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Attorneys’ Fees Reimbursement Under the Independent Counsel Law (open access)

Attorneys’ Fees Reimbursement Under the Independent Counsel Law

This report addresses Attorneys’ Fees Reimbursement Under the Independent Counsel Law.
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tajikistan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests (open access)

Tajikistan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests

This report outlines the transformational challenges faced by Tajikistan since its five-year civil war ended in 1997. It discusses U.S. policy and assistance. Basic facts and biographical information are provided.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Nevada Test Site Ground Motion and Rock Property Data to Bound Ground Motions at the Yucca Mountain Repository (open access)

Evaluation of Nevada Test Site Ground Motion and Rock Property Data to Bound Ground Motions at the Yucca Mountain Repository

Yucca Mountain licensing will require estimation of ground motions from probabilistic seismic hazard analyses (PSHA) with annual probabilities of exceedance on the order of 10{sup -6} to 10{sup -7} per year or smaller, which correspond to much longer earthquake return periods than most previous PSHA studies. These long return periods for the Yucca Mountain PSHA result in estimates of ground motion that are extremely high ({approx} 10 g) and that are believed to be physically unrealizable. However, there is at present no generally accepted method to bound ground motions either by showing that the physical properties of materials cannot maintain such extreme motions, or the energy release by the source for such large motions is physically impossible. The purpose of this feasibility study is to examine recorded ground motion and rock property data from nuclear explosions to determine its usefulness for studying the ground motion from extreme earthquakes. The premise is that nuclear explosions are an extreme energy density source, and that the recorded ground motion will provide useful information about the limits of ground motion from extreme earthquakes. The data were categorized by the source and rock properties, and evaluated as to what extent non-linearity in the material has …
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Hutchings, L. H.; Foxall, W.; Rambo, J. & Wagoner, J. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Advisory System: Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight (open access)

Homeland Security Advisory System: Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight

This report provides information about the Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight on the Homeland Security Advisory System. The homeland security advisory system is a color-coded terrorist threat warning system administered by the DHS.
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Reese, Shawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities

This report describes the federal networking and information technology research and development program on funding issues and activities.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A High Order Mixed Vector Finite Element Method for Solving the Time Dependent Maxwell Equations on Unstructured Grids (open access)

A High Order Mixed Vector Finite Element Method for Solving the Time Dependent Maxwell Equations on Unstructured Grids

We present a mixed vector finite element method for solving the time dependent coupled Ampere and Faraday laws of Maxwell's equations on unstructured hexahedral grids that employs high order discretization in both space and time. The method is of arbitrary order accuracy in space and up to 5th order accurate in time, making it well suited for electrically large problems where grid anisotropy and numerical dispersion have plagued other methods. In addition, the method correctly models both the jump discontinuities and the divergence-free properties of the electric and magnetic fields, is charge and energy conserving, conditionally stable, and free of spurious modes. Several computational experiments are performed to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency and benefits of the method.
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Rieben, R. N.; Rodrigue, G. H. & White, D. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Bench to Bedside: The Role of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agencies in the Evaluation of New Medical Products (open access)

From Bench to Bedside: The Role of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agencies in the Evaluation of New Medical Products

This report discusses the types of medical research supported by HHS and gives an overview of the agencies' missions.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Schoonmaker, Michele
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa (open access)

AIDS in Africa

This report discusses the AIDS issues in Africa and the Bush administration call to double U.S. international funding for AIDS.
Date: March 9, 2006
Creator: Cook, Nicholas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silicon Nanocrystal Laser (open access)

Silicon Nanocrystal Laser

The purpose of this feasibility study project was to attempt to demonstrate the silicon-nanocrystal-based laser. Such a silicon laser (made using conventional silicon-manufacturing technologies) would provide the crucial missing link that would enable a completely-silicon-based photonic system. We prepared thin layers of silicon nanocrystal material by ion-implanting Si in fused silica substrates, followed by a high temperature anneal process. These Si nanocrystals produced intense photoluminescence when optically pumped with ultraviolet light. Laser structures based on Fabry-Perot cavity and distributed feedback (DFB) designs were fabricated using the Si nanocrystals as the ''lasing'' medium. We optically pumped the samples with CW lasers at 413nm wavelength to quickly assess the feasibility of making lasers out of the Nanocrystal Si material and to verify the gain coefficients reported by other research groups.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Yu, J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Charter of the American National Red Cross: Current Issues and Proposed Changes (open access)

The Charter of the American National Red Cross: Current Issues and Proposed Changes

This report provides a brief history of the ANRC, describes the congressional interest in the ANRC's governance, operations and charter.It reviews the ANRC's governance audit report and proposal to amend its charter and describes congressional proposals to amend the charter.
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subcommittees in the House of Representatives (open access)

