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

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

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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 1

Recording of the eleventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on May 18, 2004 at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing. This section includes the staff statement on emergency preparedness and response.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 2 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 2

Recording of the eleventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on May 18, 2004 at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing. This section includes the first panel, with testimony from Alan Reiss and Joseph Morris.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 3 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 3

Recording of the eleventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on May 18, 2004 at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing. This section includes the second panel with testimony from Bernard B. Kerik, Thomas Von Essen, and Richard Sheirer.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 4 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 18, 2004, Part 4

Recording of the eleventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on May 18, 2004 at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing.This section includes the beginning of the third panel, with testimony from Raymond W. Kelly.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 19, 2004, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #11, May 19, 2004, Part 1

Recording of the eleventh public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on May 18, 2004 at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing.This section includes the staff statement on crisis management.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
2004 Progress Report for Grant No. DE-FG03-03NA00076 Nuclear Level Densities and Gamma-ray Strength Functions: Stewardship Sciences Academic Alliances Program (open access)

2004 Progress Report for Grant No. DE-FG03-03NA00076 Nuclear Level Densities and Gamma-ray Strength Functions: Stewardship Sciences Academic Alliances Program

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 results have been accepted for publication in Physical Review C. Analysis of the gamma rays from neutron induced reactions on 48Ti have been measured and analyzed for neturon energies from 1 to 250 MeV.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Mitchell, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[21st Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert] captions transcript

[21st Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 21st annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert celebrating civil rights and the work of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 18, 2004 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. The VHS footage shows the full concert with dancers, musicians, choir and featured vocalist Ann Nesby.
Date: January 18, 2004
Creator: Nesby, Ann
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerated Carbonate Dissolution as a CO2 Separation and Sequestration Strategy (open access)

Accelerated Carbonate Dissolution as a CO2 Separation and Sequestration Strategy

We have proposed a technique that could reduce CO{sub 2} emissions from near coastal fossil-fuel power plants using existing power plant cooling water flow rates (Rau and Caldeira, 1999; Caldeira and Rau, 2000). Preliminary cost estimates are as low as $68 per tonne C sequestered, as compared to > $170 per tonne C estimated for other approaches to CO{sub 2} separation with geologic or deep-ocean storage. Engineers at McDermott Technologies, Inc., have independently estimated the cost of our proposed technique, and came to the conclusion that our cost estimates were at the high end of the likely range. Interest has been expressed in pursuing this approach further both in Norway and in Japan. We have proved the viability of our concept using (1) bench-top laboratory experiments (Figures 1 and 2), (2) computer modeling of those experiments, (3) more sophisticated cost estimates, and (4) three-dimensional computer modeling of the consequences to global ocean chemistry (Figure 3 and 4). The climate and environmental impacts of our current, carbon intensive energy usage demands that effective and practical energy alternatives and CO{sub 2} mitigation strategies be found. As part of this effort, various means of capturing and storing CO{sub 2} generated from fossil-fuel-based energy …
Date: February 18, 2004
Creator: Caldeira, K G; Knauss, K G & Rau, G H
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerating the Reduction of Excess Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (open access)

Accelerating the Reduction of Excess Russian Highly Enriched Uranium

This paper presents the latest information on one of the Accelerated Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Disposition initiatives that resulted from the May 2002 Summit meeting between Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir V. Putin. These initiatives are meant to strengthen nuclear nonproliferation objectives by accelerating the disposition of nuclear weapons-useable materials. The HEU Transparency Implementation Program (TIP), within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is working to implement one of the selected initiatives that would purchase excess Russian HEU (93% 235U) for use as fuel in U.S. research reactors over the next ten years. This will parallel efforts to convert the reactors' fuel core from HEU to low enriched uranium (LEU) material, where feasible. The paper will examine important aspects associated with the U.S. research reactor HEU purchase. In particular: (1) the establishment of specifications for the Russian HEU, and (2) transportation safeguard considerations for moving the HEU from the Mayak Production Facility in Ozersk, Russia, to the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN.
Date: February 18, 2004
Creator: Benton, J; Wall, D; Parker, E & Rutkowski, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An adaptive radiation model for the origin of new genefunctions (open access)

An adaptive radiation model for the origin of new genefunctions

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. This model lacks a convincing mechanism for the new gene copies to increase in frequency in the population and survive the mutational load expected to accumulate under neutrality, before the acquisition of the rare beneficial mutations that would confer new functionality. The subfunctionalization model has been proposed as an alternative way to generate genes with altered functions. This model also assumes that new paralogous gene copies are functionally redundant and therefore neutral, but it predicts that relaxed selection will affect both gene copies such that some of the capabilities of the parent gene will disappear in one of the copies and be retained in the other. Thus, the functions originally present in a single gene will be partitioned between the two descendant copies. However, although this …
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Francino, M. Pilar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Photon Source Activity Report 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, December 2003 - contribution title:"Microdiffraction Study of Epitaxial Growth and Lattice Tilts in Oxide Films on Polycrystalline Metal Substrates" (open access)

Advanced Photon Source Activity Report 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, December 2003 - contribution title:"Microdiffraction Study of Epitaxial Growth and Lattice Tilts in Oxide Films on Polycrystalline Metal Substrates"

Texture, the preference for a particular crystallographic orientation in polycrystalline materials, plays an important role in controlling such diverse materials properties as corrosion resistance, recording density in magnetic media and electrical transport in superconductors [1]. Without texture, polycrystalline oxide superconductors contain many high-angle, weak-linked grain boundaries which reduce critical current densities by several orders of magnitude [2]. One approach for inducing texture in oxide superconductors has been the epitaxial growth of films on rolling-assisted biaxially-textured substrates (RABiTS) [3]. In this approach, rolled Ni foils are recrystallized under conditions that lead to a high degree of biaxial {l_brace}001{r_brace}<100> cube texture. Subsequent deposition of epitaxial oxide buffer layers (typically CeO{sub 2} and YSZ as chemical barriers) and superconducting YBCO preserves the lattice alignment, eliminating high-angle boundaries and enabling high critical current densities, J{sub c} > 10{sup 6}/cm{sup 2}. Conventional x-ray diffraction using {omega}- and {phi}-scans typically shows macroscopic biaxial texture to within {approx}5{sup o}-10{sup o} FWHM for all layers, but does not describe the local microstructural features that control the materials properties. Understanding and controlling the local texture and microstructural evolution of processes associated with heteroepitaxial growth, differential thermal contraction and cracking remain significant challenges in this complex system [4], as well …
Date: March 18, 2004
Creator: Budai, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues (open access)

Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues

This report discusses federal credit assistance for farmers and recent issues in Congress related to the programs.
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Monke, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [128], No. [41], Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 2004 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [128], No. [41], Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 18, 2004
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 2004 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 18, 2004
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 262, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 262, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 289, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 289, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 314, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 314, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 15, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 15, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 41, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 41, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 93, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 93, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 119, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 119, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 171, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 171, Ed. 1 Monday, October 18, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History