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Accounting Problems at Fannie Mae (open access)

Accounting Problems at Fannie Mae

This report summarizes the critiques the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Supervision (OFHEO) made of accounting practices at Fannie Mae. The OFHEO's two main issues are under the domains of: amortization of discounts, premiums, fees involved in the purchase of home mortgages, and the other being accounting for financial derivatives contracts. The report emphasizes that these discrepancies created a false image of the company's earnings and in one case was the cause of the company's executives to receive bonuses.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

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

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 215, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 215, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress (open access)

Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress

There is a lack of consensus regarding the best method of balancing scientific publishing and national security. The current federal policy, as described in National Security Decision Directive 189, is that fundamental research should remain unrestricted and that in the rare case where it is necessary to restrict such information, classification is the appropriate vehicle to do so. Other mechanisms restrict international information flow, where Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control export of items and technical information on specific lists. Both EAR and ITAR contain a fundamental research exclusion, but this exclusion is lost if prepublication review of research results for sensitive information occurs.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Shea, Dana A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Be Restored to Financial Health? (open access)

Can the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Be Restored to Financial Health?

In 2003, the Bush administration made a proposal for reform to strengthen pension plan funding and the financial condition of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Various bills with the goal of reforming the PBGC were proposed in the 108th Congress but none were enacted into law. The doubling of the PBGC deficit from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2004, has heightened awareness about the PBGC deficit situation. Congressional leaders from both parties have announced their intention to move aggressively on legislative solutions in the 109th Congress.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Ranade, Neela K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Brown, Laurie Ezzell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Financing: Partnerships and Energy Savings Performance Contracts Raise Budgeting and Monitoring Concerns (open access)

Capital Financing: Partnerships and Energy Savings Performance Contracts Raise Budgeting and Monitoring Concerns

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "ESPCs finance energy-saving capital improvements, such as lighting retrofits for federal facilities, without the government incurring the full cost up front. Partnerships tap the capital and expertise of the private sector to develop real property. This report describes (1) what specific attributes of ESPCs and partnerships contributed to budget scoring decisions, (2) the costs of financing through ESPCs compared to the costs of financing via timely, full, and up-front appropriations, and (3) how ESPCs and partnerships are monitored. Using case studies, GAO reviewed GSA and Navy ESPCs and DOE and VA partnerships."
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Christmas decorations]

An image of Christmas decorations and lights.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Wilkerson, James C., III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Cooper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Pinson, Beth
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 (open access)

The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004

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Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Mining: An Overview (open access)

Data Mining: An Overview

Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. This report discusses the data mining uses (i.e. Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) Program) and issues (i.e. data quality, interoperability, privacy), as well as the limitations of data mining.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Seifert, Jeffrey W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusion in Crystalline Composition-Modulated Films (open access)

Diffusion in Crystalline Composition-Modulated Films

The diffusivity in alloys at low temperatures is modeled for composition-modulated structures using Khachaturyan's microscopic theory of diffusion. The theory is now applied to assess a two-phase multilayer system.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Jankowski, Alan Frederic; Saw, C. & Harper, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces (open access)

Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces

Molecular surface computations are often necessary in order to perform synthetic drug design. A critical step in this process is the computation and update of an exact boundary representation for the molecular surface (e.g. the Lee-Richards surface). In this paper they introduce efficient techniques for computing a molecular surface boundary representation as a set of NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) patches. This representation introduces for molecules the same geometric data structure used in the solid modeling community and enables immediate access to a wide range of modeling operations and techniques. Furthermore, this allows the use of any general solid modeling or visualization system as a molecular modeling interface. However, using such a representation in a molecular modeling environment raises several efficiency and update constraints, especially in a dynamic setting. For example, changes in the probe radius result in both geometric and topological changes to the set of patches. The techniques provide the option of trading accuracy of the representation for the efficiency of the computation, while still tracking the changes in the set of patches. In particular, they discuss two main classes of dynamic updates: one that keeps the topology of the molecular configuration fixed, and a more complicated case where …
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Bajaj, C L; Pascucci, V; Shamir, A; Holt, R J & Netravali, A N
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embedded Optical Sensors for Thermal Barrier Coatings Annual Report (open access)

Embedded Optical Sensors for Thermal Barrier Coatings Annual Report

In this first year of the program we have focused on the selection of rare-earth dopants for luminescent sensing in thermal barrier coating materials, the effect of dopant concentration on several of the luminescence characteristics and initial fabrication of one type of embedded sensor, the ''red-line'' sensor. We have initially focused on erbium as the lanthanide dopant for luminescence doping of yttria-stabilized zirconia and europium as the lanthanide for luminescence doping of gadolinium zirconate. The latter exhibits a temperature-dependent luminescence lifetime up to at least 1100 C. A buried layer, ''red-line'' sensor in an electron-beam deposited yttria-stabilized zirconia coating with erbium has been demonstrated and exhibits a temperature-dependent luminescence lifetime up to at least 400 C.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Clarke, David R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2004

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Family poses next to the Christmas tree]

A family poses next to the Christmas tree.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress

This report discusses policy and legislation regarding fish and marine mammals. These animals are important resources in open ocean and nearshore coastal areas. Commercial and sport fishing are jointly managed by the federal government and individual states. Many laws and regulations guide the management of these resources by federal agencies.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Eunice N. Briscoe, December 16, 2004] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Eunice N. Briscoe, December 16, 2004]

Funeral program for Mrs. Eunice N. Briscoe, born May 29, 1915. The funeral was held Thursday, December 16, 2004 at Second Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. Robert L. Jemerson. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History