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International Finance: Actions Taken to Reform Financial Sectors in Asian Emerging Markets (open access)

International Finance: Actions Taken to Reform Financial Sectors in Asian Emerging Markets

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the efforts to improve the financial sectors of the emerging market countries of Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand, focusing on: (1) the nature of weaknesses in the countries' financial sectors; (2) the extent to which the countries have achieved reforms in their financial systems; (3) the extent to which the countries have implemented international principles for banking supervision; and (4) U.S. government and multilateral institutions' efforts to effect changes in the financial sectors of these emerging markets."
Date: September 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Costs and Planned Use of Emergency Funds (open access)

Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Costs and Planned Use of Emergency Funds

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on year 2000 costs and funding at 41 federal agencies and organizations, focusing on the: (1) agency-reported year 2000 costs through fiscal year (FY) 1998 and the agency processes used to track these costs; (2) reported status of FY 1999 obligations for year 2000 activities; (3) estimated year 2000 costs for FY 1999 and the planned uses of emergency funds; and (4) estimated year 2000 costs for FY 2000."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Implementing Welfare Reform Changes; More Action Needed (open access)

Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Implementing Welfare Reform Changes; More Action Needed

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, focusing on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) progress in: (1) redetermining the eligibility of children already receiving benefits against the law's new eligibility criteria; (2) implementing the law's requirements for ongoing continuing disability reviews (CDR) and the related treatment provision; and (3) revising the interim final regulations to implement the law's eligibility criteria and the medical listings for childhood impairments, which are used to determine whether a child is disabled."
Date: June 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Policing: Observations on the COPS Program Midway Through Program Implementation (open access)

Community Policing: Observations on the COPS Program Midway Through Program Implementation

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation of the Community Policing Act, focusing on statutory requirements for implementing the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export Controls: Implementation of the 1998 Legislative Mandate for High Performance Computers (open access)

Export Controls: Implementation of the 1998 Legislative Mandate for High Performance Computers

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the export of high performance computers to countries of concern that might use the computers for military or nuclear proliferation purposes, focusing on whether: (1) exporters' notifications to the Department of Commerce of proposed sales of high performance computers to countries of concern have resulted in any license applications and what action was taken on these licenses; and (2) Commerce is verifying the use of high performance computers after their export to these countries."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fresh Produce: Potential Consequences of Country-of-Origin Labeling (open access)

Fresh Produce: Potential Consequences of Country-of-Origin Labeling

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the labelling requirements for fresh produce, focusing on: (1) the potential costs associated with the compliance and enforcement of a mandatory country-of-origin labelling requirement at the retail level for fresh produce; (2) the potential trade issues associated with such a requirement; (3) the potential impact of such a requirement on the ability of the federal government and the public to respond to outbreaks of illness caused by contaminated fresh produce; and (4) consumers' views of country-of-origin labelling."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Update on the Readiness of the Department of Veterans Affairs (open access)

Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Update on the Readiness of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) efforts to address the year 2000 computer problem, focusing on the: (1) year 2000 readiness of automated systems that support the delivery of veterans' benefits and health care services, the compliance status of biomedical equipment used in patient care, and the year 2000 readiness of the pharmaceutical and medical-surgical manufacturers on which VA relies; and (2) Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) year 2000 efforts to address biomedical equipment and pharmaceutical products."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold (open access)

Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) how changes in the way airlines sell tickets affected travel agencies and consumers; (2) airlines' policies and practices for the sale and use of airline tickets sold by travel agencies compared with the sale and use of tickets sold directly by airlines; (3) what airlines' policies and practices are for making their airfares, particularly discount fares, accessible to travel agencies and consumers; and (4) what airlines' policies and practices are regarding the use of data on travel agency sales."
Date: July 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: Strengthening Regulatory Agencies' Performance Management Practices (open access)

Managing for Results: Strengthening Regulatory Agencies' Performance Management Practices

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on performance management and measurement practices that could position regulatory agencies to more effectively implement the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative research in coal liquefaction (open access)

