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Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 144, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 144, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Harper News (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005 (open access)

The Harper News (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005

Biweekly newspaper from Harper, Texas that includes community news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Stevens, Martha
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program: Results of Review of Annual Reports for Fiscal Years 2002 and 2003 (open access)

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program: Results of Review of Annual Reports for Fiscal Years 2002 and 2003

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Because of the susceptibility of health care programs to fraud and abuse, Congress enacted the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Pub. L. No. 104-191. HIPAA requires that the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Justice (DOJ) issue a joint annual report to Congress on amounts deposited to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and amounts appropriated from the trust fund for the HCFAC program. It also requires GAO to submit reports biennially. This, our final report required by law, provides the results of our review of amounts reported as (1) deposits to the trust fund, (2) appropriations from the trust fund and justification for expenditure of such amounts by HHS and DOJ, and (3) savings resulting from expenditures from the trust fund. We also report on the repeated late issuance of the annual HCFAC report as well as the status of our prior recommendations."
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Funding Legislation, 109th Congress (open access)

House Committee Funding Legislation, 109th Congress

This report provides committee funding requests for the 109th Congress and authorizations for House committees in the 104th - 108th Congresses.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Petersen, Eric R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incident Energy Dependence of pt Correlations at RHIC (open access)

Incident Energy Dependence of pt Correlations at RHIC

We present results for two-particle transverse momentum correlations, ({Delta}p{sub t,i}{Delta}p{sub t,j}), as a function of event centrality for Au+Au collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 20, 62, 130, and 200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We observe correlations decreasing with centrality that are similar at all four incident energies. The correlations multiplied by the multiplicity density increase with incident energy and the centrality dependence may show evidence of processes such as thermalization, jet production, or the saturation of transverse flow. The square root of the correlations divided by the event-wise average transverse momentum per event shows little or no beam energy dependence and generally agrees with previous measurements at the Super Proton Synchrotron.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Adams, J.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Ahammed, Z.; Amonett, J.; Anderson, B. D.; Arkhipkin, D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indian River Hydroelectric Project Grant (open access)

Indian River Hydroelectric Project Grant

This Final Technical Report provides a concise retrospective and summary of all facets of the Sheldon Jackson College electrical Infrastructure Renovation portion of the Indian River Hydroelectric Project Grant of the City and Borough of Sitka, Alaska. The Project Overview describes the origins of the project, the original conditions that provided the impetus for the grant funding, how the grant amendment was developed, the conceptual design development, and the actual parameters of the final project as it went out to bid. The Project Overview also describes the ''before and after'' conditions of the project. The Objectives division of this Final Technical Report describes the amendment-funded goals of the project. It also describes the milestones of project development and implementation, as well as, the rationale behind the milestone array. The Description of Activities Performed division of this report provides an in-depth chronological analysis of progressive project implementation. Photographs will provide further illustration of particular functional aspects of the renovation project within project parameters. The Conclusions and Recommendations division of this report provides a comprehensive retrospective analysis of the project.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Garrett, Rebecca
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Indirect Route for Ethanol Production (open access)

An Indirect Route for Ethanol Production

The ZeaChem indirect method is a radically new approach to producing fuel ethanol from renewable resources. Sugar and syngas processing platforms are combined in a novel way that allows all fractions of biomass feedstocks (e.g. carbohydrates, lignins, etc.) to contribute their energy directly into the ethanol product via fermentation and hydrogen based chemical process technologies. The goals of this project were: (1) Collect engineering data necessary for scale-up of the indirect route for ethanol production, and (2) Produce process and economic models to guide the development effort. Both goals were successfully accomplished. The projected economics of the Base Case developed in this work are comparable to today's corn based ethanol technology. Sensitivity analysis shows that significant improvements in economics for the indirect route would result if a biomass feedstock rather that starch hydrolyzate were used as the carbohydrate source. The energy ratio, defined as the ratio of green energy produced divided by the amount of fossil energy consumed, is projected to be 3.11 to 12.32 for the indirect route depending upon the details of implementation. Conventional technology has an energy ratio of 1.34, thus the indirect route will have a significant environmental advantage over today's technology. Energy savings of 7.48 …
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Eggeman, T.; Verser, D. & Weber, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Extraction from Unstructured Text for the Biodefense Knowledge Center (open access)