Subcommittees in the House of Representatives

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Date: March 9, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia School Reform Proposal: Authority of the D.C. Council To Implement (open access)

District of Columbia School Reform Proposal: Authority of the D.C. Council To Implement

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Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Thomas, Kenneth R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cash Balance Pension Plans and Claims of Age Discrimination (open access)

Cash Balance Pension Plans and Claims of Age Discrimination

This report describes cash balance plans, discusses the claims that cash balance plans do and do not violate the pre-Act age discrimination provisions, and provides an overview of the pension protection act, as it applies to this issue.
Date: March 9, 2009
Creator: Staman, Jennifer & Lunder, Erika
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector (open access)

Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector

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Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress (open access)

Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress

This report discusses how the federal support for child care comes in many forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. It also points out how some programs serve as specifically dedicated funding sources for child care services, while for others, child care is just one of many purposes for which funds may be used.
Date: March 9, 2006
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Species Diffusion in ALE3D (open access)

Species Diffusion in ALE3D

ALE3D is a finite element arbitrary Lagrange-Eulerian hydro code with thermal transport and chemical reactions. In order to consider problems of aging a species diffusion capability was added. Species diffusion is the process whereby species move under potential flow from one location in the system to another. The diffusion method needed to work with element-centered concentrations. In order to fit within the ALE3D scheme, the method also needed to work on an arbitrarily connected hexahedral mesh. Since the rate of species diffusion is usually slow compared to other processes, it an explicit method is sufficient. Finally, the method must conserve total species concentration. Three separate finite volume algorithms were developed. These methods share the following characteristics: species fluxes of mass and energy are defined at each face. A second order predictor corrector scheme is used, with the ratio between the corrected mass flux and the predicted mass flux being used to define an accuracy time step constraint. The courant like diffusivity constraint is used for the stability constraint. Examples are shown.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Nichols, A. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs (open access)

Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs

This report discusses projected agricultural imports and exports for FY2002, as well as legislation that deals with federal programs in support of agricultural exports and federal aid dedicated to farms and agricultural reform.
Date: March 9, 2006
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Syntactic Polysulfide Degradation Observed by SPME GC/MS (open access)

Syntactic Polysulfide Degradation Observed by SPME GC/MS

We have utilized SPME GC/MS to monitor the degradation of syntactic polysulfide in the presence of Viton A at elevated temperature. This approach allowed the identification of products from two distinct degradation mechanisms. Small-scale laboratory experiments of this type are directly applicable to gas sampling for enhanced surveillance.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Vance, A L; Alviso, C; Harvey, C & Saab, A
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Legal and Policy Issues Related to Coalbed Methane Development (open access)

Selected Legal and Policy Issues Related to Coalbed Methane Development

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Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Nonlinear Reconstruction Algorithms for Electrical Impedance Tomography (open access)

Some Nonlinear Reconstruction Algorithms for Electrical Impedance Tomography

An impedance camera [Henderson and Webster, 1978; Dines and Lytle, 1981]--or what is now more commonly called electrical impedance tomography--attempts to image the electrical impedance (or just the conductivity) distribution inside a body using electrical measurements on its boundary. The method has been used successfully in both biomedical [Brown, 1983; Barber and Brown, 1986; J. C. Newell, D. G. Gisser, and D. Isaacson, 1988; Webster, 1990] and geophysical applications [Wexler, Fry, and Neurnan, 1985; Daily, Lin, and Buscheck, 1987], but the analysis of optimal reconstruction algorithms is still progressing [Murai and Kagawa, 1985; Wexler, Fry, and Neurnan, 1985; Kohn and Vogelius, 1987; Yorkey and Webster, 1987; Yorkey, Webster, and Tompkins, 1987; Berryman and Kohn, 1990; Kohn and McKenney, 1990; Santosa and Vogelius, 1990; Yorkey, 1990]. The most common application is monitoring the influx or efflux of a highly conducting fluid (such as brine in a porous rock or blood in the human body) through the volume being imaged. For biomedical applications, this met hod does not have the resolution of radiological methods, but it is comparatively safe and inexpensive and therefore provides a valuable alternative when continuous monitoring of a patient or process is desired. The following discussion is intended …
Date: March 9, 2001
Creator: Berger, E. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Power: Outlook for New U.S. Reactors (open access)

Nuclear Power: Outlook for New U.S. Reactors

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Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues (open access)

Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress, and related issues and legislation.
Date: March 9, 2006
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Whiteman, David L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy

This report provides current statistical information, profiles the Afghanistan narcotics trade's participants, explores linkages between narcotics, insecurity, and corruption, and reviews U.S. and international policy responses since late 2001. The report also considers ongoing policy debates regarding the counternarcotics role of coalition military forces, poppy eradication, alternative livelihoods, and funding issues for Congress.
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes (open access)

Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes

This report considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for the last several Congresses.
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library