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  1. 43 CFR 3733.2 - Liability of United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Liability of United States. 3733.2 Section... WITHDRAWALS: GENERAL Risk of Operation § 3733.2 Liability of United States. The Act in section 3 provides in part as follows: Provided, That the United States, its permittees and licensees shall not be...

  2. 43 CFR 3733.2 - Liability of United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Liability of United States. 3733.2 Section... WITHDRAWALS: GENERAL Risk of Operation § 3733.2 Liability of United States. The Act in section 3 provides in part as follows: Provided, That the United States, its permittees and licensees shall not be...

  3. 43 CFR 3733.2 - Liability of United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Liability of United States. 3733.2 Section... WITHDRAWALS: GENERAL Risk of Operation § 3733.2 Liability of United States. The Act in section 3 provides in part as follows: Provided, That the United States, its permittees and licensees shall not be...

  4. 43 CFR 3733.2 - Liability of United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Liability of United States. 3733.2 Section... WITHDRAWALS: GENERAL Risk of Operation § 3733.2 Liability of United States. The Act in section 3 provides in part as follows: Provided, That the United States, its permittees and licensees shall not be...

  5. Inventory of Nonutility Electric Power Plants in the United States

    EIA Publications

    2003-01-01

    Final issue of this report. Provides annual aggregate statistics on generating units operated by nonutilities in the United States and the District of Columbia. Provides a 5-year outlook for generating unit additions and changes.

  6. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 1998. Part 5 : national summaries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2000-03-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 5 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Part 5 provides extensive graphic and tabular...

  7. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 1996. Part 5 : national summaries.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1996-01-01

    Waterborne Cmmerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 5 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Part 5 provides a condensation of this detaile...

  8. 31 CFR Appendix D to Subpart A of... - United States Secret Service

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false United States Secret Service D...—United States Secret Service 1. In general. This appendix applies to the United States Secret Service. 2. Public reading room. The United States Secret Service will provide a room on an ad hoc basis when...

  9. 31 CFR Appendix D to Subpart A of... - United States Secret Service

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false United States Secret Service D...—United States Secret Service 1. In general. This appendix applies to the United States Secret Service. 2. Public reading room. The United States Secret Service will provide a room on an ad hoc basis when...

  10. 31 CFR Appendix D to Subpart A of... - United States Secret Service

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false United States Secret Service D...—United States Secret Service 1. In general. This appendix applies to the United States Secret Service. 2. Public reading room. The United States Secret Service will provide a room on an ad hoc basis when...

  11. 31 CFR Appendix D to Subpart A of... - United States Secret Service

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false United States Secret Service D...—United States Secret Service 1. In general. This appendix applies to the United States Secret Service. 2. Public reading room. The United States Secret Service will provide a room on an ad hoc basis when...

  12. 31 CFR Appendix D to Subpart A of... - United States Secret Service

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false United States Secret Service D...—United States Secret Service 1. In general. This appendix applies to the United States Secret Service. 2. Public reading room. The United States Secret Service will provide a room on an ad hoc basis when...

  13. 31 CFR 570.508 - Libyan diplomatic missions in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... missions of the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations is authorized, provided... the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations. (b) The provision of goods or services in the United States to the employees of the diplomatic missions of the Government of Libya to the...

  14. 31 CFR 570.508 - Libyan diplomatic missions in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... missions of the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations is authorized, provided... the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations. (b) The provision of goods or services in the United States to the employees of the diplomatic missions of the Government of Libya to the...

  15. 31 CFR 570.508 - Libyan diplomatic missions in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... missions of the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations is authorized, provided... the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations. (b) The provision of goods or services in the United States to the employees of the diplomatic missions of the Government of Libya to the...

  16. 31 CFR 570.508 - Libyan diplomatic missions in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... missions of the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations is authorized, provided... the Government of Libya to the United States and the United Nations. (b) The provision of goods or services in the United States to the employees of the diplomatic missions of the Government of Libya to the...

  17. 1 CFR 12.3 - The United States Government Manual.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 1 General Provisions 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false The United States Government Manual. 12.3... States Government Manual. (a) Copies of The United States Government Manual shall be made available to... legislative courts of the United States will be provided with one copy based on a written request from the...

  18. 1 CFR 12.3 - The United States Government Manual.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 1 General Provisions 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false The United States Government Manual. 12.3... States Government Manual. (a) Copies of The United States Government Manual shall be made available to... legislative courts of the United States will be provided with one copy based on a written request from the...

  19. 77 FR 27669 - Modifications to Definition of United States Property

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-05-11

    ... Modifications to Definition of United States Property AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION... contracts. The temporary regulations provide that certain obligations of United States persons arising from... derivatives clearing organization or clearing agency do not constitute United States property. The text of the...

  20. Shared Identity and Reconciliation: Can a Future Security Framework in Northeast Asia Draw from Experiences of the North Atlantic Security Cooperation?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-06-01

    the former Allies of the Second World War, several European countries, the United States of America , and Canada came together to provide for their...European countries, the United States of America , and Canada came together to provide for their security and in 1949 formed a unique security alliance, the ...European countries, the United States of America (U.S.), and Canada came together to provide for their

  1. 15 CFR 971.209 - Processing outside the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Processing outside the United States... Applications Contents § 971.209 Processing outside the United States. (a) Except as provided in this section... contravenes the overriding national interests of the United States. (b) If foreign processing is proposed, the...

  2. 15 CFR 971.209 - Processing outside the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Processing outside the United States... Applications Contents § 971.209 Processing outside the United States. (a) Except as provided in this section... contravenes the overriding national interests of the United States. (b) If foreign processing is proposed, the...

  3. Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and other natural occurrences of asbestos in California

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Van Gosen, Bradley S.; Clinkenbeard, John P.

    2011-01-01

    The map (Plate.pdf), pamphlet (Pamphlet.pdf), and the accompanying datasets in this report provide information for 290 sites in California where asbestos occurs in natural settings, using descriptions found in the geologic literature. Data on location, mineralogy, geology, and relevant literature for each asbestos site are provided. Using the map and digital data in this report, the user can examine the distribution of previously reported asbestos and their geological characteristics in California. This report is part of an ongoing study by the U.S. Geological Survey to identify and map sites where asbestos mineralization occurs in the United States, which includes similar maps and datasets of natural asbestos localities within the Eastern United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1189/), the Central United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1211/), the Rocky Mountain States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1182/), the Southwestern United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1095/), and the Northwestern United States (Oregon and Washington) (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1041/). These reports are intended to provide State and local government agencies and other stakeholders with geologic information on reported asbestos mineralization in the United States.

  4. 5 CFR 334.102 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... United States, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Library of Congress, the... eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their..., instrumentality, or authority of a State or States; and (2) Any general or special purpose agency of such a...

  5. Reported Historic Asbestos Mines, Historic Asbestos Prospects, and Other Natural Occurrences of Asbestos in Oregon and Washington

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Van Gosen, Bradley S.

    2010-01-01

    This map and its accompanying dataset provide information for 51 natural occurrences of asbestos in Washington and Oregon, using descriptions found in the geologic literature. Data on location, mineralogy, geology, and relevant literature for each asbestos site are provided. Using the map and digital data in this report, the user can examine the distribution of previously reported asbestos occurrences and their geological characteristics in the Pacific Northwest States of Washington and Oregon. This report is part of an ongoing study by the U.S. Geological Survey to identify and map reported natural asbestos occurrences in the United States, which thus far includes similar maps and datasets of natural asbestos occurrences within the Eastern United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1189/), the Central United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1211/), the Rocky Mountain States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1182/), and the Southwestern United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1095/). These reports are intended to provide State and local government agencies and other stakeholders with geologic information on natural occurrences of asbestos in the United States.

  6. Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges. Phase II of a Three-Phase Study. Executive Summary

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Adamson, Frank

    2010-01-01

    A new study that analyzes the status of professional learning in the United States reveals that the nation is making some progress in providing increased support and mentoring for new teachers. But the study also reveals that the United States has moved backward in providing the vast majority of teachers with the kind of ongoing, intensive…

  7. 37 CFR 1.1 - Addresses for non-trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 1.1 Section 1.1 Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GENERAL RULES OF PRACTICE IN... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (a) In general. Except as provided in...

  8. 37 CFR 1.1 - Addresses for non-trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 1.1 Section 1.1 Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GENERAL RULES OF PRACTICE IN... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (a) In general. Except as provided in...

  9. 37 CFR 1.1 - Addresses for non-trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 1.1 Section 1.1 Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GENERAL RULES OF PRACTICE IN... correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (a) In general. Except as provided in...

  10. State Budgets, Unit Allocations, and Unit Emissions Rates

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This Technical Support Document (TSD) provides information that supports EPA’s determination of state emissions budgets, unit-level allocations, direct control rate limits, and new unit set-asides for the Transport Rule proposal.

  11. 75 FR 68328 - Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-11-05

    ..., provided by certain countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States... lumber products to the United States, we are soliciting public comment only on subsidies provided by... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries...

