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The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress (open access)

The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress

The federal role in cybersecurity has been a topic of discussion and debate for over a decade. Despite significant legislative efforts in the 112th Congress on bills designed to improve the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure (CI), no legislation on that issue was enacted in that Congress. This report discusses the ramifications of Executive Order 13636, which issued in February 2013 was an attempt to enhance security and resiliency of CI through voluntary, collaborative efforts involving federal agencies and owners and operators of privately owned CI, as well as use of existing federal regulatory authorities.
Date: December 15, 2014
Creator: Fischer, Eric A.; Liu, Edward C.; Rollins, John W. & Theohary, Catherine A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2014 Farm Bill Provisions and WTO Compliance (open access)

2014 Farm Bill Provisions and WTO Compliance

From Introduction: "This report describes the relevant WTO rules governing domestic support programs under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM). This report then reviews the current U.S. farm safety net programs, including changes made under the 2014 farm bill, particularly to Title I price and income support programs, in light of their potential for compliance with the AoA and SCM and their potential to affect the success of the current Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations."
Date: December 8, 2014
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Evolution of a Strategic Review (open access)

2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Evolution of a Strategic Review

The quadrennial homeland security review is a process in which DHS examines the nation's homeland security strategy; the report provides an explanation of this process. Neither the review process nor the report to Congress is a strategy, instead the 2014 QHSR (both the process and report) are part of the constant reevaluation of the nation's homeland security and part of the process by which the combined National and Homeland Security Staff develops the next iteration of the national security strategy.
Date: December 12, 2014
Creator: Reese, Shawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[22nd annual Christmas Kwanzaa concert] captions transcript

[22nd annual Christmas Kwanzaa concert]

Video of the 22nd annual Kwanzaa concert at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The video includes performances by choirs from Texas College, Emmett Conrad High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Justin Kimball High School, Lancaster High School, Life School of Dallas, Lincoln High School, and South Oak Cliff High School, accompanied by the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center Band.
Date: December 13, 2014
Creator: Latte Media Group
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The ACA Medicaid Expansion (open access)

The ACA Medicaid Expansion

This report provides an overview of the ACA Medicaid expansion, and the impact of the Supreme Court decision on the ACA Medicaid expansion. Then, the report describes who is covered under the expansion, the expansion rules, and how the expansion is financed. In addition, enrollment and expenditure estimates for the ACA Medicaid expansion are provided. Finally, the report reviews state decisions whether or not to implement the ACA Medicaid expansion, and the implications of those decisions on certain individuals, employers, and hospitals.
Date: December 30, 2014
Creator: Mitchell, Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Academic Steroid: Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants at a North Texas University (open access)

The Academic Steroid: Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants at a North Texas University

The goal of this study was to determine the extent, motivations, and justifications of nonmedical prescription stimulant use among the population at a large public university in the North Texas region. Participants consisted of 526 undergraduate students enrolled at the studied university during the spring and summer 2014 semesters. The findings of the study suggest that the nonmedical use by students was higher than the findings in much of the current literature, but was within the parameters established in the literature. The primary motivation for nonmedical use was academic in nature and was justified by moderation of nonmedical use to strategic academic times.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Pennington, Cody W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accounting for Electric Vehicles in Air Quality Conformity-Final Report (open access)

Accounting for Electric Vehicles in Air Quality Conformity-Final Report

This is a report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute covering the use of hybrid electric vehicles and their impact on mobile exhaust emissions.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Farzaneh, Reza; Chen, Yuche; Johnson, Jeremy; Zietsman, Josias; Gu, Chaoyi; Ramani, Tara et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acute Effects of the Antibiotic Streptomycin on Neural Network Activity and Pharmacological Responses (open access)

Acute Effects of the Antibiotic Streptomycin on Neural Network Activity and Pharmacological Responses

The purpose of this study is to find out that if antibiotic streptomycin decreases neuronal network activity or affects the pharmacological responses. The experiments in this study were conducted via MEA (multi-electrode array) technology which records neuronal activity from devices that have multiple small electrodes, serve as neural interfaces connecting neurons to electronic circuitry. The result of this study shows that streptomycin lowered the spike production of neuronal network, and also, sensitization was seen when neuronal network pre-exposed to streptomycin.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Zeng, Wei Rong
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Addressing the Long-Run Budget Deficit: A Comparison of Approaches (open access)

Addressing the Long-Run Budget Deficit: A Comparison of Approaches

The growth of the national debt, which is considered unsustainable under current policies, continues to be one of the central issues of domestic federal policy making. On August 2, 2011, Congress adopted, and the President signed, the Budget Control Act (BCA; P.L. 112-25), which might be viewed as an initial step in addressing long-run debt issues. This report examines alternative approaches to reducing the deficit, relating to the immediate issues arising from the BCA and the extended tax cuts as well as to ongoing, longer-term decisions about how to bring the debt under control. It focuses on the trade-offs between limiting the provision of defense and domestic public goods, reducing transfers to persons including entitlements for the elderly and those with low income, reducing support for state and local governments, and raising taxes. Using projections of the debt and deficit, it also addresses how limiting reliance on one source of deficit reduction creates pressure on other sources.
Date: December 9, 2014
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administering Overpayment Recovery Audits in the State of Texas: Fiscal Years 2012-2014 (open access)

Administering Overpayment Recovery Audits in the State of Texas: Fiscal Years 2012-2014

Report on administering the overpayment recovery audit program for fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups, and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship, in both the short and long term, and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: December 2, 2014
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer (open access)

Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer

This report reviews the types of air emissions from livestock and poultry operations and their human health and environmental impacts. It then discusses provisions of several federal laws concerned with environmental impacts, beginning with the Clean Water Act, because protecting water resources has been the primary regulatory focus regarding livestock and animal operations.
Date: December 22, 2014
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 151, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 151, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 152, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 152, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 4, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 154, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 154, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 5, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 155, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 7, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 155, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 7, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 7, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 156, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 9, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 156, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 9, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 157, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 157, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 11, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 159, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 159, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 12, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 160, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 14, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 160, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 14, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 161, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 161, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 162, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 17, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 162, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History