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Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy

This report looks at Kuwait's relationships with its neighbors in the Persian Gulf, and its own political system which has been in turmoil since 2006.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the 113th Congress: Short Summary of Senate- Passed S. 744 (open access)

Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the 113th Congress: Short Summary of Senate- Passed S. 744

Report that summarizes major immigration reform provisions of S. 744, as passed by the Senate.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Rosenblum, Marc R. & Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exhibits @ UNT. An Implementation Proposal (open access)

Exhibits @ UNT. An Implementation Proposal

Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries proposing new methods and ideas for displaying online exhibits.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Analysis of Benefits Under Proposed Program Changes (open access)

Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Analysis of Benefits Under Proposed Program Changes

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO's simulation found that under the current Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) program, the median wage replacement rate--the percentage of take-home pay replaced by FECA--for total-disability beneficiaries was 88 percent for U.S. Postal Service (USPS) beneficiaries and 80 percent for non-USPS beneficiaries in 2010. GAO also found that proposals to set initial FECA benefits at a single compensation rate would reduce these replacement rates by 3 to 4 percentage points under the 70-percent option and 7 to 8 percentage points under the 66-2/3 percent option. Beneficiaries with dependents would receive reduced FECA benefits under both options. The decreases in wage replacement rates were due to the greater proportion of beneficiaries who had a dependent--over 70 percent of both USPS and non-USPS beneficiaries."
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elder Justice: More Federal Coordination and Public Awareness Needed (open access)

Elder Justice: More Federal Coordination and Public Awareness Needed

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year 2011, two agencies--the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Justice (Justice) --separately administered 12 fragmented but minimally overlapping programs that directed funds toward elder justice, with low risk of duplication. Specifically, because more than one federal agency administers these programs, GAO found that these grant programs are fragmented. Further, GAO found that overlap across the 12 programs was minimal because the programs varied with respect to (1) funding mechanisms and recipients, (2) elder abuse victims targeted, (3) service providers, and (4) activities conducted. For example, a few of these programs provided formula grants to all states and most dispersed discretionary grants to a limited number of recipients. Programs that supported victims of elder abuse generally assisted all types of victims, but some also focused on certain subgroups, such as older women. Some programs that assisted service providers also targeted specific subgroups, such as judges and court personnel. In addition, elder justice programs supported a wide range of activities. For example, one HHS program provided public education to help identify and prevent elder abuse, while a Justice program trained law enforcement officers …
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Outpatient Therapy: Implementation of the 2012 Manual Medical Review Process (open access)

Medicare Outpatient Therapy: Implementation of the 2012 Manual Medical Review Process

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented two types of manual medical reviews (MMR)--reviews of preapproval requests and reviews of claims submitted without preapproval--for all outpatient therapy services that were above a $3,700 per-beneficiary threshold provided during the last 3 months of 2012. However, CMS did not issue complete guidance on how to process preapproval requests before the implementation of the MMR process in October 2012, and the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) that conducted the MMRs were unable to fully automate systems for tracking preapproval requests in the time allotted. CMS required the MACs to manually review preapproval requests within 10 business days of receipt of all supporting documentation to determine whether the services were medically necessary, and to automatically approve any requests they were unable to review within that time frame. CMS officials told GAO that the purpose of the preapproval process was to protect beneficiaries from being liable for payment for nonaffirmed services by giving the provider and beneficiary guidance as to whether Medicare would pay for the requested services. If a provider delivered services without submitting a preapproval request, the MACs …
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial and Performance Management: More Reliable and Complete Information Needed to Address Federal Management and Fiscal Challenges (open access)

Financial and Performance Management: More Reliable and Complete Information Needed to Address Federal Management and Fiscal Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Three long-standing major impediments prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the U.S. government's 2012 accrual-based consolidated financial statements: (1) serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD), (2) the federal government's inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal entities, and (3) the federal government's ineffective process for preparing the consolidated financial statements. Also, GAO was prevented from expressing opinions on the 2012 social insurance-related statements because of significant uncertainties primarily related to the achievement of projected reductions in Medicare cost growth reflected in the statements."
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Constraints on the Phase Plane of the Dark Energy Equation of State (open access)

