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Coast Guard: Efforts to Identify Arctic Requirements Are Ongoing, but More Communication about Agency Planning Efforts Would Be Beneficial (open access)

Coast Guard: Efforts to Identify Arctic Requirements Are Ongoing, but More Communication about Agency Planning Efforts Would Be Beneficial

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The retreat of Arctic sea ice combined with expected increasing human activity in the area--in shipping traffic and oil and gas exploration--has increased the strategic interest that the United States and other nations have in the Arctic. As a result, the Coast Guard is expected to acquire increased responsibilities in the region. GAO was asked to examine the extent to which the Coast Guard is: (1) coordinating with stakeholders on Arctic issues and operations and what, if any, further opportunities exist to enhance coordination; (2) taking action to identify requirements for future Arctic operations; and (3) taking steps to identify and mitigate challenges to meet current and future Arctic requirements. GAO reviewed Coast Guard documents that described efforts to plan for increased Arctic activity. GAO conducted a site visit to Alaska and interviewed federal officials, Alaska state officials, Alaska Native stakeholders, as well as private or nonprofit organizations representing Arctic interests. These observations are not generalizable, but provided insights on Coast Guard activities and actions."
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coherent excitation of a two-level atom driven by a far-off-resonant classical field: Analytical solutions (open access)

Coherent excitation of a two-level atom driven by a far-off-resonant classical field: Analytical solutions

Article on coherent excitation of a two-level atom driven by a far off-resonant classical field.
Date: March 15, 2010
Creator: Jha, Pankaj K. & Rostovtsev, Yuri V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 15, 2010
Creator: Mann, Rick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010 (open access)

Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 15, 2010
Creator: Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010 (open access)

Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials (open access)

Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is charged with developing and acquiring equipment to detect nuclear and radiological materials to support federal efforts to combat nuclear smuggling. Also within DHS, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has the lead for operating systems to detect nuclear and radiological materials entering the country at U.S. ports of entry. In 2005, DNDO began working on the cargo advanced automated radiography system (CAARS) intending that it be used by CBP to detect certain nuclear materials in vehicles and containers at U.S. ports of entry. However, in 2007 DNDO decided to cancel the acquisition phase of the program and convert it to a research and development program. GAO was asked to examine events that led to DNDO's decision to cancel the acquisition phase of the program and provide lessons learned from DNDO's experience. This statement is based on prior GAO reports from March 2006 through July 2010 and ongoing work reviewing DHS efforts to develop radiography technology. For ongoing work, GAO reviewed CAARS planning documents and interviewed DHS, DNDO, and CBP officials. GAO provided a draft of the information …
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combating Terrorism: Planning and Documentation of U.S. Development Assistance in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas Need to Be Improved (open access)

Combating Terrorism: Planning and Documentation of U.S. Development Assistance in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas Need to Be Improved

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has been a recognized safe haven for al Qaeda leadership and a base for the Taliban to launch cross-border attacks into Afghanistan. The United States, in an effort to assist Pakistan in addressing this threat, pledged $750 million between 2007 and 2011 to support development activities in the FATA region. This report focuses on (1) the extent U.S. development objectives align with U.S. national security goals and Pakistan's objectives, (2) U.S. efforts to track the pledge, (3) U.S. efforts to measure program performance in the FATA, and (4) efforts to monitor assistance in the FATA. GAO reviewed U.S. and Pakistani documents and interviewed U.S. and Pakistani officials in Washington, D.C., and Pakistan. GAO has prepared this report under the Comptroller General's authority to conduct evaluations on his own initiative."
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Comedy Night at the Muse] captions transcript

[Comedy Night at the Muse]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Comedy Night at the Muse event. This video features various comedy performances live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre including the late comedian Tyler Craig. The video shows Craig's stand-up routine which includes commentary on dating, women, and the male perspective along with three other male comedian. The video cuts at 1:59:24 to a blue screen then returns at 2:07:51 to the performance. The video cuts again at 2:24:09.
Date: 2010-01-15/2010-01-16
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig and others] captions transcript

