207 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

Human Capital: A Guide for Assessing Strategic Training and Development Efforts in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-546G)

Description: Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-04-546G, Human Capital: A Guide for Assessing Strategic Training and Development Efforts in the Federal Government, March 2004. This guide introduces a framework, consisting of a set of principles and key questions that federal agencies can use to ensure that their training and development investments are targeted strategically and are not wasted on efforts that are irrelev… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Navy Working Capital Fund: Backlog of Funded Work at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Was Consistently Understated

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has hundreds of millions of dollars of funded work that its working capital fund activities did not complete before the end of the fiscal year. Reducing the amount of workload carryover at fiscal year-end is a key factor in the effective management of Department of Defense (DOD) resources and in minimizing the "banking" of funds for work to be performed in s… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Bonneville Power Administration: Long-Term Fiscal Challenges

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) provides about 45 percent of all electric power consumed in the Pacific Northwest--Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The power that BPA markets and distributes is generated in large part at hydroelectric projects including dams in the Federal Columbia River Power System. BPA also owns and operates about 75 percent of the region's services. Under the Pacific Northw… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Technology Transfer: Agencies' Rights to Federally Sponsored Biomedical Inventions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bayh-Dole Act gives federal contractors, grantees, and cooperative agreement funding recipients the option to retain ownership rights to inventions they create as part of a federally sponsored research project and profit from commercializing them. The act also protects the government's interests, in part by requiring that federal agencies and their authorized funding recipients retain a license to practice… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Dynamics of the flame flowfields in a low-swirl burner

Description: The concept of using low swirl to stabilize lean premixed turbulent flame was introduced in 1992. Since then, the low-swirl burner (LSB) has become a useful laboratory tool for the study of detailed flame structures as well as turbulent burning speeds. Its main attribute is that the flame is freely propagating and is locally normal to the turbulent approach flow (Figure 1). Therefore, the turbulent flame brush is not influence by physical boundaries. The capability of LSB to support very lean f… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Cheng, Robert; Johnson, Matthew R. & Cheng, Robert K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Intermediates and the folding of proteins L and G

Description: We use a minimalist protein model, in combination with a sequence design strategy, to determine differences in primary structure for proteins L and G that are responsible for the two proteins folding through distinctly different folding mechanisms. We find that the folding of proteins L and G are consistent with a nucleation-condensation mechanism, each of which is described as helix-assisted {beta}-1 and {beta}-2 hairpin formation, respectively. We determine that the model for protein G exhibi… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Brown, Scott & Head-Gordon, Teresa
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Physical evidence for dark energy

Description: The authors present measurements of the angular cross-correlation between luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the cosmic microwave background temperature maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. They find a statistically significant achromatic positive correlation between these two data sets, which is consistent with the expected signal from the late Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. they do not detect any anti-correlation on small angular scales as would b… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Scranton, Ryan; Connolly, Andrew J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Stebbins, Albert; Szapudi, Istvan; Eisenstein, Daniel J. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Technologies for Fissile Material Detection and Prevention of Fissile Material Introduction into International Shipping

Description: Prevention of the introduction of fissile materials into international shipping, and hence into a given country, is a complex problem. Some pieces of the solution to the puzzle are conceptually well defined, but lack definition of a technical pathway and/or operational implementation. Other elements are a little more fuzzy, and some elements are probably undefined at this point in time. This paper reviews the status of the more well-defined elements, and suggests needed additional measures to e… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Richardson, J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Rohm and Haas: Company Uses Knoxville Plant Assessment Results to Develop Best Practices Guidelines and Benchmark for Its Other Sites (Revised)

Description: Rohm and Haas conducted a plant-wide energy assessment at its Knoxville, Tennessee, chemicals manufacturing facility. The assessment identified potential annual energy savings of nearly 47,000 MMBtu in steam and fuel and 11,000 MWh in electricity. Annual cost savings were estimated at almost$1.5 million. After the assessment was replicated in California and Kentucky plants, the companys additional estimated cost savings were$500,000 annually. Additional annual energy savings were about 23,000 M… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Mark-1 Cryostat Status Report Q1 and Q2, FY03

Description: The Mark 1 now has a completion date goal of mid-FY05 . The original concept for the Mark-1 cryogenics was based upon a liquid helium (LHe) reservoir, which was developed in collaboration with a group of cryogenic experts from Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France. This concept meets all requirements and a conceptual design review was held in November 2002. However, meeting the completion date goal would be very difficult with this approach. Subsequent interaction with colleagues at… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Bernat, T. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Practical Physiological Monitoring Protocol for Heat Strain Control

