BF AWP Grantee Checklist: How to address Changing Climate Concerns in Your Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Project (open access)

BF AWP Grantee Checklist: How to address Changing Climate Concerns in Your Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Project

A document which provides information about climactic changes in brownfields. The paper offers information about land reuse considering the conditions of the brownfields.
Date: September 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 GLHHFTS Fish Tissue Data Dictionary for Mercury, PFC, PBDE, and PCBs (open access)

2010 GLHHFTS Fish Tissue Data Dictionary for Mercury, PFC, PBDE, and PCBs

A document containing fish tissue results from the 2010 Great Lakes Human Health Fish Tissue Study.
Date: September 2014
Creator: United States. Office of Science and Technology.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Energy Outlook 2014: with Projections to 2040 (open access)

Annual Energy Outlook 2014: with Projections to 2040

This report was prepared by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and presents long-term annual projections of energy supply, demand, and prices focused on the U.S. through 2040, based on results from EIA's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS).
Date: April 2014
Creator: United States. Energy Information Administration.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patient Dumping (open access)

Patient Dumping

Report on the enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act ('EMTALA') which was passed by Congress to address the problem of 'patient dumping,' where hospitals fail to screen, treat, or appropriately transfer patients. Specifically, the report focuses on disabled individuals with a psychiatric medical condition.
Date: 2014
Creator: United States Commission on Civil Rights
System: The UNT Digital Library
CDC-Funded HIV Testing: United States, Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands, 2012 (open access)

CDC-Funded HIV Testing: United States, Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands, 2012

This report includes HIV testing data from 61 CDC-funded health department jurisdictions and directly-funded community-based organizations (CBOs).
Date: November 2014
Creator: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
System: The UNT Digital Library
This POODLE Bites: Exploiting the SSL 3.0 Fallback (open access)

This POODLE Bites: Exploiting the SSL 3.0 Fallback

This document discusses how attackers can exploit the downgrade dance and break the cryptographic security of SSL 3.0.
Date: September 2014
Creator: Möller, Bodo; Duong, Thai & Kotowicz, Krzysztof
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Climate Action Report 2014 (open access)

United States Climate Action Report 2014

This report contains national communication, a quadrennial report detailing actions the United States is taking at home and internationally to mitigate, adapt to, and assist others in addressing climate change.
Date: 2014
Creator: United States. Department of State.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2012 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2012

Annual report of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) describing the program and data collection. It also presents information on air quality and recorded concentrations of pollutants such as ozone, sulfur, gases, and other elements of concern.
Date: April 2014
Creator: AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2014 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2014

Report discussing the ecology restoration activities in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Part of a series of annual reports prepared by the Good Neighbor Environmental Board for the President and Congress of the United States.
Date: December 2014
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Power Plan: Meeting State Goals (open access)

Clean Power Plan: Meeting State Goals

A presentation pertaining to a proposal to reduce carbon pollution.
Date: June 26, 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Healthcare Disparities Report 2013 (open access)

National Healthcare Disparities Report 2013

This report summarizes data gathered to address three key questions: what is the status of health care quality, access and disparities in the United States, How have health care quality; access and disparities changed over time; where are health care quality, access, and disparities improving and where are they getting worse.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Impacts in the United States, 2014 (open access)

Climate Change Impacts in the United States, 2014

A report about the northeastern United States and its vulnerability to climate hazards, particularly to hurricanes.
Date: 2014
Creator: United States. Global Change Research Program.
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change Adaptation Plan (open access)

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change Adaptation Plan

This plan by the United States Environmental Protection Agency addresses the facts of climate change and the challenges involved in those changes.
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
2014 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan (open access)

2014 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

Report delineating the performance of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to President Obama's Executive Orders that commit Departments of the Federal Government to address the threats of climate change. Well defined goals and strategies promote sustainability and address ways to mitigate the impact of climate change on human health and well-being.
Date: July 17, 2014
Creator: Holland, E. J., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Department of Transportation Climate Adaptation Plan 2014: Ensuring Transportation Infrastructure and System Resilience (open access)

U.S. Department of Transportation Climate Adaptation Plan 2014: Ensuring Transportation Infrastructure and System Resilience

This report includes information on the Department of Transportation's identification and assessment of climate change related impacts on the reis of the agency's ability to accomplish its missions, operations, and programs.
Date: 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Transportation.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (open access)

The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review

This report provides an update to the five basic homeland security missions set forth by the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review in 2010. They include: prevent terrorism and enhance security, secure and manage our borders, enforce and administer our immigration laws, safeguard and secure cyberspace, and strengthen national preparedness and resilience.
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Homeland Security.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Homeland Security 2014 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan (open access)

Department of Homeland Security 2014 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

This report reflects the Department of Homeland Securities' strategic vision for doing business in a more efficient and sustainable way. The report includes sections on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, sustainable building, fleet management, water use efficiency and management, pollution prevention and waste reduction, sustainable acquisition, electronic stewardship and data centers, renewable energy, climate change resilience, and energy performance contracts.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Homeland Security.
System: The UNT Digital Library
HHS Climate Adaptation Plan (open access)

HHS Climate Adaptation Plan

2014 Health and Human Services (HHS) report that identifies and assesses the health-related hazards, risks, and issues presented by impending climate change and their impact on human health and welfare . The report identifies sustainable measures and actions required to prepare, address, protect, and mitigate affected populations. The 10 HHS regional offices would serve as liaisons between local, state, and federal health offices and other organizations associated with this healthcare preparedness program.
Date: July 3, 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Department of Defense Budget Request: 2015 (open access)

United States Department of Defense Budget Request: 2015

This report outlines the impacts the Department of Defense would face today in having to plan and operate at the sequestration levels. It also documents the significant cuts to forces, modernization, and readiness that would be required at those levels.
Date: April 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Climate Change Impacts in the United States

The report summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change in the United States, now and in the future.
Date: 2014
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Working Group III Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (open access)

Working Group III Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A report which provides and assessment of relevant options for mitigating climate change through limiting or preventing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as activities that reduce their concentrations in the atmosphere.
Date: 2014
Creator: Edenhofer, Ottmar & Pichs-Madruga, Ramón
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects (open access)

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects

A report that focuses on why climate change matters. It addresses impacts that have already occurred and risks of future impacts, especially the way those risks change with the amount of climate changes that cannot be avoided.
Date: 2014
Creator: Field, Christopher B. & Barros, Vicente R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials in Education Research: A Guide to Design and Analysis (open access)

Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials in Education Research: A Guide to Design and Analysis

A detailed guide showing the process of designing, conducting and analyzing results from Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials (PN-RCT) in education research. The guide includes a brief review of Individual-Level Randomized Controlled Trial (I-RCT) and Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials (C-RCT) in comparison with PN-RCT.
Date: July 2014
Creator: Lohr, Sharon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education (open access)

Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education

This guide presents energy concepts that, if understood and applied, will help individuals and communities make informed energy decisions.
Date: August 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Energy.
System: The UNT Digital Library