[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig and others]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Tyler Craig's live comedy performance "Let the Good Times Roll" at the Clarence Muse Café Theater on January 15th, 2010. The footage shows Craig's stand-up routine which includes commentary on dating, women, and the male perspective along with three other male comedians. Craig appears as the man with the thick band of dreadlocks and velvet jacket with a chest patch.
Date: January 15, 2010
Creator: Craig, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 1] captions transcript

[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 1]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Tyler Craig's live comedy performance "Let the Good Times Roll" at the Clarence Muse Café Theater on January 15th, 2010. The footage shows Craig's stand-up routine which includes commentary on dating, women, and the male perspective along with three other male comedians. Craig appears the longest on the tape as the man with the thick band of dreadlocks and velvet jacket with a chest patch.
Date: January 15, 2010
Creator: Craig, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 2] captions transcript

[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 2]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Tyler Craig's live comedy performance "Let the Good Times Roll" at the Clarence Muse Café Theater on January 15th, 2010. The footage shows Craig's stand-up routine which includes commentary on dating, women, sex and the male perspective.
Date: January 15, 2010
Creator: Craig, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 3] captions transcript

[Comedy night at the Muse featuring Tyler Craig, tape 3]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Tyler Craig's live comedy performance "Let the Good Times Roll" at the Clarence Muse Café Theater on January 15th, 2010. The footage shows Craig's stand-up routine which includes commentary on music, dating, women, sex, and the male perspective.
Date: January 15, 2010
Creator: Craig, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Development Block Grants: Entitlement Communities' and States' Methods of Distributing Funds Reflect Program Flexibility (open access)

Community Development Block Grants: Entitlement Communities' and States' Methods of Distributing Funds Reflect Program Flexibility

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (act) creating the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides entitlement communities (metropolitan cities and urban counties) and states with significant discretion in how they distribute funds for eligible activities. Because of this discretion, entitlement communities may use a variety of processes to select individual projects and states may also use different methods to distribute funds to non-entitlement communities. GAO was asked to report on (1) the various methods by which entitlement communities use and distribute their CDBG funds to individual projects within their jurisdictions; (2) the various methods by which states distribute CDBG funds to non-entitlement communities; and (3) HUD's role in overseeing these methods. GAO interviewed CDBG administrators for 20 entitlement communities (the 10 largest by funding and 10 randomly selected) and 5 states (reflecting variety of methods used and geography) and reviewed documents related to their CDBG funding decisions, including the annual action plans for all 50 states. GAO also spoke with CDBG stakeholders, reviewed relevant statutes and regulations, interviewed HUD field office staff and reviewed monitoring documentation."
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Current Legislative Issues (open access)

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Current Legislative Issues

This report provides an overview and analysis of issues Congress might choose to consider when taking up legislation to reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness (open access)

Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness

This paper discusses research in assessment guided instruction.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Western, Vanessa S. & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of cloud microphysical quantities with forecasts from cloud prediction models (open access)

A comparison of cloud microphysical quantities with forecasts from cloud prediction models

Numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF, NCEP) are evaluated using ARM observational data collected at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. Cloud forecasts generated by the models are compared with cloud microphysical quantities, retrieved using a variety of parameterizations. Information gained from this comparison will be utilized during the FASTER project, as models are evaluated for their ability to reproduce fast physical processes detected in the observations. Here the model performance is quantified against the observations through a statistical analysis. Observations from remote sensing instruments (radar, lidar, radiometer and radiosonde) are used to derive the cloud microphysical quantities: ice water content, liquid water content, ice effective radius and liquid effective radius. Unfortunately, discrepancies in the derived quantities arise when different retrieval schemes are applied to the observations. The uncertainty inherent in retrieving the microphysical quantities using various retrievals is estimated from the range of output microphysical values. ARM microphysical retrieval schemes (Microbase, Mace) are examined along with the CloudNet retrieval processing of data from the ARM sites for this purpose. Through the interfacing of CloudNet and “ARM” processing schemes an ARMNET product is produced and employed as accepted observations in the assessment of cloud model predictions.
Date: March 15, 2010
Creator: Dunn, M.; Jensen, M.; Hogan, R.; O’Connor, E. & Huang, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of the Current World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the World Trade Center Health Program Proposed by Title I of H.R. 847 (open access)

