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Medicare: Accuracy of Responses from the 1-800-MEDICARE Help Line Should Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In March 1999, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a telephone help line--1-800-MEDICARE--to provide information about program eligibility, enrollment, and benefits. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) directed GAO to examine several issues related to this 24-hour help line and the customer service representatives (CSRs) who staff i… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid Managed Care: Access and Quality Requirements Specific to Low-Income and Other Special Needs Enrollees

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The use of managed care within Medicaid, a joint federal-state program that finances health insurance for certain low-income families with children and individuals who are aged or disabled, increased significantly during the 1990s. By 2003, 59 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries were enrolled in managed care, compared with less than 10 percent in 1991. Medicaid managed care, under which states make prospec… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Medicare: Advisory Opinions as a Means of Clarifying Program Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Health care providers are concerned about the quality of Medicare guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Specifically, they have reported that (1) they receive unclear guidance on program requirements and (2) because policies and procedures change frequently, they may rely on obsolete guidance, resulting … more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

Description: This report discusses key drinking water issues in the 108th Congress involving water infrastructure funding and problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perchlorate, and lead in drinking water. Congress last reauthorized the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1996, and although funding authority for most SDWA programs expired in FY2003, broad reauthorization efforts were not pursued as EPA, states, and water utilities continued … more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
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Analysis of TPV Network Losses (a Presentation)

Description: This talk focuses on the theoretical analysis of electrical losses associated with electrically networking large numbers of TPV cells to produce high power TPV power generators.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: DePoy, DM; Dashiell, MW; Rahner, DD; Danielson, LR; Oppenlander, JE; Vell, JL et al.
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The photon polarization in b -> X gamma in the standard model

Description: The standard model prediction for the {bar B}{sup 0} {yields} X{sub s,d}{gamma} decay amplitude with a right-handed photon is believed to be tiny, suppressed by m{sub s,d}/m{sub b}, compared to the amplitude with a left-handed photon. We show that this suppression is fictitious: in inclusive decays, the ratio of these two amplitudes is only suppressed by g{sub s}/(4{pi}), and in exclusive decays by {Lambda}{sub QCD}/m{sub b}. The suppression is not stronger in {bar B}{sup 0} {yields} X{sub d}{g… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Grinstein, Benjamin; Grossman, Yuval; Ligeti, Zoltan & Pirjol, Dan
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Exploiting a Transmission Grating Spectrometer

Description: The availability of compact transmission grating spectrometers now allows an attractive and economical alternative to the more familiar Czerny-Turner configuration for many high-temperature plasma applications. Higher throughput is obtained with short focal length refractive optics and stigmatic imaging. Many more spectra can be obtained with a single spectrometer since smaller, more densely packed optical input fibers can be used. Multiple input slits, along with a bandpass filter, can be used… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Bell, Ronald E.
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New ion-guide for the production of beams of neutron-rich nucleibetween Z = 20 - 28

Description: It has been shown for the first time that quasi- and deep-inelastic reactions can be successfully incorporated into the conventional Ion-Guide Isotope Separator On-Line (IGISOL) technique. This is of particular interest for characterizing the decay properties of refractory elements and is applied to neutron rich nuclei between Z = 20-28. As a first step of this project, the kinematics of quasi- and deep-inelastic reactions, such as {sup 197}Au({sup 65}Cu,X)Y, were studied. Based on these studie… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Perajarvi, Kari; Cerny, Joe; Hakala, Jani; Huikari, Jussi; Jokinen, Ari; Karvonen, Pasi et al.
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Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy studies of water-polymer interactions in chemically amplified photoresists

Description: Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) absorption spectroscopy is implemented to measure the infrared spectrum of water absorbed by the Poly(t-butoxycarbonylstyrene) (tBOC) and the ketal-protected Poly(hydroxystyrene) (KRS-XE) polymer photoresists. The shape and intensity of the OH stretching band of the water spectrum is monitored in a variety of humidity conditions in order to obtain information on the hydrogen-bonding interactions between the water and the polymer chains. The band is deconvoluted… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: McDonough, Laurie A.; Chikan, Viktor; Kim, Zee Hwan; Leone, Stephen R. & Hinsberg, William D.
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Evidence for neutrino mass: A decade of discovery

Description: Neutrino mass and mixing are amongst the major discoveries of recent years. From the observation of flavor change in solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments to the measurements of neutrino mixing with terrestrial neutrinos, recent experiments have provided consistent and compelling evidence for the mixing of massive neutrinos. The discoveries at Super-Kamiokande, SNO, and KamLAND have solved the long-standing solar neutrino problem and demand that we make the first significant revision of th… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Heeger, Karsten M.
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Acoustic Monitor for Liquid-Solid Slurries Measurements at Low Weight Fractions

Description: The principle objective of the project was to develop an acoustic probe for determining the weight fraction of particles in a flowing suspension. The suspension can be solid-liquid (S-L) or solid-gas-liquid (S-G-L). The work accomplished during the first three years of DOE funding was devoted to the development of a rigorous theory for acoustic wave propagation through solid-liquid (S-L) and solid-gas-liquid (S-G-L). In the first funding period we developed an acoustic probe for S-G-L suspensio… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Tavlarides, Dr. L.L. & Sangan, Dr. A.S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selection of the InGaAs/InP as the Single TPV Diode Material System for NR Research and Development

Description: Advanced Concepts has focused on developing two material systems (InGaAs/InP and InGaAsSb/GaSb) over the past several years. This work summarizes a scientific evaluation of both material systems to determine which material has the greatest potential for high-efficiency (27%) and power density (0.8W/cm{sup 2}) TPV energy conversion. Lockheed Martin, KAPL Inc. and Bechtel Bettis have issued a joint recommendation to focus all diode development efforts in the future on InGaAs/InP TPV diodes, based… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Dashiell, M
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Human Cloning

Description: This report provides an overview of the Human Cloning discovery by South Korea and how the U.S. use it for medical research purposes. The nuclear of the egg is removed and replaced with a mature body cell.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Johnson, Judith A. & Williams, Erin
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Formation of GEMS from shock-accelerated crystalline dust in Superbubbles

Description: Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) contain enigmatic sub-micron components called GEMS (Glass with Embedded Metal and Sulfides). The compositions and structures of GEMS indicate that they have been processed by exposure to ionizing radiation but details of the actual irradiation environment(s) have remained elusive. Here we propose a mechanism and astrophysical site for GEMS formation that explains for the first time the following key properties of GEMS; they are stoichiometrically enriched i… more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Westphal, A & Bradley, J P
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Environmental Provisions in Surface Transportation Reauthorization Legislation Proposed During the 108th Congress

Description: This report discusses significant legislative provisions regarding environmental issues in bills, passed by both the House and Senate during the 108th Congress, that the 108th Congress, that would have reauthorized surface transportation programs for FY2004-FY2009.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Luther, Linda G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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