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Across-the-Board Spending Cuts in End-of Session Appropriations Acts (open access)

Across-the-Board Spending Cuts in End-of Session Appropriations Acts

This report examines the use of across-the-board spending cuts in the end-of-session appropriations acts for FY2000-FY2006 identified above, assessing the budgetary context leading to the spending cut, recounting the legislative action on the spending cut provision, and reviewing the provision’s design and implementation.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 167, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 167, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Semi-weekly newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: McAuley, Davis
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Brown, Laurie Ezzell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
CH Packaging Program Guidance (open access)

CH Packaging Program Guidance

The purpose of this document is to provide the technical requirements for preparation for use, operation, inspection, and maintenance of a Transuranic Package Transporter Model II (TRUPACT-II), a HalfPACT shipping package, and directly related components. This document complies with the minimum requirements as specified in the TRUPACT-II Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP), HalfPACT SARP, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Certificates of Compliance (C of C) 9218 and 9279, respectively. In the event of a conflict between this document and the SARP or C of C, the C of C shall govern. The C of Cs state: "each package must be prepared for shipment and operated in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter 7.0, Operating Procedures, of the application." They further state: "each package must be tested and maintained in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter 8.0, Acceptance Tests and Maintenance Program of the Application." Chapter 9.0 of the SARP charges the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) or the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) management and operating (M&O) contractor with assuring packaging is used in accordance with the requirements of the C of C. Because the packaging is NRC-approved, users need to be familiar with Title 10 …
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: None, None
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues (open access)

China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

This report discusses the national security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response, including legislation, since the mid-1990's.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China/Taiwan: Evolution of the “One China” Policy — Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei (open access)

China/Taiwan: Evolution of the “One China” Policy — Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei

This report provides information about the Evolution of the “One China” Policy and Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei. Policy on "one China " covers three major aspects like sovereignty, cross-strait dialogue, PRC use of force.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Litigation (open access)

Constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Litigation

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Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Nicola, Thomas J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuing Resolutions: FY2008 Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices (open access)

Continuing Resolutions: FY2008 Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices

Most of the operations of federal departments and agencies are funded each year through the enactment of several regular appropriations acts. Since these bills are annual, expiring at the end of the fiscal year, regular bills for the subsequent fiscal year must be enacted by October 1st. Final action on some of the regular appropriations bills, however, are typically delayed beyond the deadline. When this occurs, the affected departments and agencies are generally funded under temporary continuing appropriations acts or resolutions until the final funding decisions become law.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Streeter, Sandy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Cooper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Palmer, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Event-by-Event Simulation of Induced Fission (open access)

Event-by-Event Simulation of Induced Fission

We are developing a novel code that treats induced fission by statistical (or Monte-Carlo) simulation of individual decay chains. After its initial excitation, the fissionable compound nucleus may either deexcite by evaporation or undergo binary fission into a large number of fission channels each with different energetics involving both energy dissipation and deformed scission prefragments. After separation and Coulomb acceleration, each fission fragment undergoes a succession of individual (neutron) evaporations, leading to two bound but still excited fission products (that may further decay electromagnetically and, ultimately, weakly), as well as typically several neutrons. (The inclusion of other possible ejectiles is planned.) This kind of approach makes it possible to study more detailed observables than could be addressed with previous treatments which have tended to focus on average quantities. In particular, any type of correlation observable can readily be extracted from a generated set of events. With a view towards making the code practically useful in a variety of applications, emphasis is being put on making it numerically efficient so that large event samples can be generated quickly. In its present form, the code can generate one million full events in about 12 seconds on a MacBook laptop computer. The development …
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Vogt, R. & Randrup, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exp6-polar thermodynamics of dense supercritical water (open access)

Exp6-polar thermodynamics of dense supercritical water

We introduce a simple polar fluid model for the thermodynamics of dense supercritical water based on a Buckingham (exp-6) core and point dipole representation of the water molecule. The proposed exp6-polar thermodynamics, based on ideas originally applied to dipolar hard spheres, performs very well when tested against molecular dynamics simulations. Comparisons of the model predictions with experimental data available for supercritical water yield excellent agreement for the shock Hugoniot, isotherms and sound speeds, and are also quite good for the self-diffusion constant and relative dielectric constant. We expect the present approach to be also useful for other small polar molecules and their mixtures.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Bastea, S & Fried, L E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Design for the INL Sample Collection Operational Test (open access)

Experimental Design for the INL Sample Collection Operational Test

This document describes the test events and numbers of samples comprising the experimental design that was developed for the contamination, decontamination, and sampling of a building at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This study is referred to as the INL Sample Collection Operational Test. Specific objectives were developed to guide the construction of the experimental design. The main objective is to assess the relative abilities of judgmental and probabilistic sampling strategies to detect contamination in individual rooms or on a whole floor of the INL building. A second objective is to assess the use of probabilistic and Bayesian (judgmental + probabilistic) sampling strategies to make clearance statements of the form “X% confidence that at least Y% of a room (or floor of the building) is not contaminated. The experimental design described in this report includes five test events. The test events (i) vary the floor of the building on which the contaminant will be released, (ii) provide for varying or adjusting the concentration of contaminant released to obtain the ideal concentration gradient across a floor of the building, and (iii) investigate overt as well as covert release of contaminants. The ideal contaminant gradient would have high concentrations of contaminant in …
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Amidan, Brett G.; Piepel, Gregory F.; Matzke, Brett D.; Filliben, James J. & Jones, Barbara
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Wilson, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Background, Legal Analysis, and Policy Options (open access)

Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Background, Legal Analysis, and Policy Options

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Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M. & Smith, Alison M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flavorful supersymmetry (open access)

Flavorful supersymmetry

Weak scale supersymmetry provides elegant solutions to many of the problems of the standard model, but it also generically gives rise to excessive flavor and CP violation. We show that, if the mechanism that suppresses the Yukawa couplings also suppresses flavor changing interactions in the supersymmetry breaking parameters, essentially all the low energy flavor and CP constraints can be satisfied. The standard assumption of flavor universality in the supersymmetry breaking sector is not necessary. We study signatures of this framework at the LHC. The mass splitting among different generations of squarks and sleptons can be much larger than in conventional scenarios, and even the mass ordering can be changed. We find that there is a plausible scenario in which the next-to-lightest superparticle is a long-lived right-handed selectron or smuon which decays into the lightest superparticle, a gravitino. This leads to the spectacularsignature of monochromatic electrons or muons in a stopper detector, providing strong evidence for the framework.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Nomura, Yasunori; Nomura, Yasunori; Papucci, Michele & Stolarski, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2007
Creator: Hogan, Vickie Lee
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History