  12. Status and trends of land change in the United States--1973 to 2000

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    ,

    2012-01-01

    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Professional Paper 1794 is a four-volume series on the status and trends of the Nation’s land use and land cover, providing an assessment of the rates and causes of land-use and land-cover change in the United States between 1973 and 2000. Volumes A, B, C, and D provide analyses for the Western United States, the Great Plains, the Midwest–South Central United States, and the Eastern United States, respectively. The assessments of land-use and land-cover trends are conducted on an ecoregion-by-ecoregion basis, and each ecoregion assessment is guided by a nationally consistent study design that includes mapping, statistical methods, field studies, and analysis. Individual assessments provide a picture of the characteristics of land change occurring in a given ecoregion; in combination, they provide a framework for understanding the complex national mosaic of change and also the causes and consequences of change. Thus, each volume in this series provides a regional assessment of how (and how fast) land use and land cover are changing, and why. The four volumes together form the first comprehensive picture of land change across the Nation. This report is only one of the products produced by USGS on land-use and land-cover change in the United States. Other reports and land-cover statistics are available online at http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov.

  13. Need for Subsidized Family Planning Services: United States, Each State and County, 1968.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Planned Parenthood--World Population, New York, NY.

    To provide federal, state, and local health agencies with information needed to achieve the national objectives of improving health, assisting families to escape poverty, and providing parents with freedom of choice in determining the number and spacing of their children, information was collected from 3,072 United States counties. Data from a…

  14. 78 FR 71476 - Health Insurance Providers Fee

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-11-29

    ...) entities. Another commenter suggested that the final regulations exclude high risk pools under section 1101... covered entity unless it provides health insurance for United States health risks in 2014. Because high... not be covered entities. In the event a high risk pool provides health insurance for United States...

  15. Toll facilities in the United States : bridges, roads, tunnels, ferries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-02-01

    The first section of this report presents a discussion of the history and current policy regarding toll roads in the United States. The second section contains selected information on toll facilities in the United States that has been provided to FHW...

  16. 78 FR 77103 - United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-12-20

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration United States Travel and Tourism... extended deadline for application for membership on the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board... Travel and Tourism Advisory Board (Board). The November 25, 2013 notice provided that all applications...

  17. Chapter 16. Conservation status of great gray owls in the United States

    Treesearch

    Gregory D. Hayward

    1994-01-01

    Previous chapters outlined the biology and ecology of great gray owls as well as the ecology of this species in the western United States. That technical review provides the basis to assess the current conservation status of great gray owls in the United States. Are populations of great gray owls in the United States currently threatened? Are current land management...

  18. 77 FR 66584 - Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-11-06

    ..., provided by certain countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to the United States; Request for Comment AGENCY...

  19. 75 FR 22743 - Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-04-30

    ..., provided by certain countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to the United States; Request for Comment AGENCY...

  20. 76 FR 23991 - Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-29

    ..., provided by certain countries exporting softwood lumber or softwood lumber products to the United States... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to the United States; Request for Comment AGENCY...

  1. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2001. Part 5 : national summaries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 5 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. The publication numbers and the geographical areas ...

  2. Conservation status of the freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada

    Treesearch

    James D. Williams; Melvin L. Warren; Kevin S. Cummings; John L. Harris; Richard J. Neves

    1992-01-01

    The American Fisheries Society (AFS) herein provides a list of all native freshwater mussels (families Margaritiferidae and Unionidae) in the United States and Canada. This report also provides state and provincial distributions; a comprehensive review of the conservation status of all taxa; and references on biology, conservation, and distribution of freshwater...

  3. Executive Summary: Forests of the Northern United States

    Treesearch

    Stephen R. Shifley; Francisco X. Aguilar; Nianfu Song; Susan I. Stewart; David J. Nowak; Dale D. Gormanson; W. Keith Moser; Sherri Wormstead; Eric J. Greenfield

    2012-01-01

    This executive summary provides an overview of the 200-page report, Forests of the Northern United States, which covers in detail current forest conditions, recent trends, issues, threats and opportunities in the forests in the 20 Northern States. It provides a context for subsequent Northern Forest Futures Project analyses that will forecast alternative future...

  4. Commentary: recent reforms in the British National Health Service--lessons for the United States.

    PubMed Central

    Holland, W W; Graham, C

    1994-01-01

    President Clinton recently announced his reform plan for health care in the United States. The United Kingdom, along with other countries, has already enacted reforms in an effort to overcome the basic problem of having insufficient funds to provide a health service to meet modern demands. This paper briefly describes the recent health reforms in the United Kingdom and highlights some lessons for the United States, which include the need to choose procedures that should be universally provided. Health reforms that involve some fundamental restructuring need to be evaluated everywhere and agreed to by the staff in advance. PMID:8296937

  5. The Charter School Movement in the United States: Financial and Achievement Evidence from Ohio

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    De Luca, Barbara M.; Wood, R. Craig

    2016-01-01

    The charter school movement in the United States began in Minnesota in 1991 and spread rapidly in nearly every state within the United States in an attempt to provide competition for the traditional public schools. Since the passage of the first charter school laws, and the most recent legislative passage in Alabama, forty-two state legislatures…

  6. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program Report to Congress: An Integrated Assessment

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-01-01

    tion, Title IV includes a market-based program that provides economic incentives (CENR) of the National Science and Technology Council. for...Eastern United States Figure 19. Comparison of annual ambient nitrate (NO3 -) concentrations in rural Eastern United States Figure 20. Comparison... nitrate (NO3 -) deposition in the United States Figure 24. Comparison of annual concentrations of nitrate (NO3 -) in wet deposition in the United States

  7. United States housing, 2012

    Treesearch

    Delton Alderman

    2013-01-01

    Provides current and historical information on housing market in the United States. Information includes trends for housing permits and starts, housing completions for single and multifamily units, and sales and construction. This report will be updated annually.

  8. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    None

    The purpose of this inventory of power plants is to provide a ready reference for planners whose focus is on the state, standard Federal region, and/or national level. Thus the inventory is compiled alphabetically by state within standard Federal regions. The units are listed alphabetically within electric utility systems which in turn are listed alphabetically within states. The locations are identified to county level according to the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication Counties and County Equivalents of the States of the United States. Data compiled include existing and projected electrical generation units, jointly owned units, and projected construction units.

  9. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 2000. Part 5 : national summaries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2000-01-01

    Waterborne commerce of the United States, WCUS, part 5 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  10. 32 CFR 246.4 - Policy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... bookstores in the United States. The Stars and Stripes and the S&S bookstores provide important news and... available to commercial newspapers in the United States, along with Stars and Stripes editorial staff... daily newspapers that are published and sold throughout the United States in keeping with the principles...

  11. Is more neonatal intensive care always better? Insights from a cross-national comparison of reproductive care.

    PubMed

    Thompson, Lindsay A; Goodman, David C; Little, George A

    2002-06-01

    Despite high per capita health care expenditure, the United States has crude infant survival rates that are lower than similarly developed nations. Although differences in vital recording and socioeconomic risk have been studied, a systematic, cross-national comparison of perinatal health care systems is lacking. To characterize systems of reproductive care for the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including a detailed analysis of neonatal intensive care and mortality. Comparison of selected indicators of reproductive care and mortality from 1993-2000 through a systematic review of journal and government publications and structured interviews of leaders in perinatal and neonatal care. Compared with the other 3 countries, the United States has more neonatal intensive care resources yet provides proportionately less support for preconception and prenatal care. Unlike the United States, the other countries provided free family planning services and prenatal and perinatal physician care, and the United Kingdom and Australia paid for all contraception. The United States has high neonatal intensive care capacity, with 6.1 neonatologists per 10 000 live births; Australia, 3.7; Canada, 3.3; and the United Kingdom, 2.7. For intensive care beds, the United States has 3.3 per 10 000 live births; Australia and Canada, 2.6; and the United Kingdom, 0.67. Greater neonatal intensive care resources were not consistently associated with lower birth weight-specific mortality. The relative risk (United States as reference) of neonatal mortality for infants <1000 g was 0.84 for Australia, 1.12 for Canada, and 0.99 for the United Kingdom; for 1000 to 2499 g infants, the relative risk was 0.97 for Australia, 1.26 for Canada, and 0.95 for the United Kingdom. As reported elsewhere, low birth weight rates were notably higher in the United States, partially explaining the high crude mortality rates. The United States has significantly greater neonatal intensive care resources per capita, compared with 3 other developed countries, without having consistently better birth weight-specific mortality. Despite low birth weight rates that exceed other countries, the United States has proportionately more providers per low birth weight infant, but offers less extensive preconception and prenatal services. This study questions the effectiveness of the current distribution of US reproductive care resources and its emphasis on neonatal intensive care.

  12. Agricultural Experiment Stations and Branch Stations in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Pearson, Calvin H.; Atucha, Amaya

    2015-01-01

    In 1887, Congress passed the Hatch Act, which formally established and provided a funding mechanism for agricultural experiment stations in each state and territory in the United States. The main purpose of agricultural experiment stations is to conduct agricultural research to meet the needs of the citizens of the United States. The objective of…

  13. Inventory of Power Plants in the United States, October 1992

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    The Inventory of Power Plants in the United States is prepared annually by the Survey Management Division, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels, Energy Information Administration (EIA), US Department of Energy (DOE). The purpose of this publication is to provide year-end statistics about electric generating units operated by electric utilities in the United States (the 50 States and the District of Columbia). The publication also provides a 10-year outlook of future generating unit additions. Data summarized in this report are useful to a wide audience including Congress, Federal and State agencies, the electric utility industry, and the generalmore » public. Data presented in this report were assembled and published by the EIA to fulfill its data collection and dissemination responsibilities as specified in the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-275) as amended. The report is organized into the following chapters: Year in Review, Operable Electric Generating Units, and Projected Electric Generating Unit Additions. Statistics presented in these chapters reflect the status of electric generating units as of December 31, 1992.« less

  14. The State of Social Studies Teacher Preparation: An Analysis of Program Requirements in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bittman, Bonnie; Russell, William B., III; Kenna, Joshua; Beckles, Lloyd; Zandt, Carolyn V

    2017-01-01

    What is the current state of social studies Teacher Preparation Programs (TPPs) for licensure across the United States? The purpose of this research study is to fill the gap in the academic research, providing an overview of social studies TPPs across the United States. In order to best answer that question the researchers examined the required…

  15. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 1995. Part 1 : waterways and harbors, Atlantic Coast

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 1 is one of a series publications which provides statistics on foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on movements of vess...

