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Revenue Reconciliation Directives to the Senate Finance Committee in Congressional Budget Resolutions (open access)

Revenue Reconciliation Directives to the Senate Finance Committee in Congressional Budget Resolutions

During the 30 years that the congressional budget process has been in effect, the Senate Finance Committee has been subject to revenue reconciliation directives in a budget resolution on 17 occasions. Eight instances involved directives to reduce revenues, while the remaining nine instructed the committee to increase revenues. In all but three of the 17 instances, revenue reconciliation directives to the committee were accompanied by spending reconciliation directives.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rice Thresher, Vol. 92, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004 (open access)

The Rice Thresher, Vol. 92, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004

A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Gilbert, Lindsey & Yardley, Jonathan
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rural Housing: Changing the Definition of Rural Could Improve Eligibility Determinations (open access)

Rural Housing: Changing the Definition of Rural Could Improve Eligibility Determinations

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Rural America has become more diverse: technology and the spread of suburbia have linked rural areas to urban areas, resulting in diminished distinctions between the two. The Rural Housing Service (RHS) applies statutory requirements for eligibility that may not reflect changes in rural areas or best determine which areas qualify for its housing programs. GAO's objectives included assessments of how eligibility is defined for RHS programs and how changes in the current eligibility requirements might impact the RHS mission of meeting rural housing needs."
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 97, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004 (open access)

The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 97, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Sealy, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Griffin, Joanie & Horecka, Bobby
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
SEISMIC ANALYSIS FOR PRECLOSURE SAFETY (open access)

SEISMIC ANALYSIS FOR PRECLOSURE SAFETY

The purpose of this seismic preclosure safety analysis is to identify the potential seismically-initiated event sequences associated with preclosure operations of the repository at Yucca Mountain and assign appropriate design bases to provide assurance of achieving the performance objectives specified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 10 CFR Part 63 for radiological consequences. This seismic preclosure safety analysis is performed in support of the License Application for the Yucca Mountain Project. In more detail, this analysis identifies the systems, structures, and components (SSCs) that are subject to seismic design bases. This analysis assigns one of two design basis ground motion (DBGM) levels, DBGM-1 or DBGM-2, to SSCs important to safety (ITS) that are credited in the prevention or mitigation of seismically-initiated event sequences. An application of seismic margins approach is also demonstrated for SSCs assigned to DBGM-2 by showing a high confidence of a low probability of failure at a higher ground acceleration value, termed a beyond-design basis ground motion (BDBGM) level. The objective of this analysis is to meet the performance requirements of 10 CFR 63.111(a) and 10 CFR 63.111(b) for offsite and worker doses. The results of this calculation are used as inputs to the following: (1) …
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Lindner, E.N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Economic Issues (open access)

Social Security Reform: Economic Issues

This report tackles the issue of Social Security reform from an economic perspective that focuses not merely on reform that achieves programmatic sustainability (sustainability within the trust fund), but reform that achieves sustainability for the government and economy as a whole. The President has indicated that Social Security reform will be a major issue in the 109th Congress. For some time comprehensive reform has been an issue of debate in Congress, but no major action has occurred.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Gravelle, Jane & Labonte, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft-X-ray spectra of highly charged Os, Bi, Th, and U ions in an electron beam ion trap (open access)

Soft-X-ray spectra of highly charged Os, Bi, Th, and U ions in an electron beam ion trap

Systematic variation of the electron-beam energy in an electron-beam ion trap has been employed to produce soft-X-ray spectra of Os, Bi, Th, and U with highest charge states ranging up to Ni-like ions. Guided by relativistic atomic structure calculations, the strongest lines have been identified with {Delta}n = 0 (n = 4 to n' = 4) transitions in Rb- to Cu-like ions. The rather weak 4p-4d transitions are much less affected by QED contributions than the dominant 4s-4p transitions. Our wavelength measurements consequently provide benchmarks with and (almost) without QED. Because the radiative corrections are not very sensitive to the number of electrons in the valence shell, our data, moreover, provide benchmarks for the evaluation of electron-electron interactions.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Trabert, E.; Beiersdorfer, P.; Fournier, K. B. & Chen, M. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004 (open access)

