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Legislative Procedure in Congress: Basic Sources for Congressional Staff (open access)

Legislative Procedure in Congress: Basic Sources for Congressional Staff

Written for congressional staff, this report identifies and provides details on how to obtain official government sources of information on the legislative process and the rules and procedure of the House and Senate. References to selected CRS products are also provided, as well as a listing of selected titles for supplementary reading.
Date: July 27, 2011
Creator: Manning, Jennifer E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Morocco: Current Issues (open access)

Morocco: Current Issues

This report discusses the current political and foreign policy status of Morocco, especially with regard to its relationship with the United States and its struggles combating terrorism.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Arieff, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 2011 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 2011

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 27, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 21, Pages 3223-3362, May 27, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 21, Pages 3223-3362, May 27, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 2011 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 2011

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 27, 2011
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 162, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 162, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 27, 2011
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 162, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 162, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 27, 2011
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: April 27, 2011
Creator: Banks, Shauna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0861 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0861

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Requirements for real property to qualify as an "ecological laboratory" under section 23.51, Tax Code (RQ-0934-GA)
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 994, Chapter 126 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 994, Chapter 126

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to proceedings that may be referred to and the powers of a criminal law magistrate in Bexar County.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1107, Chapter 142 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1107, Chapter 142

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of entering students at public and private or independent institutions of higher education.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress (open access)

Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress

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Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

This report discusses the overview of U.S. Policy Concerns, The south caucasus's external security context, Obstacles to peace and independence, U.S. security assistance and U.S. trade investment.
Date: October 27, 2011
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System (open access)

Medicare Physician Payment Updates and the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System

This report provides a background on the Medicare fee schedule, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and the annual updates, and discusses recent proposal to address this issue.
Date: December 27, 2011
Creator: Hahn, Jim & Mulvey, Janemarie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Welfare: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits for Children in Foster Care (open access)

Child Welfare: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits for Children in Foster Care

This report begins with a discussion of the foster care system and the Social Security benefits available to eligible children, including those in foster care. It then describes the role of representative payees and their responsibilities. The report provides data on the use of Social Security benefits to reimburse states for child welfare, and includes a discussion of the Keffeler decision. Finally, the report concludes with proposals supported by some advocates to change the current practice of using SSI and other Social Security benefits to fund foster care.
Date: April 27, 2011
Creator: Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.; Szymendera, Scott & Stoltzfus, Emilie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FCC’s Authority to Regulate Net Neutrality After Comcast v. FCC (open access)

The FCC’s Authority to Regulate Net Neutrality After Comcast v. FCC

This report provides information about The FCC’s Authority to Regulate Net Neutrality After Comcast v. FCC where a major debate over the government's role with respect to the internet is occurring.
Date: October 27, 2011
Creator: kathleen Ann Raune
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (open access)

The U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement

None
Date: October 27, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Help America Vote Act and Elections Reform: Overview and Issues (open access)

The Help America Vote Act and Elections Reform: Overview and Issues

This report provides an overview and the issues on the Help America Vote Act and elections reform.
Date: June 27, 2011
Creator: Coleman, Kevin J. & Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Energy Retrofit Guide Office Buildings (open access)

Advanced Energy Retrofit Guide Office Buildings

The Advanced Energy Retrofit Guide for Office Buildings is a component of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Energy Retrofit Guides for Existing Buildings series. The aim of the guides is to facilitate a rapid escalation in the number of energy efficiency projects in existing buildings and to enhance the quality and depth of those projects. By presenting general project planning guidance as well as financial payback metrics for the most common energy efficiency measures, these guides provide a practical roadmap to effectively planning and implementing performance improvements for existing buildings.
Date: September 27, 2011
Creator: Liu, Guopeng; Liu, Bing; Wang, Weimin; Zhang, Jian; Athalye, Rahul A.; Moser, Dave et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Ensemble of Perturbed-Input-Parameter Simulations by the Community Atmosphere Model (open access)

