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Social Security: Issues in Comparing Rates of Return With Market Investments

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) examined the estimates of social security's implicit rates of return for different birth years, earning levels, household configurations, and other demographic groupings; (2) examined rates of return available on private market investments; and (3) discussed the issues that arise from comparing social security and market investment returns."
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emerging Infectious Diseases: Consensus on Needed Laboratory Capacity Could Strengthen Surveillance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the nation's infectious diseases surveillance network, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states conduct public health surveillance and laboratory testing of selected emerging infectious diseases; (2) problems state public health officials face in gathering and using laboratory-related data in the surveillance of emerging infectious diseases; and (3) assistan… more
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Customer Service: Management Strategy Shows Promise But Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) efforts to improve customer service."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Service Privatization: Ethics and Accountability Challenges in State Contracting

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on states' social service contracting, focusing on: (1) the extent to which state government employees have moved to positions at social service contractors and the impact such movement has had on the management of publicly provided social services; (2) determining the relative success in winning contracts by contractors who hired state employees an… more
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Schools And Libraries Program: Actions Taken to Improve Operational Procedures Prior to Committing Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Schools and Libraries Corporation's progress in implementing GAO's July 16, 1998, recommendations for improving its procedures and internal controls."
Date: March 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agricultural Trade: Changes Made to Market Access Program, but Questions Remain on Economic Impact

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Agriculture's implementation of legislative reforms to the Market Access Program (MAP) and their impact on program participation."
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: Access to Home Oxygen Largely Unchanged; Closer HCFA Monitoring Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on Medicare beneficiaries' access to home oxygen equipment, focusing on: (1) changes in access to home oxygen for Medicare patients since the payment reduction mandated by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 took effect; and (2) actions taken by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to fulfill the BBA requirements and respond to GAO's … more
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Commodity Exchange Act: Issues Related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Reauthorization

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) reauthorization, focusing on issues related to derivatives that are traded on-exchange as well as those that are privately negotiated off-exchange, or over-the-counter (OTC)."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemiluminescence assay for the detection of biological warfare agents

Description: A chemiluminescent homogeneous immunoassay and a hand-size multiassay reader are described that could be used for detecting biological materials. The special feature of the assay is that it employs two different antibodies that each bind to a unique epitope on the same antigen. Each group of epitope-specific antibodies has linked to it an enzyme of a proximal-enzyme pair. One enzyme of the pair utilizes a substrate in high concentration to produce a second substrate required by the second enzym… more
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: Langry, K & Horn, J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Testing of Software Routine to Determine Deviate and Cumulative Probability: ModStandardNormal Version 1.0

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to document that the software routine ModStandardNomal Version 1.0 which is a Visual Fortran 5.0 module, provides correct results for a normal distribution up to five significant figures (three significant figures at the function tails) for a specified range of input parameters. The software routine may be used for quality affecting work. Two types of output are generated in ModStandardNomal: a deviate, x, given a cumulative probability, p, between 0 and 1; an… more
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: Monib, A.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dose Calculations for the Codsiposal WP of HLW Glass and the Shippingport LWBR SNF

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to determine the surface dose rates of a codisposal waste package (WP) containing an intact seed assembly of the Shippingport light-water breeder reactor (LWBR) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and the Savannah River Site (SRS) high-level waste (HLW) in glass form. The Shippingport LWBR SNF is loaded in a Department of Energy (DOE) standardized 18-in. canister. The canister is surrounded by five 4.5-m-long Hanford pour canisters containing the HLW glass. Gamma dose ra… more
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: Radulescu, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Procedures for Deceleration Studies

Description: The purpose of deceleration studies is to construct the deceleration ramp files that are used to decelerate antiproton beam for experiment E835. A deceleration ramp file is a set of ramp tables that are downloaded to PAUX (a part of the Pbar front end) prior to a deceleration. There is a ramp table for each device that is changed during a deceleration. These tables determine how PAUX changes each device setting during a deceleration. Appendix 1 gives a table of all ramped devices. Presently a d… more
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: Werkema, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of the Continuity Equation for Electromagnetic Energy Flow to Describe Radiation Transport

