A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 1992, the United States began a unilateral moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. To compensate for the lack of testing, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) developed the Stockpile Stewardship Program to assess and certify the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. In 2001, NNSA's weapons laboratories began developing what is intended to be a common framework for a new methodology for assessing and certifying the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. GAO was asked to evaluate (1) the new methodology NNSA is developing and (2) NNSA's management of the implementation of this new methodology."

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Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.

Email from Nell Bright to Eleanor Brown declining to be nominated as a candidate for the Director of Region 2.

Weekly magazine edition of the daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Kathleen Leos shares her views on bilingual education with a gathering of educators at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Kathleen Leos speaks about the benefits of bilingual education to educators gathered at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Kathleen Leos delivers a speech on bilingual education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Kathleen Leos, assistant secretary of the Office of Learning English, gives a speech on bilingual education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Kathleen Leos, assistant secretary of the Office of Learning English, discusses bilingual education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Kathleen Leos discusses her views on bilingual education while addressing educators at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Southern Methodist University, in Dallas Texas, hosts Kathleen Leos as she addresses the issue of bilingual education in front of an education conference.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.

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This report reviews perchlorate water contamination issues and developments. Concern over the potential health risks of perchlorate exposure has increased, and some states and members of Congress have urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set a drinking water standard for perchlorate.

This project produced algorithms for and software implementations of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods for solving practical solid and thermal mechanics problems on multiprocessor parallel computers using unstructured finite element meshes. The overall goal is to provide computational solutions that are accurate to some prescribed tolerance, and adaptivity is the correct path toward this goal. These new tools will enable analysts to conduct more reliable simulations at reduced cost, both in terms of analyst and computer time. Previous academic research in the field of adaptive mesh refinement has produced a voluminous literature focused on error estimators and demonstration problems; relatively little progress has been made on producing efficient implementations suitable for large-scale problem solving on state-of-the-art computer systems. Research issues that were considered include: effective error estimators for nonlinear structural mechanics; local meshing at irregular geometric boundaries; and constructing efficient software for parallel computing environments.

As safety professionals, we strive to implement a robust safety process in our organizations to maximize worker protection. We sell our philosophy and ideas to senior management, and then work with line management and the work force to develop and implement the safety process. Through this effort, we are likely to accomplish two major objectives. First, we obtain buy-in from line management and the workers, maybe even ownership for the safety process we implement. Second, we increase the likelihood that the hazards (and necessary controls) associated with the work activities performed by our workforce are identified and addressed by the safety process we implement. Our ambition is to maximize safety and health in the work place, and prevent injuries. Realizing this goal improves overall business operations. Petersen suggests an accident is an indication of something wrong in the management system (Petersen, pg 15). Successful organizations operate with the safety process fully integrated into the management system. If the management system fails, the safety process has failed the worker. As safety professionals, we must ask ourselves whether we did our job adequately. The better organizations strive for continuous improvement. The overall success of safety processes, in terms of accident and injury …

It is known that a film's temperature during a sputtering process greatly influences its mechanical structure. Currently, there is no known tool to effectively model the temperature history of a sputtered film on a spherical capsule in a sputtering chamber. Therefore, a tool has been developed that allows for the prediction of this temperature history using a lumped capacitance approximation for the capsule. This tool has been developed as part of LLNL's Diablo II multi-mechanics code to allow for the coupling of the capsule mechanics with the finite element-based sputtering chamber mechanics. The tool incorporates three forms of heat transfer: contact heat transfer between the capsule and the walls, enclosure radiation among all surfaces, and adsorption of chamber gas on all surfaces. The physics of the system have been validated by determining less than 1% difference in simulated results of twelve test runs to values determined via analytical or finite difference approaches, and validation of eight further tests involving capsule motion provide confidence in the model.

A presentation titled "Remembering Mrs. Coretta Scott King" that includes her picture and a short description, and photographs from a UNT conference and ceremony honoring King with a doctorate from the University.

Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.

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Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

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