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The 10-20-30 Plan and Persistent Poverty Counties

Description: This report discusses the 10-20-30 plan of reallocating funds in rural development programs toward counties with systemic poverty levels defined as 20% of the population being at or below poverty level for 30 years. This report explains why targeting funds to persistent poverty counties might be of interest, how "persistent poverty" is defined and measured, and how different interpretations of the definition and different data source selections could yield different lists of counties identified… more
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Dalaker, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K”

Description: This article comments on activity coefficients based on a thermodynamic relationship that failed to properly take into account the solid phase transition that both caffeine and gallic acid exhibited prior to melting.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations

Description: This report provides an overview of the key issues for Congress related to Egypt and U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. Topics covered include the Egyptian government and economy, terrorist groups operating in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, human rights concerns, and relations with the U.S, including U.S. aid payments.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Reserved Water Rights and Groundwater: Quantity, Quality, and Pore Space

Description: This report discusses Native American tribes rights to groundwater on tribal land and the recent Supreme Court decision to not review the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court which upheld the groundwater rights of a California Tribe. The concepts of quantity, quality, and pore space as related to groundwater are also discussed.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Folger, Peter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Trigger

Description: This report analyzes the financing of Medicare and its impact on the federal budget. It includes a discussion of the Medicare "trigger," which requires certain actions to be taken should general revenue funding be expected to exceed a certain proportion of total Medicare outlays within a certain number of years.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Davis, Patricia A.; Garvey, Todd & Davis, Christopher M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Missing and Exploited Children's (MEC) Program: Background and Policies

Description: This report discusses the Missing and Exploited Children Program's various parts such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, and the Amber Alert program along with their funding levels.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Revisiting the Evolving Landscape of Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Description: Presentation at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. This presentation contains questions and topics of discussion for the panelists.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Hastings, Samantha Kelly et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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