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Defense Contracting: Use of Undefinitized Contract Actions Understated and Definitization Time Frames Often Not Met

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To meet urgent needs, the Department of Defense (DOD) can issue undefinitized contract actions (UCA), which authorize contractors to begin work before reaching a final agreement on contract terms. The contractor has little incentive to control costs during this period, creating a potential for wasted taxpayer dollars. Pursuant to the House of Representatives report on the National Defense Authorization … more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Border Patrol: Costs and Challenges Related to Training New Agents

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In May 2006, the President called for comprehensive immigration reform that included strengthening control of the country's borders by, among other things, adding 6,000 new agents to the U.S. Border Patrol by the end of December 2008. This unprecedented 48 percent increase over 2 years raises concerns about the ability of the Border Patrol's basic training program to train these new agents. This testimony is … more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In April 2004, President Bush called for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a strategic plan to guide the nationwide implementation of health information technology (IT). The plan is to recommend methods to ensure the privacy of electronic health information. GAO was asked to summarize its January 2007 report. The report describes the steps HHS is taking to ensure priva… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Wildland Fire Management: A Cohesive Strategy and Clear Cost-Containment Goals Are Needed for Federal Agencies to Manage Wildland Fire Activities Effectively

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Increasing wildland fire threats to communities and ecosystems, combined with rising costs of addressing those threats--trends that GAO and others have reported on for many years--have not abated. On average, the acreage burned annually by wildland fires from 2000 to 2005 was 70 percent greater than the acreage burned annually during the 1990s. Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fire… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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GENERATION OF SUBPICOSECOND X-RAY PULSES IN STORAGE RINGS

Description: Supicosecond x-ray pulses are routinely produced at ALS,BESSY and SLS with slicing technique and used in pump-probe experimentswith controlled delay between laser pump pulses and x-ray probe pulses.New development aiming for a production of a subpicosecond x-ray pulsesusing rf orbit deflection technique is under way at APS. Both techniqueswill be reviewed here.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Zholents, Alexander A.
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Qcd Spin Physics in Hadronic Interactions.

Description: We discuss spin phenomena in high-energy hadronic scattering, with a particular emphasis on the spin physics program now underway at the first polarized proton-proton collider, RHIC. Experiments at RHIC unravel the spin structure of the nucleon in new ways. Prime goals are to determine the contribution of gluon spins to the proton spin, to elucidate the flavor structure of quark and antiquark polarizations in the nucleon, and to help clarify the origin of transverse-spin phenomena in QCD. These… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Vogelsang, W.
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Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Li3MnO4: Mn in the +5 OxidationState

Description: Computational and experimental work directed at exploringthe electrochemical properties of tetrahedrally coordinated Mn in the +5oxidation state is presented. Specific capacities of nearly 700 mAh/g arepredicted for the redox processes of LixMnO4 complexes based on twotwo-phase reactions. One is topotactic extractionof Li from Li3MnO4 toform LiMnO4 and the second is topotactic insertion of Li into Li3MnO4 toform Li5MnO4. In experiments, it is found that the redox behavior ofLi3MnO4 is complicat… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Saint, Juliette.A.; Doeff, Marca M. & Reed, John
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Quasi-ternary nanoparticle superlattices through nanoparticle design

Description: Individual nanoscale building blocks exhibit a wide range of size-dependent properties, since their size can be tuned over known characteristic length scales of bulk materials. In the last several years, the possibility of combining different materials in the form of two and three component nanoparticles (NPs) has been extensively explored. Also multi-component materials can be obtained via self-assembly of NPs from their binary colloidal mixtures. These new nanocrystal solids may possess tunab… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Kortright, Jeffrey; Shevchenko, Elena V.; Kortright, Jeffrey B.; Talapin, Dmitri V.; Aloni, Shaul & Alivisatos, A. Paul
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Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy

Description: This report provides current statistical information, profiles the Afghanistan narcotics trade's participants, explores linkages between narcotics, insecurity, and corruption, and reviews U.S. and international policy responses since late 2001. The report also considers ongoing policy debates regarding the counternarcotics role of coalition military forces, poppy eradication, alternative livelihoods, and funding issues for Congress.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD): FY2008 Appropriations

Description: This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Subcommittees on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. It summarizes the current legislative status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related legislative activity.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Peterman, David R. & Frittelli, John
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP

Description: This report mainly provides information about The rise in Cigarette Tax to Finance SCHIP. An original proposal would be mandated a 61 percent increase per pack.but, the resolution makes such a tax possible but not mandatory and does not set the level.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
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The Use of Profit by the Five Major Oil Companies

Description: The five major integrated oil companies operating in the U.S. market have earned net incomes totaling $308 billion since 2004. This report analyzes the uses of accrued profits by the five major integrated oil companies from 2004 through 2006.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Pirog, Robert
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement

Description: This report discusses a plan announced by EPA in January 2005, called the Air Compliance Agreement, that would produce air quality monitoring data on animal agriculture emissions from a small number of farms, while at the same time protecting all participants (including farms where no monitoring takes place) through a “safe harbor” from liability under certain provisions of federal environmental laws.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automated Critical PeakPricing Field Tests: 2006 Pilot ProgramDescription and Results

Description: During 2006 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) performed a technology evaluation for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Emerging Technologies Programs. This report summarizes the design, deployment, and results from the 2006 Automated Critical Peak Pricing Program (Auto-CPP). The program was designed to evaluate the feasibility of deploying automation systems that allow customers to participate in critical peak pricing (CPP) … more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Piette, Mary Ann; Watson, David; Motegi, Naoya & Kiliccote, Sila
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A Multi-Beamlet Injector for Heavy Ion Fusion: Experiments and Modeling

Description: We have performed experiments and modeling to evaluate a proposed merging beamlet approach for use in a compact high-brightness Heavy Ion Fusion injector. We used an RF plasma source to produce the initial beamlets. An extraction current density of 100 mA/cm{sup 2} was achieved, and the thermal temperature of the ions was below 1 eV. An array of converging beamlets was used to produce a beam with the envelope radius, convergence, and ellipticity matched to an electrostatic quadrupole channel. E… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Westenskow, W A; Grote, D; Bieniosek, F & Kwan, J
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Quasi-Optical 34-GHz Rf Pulse Compressor

Description: Designs have been carried out on non-high-vacuum, low-power versions of three- and four-mirror quasi-optical passive and active Ka-band pulse compressors, and prototypes built and tested based on these designs. The active element is a quasi-optical grating employing gas discharge tubes in the gratings. Power gains of about 3:1 were observed experimentally for the passive designs, and about 7:1 with the active designs. High-power, high-vacuum versions of the three-and four-mirror quasi-optical p… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Hirshfield, Jay L
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing Technology for Unconventional Tight Gas Reservoirs

Description: The objectives of this project are to develop and test new techniques for creating extensive, conductive hydraulic fractures in unconventional tight gas reservoirs by statistically assessing the productivity achieved in hundreds of field treatments with a variety of current fracturing practices ranging from 'water fracs' to conventional gel fracture treatments; by laboratory measurements of the conductivity created with high rate proppant fracturing using an entirely new conductivity test - the… more
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Holditch, Stephen; Hill, A. Daniel & Zhu, D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Iraq: Milestones Since the Ouster of Saddam Hussein

Description: This report lists significant recent events in Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Sources include, but are not limited to White House press releases, the U.S. Department of State, U.N. Secretary-General's statements, and major news stories.
Date: June 19, 2007
Creator: Hassan, Hussein D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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