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2007 Savannah River Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report (open access)

2007 Savannah River Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) commitment to assuring the health and safety of its workers includes the conduct of epidemiologic surveillance activities that provide an early warning system for health problems among workers. The Illness and Injury Surveillance Program monitors illnesses and health conditions that result in an absence of workdays, occupational injuries and illnesses, and disabilities and deaths among current workers.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Health, Safety, and Security.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2008 Nevada Test Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report (open access)

2008 Nevada Test Site Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) commitment to assuring the health and safety of its workers includes the conduct of epidemiologic surveillance activities that provide an early warning system for health problems among workers. The Illness and Injury Surveillance Program monitors illnesses and health conditions that result in an absence of workdays, occupational injuries and illnesses, and disabilities and deaths among current workers.
Date: October 5, 2009
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Health, Safety, and Security.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) "Swine Flu" Outbreak: An Overview (open access)

The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) "Swine Flu" Outbreak: An Overview

This report provides an overview of key actions taken and authorities invoked by WHO and the U.S. government. First, it discusses the WHO process to determine the phase of a threatened or emerging flu pandemic and touches on a number of related issues. The report then examines actions taken by the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services and provides information about appropriations and funding for pandemic flu activities.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Lister, Sarah A. & Redhead, C. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Census: Fundamental Building Blocks of a Successful Enumeration Face Challenges (open access)

2010 Census: Fundamental Building Blocks of a Successful Enumeration Face Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The decennial census is a constitutionally-mandated activity that produces data used to apportion congressional seats, redraw congressional districts, and allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance. In March 2008, GAO designated the 2010 Census a high-risk area in part because of problems with the performance of handheld computers used to collect data. The U.S. Census Bureau has since strengthened its risk management efforts and made other improvements; however, the Bureau curtailed a dress rehearsal scheduled for 2008 and was unable to test key operations under census-like conditions. This testimony discusses the Bureau's readiness for 2010 and covers: (1) importance of reliable cost estimates; (2) building a complete and accurate address list; (3) following up on missing and conflicting responses to ensure accuracy; (4) targeting outreach to undercounted populations; and (5) designing, testing, and implementing technology for the census. The testimony is based on previously issued and ongoing GAO work."
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Census: Little Time Remains to Address Operational Challenges (open access)

2010 Census: Little Time Remains to Address Operational Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The decennial census is a constitutionally-mandated activity that produces data used to apportion congressional seats, redraw congressional districts, and allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance. In March 2008, GAO designated the 2010 Census a high-risk area in part because of problems with the performance of handheld computers used to collect data. The U.S. Census Bureau has since strengthened its risk management efforts and made other improvements; however, the Bureau curtailed a dress rehearsal scheduled for 2008 and was unable to test key operations under census-like conditions. This testimony discusses the Bureau's readiness for 2010 and covers: (1) the importance of reliable cost estimates; (2) building a complete and accurate address list; (3) following up on missing and conflicting responses to ensure accuracy; (4) targeting outreach to undercounted populations; and (5) designing, testing, and implementing technology for the census. The testimony is based on previously issued and ongoing GAO work."
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 28 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 28

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to designating March 2 to March 3, 2009, as Tyler Days at the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 33 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 33

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to welcoming Leadership Kerr County to the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 39 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 39

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to commending Edinburg Mayor Joe Ochoa for his years of service.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 42 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 42

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to welcoming the League City Chamber of Commerce and its legislative committee on their visit to the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 48 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 48

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to recognizing February 17, 2009, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 55 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 55

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to commemorating the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and the scientific achievements of The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Texas A&M University.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2457, Chapter 6 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2457, Chapter 6

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the duty of the General Land Office to clean, maintain, and clear debris from a public beach affected by a declared disaster.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2594, Chapter 7 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2594, Chapter 7

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the hours for the wholesale delivery or sale of alcoholic beverages.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 90, Chapter 8 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 90, Chapter 8

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to adoption of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 346, Chapter 9 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 346, Chapter 9

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to information submitted to and maintained in the immunization registry after an individual becomes an adult.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 997, Chapter 10 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 997, Chapter 10

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the administration of and exemptions from the gas production tax.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 17 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 17

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to recognizing First Baptist Church in Blanco on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 19 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 19

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to recognizing February 17, 2009, as Kidney Day at the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 26 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 26

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to recognizing Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary Memorial Service in honor of the crew of the USS Frank E. Evans.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 27 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 27

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to recognizing February 26, 2009, as TIPRO Day at the State Capitol.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accretion onto the first stellar mass black holes (open access)

Accretion onto the first stellar mass black holes

The first stars, forming at redshifts z > 15 in minihalos with M {approx} 10{sup 5-6} M{sub {circle_dot}} may leave behind remnant black holes, which could conceivably have been the 'seeds' for the supermassive black holes observed at z {approx}< 7. We study remnant black hole growth through accretion, including for the first time the radiation emitted due to accretion, with adaptive mesh refinement cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations. The effects of photo-ionization and heating dramatically affect the large-scale inflow, resulting in negligible mass growth. We compare cases with accretion luminosity included and neglected to show that accretion radiation drastically changes the environment within 100 pc of the black hole, increasing gas temperatures by an order of magnitude. Gas densities are reduced and further star formation in the same minihalo is prevented for the two hundred million years we followed. Without radiative feedback included most seed black holes do not gain mass as efficiently as has been hoped for in previous theories, implying that black hole remnants of Pop III stars in minihalos are not likely to be miniquasars. Most importantly, however, our calculations demonstrate that if these black holes are indeed accreting close to the Bondi-Hoyle rate with ten percent radiative …
Date: August 5, 2009
Creator: Alvarez, Marcelo A.; Wise, John H. & Abel, Tom
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ADVANCES IN IMPEDANCE THEORY (open access)

ADVANCES IN IMPEDANCE THEORY

We review recent progress in the following areas of the impedance theory: calculation of impedance of tapers and small angle collimators; optical approximation and parabolic equation for the high-frequency impedance; impedance due to resistive inserts in a perfectly conducting pipe.
Date: June 5, 2009
Creator: Stupakov, G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance

This report discusses the current Afghan government, which is rife with corruption and very limited in power, hence the continued presence of the Taliban and general worldwide pessimism about Afghanistan stabilization efforts. This report addresses issues such as ethnic diputes, President Hamid Karzai's re-election bid for August 2009, and the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship in particular. The Obama Administration is currently promoting, among other Afghanistan stabilization efforts, a "civilian surge" of additional U.S. personnel to Afghanistan.
Date: June 5, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: February 5, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library