interferometer records that detail the velocity time histories of fast moving surfaces. Graphical curves representing peak fringe positions and fiducial timing dots are extracted from a digitized film record or from a CCD digital image. An analysis is demonstrated on a sample velocimeter record along with some mathematical formula and routine operations. Rou… more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: Avara, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theoretical Model for the EM Effects Induced by High-Energy Photons (Gamma, X-ray) in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Systems

Description: During last twenty years, a number of models have been used to calculate the change of conductivity and dielectric strength in materials caused by the passage of high-energy photons, such as Gamma-rays and X-rays. In these models, the electromagnetic fields generated in the electronic system created by the high-energy photons have not been investigated. That is, the solution of Maxwell's equations has not been obtained for these kinds of problems. We constructed a theoretical model, described b… more
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: Yee, J H; Mayhall, D J & Bland, M F
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Engineering Technology Reports, Volume 2: Technology Base FY00

Description: In FY-2000, Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory faced significant pressures to meet critical project milestones, and immediate demands to facilitate the reassignment of employees as the National Ignition Facility (the 600-TW laser facility being designed and built at Livermore, and one of the largest R&D construction projects in the world) was in the process of re-baselining its plan while executing full-speed its technology development efforts. This drive for change occur… more
Date: October 3, 2001
Creator: Baron, A. L.; Langland, R. T. & Minichino, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Deposit Summary

Description: There is a deposit summary from State members of $210.00 made on May 23, 2000. A deposit summary from the Dallas Stonewall Democratic Club of $695.00 made on May 23, 2000. Also, a deposit summary from Houston Stonewall Democratic Club of $385.00 made on June 9, 2000
Date: February 3, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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SWEEP - Save Water & Energy Education Program

Description: The objective of this study was to develop, monitor, analyze, and report on an integrated resource-conservation program highlighting efficient residential appliances and fixtures. The sites of study were 50 homes in two water-constrained communities located in Oregon. The program was designed to maximize water savings to these communities and to serve as a model for other communities seeking an integrated approach to energy and water resource efficiency. The program included the installation an… more
Date: May 3, 2001
Creator: Sullivan, Gregory P.; Elliott, Douglas B.; Hillman, Tim C.; Hadley, Adam; Ledbetter, Marc R. & Payson, David R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ECRB REFUGE CHAMBER

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to identify the initial design requirements for refuge stations, including the client requirements, standards, codes, laws, and regulations, general discipline design criteria, and design basis events and hazards. The scope of this document is for the specific task of designing and constructing refuge stations in the Enhanced Characterization Repository Block (ECRB) subsurface openings as necessary personnel safety enhancements to the current construction, mai… more
Date: December 3, 2001
Creator: Keifer, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the Thermal Response of the 5-DHLWaste Package-Hypothetical Fire Accident

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to determine the thermal response of the 5-defense high level waste (DHLW)/Department of Energy (DOE) codisposal waste package (WP) to the hypothetical fire accident. The objective is to calculate the temperature response of the DHLW glass to the hypothetical short-term fire defined in 10 CFR 71, Section 73(c)(4), Reference 1. The scope of the calculation includes evaluation of the accident with the waste package above ground, at the Yucca Mountain surface fac… more
Date: November 3, 2001
Creator: Moore, R.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mathematical and numerical studies of nonstandard difference equation models of differential equations. Final technical report

Description: This report summarizes the complete research findings of the PI. Included are titles and places of publication of all journal, book, and conference papers, and abstracts. A listing of major conferences and meetings where these research results were reported is also provided.
Date: October 3, 2001
Creator: Mickens, Ronald E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Overview of the NSTX Control System

Description: The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) is an innovative magnetic fusion device that was constructed by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Columbia University, and the University of Washington at Seattle. Since achieving first plasma in 1999, the device has been used for fusion research through an international collaboration of more than twenty institutions. The NSTX is operated through a collection of control systems t… more
Date: December 3, 2001
Creator: Sichta, P.; Dong, J.; Oliaro, G. & Roney, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final progress report for DOE grant [Protein dynamics and biocatalysis]

Description: The purpose of this project was to develop and apply large-scale computer simulation methods to enzyme reactions and protein dynamics. New approaches based on the QM/MM methodology were formulated. New insights on the reaction mechanisms of triosephosphate isomerase and chorismate mutase were obtained.
Date: September 3, 2001
Creator: Karplus, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measuring and Modeling Flow in Welded Fractured Tuffs

Description: We have carried out a series of in situ liquid-release experiments in conjunction with a numerical modeling study to examine the effect of the rock matrix on liquid flow and transport occurring primarily through the fracture network. Field experiments were conducted in the highly fractured Topopah Spring welded tuff at a site accessed from the Exploratory Studies Facility (ESFS), an underground laboratory in the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. During the experiment, wetting-front mo… more
Date: October 3, 2001
Creator: Salve, R.; Doughty, C. & Wang, J.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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