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Master's Recital: 2007-02-20 - Alexander Costantino, tuba

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Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: February 20, 2007
Creator: Constantino, Alexander
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Inc., for Fiscal Years 1997-2000 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Inc., for Fiscal Years 1997-2000

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the financial statement audit reports for the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Inc., for fiscal years ended 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance with the requirements of the law, and the audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the corporation's financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Children's Health Insurance Program: CMS Should Improve Efforts to Assess whether SCHIP Is Substituting for Private Insurance (open access)

State Children's Health Insurance Program: CMS Should Improve Efforts to Assess whether SCHIP Is Substituting for Private Insurance

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Congress created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to reduce the number of uninsured children in low-income families that do not qualify for Medicaid. States have flexibility in structuring their SCHIP programs, and their income eligibility limits vary. Concerns have been raised that individuals might substitute SCHIP for private health insurance--known as crowd-out. GAO was asked to examine the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) and states' efforts to minimize crowd-out and determine whether it should be a concern. GAO examined (1) CMS's guidance to states for minimizing crowd-out and assessment of whether it should be a concern and (2) states' policies to minimize crowd-out and how they assess whether it should be a concern. To do the work, GAO reviewed federal laws and guidance, examined state annual reports, and interviewed CMS officials. GAO also interviewed SCHIP officials from nine states."
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: Readiness of the Marine Corps' V-22 Aircraft for Full-Rate Production (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: Readiness of the Marine Corps' V-22 Aircraft for Full-Rate Production

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO concludes that the V-22 program is not ready for full-rate production. This conclusion is based on two factors. First, GAO's "best practices" work has identified practices used by successful commercial and defense programs to develop and produce quality products in significantly less time and at lower costs. GAO reviews of major weapons systems have shown that failure to follow these practices results in cost increases, schedule delays, and performance problems. Second, GAO analyzed Department of Defense (DOD) assessments and data on the V-22 program and interviewed DOD officials. As a result of GAO's findings, DOD postponed the full-rate production of the V-22 aircraft until the risks have been mitigated."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Assistance: USAID and the Department of State Are Beginning to Implement Prohibition on Taxation of Aid (open access)

Foreign Assistance: USAID and the Department of State Are Beginning to Implement Prohibition on Taxation of Aid

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 2002, Congress learned that the Palestinian Authority had collected $6.8 million in taxes on U.S. humanitarian assistance meant for the people of the West Bank and Gaza and subsequently learned that some other foreign governments were also taxing U.S. assistance. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials estimate that at least several million dollars in taxes are collected annually on U.S. assistance programs, although some of this amount is reimbursed by recipient governments. This situation raised concerns in Congress that U.S. assistance funds for programs to help developing country populations were instead being diverted to the treasuries of foreign governments. In response to these concerns, Congress included a prohibition against such taxation in its Consolidated Appropriations Resolution for fiscal year 2003, and provided for a 200 percent penalty for taxes levied but not reimbursed. This legislation defines "taxes" and "taxation" as value added taxes (VAT) and customs duties imposed on commodities financed with U.S. assistance for programs for which funds are appropriated by the act. This report responds to a requirement in that legislation that we report to the committees on appropriations concerning these provisions. In discussions …
Date: February 20, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Management: Actions Needed to Address Stakeholder Concerns, Improve Interagency Collaboration, and Determine Full Costs Associated with the U.S. Africa Command (open access)

Defense Management: Actions Needed to Address Stakeholder Concerns, Improve Interagency Collaboration, and Determine Full Costs Associated with the U.S. Africa Command

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In February 2007, the President directed the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) to help strengthen U.S. security cooperation with African nations and bring peace and stability to the continent. For this review, GAO assessed DOD's (1) efforts to establish the command and communicate its mission, (2) progress in integrating personnel from other U.S. government agencies into AFRICOM, and (3) plans and costs for establishing a permanent headquarters and supporting offices in Africa. In assessing DOD's efforts to establish AFRICOM, GAO analyzed relevant documentation and obtained perspectives from the combatant commands, military services, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of State (State), U. S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations."
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the American Council of Learned Societies for Fiscal Years 1997-1999 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the American Council of Learned Societies for Fiscal Years 1997-1999

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the American Council of Learned Societies' financial statement audit reports to determine whether it complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance, and the audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the financial statements of the corporation were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Printing Office: Issues Faced in Obtaining a New Facility (open access)

Government Printing Office: Issues Faced in Obtaining a New Facility

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Government Printing Office (GPO), within the legislative branch, is the federal government's primary resource for gathering, producing, and preserving published federal information. GPO's main facility --located 5 blocks from the U.S. Capitol--encompasses about 1.5 million square feet and consists of four buildings that range in age from 68 to 105 years. According to GPO officials, the facility is inefficiently configured, aging, and much larger than needed. As a result, GPO has examined several options for obtaining a new facility. In 1982, GAO recommended that GPO conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the various options available to address the inefficiencies in its facilities. GAO was asked to examine GPO's efforts to obtain a new facility. Accordingly, this briefing provides preliminary information on (1) GPO's analysis of options to obtain a new facility and the extent to which GPO has followed leading practices for capital decision-making and (2) issues, if any, that impede GPO's efforts to obtain a new facility. To conduct this work, GAO analyzed GPO studies and interviewed GPO and District government officials, among others. GPO officials reviewed a draft of this briefing and generally agreed with the …
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Management: DOD Needs to Increase Attention on Fuel Demand Management at Forward-Deployed Locations (open access)

Defense Management: DOD Needs to Increase Attention on Fuel Demand Management at Forward-Deployed Locations

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) relies heavily on petroleum-based fuel to sustain its forward-deployed locations--particularly those that are not connected to local power grids. While weapon platforms require large amounts of fuel, DOD reports that the single largest battlefield fuel consumer is generators, which provide power for base support activities such as cooling, heating, and lighting. Transporting fuel to forward-deployed locations presents an enormous logistics burden and risk, including exposing fuel truck convoys to attack. GAO was asked to address DOD's (1) efforts to reduce fuel demand at forward-deployed locations and (2) approach to managing fuel demand at these locations. This review focused on locations within Central Command's area of responsibility. GAO visited DOD locations in Kuwait and Djibouti to learn about fuel reduction efforts and challenges facing these locations."
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonprescription Drugs: Considerations Regarding a Behind-the-Counter Drug Class (open access)

Nonprescription Drugs: Considerations Regarding a Behind-the-Counter Drug Class

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the United States, most nonprescription drugs are available over-the-counter (OTC) in pharmacies and other stores. Experts have suggested that drug availability could be increased by establishing an additional class of nonprescription drugs that would be held behind the counter (BTC) but would require the intervention of a pharmacist before being dispensed; a similar class of drugs exists in many other countries. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not developed a detailed proposal for a BTC drug class, it held a public meeting in 2007 to explore the public health implications of BTC drug availability. GAO was asked to update its 1995 report, Nonprescription Drugs: Value of a Pharmacist-Controlled Class Has Yet to Be Demonstrated (GAO/PEMD-95-12). Specifically, GAO is reporting on (1) arguments supporting and opposing a U.S. BTC drug class, (2) changes in drug availability in five countries since 1995 and the impact of restricted nonprescription classes on availability, and (3) issues important to the establishment of a BTC drug class. GAO reviewed documents and consulted with pharmaceutical experts. To examine drug availability across countries, GAO studied five countries it had reported on …
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for The American Society of International Law for 1997-1999 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for The American Society of International Law for 1997-1999

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the American Society of International Law's financial statement audit reports to determine whether it complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance, and the audit report included the auditors' opinions that the corporation's financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Office of Public Records Revolving Fund Review Procedures (open access)

Senate Office of Public Records Revolving Fund Review Procedures

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed whether the Senate Office of Public Records revolving fund's reported fiscal year (FY) 2000 receipts and disbursements and fund balances at the beginning and end of the review period were complete and accurate. GAO found that FY 2000 cash receipts for the Senate Office of Public Records were supported by appropriate documentation and were accurately recorded, summarized, and reported in the Senate Disbursement Office's monthly Statement of Funding Authorization and Expense Activity reports. GAO also found an undocumented gap in the prenumbered official receipt documents. The Senate Office of Public Records explained that the gap resulted from replacing missing receipt stock with receipt stock that began with a different sequential number. GAO confirmed that even though official receipt stock was missing, it was never used to support FY 2000 cash receipts. GAO also found that all FY 2000 cash disbursements from the Senate Office of Public Records revolving fund were certified, authorized, and sanctioned prior to payment. Finally, GAO found that the Office had not routinely done reconciliations between its records and those of the Senate Disbursement Office."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations of Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Other Financial Crimes (open access)

