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Community Banks and Credit Unions: Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act Depends Largely on Future Rule Makings

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "While the number of community banks and credit unions has declined in recent years, they have remained important lenders to small businesses and other local customers. From 1985 through 2010, the number of banks under $10 billion in assets and credit unions declined by over 50 percent to 7,551 and 7,339, respectively. The decline resulted largely from consolidations, which were facilitated by changes in… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Prevention and Public Health Fund: Activities Funded in Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For fiscal years 2010 and 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allocated funds from the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) for 43 activities in five agencies. These activities—which include HHS programs and initiatives—were administered by HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Resources and Services Admi… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Securities Investor Protection Corporation: Customer Outcomes in the Madoff Liquidation Proceeding

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO's analysis of Madoff account data shows that more than three-fourths of the firm's customers were individuals and families (individuals). The remaining accounts were held by institutions, such as pension funds and charities. A higher proportion of accounts held by an individual (60 percent) were "net winners" based on their net equity position--meaning they had withdrawn more from their accounts tha… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Energy-Water Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As GAO’s past work has shown, and other studies and specialists have confirmed, there are a number of key energy-water nexus issues that Congress and federal agencies need to consider when developing and implementing national policies for energy and water resources. Specifically:"
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Spectrum Management: Federal Government's Use of Spectrum and Preliminary Information on Spectrum Sharing

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is responsible for governmentwide federal spectrum management, but GAO reported in 2011 that NTIA’s efforts in this area had been limited. In 2003, the President directed NTIA to develop plans identifying federal and nonfederal spectrum needs, and in 2008, NTIA issued the federal plan. GAO found it did not identify governmentwide spectrum n… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Food Program: Stronger Controls Needed in High-Risk Areas

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The design of the United Nations (UN) World Food Program's (WFP) internal controls related to delivery and monitoring of food assistance generally reflects principles for internal controls and enterprise risk management developed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). WFP has developed an internal control framework that has, like the COSO internal control framewo… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biosurveillance: Observations on BioWatch Generation-3 and Other Federal Efforts

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the White House have acted to strengthen biosurveillance consistent with prior GAO recommendations made from December 2009 through October 2011.In August 2012, DHS issued a strategic plan for its National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) that officials say was written in coordination with federal partners and designed to respond to GAO’s December 2009 fin… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Special Needs Plans: CMS Should Improve Information Available about Dual-Eligible Plans' Performance

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "About 9 million of Medicare's over 48 million beneficiaries are also eligible for Medicaid because they meet income and other criteria. These dual-eligible beneficiaries have greater health care challenges than other Medicare beneficiaries, increasing their need for care coordination across the two programs. In addition to meeting all the requirements of other MA plans, D-SNPs are required by CMS to pro… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial Base: U.S. Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Manufacturers Face Period of Uncertainty as DOD Purchases Decline and Foreign Sales Potential Remains Unknown

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. tactical wheeled vehicle (TWV) industrial base includes seven manufacturers that utilize common suppliers of major subsystems, such as engines and armor. Four of these manufacturers reported that their reliance on sales to the Department of Defense (DOD) varies, in part, as they also produce commercial vehicles or parts. Collectively, the seven manufacturers supplied DOD with over 158,000 TWVs … more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996: Status of Treasury's Centralized Efforts to Collect Delinquent Federal Nontax Debt

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In summary, according to FMS officials, FMS considers both TOP and the cross-servicing program to be fully mature in that all key elements of the programs have been implemented. As such, FMS's current and future efforts will focus on enhancements that will (1) for TOP, facilitate its ability to increase federal nontax debt collections through additional offsets and (2) for the cross-servicing program, en… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Slot-Controlled Airports: FAA's Rules Could Be Improved to Enhance Competition and Use of Available Capacity

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The 16 new beyond-perimeter flights that were authorized in 2012 for Reagan National Airport are likely to have a limited effect on the airports in the Washington, D.C., area. Reagan National has sufficient runway capacity to accommodate the new beyond-perimeter flights and, with some improvements to baggage handling and security screening facilities, will have sufficient terminal capacity. Reagan Natio… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trade Adjustment Assistance: Commerce Program Has Helped Manufacturing and Services Firms, but Measures, Data, and Funding Formula Could Improve

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Changes to the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Firms program mandated by the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act led to program improvements and increased participation, but participation declined when the legislative changes lapsed and the program faced funding uncertainty. The changes resulted in reduced time to certify firms, new performance reporting, and increased participation.… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Private Sector Pensions: Federal Agencies Should Collect Data and Coordinate Oversight of Multiple Employer Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Little is known about the characteristics of private sector multiple employer plans (MEP), especially information regarding the employers that participate in them. Although no participating employer information is currently collected in the Form 5500, the primary source for pension information reported to the government, some plan-level information on MEPs is available. GAO’s analysis of 2009 plan-level… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Progress Report: Nanostructured Magnetic Materials

Description: This report describes progress made during the final phase of our DOE-funded program on Nanostructured Magnetic Materials. This period was quite productive, resulting in the submission of three papers and presentation of three talks at international conferences and three seminars at research institutions. Our DOE-funded research efforts were directed toward studies of magnetism at surfaces and interfaces in high-quality, well-characterized materials prepared by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and … more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Falco, Charles M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compact X-ray Free Electron Laser from a Laser-plasma Accelerator using a Transverse Gradient Undulator

Description: Compact laser-plasma accelerators can produce high energy electron beams with low emittance, high peak current but a rather large energy spread. The large energy spread hinders the potential applications for coherent FEL radiation generation. In this paper, we discuss a method to compensate the effects of beam energy spread by introducing a transverse field variation into the FEL undulator. Such a transverse gradient undulator together with a properly dispersed beam can greatly reduce the effec… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Huang, Zhirong; Ding, Yuantao; /SLAC; Schroeder, Carl B. & /LBL, Berkeley
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Final Technical Report

Description: BlueFire Ethanol, Inc., a U.S. based corporation with offices in Irvine, California developed a cellulosic biorefinery to convert approximately 700 dry metric tons per day in to 18.9 million gallons per year of cellulosic ethanol. The Project is proposed to be located in the city of Fulton, County of Itawamba, Mississippi.
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Cuzens, John & Sumait, Necitas
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Novel Low Cost, High Reliability Wind Turbine Drivetrain

Description: Clipper Windpower, in collaboration with United Technologies Research Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, developed a low-cost, deflection-compliant, reliable, and serviceable chain drive speed increaser. This chain and sprocket drivetrain design offers significant breakthroughs in the areas of cost and serviceability and addresses the key challenges of current geared and direct-drive systems. The use of gearboxes has proven to be challenging; … more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Chobot, Anthony; Das, Debarshi; Mayer, Tyler; Markey, Zach; Martinson, Tim; Reeve, Hayden et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report for project titled "New fluoroionomer electrolytes with high conductivity and low SO2 crossover for use in electrolyzers being developed for hydrogen production from nuclear power plants"

Description: Thermochemical water splitting cycles, using the heat of nuclear power plants, offer an alternate highly efficient route for the production of hydrogen. Among the many possible thermochemical cycles for the hydrogen production, the sulfur-based cycles lead the competition in overall energy efficiency. A variant on sulfur-based thermochemical cycles is the Hybrid Sulfur (HyS) Process, which uses a sulfur dioxide depolarized electrolyzer (SDE) to produce hydrogen. The Savannah River National Labo… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Smith, Dennis W. & Creager, Stephen
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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