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North Korea's January 6, 2016, Nuclear Test (open access)

North Korea's January 6, 2016, Nuclear Test

This report provides a brief background about North Korea's announcement that it successfully tested a "hydrogen bomb" (its fourth nuclear test) on January 6, 2016. The official statement also called the device an experimental or "pilot H-bomb."
Date: January 7, 2016
Creator: Nikitin, Mary Beth D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Escalating Violence in El Salvador (open access)

Escalating Violence in El Salvador

This report briefly discusses gangs and violence in El Salvador, and examines the U.S. policy response.
Date: January 7, 2016
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and FY2016 Appropriations (open access)

U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and FY2016 Appropriations

This report provides an overview of U.S. assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes historical and recent trends in aid to the region as well as the Obama Administration's FY2016 request for State Department and U.S Agency for International Development (USAID)-administered assistance. It also examines legislative developments on foreign aid appropriations for Latin America and the Caribbean in FY2016, and raises questions Congress may examine as it considers future appropriations for the region.
Date: January 7, 2016
Creator: Meyer, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process (open access)

Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process

This report reviews the process and procedures that currently apply to congressional consideration of foreign arms sales proposed by the President. This includes consideration of proposals to sell major defense equipment, defense articles and services, or the re-transfer to third party nations of such military items.
Date: January 7, 2016
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran Nuclear Agreement (open access)

Iran Nuclear Agreement

This report provides background on the agreement negotiated by Iran and six other countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany--collectively known as the P5+1) regarding Iran's nuclear program, and discusses the implications for U.S.-Iran relations.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's State Visit, March 2016 (open access)

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's State Visit, March 2016

This report briefly discusses Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's scheduled visit to the United States on March,10 2016. It will be the first state visit by a Canadian leader since 1997, when then-President Clinton hosted then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Meyer, Peter J. & Fergusson, Ian F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overview of FY2017 Appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) (open access)

Overview of FY2017 Appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS)

This report tracks and describes actions taken by the Administration and Congress to provide FY2017 appropriations for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) accounts. It also provides an overview of FY2016 appropriations for agencies and bureaus funded as part of annual CJS appropriations.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Poland and Its Relations with the United States (open access)

Poland and Its Relations with the United States

Given its role as a close U.S. ally and partner, developments in Poland and its relations with the United States are of continuing interest to the U.S. Congress. This report provides an overview and assessment of some of the main dimensions of these topics.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran's Nuclear Program: Tehran's Compliance with International Obligations (open access)

Iran's Nuclear Program: Tehran's Compliance with International Obligations

This report provides a brief overview of Iran's nuclear program and describes the legal basis for the actions taken by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board and the Security Council.
Date: April 7, 2016
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2016 03-07 - Gabriel Evens, jazz arranging

Doctoral recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Music.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Evens, Gabe
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2016-03-07 - Aaron Hedenstrom, jazz arranging

Doctoral recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Music.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Hedenstrom, Aaron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Retrospective of House Rules Changes Since the 110th Congress (open access)

A Retrospective of House Rules Changes Since the 110th Congress

This report analyzes rules changes made on only the opening day of the 110th, 111th, 112th, 113th, and 114th Congresses, with references in footnotes to other selected legislation and actions during these Congresses that also affected House rules. One of the majority party's prerogatives is writing House rules and using its numbers to effect the chamber's rules on the day a new House convenes. Because all Members of the House stand for election every two years, the Members-elect constitute a new House that must adopt rules at the convening of each Congress.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Koempel, Michael L. & Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study (open access)

Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study

This paper details the process of developing the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines for approval from the IFLA Governing board, with a discussion of challenges and lessons learned during this undertaking.
Date: April 7, 2016
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument (open access)

Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument

This article examines psychometric properties of a new electronic health literacy measure in a national sample of Internet users with specific attention to older users.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Seçkin, Gül; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Hughes, Susan; Hudson, Cassie & Bell, Valerie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 41, Pages 7771-8152, October 7, 2016 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 41, Pages 7771-8152, October 7, 2016

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: October 7, 2016
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Heller Second Amendment Jurisprudence (open access)

Post-Heller Second Amendment Jurisprudence

This report examines the scope of the Second Amendment, as interpreted by the federal circuit courts of appeals, after the watershed Supreme Court decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Herman, Sarah S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Qatar: Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Qatar: Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the political and security situation in Qatar as well U.S. policy towards the Qatari government.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2017 Defense Spending Under an Interim Continuing Resolution (CR): In Brief (open access)

FY2017 Defense Spending Under an Interim Continuing Resolution (CR): In Brief

This report provides a basic discussion of interim "continuing resolutions" (CRs) and highlights some specific issues for the Department of Defense (DOD) under a CR. It also provides a brief look at selected FY2017 defense programs that could be affected by a CR.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Williams, Lynn M. & Wees, Darren P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Terrorist Screening Database and Preventing Terrorist Travel (open access)

The Terrorist Screening Database and Preventing Terrorist Travel

This report briefly discusses how the U.S. government fashions and uses the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). It also discusses how the federal government engages in two travel-related screening processes--visa screening and air passenger screening. Both processes involve subsets of the Terrorist Screening Database.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Bjelopera, Jerome P.; Elias, Bart & Siskin, Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information, and Listings by State and Congress (open access)

Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information, and Listings by State and Congress

This report includes biographical information for the 313 women who have been elected or appointed to Congress including names, committee assignments, dates of service, listings by Congress and state, and (for Representatives) congressional districts.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Manning, Jennifer E. & Brudnick, Ida A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corporate Inversions: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (open access)

Corporate Inversions: Frequently Asked Legal Questions

This report answers frequently-asked legal questions about corporate inversions. It answers questions relating to the scope and operation of Section 7874, including how key statutory terms have been interpreted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). It discusses important Department of Treasury regulations that were finalized in 2015 and 2016, and answers questions about the IRS's authority to issue these regulations. Other questions that are answered relate to legislation introduced in the 114th Congress, the interaction of Section 7874 with tax treaties, and the imposition of an excise tax on corporate insiders who benefit from an inversion.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Lunder, Erika K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2016-10-07 – Jieun Lee, piano

Doctoral recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: October 7, 2016
Creator: Lee, Jieun
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Workforce Statistics Sources: OPM and OMB (open access)

Federal Workforce Statistics Sources: OPM and OMB

This report describes online tools, reports, and data compilations created by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that contain statistics about federal employees and the federal workforce. The report also describes key characteristics of each resource and briefly discusses selected methodological differences, with the intention of facilitating the selection of appropriate data for specific purposes.
Date: December 7, 2016
Creator: Jennings, Julie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Introduction to Judicial Review of Federal Agency Action (open access)

An Introduction to Judicial Review of Federal Agency Action

This report provides a broad overview of the issues that may be relevant to any number of present and future challenges to agency action in federal court.
Date: December 7, 2016
Creator: Cole, Jared P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library