Cooperative research in coal liquefaction

Significant progress was made in the May 1990--May 1991 contract period in three primary coal liquefaction research areas: catalysis, structure-reactivity studies, and novel liquefaction processes. A brief summary of the accomplishments in the past year in each of these areas is given.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Huffman, G. P. & Sendlein, L. V. A. (eds.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Light Source beam position monitor (open access)

Advanced Light Source beam position monitor

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a synchrotron radiation facility nearing completion at LBL. As a third-generation machine, the ALS is designed to produce intense light from bend magnets, wigglers, and undulators (insertion devices). The facility will include a 50 MeV electron linear accelerator, a 1.5 GeV booster synchrotron, beam transport lines, a 1--2 GeV storage ring, insertion devices, and photon beam lines. Currently, the beam injection systems are being commissioned, and the storage ring is being installed. Electron beam position monitors (BPM) are installed throughout the accelerator and constitute the major part of accelerator beam diagnostics. The design of the BPM instruments is complete, and 50 units have been constructed for use in the injector systems. We are currently fabricating 100 additional instruments for the storage ring. In this paper I discuss engineering fabrication, testing and performance of the beam pickup electrodes and the BPM electronics.
Date: October 28, 1991
Creator: Hinkson, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
DC CICC retrofit magnet preliminary design, software development and analysis report (open access)

DC CICC retrofit magnet preliminary design, software development and analysis report

The January 1992 quarterly progress report discusses a two-dimensional finite element analysis (FEA) of the proposed retrofit MHD coil. The superconducting Cable-in-Conduit Conductor (CICC) winding pack has a smooth, semi-elliptical cross section and is supported by a similarly shaped strap which resists the electromagnetic forces tending to separate the coils on each side of the channel. The coils are designed to produce a peak on-axis field of 4.5 tesla with a nominal current density of 13.05{times}10{sup 6} A/m{sup 2}. A sketch of the magnet system and structure is shown in Fig. 1.0-1. The objective of this analysis is to quantify the highly 3-D characteristics of the proposed superconductivity magnet system, and develop an appropriate support concept. A fully paramatized 3-D finite element model of the coil and structure is developed as a means of obtaining the field and stress solutions. The flexibility of FEA and a model built using design parameters allows variations in the coil end turn bend radius, strap thickness, support details and positions to be studied. The preliminary results show the calculated stresses as a result of this iterative design process.
Date: May 28, 1992
Creator: Myatt, R. L. & Marston, P. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water cooled metal optics for the Advanced Light Source (open access)

Water cooled metal optics for the Advanced Light Source

The program for providing water cooled metal optics for the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley is reviewed with respect to fabrication and metrology of the surfaces. Materials choices, surface figure and smoothness specifications, and metrology systems for measuring the plated metal surfaces are discussed. Results from prototype mirrors and grating blanks will be presented, which show exceptionally low microroughness and mid-period error. We will briefly describe out improved version of the Long Trace Profiler, and its importance to out metrology program. We have completely redesigned the mechanical, optical and computational parts of the profiler system with the cooperation of Peter Takacs of Brookhaven, Continental Optical, and Baker Manufacturing. Most important is that one of our profilers is in use at the vendor to allow testing during fabrication. Metrology from the first water cooled mirror for an ALS beamline is presented as an example. The preplating processing and grinding and polishing were done by Tucson Optical. We will show significantly better surface microroughness on electroless nickel, over large areas, than has been reported previously.
Date: October 28, 1991
Creator: McKinney, W.R.; Irick, S.C. (Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)) & Lunt, D.L.J. (Tucson Optical Research Corp., AZ (United States))
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Encapsulation of hazardous wastes into agglomerates (open access)