Comparison of the Current World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the World Trade Center Health Program Proposed by Title I of H.R. 847

This report compares the current federally supported medical screening and treatment program offered to various persons affected by the terrorist attack on New York City on September 11, 2001, with the federal program proposed to be established by Title I of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, as amended and passed by the House of Representatives. The World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (MMTP) and the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) are the specific programs compared in this report.
Date: October 15, 2010
Creator: Szymendera, Scott & Lister, Sarah A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of the Current World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the World Trade Center Health Program Proposed by Title I of H.R. 847 (open access)

Comparison of the Current World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the World Trade Center Health Program Proposed by Title I of H.R. 847

This report compares the current federally supported medical screening and treatment program offered to various persons affected by the terrorist attack on New York City on September 11, 2001, with the federal program proposed to be established by Title I of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, as amended and passed by the House of Representatives. The World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (MMTP) and the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) are the specific programs compared in this report.
Date: June 15, 2010
Creator: Szymendera, Scott & Lister, Sarah A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational study on NiA1: ground state, structure, and spectroscopic constants using density-functional theory (open access)

Computational study on NiA1: ground state, structure, and spectroscopic constants using density-functional theory

This paper discusses a computational study on NiA1 and ground state, structure, and spectroscopic constants using density-functional theory.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Janardan, Smitha S. & Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Conductivity Relationship for Steady-state Unsaturated Flow Processes under Optimal Flow Conditions (open access)

A Conductivity Relationship for Steady-state Unsaturated Flow Processes under Optimal Flow Conditions

Optimality principles have been used for investigating physical processes in different areas. This work attempts to apply an optimal principle (that water flow resistance is minimized on global scale) to steady-state unsaturated flow processes. Based on the calculus of variations, we show that under optimal conditions, hydraulic conductivity for steady-state unsaturated flow is proportional to a power function of the magnitude of water flux. This relationship is consistent with an intuitive expectation that for an optimal water flow system, locations where relatively large water fluxes occur should correspond to relatively small resistance (or large conductance). Similar results were also obtained for hydraulic structures in river basins and tree leaves, as reported in other studies. Consistence of this theoretical result with observed fingering-flow behavior in unsaturated soils and an existing model is also demonstrated.
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: Liu, H. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conservation Reserve Program: Status and Current Issues (open access)

Conservation Reserve Program: Status and Current Issues

This report discusses the Conservative Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, that provides payments to farmers to take highly erodible or environmentally sensitive cropland out of production for 10 years or more. It also discusses several other subprograms of CRP.
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: Cowan, Tadlock
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Constraints on the Photon Mass from the Galactic Magnetic Field Structure (open access)

Constraints on the Photon Mass from the Galactic Magnetic Field Structure

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Date: January 15, 2010
Creator: Ryutov, D. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Analysis for Proactive Protective Intelligence (open access)

Content Analysis for Proactive Protective Intelligence

The aim of this paper is to outline a plan for developing and validating a Proactive Protective Intelligence approach that prevents targeted violence through the analysis and assessment of threats overtly or covertly expressed in abnormal communications to USSS protectees.
Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: Sanfilippo, Antonio P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuous CO2 Extractor and Methods (open access)

Continuous CO2 Extractor and Methods

The purpose of this CRADA was to assist in technology transfer from Russia to the US and assist in development of the technology improvements and applications for use in the U.S. and worldwide. Over the period of this work, ORNL has facilitated design, development and demonstration of a low-pressure liquid extractor and development of initial design for high-pressure supercritical CO2 fluid extractor.
Date: June 15, 2010
Creator: listed, None
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library