Investigations of Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and Other Financial Crimes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, federal efforts to wage a seamless, coordinated campaign against sources of terrorist financing became critically important. In May 2003, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security signed a Memorandum of Agreement (Agreement) concerning terrorist financing investigations, which contained a number of provisions designed to resolve jurisdictional issues and enhance interagency coordination. The Agreement and its related procedures specified that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to have the lead role in investigating terrorist financing and that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, was to pursue terrorist financing solely through participation in FBI-led task forces, except as expressly approved by the FBI. Specific provisions of the Agreement directed the FBI and ICE to, among other things, develop collaborative procedures for handling applicable ICE investigations or financial crimes leads that have a nexus to terrorism. Another provision required that the FBI and ICE jointly report to the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security on the status of the implementation of …
Date: February 20, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Treatment Facilities: Improvements Needed to Increase DOD Third-Party Collections (open access)

Military Treatment Facilities: Improvements Needed to Increase DOD Third-Party Collections

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Like the private health care industry, the cost of providing health care services to the Department of Defense's (DOD) active duty personnel, their dependents, retirees, and survivors and their dependents has increased dramatically over the past decade. In fiscal year 2003, DOD reported that more than 8.7 million Military Health System beneficiaries were eligible to receive health care at a cost of about $27.2 billion per year--up from a reported 8.2 million eligible beneficiaries at a cost of $15.6 billion in fiscal year 1997. To the extent that DOD beneficiaries have private health insurance coverage, DOD is authorized to bill insurance companies under the Third Party Collections Program. As such, DOD has the opportunity to defray the rising cost of providing health care to an increasing number of eligible beneficiaries. In October 2002, we reported that the three military treatment facilities (MTFs) we visited did not always bill and collect from private insurers for care that was reimbursable to the government. At all three facilities, we identified control weaknesses that resulted in instances where these MTFs had not identified all patients with third-party insurance and sometimes did not …
Date: February 20, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association's financial statement audit reports to determine whether it complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance, and the audit report included the auditors' opinions that the corporation's financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety: Overview of Federal and State Expenditures (open access)

Food Safety: Overview of Federal and State Expenditures

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and the state agriculture and health departments spent about $1.3 billion in fiscal year 1999. FSIS and FDA spent about $1 billion, and the states reported spending about $300 million. The amounts and proportions of food safety expenditures for fiscal year 1998 were similar. Regarding the $1 billion in federal funds spent in fiscal year 1999, FSIS spent about 70 percent, overseeing about 20 percent of federally regulated foods; FDA spent about 30 percent, overseeing about 80 percent of federally regulated foods. These outlays reflect the regulatory approaches or inspection frequencies contained in the laws under which each agency operates."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty Recital: 2007-02-20 - Elizabeth McNutt, flute and Christopher Deane, percussion

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A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: February 20, 2007
Creator: McNutt, Elizabeth & Deane, Christopher
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for Fiscal Years 1997-1999 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for Fiscal Years 1997-1999

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the financial statement audit reports for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States for fiscal years ended 1999, 1998, and 1997. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance with the requirements of the law, and the audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the corporation's financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Gold Star Wives of America for Fiscal Years 1997-2000 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Gold Star Wives of America for Fiscal Years 1997-2000

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the financial statement audit reports for the Gold Star Wives of America for fiscal years 1997 through 2000. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance with the requirements of the law, and the audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the corporation's financial statements were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving High Flux Amplification in a Gun-driven, Flux-core Spheromak (open access)

Achieving High Flux Amplification in a Gun-driven, Flux-core Spheromak

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Date: February 20, 2007
Creator: Hooper, E. B.; Hill, D. N.; McLean, H. S.; Romero-Talam?s, C. A. & Wood, R. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GeV electron beams from cm-scale channel guided laser wakefieldaccelerator (open access)