Information Extraction from Unstructured Text for the Biodefense Knowledge Center

The Bio-Encyclopedia at the Biodefense Knowledge Center (BKC) is being constructed to allow an early detection of emerging biological threats to homeland security. It requires highly structured information extracted from variety of data sources. However, the quantity of new and vital information available from every day sources cannot be assimilated by hand, and therefore reliable high-throughput information extraction techniques are much anticipated. In support of the BKC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, together with the University of Utah, are developing an information extraction system built around the bioterrorism domain. This paper reports two important pieces of our effort integrated in the system: key phrase extraction and semantic tagging. Whereas two key phrase extraction technologies developed during the course of project help identify relevant texts, our state-of-the-art semantic tagging system can pinpoint phrases related to emerging biological threats. Also we are enhancing and tailoring the Bio-Encyclopedia by augmenting semantic dictionaries and extracting details of important events, such as suspected disease outbreaks. Some of these technologies have already been applied to large corpora of free text sources vital to the BKC mission, including ProMED-mail, PubMed abstracts, and the DHS's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) news clippings. In …
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Samatova, N F; Park, B; Krishnamurthy, R; Munavalli, R; Symons, C; Buttler, D J et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interagency Contracting: Problems with DOD's and Interior's Orders to Support Military Operations (open access)

Interagency Contracting: Problems with DOD's and Interior's Orders to Support Military Operations

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In recent years, federal agencies have increasingly turned to interagency contracts--where one agency, for example, places an order under an existing contract for another agency--as a way to streamline the procurement process. Interagency contracting can offer benefits of improved efficiency, but this approach needs to be effectively managed. To learn more about some of the challenges of interagency contracting, we reviewed the process that the Department of Defense (DOD) used to acquire interrogation and certain other services through the Department of the Interior to support military operations in Iraq. On behalf of DOD, Interior issued 11 task orders, valued at over $66 million, on an existing contract. This report identifies breakdowns in the procurement process, contributing factors that led to the breakdowns, and the extent to which recent actions by Interior and DOD address these contributing factors."
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interface Documentation for MS Material Models (open access)

Interface Documentation for MS Material Models

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Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Becker, R; Serednyakov, S; Skovpen, Y I; Solodov, E & Yushkov, A
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal Revenue Service: Status of Recommendations from Financial Audits and Related Financial Management Reports (open access)

Internal Revenue Service: Status of Recommendations from Financial Audits and Related Financial Management Reports

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In its role as the nation's tax collector, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a demanding responsibility for collecting taxes, processing tax returns, and enforcing the nation's tax laws. Since GAO's first audit of IRS's financial statements in fiscal year 1992, a number of weaknesses in IRS's financial management operations have been identified. In related reports, GAO has recommended corrective action to address those weaknesses. Each year, as part of the annual audit of IRS's financial statements, GAO not only makes recommendations to address any new weaknesses identified, but also follows up on the status of weaknesses GAO identified in previous years' audits. The purpose of this report is to assist IRS management in tracking the status of audit recommendations and actions needed to fully address them."
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP): Formula and Estimated Allocation Rates (open access)

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP): Formula and Estimated Allocation Rates

None
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Whittaker, Julie M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man hauling wood]

A man pulls up wood from the ground onto the frame of the house where he is working.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man with hammer]

A man walks through the frame of a house while holding a a hammer.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
MIDWEST REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIP (MRCSP) MANAGING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURING A FUTURE FOR THE MIDWEST'S INDUSTRIAL BASE (open access)

MIDWEST REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIP (MRCSP) MANAGING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURING A FUTURE FOR THE MIDWEST'S INDUSTRIAL BASE

