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Gulf War Illnesses: Management Actions Needed to Answer Basic Research Questions (open access)

Gulf War Illnesses: Management Actions Needed to Answer Basic Research Questions

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on management actions needed to answer basic research questions about Gulf War Illnesses, focusing on the: (1) amount of money the Departments of Veterans' Affairs (VA), Defense (D0D), and Health and Human Services (HHS) spent on research and investigation of Gulf War veterans' illnesses and health concerns in the fiscal years 1997 and 1998, including current and projected spending by the Office of the Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses; (2) productivity of this research spending, including the extent to which the Coordinating Board has determined that federal research objectives have been satisfied, and the extent to which the research has resulted in peer-reviewed publications and the identification of the causes or successful treatments for Gulf War veterans' illnesses; (3) extent of coordination between the Research Working Group of the Coordinating Board and the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses; and (4) Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses' contract management."
Date: January 6, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
JFMIP News: A Newsletter for Government Financial Managers, Winter 2000, Vol. 11, No. 4 (open access)

JFMIP News: A Newsletter for Government Financial Managers, Winter 2000, Vol. 11, No. 4

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program's current financial management initiatives, activities, and practices."
Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Regulation: NRC Staff Have Not Fully Accepted Planned Changes (open access)

Nuclear Regulation: NRC Staff Have Not Fully Accepted Planned Changes

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) shift to a risk-informed regulation, focusing on the: (1) views of NRC's staff on the quality of the work that NRC performs, the management of and staff's involvement in changes occurring in the agency, and the move to a risk-informed regulatory approach; and (2) status of NRC's efforts to develop a strategy to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach."
Date: January 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Telecommunications: Update on State-Level Cramming Complaints and Enforcement Actions (open access)

Telecommunications: Update on State-Level Cramming Complaints and Enforcement Actions

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information from state and federal agencies on the number of cramming complaints nationwide, focusing on: (1) determining whether they were seeing an increase or decrease in cramming complaints during 1999; (2) learning whether they were taking additional actions to protect consumers from cramming; and (3) obtaining updated information about their enforcement actions against crammers during 1999."
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Regional Transmission Organizations (open access)

Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Regional Transmission Organizations

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) new rule on Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO). GAO noted that: (1) the rule requires that each public utility that owns, operates, or controls facilities for the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce make certain filings with respect to forming and participating in a RTO; and (2) FERC complied with applicable requirements in promugating the rule."
Date: January 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Subvention Demonstration: Enrollment in DOD Pilot Reflects Retiree Experiences and Local Markets (open access)

Medicare Subvention Demonstration: Enrollment in DOD Pilot Reflects Retiree Experiences and Local Markets

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on enrollment in the Department of Defense's (DOD) pilot Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) for military retirees, focusing on: (1) how successful the demonstration has been in enrolling eligible beneficiaries; (2) what influenced retirees to join DOD's pilot HMOs; and (3) what factors accounted for differences in enrollment rates across demonstration sites."
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Journal of Government Auditing, January 2000, Vol. 27, No. 1 (French Version) (open access)

International Journal of Government Auditing, January 2000, Vol. 27, No. 1 (French Version)

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is the French-language edition of the journal of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) includes articles regarding: (1) issues concerning auditing in the new century as discussed at the 17th Commonwealth Auditors-General Conference held in Sun City, South Africa in October 1999; (2) efforts to encourage public health services, public works, and technical assistance at the Organization of African Supreme Audit Institutions' 8th General Assembly held in Burkina Faso in October 1999; (3) discussions held by the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions' 9th General Assembly in Paraguay; (4) an audit profile on Sierra Leone; and (5) activities within INTOSAI."
Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Telecommunications: Development of Competition in Local Telephone Markets (open access)

Telecommunications: Development of Competition in Local Telephone Markets

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the development of competition in telecommunications markets, focusing on the: (1) development of competition in local telephone markets and the market strategies employed by new carriers in five states under the 1996 Telecommunications Act; and (2) key issues affecting that development and the enforcement activities of federal and state regulators to address those issues."
Date: January 25, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beef and Lamb: Implications of Labeling by Country of Origin (open access)

Beef and Lamb: Implications of Labeling by Country of Origin

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on mandatory country-of-origin labelling for beef and lamb, focusing on the potential: (1) compliance costs associated with mandatory country-of-origin labelling for fresh and processed beef and lamb; (2) enforcement costs associated with such a requirement; (3) trade issues associated with such a requirement; and (4) benefits of mandatory country-of-origin labelling."
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Regulatory Coordination: The Role and Functioning of the President's Working Group (open access)

Financial Regulatory Coordination: The Role and Functioning of the President's Working Group

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the role and functioning of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, focusing on: (1) whether the issues listed for consideration by the Working Group in Executive Order 12631 have been considered; (2) what additional issues have been considered by the Working Group and how they were identified; and (3) the nature of coordination and cooperation within the Working Group and the views of members of Congress and Working Group participants about whether it needs to be formalized in statute."
Date: January 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Postal Issues: The Department of State's Implementation of Its International Postal Responsibilities (open access)

Postal Issues: The Department of State's Implementation of Its International Postal Responsibilities

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed how the Department of State has implemented its new responsibilities for U.S. policy regarding U.S. participation in the Universal Postal Union (UPU)."
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: DOD Allocates Fewer Assets to Drug Control Efforts (open access)

Drug Control: DOD Allocates Fewer Assets to Drug Control Efforts

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the role of the Department of Defense (DOD) in reducing the supply of illegal drugs entering the United States, focusing on: (1) the decline in DOD's aerial and maritime support allocated to counterdrug activities from fiscal years 1992 through 1999 and some of the consequences and reasons for the decline; (2) the obstacles DOD faces in helping foreign governments counter illegal drug activities; and (3) DOD's counterdrug strategy and the need for performance measures to judge its counterdrug program effectiveness."
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Risk-Focused Bank Examinations: Regulators of Large Banking Organizations Face Challenges (open access)