Constraints on the Phase Plane of the Dark Energy Equation of State

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Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Chen, Chien-Wen; /Taiwan, Natl. Normal U.; Chen, Pisin; /Taiwan, Natl. Normal U. /KIPAC, Menlo Park; Gu, Je-An & /Taiwan, Natl. Normal U.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Electrostatically-focused UV HPD for Liquid Xenon (open access)

A New Electrostatically-focused UV HPD for Liquid Xenon

Appropriate photodetectors are a major challenge for liquid xenon technology as proposed by the next generation of double beta decay, solar neutrino, and dark matter searches. The primary photon signal is tiny and in the hard ultraviolet, the installation is cryogenic, and the sensors themselves must not introduce background. Hybrid photodiodes (HPDs) provide an easy substitute for a conventional PMT with the added advantages of low radioactivity, better area coverage, and single photoelectron counting. A computer-controlled test setup capable of characterizing optical properties of ultraviolet photodetectors was installed. It was used to compare photomultiplier tubes, silicon photomultipliers, avalanche photodiodes, and a novel-design custom HPD developed by the DEP company under this proposal.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Cushman, Priscilla Brooks
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for Solar Axion Emission from 7Li and D(p,gamma)3He Nuclear Decays with the CAST gamma-ray Calorimeter (open access)

Search for Solar Axion Emission from 7Li and D(p,gamma)3He Nuclear Decays with the CAST gamma-ray Calorimeter

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Andriamonje, S.; Aune, S.; Autiero, D.; Barth, K.; Belov, A.; Beltran, B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
QCD Radiation in the Production of Heavy Colored Particles at the LHC (open access)

QCD Radiation in the Production of Heavy Colored Particles at the LHC

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Alwall, Johan; de Visscher, Simon & Maltoni, Fabio
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Marilyn Wiley portrait]

Photograph of Marilyn Wiley, the current dean of the College of Business. She is seated for a portrait photo.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consistency Test of Dark Energy Models (open access)

Consistency Test of Dark Energy Models

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Chen, Chien-Wen.; /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Gu, Je-An.; /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Chen, Pisin. & /KIPAC, Menlo Park /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U. /Taipei, Inst. Astron. Astrophys.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
17 GHz High Gradient Accelerator Research (open access)

17 GHz High Gradient Accelerator Research

This is a report on the MIT High Gradient Accelerator Research program which has included: Operation of the 17 GHz, 25 MeV MIT/Haimson Research Corp. electron accelerator at MIT, the highest frequency, stand-alone accelerator in the world; collaboration with members of the US High Gradient Collaboration, including the design and test of novel structures at SLAC at 11.4 GHz; the design, construction and testing of photonic bandgap structures, including metallic and dielectric structures; the investigation of the wakefields in novel structures; and the training of the next generation of graduate students and postdoctoral associates in accelerator physics.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Temkin, Richard J. & Shapiro, Michael A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ArborZ: Photometric Redshifts Using Boosted Decision Trees (open access)

ArborZ: Photometric Redshifts Using Boosted Decision Trees

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Gerdes, David W.; Sypniewski, Adam J.; McKay, Timothy A.; Hao, Jiangang; Weis, Matthew R.; U., /Michigan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fermionic Corrections to the Heavy-Quark Pair Production in the Quark-Antiquark Channel (open access)

Fermionic Corrections to the Heavy-Quark Pair Production in the Quark-Antiquark Channel

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Bonciani, R.; Ferroglia, A.; Gehrmann, T.; Studerus, C.; U., /Zurich & Maitre, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bianchi Attractors: A Classification of Extremal Black Brane Geometries (open access)

Bianchi Attractors: A Classification of Extremal Black Brane Geometries

None
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Iizuka, Norihiro; /CERN; Kachru, Shamit; /Stanford U., ITP /SLAC; Kundu, Nilay; Narayan, Prithvi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Semiweekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Wright, Dustin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jackson County Herald-Tribune (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

Jackson County Herald-Tribune (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Edna, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Lundstrom, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Palacios, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: West, Ryan G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 342, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 342, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Cobb, Dawn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 229, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 229, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Stuckly, Derrick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Cuero, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Rea, Glenn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013 (open access)

The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History