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An Examination of Federal Disaster Relief Under the Budget Control Act (open access)

An Examination of Federal Disaster Relief Under the Budget Control Act

The first section of this report addresses the pre-BCA (Budget Control Act) funding mechanism for major disaster declarations, including the role of the President's Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). Next, this report provides a basic overview of how that funding mechanism has evolved under the BCA, and how Hurricane Sandy was addressed under that mechanism. Finally, the report explores a number of other issues pertinent to disaster relief funding in the BCA-regulated environment.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.; Painter, William L. & McCarthy, Francis X.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Army's Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV): Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Army's Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV): Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information on the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), which is the Army's proposed replacement to the Vietnam-era M-113 personnel carriers.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues (open access)

Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues

This report provides an overview of the rationale for the prompt global strike (PGS) mission and the possible deployment of conventional warheads on long-range ballistic missiles or boost-glide systems in support of this mission. It then reviews the Air Force and Navy efforts to develop these systems. It summarizes congressional reaction to these proposals, then provides a more detailed account of the issues raised by these concepts and programs.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Budget: Overview and Issues for FY2017 and Beyond (open access)

The Federal Budget: Overview and Issues for FY2017 and Beyond

This report summarizes issues surrounding the federal budget and discusses policy changes relevant to the budget framework for FY2017. It also discusses the major policy proposals included in the President's FY2017 budget and, when available, the House and Senate budget resolutions. Finally, this report addresses major short- and long-term fiscal challenges facing the federal government.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Driessen, Grant A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
What's the Difference?--Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data (open access)

What's the Difference?--Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data

This report discusses the size of the U.S. bilateral trade deficit with China, which continues to be an important issue in bilateral trade relations.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Martin, Michael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chinese Military: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Chinese Military: Overview and Issues for Congress

This report provides a brief overview of the Chinese military. In order to cover a wide range of issues in a concise format, the report does not go into great depth on many topics and omits other topics that might be considered germane.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Rinehart, Ian E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excise Tax on High-Cost Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage: In Brief (open access)

Excise Tax on High-Cost Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage: In Brief

This report provides an overview of the excise tax. The report includes cost estimates for the excise tax and explores the excise tax's relationship with the tax advantages for employer-sponsored health coverage. The information in this report is based on statute and two notices issued by the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Mach, Annie L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United Kingdom and the European Union: Stay or Go? (open access)

The United Kingdom and the European Union: Stay or Go?

This report briefly discusses the vote on whether or not the UK should exit the EU, which is set to take place on June 23, 2016.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2016-04-24 – Jennifer Guzmán, clarinet

Doctoral recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: April 24, 2016
Creator: Guzmán, Jen (Jennifer)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2016-03-24 – UNT Symphonic Band

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Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: University of North Texas. Symphonic Band.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 26, Pages 4529-4722, June 24, 2016 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 26, Pages 4529-4722, June 24, 2016

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slow Growth in the Current U.S. Economic Expansion (open access)

Slow Growth in the Current U.S. Economic Expansion

This report summarizes the U.S. economic growth record and reviews a number of explanations forwarded by economists for why this expansion has featured slow growth. Some explanations focus on short-term factors that would not be expected to persist, while others focus on long-term changes to the economy. The report does not discuss labor market conditions, except in the context of how they contribute to the pace of GDP growth.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Keightley, Mark P.; Labonte, Marc & Stupak, Jeffrey M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Kingdom Votes to Leave the European Union (open access)

United Kingdom Votes to Leave the European Union

This report briefly examines the ramifications of a British exit from the EU (often referred to as "Brexit"). Nearly 52% of British voters in the June 23 referendum on European Union (EU) membership answered that the United Kingdom (UK) should leave the EU.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Reserve: Oversight and Disclosure Issues (open access)

Federal Reserve: Oversight and Disclosure Issues

This report provides an overview of existing Federal Reserve (Fed) oversight and disclosure practices, highlighting recent legislative changes and proposals. It also considers the potential impact of greater oversight and disclosure on the Fed's independence and its ability to achieve its macroeconomic and financial stability goals.
Date: May 24, 2016
Creator: Labonte, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Supreme Court's 4-4 Split on Immigration (open access)

