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The 2014 Farm Bill (Agricultural Act of 2014, P.L. 113-79) (open access)

The 2014 Farm Bill (Agricultural Act of 2014, P.L. 113-79)

This report briefly informs the reader about what the Farm Bill of 2014 is, what is at stake, and the cost of it. The report also includes information about the involvement of interest groups and the effect the Farm Bill has on food issues.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée & Monke, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
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: March 12, 2014
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 250, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 250, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Aransas Pass, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Verser, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Management and Assess Effectiveness (open access)

Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Management and Assess Effectiveness

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) schedules and Life-cycle Cost Estimates for the Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan (the Plan) reflect some, but not all, best practices. Scheduling best practices are summarized into four characteristics of reliable schedules—comprehensive, well constructed, credible, and controlled (i.e., schedules are periodically updated and progress is monitored). GAO assessed CBP's schedules as of March 2013 for the three highest-cost programs that represent 97 percent of the Plan's estimated cost. GAO found that schedules for two of the programs at least partially met each characteristic (i.e., satisfied about half of the criterion), and the schedule for the other program at least minimally met each characteristic (i.e., satisfied a small portion of the criterion), as shown in the table below. For example, the schedule for one of the Plan's programs partially met the characteristic of being credible in that CBP had performed a schedule risk analysis for the program, but the risk analysis was not based on any connection between risks and specific activities. For another program, the schedule minimally met the characteristic of being controlled in that it …
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study (open access)

Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study

This article aims to examine the link between low-level arsenic exposure and cognitive functioning, and the potential role of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP A35991G, rs10748835) of the AS3MT gene in modifying this link.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Hall, James R.; Gong, Gordon & O'Bryant, Sid E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily newspaper Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Hanrahan, Thom
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Financing: Alternative Approaches to Budgeting for Federal Real Property (open access)

Capital Financing: Alternative Approaches to Budgeting for Federal Real Property

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Officials at four selected agencies—the General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of the Interior (Interior)—experienced challenges receiving full upfront funding for federal real property projects through the annual appropriations process. For example, due to budget constraints, GSA acquired one property between 2008 and 2012. In addition, GSA has been unable to access funding to complete renovations in Interior's headquarters building due to obligation limitations in the GSA-administered Federal Buildings Fund (FBF). The FBF, which is the primary funding source for operating and capital costs associated with federal space, held an unobligated carryover balance of $4.7 billion at the end of fiscal year 2013 as a result of congressional limits on obligations. Officials noted that authority to retain proceeds provides a key incentive to initiate disposals, as agencies without this authority must request upfront funding for disposal costs while resulting proceeds are paid to the Department of the Treasury. Nonetheless, officials at selected agencies with the authority to retain disposal proceeds cited barriers to disposals, such as poor market demand, historical status or necessary remediation."
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 165, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 165, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Gonzalez, Terrie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Climate Change Legislation in the 113th Congress (open access)

Climate Change Legislation in the 113th Congress

This report focuses on legislative actions--including comprehensive bills with individual climate change titles, sections, or provisions--that explicitly address climate change issues. The provisions in these bills fall into six general categories: carbon price (i.e., tax or fee) on greenhouse (GHG) emissions; other mechanisms intended to encourage mitigation of GHG emissions (e.g., sequestration of emissions); research on climate change-related issues; adaptation activities related to expected climate change impacts; support for international climate change-related activities; and action that limits or prohibits climate change-related authorities, efforts, or considerations.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Hardin, Amber
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Cuero, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Rea, Glenn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 222, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 222, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Cobb, Dawn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Ott, Marie & Finney, Patty
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-79) (open access)

Energy Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-79)

This report focuses on the policies contained in the 2014 farm bill that support agriculture based renewable energy, especially biofuels. The introductory sections of this report briefly describe how U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bioenergy policies evolved and how they fit into the larger context of U.S. biofuels policy.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Navasota, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: McDonald, Scott
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening (open access)

Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Education (Education) relies on collection agencies to assist borrowers in rehabilitating defaulted student loans, which allows borrowers who make nine on-time monthly payments within 10 months to have the default removed from their credit reports. Education works with 22 collection agencies to locate borrowers and explain repayment options, including rehabilitation. From fiscal years 2011 to 2013, Education collected about $9 billion on over 1.5 million loans through rehabilitation, most of which was recovered by collection agencies."
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report for Project DE-FC02-06ER25755 [Pmodels2] (open access)

Final Report for Project DE-FC02-06ER25755 [Pmodels2]

In this report, we describe the research accomplished by the OSU team under the Pmodels2 project. The team has worked on various angles: designing high performance MPI implementations on modern networking technologies (Mellanox InfiniBand (including the new ConnectX2 architecture and Quad Data Rate), QLogic InfiniPath, the emerging 10GigE/iWARP and RDMA over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (RoCE) and Obsidian IB-WAN), studying MPI scalability issues for multi-thousand node clusters using XRC transport, scalable job start-up, dynamic process management support, efficient one-sided communication, protocol offloading and designing scalable collective communication libraries for emerging multi-core architectures. New designs conforming to the Argonne’s Nemesis interface have also been carried out. All of these above solutions have been integrated into the open-source MVAPICH/MVAPICH2 software. This software is currently being used by more than 2,100 organizations worldwide (in 71 countries). As of January ’14, more than 200,000 downloads have taken place from the OSU Web site. In addition, many InfiniBand vendors, server vendors, system integrators and Linux distributors have been incorporating MVAPICH/MVAPICH2 into their software stacks and distributing it. Several InfiniBand systems using MVAPICH/MVAPICH2 have obtained positions in the TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in the world. The latest November ’13 ranking include the following systems: 7th ranked Stampede …
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Panda, Dhabaleswar & Sadayappan, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First Responder Network (FirstNet) and Next-Generation Communications for Public Safety: Issues for Congress (open access)

The First Responder Network (FirstNet) and Next-Generation Communications for Public Safety: Issues for Congress

This report provides and introduction to key provisions in the Spectrum Act to improve public safety communications and discusses planning authority, state and local participation, federal governance and other issues regarding the evolving network technologies.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Semi-weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Overton, Mac
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Views on the Progress and Plans for Addressing Government-wide Management Challenges (open access)

Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Views on the Progress and Plans for Addressing Government-wide Management Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A number of areas on the President's Management Agenda are consistent with issues highlighted by GAO's work on the High Risk Program, its annual reports on fragmentation, overlap, and duplication, and other work related to long-standing management challenges. These include, for example: using information technology to better manage for results; addressing improper payments; expanding strategic sourcing; strengthening strategic human capital management; and improving the Department of Defense's weapon systems and services acquisitions. Lasting success in addressing the difficult and longstanding issues on the Presidents Management Agenda will hinge on effective implementation, including sustained top leadership attention. GAO and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have agreed to hold a series of high level meetings on the issues on GAO's High Risk List to discuss progress and actions that are needed to fully address high-risk issues. Further, the executive branch has taken a number of steps to implement key provisions of the GPRA Modernization Act by developing cross-agency and agency priority goals; assigning performance management roles and responsibilities to leadership; conducting agency quarterly performance reviews; and developing Performance.gov, a website that provides quarterly updates on the priority goals."
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library