  16. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2001. Part 1 : waterways and harbors Atlantic Coast

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2000-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 1 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  17. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2000. Part 1 : waterways and harbors Atlantic coast

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2000-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 1 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  18. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2000. Part 3 : waterways and harbors Great Lakes

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2000-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 3 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  19. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 1995. Part 5 : waterways and harbors, national summaries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 5 is one of a series publications which provides statistics on foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on movements of vess...

  20. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 1995. Part 3 : waterways and harbors, Great Lakes

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 3 is one of a series publications which provides statistics on foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on movements of vess...

  1. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2001. Part 3 : waterways and harbors Great Lakes

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 3 is one of a series of : publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce : moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the mo...

  2. 14 CFR 375.35 - Free transportation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... segments provided such transportation is not for compensation or hire: (1) Between two or more points in the United States; (2) Between a point in the United States named in the carrier's section 402 permit or exemption, and a point outside the United States not so named, when authorized in accordance with...

  3. Science & Engineering Indicators - 1991. Tenth Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. National Science Board.

    This report is designed to provide public and private policymakers with a broad base of quantitative information about United States science and engineering research and education and about United States technology in a global context. This document begins with a synopsis of United States science and technology. Chapter 1, "Precollege Science and…

  4. 28 CFR 0.111B - Witness Security Program.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... United States Marshals Service § 0.111B Witness Security Program. (a) In connection with the protection... potential witness, the Director of the United States Marshals Service and officers of the United States Marshals Service designated by the Director may: (1) Provide suitable documents to enable the person to...

  5. 28 CFR 0.111B - Witness Security Program.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... United States Marshals Service § 0.111B Witness Security Program. (a) In connection with the protection... potential witness, the Director of the United States Marshals Service and officers of the United States Marshals Service designated by the Director may: (1) Provide suitable documents to enable the person to...

  6. 31 CFR 370.0 - What does this part cover?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... RELATING TO UNITED STATES SECURITIES General Information § 370.0 What does this part cover? (a) Scope. This... does not apply to transactions for the sale of United States Savings Bonds accomplished through savings... connection with United States securities. This part also provides regulations for the electronic submission...

  7. 15 CFR 971.209 - Processing outside the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Processing outside the United States... THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SERVICE DEEP SEABED MINING REGULATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL RECOVERY PERMITS Applications Contents § 971.209 Processing outside the United States. (a) Except as provided in this section...

  8. 77 FR 42621 - Irradiation Treatment; Location of Facilities in the Southern United States

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-07-20

    .... APHIS-2009-0100] RIN 0579-AD35 Irradiation Treatment; Location of Facilities in the Southern United... amending the phytosanitary treatment regulations to provide generic criteria for new irradiation treatment facilities in the Southern States of the United States. This action will allow irradiation facilities to be...

  9. 25 CFR 115.416 - Will the United States post office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United States post office? 115... office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United... forwarded to an address left with the United States post office. The new address of record must be provided...

  10. 25 CFR 115.416 - Will the United States post office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United States post office? 115... office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United... forwarded to an address left with the United States post office. The new address of record must be provided...

  11. 25 CFR 115.416 - Will the United States post office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United States post office? 115... office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United... forwarded to an address left with the United States post office. The new address of record must be provided...

  12. Toward a Nation-Building Operating Concept

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-04-13

    of United Nations intervention in Timor, argues that an interim protectorate is useful only if implemented by a multi -national coalition. However...to a franchise agreement or venture capital investment. The United States provides capital and expertise to indigenous group predicated on agreed...Toward a Nation-Building Operating Concept by Colonel John DeJarnette United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies United States

  13. 25 CFR 115.416 - Will the United States post office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... forwarded to an address left with the United States post office. The new address of record must be provided... a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United States post office? 115... office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United...

  14. 25 CFR 115.416 - Will the United States post office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... forwarded to an address left with the United States post office. The new address of record must be provided... a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United States post office? 115... office forward mail regarding a minor's supervised account to a forwarding address left with the United...

  15. Inventory of power plants in the United States as of January 1, 1998

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    NONE

    The Inventory of Power Plants in the United States provides annual statistics on generating units operated by electric utilities in the US (the 50 States and the District of Columbia). Statistics presented in this report reflect the status of generating units as of January 1, 1998. The publication also provides a 10-year outlook for generating unit additions and generating unit changes. This report is prepared annually by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Data summarized in this report are useful to a wide audience. This is a report of electric utility data; in cases where summary data or nonconfidential data ofmore » nonutilities are presented, it is specifically noted as nonutility data. 19 figs., 36 tabs.« less

  16. A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Early Childhood Professional Development for Providers and Recipients in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Linder, Sandra M.; Rembert, Kellye; Simpson, Amber; Ramey, M. Deanna

    2016-01-01

    This multi-phase mixed-methods study explores provider and recipient perceptions of the current state of early childhood professional development in a southeastern area of the United States. Professional development for the early childhood workforce has been shown to positively influence the quality of early childhood classrooms. This study…

  17. Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. United States Department of State Discussion Paper.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cook, Philip R., Jr.

    Intended to provide background for study and discussion, this publication gives updated information on development in sub-Saharan Africa and provides a basis for understanding U.S. policy toward this vital region. The strengths, problems, politics, natural resources, and language and ethnolinguistic groups of this area of the world and the…

  18. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit the President from entering into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States.

    THOMAS, 111th Congress

    Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6

    2009-03-25

    House - 04/27/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  19. 77 FR 3964 - Information Reporting by Passport Applicants

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-01-26

    ... Information Reporting by Passport Applicants AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION... proposed regulations that provide information reporting rules for certain passport applicants. These... to be provided by individuals who apply for a United States passport or a renewal of a United States...

  20. 19 CFR 10.515 - Effect of noncompliance; failure to provide documentation regarding third country transportation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Import Requirements... Singapore or the United States, and the importer of the good does not provide, at the request of the port...

  1. Inclusion Inservice: Content and Training Procedures across the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Harriott, Wendy A.

    2004-01-01

    Inservice training (locally or state provided) is the primary means used to improve teachers' instruction employed in public school districts throughout the United States. Individual states are increasing inclusion efforts in the local schools. Various states have established state-initiated training programs to improve instruction for students…

  2. Mourning dove population trend estimates from Call-Count and North American Breeding Bird Surveys

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Sauer, J.R.; Dolton, D.D.; Droege, S.

    1994-01-01

    The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) Callcount Survey and the North American Breeding Bird Survey provide information on population trends of mourning doves throughout the continental United States. Because surveys are an integral part of the development of hunting regulations, a need exists to determine which survey provides precise information. We estimated population trends from 1966 to 1988 by state and dove management unit, and assessed the relative efficiency of each survey. Estimates of population trend differ (P lt 0.05) between surveys in 11 of 48 states; 9 of 11 states with divergent results occur in the Eastern Management Unit. Differences were probably a consequence of smaller sample sizes in the Callcount Survey. The Breeding Bird Survey generally provided trend estimates with smaller variances than did the Callcount Survey. Although the Callcount Survey probably provides more withinroute accuracy because of survey methods and timing, the Breeding Bird Survey has a larger sample size of survey routes and greater consistency of coverage in the Eastern Unit.

  3. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 1995. Part 4 : waterways and harbors, Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 4 is one of a series publications which provides statistics on foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on movements of vess...

  4. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2001. Part 4 : waterways and harbors, Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 4 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  5. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 2001. Part 2 : waterways and harbors Gulf Coast, Mississippi River System and Antilles

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 2 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  6. Waterborne commerce of the United States, calendar year 1995. Part 2 : waterways and harbors, Gulf Coast, Mississippi River System and Antilles

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 2 is one of a series publications which provides statistics on foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on movements of vess...

  7. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 1999. Part 2 : waterways and harbors Gulf Coast, Mississippi River System and Antilles

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-01-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, Part 2 is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  8. Analyses and Comparisons of Science Curricula in Japan and the United States.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jacobson, Willard J.; And Others

    An analysis and comparison of science education in Japan and the United States is presented. Studies in comparative science education, including the first and second International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the Japan and United States Cooperative Science Project, provide an empirical base for some of the…

  9. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 2000. Part 4 : waterways and harbors Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2002-02-01

    Waterborne Commerce of the United States, WCUS, part 4 is one if a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, parts 1-4 present detailed data on the moveme...

  10. 14 CFR 152.205 - United States share of project costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false United States share of project costs. 152... share of project costs. (a) Airport development. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the following is the United States share of the allowable cost of an airport development project...

  11. 14 CFR 152.205 - United States share of project costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false United States share of project costs. 152... share of project costs. (a) Airport development. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the following is the United States share of the allowable cost of an airport development project...

  12. 14 CFR 152.205 - United States share of project costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false United States share of project costs. 152... share of project costs. (a) Airport development. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the following is the United States share of the allowable cost of an airport development project...

