An Audit of The Department of Public Safety's Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Contract with the North Texas Tollway Authority (open access)

An Audit of The Department of Public Safety's Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Contract with the North Texas Tollway Authority

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Department of Public Safety's proposed contract with the North Texas Tollway Authority and Department reimbursements for all costs associated with providing the services required in the contract.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Agencies' and Higher Education Institutions' Compliance with Benefits Proportional by Fund Requirements (open access)

An Audit Report on Agencies' and Higher Education Institutions' Compliance with Benefits Proportional by Fund Requirements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to state agencies' and higher education institutions' compliance with benefits paid proportional to the source of the fund by requirements of the General Appropriations Act.
Date: February 2007
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Border Security Funds (open access)

An Audit Report on Border Security Funds

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the sources of border security funding, the amounts spent in each category of expenditures for fiscal years 2004 through 2008 (including expenditures for staff, capital budget purchases, and information technology), and whether or not these expenditures were allocated appropriately.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Certification of the Permanent School Fund's Bond Guarantee Program for Fiscal Year 2005 (open access)

An Audit Report on Certification of the Permanent School Fund's Bond Guarantee Program for Fiscal Year 2005

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the total amount of school district bonds guaranteed by the Permanent School Fund's (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program (Program), whether these exceeded the limits established by Section 45.053(a) of the Texas Education Code and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and following up on related issues from the previous year.
Date: March 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Biennial Report on Recommended Changes to the State's Compensation System for Fiscal Years 2004-2005 (open access)

A Biennial Report on Recommended Changes to the State's Compensation System for Fiscal Years 2004-2005

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the State's salary structures are competitive with the appropriate labor market, whether classified employees' salaries are competitive with those of employees in similar jobs in government and industry, whether the Position Classification Plan (Plan) requires any realignment, additions, or deletions of positions, and whether other aspects of the State's compensation system could be enhanced.
Date: September 2002
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on an Audit of the Texas Lottery Commission's Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2005 (open access)

A Report on an Audit of the Texas Lottery Commission's Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2005

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining that the financial statements of the Texas Lottery Commission for the year ended August 31, 2005, are materially correct and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements (open access)

A Report on the Audit of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner's fiscal year 2005 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date: January 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Permanent School Fund's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements (open access)

A Report on the Audit of the Permanent School Fund's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Permanent School Fund's fiscal year 2005 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date: February 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Teacher Retirement System's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements (open access)

A Report on the Audit of the Teacher Retirement System's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Teacher Retirement System's fiscal year 2005 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date: November 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
State of Texas Financial Portion of the Statewide Single Audit Report for the Year Ended August 31, 2005 (open access)

State of Texas Financial Portion of the Statewide Single Audit Report for the Year Ended August 31, 2005

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the state's basic financial statements accurately reflect the balances and activities for the State of Texas for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2005.
Date: March 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Summary Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for Fiscal Year 2005 (open access)

A Summary Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for Fiscal Year 2005

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to providing the Legislature and the public with information on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) who perform services for state government.
Date: November 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Federal Portion of the Statewide Single Audit Report: 2005 (open access)

Texas Federal Portion of the Statewide Single Audit Report: 2005

Annual report of federal funds expended by the state of Texas including financial statements and reports from auditors related to fiscal year 2005.
Date: March 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Annual Report: 2005 (open access)

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Annual Report: 2005

Annual report of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2005.
Date: January 2006
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report to the 80th Texas Legislature: State Office of Risk Management (open access)

Biennial Report to the 80th Texas Legislature: State Office of Risk Management

Biennial report to the Texas Legislature describing the activities of the State Office of Risk Management (SORM) during fiscal years 2005 and 2006, including information on state agency financing, claims, losses, and expenditures.
Date: January 1, 2007
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State of Office Risk Management Annual Financial Report: 2005 (open access)

Texas State of Office Risk Management Annual Financial Report: 2005

Annual financial report for the Texas State Office of Risk Management during fiscal year 2005 including balance sheets for revenues, expenditures, and various funds, with associated notes.
Date: November 10, 2005
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Annual Report of Nonfinancial Data: 2005 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Annual Report of Nonfinancial Data: 2005

Report on nonfinancial data of the Texas State Office of Risk Management for fiscal year 2005, including information about fees, spaces, progress on the HUB (historically underutilized business) plan, environmentally sensitive purchases, and indirect costs.
Date: December 20, 2005
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Annual Report on Cost Containment: 2005 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Annual Report on Cost Containment: 2005

Annual report detailing the effectiveness of Texas risk management during fiscal year 2005 including cost containment measures measures to reduce workers' compensation payments.
Date: October 15, 2005
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005

A legislative appropriation request for the biennium 2004-2005, in order to provide more effective claims administration and risk management services and ultimately result in savings to state agencies in the form of reduced workers' compensation claims and costs, reduced insurance purchases and improved insurance coverages, and more effective risk management programs.
Date: September 18, 2002
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2003-2007 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2003-2007

Agency strategic plan for the Texas State Office of Risk Management describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2003 through 2007.
Date: June 17, 2002
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2009 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2009

Agency strategic plan for the Texas State Office of Risk Management describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2005 through 2009.
Date: July 2, 2004
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
FY05 LDRD Final Report The Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact? (open access)

FY05 LDRD Final Report The Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact?

