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The 3.8% Medicare Contribution Tax on Unearned Income, Including Real Estate Transactions (open access)

The 3.8% Medicare Contribution Tax on Unearned Income, Including Real Estate Transactions

This reports summarizes a 3.8% Medicare contribution tax on unearned income and provides examples of how it is applied.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Keightley, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100-F Target Analyte List Development for Soil (open access)

100-F Target Analyte List Development for Soil

This report documents the process used to identify source area target analytes in support of the 100-F Area remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) addendum to the Integrated 100 Area Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Work Plan (DOE/RL-2008-46, Rev. 0).
Date: September 18, 2012
Creator: Ovink, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100-K Target Analyte List Development for Soil (open access)

100-K Target Analyte List Development for Soil

This report documents the process used to identify source area target analytes in support of the 100-K Area remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) addendum to the Integrated 100 Area Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Work Plan (DOE/RL-2008-46, Rev. 0).
Date: September 18, 2012
Creator: Ovink, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100-N Area Decision Unit Target Analyte List Development for Soil (open access)

100-N Area Decision Unit Target Analyte List Development for Soil

This report documents the process used to identify source area target analytes in support of the 100-N Area remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) addendum to the Integrated 100 Area Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Work Plan (DOE/RL-2008-46, Rev. 0).
Date: September 18, 2012
Creator: Ovink, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
100th Anniversary Celebration -- Wichita Falls Country Club: February 18, 2012 (open access)

100th Anniversary Celebration -- Wichita Falls Country Club: February 18, 2012

Document containing a program and photographs from the NSDAR Major Francis Grice Chapter's 100th Anniversary celebration on February 18, 2012.
Date: February 18, 2012
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts and Deficit Reduction (open access)

The 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts and Deficit Reduction

This report uses the context of the current and long-term economic environment to examine the tax cuts implemented by the George W. Bush Administration, including the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
Date: July 18, 2012
Creator: Hungerford, Thomas L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2010 Decennial Census: Background and Issues (open access)

The 2010 Decennial Census: Background and Issues

This report summarizes the information and background of the 2010 census. The report outlines what the census is and why it is necessary. Moreover, it describes the new methods used and the issues encountered by using those methods.
Date: October 18, 2012
Creator: Williams, Jennifer D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2012 Tax Filing: IRS Faces Challenges Providing Service to Taxpayers and Could Collect Balances Due More Effectively (open access)

2012 Tax Filing: IRS Faces Challenges Providing Service to Taxpayers and Could Collect Balances Due More Effectively

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "While there have been efficiency gains and efforts to improve service, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) faced challenges providing telephone service and responding to correspondence, continuing trends experienced in recent years. In 2012, 82 percent of individual taxpayers filed their returns electronically (e-filed), reducing IRS's processing costs. IRS also increased calls answered using automated service and added a variety of self service tools, which helped gain efficiencies. However, IRS's level of telephone service (the percentage of callers seeking live assistance who receive it) declined to 68 percent. In addition, of the 21 million pieces of paper correspondence IRS received, about 40 percent were considered overage (meaning that IRS did not respond within 45 days of receipt), an increase compared to last year. While IRS plans to continue to pursue efficiency gains, its strategy for future years does not specifically address how it plans to reverse these negative trends. Reversing the declines in telephone and correspondence services may require IRS to consider difficult tradeoffs, such as reassessing which phone calls IRS should answer with a live assistor and which it should not because automated services are available."
Date: December 18, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2013 MOLECULAR ENERGY TRANSFER GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE (JANUARY 13-18, 2013 - VENTURA BEACH MARRIOTT, VENTURA CA (open access)

2013 MOLECULAR ENERGY TRANSFER GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE (JANUARY 13-18, 2013 - VENTURA BEACH MARRIOTT, VENTURA CA

Sessions covered all areas of molecular energy transfer, with 10 sessions of talks and poster sessions covering the areas of :  Energy Transfer in Inelastic and Reactive Scattering  Energy Transfer in Photoinitiated and Unimolecular Reactions  Non-adiabatic Effects in Energy Transfer  Energy Transfer at Surfaces and Interfaces  Energy Transfer in Clusters, Droplets, and Aerosols  Energy Transfer in Solution and Solid  Energy Transfer in Complex Systems  Energy Transfer: New vistas and horizons  Molecular Energy Transfer: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going?
Date: October 18, 2012
Creator: Reid, Scott A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2020 Census: Sustaining Current Reform Efforts Will Be Key to a More Cost-Effective Enumeration (open access)