A New Ensemble of Perturbed-Input-Parameter Simulations by the Community Atmosphere Model

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is a fundamental challenge in the numerical simulation of Earth's weather and climate, and other complex systems. It entails much more than attaching defensible error bars to predictions: in particular it includes assessing low-probability but high-consequence events. To achieve these goals with models containing a large number of uncertain input parameters, structural uncertainties, etc., raw computational power is needed. An automated, self-adapting search of the possible model configurations is also useful. Our UQ initiative at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has produced the most extensive set to date of simulations from the US Community Atmosphere Model. We are examining output from about 3,000 twelve-year climate simulations generated with a specialized UQ software framework, and assessing the model's accuracy as a function of 21 to 28 uncertain input parameter values. Most of the input parameters we vary are related to the boundary layer, clouds, and other sub-grid scale processes. Our simulations prescribe surface boundary conditions (sea surface temperatures and sea ice amounts) to match recent observations. Fully searching this 21+ dimensional space is impossible, but sensitivity and ranking algorithms can identify input parameters having relatively little effect on a variety of output fields, either individually or in nonlinear …
Date: October 27, 2011
Creator: Covey, C; Brandon, S; Bremer, P T; Domyancis, D; Garaizar, X; Johannesson, G et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Next Generation Heating System for Scale Free Steel Reheating (open access)

Development of Next Generation Heating System for Scale Free Steel Reheating

The work carried out under this project includes development and design of components, controls, and economic modeling tools that would enable the steel industry to reduce energy intensity through reduction of scale formation during the steel reheating process. Application of scale free reheating offers savings in energy used for production of steel that is lost as scale, and increase in product yield for the global steel industry. The technology can be applied to a new furnace application as well as retrofit design for conversion of existing steel reheating furnaces. The development work has resulted in the knowledge base that will enable the steel industry and steel forging industry us to reheat steel with 75% to 95% reduction in scale formation and associated energy savings during the reheating process. Scale reduction also results in additional energy savings associated with higher yield from reheat furnaces. Energy used for steel production ranges from 9 MM Btu/ton to 16.6 MM Btu/ton or the industry average of approximately 13 MM Btu/ton. Hence, reduction in scale at reheating stage would represent a substantial energy reduction for the steel industry. Potential energy savings for the US steel industry could be in excess of 25 Trillion Btu/year when …
Date: January 27, 2011
Creator: Thekdi, Dr. Arvind C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE FINAL DEMISE OF EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY PARK BUILDING K-33 Health Physics Society Annual Meeting West Palm Beach, Florida June 27, 2011 (open access)

THE FINAL DEMISE OF EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY PARK BUILDING K-33 Health Physics Society Annual Meeting West Palm Beach, Florida June 27, 2011

Building K-33 was constructed in 1954 as the final section of the five-stage uranium enrichment cascade at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (ORGDP). The two original building (K-25 and K-27) were used to produce weapons grade highly enriched uranium (HEU). Building K-29, K-31, and K-33 were added to produce low enriched uranium (LEU) for nuclear power plant fuel. During ORGDP operations K-33 produced a peak enrichment of 2.5%. Thousands of tons of reactor tails fed into gaseous diffusion plants in the 1950s and early 1960s introducing some fission products and transuranics. Building K-33 was a two-story, 25-meters (82-feet) tall structure with approximately 30 hectare (64 acres) of floor space. The Operations (first) Floor contained offices, change houses, feed vaporization rooms, and auxiliary equipment to support enrichment operations. The Cell (second) Floor contained the enrichment process equipment and was divided into eight process units (designated K-902-1 through K-902-8). Each unit contained ten cells, and each cell contained eight process stages (diffusers) for a total of 640 enrichment stages. 1985: LEU buildings were taken off-line after the anticipated demand for uranium enrichment failed to materialize. 1987: LEU buildings were placed in permanent shutdown. Process equipment were maintained in a shutdown state. …
Date: June 27, 2011
Creator: King, David A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library