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9/11 Commission: Current Legislative Proposals for U.S. Immigration Law and Policy

Description: This report briefly discusses some of the major immigration areas under consideration in comprehensive reform proposals suggested by the 9/11 Commission, including asylum, biometric tracking systems, border security, document security, exclusion, immigration enforcement, and visa issuances. It refers to other CRS reports that discuss these issues in depth and will be updated as needed.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Garcia, Michael John & Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2004 Progress Report for Grant No. DE-FG03-03NA00076 Nuclear Level Densities and Gamma-ray Strength Functions: Stewardship Sciences Academic Alliances Program

Description: To verify the apparent large enhancement of the radiative strength function in light and medium nuclei, the 56Fe(n,2gamma)57Fe reaction was measured. The two-step cascade intensities with soft primary intensities confirm the enhancement. The combined results have been published in Physical Review Letters and featured in the Physics News Update. Data for the Yb isotopes have been combined to examine the systematics of level densities and strength function in three Yb isotopes. A paper on these r… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Mitchell, G. E.
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An adaptive radiation model for the origin of new genefunctions

Description: The evolution of new gene functions is one of the keys to evolutionary innovation. Most novel functions result from gene duplication followed by divergence. However, the models hitherto proposed to account for this process are not fully satisfactory. The classic model of neofunctionalization holds that the two paralogous gene copies resulting from a duplication are functionally redundant, such that one of them can evolve under no functional constraints and occasionally acquire a new function. T… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Francino, M. Pilar
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[CMP staff in production control room, view from left, 1]

Description: Photograph of two members of the Center for Media Production (CMP) staff in a production control room on the UNT campus. The men are sitting in the center and right portions of the photograph, facing broadcast control equipment to the left. The man on the left is reaching out to press a button on the television in front of him. On the screens of several televisions, a group of people can be seen sitting in front of a black curtain.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[CMP staff in production control room, view from left, 2]

Description: Photograph of two members of the Center for Media Production (CMP) staff in a production control room on the UNT campus. The men are sitting in the center and right portions of the photograph, facing broadcast control equipment to the left. The man on the left is reaching out to press a button on the television in front of him, which is displaying footage of a group of people sitting in front of a black curtain. The same footage can be seen on a second television on the right.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[CMP staff in production control room, view from right, 1]

Description: Photograph of two members of the Center for Media Production (CMP) staff in a production control room on the UNT campus. The men are sitting on the left side of the photograph, facing broadcast control equipment to the right. They are both looking at a television displaying footage of a group of people sitting in front of a black curtain. The same footage can be seen on several televisions along the wall.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[CMP staff in production control room, view from right, 2]

Description: Photograph of two members of the Center for Media Production (CMP) staff in a production control room on the UNT campus. The men are sitting on the left side of the photograph, facing broadcast control equipment to the right. The man on the right is pointing to the television screen in front of him, which is displaying footage of a group of people sitting in front of a black curtain. The same footage can be seen on several televisions along the wall.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Conference Paper NFO-7:7th International Conference on Near-Field Optics and Related Technologies

Description: The seventh conference in the NFO conference series, held here in Rochester, provided to be the principal forum for advances in sub-wavelength optics, near-field optical microscopy, local field enhancement, instrumental developments and the ever-increasing range of applications. This conference brought together the diverse scientific communities working on the theory and application of near-field optics (NFO) and related techniques.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Novotny, Prof.Dr. Lukas
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Crystal Level Continuum Modeling of Phase Transformations: The (alpha) <--> (epsilon) Transformation in Iron

Description: We present a crystal level model for thermo-mechanical deformation with phase transformation capabilities. The model is formulated to allow for large pressures (on the order of the elastic moduli) and makes use of a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient. Elastic and thermal lattice distortions are combined into a single lattice stretch to allow the model to be used in conjunction with general equation of state relationships. Phase transformations change the mass fractions of … more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Barton, N R; Benson, D J; Becker, R; Bykov, Y & Caplan, M
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Determination of collision rates relevant to Weibel-like instability growth rates in classical and non-classical plasmas encountered in fast-ignition experiments

Description: Analytical simulations of fast-electron currents induced by high-density laser-plasma interactions require estimation of various plasma and beam parameters, including temperatures, densities, and collision rates. This note describes a technique used to estimate or calculate these parameters for the case of contemporary multi-terawatt experiments using foil targets as well as for anticipated fast-ignition-scale experiments.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Hill, J M & Key, M H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Burning Plasma and Advanced Scenarios in the DIII-D Tokamak

Description: Significant progress in the development of burning plasma scenarios, steady-state scenarios at high fusion performance, and basic tokamak physics has been made by the DIII-D Team. Discharges similar to the ITER baseline scenario have demonstrated normalized fusion performance nearly 50% higher than required for Q = 10 in ITER, under stationary conditions. Discharges that extrapolate to Q {approx} 10 for longer than one hour in ITER at reduced current have also been demonstrated in DIII-D under … more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Luce, T C
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ETAII 6 MEV PEPPERPOT EMITTANCE MEASUREMENT