  13. 14 CFR 152.205 - United States share of project costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false United States share of project costs. 152... share of project costs. (a) Airport development. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the following is the United States share of the allowable cost of an airport development project...

  14. 14 CFR 152.205 - United States share of project costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false United States share of project costs. 152... share of project costs. (a) Airport development. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the following is the United States share of the allowable cost of an airport development project...

  15. Directory of Vocational Information Resources in the United States.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Schreiber, Marilyn, Comp.

    The directory surveys sources of vocational information in each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands. For each of these, the directory provides the following information: the name, address, and phone number of the State Research Coordinating Unit Director; similar information for…

  16. 26 CFR 509.118 - Credit against United States tax for Swiss tax.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    .... For the purpose of mitigating double taxation, Article XV(1)(a) of the convention provides that a citizen or resident of the United States, or a domestic corporation, deriving income from sources within... royalty derived from sources within the United States by a resident of Switzerland, such royalty shall be...

  17. School Choice in Spain and the United States: A Comparative Study

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Umpstead, Regina; Jankens, Benjamin; Ortega Gil, Pablo; Weiss, Linda; Umpstead, Bruce

    2016-01-01

    This article explores issues of school choice in Spain and the United States by examining the roles and functions of "centros concertados," publicly funded private schools in Spain, and public charter schools in the United States, to provide key insights into the similarities and differences between them. After making a national…

  18. Swedish Theatre in the United States.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Harvey, Anne-Charlotte Hanes

    The Swedish ethnic theatre in the United States flourished and provided a vigorous cultural expression among Swedish immigrants for over five decades beginning in San Francisco in 1863. Swedes in Chicago alone produced between 9 and 24 plays per season from 1888 to 1915. All over the United States, Swedish settlements had their own Swedish…

  19. Prevalence of Use of Human Milk in US Advanced Care Neonatal Units

    PubMed Central

    Scanlon, Kelley S.

    2013-01-01

    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all preterm infants receive human milk. The objective of this study was to describe the use of human milk in advanced care neonatal units of US maternity hospitals. METHODS: We used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care survey from 2007, 2009, and 2011 to analyze 2 questions to describe the prevalence of US advanced care (special/level 2 or intensive/level 3) neonatal units routinely providing human milk to infants, and the use of any donor milk in these units. RESULTS: In 2011, 30.8% of maternity hospitals reported that most infants (≥90%) were routinely provided human milk in advanced care units, compared with 26.7% in 2009 and 21.2% in 2007 (trend P < .001). States in the Northwest and Northeast had a higher prevalence of hospitals routinely providing human milk to ≥90% of infants in advanced care units. In 2011, 22.0% of maternity hospitals providing advanced care used banked donor milk, compared with 14.4% in 2009 and 11.5% in 2007 (trend P < .001). Most of this increase occurred in intensive care units (25.1% 2007 vs 45.2% 2011; trend P < .001). There was substantial geographic variation in the prevalence of advanced care units using donor milk; generally the prevalence was higher in the West and in states with a milk bank in the state or a neighboring state. CONCLUSIONS: The use of human milk in US advanced care neonatal units is increasing; however, only one-third of these units are routinely providing human milk to most infants. PMID:23669517

  20. Metric System versus Anthropomorphic Units. A Bicentennial Coup?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dalke, John L.

    1976-01-01

    A brief history of the use of the English system of measurement is provided together with a discussion of the United States conversion to the metric system. United States industries which now use the metric system are listed. (SD)

  1. 20 CFR 408.230 - When must you begin residing outside the United States?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS SVB Qualification and Entitlement Residence Outside the United... provided in paragraph (b) of this section, you must begin residing outside the United States by the end of...

  2. 20 CFR 408.230 - When must you begin residing outside the United States?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS SVB Qualification and Entitlement Residence Outside the United... provided in paragraph (b) of this section, you must begin residing outside the United States by the end of...

  3. 20 CFR 408.230 - When must you begin residing outside the United States?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS SVB Qualification and Entitlement Residence Outside the United... provided in paragraph (b) of this section, you must begin residing outside the United States by the end of...

  4. 20 CFR 408.230 - When must you begin residing outside the United States?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS SVB Qualification and Entitlement Residence Outside the United... provided in paragraph (b) of this section, you must begin residing outside the United States by the end of...

  5. United States housing, first quarter 2013

    Treesearch

    Delton Alderman

    2014-01-01

    Provides current and historical information on housing market in the United States. Information includes trends for housing permits and starts, housing under construction, and housing completions for single and multifamily units, and sales and construction. This report will be updated regularly.

  6. Effective promotion of breastfeeding among Latin American women newly immigrated to the United States.

    PubMed

    Denman-Vitale, S; Murillo, E K

    1999-07-01

    Across the United States, advance practice nurses (APNs) are increasingly encountering recently immigrated Latin American populations. This article provides an overview of the situation of Latin Americans in the United States and discusses aspects of Latin American culture such as, respeto (respect), confianza (confidence), the importance of family, and the value of a personal connection. Strategies that will assist practitioners to incorporate culturally holistic principles in the promotion of breastfeeding among Latin American women who are new arrivals in the United States are described. If practitioners are to respond to the increasing numbers of Latin American women who need health care services, and also provide thorough, holistic health care then health care activities must be integrated with cultural competence.

  7. Building a Potential Wetland Restoration Indicator for the Contiguous United States

    EPA Science Inventory

    Wetlands provide key functions in the landscape from improving water quality, to regulating flows, to providing wildlife habitat. Over half of the wetlands in the contiguous United States (CONUS) have been converted to agricultural and urban land uses. However, over the last seve...

  8. NARSTO NE MODEL

    Atmospheric Science Data Center

    2018-04-09

    ... UV Ozone Detector Location:  Northeastern United States Spatial Coverage:  Data are provided from seven ... Related Data:  Spatial Coverage: Northeastern United States NARSTO Northeast SCAR-B Block:  ...

  9. Competitive Electricity Market Regulation in the United States: A Primer

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Flores-Espino, Francisco; Tian, Tian; Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya

    The electricity system in the United States is a complex mechanism where different technologies, jurisdictions and regulatory designs interact. Today, two major models for electricity commercialization operate in the United States. One is the regulated monopoly model, in which vertically integrated electricity providers are regulated by state commissions. The other is the competitive model, in which power producers can openly access transmission infrastructure and participate in wholesale electricity markets. This paper describes the origins, evolution, and current status of the regulations that enable competitive markets in the United States.

  10. 26 CFR 1.959-4 - Distributions to United States persons not counting as dividends.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... normal taxes and surtaxes) of subtitle A (relating to income taxes) of the Code as a distribution which... 26 Internal Revenue 10 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Distributions to United States persons not... Distributions to United States persons not counting as dividends. Except as provided in section 960(a)(3) and...

  11. The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2003. Population Characteristics. Current Population Reports. P20-551

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Larsen, Luke J.

    2004-01-01

    This report describes the foreign-born population in the United States in 2003. It provides a profile of demographic and socio economic characteristics, such as region of birth, geographic distribution in the United States, age, educational attainment, earnings, and poverty status. These characteristics are compared with those of the native…

  12. Procurement Ethics: Have We Resolved the Army’s Expeditionary Contracting Problems?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-03-11

    Distribution A: Unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT The United States Army discovered numerous occurrences of unethical behavior by...The United States Army discovered numerous occurrences of unethical behavior by contracting officials and contractors while providing contracting...ARMY’S EXPEDITIONARY CONTRACTING PROBLEMS? The United States Army discovered numerous occurrences of unethical behavior by contracting officials

  13. 78 FR 69438 - AGOA: Trade and Investment Performance Overview; AGOA: Economic Effects of Providing Duty-Free...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-11-19

    ... To Promote Regional Integration and Increase Exports to the United States; EU-South Africa FTA... Integration and Increase Exports to the United States; and investigation No. 332-546, EU-South Africa FTA... integration into regional or global supply chains, and export potential to the United States under AGOA, as...

  14. Biogas Potential in the United States (Fact Sheet)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    2013-10-01

    Biogas has received increased attention as an alternative energy source in the United States. The factsheet provides information about the biogas (methane) potential from various sources in the country (by county and state) and estimates the power generation and transportation fuels production (renewable natural gas) potential from these biogas sources. It provides valuable information to the industry, academia and policy makers in support of their future decisions.

  15. Expanding oral care opportunities: direct access care provided by dental hygienists in the United States.

    PubMed

    Naughton, Doreen K

    2014-06-01

    Dental hygienists expand access to oral care in the United States. Many Americans have access to oral health care in traditional dental offices however millions of Americans have unmet dental needs. For decades dental hygienists have provided opportunities for un-served and under-served Americans to receive preventive services in a variety of alternate delivery sites, and referral to licensed dentists for dental care needs. Publications, state practice acts, state public health departments, the American Dental Hygienists' Association, and personal interviews of dental hygiene practitioners were accessed for information and statistical data. Dental hygienists in 36 states can legally provide direct access care. Dental hygienists are providing preventive services in a variety of settings to previously un-served and under-served Americans, with referral to dentists for dental needs. Dental hygienists have provided direct access to care in the United States for decades. The exact number of direct access providers in the United States is unknown. Limited research and anecdotal information demonstrate that direct access care has facilitated alternate entry points into the oral health systems for thousands of previously un-served and underserved Americans. Older adults, persons with special needs, children in schools, pregnant women, minority populations, rural populations, and others have benefited from the availability of many services provided by direct access dental hygienists. Legislatures and private groups are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that direct access has made on the delivery of oral health care. Many factors continue to drive the growth of direct access care. Additional research is needed to accumulate qualitative and quantitative outcome data related to direct access care provided by dental hygienists and other mid level providers of oral health services. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  16. Technical Revisions to State Budgets and New Unit Set-Asides TSD

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    EPA proposed revising the Transport Rule's new unit set-asides (NUSAs) in certain states. This technical support document (TSD) shows underlying data and calculations and provides the information used to determine revised NUSAs in certain states.

