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ImageMagick Workshop Handout (open access)

ImageMagick Workshop Handout

This handout accompanies a workshop presentation for the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). The workshop introduces command-line image manipulation using the open source software ImageMagick.
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Command-Line Image Manipulation with ImageMagick

Presentation slides from a workshop at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). These workshop slides introduce command-line image manipulation to its participants using the open source software ImageMagick.
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Need to Be Reassessed (open access)

Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Need to Be Reassessed

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border Patrol Strategy: Progress and Challenges in Implementation and Assessment Efforts (open access)

Border Patrol Strategy: Progress and Challenges in Implementation and Assessment Efforts

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO’s prior work has highlighted progress and challenges in various areas related to Border Patrol’s implementation of its 2004 National Strategy, which could provide insights as Border Patrol transitions to its 2012 Strategic Plan. Border Patrol officials stated that the 2012 Strategic Plan will rely on Border Patrol and federal, state, local, tribal, and international partners working together to use a risk-based approach to secure the border, and include the key elements of “Information, Integration, and Rapid Response” to achieve objectives. These elements were similar to those in the 2004 Strategy and GAO’s past work highlighted the progress and challenges the agency faced obtaining information necessary for border security; integrating security operations with partners; and mobilizing a rapid response to security threats. Border Patrol successfully used interagency forums and joint operations to counter threats, but challenges included assessing the benefits of border technology and infrastructure to, among other things, provide information on situational awareness. For example, in May 2010 GAO reported that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had not accounted for the effect of its investment in border fencing and infrastructure …
Date: May 8, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration: Preliminary Observations on the Death Master File (open access)

Social Security Administration: Preliminary Observations on the Death Master File

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Social Security Administration's (SSA) procedures for handling and verifying death reports may allow for erroneous death information in the Death Master File (DMF) because SSA does not verify certain death reports or record others. SSA officials said, in keeping with its mission, the agency is primarily focused on ensuring that it does not make benefit payments to deceased Social Security program beneficiaries. As a result, it only verifies death reports received for individuals who are current program beneficiaries, and even then, only for those reports received from sources it considers to be less accurate. For example, SSA officials consider death reports from states that have pre-verified decedents' name and SSN to be highly accurate, so SSA does not verify that the subjects of these reports are actually deceased. It would, however, verify a report received from a source such as a post office. SSA verifies no death reports for individuals who are not beneficiaries, regardless of source. Because there are a number of death reports that SSA does not verify, the agency risks including incorrect death information in the DMF, such as including living individuals in the …
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: DHS and TSA Continue to Face Challenges Developing and Acquiring Screening Technologies (open access)

Homeland Security: DHS and TSA Continue to Face Challenges Developing and Acquiring Screening Technologies

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy: Observations on Project and Program Cost Estimating in NNSA and the Office of Environmental Management (open access)

Department of Energy: Observations on Project and Program Cost Estimating in NNSA and the Office of Environmental Management

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For more than a decade, GAO has reported on the challenges the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Office of Environmental Management (EM) have faced in meeting their projects' cost performance targets as developed in estimates and for ensuring that these cost estimates are based on sound assumptions. NNSA and EM are included on GAO's High-Risk List in recognition of the potential for vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in contract administration and management of major projects. In January 2010, GAO reported on DOE's project cost-estimating practices and found that DOE did not have a cost-estimating policy and that cost-estimating guidance it had developed in the 1990s remained in effect but was out-of-date. GAO also found that DOE was taking steps to improve its cost-estimating practices, such as establishing the Office of Cost Analysis (OCA) in 2008 to improve cost-estimating capabilities and better ensure that project cost estimates are reliable by providing a new independent cost-estimating function. Both DOE's NNSA, a separately organized agency within the department, and EM adopted policies and practices to support cost estimating. GAO is conducting an ongoing …
Date: May 8, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides an overview of Jordanian politics and current issues in U.S.-Jordanian relations. It provides a brief discussion of the nation's government and economy, as well as Jordan's cooperation in promoting Arab-Israeli peace and other U.S. policy objectives in the Middle East.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of a Member of the House Who Has Been Indicted for or Convicted of a Felony (open access)

Status of a Member of the House Who Has Been Indicted for or Convicted of a Felony

This report summarizes the potential consequences, with respect to congressional status, that may result when a sitting Member of the House of Representatives is indicted for or is convicted of a felony.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congress's Contempt Power and the Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure (open access)

Congress's Contempt Power and the Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure

This report examines the source of the contempt power, reviews the historical development of the early case law, outlines the statutory and common law basis for Congress's contempt power, and analyzes the procedures associated with inherent contempt, criminal contempt, and the civil enforcement of subpoenas. It also includes a detailed discussion of two recent information access disputes that led to the approval of contempt citations in the House against then-White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder. Finally, the report discusses both non-constitutional and constitutionally-based limitations on the contempt power.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Garvey, Todd & Dolan, Alissa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unauthorized Aliens in the United States: Policy Discussion (open access)

Unauthorized Aliens in the United States: Policy Discussion

This report discusses the unauthorized immigrant (illegal alien) population in the United States, which is a key and controversial immigration issue.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ukraine: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Ukraine: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

This report offers background information on Ukraine's current political and economic situation, as well as foreign policy towards NATO, the European Union, and Russia. It also discusses U.S. policy, U.S. aid to Ukraine, the congressional response, and other legislation.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Woehrel, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress

This report covers Special Operations Forces (SOF) budgets for FY2014 and expected uses of the bugeted money. SOF actions play a significant role in U.S. military operations, and the Administration has given U.S. SOF greater responsibility for planning and conducting worldwide counterterrorism operations.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy (open access)

Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the revolution and post-conflict transition in Libya, triggered in mid-February 2011 by a chain of events resulting in the death of the Prime Minister (Qadhafi); a new government was elected in July. The report also looks at the military and economic state of the country, including human rights, Islam and politics, and Libya's oil assets.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 as an Alternative to a Traditional Budget Resolution (open access)

Provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 as an Alternative to a Traditional Budget Resolution

This report provides an explanation of such provisions, highlights how those provisions compare with a traditional budget resolution, and places them within the context of the budget process for FY2014 and FY2015.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Lynch, Megan S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Homeland Security: Further Action Needed to Improve Management of Special Acquisition Authority (open access)

Department of Homeland Security: Further Action Needed to Improve Management of Special Acquisition Authority

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the last 8 years, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has used its special acquisition authority to enter into 58 “other transaction” agreements. Use of the authority has declined since 2005. DHS officials said the decline is due to uncertainty about the agency’s continuing authority to enter into these agreements, among other things."
Date: May 8, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 169, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 2012 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 169, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: May 8, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 170, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 2012 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 170, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: May 8, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements (open access)

Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements

This report provides an overview of many of the key arms control and nonproliferation agreements and endeavors of the past 40 years, divided into three sections. The first describes arms control efforts between the United States and the states of the former Soviet Union. The second section describes multilateral nuclear nonproliferation efforts. The final section reviews treaties and agreements that address chemical, biological, and conventional weapons.
Date: May 8, 2018
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.; Kerr, Paul K. & Nikitin, Mary Beth D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources (open access)

Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources

This report provides links to selected authoritative resources related to cybersecurity issues, including: legislation, hearings in the 112th Congress, data and statistics, and cybersecurity glossaries.
Date: May 8, 2012
Creator: Tehan, Rita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 157, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 2010 (open access)

The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 157, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 2010

Semi-weekly newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 8, 2010
Creator: Wright, Cyndi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) Exclusion (open access)

Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) Exclusion

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Date: May 8, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress (open access)

Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress

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Date: May 8, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monte Carlo Simulation of a Coded Aperture Thermal Neutron Camera (open access)

Monte Carlo Simulation of a Coded Aperture Thermal Neutron Camera

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Date: May 8, 2011
Creator: I., Dioszegi; Salwen, C. & and Forman, I.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library