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Library of Congress: Special Events Gift Fund Operations and Accountability

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, and the Ranking Minority Member, House Subcommittee on Legislative, Committee on Appropriations, requested that we review the Library's Special Events Gift Fund. As agreed, we focused on the Library's analysis supporting its June 2000 decision to increase suggested room contributions associated with the Great H… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Program Evaluation - Automotive Lightweighting Materials Program Research and Development Projects Assessment of Benefits - Case Studies No. 2

Description: This report is the second of a series of studies to evaluate research and development (R&D) projects funded by the Automotive Lightweighting Materials (ALM) Program of the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies (OAAT) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The objectives of the program evaluation are to assess short-run outputs and long-run outcomes that may be attributable to the ALM R&D projects. The ALM program focuses on the development and validation of advanced technologies t… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Das, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Access to Government Information In the United States

Description: The Constitution of the United States makes no specific allowance for any one of the co-equal branches to have access to information held by the others and contains no provision expressly establishing a procedure for, or a right of, public access to government information. Nonetheless, Congress has legislated various public access laws. These include two records access statutes — the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act — and two meetings access statutes — the Federal Advisory Com… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Master Work Plan: Environmental Investigations at Former CCC/Usda Facilities in Kansas, 2002 Revision.

Description: The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has entered into an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under which Argonne National Laboratory provides technical assistance for hazardous waste site characterization and remediation for the CCC/USDA. Carbon tetrachloride is the contaminant of primary concern at sites in Kansas where former CCC/USDA grain storage facilities were located. Argonne applies its QuickSite(reg sign) Expedit… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Burton, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of Distribution Analysis Software for DER Applications

Description: The term ''Distributed energy resources'' or DER refers to a variety of compact, mostly self-contained power-generating technologies that can be combined with energy management and storage systems and used to improve the operation of the electricity distribution system, whether or not those technologies are connected to an electricity grid. Implementing DER can be as simple as installing a small electric generator to provide backup power at an electricity consumer's site. Or it can be a more co… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Staunton, R. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accurate modeling of cache replacement policies in a Data-Grid.

Description: Caching techniques have been used to improve the performance gap of storage hierarchies in computing systems. In data intensive applications that access large data files over wide area network environment, such as a data grid,caching mechanism can significantly improve the data access performance under appropriate workloads. In a data grid, it is envisioned that local disk storage resources retain or cache the data files being used by local application. Under a workload of shared access and hig… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Otoo, Ekow J. & Shoshani, Arie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the singlet-triplet transition in ethylene

Description: A theoretical study is reported of the transition between the ground state ({sup 1}A{sub g}) and the lowest triplet state (1{sup 3}B{sub 1u}) of ethylene based on the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) variant of the quantum Monte Carlo method. Using DMC trial functions constructed from Hartree-Fock, complete active space self-consistent field and multi-configuration self-consistent field wave functions, we have computed the atomization energy and the heat of formation of both states, and adiabatic an… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: El Akramine, Ouafae; Kollias, Alexander C. & Lester, William A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimating Impacts of Diesel Fuel Reformulation with Vector-based Blending

Description: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Refinery Yield Model has been used to study the refining cost, investment, and operating impacts of specifications for reformulated diesel fuel (RFD) produced in refineries of the U.S. Midwest in summer of year 2010. The study evaluates different diesel fuel reformulation investment pathways. The study also determines whether there are refinery economic benefits for producing an emissions reduction RFD (with flexibility for individual property values) compared … more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Hadder, G.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report-Object Approaches to Data Access, Controls and Remote and Distributed Computing.

Description: We submitted a progress report covering the first year of work on this grant on October 10, 2000. Though originally envisioned as a three-year grant, this work was not, in fact, funded after the first year. Thus, we hereby submit a report that is basically the same as the report submitted on October 10, 2000. In the first year of this project we prepared the groundwork for moving to automatic discovery, secure access to data servers, applications and controls, and migration to object approaches… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Cary, Dr. John R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Off the mass shell: Electroweak physics at Nu TeV

Description: The NuTeV collaboration has performed precision measurements of the ratio of neutral current to charged current cross-sections in high rate, high energy neutrino and anti-neutrino beams on a dense, primarily steel, target. The separate neutrino and anti-neutrino beams, high statistics, and improved control of other experimental systematics, allow the determination of electroweak parameters with significantly greater precision than past {nu}N scattering experiments. Our null hypothesis test of t… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: al., Kevin S. McFarland et
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supernova neutrinos

Description: We propose that neutrino-proton elastic scattering, {nu} + p {yields} {nu} + p, can be used for the detection of supernova neutrinos. Though the proton recoil kinetic energy spectrum is soft, with T{sub p} {approx_equal} 2E{sub {nu}}{sup 2}/M{sub p}, and the scintillation light output from slow, heavily ionizing protons is quenched, the yield above a realistic threshold is nearly as large as that from {bar {nu}}{sub e} + p {yields} e{sup +} + n. In addition, the measured proton spectrum is rela… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Beacom, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Faith-Based Organizations and Their Relationship with State and Local Governments: Analysis of Recent Initiatives

Description: This report discusses federal, state, and local government funding for faith-based organizations (FBOs) to provide services to needy citizens. It provides an overview of several selected issues including the effectiveness of FBOs, their accountability for results, and the working relationship that FBOs have at various levels of government.
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Canada, Ben
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Classical Least Squares Transformations of Sensor Array Pattern Vectors into Vapor Descriptors

Description: A new method of processing multivariate response data to extract chemical information has been developed. Sensor array response patterns are transformed into a vector containing values for solvation parameter descriptors of the detected vapor's properties. These results can be obtained by using a method similar to classical least squares, and equations have been derived for mass-transducing sensors or volume-transducing sensors. Polymer-coated acoustic wave devices are an example of mass-transd… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Grate, Jay W.; Wise, Barry M. & Gallagher, Neal B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LDRD Final Report for 01-ERD-100 FLIRT: A Magnetic Field Topology Diagnostic for Spheromaks and Other Self-Organized Magnetically Confined Plasmas

Description: Tangled magnetic field lines are common in laboratory and space plasmas, but determining the geometrical structure of magnetic fields in the presence of plasma is a difficult and still unresolved problem. To address this open question we developed and tested a new technique for measuring the magnetic field-line topology in magnetically confined plasmas. Our field-line tracing diagnostic (FLIRT) uses a high-power, short-pulse laser to launch a burst of energetic ({approx}100 keV) electrons from … more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: McLean, H. S.; Chen, H. & Ryutov, D. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Documenting the Effectiveness of Cosorption of Airborne Contaminants by a Field-Installed Active Desiccant System: Final Report - Phase 2D

Description: The final report for Phase 1 of this research effort (ORNL/SUB/94-SV004/1) concluded that a significant market opportunity would exist for active desiccant systems if it could be demonstrated that they can remove a significant proportion of common airborne contaminants while simultaneously performing the primary function of dehumidifying a stream of outdoor air or recirculated building air. If the engineering community begins to follow the intent of ASHRAE Standard 62, now part of all major bui… more
Date: January 23, 2003
Creator: Fischer, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Drum performance at UNT Union event]

Description: Photograph of a group of people playing African drums in the UNT Student Union. Members are standing in two rows, facing slightly to the left of the camera. They are all wearing traditional African clothing. People can be seen crowded around the drummers; many of the audience members are holding flags for different countries.
Date: January 23, 2003
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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