Risk-Focused Bank Examinations: Regulators of Large Banking Organizations Face Challenges

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the risk-focused approaches used by the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), focusing on: (1) the general characteristics of the regulators' risk-focused approach to examinations of large, complex banks, explaining how they differ from past examination practices; (2) comparing the implementation of the Federal Reserve's and OCC's risk-focused examination approaches; and (3) the challenges faced by both agencies as they continue to implement their examination programs for large, complex banks."
Date: January 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Credit Reform: HUD's Fiscal Year 2000 Credit Subsidy Budget Estimates Were Reasonable, But Could Have Been Improved (open access)

Credit Reform: HUD's Fiscal Year 2000 Credit Subsidy Budget Estimates Were Reasonable, But Could Have Been Improved

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the Federal Housing Administration's credit subsidy budget estimates used to formulate the President's fiscal year (FY) 2000 budget to determine whether: (1) these estimates were reasonable; and (2) any changes need to be made to the credit subsidy estimation process to ensure that future budget estimates are reasonable."
Date: January 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
DC Courts: Review of Fiscal Year 1999 Defender Services Obligations (open access)

DC Courts: Review of Fiscal Year 1999 Defender Services Obligations

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed: (1) the total amount of the District of Columbia (DC) Court's reported fiscal year (FY) 1999 obligations for the Criminal Justice Act (CJA), Counsel on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN), and Guardianship programs; (2) whether the reported FY 1999 obligations appear to have been lawfully incurred; and (3) whether the reported obligations exceeded DC Court's obligational authority available to pay such amounts."
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology, Workforce and the DFW Business Climate: A Review and Critique of Recent Assessments (open access)

Technology, Workforce and the DFW Business Climate: A Review and Critique of Recent Assessments

The North Texas Commission retained the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research to summarize, evaluate and critique 18 "business climate" and "quality of life" surveys that were released in 1999. In particular, they were asked to identify data or perceptions from these studies that might be helpful to the Commission in formulating strategies for either capitalizing on the region's assets or dealing with its shortcomings.
Date: January 2000
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth Trends in the Metroport Cities: Implications for Traffic Congestion, the 'Funnel', and DFW Airport (open access)

Growth Trends in the Metroport Cities: Implications for Traffic Congestion, the 'Funnel', and DFW Airport

This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, discusses the issues involved with population growth in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Date: January 2000
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Photovoltaic Module Energy Ratings Procedure at NREL (open access)

Validation of a Photovoltaic Module Energy Ratings Procedure at NREL

A procedure was developed to assign energy ratings to a photovoltaic (PV) module for five reference days that represent different climates.
Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: Marion, B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structure and Effects of Extended Defects in Polycrystalline Si Thin Films (open access)

Structure and Effects of Extended Defects in Polycrystalline Si Thin Films

The structure and effects of extended defects in rapid deposited polycrystalline Si thin films were studied using a combination of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and first-principles total energy calculations.
Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: Yan, Y.; Al-Jassim, M. M.; Wang, T. H. & Ciszek, T. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF ALLOY 600, ALLOY 690, EN82H WELDS AND EN52 WELDS IN WATER (open access)

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF ALLOY 600, ALLOY 690, EN82H WELDS AND EN52 WELDS IN WATER

The cracking resistance of Alloy 600, Alloy 690 and their welds, EN82H and EN52, was characterized by conducting J{sub IC} rising load tests in air and hydrogenated water and cooldown testing in water under constant-displacement conditions. All test materials displayed excellent toughness in air and high temperature water, but Alloy 690 and the two welds were severely embrittled in low temperature water. In 54 C water with 150 cc H{sub 2}/kg H{sub 2}O, J{sub IC} values were reduced by 70% to 95%, relative to their air counterpart. The toughness degradation was associated with a fracture mechanism transition from microvoid coalescence to intergranular fracture. Comparison of the cracking response in water with that for hydrogen-precharged specimens tested in air demonstrated that susceptibility to low temperature crack propagation (LTCP) is due to hydrogen embrittlement of grain boundaries. The effects of water temperature, hydrogen content and loading rate on LTCP were studied. In addition, testing of specimens containing natural weld defects and as-machined notches was performed to determine if low temperature cracking can initiate at these features. Unlike the other materials, Alloy 600 is not susceptible to LTCP as the toughness in 54 C water remained high and a microvoid coalescence mechanism was …
Date: January 11, 2000
Creator: Mills, W.J., Brown, C.M. and Burke, M.G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of the final state J/Psi pi+- in charmonium decays (open access)

Study of the final state J/Psi pi+- in charmonium decays

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Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: Cibinetto, Gianluigi & U., /Ferrara
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formation of the State H_C of Charmonium in the Reaction P Anti-P -> H_C -> Etac Gamma -> Phi Phi Gamma -> 4k Gamma (open access)

Formation of the State H_C of Charmonium in the Reaction P Anti-P -> H_C -> Etac Gamma -> Phi Phi Gamma -> 4k Gamma

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Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: Legger, Federica & U., /Turin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detailed Tables for the Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending August 31, 1999 (open access)

Detailed Tables for the Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending August 31, 1999

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the statistics of full-time employees, part-time employees, appropriated funds, and various other data collected in a table.
Date: January 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending August 31, 1999 (open access)

A Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending August 31, 1999

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to information on the number of state employees and the number of consultants and contract individuals who perform services for state government.
Date: January 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History