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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress (open access)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress

This report discusses the prevalence of different psychological health concerns within the Armed Forces, current mental health screening and treatments, and DOD responses.
Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Blakeley, Katherine & Jansen, Don J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
European Union Wind and Solar Electricity Policies: Overview and Considerations (open access)

European Union Wind and Solar Electricity Policies: Overview and Considerations

The subject matter covered within this report is European Union (EU) renewable electricity generation--specifically onshore wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity.
Date: August 7, 2013
Creator: Brown, Phillip
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Workforce Programs in Title VII of the Public Health Service Act (open access)

Health Workforce Programs in Title VII of the Public Health Service Act

This report describes and summarizes Title VII of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) programs. It describes federal support for institutions and individuals in efforts to expand and sustain the pipeline for health professions education and training.
Date: August 13, 2013
Creator: Reyes-Akinbileje, Bernice
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Telecommunications and Media Convergence: Selected Issues for Consideration (open access)

Telecommunications and Media Convergence: Selected Issues for Consideration

This report provides an overview of selected topics that provide a broad overview of issues that are central to the telecommunications/media convergence debate.
Date: August 14, 2013
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Medical Care: FY2014 Appropriations (open access)

Veterans' Medical Care: FY2014 Appropriations

This report focuses on funding for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The VHA is primarily a direct service provider of primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services to veterans through the nation's largest integrated health care system. Eligibility for VA health care is based primarily on previous military service, disability, and income.
Date: August 14, 2013
Creator: Panangala, S. V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keystone XL: Assessing the Proposed Pipeline's Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (open access)

Keystone XL: Assessing the Proposed Pipeline's Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This report provides background information regarding the Keystone XL pipeline proposal and the process required for federal approval. The report discusses the state department's GHG emissions assessment and provides concluding observations.
Date: August 15, 2013
Creator: Lattanzio, Richard K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Affordable Care Act and Small Business: Economic Issues (open access)

The Affordable Care Act and Small Business: Economic Issues

This report explains how employer-sponsored insurance can be used to address concerns about health insurance coverage and cost. Then, it summarizes the three ACA provisions most relevant to small businesses. Also, it analyzes these provisions for their potential effects on small businesses. Last, this report presents several approaches that could address some concerns associated with these provisions (particularly the employer penalty).
Date: August 15, 2013
Creator: Lowry, Sean & Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing Natural Catastrophe Exposure: Issues and Options for Improving Risk Transfer Markets (open access)

Financing Natural Catastrophe Exposure: Issues and Options for Improving Risk Transfer Markets

This report opens with an examination of the current role of private insurers in managing disaster risk and their capacity and willingness to deal with the rising cost of financing recovery and reconstruction following natural disasters. The report then examines the current role of federal, state, and local governments in managing disaster risk.
Date: August 15, 2013
Creator: King, R. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Egypt in Crisis: Issues for Congress (open access)

Egypt in Crisis: Issues for Congress

This report provides a brief overview of the key issues for the 113th Congress related to Egypt.
Date: August 19, 2013
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Issues (open access)

FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Issues

Report regarding the annual defense authorization process and the interest Congress members have in the military.
Date: August 19, 2013
Creator: Jansen, Don J.; Blakeley, Katherine; Burrelli, David F.; Kapp, Lawrence; Martinez, Lucy P. & Theohary, Catherine A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Disclosure by Federal Officials and Publication of Disclosure Reports (open access)

Financial Disclosure by Federal Officials and Publication of Disclosure Reports

This report discusses the information disclosure by high-level officials in all three branches of the federal government.
Date: August 22, 2013
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload (open access)

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload

This report examines the TANF cash assistance caseload, focusing on how the composition and characteristics of families receiving assistance have changed over time.
Date: August 21, 2013
Creator: Falk, Gene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bee Health: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Bee Health: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of selected bee species, and discusses importance of bee pollination, changes in bee populations, factors affecting bee health, and identifies future needs.
Date: August 27, 2013
Creator: Johnson, Renรฉe & Corn, M. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2014 Overview and Summary (open access)

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2014 Overview and Summary

This report provides an overview of appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The first portion of this report provides an overview and historical context for reviewing DHS appropriations, highlighting various aspects including the comparative size of DHS components, the amount of non-appropriated funding the department receives, and trends in the timing and size of the department's appropriations legislation.
Date: August 27, 2013
Creator: Painter, William L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress (open access)

War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress

This report describes the current strategic context, the state of the campaign, next steps in the campaign, and what it would take to make campaign gains sustainable; and it offers questions that may be of help to Congress in providing oversight of further U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.
Date: August 29, 2013
Creator: Dale, Catherine
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Proposed U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico that provide a setting for domestic and international energy production, U.S. military training and border operations, trade and commerce, fishing, tourist attractions, and recreation.
Date: August 29, 2013
Creator: Hagerty, Curry L. & Uzel, James C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing Habitat Preference of Invasive American Minks (Neovison vison) Using Trap-Cameras in Navarino Island, Chile

Poster presented at the 2013 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. This poster discusses research on assessing habitat preference of invasive American minks (Neovison vison) using trap-cameras in Navarino Island, Chile.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D. & Jimรฉnez, Jaime E.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

What We're Talking About When We're Talking About Sound

Presentation for the 2013 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, the author introduces High Performance Sound Technologies in Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) and looks at current sound and text technologies.
Date: August 16, 2013
Creator: Clement, Tanya
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive (open access)

On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive

Article on the removal of download access to Grateful Dead soundboards from the Live Music Archive.
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Services Block Grant: Background and Funding (open access)

Social Services Block Grant: Background and Funding

This report discusses the background and funding information of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Topics include the use of the funds provided by the grant, its funding history, and its proposed repeal.
Date: August 28, 2012
Creator: Lynch, Karen E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turkmenistan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests (open access)

Turkmenistan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests

This report discusses the political, social and economic situation of Turkmenistan in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Date: August 17, 2012
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kazakhstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests (open access)

Kazakhstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests

This report provides political background information on Kazakhstan. It discusses terrorism and unrest in Kazakhstan, as well as human rights, economic development, foreign policy and defense and U.S. policy.
Date: August 10, 2012
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Individuals Seated on the Senate Dais (open access)

Guide to Individuals Seated on the Senate Dais

This report discusses the seating of the members of senate chamber in the Capitol.
Date: August 13, 2013
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration-Related Worksite Enforcement: Performance Measures (open access)

Immigration-Related Worksite Enforcement: Performance Measures

This report discusses the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) responsibilities in regard to immigration-related worksite enforcement, or enforcement of the prohibitions on unauthorized employment in Section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The INA ยง274A provisions, sometimes referred to as employer sanctions, make it unlawful for an employer to knowingly hire, recruit or refer for a fee, or continue to employ an alien who is not authorized to be so employed. This report looks at enforcement measures of this act.
Date: August 7, 2013
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library