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Military and Veterans' Benefits: Observations on the Transition Assistance Program

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since its inception, the Transition Assistance Program has served more than one million separating and retiring military personnel through the coordinated efforts of the Departments of Defense, Transportation, Labor (DOL), and Veterans Affairs. In fiscal year 2001, the military branches and DOL spent $47.5 million to provide transition assistance to 222,000 separating and retiring service members. Although each bran… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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NASA Management Challenges: Human Capital and Other Critical Areas Need to be Addressed

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses management challenges and program risks that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) faces in maintaining a skilled workforce, controlling costs, and providing effective oversight for important projects. NASA is taking on a major transformation aimed at eliminating stovepipes; becoming more integrated and results oriented; and reducing risks while working more economically, … more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Management Report: Improvements Needed in IRS's Accounting Procedures and Internal Controls

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "During fiscal year 2001, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had a number of internal control issues that affected financial reporting, including safeguarding of assets. These concern policies and procedures over (1) receipt of taxpayer payments, (2) courier services that transport taxpayer data, (3) employee fingerprint records, (4) issuance of manual refunds, (5) release of tax liens, (6) recording of property… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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HUMID AIR TURBINE CYCLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Description: The Humid Air Turbine (HAT) Cycle Technology Development Program focused on obtaining HAT cycle combustor technology that will be the foundation of future products. The work carried out under the auspices of the HAT Program built on the extensive low emissions stationary gas turbine work performed in the past by Pratt & Whitney (P&W). This Program is an integral part of technology base development within the Advanced Turbine Systems Program at the Department of Energy (DOE) and its experime… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Tuthill, Richard
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On leakage and seepage from geological carbon sequestration sites

Description: Geologic carbon sequestration is one strategy for reducing the rate of increase of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2} ) concentrations (IEA, 1997; Reichle, 2000). As used here, the term geologic carbon sequestration refers to the direct injection of supercritical CO{sub 2} deep into subsurface target formations. These target formations will typically be either depleted oil and gas reservoirs, or brine-filled permeable formations referred to here as brine formations. Injected CO{sub 2}… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Oldenburg, C. M.; Unger, A. J. A.; Hepple, R. P. & Jordan, P. D.
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Report on the TESLA engineering study/review

Description: A team from Argonne National Lab, Cornell, Fermilab, Jefferson Lab, and SLAC has studied the TESLA TDR and its associated cost and manpower estimates, concentrating on the five largest cost sub-systems (Main Linac Modules, Main Linac RF Systems, Civil Engineering, Machine Infrastructure, and XFEL Incremental). These elements were concerned mainly with providing energy reach. We did not study the lower cost, but still technically challenging elements providing luminosity and physics capability, … more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: al., C. Boffo et
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GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS FROM PHOBOS.

Description: Particle production in Au+Au collisions has been measured in the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC for a range of collision energies. Three empirical observations have emerged from this dataset which require theoretical examination. First, there is clear evidence of limiting fragmentation. Namely, particle production in central Au + Au collisions, when expressed as dN/d{eta}{prime} ({eta}{prime} {triple_bond} {eta} - y{sub beam}), becomes energy independent at high energy for a broad region of {eta}{pr… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Baker, M. D. & COLLABORATION, FOR THE PHOBOS
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POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF RHIC R OUT / R SID HBT RESULTS.

Description: The effects of opacity of the nuclei together with a blackbody type of emission along the system history are considered as a means to explain the ratio R{sub out}/R{sub sid} observed by STAR and PHENIX collaborations at RHIC. Within our model, no flow is required to explain the data trend of this ratio for large surface emissivities.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: PADULA,S.
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Physical Properties Models for Simulation of Processes to Treat INEEL Tank Farm Waste: Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Description: A status is presented of the development during FY2002 of a database for physical properties models for the simulation of the treatment of Sodium-Bearing Waste (SBW) at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. An activity coefficient model is needed for concentrated, aqueous, multi-electrolyte solutions that can be used by process design practitioners. Reasonable first-order estimates of activity coefficients in the relevant media are needed rather than an incremental improv… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Nichols, T. T. & Taylor, D. D.
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Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 140: Waste Dumps, Burn Pits, and Storage Area, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, July 2002, Rev. No. 0

Description: This Corrective Action Investigation Plan contains the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Operations Office's approach to collect the data necessary to evaluate corrective action alternatives appropriate for the closure of Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 140 under the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order. Corrective Action Unit 140 consists of nine Corrective Action Sites (CASs): 05-08-01, Detonation Pits; 05-08-02, Debris Pits; 05-17-01, Hazardous W… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: United States. National Nuclear Security Administration. Nevada Operations Office.
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Elliptic Flow from Color Glass Condensate

Description: We show that an observable fraction of the measured elliptic flow may originate in classical gluon fields at the initial stage of a peripheral high-energy nuclear collision. This mechanism complements the contribution of late stage mechanisms, such as those described by hydrodynamics, to the observed elliptic flow.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Krasnitz, A.; Nara, Y. & Venugopalan, R.
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UNIVERSAL BEHAVIOR OF CHARGED PARTICLE PRODUCTION IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS AT RHIC ENERGIES.

