Influenza Antiviral Drugs and Patent Law Issues (open access)

Influenza Antiviral Drugs and Patent Law Issues

This report identifies and analyzes the patent law aspects of the avian influenza drug situation. First, the report explains the role that patent rights play in affecting the availability of Tamiflu. Second, the report examines options for increasing the drug's production, including the possibility of governments abrogating Roche's patent rights by issuing compulsory licenses to other drug companies to manufacture generic versions of Tamiflu without Roche's consent.
Date: March 20, 2007
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Statistics and Programs (open access)

Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Statistics and Programs

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Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress (open access)

FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress

This report analyzes each of the areas that has changed as a result of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions and Court decisions. The various positions in the debate also are summarized.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Issues in the 110th Congress: Oversight and Implementation (open access)

Water Quality Issues in the 110th Congress: Oversight and Implementation

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Date: March 5, 2007
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-War Iraq: Foreign Contributions to Training, Peacekeeping, and Reconstruction (open access)

Post-War Iraq: Foreign Contributions to Training, Peacekeeping, and Reconstruction

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Date: March 21, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2007 Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Other Purposes (open access)

FY2007 Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Other Purposes

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Date: March 28, 2007
Creator: Daggett, Stephen; Belasco, Amy; Towell, Pat; Epstein, Susan B.; Veillette, Connie; Tarnoff, Curt et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation (open access)

Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation

The Nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures. This report discusses in more detail the evolution of a national critical infrastructure policy and the institutional structures established to implement it. The report highlights five issues of Congressional concern: identifying critical assets; assessing vulnerabilities and risks; allocating resources; information sharing; and, regulation.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Moteff, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Permitting: Status of Implementation and Issues (open access)

Clean Air Permitting: Status of Implementation and Issues

This report provides information about the Implementation and Issues of Clean Air Permitting. It also describes the statutory background of Title V and the status of implementation, in terms of federal approval and local permitting authorities.
Date: March 14, 2007
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Advisory Committees: A Primer (open access)

Federal Advisory Committees: A Primer

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Date: March 20, 2007
Creator: Smith, Stephanie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act of 2005 (CURIA) (open access)

Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act of 2005 (CURIA)

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Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Smale, Pauline
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Administrative Officers and Officials (open access)

Senate Administrative Officers and Officials

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Date: March 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (open access)

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment — of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date: March 28, 2007
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meat and Poultry Inspection: Background and Selected Issues (open access)

Meat and Poultry Inspection: Background and Selected Issues

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Date: March 5, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modifying the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT): Revenue Costs and Potential Revenue Offsets (open access)

Modifying the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT): Revenue Costs and Potential Revenue Offsets

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Date: March 6, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Article 98 Agreements and Sanctions on U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin America (open access)

Article 98 Agreements and Sanctions on U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin America

This report is on Article 98 Agreements and Sanctions on U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin America.
Date: March 22, 2007
Creator: Ribando, Clare M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
TANF, Child Care, Marriage Promotion, and Responsible Fatherhood Provisions in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171) (open access)
Medicaid Citizenship Documentation (open access)

Medicaid Citizenship Documentation

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Date: March 22, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care and Markets (open access)

Health Care and Markets

This report discusses the Invisible Hand Theorem, which states that when certain assumptions hold, market outcomes will be efficient.
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Institutional Eligibility for Participation in Title IV Student Aid Programs Under the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization Issues (open access)

Institutional Eligibility for Participation in Title IV Student Aid Programs Under the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization Issues

This report provides a general overview of HEA provisions that affect institutional eligibility for participation in Title IV student aid programs and, in some instances, discusses specific issues that may arise during the HEA reauthorization process.
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Skinner, Rebecca R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instructing House Conferees (open access)

Instructing House Conferees

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Date: March 8, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The World Bank: The International Development Association’s 14th Replenishment (2006-2008) (open access)

The World Bank: The International Development Association’s 14th Replenishment (2006-2008)

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Date: March 15, 2007
Creator: Weiss, Martin A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Types of Committee Hearings (open access)

Types of Committee Hearings

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Date: March 23, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Payments (open access)

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Payments

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Date: March 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Environment Facility (GEF): Overview (open access)

Global Environment Facility (GEF): Overview

This report provides an overview about Global Environment Facility (GEF) which was established in 1991, has served since then as a primary source of funding for several major international environmental concern.
Date: March 2, 2007
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
System: The UNT Digital Library