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State Government Fiscal Stress and Federal Assistance

Description: Report that examines the current status of state fiscal conditions and the role of federal assistance in state budgets. It begins with a brief overview of state budgeting procedures and then provides budgetary data comparing state fiscal conditions in FY2008 to FY2010.
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development

Description: Report that looks at the workings, and pros and cons, of a system established by Congress to facilitate the transfer of technology research and development (R&D) funding to the private sector and state and local governments.
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Heat Recovery and Recycling in Thermal Separation Processes: Distillation, Multi-Effect Evaporation (MEE) and Crystallization Processes

Description: Evaporation and crystallization are key thermal separation processes for concentrating and purifying inorganic and organic products with energy consumption over 1,000 trillion Btu/yr. This project focused on a challenging task of recovering low-temperature latent heat that can have a paradigm shift in the way thermal process units will be designed and operated to achieve high-energy efficiency and significantly reduce the carbon footprint as well as water footprint. Moreover, this project has e… more
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Dada, Emmanuel A.; Panchal, Chandrakant B.; Achenie, Luke K.; Reichl, Aaron & Thomas, Chris C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agriculture in the WTO: Limits on Domestic Support

Description: A potential major constraint affecting U.S. agricultural policy choices is the set of commitments made as part of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), with its various agreements governing agriculture and trade, including dispute settlement. This report provides a brief overview of the WTO commitments most relevant for U.S. domestic farm policy. A key question that policymakers ask of virtually every new farm proposal is, how will it affect U.S. commitments under the WTO?
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analyses of U metal for H, C and O

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Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Weber, P K; Matzel, J E & Hutcheon, I D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen CBP Efforts to Mitigate Risk of Employee Corruption and Misconduct

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicate that arrests of CBP employees for corruption-related activities since fiscal years 2005 account for less than 1 percent of CBP’s entire workforce per fiscal year. The majority of arrests of CBP employees were related to misconduct. There were 2,170 reported incidents of arrests for acts of misconduct such as domestic violence or driving under the in… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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China's Economic Conditions

Description: This report provides background on China's economic rise; describes its current economic structure; identifies the challenges China faces to keep its economy growing strong; and discusses the challenges, opportunities, and implications of China's economic rise for the United States.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Salaries and Allowances

Description: Report that provides basic information on congressional salaries and allowances.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Brudnick, Ida A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the 2009 and 2012 IECC Residential Provisions – Technical Support Document

Description: This analysis was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program (BECP). DOE supports the development and adoption of efficient residential and commercial building energy codes. These codes set the minimum requirements for energy efficient building design and construction and ensure energy savings on a national level. This analysis focuses on one and two family dwellings, townhomes, and low-rise multifa… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Mendon, Vrushali V.; Lucas, Robert G. & Goel, Supriya
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Detention of U.S. Persons as Enemy Belligerents

Description: This report provides a background to the legal issues presented, followed by a brief introduction to the law of war pertinent to the detention of different categories of individuals. An overview of U.S. practice during wartime to detain persons deemed dangerous to the national security is presented. The report concludes by discussing Congress's role in prescribing rules for wartime detention as well as legislative proposals in the 112th Congress to address the detention of U.S. persons.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IMF Reforms: Issues for Congress

Description: This report provides information about reforms to the International Monetary Fund, Congress's role in the reform process, and how the reforms could affect U.S. interests at the IMF.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M. & Weiss, Martin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metabolic Engineering VII Conference

Description: The aims of this Metabolic Engineering conference are to provide a forum for academic and industrial researchers in the field; to bring together the different scientific disciplines that contribute to the design, analysis and optimization of metabolic pathways; and to explore the role of Metabolic Engineering in the areas of health and sustainability. Presentations, both written and oral, panel discussions, and workshops will focus on both applications and techniques used for pathway engineerin… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Korpics, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling

Description: Climate models are the foundation for understanding and projecting climate and climate-related changes and are thus critical tools for supporting climate-related decision making. This study developed a holistic strategy for improving the nation’s capability to accurately simulate climate and related Earth system changes on decadal to centennial timescales. The committee’s report is a high level analysis, providing a strategic framework to guide progress in the nation’s climate modeling en… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Dunlea, Edward & Elfring, Chris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Status, Financial Outlook, and Alternative Approaches to Fund Retiree Health Benefits

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBF) covered about 49 percent of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) $94 billion retiree health benefit liability at fiscal year-end 2012. USPS's deteriorating financial outlook, however, will make it difficult to continue the current prefunding schedule in the short term, and possibly to fully fund the remaining $48 billion unfunded liability over the re… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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G-Band Vapor Radiometer Precipitable Water Vapor (GVRPWV) Value-Added Product

Description: The G-Band Vapor Radiometer Precipitable Water Vapor (GVRPWV) value-added product (VAP) computes precipitable water vapor using neural network techniques from data measured by the GVR. The GVR reports time-series measurements of brightness temperatures for four channels located at 183.3 ± 1, 3, 7, and 14 GHz.
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: Koontz, A & Cadeddu, M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare and Medicaid: Consumer Protection Requirements Affecting Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries Vary across Programs, Payment Systems, and States

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare and Medicaid consumer protection requirements vary across programs, payment systems--either fee-for-service (FFS) or managed care--and states. Within Medicare, enrollment in managed care through the Medicare Advantage (MA) program must always be voluntary, whereas state Medicaid programs can require enrollment in managed care in certain situations. For example, Arizona requires nearly all benef… more
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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