P'P' (PKPPKP) are P waves that travel from a hypocenter through the Earth's core, reflect from the free surface and travel back through the core to a recording station on the surface. Here we report the observations of hitherto unobserved near-podal P'P' waves (at epicentral distance < 10{sup o}) and very prominent precursors preceding the main energy by as much as 60 s. We interpret these precursors as a back-scattered energy from previously undocumented horizontally connected small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle beneath the oceans in a zone between 150 and 220 km depth beneath the Earth's surface. From these observations, we identify a frequency dependence of attenuation quality factor Q in the lithosphere through forward modeling of the observed amplitude spectra of the main and back-scattered P'P' waves. In addition, we did not find that travel times corresponding to very polar paths through the centermost inner core with respect to the rotation axis of Earth are anomalously advanced, which argues for isotropic or at best --weakly-anisotropic center of Earth in the direction parallel with the rotation axis. More systematic sampling near Earth's center and characterization of anisotropy in Earth's center will be a subject of future research efforts.
Date: January 9, 2006
Creator: Tkalcic, H; Flanagan, M P & Mogri, H
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY 2005 Congressional Earmark: The Environmental Institute Fellowship Program (open access)

FY 2005 Congressional Earmark: The Environmental Institute Fellowship Program

Congressional Earmark Funding was used to create a Postdoctoral Environmental Fellowship Program, interdisciplinary Environmental Working Groups, and special initiatives to create a dialogue around the environment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to mobilize faculty to work together to respond to emerging environmental needs and to build institutional capacity to launch programmatic environmental activities across campus over time. Developing these networks of expertise will enable the University to more effectively and swiftly respond to emerging environmental needs and assume a leadership role in varied environmental fields. Over the course of the project 20 proposals were submitted to a variety of funding agencies involving faculty teams from 19 academic departments; 4 projects were awarded totaling $950,000; special events were organized including the Environmental Lecture Series which attracted more than 1,000 attendees over the course of the project; 75 University faculty became involved in one or more Working Groups (original three Working Groups plus Phase 2 Working Groups); an expertise database was developed with approximately 275 faculty involved in environmental research and education as part of a campus-wide network of environmental expertise; 12 University centers and partners participated; and the three Environmental Fellows produced 3 publications as well as a number of …
Date: February 6, 2007
Creator: Tracey, Sharon & Taupier, Richard
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY05 LDRD Final Report A Computational Design Tool for Microdevices and Components in Pathogen Detection Systems (open access)

FY05 LDRD Final Report A Computational Design Tool for Microdevices and Components in Pathogen Detection Systems

We have developed new algorithms to model complex biological flows in integrated biodetection microdevice components. The proposed work is important because the design strategy for the next-generation Autonomous Pathogen Detection System at LLNL is the microfluidic-based Biobriefcase, being developed under the Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Program in the Homeland Security Organization. This miniaturization strategy introduces a new flow regime to systems where biological flow is already complex and not well understood. Also, design and fabrication of MEMS devices is time-consuming and costly due to the current trial-and-error approach. Furthermore, existing devices, in general, are not optimized. There are several MEMS CAD capabilities currently available, but their computational fluid dynamics modeling capabilities are rudimentary at best. Therefore, we proposed a collaboration to develop computational tools at LLNL which will (1) provide critical understanding of the fundamental flow physics involved in bioMEMS devices, (2) shorten the design and fabrication process, and thus reduce costs, (3) optimize current prototypes and (4) provide a prediction capability for the design of new, more advanced microfluidic systems. Computational expertise was provided by Comp-CASC and UC Davis-DAS. The simulation work was supported by key experiments for guidance and validation at UC Berkeley-BioE.
Date: February 7, 2006
Creator: Trebotich, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap: [Fiscal Years] 2005-2030 (open access)

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap: [Fiscal Years] 2005-2030

Biennial report describing progress and changes in unmanned systems technology used by the military, with a 25-year strategic plan to describe goals for the continued development, production, testing, training, operation, and sustainment of the technologies. "The overarching goal of this Roadmap is to guide the Department toward a logical, systematic migration of UAS mission capabilities focused on the most urgent warfighter needs" (Memorandum).
Date: 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library