This is the third semiannual report for Phase I of the Midwest Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP). The project consists of nine tasks to be conducted over a two-year period that started in October 2003. The makeup of the MRCSP and objectives are described. Progress on each of the active Tasks is also described and where possible, for those Tasks at some point of completion, a summary of results is presented.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Ball, David; Burns, Robert; Bradbury, Judith; Dahowski, Bob; Davidson, Casie; Dooley, James et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimum Distribution Requirements for Foundations: Proposal to Disallow Administrative Costs (open access)

Minimum Distribution Requirements for Foundations: Proposal to Disallow Administrative Costs

None
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Missing and Exploited Children: Overview and Policy Concerns (open access)

Missing and Exploited Children: Overview and Policy Concerns

None
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Molecular-Thermodynamic Lattice Model for Binary Mixtures (open access)

A Molecular-Thermodynamic Lattice Model for Binary Mixtures

Using a method originally proposed for describing a continuum-space polymer fluid, a new expression for the Helmholtz energy of mixing is proposed for a binary lattice mixture. Molecular size asymmetry and nonrandomness due to segment-segment interactions are taken into account. An expression proposed by Yan, Liu and Hu for a binary lattice mixture of monomers, based on the Ising model, is used as a reference system. Calculated critical constants and liquid-liquid coexistence curves are in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations for lattice mixtures with modest size asymmetry. Because lattice spacing rises with increasing temperature, comparison of calculated binary liquid-liquid equilibria with experiment requires that calculations take into account that the interchange energy falls as temperature rises. While the new expression for the Helmholtz energy of mixing provides much improvement over the Flory-Huggins equation, calculated liquid-liquid equilibria for three binary systems are similar to those from Guggenheim's quasi-chemical theory.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Qin, Yuan & Prausnitz, John M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Nailing wood]

A man balances himself on the frame of a house while using a pwer tool to drive nails into wood.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
No-Core Shell Model and Reactions (open access)

No-Core Shell Model and Reactions

There has been a significant progress in ab initio approaches to the structure of light nuclei. Starting from realistic two- and three-nucleon interactions the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) can predict low-lying levels in p-shell nuclei. It is a challenging task to extend ab initio methods to describe nuclear reactions. In this contribution, we present a brief overview of the NCSM with examples of recent applications as well as the first steps taken toward nuclear reaction applications. In particular, we discuss cross section calculations of p+{sup 6}Li and {sup 6}He+p scattering as well as a calculation of the astrophysically important {sup 7}Be(p, {gamma}){sup 8}B S-factor.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Navratil, P; Ormand, W E; Caurier, E & Bertulani, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 110, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 110, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuclear Physics from Scratch (open access)

Nuclear Physics from Scratch

We report on applications of the ab initio, no-core shell model with the primary goal of achieving an accurate description of nuclear structure and reactions from the fundamental inter-nucleon interactions. We show that realistic two-nucleon interactions are inadequate to describe the low-lying structure of {sup 10}B, and that realistic three-nucleon interactions are essential. We report preliminary attempts to compute astrophysical S-factors
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Ormand, W; Navratil, P; Forssen, C & Bertulani, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons: Preliminary Results of Review of Campaigns to Provide Scientific Support for the Stockpile Stewardship Program (open access)

Nuclear Weapons: Preliminary Results of Review of Campaigns to Provide Scientific Support for the Stockpile Stewardship Program

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 1992, the United States began a unilateral moratorium on testing nuclear weapons. Subsequently, in 1993, the President and the Congress directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program to ensure the preservation of the United States' core intellectual and technical competencies in nuclear weapons without testing. In response, DOE developed the Stockpile Stewardship Program to (1) increase understanding of the basic phenomena associated with nuclear weapons, (2) provide a better predictive understanding of the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons, and (3) ensure a strong scientific and technical basis for future U. S. nuclear weapons policy objectives. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within DOE, is responsible for carrying out the Stockpile Stewardship Program. This responsibility encompasses many different tasks, including activities associated with the research, design, development, simulation, modeling, and nonnuclear testing of nuclear weapons, as well as the planning, assessment, and certification of the weapons' safety and reliability. Three nuclear weapons design laboratories support NNSA's mission: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, and Sandia National Laboratories in California and New …
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 147, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 147, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 2005

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 2005
Creator: Warren, Lee B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History