Description: This protocol is indicated when employees are: (1) Exposed to Heat Stress above the TLV; (2) Performing low to moderate work rates with rare excursions to heavy rates; NOT for heavy and very heavy work rates or requiring peak outputs for extended periods; and, (3) Determined to need physiological heat strain monitoring by the cognizant Industrial Hygienist. The requirements are: (1) A work/rest regimen must be established at outset and adjusted as needed during operations (see Appendix A); (2) … more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Anderson, R. B.; Johnson, J. S.; Burastero, S. R. & Gilmore, O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Augusta Newsprint: Paper Mill Pursues Five Projects Following Plant-Wide Energy Efficiency Assessment

Description: Augusta Newsprint undertook a plant-wide energy efficiency assessment of its Augusta, Georgia, plant in 2001. The assessment helped the company decide to implement five energy efficiency projects. Four of the five projects will save the company 11,000 MWh of electrical energy (about$369,000) each year. The remaining project will produce more than$300,000 annually, from sale of the byproduct turpentine. The largest annual savings,$881,000, will come from eliminating Kraft pulp by using better pr… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Anisoplanatic Performance of Horizontal-Path Speckle Imaging

Description: We have previously demonstrated and reported on the use of sub-field speckle processing for the enhancement of both near and far-range surveillance imagery of people and vehicles that have been degraded by atmospheric turbulence. We have obtained near diffraction-limited imagery in many cases and have shown dramatic image quality improvement in other cases. As it is possible to perform only a limited number of experiments in a limited number of conditions, we have developed a computer simulatio… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Carrano, C J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The integration of cryogenic cooling systems with superconducting electronic systems

Description: The need for cryogenic cooling has been critical issue that has kept superconducting electronic devices from reaching the market place. Even though the performance of the superconducting circuit is superior to silicon electronics, the requirement for cryogenic cooling has put the superconducting devices at a disadvantage. This report will talk about the various methods for refrigerating superconducting devices. Cryocooler types will be compared for vibration, efficiency, and cost. Some solution… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Green, Michael A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Fisheries Enhancement on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation; Hangman Creek, Annual Report 2001-2002.

Description: Historically, Hangman Creek produced Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) for the Upper Columbia Basin Tribes. One weir, located at the mouth of Hangman Creek was reported to catch 1,000 salmon a day for a period of 30 days a year (Scholz et al. 1985). The current town of Tekoa, Washington, near the state border with Idaho, was the location of one of the principle anadromous fisheries for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe (Scholz et al. 1985). The constructi… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Peters, Ronald; Kinkead, Bruce & Stanger, Mark
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

SURPH 2.1; SURvival Under Proportional Hazards, Techncial Manual 2003.

Description: This document is primarily a description of the user interface for SURPH2.1. It is not a description of the statistical theory and calculations behind SURPH. The best source for that information is the SURPH.1 manual. This document describes the user interface to SURPH 2.1. The format of the input data file has been changed since SURPH 1.0 and SURPH 2.0 to make it simpler and more intuitive. A conversion program to convert a data file from previous versions of SURPH to the input data file forma… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Lady, James; Westhagen, Peter & Skalski, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Oxbow Conservation Area; Middle Fork John Day River, Annual Report 2002-2003.

Description: In early 2001, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, through their John Day Basin Office, concluded the acquisition of the Oxbow Ranch, now know as the Oxbow Conservation Area (OCA). Under a memorandum of agreement with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Tribes are required to provided BPA an 'annual written report generally describing the real property interests in the Project, HEP analyses undertaken or in progress, and management activities undertaken or in progress'. The 2002… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Cochran, Brian & Smith, Brent
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Wasco Riparian Buffer Project, Annual Report 2003-2004.

Description: This project implements riparian buffer systems in the Mid-Columbia, addressing limiting factors identified in the Deschutes River Sub-basin Summary, March 2, 2001. This project is providing the technical planning support needed to implement at least 20 riparian buffer system contracts on approximately 800 acres covering an estimated 36 miles of anadromous fish streams. During this second year of implementation, 17 buffer contracts were established on 173,462 ft. of stream (25.9 miles). Acreage… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Graves, Ron
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Salmonid Gamete Preservation in the Snake River Basin, Annual Report 2002.

Description: In spite of an intensive management effort, chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) populations in the Northwest have not recovered and are currently listed as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. In addition to the loss of diversity from stocks that have already gone extinct, decreased genetic diversity resulting from genetic drift and inbreeding is a major concern. Reduced population and genetic variability diminishes the environmental ada… more
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Young, William & Kucera, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen