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Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

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

This report discusses Afghanistan's political transition, which was completed with the convening of a parliament in December 2005. Since then, insurgent threats to Afghanistan's government have escalated to the point that some experts are questioning the future of U.S. stabilization efforts.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 137, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 137, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
AUTOMATING GROUNDWATER SAMPLING AT HANFORD (open access)

AUTOMATING GROUNDWATER SAMPLING AT HANFORD

Until this past October, Fluor Hanford managed Hanford's integrated groundwater program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). With the new contract awards at the Site, however, the CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) has assumed responsibility for the groundwater-monitoring programs at the 586-square-mile reservation in southeastern Washington State. These programs are regulated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). The purpose of monitoring is to track existing groundwater contamination from past practices, as well as other potential contamination that might originate from RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities. An integral part of the groundwater-monitoring program involves taking samples of the groundwater and measuring the water levels in wells scattered across the site. More than 1,200 wells are sampled each year. Historically, field personnel or 'samplers' have been issued pre-printed forms that have information about the well(s) for a particular sampling evolution. This information is taken from the Hanford Well Information System (HWIS) and the Hanford Environmental Information System (HEIS)--official electronic databases. The samplers used these hardcopy forms to document the groundwater samples and well water-levels. After recording the entries in the field, the samplers turned the forms …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: CW, CONNELL; RD, HILDEBRAND; SF, CONLEY & DE, CUNNINGHAM
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Cartwright, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP (open access)

The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP

This report is on The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act: Historical Information on EPA's Process for Reviewing California Waiver Requests and Making Waiver Determinations (open access)

Clean Air Act: Historical Information on EPA's Process for Reviewing California Waiver Requests and Making Waiver Determinations

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Emissions from mobile sources, such as automobiles and trucks, contribute to air quality degradation and can threaten public health and the environment. Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates these emissions. The act generally allows one set of federal standards for new motor vehicle emissions and pre-empts states from adopting or enforcing their own standards. However, it also authorizes the EPA Administrator to waive this provision to allow the state of California1 to enact and enforce emission standards for new motor vehicles that are as protective, in the aggregate, as federal government standards. Other states may also adopt California's standards if they choose. The waiver provision was added to the Federal Air Quality Act (one of the precursors of the current Clean Air Act) in 1967 because of California's severe air pollution problems and because the state had already established its own emission standards for mobile sources. California has used this waiver provision regularly to establish and enforce standards for vehicle emissions more stringent than those required by federal law. However, California must request a waiver of federal pre-emption and the EPA Administrator must …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Issues in the 111th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Issues in the 111th Congress

This report provides a brief overview on the issue of climate change as well as other Clean Air Act issues of interest to the 111th Congress.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Protection for Fashion Design: A Legal Analysis of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act (H.R. 2033 and S. 1957) (open access)

Copyright Protection for Fashion Design: A Legal Analysis of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act (H.R. 2033 and S. 1957)

This report analyzes the amendments that the Design Piracy Prohibition Act would have made to Chapter 13 of the copyright Act. It also summarizes arguments both in favor of and against extending copyright protection to fashion design.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009

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: January 16, 2009
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deposit Summary (open access)

Deposit Summary

Deposit summary of $200.00 made on January 16, 2009.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools (open access)

Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools

Optical Metrology tools, especially for short wavelength (EUV and X-Ray), must cover a wide range of spatial frequencies from the very low, which affects figure, to the important mid-spatial frequencies and the high spatial frequency range, which produces undesirable flair. A major difficulty in using surface profilometers arises due to the unknown Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of the instruments. Therefore, accurate calibration of profilometers, the understanding of their MTF limitations, and cross calibration between tools represents a considerable challenge for quantitative optical metrology. In previous work the instrumental MTF of a surface profiler was precisely measured using reference test surfaces based on binary pseudo-random (BPR) gratings. Here, they present results of fabricating and using two-dimensional (2D) BPR arrays that allow for a direct 2D calibration of the instrumental MTF. BPR sequences are widely used in engineering and communication applications such as Global Position System, and wireless communication protocol. The ideal BPR pattern has a flat 'white noise' response over the entire range of spatial frequencies of interest. The BPR array used here is based on the Uniformly Redundant Array prescription initially used for x-ray and gamma ray astronomy applications. The URA's superior imaging capability originates from the fact that its …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Barber, Samuel K.; Soldate, Paul; Anderson, Erik; Cambie, Rosanna; McKinney, Wayne R.; Takacs, Peter Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools (open access)

Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools

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Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Barber, Samuel K.; Soldate, Paul; Anderson, Erik; Cambie, Rosanna; McKinney, Wayne R.; Takacs, Peter Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discriminatory Pricing and the Robinson- Patman Act: Brief Background and Analysis (open access)

