A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) authorized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to impose an Aviation Security Infrastructure Fee (ASIF) on air carriers to help pay for the costs of aviation security services. To impose the ASIF, TSA issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) and required air carriers to report their passenger and property screening costs incurred in 2000 on an attachment to the IFR referred to as Appendix A. The 2000 screening costs reported by air carriers were going to be used to establish the ASIF. Based on industry estimates of $1 billion, TSA had estimated that the costs incurred by air carriers in 2000 were $750 million, but the amounts reported by air carriers totaled $319 million, significantly less than expected. To provide the Congress with an independent assessment, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 required GAO to review the amount of passenger and property screening costs incurred by air carriers in 2000."

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In connection with fulfilling our requirement to audit the financial statements of the U.S. government, we audited and reported on the Schedules of Federal Debt Managed by the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD) for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2004 and 2003. As part of these audits, we performed a review of the general and application information security controls over key BPD financial systems. As we reported in connection with our audit of the Schedules of Federal Debt for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, BPD maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control, including general and application information security controls, relevant to the Schedule of Federal Debt related to financial reporting and compliance with applicable laws and regulations as of September 30, 2004, that provided reasonable assurance that misstatements, losses, or noncompliance material in relation to the Schedule of Federal Debt would be prevented or detected on a timely basis. We found matters involving information security controls that we do not consider to be reportable conditions, but that nevertheless warrant BPD management's attention and action. This report presents the results of our …

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government distributed about $400 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2003 through about 1,000 different federal grant programs administered by several federal agencies with different administrative requirements. Congress, concerned that some of these requirements may be duplicative, burdensome, or conflicting--and could impede cost-effective delivery of services--passed the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999, commonly called P.L. 106-107, and mandated that GAO assess the act's effectiveness. This report addresses (1) progress made to streamline and develop common processes for grantees and (2) the coordination among the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the agencies, and potential grant recipients."

Similar to the radiative parton energy loss due to gluonbremsstrahlung, elastic energy loss of a parton undergoing multiplescattering in a finite medium is demonstrated to be sensitive tointerference effect. The interference between amplitudes of elasticscattering via a gluon exchange and that of gluon radiation reduces theeffective elastic energy loss in a finite medium and gives rise to anon-trivial length dependence. The reduction is most significant for apropagation length L<4/\pi T in a medium with a temperature T. Thoughthe finite size effect is not significant for the average partonpropagation in the most central heavy-ion collisions, it will affect thecentrality dependence of its effect on jet quenching.

Mothers learn first aid skills as part of the Early Education Program in Fort Worth, Texas.

Mothers participate in a first aid class that is part of the Early Education Program in Fort Worth, Texas. The program is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

First aid is taught as part of the Early Education Program in Fort Worth, Texas. The program is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

Parents participate in a first aid class that is part of the Early Education Program of Fort Worth, Texas. The program seeks to help parents help prepare their children for school.

Mothers take part in a first aid class that is part of the Early Education Program of Fort Worth. The goal of the program is to help parents prepare their children for school.

Parents get to know one another during an Early Education Program class. The program is designed to provide skills to the parents to help them prepare their children for school.

Parents gather for an Early Education Program class in Fort Worth, Texas. The program's goal is to provide the parents with skills to help prepare their children for school.

Dolls are used to help train parents in first aid skills during an Early Education Program class in Fort Worth, Texas.

Carlos Francisco de Anda addresses an Early Education Program class. The program is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

Carlos Francisco de Anda speaks to a group of mothers and their children during an Early Education Program class. The class is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

Carlos Francisco de Anda speaks to parent and their children during an Early Education Program class. The class is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

Carlos Francisco de Anda addresses a group of mothers attending an Early Education Program class. The program is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

Carlos Francisco de Anda leads a class of the Early Education Program. The program's goal is to help parents prepare their children for school.

Carlos Francisco de Anda speaks to a parent during an Early Education Program class. The goal of the program is to help parents prepare their children for school.

Children listen to a story during an Early Education Program class. The program is designed to help parents prepare their children for school.

First aid is taught as part of the Early Education Program in Fort Worth, Texas.

First aid is covered during an Early Education Program class in Fort Worth, Texas.

Child holds a book as he waits for his parents during an Early Childhood Program class in Fort Worth, Texas. The program helps parents prepare their children for school.

Children attend an Early Education Program class in Fort Worth, Texas. Their parents are learning how to help their children prepare for school.

A child works on a drawing while her parents meet with a group for the Early Education Program of Fort Worth. The program is designed to help parents provide skills and knowledge to their pre-school children to prepare the children for school.