Description: We measured the beam emittance at the ETAII accelerator using a pepper-pot diagnostic at nominal parameters of 6 MeV and 2000 Amperes. During the coarse of these experiments, a ''new tune'' was introduced which significantly improved the beam quality. The source of a background pedestal was investigated and eliminated. The measured ''new tune'' emittance is {var_epsilon}= 8.05 {plus_minus} 0. 53 cm - mr or a normalized emittance of {var_epsilon}{sub n} = 943 {plus_minus} 63 mm - mr In 1990 the … more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Paul, A C; Richardson, R & Weir, J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Funding for Unauthorized Aliens' Emergency Medical Expenses

Description: This report discusses the amount of money spent, as well as the amount of federal funds available to provide emergency medical care to unauthorized (illegal) aliens in the United States. It is extremely difficult to ascertain the amount of money spent for emergency medical care for unauthorized aliens since most hospitals do not ask patients their immigration status. Additionally, prior to the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173) o… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Siskin, Alison
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas Storage Technology Consortium Quarterly Report

Description: Gas storage is a critical element in the natural gas industry. Producers, transmission and distribution companies, marketers, and end users all benefit directly from the load balancing function of storage. The unbundling process has fundamentally changed the way storage is used and valued. As an unbundled service, the value of storage is being recovered at rates that reflect its value. Moreover, the marketplace has differentiated between various types of storage services, and has increasingly r… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Watson, Robert W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Hybrid Ion-Source Concept for a Proton Driver Front-End

Description: A novel concept for creating intense beams of negative hydrogen ion beams has been devised, and first steps towards its realization have been taken. In this approach, an ECR plasma generator operating at 2.45 GHz frequency is utilized as a plasma cathode, and electrons are extracted instead of ions and injected at moderate energy into an SNS type multi-cusp H{sup -} ion source. This secondary source is then driven by chopped d. c. power, rather than rf power, but does not need filaments which a… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Keller, R.; Luft, P.; Regis, M.; Wallig, J.; Monroy, M.; Ratti,A. et al.
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[Individuals sit in CMP recording studio]

Description: Photograph of a group of people in a Center for Media Production (CMP) recording studio on the UNT campus. Nine individuals can be seen seated in two rows, facing each other. Two men are standing among broadcasting equipment on the left side of the photograph.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Media Production.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207488 -97.152586
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995

Description: This report discusses a concerted effort to close unneeded military bases as part of wide-ranging efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to balance the budget. This effort had been supported by a broad consensus that, among the approximately 3,800 military bases (1990 est.) in the United States, many could be closed without significant detrimental effect to national security. While most analysts agreed that the department of Defense's (DOD's) base structure was larger than necessary to meet the de… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Lockwood, David E. & Siehl, George
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Base Closures: A Historical Review from 1988 to 1995

Description: The United States has experienced difficulty in closing military bases to match the requirements of downsized forces with changed composition. During the decade of the 1980s, major military base closures were seriously hampered by procedural requirements established by Congress, to the point that none occurred. The mismatch between real estate assets and defense requirements grew with the military downsizing that began late in the Reagan Administration and continued under Presidents George H. W… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Lockwood, David E. & Siehl, George
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Practical superconductor development for electrical power applications - annual report for FY 2003.

Description: Most large-scale applications of high-critical-temperature superconductors will require conductors that can carry large currents in the presence of applied magnetic fields. This report describes progress at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the research and development of practical superconducting components and devices. These efforts primarily focus on the use of Y-Ba-Cu-O system in second-generation conductors, but they also include investigations of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O systems for use in fir… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Balachandran, U.; Baurceanu, R.; Clauss, H.; Dorris, S. E.; Emerson, J. E.; Erck, R. A et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public Community Colleges and Technical Schools: Most Schools Use Both Credit and Noncredit Programs for Workforce Development

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The goal of most American workers--a well-paying job--will be increasingly linked to adequate training in the coming years. Such training will be key to competing for the 21 million new jobs the Department of Labor projects will be created in the 2002 to 2012 period. People already in, or seeking to enter, the workforce often turn to the nation's more than 1,100 public community colleges and technical s… more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Suppression of Large Edge Localized Modes with a Stochastic Magnetic Boundary in High Confinement DIII-D Plasmas

Description: Large sub-millisecond heat pulses due to Type-I ELMs have been reproducibly eliminated in DIII-D for periods approaching 7 energy confinement times with small dc currents driven in a simple magnetic perturbation coil. The current required to eliminate all but a few isolated Type-I ELM impulses during a perturbation coil pulse lasting several seconds is less than 0.4% of plasma current. Based on vacuum magnetic field line modeling, perturbation fields from the coil resonate strongly with plasma … more
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Evans, T. E.; Moyer, R. A.; Watkins, J. G.; Osborne, T. H.; Thomas, P. R.; Becoulet, M. et al.
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