Description: The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Two observations indicate universal behavior of charged particle production in heavy ion collisions. The first is that forward particle production, over a range of energies, follows a universal limiting curve with a non-trivial centrality dependence. The second arises from comparisons with pp/… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Steinberg, P. A. & COLLABORATION, FOR THE PHOBOS
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Investigation of White Light Emission Observed During Damage in the Bulk of DKDP Crystals

Description: We have investigated the flash of light that accompanies laser damage using time-resolved spectroscopy. Damage events were initiated in the bulk of DKDP and fused silica with 355-nm, 3-ns pulsed radiation. Spectra from the accompanying flash were recorded in the 200-500 nm wavelength range with 10-ns temporal resolution. Ten ns following damage initiation, the spectra were found to be roughly blackbody with temperatures on the order of 5000-7000 K. The observed temperatures and cooling rates ca… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Carr, C W; Radousky, H B; Staggs, M; Rubenchik, A; Feit, M & Demos, S G
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Universal Behavior of Charged Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC Energies.

Description: The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has measured the multiplicity of primary charged particles as a function of centrality and pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 19.6, 130 and 200 GeV. Two kinds of universal behavior are observed in charged particle production in heavy ion collisions. The first is that forward particle production, over a range of energies, follows a universal limiting curve with a non-trivial centrality dependence. The second arises from comparisons with pp/… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Steinberg, P. A.
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Advances Toward Inner-Shell Photo-Ionization X-Ray Lasing at 45 (Angstrom)

Description: The inner-shell photo-ionization (ISPI) scheme requires photon energies at least high enough to photo-ionize the K-shell. {approx}286 eV, in the case of carbon. As a consequence of the higher cross-section, the inner-shell are selectively knocked out, leaving a hole state 1s2s{sup 2}2p{sup 2} in the singly charged carbon ion. This generates a population inversion to the radiatively connected state 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p in C+, leading to gain on the 1s-2p transition at 45 {angstrom}. The resonant… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Moon, S. J.; Weber, F. A.; Celliers, P. M. & Eder, D. C.
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The Astrophysical Plasmadynamic Explorer (APEX): A High Resolution Spectroscopic Observatory

Description: EUVE and the ROSAT WFC have left a tremendous legacy in astrophysics at EUV wavelengths. More recently, Chandra and XMM-Newton have demonstrated at X-ray wavelengths the power of high-resolution astronomical spectroscopy, which allows the identification of weak emission lines, the measurement of Doppler shifts and line profiles, and the detection of narrow absorption features. This leads to a complete understanding of the density, temperature, abundance, magnetic, and dynamic structure of astro… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Kowalski, M. P.; Cruddace, R. G.; Wood, K. S.; Yentis, D. J.; Gursky, H.; Barbee, T. W. et al.
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An investigation of the impedance rise and power fade in high-power, Li-ion cells.

Description: Two different cell chemistries, Gen 1 and Gen 2, were subjected to accelerated aging experiments. In Gen 1 calendar life experiments, useful cell life was strongly affected by temperature and time. Higher temperature accelerated cell performance degradation. The rates of impedance increase and power fade followed simple laws based on a power of time and Arrhenius kinetics. The data have been modeled using these two concepts, and the calculated data agree well with the experimental values. The G… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Bloom, I.; Jones, S. A.; Battaglia, V. S.; Polzin, E. G.; Henriksen, G. L.; Motloch, C. G. et al.
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VISCOUS CORRECTIONNS TO SPECTRA, ELLIPTIC FLOW, AND HBT RADII.

Description: I compute the first viscous correction to the thermal distribution function. With this correction, I calculate the effect of viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and HBT radii. Indicating the breakdown of hydrodynamics, viscous corrections become of order one for 1.5GeV. Viscous corrections to HBT radii are particularly large and reduce the outward and longitudinal radii. This reduction is a direct consequence of the reduction in longitudinal pressure.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Teaney, D.
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Mapping Flow Localization Processes in Deformation of Irradiated Reactor Structural Alloys

Description: Metals that can sustain plastic deformation homogeneously throughout their bulk tend to be tough and malleable. Often, however, if a metal has been hardened it will no longer deform uniformly. Instead, the deformation occurs in narrow bands on a microscopic scale wherein stresses and strains become concentrated in localized zones. This strain localization degrades the mechanical properties of the metal by causing premature plastic instability failure or by inducing the formation of cracks. Irra… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Farrell, K.
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POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF RHIC R OUT/R SID HBT RESULTS.

Description: The effects of opacity of the nuclei together with a blackbody type of emission along the system history are considered as a means to explain the ratio R{sub out}/R{sub sid} observed by STAR and PHENIX collaborations at RHIC. Within our model, no flow is required to explain the data trend of this ratio for large surface emissivities.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: PADULA,S.S.
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Protein Data Bank Project at Rutgers University

Description: The central activities of the Protein Data Base continue to be the collection, archiving and distribution of high quality structural data to the scientific community on a timely basis. The systems that have been developed for doing this has become increasingly reliable and stable. We have completed the inventory of magnetic and paper media that was received from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Berman, Helen
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Animal Agriculture: Issues in the 107th Congress

Description: A variety of animal agriculture issues, including prices, the impact of consolidation in the meat production/packing industry, trade, and the environmental impacts of large feedlots, continue to generate interest in Congress. This issue brief discusses these issues, as well as the 2002 farm bill, which contains several provisions affecting animal agriculture, including protections for contract growers, disaster assistance, country-of-origin labeling, and increased funding for conservation purpo… more
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Heykoop, Jerry
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