Encapsulation of hazardous wastes into agglomerates

The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using the cementitious properties and agglomeration characteristics of coal conversion byproducts to encapsulate and immobilize hazardous waste materials. The intention was to establish an economical way of co-utilization and co-disposal of wastes. In addition, it may aid in the eradication of air pollution problems associated with the fine-powdery nature of fly ash. Encapsulation into agglomerates is a novel approach of treating toxic waste. Although encapsulation itself is not a new concept, existing methods employ high-cost resins that render them economically unfeasible. In this investigation, the toxic waste was contained in a concrete-like matrix whereby fly ash and other cementitious waste materials were utilized. The method incorporates the principles of solidification, stabilization and agglomeration. Another aspect of the study is the evaluation of the agglomeration as possible lightweight aggregates. Since fly ash is commercially used as an aggregate, it would be interesting to study the effect of incorporating toxic wastes in the strength development of the granules. In the investigation, the fly ash self-cementation process was applied to electroplating sludges as the toxic waste. The process hoped to provide a basis for delisting of the waste as hazardous and, thereby …
Date: January 28, 1992
Creator: Guloy, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: Testing of F-15 and F-16 Radomes (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: Testing of F-15 and F-16 Radomes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the potential for shortfalls in the performance of two radomes, one for the F-15 Eagle and one for the F-16 Falcon, focusing on whether replacement radomes, bought for spares and supplied by vendors other than the original manufacturer, met the Air Force's specifications for the original radomes."
Date: January 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
TDPP FOR THE RETRIEVABILITY STRATEGY REPORT (open access)

TDPP FOR THE RETRIEVABILITY STRATEGY REPORT

The objective of this systems study is to produce a waste removability strategy document that contains sufficient details, recommended design alternatives, and the technical rationale (a) to support Licensing in the development of the License Application Plan, and (b) to provide input in the form of design requirements, for the FY 97 Retrieval Design & Operation activity in support of viability assessment. The intent of this systems study is to support a decision on how to proceed with design with respect to retrievability, regarding the extent to which the repository/waste package designs should accommodate the retrieval option.
Date: January 28, 1997
Creator: Gehner, P. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Evaluation Procedure Report For Proposed Kaniksu Unit Of The Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge (open access)

Habitat Evaluation Procedure Report For Proposed Kaniksu Unit Of The Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is proposing to acquire a 706-acre property located in Stevens County, Washington. The new acquisition would be called the Kaniksu Unit. A habitat evaluation was conducted on the property using the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) methodology (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1980). Evaluation species were black-capped chickadee, mallard, ruffed grouse and white-tailed deer. Life requisites evaluated were food and reproduction for black-capped chickadee, food, cover, and reproduction for mallard, available winter browse for white-tailed deer and fall-to-spring cover for ruffed grouse.
Date: January 28, 1999
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Terry Moore] captions transcript

[News Clip: Terry Moore]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story Portrait by reporter Ramona Logan about Terry Moore who volunteers at an Arlington library and other places, offering advice to people who stereotype those with disabilities. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: February 28, 1990
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Copy of letter: Diana Sword to Sharon Boyd] (open access)

[Copy of letter: Diana Sword to Sharon Boyd]

Xerographic of the results of Diana Sword's investigation into Darryl Baker's schedule of leave.
Date: May 28, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Copy of handwritten notes: Interview with Alan Ross] (open access)

[Copy of handwritten notes: Interview with Alan Ross]

Xerographic of handwritten notes written during an interview with Alan Ross.
Date: March 28, 1990
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Amended order of dismissal: PWA v Mark William Nelson] (open access)

[Amended order of dismissal: PWA v Mark William Nelson]

Amended order of dismissal in PWA v Nelson.
Date: February 28, 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Notes: Interview with Alan Ross] (open access)

[Notes: Interview with Alan Ross]

Notes from an interview with Alan Ross about the progress of A Living Tribute project.
Date: March 28, 1990
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Cheerleaders arrive] captions transcript

[News Clip: Cheerleaders arrive]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders arriving in Pasadena for Super Bowl XXVII. Footage includes the squad shooting promotional spots and arriving via bus. The story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: January 28, 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: KVIL contest] captions transcript

[News Clip: KVIL contest]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man flying on a KVIL helicopter as part of a contest for Super Bowl tickets. The story aired at 6pm.
Date: January 28, 1993
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library