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The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the House Floor

Description: The House of Representatives follows a well established routine on the opening day of a new Congress. The proceedings include election of the Speaker, swearing in its members, election of administrative officers, and adoption of rules of procedure. Also, resolutions assigning its members to committees may be adopted. The House must take these actions at the beginning of each new Congress because it is not a continuing body. Article 1, Section 2 of Constitution sets terms for Members of the Hous… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor

Description: The Senate follows a well-established routine on the opening day of a new Congress. The proceedings include swearing in new members, administrative business, and the election of the president pro tempore, the constitutionally mandated officer elected to preside over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. This report contains information on what is contained in the well-established routine.
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: International Efforts to Aid Russia's Transition Have Had Mixed Results

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, organizations and donors have provided Russia with tens of billions of dollars in economic assistance to helping it transition to a market economy within a democratic state. This transition presents opportunities and challenges to the Russians and to those providing economic assistance. This report focuses on the assistance given to Russia by the International Mo… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Voice and Data Network of Convergence and the Application of Voice over IP

Description: This paper looks at emerging technologies for converging voice and data networks and telephony transport over a data network using Internet Protocols. Considered are the benefits and drivers for this convergence. The paper describes these new technologies, how they are being used, and their application to Sandia.
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Eldridge, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oklahoma DOE EPSCoR Trainees. Final Report for the Period September 30, 1991 to March 31, 1996

Description: This report presents the results of the State of Oklahoma DOE EPSCOR Traineeship program. The program was carried out at the three major research universities in the state: the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Tulsa. Each of the three universities selected a central thrust area for the DOE EPSCOR traineeships that was in keeping with research strengths of the institution. These thrust areas are related closely enough to be mutually supportive, but are suf… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Knox, R. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The role of interruptible natural gas customers in New England heating oil markets: A preliminary examination of events in January-February 2000

Description: This report provides an analysis of data collected from gas service providers and end-use customers in the six New England States and offers a preliminary assessment of the impact of interruptible gas customers on the distillate fuel oil market this past winter. Based on information collected and analyzed as of October 2000, the main findings areas follows: (1) For interruptible gas customers with distillate fuel oil as a backup fuel, their volume of interruptions was equivalent to about 1 to 2… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solids with Cracks and Pores of Various Shapes: Proper Parameters of Defect Density, Anisotropy and Extraction of Information on Damage from Wavespeed Patterns. Final Report

Description: The research under the grant was focused on the micromechanics of with multiple defects of diverse shapes. Within this general area, the problems addressed were quite diverse: Mechanics of electro-elastic materials; Plasticity of porous materials; and Mechanics of materials with multiple defects.
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Kachanov, Mark
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Closure Report for Housekeeping Category Corrective Action Unit 345 Nevada Test Site, Nevada

Description: This Closure Report for Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 345 summarizes the disposition of ten Corrective Action Sites (CAS) located in Areas 2 and 9 of the Nevada Test Site, Nevada. The table listed in the report provides a description of each CAS and the status of its associated waste as listed in the ''Federal Facilities Agreement and Consent Order'' (FFACO, 1996). Copies of the Sectored Housekeeping Site Closure Verification Form for each CAS are included as Attachment A. The battery at CAS 09-… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Urbon, A. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NOVEL FUNDAMENTAL IN STRATEGIC COMPUTING

Description: This is the final report of an initially funded for three-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The funding was zeroed after the first year at the time of the 6% to 4% reduction in LDRD funding. All the information in this report describes the work done in this single year of research. We carried out research in common component architectures, performance modeling and models of computations related to deep memory hierarch… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: HOISIE, A. & AL, ET
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Two-Stage Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Landscape-Level Attributes and Maximum Recruitment of Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

Description: Many anadromous salmonid stocks in the Pacific Northwest are at their lowest recorded levels, which has raised questions regarding their long-term persistence under current conditions. There are a number of factors, such as freshwater spawning and rearing habitat, that could potentially influence their numbers. Therefore, we used the latest advances in information-theoretic methods in a two-stage modeling process to investigate relationships between landscape-level habitat attributes and maximu… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Thompson, William L. & Lee, Danny C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Greening the Department of Energy through waste prevention, recycling, and Federal acquisition. Strategic plan to implement Executive Order 13101

Description: This Plan provides strategies and milestones to implement Executive Order 13101, Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition, and to achieve the new Secretarial goals for 2005 and 2010. It serves as the principal Secretarial guidance to Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, Field Offices, and laboratory and contractor staff to improve sanitary waste prevention, recycling, and the purchase and use of recycled content and environmentally preferable prod… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Investigation of the Mechanism of IGA/SCC of Alloy 600 in Corrosion Accelerating Heated Crevice Environments - Topical Report Phase I 8/18/1999 - 8/31/2000

Description: The crevice formed by the tube/tube support plate (T/TSP) intersection in a pressurized water reactor (PWR) steam generator is a concentration site for nonvolatile impurities (referred to as hideout) in the steam generator water. The restricted mass transport in the small crevice volume prevents the species, which concentrate by a thermal/hydraulic mechanism during the generation of steam, from quickly dispersing into the bulk water. The presence of a porous scale corrosion product on the surfa… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Lumsden, Dr. Jesse
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Consistent Kinetics Porosity (CKP) Model: A Theory for the Mechanical Behavior of Moderately Porous Solids

Description: A theory is developed for the response of moderately porous solids (no more than {approximately}20% void space) to high-strain-rate deformations. The model is consistent because each feature is incorporated in a manner that is mathematically compatible with the other features. Unlike simple p-{alpha} models, the onset of pore collapse depends on the amount of shear present. The user-specifiable yield function depends on pressure, effective shear stress, and porosity. The elastic part of the str… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: BRANNON,REBECCA M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design studies for the LCLS 120 Hz RF gun

Description: A preliminary design studies were carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a photocathode RF gun injection system for LCLS 120 Hz operation. The starting point for the design is 50 Hz BNL Gun IV developed by a BNL/KEK/SHI collaboration. The basic parameters of the 120 Hz gun is discussed in this report. The complete photocathode RF gun injection system is described for a 120 Hz operation. The injector system includes photocathode RF gun, emittance compensation solenoid magnet, laser sy… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Wang, X. J.; Babzien, M.; Ben-Zvi, Ilan; Chang, X. Y.; Pjerov, S. & Woodle, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proof-of-Concept Assessment of a Photofission-Based Interrogation System for the Detection of Shielded Nuclear Material

Description: A photonuclear interrogation method was experimentally assessed for the detection of shielded nuclear materials. Proof-of-Concept assessment was performed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) TA-18 facility and used the INEEL VARITRON electron accelerator. Experiments were performed to assess and characterize the delayed neutron emission responses for different nuclear materials with various shield configurations using three ''nominal'' electron beam energies; 8-, 10-, and 11-MeV. With … more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Jones, J. L.; Yoon, W. Y.; Harker, Y. D.; Hoggan, J. M.; Haskell, K. J. & VanAusdeln, L. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WITS - WASTE DATA COLLECTION WITH OUR PALMS AT OUR FINGERTIPS

Description: The waste management and environmental compliance group (NMT-7) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has initiated a project to build a computer-based system for tracking inventory, storage and disposal information for hazardous and radioactive waste and contaminated byproducts. This project, the Waste Inventory Tracking System (WITS), will initially be used in TA-55 (which includes the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Facility) and the Chemical and Metallurgy Research (CMR) bui… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Martinez, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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