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Transportation Security: Issues for the 114th Congress (open access)

Transportation Security: Issues for the 114th Congress

This report examines aviation, transit and passenger rail security, as well as port and maritime security. The difficulty and cost of protecting the transportation sector from attack raises a core question for policymakers, i.e., how much effort and resources to put toward protecting potential targets versus pursuing and fighting terrorists.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Elias, Bart; Peterman, David R. & Frittelli, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remittances: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Remittances: Background and Issues for Congress

This report focuses on remittances, transfers of money and capital, sent by migrants and foreign immigrant communities from the United States to their home country. At over $432 billion in 2015, remittances sent home by international migrants to developing countries is larger than official development assistance (ODA) and more stable than private capital flows to these countries.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Weiss, Martin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Exports and 2014 Farm Bill Programs: Background and Current Issues (open access)

Agricultural Exports and 2014 Farm Bill Programs: Background and Current Issues

This report provides background on the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) agricultural export programs and relevant issues for Congress. U.S. agricultural exports have long been a bright spot in the U.S. balance of trade, with exports exceeding imports in every year since 1960.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: McMinimy, Mark A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0084 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0084

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions related to an emergency services district's sales and use tax election that failed to exclude territory where the sales tax was already capped at two percent (RQ-0070-KP).
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0082 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0082

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether licensed physical therapists are authorized to practice trigger point dry needling (RQ-0068-KP).
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0083 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0083

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county is responsible for costs associated with transporting a body from an autopsy to its final destination (RQ-0069-KP).
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches (open access)

Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches

This article proposes an improved method for bore-sight calibration based on the principles of symmetry of coordinate offsets and low correlations between bore-sight angles.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Li, Dong; Guo, Huadong; Wang, Cheng; Dong, Pinliang & Zuo, Zhengli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Lazarich, May 9, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with John Lazarich, May 9, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Lazarich. Lazarich joined the Coast Guard in August 1942 and trained at New York. His first assignment was aboard a patrol boat in New York Harbor. He then went to gunnery school in Florida before shipping out to New Guinea to serve aboard an Amry tug boat. He also participated in the campaign to liberate the Philippines and recalls being in a minefield off Borneo. He also went to Okinawa and eventually Japan before returing to the US in December. Lazarich elected to be discharged in March, 1946 and then joined the New York City Fire Department.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Lazarich, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuevo registro de Sphagnum falcatulum Besch (Sphagnaceae) en Isla Navarino, Reserva de la Biósfera Cabo de Hornos (open access)

Nuevo registro de Sphagnum falcatulum Besch (Sphagnaceae) en Isla Navarino, Reserva de la Biósfera Cabo de Hornos

This article characterizes habitats of Navarino Island to quantify the coverage of three main types of terrestrial environments.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Mackenzie, Roy; Lewis, Lily R. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Lazarich, May 9, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Lazarich, May 9, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Lazarich. Lazarich joined the Coast Guard in August 1942 and trained at New York. His first assignment was aboard a patrol boat in New York Harbor. He then went to gunnery school in Florida before shipping out to New Guinea to serve aboard an Amry tug boat. He also participated in the campaign to liberate the Philippines and recalls being in a minefield off Borneo. He also went to Okinawa and eventually Japan before returing to the US in December. Lazarich elected to be discharged in March, 1946 and then joined the New York City Fire Department.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Lazarich, John
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 281, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 281, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 44, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016 (open access)

Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 44, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016

Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Linebarger, Les
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
OU Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 93, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016 (open access)

OU Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 93, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Mussatto, Joe
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, May 9, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Money, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History