  17. The Global Positioning System: Theory and operation

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Tucker, Lester Plunkett

    Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study is to document the theory, development, and training needs of the United States Global Positioning System for the United States Air Force. This subject area had very little information and to assess the United States Air Force training needs required an investigation into existing training accomplished on the Global Positioning System. The United States Air Force has only one place to obtain the data at Headquarters Air Education and Training Command. Findings and conclusion. The United States Air Force, at the time of this study, does not have a theory and operations course dealing with the newest technology advancement in world navigation. Although this new technology is being provided on aircraft in the form of new navigation hardware, no official course of study is provided by the United States Air Force to it's pilots and navigators dealing with theory and operation. Based on the latest reports dealing with the Global Positioning System, a course on the Global Positioning System was developed in the Instructional Systems Design format to provide background information and understanding of this new technology. Readers of this study must be aware that the information contained in this study is very dynamic. Technology is advancing so fast in this area that it might make this information obsolete in a short amount of time.

  18. 75 FR 21610 - Overview Information: State Vocational Rehabilitation Unit In-Service Training; Notice Inviting...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-04-26

    ... rehabilitation (VR) unit personnel in program areas essential to the effective management of the unit's program of VR services and in skill areas that will enable personnel to improve their ability to provide VR services leading to employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities. The State VR Unit In- Service...

  19. Comparison of USDA Forest Service and stakeholder motivations and experiences in collaborative federal forest governance in the Western United States

    Treesearch

    Emily Jane Davis; Eric M. White; Lee K. Cerveny; David Seesholtz; Meagan L. Nuss; Donald R. Ulrich

    2017-01-01

    In the United States, over 191 million acres of land is managed by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, a federal government agency. In several western U.S. states, organized collaborative groups have become a de facto governance approach to providing sustained input on management decisions on much public land. This is most extensive in Oregon,...

  20. 34 CFR 388.1 - What is the State Vocational Rehabilitation Unit In-Service Training program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... vocational rehabilitation unit personnel in program areas essential to the effective management of the unit's... rehabilitation professionals; (b) To provide for succession planning; (c) To provide for leadership development...

  1. [Information on student counseling center websites in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan].

    PubMed

    Ito, Naoki

    2017-04-01

    This study aimed to compare information provided on student counseling center websites of universities and colleges in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan. A survey was conducted on websites of 315 centers in Japan, 282 centers in the United States, 70 centers in the United Kingdom and 61 centers in Taiwan. Trends in the provision of information on websites in each country were analyzed and compared for the rate and quantity of information published. Results of multiple correspondence analyses indicated two basic dimensions of information that could effectively distinguish information provided in the four countries. These were provision of necessary information and provision of information for use of individual counseling or support of community. Finally, issues related to websites in student counseling centers of Japanese universities and colleges are discussed.

  2. NATO’s Relevance to United States Enduring National Interests Time to Remove the Training Wheels but Continue to Hold the Handle Bars

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-06-10

    ability to protect its vital national interests and project influence globally. A strong role in NATO provides the United States a conduit and connective...structure to some of the world’s most stable governments, serves as the main policy mechanism by which it can influence Europe, and provides a venue...governments, serves as the main policy mechanism by which it can influence Europe, and provides a venue for legitimacy and freedom of global action. The United

  3. 3 CFR 13577 - Executive Order 13577 of June 15, 2011. Establishment of the SelectUSA Initiative

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... shall provide information to domestic and foreign firms on: the investment climate in the United States... in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to... investment in the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Business investment in...

  4. Through the Lens of a Neighbor: Perceptions of Mexican Educators and Students regarding Current United States Policies

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cashman, Timothy G.; Rubio, Rene A.

    2008-01-01

    Researchers analyzed the perceptions and pedagogies of educators in two Chihuahua, Mexico, public schools with regard to United States foreign policies. The key objective of the research was to provide additional insight into the impact of recent actions taken by the United States Government, including the war in Iraq. Chihuahuan educators and…

  5. Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Between the Director of Military Support and the United State Coast Guard for Aerial Application of Dispersants During Oil Spill Cleanup and Recovery Operations

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1995-01-01

    Prepared ca. 1995. The purposes of this MOA are: A.) To specify the procedures by which the United States Coast Guard can request and the United States Air Force Reserve will provide aircraft, equipment and personnel for the application of oil disper...

  6. Diversity and the Success of Entering Classes at the U.S. Service Academies. Research Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kirby, Sheila Nataraj

    2010-01-01

    The United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) at Colorado Springs, and the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis provide tuition-free, four-year undergraduate education and prepare entrants to be officers of the U.S. military services. Graduates are commissioned as officers for a…

  7. Using anthropometric indicators for Mexicans in the United States and Mexico to understand the selection of migrants and the "Hispanic paradox".

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    Crimmins, Eileen M; Soldo, Beth J; Kim, Jung Ki; Alley, Dawn E

    2005-01-01

    Anthropometric measures including height provide an indication of childhood health that allows exploration of relationships between early life circumstances and adult health. Height can also be used to provide some indication of how early life health is related to selection of migrants and the Hispanic paradox in the United States. This article joins information on persons of Mexican nativity ages 50 and older in the United States collected in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (NHANES IV 1999-2002) with a national sample of persons of the same age living in Mexico from the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS 2001) to examine relationships between height, education, migration, and late-life health. Mexican immigrants to the United States are selected for greater height and a high school, rather than higher or lower, education. Return migrants from the United States to Mexico are shorter than those who stay. Height is related to a number of indicators of adult health. Results support a role for selection in the Hispanic paradox and demonstrate the importance of education and childhood health as determinants of late-life health in both Mexico and the United States.

  8. Integrated health system for chronic disease management: lessons learned from France.

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    Stuart, Mary; Weinrich, Michael

    2004-02-01

    Rated number one in overall health system performance by the World Health Organization, the French spend less than half the amount on annual health care per capita that the United States spends. One contributing factor may be the attention given to chronic care. Since the mid-1900s, the French have developed regional community-based specialty systems for patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency or failure. COPD is the major cause of respiratory failure, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and its prevalence is increasing. Despite the clinical success of home mechanical ventilation and the potential for cost savings, providing such services in the United States remains a challenge. Lessons from France can inform the development of cost-effective chronic care models in the United States In this article, we review the French experience in the context of the United States Supreme Court's Olmstead decision, mandating that people in "more restrictive settings" such as nursing homes be offered community-based supports. We suggest that regional demonstration projects for patients with chronic respiratory failure or insufficiency can provide an important step in the development of effective chronic care systems in the United States

  9. Edwin James' and John Hinton's revisions of Maclure's geologic map of the United States

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    Aalto, K. R.

    2012-03-01

    William Maclure's pioneering geologic map of the eastern United States, published first in 1809 with Observations on the Geology of the United States, provided a foundation for many later maps - a template from which geologists could extend their mapping westward from the Appalachians. Edwin James, botanist, geologist and surgeon for the 1819/1820 United States Army western exploring expedition under Major Stephen H. Long, published a full account of this expedition with map and geologic sections in 1822-1823. In this he extended Maclure's geology across the Mississippi Valley to the Colorado Rockies. John Howard Hinton (1791-1873) published his widely read text: The History and Topography of the United States in 1832, which included a compilations of Maclure's and James' work in a colored geologic map and vertical sections. All three men were to some degree confounded in their attempts to employ Wernerian rock classification in their mapping and interpretations of geologic history, a common problem in the early 19th Century prior to the demise of Neptunist theory and advent of biostratigraphic techniques of correlation. However, they provided a foundation for the later, more refined mapping and geologic interpretation of the eastern United States.

  10. 14 CFR 1261.104 - Allowable claims.

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    2010-01-01

    ... that were assigned to the claimant or provided by the United States; (ii) Quarters outside the 50... or provided by the United States, except when the claimant is a civilian employee who is a local... office or employment. (5) Enemy action or public service. Claims may be allowed for damage to, or loss of...

  11. Private lands and outdoor recreation in the United States

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    R. Jeff Teasley; John C. Bergstrom; H. Ken Cordell; Stanley J. Zarnoch; Paul Gentle

    1999-01-01

    Outdoor recreation on private land is influenced by myriad factors. To provide background and context on these factors, this chapter first overviews the private land situation in the United States and provides general information and discussion related to ownership and tenure, land-use patterns, legal restrictions, and economic conditions, including taxation issues....

  12. Progress and Directions in Professional Credentialing for Health Education in the United States

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    Cottrell, Randall R.; Auld, M. Elaine; Birch, David A.; Taub, Alyson; King, Laura Rasar; Allegrante, John P.

    2012-01-01

    This article provides an update on initiatives in individual certification and accreditation of academic programs in public/community health education and school health education in the United States. Although we provide some historical context, the focus primarily addresses credentialing efforts that have evolved since the Galway Consensus…

  13. Forest statistics of the United States, 1992 metric units.

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    W. Brad Smith; Joanne L. Faulkner; Douglas S. Powell

    1994-01-01

    The 1987 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment was conducted to provide current information on the nation's forests. Resource tables present estimates of forest area, volume, mortality, growth, removals, and timber products output in various ways, such as by ownership, region, or state. Statistics are provided in a metric format for international use.