Discriminatory Pricing and the Robinson- Patman Act: Brief Background and Analysis

This report discusses the Robinson-Patman (R-P) Act, which makes it unlawful, with certain exceptions, to knowingly sell goods "in commerce," for use or sale within the United States, at differing prices to contemporaneous buyers of those goods.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House: Member and Committee Requirements (open access)

Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House: Member and Committee Requirements

This report outlines the major administrative responsibilities of Members and committees of the House of Representatives associated with the chambers earmark disclosure rules.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Lynch, Megan Suzanne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earmark Disclosure Rules in the Senate: Member and Committee Requirements (open access)

Earmark Disclosure Rules in the Senate: Member and Committee Requirements

This report is categorized into five categories: (I) Introduction, (II) Senate Earmark Disclosure Rule, (III) Legislation Subject to the Rule, (IV) Requirements for Senators Submitting Earmark Requests and (V) Requirement for Committees.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Lynch, Megan Suzanne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policy (open access)

Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policy

This report discusses the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which included tax cut and spending provisions totaling at a cost of $787 billion in an attempt to mitigate the economic fallout of the housing and financial crises on the general economy. The report examines issues surrounding fiscal stimulus such as timeliness, the magnitude of stimulus, long-term effects and previously adopted policies.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.; Hungerford, Thomas L. & Labonte, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Embassy Construction: Additional Actions Are Needed to Address Contractor Participation (open access)

Embassy Construction: Additional Actions Are Needed to Address Contractor Participation

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To provide safe and secure workplaces for overseas posts, the Department of State (State) has built 64 new embassy compounds (NEC) and other facilities since 1999, has 31 ongoing projects, and plans to build at least 90 more. In 2007, State reported the U.S. contractor pool for building NECs had reached its limit and proposed legislation to amend the criteria to qualify for NEC awards. GAO was asked to examine (1) how contractor participation in the NEC program changed in recent years, (2) the degree to which State assessed the need for and potential outcomes of its proposed amendment, (3) factors contractors consider when deciding to participate in the program, and (4) actions State has taken to address reported declines in contractor participation. GAO examined two indicators of contractor participation; reviewed State documents and proposed legislation; and interviewed State officials and U.S. firms that won NEC awards from 2001-2007."
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ESTABLISHING FINAL END STATE FOR A RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION REACTOR; COLLABORATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS, REGULATORS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (open access)

ESTABLISHING FINAL END STATE FOR A RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION REACTOR; COLLABORATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS, REGULATORS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a 310-square-mile United States Department of Energy nuclear facility located along the Savannah River (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. Nuclear weapons material production began in the early 1950s, utilizing five production reactors. In the early 1990s all SRS production reactor operations were terminated. The first reactor closure end state declaration was recently institutionalized in a Comprehensive Environmental Response and Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) Early Action Record of Decision. The decision for the final closure of the 318,000 square foot 105-P Reactor was determined to be in situ decommissioning (ISD). ISD is an acceptable and cost effective alternative to off-site disposal for the reactor building, which will allow for consolidation of remedial action wastes generated from other cleanup activities within the P Area. ISD is considered protective by the regulators, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), public and stakeholders as waste materials are stabilized/immobilized, and radioactivity is allowed to naturally decay, thus preventing future exposure to the environment. Stakeholder buy-in was critical in the upfront planning in order to achieve this monumental final decision. Numerous public meetings and workshops were held in …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bergren, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2009

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Budget Process Reform in the 111th Congress: A Brief Overview (open access)

Federal Budget Process Reform in the 111th Congress: A Brief Overview

This report briefly discusses the context in which federal budget process changes are made and identifies selected reform proposals by major category. The identification of reform proposals in this report is not intended to be comprehensive; other Congressional Research Service reports discuss different aspects of budget process reform in more detail.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 11, January 16, 2009, Pages 2757-3394 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 11, January 16, 2009, Pages 2757-3394

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Fred George Hall, January 16, 2009] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Fred George Hall, January 16, 2009]

Funeral program for Deacon Fred George Hall, born September 22, 1920 and died January 11, 2009. The funeral was held Friday, January 16, 2009 at Friendship Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. R. L. Archield, Sr. Funeral arrangements were made through Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Globalized Supply Chains and U.S. Policy (open access)

Globalized Supply Chains and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the challenges and opportunities raised by the globalized world of business, in which production becomes fragmented into discrete activities that can be spread geographically within and across national borders while remaining integrated organizationally within a multinational company or network of companies. Such globalized production networks are called supply chains or value-added networks.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library