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Cuba Democracy Assistance: USAID's Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners (open access)

Cuba Democracy Assistance: USAID's Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Department of State (State) provide democracy assistance for Cuba aimed at developing civil society and promoting freedom of information. Typical program beneficiaries include Cuban community leaders, independent journalists, women, youths, and marginalized groups. USAID receives the majority of funding allocated for this assistance, although State has received 32 percent of funding since 2004. In recent years, both USAID and State have provided more funding for program implementation to for-profit and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) with a worldwide or regional focus than to universities and to NGOs that focus only on Cuba. All types of implementing partners, but worldwide or regional organizations in particular, used subpartners to implement program activities under 21 of the 29 awards and contracts that GAO reviewed."
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Security: Federal Communications Commission Needs to Strengthen Controls over Enhanced Secured Network Project (open access)

Information Security: Federal Communications Commission Needs to Strengthen Controls over Enhanced Secured Network Project

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not effectively implement appropriate information security controls in the initial components of the Enhanced Secured Network (ESN) project. Although FCC took steps to enhance its ability to control and monitor its network for security threats, weaknesses identified in the commission's deployment of components of the ESN project as of August 2012 resulted in unnecessary risk that sensitive information could be disclosed, modified, or obtained without authorization. This occurred, in part, because FCC did not fully implement key information security activities during the development and deployment of the initial components of the project. While FCC policy is to integrate security risk management into system life-cycle management activities, the commission instead deployed the initial components of the ESN project without, among other things, first selecting and documenting the security controls, assessing the controls, or authorizing the system to operate. As a result of these deficiencies, FCC's information remained at unnecessary risk of inadvertent or deliberate misuse, improper disclosure, or destruction. Further, addressing these deficiencies could require costly and timeconsuming rework."
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance Measures and Comprehensive Funding Data Could Enhance Management of National Capital Region Preparedness Resources (open access)

Performance Measures and Comprehensive Funding Data Could Enhance Management of National Capital Region Preparedness Resources

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "FEMA's NCRC officials are not assisting regional officials in (1) developing performance measures to better assess the implementation of their strategic plan and (2) identifying federal funding available to prioritize preparedness investments. They are not doing so because they view their role as that of acting as a coordinator for other federal agencies, although they agreed that they could do more to support regional efforts and are positioned to do so. The NCR Strategic Plan helps regional officials identify the capabilities needed to strengthen the region's homeland security efforts and defines the framework for achieving those capabilities. NCR preparedness officials said that they have been working to develop preparedness measures since 2003, but noted that these measures are difficult to link to a measured improvement in regional preparedness. For example, while the region identified more than $25 million in UASI grant projects invested in providing public alerts and warnings, regional officials have not developed a measure to determine the effectiveness of these activities. Without such measures, it is unclear to what extent the efforts will advance the region's goals."
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 622, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 622, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 624, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 624, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 4, Pages 331-442, January 25, 2013 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 4, Pages 331-442, January 25, 2013

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: January 25, 2013
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TP76 -MicroCT Scatter Evaluation (open access)

TP76 -MicroCT Scatter Evaluation

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Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Champley, K
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 300, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 300, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 623, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 623, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
TP75-MicroCT Test Bed Data Acquisition for Multi-Energy Zeff and Rho-e Decomposition Analysis (open access)

TP75-MicroCT Test Bed Data Acquisition for Multi-Energy Zeff and Rho-e Decomposition Analysis

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Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Brown, W. D. & Smith, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2013 METALS IN BIOLOGY GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE, JANUARY 20-25, 2013 (open access)