  14. Description of ecological subregions: sections of the conterminous United States

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    W.H. McNab; D.T. Cleland; J.A. Freeouf; J.E. Keys; G.J. Nowacki; C.A. Carpenter

    2007-01-01

    Preliminary descriptions are presented for the 190 section ecological units delineated on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service 2007 map “Ecological Subregions: Sections and Subsections of the Conterminous United States.” Brief descriptions of the section map units provide an abstract primarily of the climate, physiography, and geologic substrate that...

  15. The Army Needs to Improve Individual Soldier Training in Its Units. Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States.

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    Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC.

    A study was conducted to determine whether unit level individual skill training is being provided to prepare Army enlisted personnel to perform critical job tasks within their military occupational specialty (MOS). The General Accounting Office reviewed the Army's skill training programs at 10 active units in the continental United States and five…

  16. Toll facilities in the United States : bridges, roads, tunnels, ferries

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2007-12-01

    This report contains selected information on toll facilities in the United States that has been provided to FHWA by the States and/or various toll authorities. The information is based on a survey of facilities in operation, financed, or under constr...

  17. United States Air Force Summer Research Program -- 1991. High School Apprenticeship Program (HSAP) Reports, Volume 12: Rome Laboratory, Arnold Engineering Development Plan

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-12-01

    UNITED STATES AIR FORCE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM -- 19k’ HIGH SCF-0)OL APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM (HSAP) REtFOC2TS VOLUME 12 ROME LABORATORY ARNOLD...capacity requirements. In the United States and Japan, it has 1.544 Mbps channels (23B+D), and Europe has 2.048 Mbps channels (30B+D). Both are provided over...because of the standard 64 kbps and the layered protocols. Even though the United States and Europe have different primary access channels, the basic

  18. Kids in Germany: Comparing Students from Different Cultures.

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    Fitzhugh, William P.

    This unit of study, intended for intermediate grade students, focuses on comparing students from different cultures: Germany and the United States. The unit addresses National Social Studies Standards (NCSS) standards; presents an introduction, such as purpose/rationale; cites a recommended grade level; states objectives; provides a time…

  19. Comprehensive Review of Ultraviolet Radiation and the Current Status on Sunscreens

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    Moon, Summer; Armstrong, Frank

    2012-01-01

    In the past, manufacturers’ labeling of sunscreen varied greatly, confusing the consumers regarding efficacy and the appropriate photoprotection provided by their products. Therefore, in June 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines for sunscreen labeling. Sunscreen products are over-the-counter drugs; therefore, they are regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration to determine safety, efficacy, and labeling. This article discusses ultraviolet radiation and the positive and negative effects of ultraviolet radiation, provides a review of sunscreens, and discusses the new United States Food and Drug Administration regulations for sunscreens. PMID:23050030

  20. Examining Pharmacy Workforce Issues in the United States and the United Kingdom

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    Covvey, Jordan R.; Cohron, Peter P.

    2015-01-01

    Objective. To examine available data and actions surrounding current pharmacy workforce issues in the United States and United Kingdom. Methods. Published pharmacy workforce data from the United States and United Kingdom were gathered from various sources, including PUBMED, Internet search engines, and pharmacy organization websites. Data was collated from additional sources including scientific literature, internal documents, news releases, and policy positions. Results. The number of colleges and schools of pharmacy has expanded by approximately 50% in both the United States and United Kingdom over the previous decade. In the United States, continued demand for the pharmacy workforce has been forecasted, but this need is based on outdated supply figures and assumptions for economic recovery. In the United Kingdom, workforce modeling has predicted a significant future oversupply of pharmacists, and action within the profession has attempted to address the situation through educational planning and regulation. Conclusion. Workforce planning is an essential task for sustaining a healthy profession. Recent workforce planning mechanisms in the United Kingdom may provide guidance for renewed efforts within the profession in the United States. PMID:25861098

  1. 28 CFR 65.83 - Assistance required by the Attorney General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... assistance arises because of the presence of aliens in that State or local jurisdiction, and may provide... involving the administration of the immigration laws of the United States that endanger the lives, property... United States or in meeting urgent demands arising from the presence of aliens in a State or local...

  2. 28 CFR 65.83 - Assistance required by the Attorney General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... assistance arises because of the presence of aliens in that State or local jurisdiction, and may provide... involving the administration of the immigration laws of the United States that endanger the lives, property... United States or in meeting urgent demands arising from the presence of aliens in a State or local...

  3. 28 CFR 65.83 - Assistance required by the Attorney General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... assistance arises because of the presence of aliens in that State or local jurisdiction, and may provide... involving the administration of the immigration laws of the United States that endanger the lives, property... United States or in meeting urgent demands arising from the presence of aliens in a State or local...

  4. 28 CFR 65.83 - Assistance required by the Attorney General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... assistance arises because of the presence of aliens in that State or local jurisdiction, and may provide... involving the administration of the immigration laws of the United States that endanger the lives, property... United States or in meeting urgent demands arising from the presence of aliens in a State or local...

  5. 28 CFR 65.83 - Assistance required by the Attorney General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... assistance arises because of the presence of aliens in that State or local jurisdiction, and may provide... involving the administration of the immigration laws of the United States that endanger the lives, property... United States or in meeting urgent demands arising from the presence of aliens in a State or local...

  6. 34 CFR 668.130 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Naturalization Service (INS) that they are permanent residents of the United States or in the United States for... eligibility under § 668.33(a)(2) shall provide documentation from the INS of immigration status. (Authority...

  7. Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Update Allowance Allocation Final Rule TSD

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This Technical Support Document (TSD) provides information that supports EPA’s determination of unit-level allocations for existing and new units under the final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Update.

  8. Atlas of relations between climatic parameters and distributions of important trees and shrubs in North America: Revisions for all taxa from the United States and Canada and new taxa from the western United States

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Thompson, Robert S.; Anderson, Katherine H.; Pelltier, Richard T.; Strickland, Laura E.; Shafer, Sarah L.; Bartlein, Patrick J.; McFadden, Andrew K.

    2015-01-01

    This volume of the atlas provides numerous changes, updates, and enhancements from previous volumes. Its geographic coverage is now restricted to Canada and the continental United States, and the source and time period of the climatic data have changed. New variables were added, including monthly values for temperature and precipitation, and measures of interannual variability. The distribution maps for all previously published species were redigitized, some distribution maps were revised, and 148 new species were added from the arid and semiarid western United States. The graphical displays were expanded to illustrate the new climatic variables, and the data tables were modified to provide more detail on the population distributions of plant taxa relative to climatic variables.

  9. The Health Care System Under French National Health Insurance: Lessons for Health Reform in the United States

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    Rodwin, Victor G.

    2003-01-01

    The French health system combines universal coverage with a public–private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of gross domestic product, are far lower than in the United States; and patients have an extraordinary degree of choice among providers. Lessons for the United States include the importance of government’s role in providing a statutory framework for universal health insurance; recognition that piecemeal reform can broaden a partial program (like Medicare) to cover, eventually, the entire population; and understanding that universal coverage can be achieved without excluding private insurers from the supplementary insurance market. PMID:12511380

  10. Strategic Choice: United States Special Forces’ Comparative Advantage in Irregular Warfare

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2017-03-01

    UNITED STATES SPECIAL FORCES’ COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN IRREGULAR WARFARE by Steven F. Payne March 2017 Thesis Advisor: Hy S. Rothstein...REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED Master’s thesis 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE STRATEGIC CHOICE: UNITED STATES SPECIAL FORCES’ COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN...methodology, this thesis concludes that U.S. Army Special Forces have a comparative advantage over conventional forces to provide the National Command

  11. Forecasts of forest conditions in regions of the United States under future scenarios: a technical document supporting the Forest Service 2012 RPA Assessment

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    David N. Wear; Robert Huggett; Ruhong Li; Benjamin Perryman; Shan Liu

    2013-01-01

    The 626 million acres of forests in the conterminous United States represent significant reserves of biodiversity and terrestrial carbon and provide substantial flows of highly valued ecosystem services, including timber products, watershed protection benefits, and recreation. This report describes forecasts of forest conditions for the conterminous United States in...

  12. 1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007. Issue Brief. NCES 2009-030

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    National Center for Education Statistics, 2008

    2008-01-01

    This Issue Brief provides estimates of the number and percentage of homeschooled students in the United States in 2007 and compares these estimates to those from 1999 and 2003. From 1999 to 2007, the number of homeschooled students in the United States increased, as did the homeschooling rate. In 2007, parents homeschooled their children for a…

  13. 75 FR 73082 - Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States...

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    2010-11-29

    ... EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export- Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee was established by Public Law 98-181, November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide...

  14. 75 FR 9414 - Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States...

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    2010-03-02

    ... EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export- Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee was established by Public Law 98-181, November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide...

  15. 75 FR 54875 - Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States...

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    2010-09-09

    ... EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Notice of Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Export- Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee was established by Public Law 98-181, November 30, 1983, to advise the Export-Import Bank on its programs and to provide...