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Supreme Court's 4-4 Split on Immigration

This report addresses commonly asked questions regarding the Supreme Court's evenly-divided June 23, 2016 decision about immigration. Consistent with recent practice, the decision affirms without any opinion or indication of the Justices' voting alignment an earlier decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit barring the Obama Administration from implementing two initiatives that would potentially have granted relief from removal to millions of aliens who entered or remained in the United States in violation of federal immigration law and lack legal immigration status.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2017 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2017

This report begins with a discussion of the overall level of the President's FY2017 R&D request, followed by analyses of the R&D funding request from a variety of perspectives and for selected multiagency R&D initiatives. It concludes with discussion and analysis of the R&D budget requests of selected federal departments and agencies that, collectively, account for nearly 99% of total federal R&D funding.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Sargent, John F., Jr.; Esworthy, Robert; Gottron, Frank; Johnson, Judith A.; Monke, Jim; Morgan, Daniel et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba (open access)

Financing U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba

This report discusses a new policy approach toward Cuba that, in part, seeks to reduce the role of long-standing U.S. sanctions on commercial relations with Cuba while also promoting greater engagement and normal relations with the island nation.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: McMinimy, Mark A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations for and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2017 (open access)

Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations for and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2017

This report provides data regarding the direct overt U.S. aid appropriations and military reimbursements to Pakistan.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan & Epstein, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enabling Scholarly Annotation Using Open Frameworks for the Web

This presentation presents two implementations of the W3C Web Annotation Working Group’s data model for annotations: Hypothesis (for annotating webpages) and IIIF (for interoperability of images).
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: Judkins, Julie & Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Women's History Month: An Oral History of Denton] captions transcript

[Women's History Month: An Oral History of Denton]

This movie documents "An Oral History of Denton," an event organized by the Denton County League of Women Voters for Women's History Month and hosted by Texas Woman's University. Panelists answer a series of questions about their early life and first impressions of Denton; segregation in Denton's schools and businesses and the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision on Denton County schools; the role of the University of North Texas faculty, Trinity Presbyterian Church, First Methodist Church, Mt. Pilgrim in Southeast Denton, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church on the formation of the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship; experiences of gender discrimination; their experiences of joining the League of Women Voters; their first voting experience; their political or feminist inspirations; the possibility of a woman President of the United States; the value and purpose of International Women's Day; discrimination in present-day life in Denton County; and the panelists' thoughts on the future for women and minorities in the U.S. It concludes with an audience question-and-answer session including topics such as continued racial division and re-segregation in Denton, celebrations of International Women's Day, the impact of actions of Texas female politicians such as Ann Richards and Wendy Davis, societal expectations …
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Crawford, Aaron; Wood, Naomi; Bynum, Katherine; Adkins, Dorothy; McAdams, Linnie & Hughes, Elinor
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Legal Processes for Contesting the Results of a Presidential Election (open access)

Legal Processes for Contesting the Results of a Presidential Election

This report discusses the legal processes for contesting the results of a Presidential election.
Date: October 24, 2016
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of light on the resistivity of chemical vapor deposited graphene films (open access)

Effects of light on the resistivity of chemical vapor deposited graphene films

This article reports that the resistance of a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene film transferred onto an SiO₂ substrate increases to higher saturation values upon exposure to light of decreasing wavelength from the visible to ultraviolet.
Date: October 24, 2016
Creator: Mo, Yudong; Pérez, José M.; Ye, Zhou; Zhao, Lei; Yang, Shizhong; Tan, Liuxi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2016-10-24 – UNT Symphony Orchestra [Stage Perspective]

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Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the orchestra's perspective, showing the conductor.
Date: October 24, 2016
Creator: University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2016-10-24 – UNT Symphony Orchestra

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: October 24, 2016
Creator: University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library