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Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate (open access)

Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate

This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Cartwright, Brian & Velvin, Candace E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions (open access)

Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions

This report briefly describes the role of various agencies in securing the borders of the United States. These agencies are the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the United States Coast Guard, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Haddal, Chad C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bosnia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Bosnia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

This report presents an overview of the economic and political situation in Bosnia. It starts out by describing the current situation, the negotiations on forming a new central government, the international role in Bosnia, and the last part discusses the implications of U.S. policy.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Woehrel, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calibration of a High Resolution Soft X-ray Spectrometer (open access)

Calibration of a High Resolution Soft X-ray Spectrometer

A high resolution grating spectrometer (HRGS) with 2400 line/mm variable line spacing grating for the 10-50 {angstrom} wavelength range has been designed for laser-produced plasma experiments at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The spectrometer has a large radius of curvature, R=44.3 m, is operated at a 2{sup o} grazing angle and can record high signal-to-noise spectra when used with a low-noise, cooled, charge-coupled device detector. The instrument can be operated with a 10-25 {micro}m wide slit to achieve the best spectral resolving power on laser plasma sources, approaching 2000, or in slitless mode with a small symmetrical emission source. Results will be presented for the spectral response of the spectrometer cross-calibrated at the LLNL Electron Beam Ion Trap facility using the broadband x-ray energy EBIT Calorimeter Spectrometer (ECS).
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Dunn, J; Beiersdorfer, P; Brown, G V & Magee, E W
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carrier heating in disordered conjugated polymers in electric field (open access)

Carrier heating in disordered conjugated polymers in electric field

The electric field dependence of charge carrier transport and the effect of carrier heating in disordered conjugated polymers were investigated. A parameter-free multiscale methodology consisting of classical molecular dynamics simulation for the generation of the atomic structure, large system electronic structure and electron-phonon coupling constants calculations and the procedure for extracting the bulk polymer mobility, was used. The results suggested that the mobility of a fully disordered poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) polymer increases with electric field which is consistent with the experimental results on samples of regiorandom P3HT and different from the results on more ordered regioregular P3HT polymers, where the opposite trend is often observed at low electric fields. We calculated the electric field dependence of the effective carrier temperature and showed however that the effective temperature cannot be used to replace the joint effect of temperature and electric field, in contrast to previous theoretical results from phenomenological models. Such a difference was traced to originate from the use of simplified Miller-Abrahams hopping rates in phenomenological models in contrast to our considerations that explicitly take into account the electronic state wave functions and the interaction with all phonon modes.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Vukmirovic, Nenad & Wang, Lin-Wang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Looking to 2020 (open access)

Climate Change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Looking to 2020

This report discusses the European Union's (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a cornerstone of the EU's efforts to meet its obligation under the Kyoto Protocol. It covers more than 10,000 energy intensive facilities across the 27 EU Member countries.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing U.S. and EU Program Support for Farm Commodities and Conservation (open access)

Comparing U.S. and EU Program Support for Farm Commodities and Conservation

This report compares farm support in the United States and the European Union, given available quantitative data and information for these two economies.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Hanrahan, Chrales E. & Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court (open access)

Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court

This report provides a brief summary of legal issues raised by the choice of forum for trying accused terrorists and a chart comparing selected military commissions rules under the Military Commissions Act, as amended, to the corresponding rules that apply in federal court.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Currency Manipulation: The IMF and WTO (open access)

Currency Manipulation: The IMF and WTO

This report describes how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) deal with the issue of currency manipulation. It also discusses apparent discrepancies in their charters and ways those differences might be addressed.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Contracting: Recent Law Has Impacted Contractor Use of Offshore Subsidiaries to Avoid Certain Payroll Taxes (open access)

Defense Contracting: Recent Law Has Impacted Contractor Use of Offshore Subsidiaries to Avoid Certain Payroll Taxes

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Many federal contractors establish offshore subsidiaries to take advantage of labor and market conditions. GAO has found that they also use offshore subsidiaries to reduce their U.S. tax burdens. In 2008, Congress passed the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax (HEART) Act which resulted in contractor offshore subsidiaries paying certain payroll taxes for U.S. personnel working abroad. Fiscal year 2009's National Defense Authorization Act required GAO to report on the rationales, implications, and costs and benefits of defense contractors' use of offshore subsidiaries. We (1) assessed trends and purposes for contractors' offshore subsidiaries; (2) identified how contractors use subsidiaries to support defense contracts; (3) assessed DOD's oversight of contractors' use of offshore subsidiaries. To conduct our work, we reviewed data for the 29 U.S. publicly traded contractors with at least $1 billion in DOD spending in fiscal year 2008, reviewed several illustrative contracts selected based on categories of DOD services most often performed overseas, reviewed audit documents, and interviewed DOD officials about oversight."
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations (open access)

Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations

This report describes the various components of the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including (1) what authorities have shaped it over the years; (2) how FEMA determines the amount of the appropriation requested to Congress (pertaining to the DRF); and (3) how emergency supplemental appropriations are requested. In addition to the DRF, information is provided on funds appropriated in supplemental appropriations legislation to agencies other than the Department of Homeland Security. Aspects of debate concerning how disaster relief is budgeted are also highlighted and examined, and alternative budgetary options are summarized.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R. & Murray, Justin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Early Childhood Care and Education Programs: Background and Funding (open access)

Early Childhood Care and Education Programs: Background and Funding

Several federal programs support child care, education, or related services, primarily for low-income working families. In addition, the tax code includes provisions specifically targeted to assist families with child care expenses. This report includes an update on FY2010 funding developments and the status of FY2009 appropriations in the early childhood care and education arena. This report also provides a six-year funding history and brief descriptions of the various related programs and tax provisions.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Lynch, Karen E. & McCallion, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Communications: The Future of 911 (open access)

Emergency Communications: The Future of 911

This report discusses possible paths toward the modernization of the 911 infrastructure. Efforts to splice newer, digital technologies onto the aging infrastructure have created points of failure where a call can be dropped or misdirected, sometimes with tragic consequences.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Endangered Species Act: A Primer (open access)

The Endangered Species Act: A Primer

This report discusses the major provisions of the Endangered Species Act, both domestic and international, and also discusses some of the background issues, such as extinction in general, and the effectiveness of the statute.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne; Alexander, Kristina & Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities (open access)

Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities

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Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Ramseur, Jonathan L. & Gorte, Ross W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

This report provides background on the Congress-European Parliament (EP) relationship and the role of the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue (TLD). It also explores potential future options that could strengthen ties between the two bodies.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Pittman, Jerry & Wray, Kelly
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 16, January 26, 2010, Pages 3981-4254 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 16, January 26, 2010, Pages 3981-4254

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (open access)

Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

This report discusses the paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. It also discusses Possible legislative issues involving OIRA.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: Copeland, Curtis W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Darion Ervin King, January 26, 2010] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Darion Ervin King, January 26, 2010]

Funeral program for Darion Ervin King, born July 16, 2009 and died January 19, 2010. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at Lewis Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Chapel Hills Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 613, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 613, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 26, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History