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Wetlands: An Overview of Issues (open access)

Wetlands: An Overview of Issues

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Date: November 3, 2014
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Everglades Restoration: Federal Funding and Implementation Progress (open access)

Everglades Restoration: Federal Funding and Implementation Progress

This report summarizes historical and current funding trends for Everglades restoration, with a focus on federal funding totals and issues for Congress. It also provides a brief summary of some of the major accomplishments in Everglades restoration since the enactment of CERP in 2000, as well as ongoing challenges facing the effort.
Date: November 18, 2014
Creator: Stern, Charles V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tibetan Policy Act of 2002: Background and Implementation (open access)

The Tibetan Policy Act of 2002: Background and Implementation

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Date: November 5, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Budget Control Act and Trends in Discretionary Spending (open access)

The Budget Control Act and Trends in Discretionary Spending

This report discusses the budget control act of 2011 that reintroduced statutory limits on spending by imposing a series of caps on discretionary BA from FY2012 through FY 2021.
Date: November 26, 2014
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State and Local Government Series (SLGS) Treasury Debt: A Description (open access)

State and Local Government Series (SLGS) Treasury Debt: A Description

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Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives (open access)

Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives

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Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GI Bills Enacted Prior to 2008 and Related Veterans’ Educational Assistance Programs: A Primer (open access)

GI Bills Enacted Prior to 2008 and Related Veterans’ Educational Assistance Programs: A Primer

This report describes the GI bills enacted prior to 2008 and related Veterans’ Educational assistance programs.
Date: November 5, 2014
Creator: Dortch, Cassandria
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staff Pay Levels for Selected Positions in Senators’ Offices, FY2009-FY2013 (open access)

Staff Pay Levels for Selected Positions in Senators’ Offices, FY2009-FY2013

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Date: November 3, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-China Trade Issues (open access)

U.S.-China Trade Issues

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Date: November 24, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bee Health: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Bee Health: Background and Issues for Congress

Bees, both commercially managed honey bees and wild bees, play an important role in global food production. In the United States alone, the value of insect pollination to U.S. agricultural production is estimated at $16 billion annually, of which about three-fourths is attributable to honey bees. Worldwide, the contribution of bees and other insects to global crop production for human food is valued at about $190 billion. Given the importance of honey needs and other bee species to food production, many have expressed concern about whether a "pollinator crisis" has been occurring in recent decades. This report details selected bee species, the importance of bee pollination, changes in bee populations, managed honey bees, wild bee species, factors affecting bee health, identified future needs, issues for Congress, and related figures/
Date: November 3, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée & Corn, M. Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Capital Offenses: An Abridged Overview of Substantive and Procedural Law (open access)

Federal Capital Offenses: An Abridged Overview of Substantive and Procedural Law

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Date: November 18, 2014
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Welfare: State Plan Requirements under the Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (open access)

Child Welfare: State Plan Requirements under the Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program

The focus of this report is Title IV-E plan requirements other than those related to provision of direct financial assistance to eligible children. It also provides an overview of requirement related to children's safety, permanence, and well-being.
Date: November 17, 2014
Creator: Stoltzfus, Emilie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Support Enforcement and the Hague Convention on Recovery of International Child Support (open access)

Child Support Enforcement and the Hague Convention on Recovery of International Child Support

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Date: November 7, 2014
Creator: Solomon-Fears, Carmen & Smith, Alison M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy-Water Nexus: The Energy Sector’s Water Use (open access)

Energy-Water Nexus: The Energy Sector’s Water Use

This report addresses how the U.S. energy sector uses and relies on water; it provides summary descriptions divided into four topics: (1) Water for Energy Primer, (2) Fuel Production, (3) Electric Grid and Generation, (4) Policy Response Options and Considerations.
Date: November 28, 2014
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics (open access)

Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics

This report discusses the child support enforcement (CSE) program that was enacted in 1975 as a federal-state program to reduce public expenditures for welfare recipients by obtaining ongoing support from noncustodial parents that could reimburse the state and federal government for part of their expenses and help strengthen families by securing financial support for children from their noncustodial parent.
Date: November 7, 2014
Creator: Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Computational Study of the Thermochemistry of N₂O₅ and the Kinetics of the Reaction N₂O₅ + H₂O → 2 HNO₃

Article on a computational study of the thermochemistry of N₂O₅ and the Kinetics of the Reaction N₂O₅ + H₂O → 2 HNO₃.
Date: November 7, 2014
Creator: Alecu, I. M. & Marshall, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keeping Human Resources happy: Improving hiring processes through the use of rubrics (open access)

Keeping Human Resources happy: Improving hiring processes through the use of rubrics

Article on keeping human resources happy and improving hiring processes through the use of rubrics.
Date: November 2014
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility of Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in Methanol + 1-Propanol Mixtures at Various Temperatures (open access)

Solubility of Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in Methanol + 1-Propanol Mixtures at Various Temperatures

Article on the solubility of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in methanol + 1-propanol mixtures at various temperatures.
Date: November 26, 2014
Creator: Jouyban-Gharamaleki, Vahid; Jouyban-Gharamaleki, Karim; Soleymani, Jafar; Kenndler, Ernst; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Jouyban, Abolghasem
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology (open access)

LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology

This paper provides a brief review of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for characterizing linear and planar geomorphic markers in tectonic geomorphology, including traces of active faults and surface deformation caused by earthquakes. Challenges and opportunities of LiDAR for the study of tectonic geomorphology and coseismic deformation are also discussed.
Date: November 28, 2014
Creator: Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood Effects in a Behavioral Randomized Controlled Trial (open access)

Neighborhood Effects in a Behavioral Randomized Controlled Trial

This article examines a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.
Date: May 5, 2014
Creator: Pruitt, Sandi L.; Leonard, Tammy; Murdoch, James; Hughes, Amy; McQueen, Amy & Gupta, Samir
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Big to Little Data for Natural Disaster Recovery: How Online and On-the-ground Activities are Connected? (open access)

From Big to Little Data for Natural Disaster Recovery: How Online and On-the-ground Activities are Connected?

This article examines how active and influential members of Facebook groups aided in disaster recovery following Hurricane Sandy.
Date: 2014-11-8
Creator: Afzalan, Nader; Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Mirzazad Barijough, Maziar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 2, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 9, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 9, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 9, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History