Emergency Communications: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings (open access)

Emergency Communications: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is one of several federally managed warning systems. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) jointly administers EAS with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in cooperation with the National Weather Service (NWS), an organization within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NOAA/NWS weather radio system has been upgraded to an all-hazard warning capability. This report summarizes the technology and administration of EAS and the NOAA/NWS all-hazard network, and some of the key proposals for change
Date: September 2, 2005
Creator: Moore, Linda K. & Reese, Shawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Postal Service Obligations to the Civil Service Retirement System (open access)

Funding Postal Service Obligations to the Civil Service Retirement System

This report provides background on the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) funding of its retirement obligations, describes and analyzes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recalculation, and discusses considerations Congress may bring to bear on the draft legislation.
Date: January 2, 2003
Creator: Purcell, Patrick & Stevens, Nye
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0343 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0343

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request received by Prairie View A&M University for the personnel files of a former employee of the university.
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, September 2002. (open access)

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, September 2002.

Monthly newsletter discussing news and activities related to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, articles about weather and atmospheric phenomena, and other related topics.
Date: October 2, 2002
Creator: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, August 2003. (open access)

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Facilities Newsletter, August 2003.

Monthly newsletter discussing news and activities related to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, articles about weather and atmospheric phenomena, and other related topics.
Date: September 2, 2003
Creator: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
TANF Reauthorization: Side-By-Side Comparison of Current Law and Two Versions of H.R. 4 (open access)

TANF Reauthorization: Side-By-Side Comparison of Current Law and Two Versions of H.R. 4

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Date: February 2, 2004
Creator: Burke, Vee & Falk, Gene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues (open access)

National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues

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Date: June 2, 2005
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
K-12 Education Programs: Recent Appropriations (open access)

K-12 Education Programs: Recent Appropriations

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Date: June 2, 2006
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal Collimation at Rhic. (open access)

Crystal Collimation at Rhic.

For the year 2001 run, a bent crystal was installed in the yellow ring of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The crystal forms the first stage of a two stage collimation system. By aligning the crystal to the beam, halo particles are channeled through the crystal and deflected into a copper scraper. The purpose is to reduce beam halo with greater efficiency than with a scraper alone. In this paper we present the first results from the use of the crystal collimator. We compare the crystal performance under various conditions, such as different particle species, and beta functions.
Date: June 2, 2002
Creator: Fliller, R. P., III; Drees, A.; Gassner, D.; Hammons, L.; McIntyre, G.; Peggs, S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beam Diffusion Studies at RHIC (open access)

Beam Diffusion Studies at RHIC

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Date: June 2, 2002
Creator: Fliller, R. P., III; Drees, A.; Gassner, D.; McIntyre, G.; Peggs, S. & Trbojevic, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small bandgap bowing in In1-xGaxN alloys (open access)

Small bandgap bowing in In1-xGaxN alloys

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Date: April 2, 2002
Creator: Wu, J.; Walukiewicz, W.; Yu, K. M.; Ager, J. W., III; Haller, E. E.; Lu, H. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
LLNL SMP Light Diffuser Fabrication and Preliminary Data (open access)

LLNL SMP Light Diffuser Fabrication and Preliminary Data

We are developing a cylindrical light diffuser using shape memory polymer (SMP) whose diameter, length, stiffness, and diffusion profile can be tailored to suit a particular application. The cylindrical SMP diffuser is made by casting SMP around the end of a glass optical fiber using a teflon tube as the casting mold, and abrading the cured SMP surface to cause the light to leak radially outward. The inner diameter of the casting tube is slightly larger than the fiber diameter. A smaller teflon tube is positioned over the fiber (between the fiber and the casting tube) to approximately center the fiber tip in the casting tube. As the SMP cures, it bonds with the optical fiber, creating a strong joint without the need for additional adhesives or mechanical fixtures. A close-up of the SMP-fiber joint and the finished SMP diffuser are shown in Fig.1. The SMP formulation (developed in-house) was specifically designed to be optically transparent in the visible and near-infrared regions; the spectral absorption of the SMP is shown in Fig. 2. The low absorption is important because (1) it allows the light to travel the length of the diffuser without suffering excessive loss due to absorption and (2) …
Date: June 2, 2006
Creator: Small, W., IV
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses (open access)

Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses

This CRS Report for Congress contains descriptions of U.S. policy response, legislation, and sanctions pertaining to Iran. Updated April 2, 2007.
Date: April 2, 2007
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks (open access)

Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks

This Congressional Research Report for Congress details elections and constitutional referendum pertaining to Iraq.
Date: January 2, 2009
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Food and Agricultural Imports: Safeguards and Selected Issues (open access)

U.S. Food and Agricultural Imports: Safeguards and Selected Issues

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Date: January 2, 2008
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The President Pro Tempore of the Senate: History and Authority of the Office (open access)

The President Pro Tempore of the Senate: History and Authority of the Office

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Date: April 2, 2008
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay-for-Performance in Health Care (open access)

Pay-for-Performance in Health Care

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Date: November 2, 2006
Creator: Hahn, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Softwood Lumber Imports From Canada: History and Analysis of the Dispute (open access)

Softwood Lumber Imports From Canada: History and Analysis of the Dispute

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Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues

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Date: May 2, 2008
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 1, January 2, 2009, Pages 1-200 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 1, January 2, 2009, Pages 1-200

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 2, 2009
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Food Aid:  U.S. and Other Donor Contributions (open access)

International Food Aid: U.S. and Other Donor Contributions

This report provides three indicators of the U.S. contribution to global food aid: (1) shipments of major donors compiled by the International Grains Council, (2) U.S. contributions to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), and (3) the U.S. commitment under the Food Aid Convention (FAC).
Date: May 2, 2005
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E. & Canada, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress [Updated May 2, 2007] (open access)

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress [Updated May 2, 2007]

This report discusses Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) amendments proposed by the 109th and 110th Congress.
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library