GeV electron beams from cm-scale channel guided laser wakefieldaccelerator

Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFA) can produce electricfields of order 10-100 GV/m suitable for acceleration of electrons torelativistic energies. The wakefields are excited by a relativisticallyintense laser pulse propagating through a plasma and have a phasevelocity determined by the group velocity of the light pulse. Twoimportant effects that can limit the acceleration distanceand hence thenet energy gain obtained by an electron are diffraction of the drivelaser pulse and particle-wake dephasing. Diffraction of a focusedultra-short laser pulse can be overcome by using preformed plasmachannels. The dephasing limit can be increased by operating at a lowerplasma density, since this results in an increase in the laser groupvelocity. Here we present detailed results on the generation of GeV-classelectron beams using an intense femtosecond laser beamand a 3.3 cm longpreformed discharge-based plasma channel [W.P. Leemans et al., NaturePhysics 2, 696-699 (2006)]. The use of a discharge-based waveguidepermitted operation at an order ofmagnitude lower density and 15 timeslonger distance than in previous experiments that relied on laserpreformed plasma channels. Laser pulses with peak power ranging from10-50 TW were guided over more than 20 Rayleigh ranges and high-qualityelectron beams with energy up to 1 GeV were obtained by channelling a 40TW peak power laser pulse. The dependence of …
Date: February 20, 2007
Creator: Nakamura, K.; Nagler, B.; Toth, Cs.; Geddes, C. G. R.; Schroeder, C.; Esarey, E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Filtering Errors Using the Peano Kernel Theorem (open access)

Estimating Filtering Errors Using the Peano Kernel Theorem

The Peano Kernel Theorem is introduced and a frequency domain derivation is given. It is demonstrated that the application of this theorem yields simple and accurate formulas for estimating the error introduced into a signal by filtering it to reduce noise.
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Blair, Jerome
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Primordial Compositions of Refractory Inclusions (open access)

Primordial Compositions of Refractory Inclusions

Bulk chemical and oxygen, magnesium and silicon isotopic compositions were measured for each of 17 Types A and B refractory inclusions from CV3 chondrites. After bulk chemical compositions were corrected for non-representative sampling in the laboratory, the Mg and Si isotopic compositions of each inclusion were used to calculate its original chemical composition assuming that the heavy-isotope enrichments of these elements are due to Rayleigh fractionation that accompanied their evaporation from CMAS liquids. The resulting pre-evaporation chemical compositions are consistent with those predicted by equilibrium thermodynamic calculations for high-temperature nebular condensates but only if different inclusions condensed from nebular regions that ranged in total pressure from 10{sup -6} to 10{sup -1} bar, regardless of whether they formed in a system of solar composition or in one enriched in OC dust relative to gas by a factor of ten relative to solar composition. This is similar to the range of total pressures predicted by dynamic models of the solar nebula for regions whose temperatures are in the range of silicate condensation temperatures. Alternatively, if departure from equilibrium condensation and/or non-representative sampling of condensates in the nebula occurred, the inferred range of total pressure could be smaller. Simple kinetic modeling of evaporation …
Date: February 20, 2008
Creator: Grossman, L.; Simon, S. B.; Rai, V. K.; Thiemens, M. H.; Hutcheon, I. D.; Williams, R. W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation Strategies for Shock-Turbulence Interactions (open access)

Simulation Strategies for Shock-Turbulence Interactions

The computational challenge of predicting shock-turbulence interactions stems from the fundamentally different physics at play. Shock waves are microscopically thin regions wherein flow properties change rapidly over a distance roughly equal to the molecular mean free path; hence, they are essentially strong discontinuities in the flow field. Turbulence, on the other hand, is a chaotic phenomenon with broadband spatial and temporal scales of motion. Most shock-capturing methods rely on strong numerical dissipation to artificially smooth the discontinuity, such that it can be resolved on the computational grid. Unfortunately, the artificial dissipation necessary for capturing shocks has a deleterious effect on turbulence. An additional problem is the fact that shock-capturing schemes are typically based on one-dimensional Riemann solutions that are not strictly valid in multiple dimensions. This can lead to anisotropy errors and grid-seeded perturbations. Other complications arising from upwinding, flux limiting, operator splitting etc., can seriously degrade performance and generate significant errors, especially in multiple dimensions. The purpose of this work is to design improved algorithms, capable of capturing both shocks and turbulence, which also scale to tens of thousands of processors. We have evaluated two new hydrodynamic algorithms, in relation to the widely used WENO method, on a suite …
Date: February 20, 2008
Creator: Cook, A; Larsson, J; Cabot, W & Lele, S K
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library