2013 METALS IN BIOLOGY GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE, JANUARY 20-25, 2013

Typical topics for lectures and posters include: biochemical and biophysical characterization of new metal containing proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, factors, and chelators from all forms of life; synthesis, detailed characterization, and reaction chemistry of biomimetic compounds; novel crystal and solution structures of biological molecules and synthetic metal-chelates; discussions of the roles that metals play in medicine, maintenance of the environment, and biogeochemical processes; metal homeostasis; application of theory and computations to the structure and mechanism of metal-containing biological systems; and novel applications of spectroscopy to metals in biological systems.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Rosenzweig, Amy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Biomarkers for Chronic Beryllium Disease in Mice (open access)

Development of Biomarkers for Chronic Beryllium Disease in Mice

Beryllium is a strategic metal, indispensable for national defense programs in aerospace, telecommunications, electronics, and weaponry. Exposure to beryllium is an extensively documented occupational hazard that causes irreversible, debilitating granulomatous lung disease in as much as 3 - 5% of exposed workers. Mechanistic research on beryllium exposure-disease relationships has been severely limited by a general lack of a sufficient CBD animal model. We have now developed and tested an animal model which can be used for dissecting dose-response relationships and pathogenic mechanisms and for testing new diagnostic and treatment paradigms. We have created 3 strains of transgenic mice in which the human antigen-presenting moiety, HLA-DP, was inserted into the mouse genome. Each mouse strain contains HLA-DPB1 alleles that confer different magnitude of risk for chronic beryllium disease (CBD): HLA-DPB1*0401 (odds ratio = 0.2), HLA-DPB1*0201 (odds ratio = 15), HLA-DPB1*1701 (odds ratio = 240). Our preliminary work has demonstrated that the *1701 allele, as predicted by human studies, results in the greatest degree of sensitization in a mouse ear swelling test. We have also completed dose-response experiments examining beryllium-induced lung granulomas and identified susceptible and resistant inbred strains of mice (without the human transgenes) as well as quantitative trait loci that …
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Gordon, Terry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress (open access)

Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress

This report provides a brief overview of the three unemployment insurance programs — unemployment Compensation (UC), temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08), and Extended Benefits (EB) — that may currently pay benefits to eligible unemployed workers.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Whittaker, Julie M. & Isaacs, Katelin P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
First-Term Members of the House of Representatives and Senate, 64th - 113th Congresses (open access)

First-Term Members of the House of Representatives and Senate, 64th - 113th Congresses

This report provides summary data on the number of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives who first entered Congress between the 64th Congress (1915-1917) and the 113th Congress (2013-2014).
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Manning, Jennifer E. & Petersen, R. Eric
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TP66-MicroCT Small Volume Comparison (open access)

TP66-MicroCT Small Volume Comparison

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Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Brown, W D & Martz, H E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension: Issues and Background (open access)

Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension: Issues and Background

This report considers the U.S. Department of Agriculture's program for Research, Education, and Economics (REE). Moreover, the report discusses the amount of funding for the REE and debates the direction of it.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Shields, Dennis A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Income/Resource Limits and Accounts Exempt from Benefit Determinations (open access)

Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Income/Resource Limits and Accounts Exempt from Benefit Determinations

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Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration (SSA): Budget Issues (open access)

Social Security Administration (SSA): Budget Issues

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Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) (open access)

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

None
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards Comprehensive Syntactic and Semantic Annotations of the Clinical Narrative (open access)

Towards Comprehensive Syntactic and Semantic Annotations of the Clinical Narrative

This article discusses the creation of annotated clinical narratives with layers of syntactic and semantic labels to facilitate advances in clinical natural language processing (NLP).
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Albright, Daniel; Lanfranchi, Arrick; Fredriksen, Anwen; Styler, William F., IV; Warner, Colin; Hwang, Jena D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2013-01-25 – Concert Orchestra

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Concert Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the orchestra's perspective, showing the conductor.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: University of North Texas. Concert Orchestra.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2013-01-25 – Trombone Studio Showcase 1

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Trombone quartet recital performed at the University of North Texas Voertman Hall.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: University of North Texas. Maniacal 4.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 320, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 320, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 113, No. 171, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 113, No. 171, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 2013

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History