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The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress

Description: This report provides background information regarding the threats and consequences of cybersecurity. The federal legislative framework for cybersecurity is complex, with more than 50 statutes addressing various aspects of it either directly or indirectly.
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: Fischer, Eric A.; Liu, Edward C.; Rollins, John W. & Theohary, Catherine A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[2013 Homecoming Bonfire lighting, 2]

Description: Photograph of the lighting of the bonfire at the 2013 UNT Homecoming Bonfire and Yell Like Hell event. Individuals can be seen standing around a large pile of wooden pallets and college memorabilia, holding torches. Audience members are visible in the foreground of the photograph.
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: Chaney, Ken
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[2013 Homecoming Bonfire lighting, 3]

Description: Photograph of the lighting of the bonfire at the 2013 UNT Homecoming Bonfire and Yell Like Hell event. Individuals can be seen running away from a large pile of wooden pallets and college memorabilia as a row of torches lights the pile on fire. Members of the audience are visible in the foreground.
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: Chaney, Ken
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Available evidence does not support whether behavioral indicators, which are used in the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, can be used to identify persons who may pose a risk to aviation security. GAO reviewed four meta-analyses (reviews that analyze other studies and synthesize their findings) that included over 400 studies ā€¦ more
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Examination of Federal Disaster Relief Under the Budget Control Act

Description: This report addresses traditional funding for major disaster declarations, workings of the President's Disaster Relief Fund, a basic overview of how disaster assistance is appropriated, what factors affect how much the federal government spends on disasters, how disaster relief is impacted by the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, and what the policy implications are for disaster assistance under the constraints of the BCA, and the increasing number of disaster declarations and both the possibleā€¦ more
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.; Painter, William L. & McCarthy, Francis X.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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