South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004

Semi-monthly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas published by the Diocese of Corpus Christi that includes news of interest to Diocese members along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Goldapp, Paula J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suppression of Large Edge Localized Modes with a Stochastic Magnetic Boundary in High Confinement DIII-D Plasmas (open access)

Suppression of Large Edge Localized Modes with a Stochastic Magnetic Boundary in High Confinement DIII-D Plasmas

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Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Evans, T. E.; Moyer, R. A.; Watkins, J. G.; Osborne, T. H.; Thomas, P. R.; Becoulet, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 49, Pages 11197-11440, December 3, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 49, Pages 11197-11440, December 3, 2004

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: December 3, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trade Study on Aggregation of Multiple 10-KW Solid Ozide Fuel Cell Power Modules (open access)

Trade Study on Aggregation of Multiple 10-KW Solid Ozide Fuel Cell Power Modules

According to the Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) program guidelines, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) will be produced in the form of 3-10 kW modules for residential use. In addition to residential use, these modules can also be used in apartment buildings, hospitals, etc., where a higher power rating would be required. For example, a hospital might require a 250 kW power generating capacity. To provide this power using the SECA SOFC modules, 25 of the 10 kW modules would be required. These modules can be aggregated in different architectures to yield the necessary power. This report will show different approaches for aggregating numerous SOFC modules and will evaluate and compare each one with respect to cost, control complexity, ease of modularity, and fault tolerance.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Ozpineci, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Assistance to Vietnam (open access)

U.S. Assistance to Vietnam

U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic and economic relations were non-existent for more then fifteen years following communist North Vietnam’s victory in 1975 over the U.S. ally South Vietnam. Normalization of relations, particularly in the economic sphere, between the United States and unified Vietnam began in earnest in the 1990s. As the normalization process has proceeded, the U.S. has eliminated most of the Cold Warera restrictions on U.S. aid to Vietnam, and U.S. assistance has increased markedly from around $1 million when assistance was resumed in 1991 to nearly $50 million in FY2004.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UTILIZATION OF RISK-BASED METHODOLOGY AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE ASSAY TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE AND DISPOSITION LEGACY LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE (open access)

UTILIZATION OF RISK-BASED METHODOLOGY AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE ASSAY TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE AND DISPOSITION LEGACY LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE

A scaled risk and technology based disposition path was developed to characterize and certify Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) legacy waste (LW) for disposal at Envirocare of Utah and the Nevada Test Site (NTS). A combination of LLNL and commercially provided non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques were utilized to characterize waste and facilitate the safe, efficient and cost-effective characterization and disposition of 490 cubic meters of LW in Fiscal Year (FY) 2004. The approach and technologies described in this paper are adaptable to most waste characterization programs and will be utilized to meet future project milestones.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Wolf, J
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Variation in Particle Pumping Due to Changes in Topology in High Performance DIII-D Plasmas (open access)

Variation in Particle Pumping Due to Changes in Topology in High Performance DIII-D Plasmas

Recent experiments on DIII-D point to the importance of two factors in determining the rate at which deuterium particles can be pumped at the divertor target(s): (1) the divertor magnetic balance, i.e., the degree to which the divertor topology is single-null (SN) or double-null (DN), and (2) the direction of the of B x {del}B ion drift with respect to the X-point(s). Changes in divertor magnetic balance near the DN shape have a much stronger effect on the pumping rate at the inner divertor target(s) than on the pumping rate at the outer divertor target(s). The behavior in the particle pumping observed at the inner and outer divertor target(s) in the DN and near-DN shapes suggests a redistribution of particles that would be expected in the presence of B x {del}B and E x B ion particle drifts in the scrapeoff layer (SOL) and divertor(s).
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Petrie, T; Brooks, N; Fenstermacher, M; Greenfield, C; Groth, M; Hyatt, A et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, December 3, 2004 (open access)

The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, December 3, 2004

Weekly student newspaper from Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History