Description: The continuity equation for electromagnetic (EM) energy flow is used to describe radiation flow in the transport regime. The scheme of a discrete representation of H<sub>z</sub> and a stochastic representation of H<sub>x</sub>, H<sub>y</sub> gives an effectively continuous representation of directed energy in the x-y plane, such that the ray effect of transport theory is absent. Since the in-plane amplitudes are generated at each time step, it is necessary to store only the perpendicular amplit… more
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: Ritchie, A. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of Arabidopsis Genes Involved in Gene Silencing. Final Progress Report

Description: Enhancer of gene silencing 1 (egs1) is an Arabidopsis mutant that enhances post-transcriptional gene silencing of the rolB gene introduced by genetic engineering (transgene). The goal of our proposal was cloning EGS1 based on its map position. Although we screened more than 2000 chromosomes for recombination, we were unable to get closer than 2 cM to the gene. We experienced an unexpected tendency of the post-transcriptionally silenced transgene to switch to a more stable silenced state. This m… more
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: Grant, S. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LADS Phase I Confidence Assessments

Description: No Description Available.
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: Benson, H.A.; Bhattacharyya, K.K.; Griffith, G.W.; Howard, R.L. & McKenzie, D.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NGVs: Driving to the 21st Century. 17th National Natural Gas Vehicle Conference and Exhibition, October 3-5, 1999 [conference organizational literature and agenda]

Description: By attending the conference, participants learn about new and planned OEM vehicle and engine technologies; studies comparing Diesel and gasoline emissions to natural gas; new state and federal legislation; and innovative marketing programs they can use to help sell their products and services.
Date: October 5, 1999
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interface Control Document between the Double Shell Tanks (DST) System and T Plant

Description: This Interface Control Document (ICD) describes the interface between the Double-Shell Tank (DST) System and T Plant. T Plant generates waste during decontamination activities. These facilities do not have a direct physical interface since the waste will be moved by tank trailer to the 204-AR waste unloading facility. The purpose of the ICD process is to formalize working agreements between the River Protection Project (WP) DST System and organization/companies internal and external to RPP. Thi… more
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: MAY, T.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 135: Area 25 Underground Storage Tanks Nevada Test Site, Nevada

Description: This Corrective Action Investigation Plan (CAIP) has been developed in accordance with the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (FFACO) that was agreed to by the US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV); the State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP); and the US Department of Defense (FFACO, 1996). The CAIP is a document that provides or references all of the specific information for investigation activities associated with Corrective Action Units (CAU… more
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Nevada Operations Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operational test report integrated system test (ventilation upgrade)

Description: Operational Final Test Report for Integrated Systems, Project W-030 (Phase 2 test, RECIRC and HIGH-HEAT Modes). Project W-030 provides a ventilation upgrade for the four Aging Waste Facility tanks, including upgraded vapor space cooling and filtered venting of tanks AY101, Ay102, AZ101, AZ102.
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: HARTY, W.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Site pollution prevention progress report

Description: The Richland Operations Office (RL) and Office of River Protection (ORP) are pleased to issue the attached Pollution Prevention Progress Report. We have just met the most aggressive waste reduction and A recycling goals to date and are publishing this report to recognize A the site's progress, and to ensure it will sustain success beyond 1 Fiscal Year 2000. This report was designed to inform the been made by RL and ORP in Waste Minimization (WMin) and Pollution Prevention (P2). RL, ORP and thei… more
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: Betsch, M. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Notice of construction work in tank farm waste transfer pit 241-UX-154 double-contained receiver tank

Description: The following description and any attachments and references are provided to the Washington State Department of Health (WDOH), Division of Radiation Protection, Air Emissions & Defense Waste Section as a notice of construction (NOC) in accordance with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-247, Radiation Protection - Air Emissions. WAC 246-247-060, ''Applications, registration, and licensing'', states ''This section describes the information requirements for approval to construct, modify, and… more
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: Hill, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Commercial Grade Item (CGI) Dedication for Leak Detection Relays

Description: This Test Plan provides a test method to dedicate the leak detection relays used on the new Pumping and Instrumentation Control (PIC) skids. The new skids are fabricated on-site. The leak detection system is a safety class system per the Authorization Basis.
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: Johns, B. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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