  16. Use of tobacco tax stamps to prevent and reduce illicit tobacco trade--United States, 2014.

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    Chriqui, Jamie; DeLong, Hillary; Gourdet, Camille; Chaloupka, Frank; Edwards, Sarah Matthes; Xu, Xin; Promoff, Gabbi

    2015-05-29

    Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. Increasing the unit price on tobacco products is the most effective tobacco prevention and control measure. Illicit tobacco trade (illicit trade) undermines high tobacco prices by providing tobacco users with cheaper-priced alternatives. In the United States, illicit trade primarily occurs when cigarettes are bought from states, jurisdictions, and federal reservation land with lower or no excise taxes, and sold in jurisdictions with higher taxes. Applying tax stamps to tobacco products, which provides documentation that taxes have been paid, is an important tool to combat illicit trade. Comprehensive tax stamping policy, which includes using digital, encrypted ("high-tech") stamps, applying stamps to all tobacco products, and working with tribes on stamping agreements, can further prevent and reduce illicit trade. This report describes state laws governing tax stamps on cigarettes, little cigars (cigarette-sized cigars), roll-your-own tobacco (RYOT), and tribal tobacco sales across the United States as of January 1, 2014, and assesses the extent of comprehensive tobacco tax stamping in the United States. Forty-four states (including the District of Columbia [DC]) applied traditional paper ("low-tech") tax stamps to cigarettes, whereas four authorized more effective high-tech stamps. Six states explicitly required stamps on other tobacco products (i.e., tobacco products other than cigarettes), and in approximately one third of states with tribal lands, tribes required tax stamping to address illicit purchases by nonmembers. No U.S. state had a comprehensive approach to tobacco tax stamping. Enhancing tobacco tax stamping across the country might further prevent and reduce illicit trade in the United States.

  17. Status and trends of land change in the Eastern United States—1973 to 2000

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    Sayler, Kristi L.; Acevedo, William; Taylor, Janis

    2016-09-28

    PrefaceU.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Professional Paper 1794–D is the fourth in a four-volume series on the status and trends of the Nation’s land use and land cover, providing an assessment of the rates and causes of land-use and land-cover change in the Eastern United States between 1973 and 2000. Volumes A, B, and C provide similar analyses for the Western United States, the Great Plains of the United States, and the Midwest–South Central United States, respectively. The assessments of land-use and land-cover trends are conducted on an ecoregion-by-ecoregion basis, and each ecoregion assessment is guided by a nationally consistent study design that includes mapping, statistical methods, field studies, and analysis. Individual assessments provide a picture of the characteristics of land change occurring in a given ecoregion; in combination, they provide a framework for understanding the complex national mosaic of change and also the causes and consequences of change. Thus, each volume in this series provides a regional assessment of how (and how fast) land use and land cover are changing, and why. The four volumes together form the first comprehensive picture of land change across the Nation.Geographic understanding of land-use and land-cover change is directly relevant to a wide variety of stakeholders, including land and resource managers, policymakers, and scientists. The chapters in this volume present brief summaries of the patterns and rates of land change observed in each ecoregion in the Eastern United States, together with field photographs, statistics, and comparisons with other assessments. In addition, a synthesis chapter summarizes the scope of land change observed across the entire Eastern United States. The studies provide a way of integrating information across the landscape, and they form a critical component in the efforts to understand how land use and land cover affect important issues such as the provision of ecological goods and services and also the determination of risks to, and vulnerabilities of, human communities. Results from this project also are published in peer-reviewed journals, and they are further used to produce maps of change and other tools for land management, as well as to provide inputs for carbon-cycle modeling and other climate change research.This report is only one of the products produced by USGS on land-use and land-cover change in the United States. Other reports and land-cover statistics are available online at http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov.

  18. Fine resolution probabilistic land cover classification of landscapes in the southeastern United States

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    Joseph St. Peter; John Hogland; Nathaniel Anderson; Jason Drake; Paul Medley

    2018-01-01

    Land cover classification provides valuable information for prioritizing management and conservation operations across large landscapes. Current regional scale land cover geospatial products within the United States have a spatial resolution that is too coarse to provide the necessary information for operations at the local and project scales. This paper describes a...

  19. 77 FR 65439 - Implementation of United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Tariff-Rate Quota for Imports of...

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    ... Promotion Agreement Tariff-Rate Quota for Imports of Sugar AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: USTR is providing notice that the tariff-rate quotas for sugar... Agreement establishes three tariff-rate quotas for imports of sugar from Panama. USTR is providing notice...

  20. 77 FR 24759 - Implementation of United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Tariff-Rate Quota for Imports...

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    2012-04-25

    ... Promotion Agreement Tariff-Rate Quota for Imports of Sugar AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: USTR is providing notice that the tariff-rate quota for sugar... Agreement establishes a tariff-rate quota for imports of sugar from Colombia. USTR is providing notice that...

  1. 78 FR 26540 - Importation of Jackfruit, Pineapple, and Starfruit From Malaysia Into the Continental United States

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    2013-05-07

    ... irradiation in accordance with 7 CFR part 305. Within part 305, Sec. 305.9 provides that irradiation of imported fruits and vegetables for which irradiation is a required treatment must occur at APHIS-certified facilities located within or outside of the United States. It further provides that approved irradiation...

  2. 31 CFR 594.504 - Payments and transfers to blocked accounts in U.S. financial institutions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... GLOBAL TERRORISM SANCTIONS REGULATIONS Licenses, Authorizations and Statements of Licensing Policy § 594..., provided that no transfer is made from an account within the United States to an account held outside the United States, and further provided that a transfer from a blocked account may only be made to another...

  3. Emergence and Growth of Professional Doctorates in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia: A Comparative Analysis

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    Kot, Felly Chiteng; Hendel, Darwin D.

    2012-01-01

    This article examines the development and growth of professional doctorates in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It provides an overview of the development of the doctoral degree from its establishment at the universities of Paris and Bologna, and highlights the emergence of new forms of doctorates that have challenged the…

  4. Antiabortion violence in the United States.

    PubMed

    Russo, Jennefer A; Schumacher, Kristin L; Creinin, Mitchell D

    2012-11-01

    This study was conducted to determine if an association exists between the amount of harassment and violence directed against abortion providers and the restrictiveness of state laws relating to family planning. We used responses from a July 2010 survey of 357 abortion providers in 50 states to determine their experience of antiabortion harassment and violence. Their responses were grouped and analyzed in relation to a published grading of state laws in the United States (A, B, C, D and F) as they relate to restrictions on family planning services. Group by group comparison of respondents illustrates that the difference in the number of reported incidents of minor vandalism by group is statistically significant (A vs. C, p=.07; A vs. D, p=.017; A vs. F, p=.0002). Incidents of harassment follow a similar pattern. There were no differences noted overall for violence or major vandalism. Major violence, including eight murders, is a new occurrence in the last two decades. Harassment of abortion providers in the United States has an association with the restrictiveness of state abortion laws. In the last two decades, murder of abortion providers has become an unfortunate part of the violence. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. Changes in Area of Timberland in the United States, 1952-2040, By Ownership, Forest Type, Region, and State

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    Ralph J. Allg; William G. Hohenstein; Brian C. Murray; Robert G. Haight

    1990-01-01

    Area change projections for timberland in the United Steats are provided by region, State, ownership, and forest type.Total timberland area is projected to drop by 21 million acres or 4 percent by the year 2040.

  6. Conservation status of crayfishes of the United States and Canada

    Treesearch

    Christopher A. Taylor; Melvin L. Warren; J. F. Fitzpatrick; Horton H. Hobbs; Raymond F. Jezerinac; William L. Pflieger; Henry W. Robinson

    1996-01-01

    The American Fisheries Society (AFS) Endangered Species Committee herein provides a list of all crayfishes (families and Cambaridae) in the United States and Canada that includes state provincial distributions; a comprehensive review of the conservation status of all taxa; and references on biology, conservation, and...

  7. Climate change, agriculture and water resources in the Southwestern United States

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    In February 2014 the USDA established regional climate hubs across the United States to assist farmers, ranchers and foresters in adapting to the effects of climate change. The Southwest (SW) region encompasses six states which provide highly diverse agricultural crops including cotton, stone fruit ...

  8. 75 FR 12494 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2010-03-16

    ... Textile Apparel Safeguard Provision of the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement. OMB Control Number... States-Oman Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the ``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions, provided for in Article 3.1 of the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement (the...

  9. 36 CFR 1256.102 - What fees does NARA charge?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Distribution of United States Information Agency Audiovisual Materials in the National Archives of the United States § 1256.102 What fees does NARA charge? Copies of audiovisual records will only be provided under...

  10. Effect of US health policies on health care access for Marshallese migrants.

    PubMed

    McElfish, Pearl Anna; Hallgren, Emily; Yamada, Seiji

    2015-04-01

    The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a sovereign nation previously under the administrative control of the United States. Since 1986, the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United States allows Marshall Islands citizens to freely enter, lawfully reside, and work in the United States, and provides the United States exclusive military control of the region. When the COFA was signed, COFA migrants were eligible for Medicaid and other safety net programs. However, these migrants were excluded from benefits as a consequence of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Currently, COFA migrants have limited access to health care benefits in the United States, which perpetuates health inequalities.

  11. Effect of US Health Policies on Health Care Access for Marshallese Migrants

    PubMed Central

    Hallgren, Emily; Yamada, Seiji

    2015-01-01

    The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a sovereign nation previously under the administrative control of the United States. Since 1986, the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United States allows Marshall Islands citizens to freely enter, lawfully reside, and work in the United States, and provides the United States exclusive military control of the region. When the COFA was signed, COFA migrants were eligible for Medicaid and other safety net programs. However, these migrants were excluded from benefits as a consequence of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Currently, COFA migrants have limited access to health care benefits in the United States, which perpetuates health inequalities. PMID:25713965

  12. To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, to provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian government and the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian government, and for other purposes.