2020 Census: Sustaining Current Reform Efforts Will Be Key to a More Cost-Effective Enumeration

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Overall, the U.S. Census Bureau’s (Bureau) planning efforts for 2020 are off to a good start, as the Bureau made noteworthy progress within each of the four lessons learned from the 2010 Census. Still, additional steps will be needed within each of the lessons learned in order to sustain those reforms."
Date: July 18, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
230Th-234U Age-Dating Uranium by Mass Spectrometry (open access)

230Th-234U Age-Dating Uranium by Mass Spectrometry

This is the standard operating procedure used by the Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Group of the Chemical Sciences Division at LLNL for the preparation of a sample of uranium oxide or uranium metal for {sup 230}Th-{sup 234}U age-dating. The method described here includes the dissolution of a sample of uranium oxide or uranium metal, preparation of a secondary dilution, spiking of separate aliquots for uranium and thorium isotope dilution measurements, and purification of uranium and thorium aliquots for mass spectrometry. This SOP may be applied to uranium samples of unknown purity as in a nuclear forensic investigation, and also to well-characterized samples such as, for example, U{sub 3}O{sub 8} and U-metal certified reference materials. The sample of uranium is transferred to a quartz or PFA vial, concentrated nitric acid is added and the sample is heated on a hotplate at approximately 100 C for several hours until it dissolves. The sample solution is diluted with water to make the solution approximately 4 M HNO{sub 3} and hydrofluoric acid is added to make it 0.05 M HF. A secondary dilution of the primary uranium solution is prepared. Separate aliquots for uranium and thorium isotope dilution measurements are taken and spiked with …
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: Williams, R. W. & Gaffney, A. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
9977 TYPE B PACKAGING INTERNAL DATA COLLECTION FEASIBILITY TESTING - MAGNETIC FIELD COMMUNICATIONS (open access)

9977 TYPE B PACKAGING INTERNAL DATA COLLECTION FEASIBILITY TESTING - MAGNETIC FIELD COMMUNICATIONS

The objective of this report is to document the findings from proof-of-concept testing performed by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) R&D Engineering and Visible Assets, Inc. for the DOE Packaging Certification Program (PCP) to determine if RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) tags and readers could be used to provide a communication link from within a drum-style DOE certified Type B radioactive materials packaging. A Model 9977 Type B Packaging was used to test the read/write capability and range performance of a RuBee tag and reader. Testing was performed with the RuBee tags placed in various locations inside the packaging including inside the drum on the outside of the lid of the containment vessel and also inside of the containment vessel. This report documents the test methods and results. A path forward will also be recommended.
Date: June 18, 2012
Creator: Shull, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors (open access)

Advanced Flywheel Composite Rotors

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses advanced flywheel composite rotors as part of the "Low-Cost, High-Energy Density Flywheel Storage Grid Demonstration" project.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Boeing Aerospace Company
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Nanostructured Molecular Sieves for Energy Efficient Industrial Separations (open access)

Advanced Nanostructured Molecular Sieves for Energy Efficient Industrial Separations

Due to the very small relative volatility difference between propane and propylene, current propane/propylene separation by distillation requires very tall distillation towers (150-250 theoretical plates) and large reflux ratios (up to 15), which is considered to be the most energy consuming large-scale separation process. Adsorptive separation processes are widely considered to be more energy-efficient alternatives to distillation. However, slow diffusion kinetics/mass transport rate through the adsorbent bed often limits the performance of such processes, so further improvements are possible if intra-particle mass transfer rates can be improved. Rive Technology, Inc. is developing and commercializing its proprietary mesoporous zeolite technology for catalysis and separation. With well-controlled intracrystalline mesoporosity, diffusion kinetics through such mesoporous zeolite based catalysts is much improved relative to conventional zeolites, leading to significantly better product selectivity. This 'proof-of-principle' project (DE-EE0003470) is intended to demonstrate that Rive mesoporous zeolite technology can be extended and applied in adsorptive propane/propylene separation and lead to significant energy saving compared to the current distillation process. In this project, the mesoporous zeolite Y synthesis technology was successfully extended to X and A zeolites that are more relevant to adsorbent applications. Mesoporosity was introduced to zeolite X and A for the first time while maintaining …
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Li, Kunhao
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education: Legal Developments (open access)

Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education: Legal Developments

The first part of this report briefly reviews the judicial evolution of race-based affirmative action, particularly in relation to public education. The report then reviews major rulings involving challenges to the use of race-conscious admissions and hiring practices by public educational institutions, and concludes with a discussion of the implications for the future development of affirmative action law.
Date: October 18, 2012
Creator: Feder, Jody
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians (open access)

Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians

This report collects statistics from a variety of sources on casualties sustained during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which began on October 7, 2001, and is ongoing. OEF actions take place primarily in Afghanistan.
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Chesser, Susan G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Emissions and Electricity Generation at U.S. Power Plants (open access)

Air Emissions and Electricity Generation at U.S. Power Plants

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Older electricity generating units—those that began operating in or before 1978—provided 45 percent of electricity from fossil fuel units in 2010 but produced a disproportionate share of emissions, both in aggregate and per unit of electricity generated. Overall, in 2010 older units contributed 75 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions, 64 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions, and 54 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel units. For each unit of electricity generated, older units collectively emitted about 3.6 times as much sulfur dioxide, 2.1 times as much nitrogen oxides, and 1.3 times as much carbon dioxide as newer units. The difference in emissions between older units and their newer counterparts may be attributed to a number of factors. First, 93 percent of the electricity produced by older fossil fuel units in 2010 was generated by coal-fired units. Compared with natural gas units, coal-fired units produced over 90 times as much sulfur dioxide, twice as much carbon dioxide and over five times as much nitrogen oxides per unit of electricity, largely because coal contains more sulfur and carbon than natural gas. Second, fewer older units have installed emissions controls, …
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 2012 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 18, 2012
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Algeria: Current Issues (open access)

Algeria: Current Issues

This report focuses on current political issues, as well as Algeria's economy, its foreign policy, and U.S.-Algeria relations. Key issues include reform efforts initiated after anti-government demonstrations in early 2011 and amid the regional tumult of the "Arab Spring"; terrorism and related security issues; human rights; national reconciliation following the "dark decade" of the 1990s Islamist insurgency; and activism in ethnic Berber areas.
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Arieff, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternate Fuel Cell Membranes for Energy Independence (open access)

Alternate Fuel Cell Membranes for Energy Independence

The overall objective of this project was the development and evaluation of novel hydrocarbon fuel cell (FC) membranes that possess high temperature performance and long term chemical/mechanical durability in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells (FC). The major research theme was synthesis of aromatic hydrocarbon polymers of the poly(arylene ether sulfone) (PAES) type containing sulfonic acid groups tethered to the backbone via perfluorinated alkylene linkages and in some cases also directly attached to the phenylene groups along the backbone. Other research themes were the use of nitrogen-based heterocyclics instead of acid groups for proton conduction, which provides high temperature, low relative humidity membranes with high mechanical/thermal/chemical stability and pendant moieties that exhibit high proton conductivities in the absence of water, and synthesis of block copolymers consisting of a proton conducting block coupled to poly(perfluorinated propylene oxide) (PFPO) blocks. Accomplishments of the project were as follows: 1) establishment of a vertically integrated program of synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of FC membranes, 2) establishment of benchmark membrane performance data based on Nafion for comparison to experimental membrane performance, 3) development of a new perfluoroalkyl sulfonate monomer, N,N-diisopropylethylammonium 2,2-bis(p-hydroxyphenyl) pentafluoropropanesulfonate (HPPS), 4) synthesis of random and block copolymer membranes from HPPS, 5) synthesis …
Date: December 18, 2012
Creator: Storey, Robson, F.; Mauritz, Kenneth, A.; Patton, Derek, L. & Savin, Daniel, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 202, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 18, 2012 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 202, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 244, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 18, 2012 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 244, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 18, 2012

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 18, 2012
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 266, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 266, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 285, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 2012 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 285, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 2012

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History