    THOMAS, 111th Congress

    Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1

    2009-02-04

    House - 07/23/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  13. United States v. Lopez and the Demise of the Gun-Free School Zones Act: Legislative Over-Reaching or Judicial Nit-Picking?

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    Russo, Charles J.

    1995-01-01

    In "United States v.Lopez," a highly fractured United States Supreme Court, in a five-to-four ruling that generated six different opinions, affirmed that Congress had exceeded its authority in adopting the Gun-Free School Zones Act. Provides an in-depth examination of the Court's ruling and concludes with an analysis of the legal issues…

  14. Natural Gas Processing Plants in the United States: 2010 Update

    EIA Publications

    2011-01-01

    This special report presents an analysis of natural gas processing plants in the United States as of 2009 and highlights characteristics of this segment of the industry. The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of natural gas processing plants in the natural gas supply chain and to provide an overview and summary of processing plant characteristics in the United States, such as locations, capacities, and operations.

  15. 24 CFR 17.45 - Unallowable claims.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... United States. Property loss or damage in quarters occupied by the claimant within the 50 States or the District of Columbia that were not assigned to him or otherwise provided in kind by the United States. (b) Business property. Property used for business or profit. (c) Unserviceable property. Wornout or...

  16. HPV Vaccination Practices Among Juvenile Justice Facilities in the United States

    PubMed Central

    Henderson, Courtney E.; Rich, Josiah D.; Lally, Michelle A.

    2010-01-01

    The juvenile justice setting provides a unique opportunity to administer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to a high-risk, medically underserved population. We examined current HPV vaccination practices in the United States. Most states (39) offer the HPV vaccine to females committed to juvenile justice facilities. PMID:20413087

  17. 48 CFR 352.270-9 - Non-discrimination for conscience.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, as amended, provides that an... section 104A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, under the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership...

  18. Bilingualism and Education in the United States: A Resource Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Karski, Joan Leonard

    The guide is intended to introduce education professionals and interested groups to government resources and provide strategies for obtaining information on bilingualism and education in the United States. It consists primarily of annotated listings of federal government publications, but also includes some state and international resources. An…

  19. The Educational Rights of Unauthorized Immigrant Students

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Russo, Charles J.

    2012-01-01

    A 2007 report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO 2007) estimated that 12 million "unauthorized immigrants" lived in the United States, defining the term "unauthorized immigrants" as "foreign citizens residing in the United States illegally." Without providing exact numbers, in his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama addressed…

  20. 76 FR 76151 - Notice of Submission for OMB Review

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-12-06

    ... Evaluation Systems in the United States will contribute to the Department's work by providing research-based information to aid state and local efforts to plan and implement comprehensive teacher evaluation systems. The... United States. OMB Control Number: Pending. Agency Form Number(s): N/A. Frequency of Responses: Annually...

  1. Comparisons of Health Care Systems in the United States, Germany and Canada

    PubMed Central

    Ridic, Goran; Gleason, Suzanne; Ridic, Ognjen

    2012-01-01

    The purpose of this research paper is to compare health care systems in three highly advanced industrialized countries: The United States of America, Canada and Germany. The first part of the research paper will focus on the description of health care systems in the above-mentioned countries while the second part will analyze, evaluate and compare the three systems regarding equity and efficiency. Finally, an overview of recent changes and proposed future reforms in these countries will be provided as well. We start by providing a general description and comparison of the structure of health care systems in Canada, Germany and the United States. PMID:23678317

  2. 26 CFR 1.955-4 - Definition of less developed country.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom. (c) Termination of designation. Section 955(c)(3) provides that, after... possession of the United States with respect to which, on the first day of the foreign corporation's taxable year, there is in effect an Executive order by the President of the United States designating such...

  3. One Nation, Many Peoples: Immigration in the United States. A Resource Book.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Pferdehirt, Julia; Schreiner, Dave; DiPrima, Liza; Kniskern, Ann

    This resource book provides historical summaries, primary source documents, reproducible activities, creative project suggestions and research ideas on the study of immigration to the United States. The book is divided into eight units that correspond to eight geographic regions: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, Eastern…

  4. Case Studies of Internationalization in Adult and Higher Education: Inside the Processes of Four Universities in the United States and the United Kingdom

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Coryell, Joellen Elizabeth; Durodoye, Beth A.; Wright, Robin Redmon; Pate, P. Elizabeth; Nguyen, Shelbee

    2012-01-01

    This report outlines a method for learning about the internationalization processes at institutions of adult and higher education and then provides the analysis of data gathered from the researchers' own institution and from site visits to three additional universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was found that campus…

  5. Undergraduate Game Degree Programs in the United Kingdom and United States: A Comparison of the Curriculum Planning Process

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    McGill, Monica M.

    2010-01-01

    Digital games are marketed, mass-produced, and consumed by an increasing number of people and the game industry is only expected to grow. In response, post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) have started to create game degree programs. Though curriculum theorists provide insight into the process of…

  6. Support for Development of Electronics and Materials Technologies by the Governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.

    The governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom each have large research and development efforts involving government agencies, universities and industry. This document provides a comparative overview of policies and programs which contribute to the development of technologies in the general area of…

  7. Culicoides variipennis and bluetongue-virus epidemiology in the United States.

    PubMed

    Tabachnick, W J

    1996-01-01

    The bluetongue viruses are transmitted to ruminants in North America by Culicoides variipennis. US annual losses of approximately $125 million are due to restrictions on the movement of livestock and germplasm to bluetongue-free countries. Bluetongue is the most economically important arthropod-borne animal disease in the United States. Bluetongue is absent in the northeastern United States because of the inefficient vector ability there of C. variipennis for bluetongue. The vector of bluetongue virus elsewhere in the United States is C. variipennis sonorensis. The three C. variipennis subspecies differ in vector competence for bluetongue virus in the laboratory. Understanding C. variipennis genetic variation controlling bluetongue transmission will help identify geographic regions at risk for bluetongue and provide opportunities to prevent virus transmission. Information on C. variipennis and bluetongue epidemiology will improve trade and provide information to protect US livestock from domestic and foreign arthropod-borne pathogens.

  8. Completion of the 2011 National Land Cover Database for the Conterminous United States – Representing a Decade of Land Cover Change Information

    EPA Science Inventory

    The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides nationwide data on land cover and land cover change at the native 30-m spatial resolution of the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM). The database is designed to provide five-year cyclical updating of United States land cover and associat...

  9. A Survey of Best Practices and Key Learning Objectives for Successful Secondary School STEM Academy Settings

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kasza, Paul; Slater, Timothy F.

    2017-01-01

    Specialized secondary schools in the United States focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are becoming commonplace in the United States. Such schools are generally referred to by U.S. teachers as Academies. In a purposeful effort to provide a resource to educators building new STEM Academies, this study provides both a…

  10. Status and trends of land change in the Midwest–South Central United States—1973 to 2000

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Auch, Roger F.; Karstensen, Krista A.; Auch, Roger F.; Karstensen, Krista A.

    2015-12-10

    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Professional Paper 1794–C is the third in a four-volume series on the status and trends of the Nation’s land use and land cover, providing an assessment of the rates and causes of land-use and land-cover change in the Midwest–South Central United States between 1973 and 2000. Volumes A, B, and D provide similar analyses for the Western United States, the Great Plains of the United States, and the Eastern United States, respectively. The assessments of land-use and land-cover trends are conducted on an ecoregion-by-ecoregion basis, and each ecoregion assessment is guided by a nationally consistent study design that includes mapping, statistical methods, field studies, and analysis. Individual assessments provide a picture of the characteristics of land change occurring in a given ecoregion; in combination, they provide a framework for understanding the complex national mosaic of change and also the causes and consequences of change. Thus, each volume in this series provides a regional assessment of how (and how fast) land use and land cover are changing, and why. The four volumes together form the first comprehensive picture of land change across the Nation.Geographic understanding of land-use and land-cover change is directly relevant to a wide variety of stakeholders, including land and resource managers, policymakers, and scientists. The chapters in this volume present brief summaries of the patterns and rates of land change observed in each ecoregion in the Midwest–South Central United States, together with field photographs, statistics, and comparisons with other assessments. In addition, a synthesis chapter summarizes the scope of land change observed across the entire Midwest–South Central United States. The studies provide a way of integrating information across the landscape, and they form a critical component in the efforts to understand how land use and land cover affect important issues such as the provision of ecological goods and services and also the determination of risks to, and vulnerabilities of, human communities. Results from this project also are published in peer-reviewed journals, and they are further used to produce maps of change and other tools for land management, as well as to provide inputs for carbon-cycle modeling and other climate change research.

  11. Codes for the identification of aquifer names and geologic units in the United States and the Caribbean outlying areas

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    ,

    1988-01-01

    This standard provides codes to be used for the identification of aquifer names and geologic units in the United States, the Caribbean and other outlying areas. Outlying areas include Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Midway Islands, Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, and miscellaneous Pacific Islands. Each code identifies an aquifer or rock-stratigraphic unit and its age designation. The codes provide a standardized base for use by organizations in the storage, retrieval, and exchange of ground-water data; the indexing and inventory of ground-water data and information; the cataloging of ground-water data acquisition activities; and a variety of other applications.

  12. Codes for the identification of aquifer names and geologic units in the United States and the Caribbean outlying areas

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    ,

    1985-01-01

    This standard provides codes to be used for the identification of aquifer names and geologic units in the United States, the Caribbean and other outlying areas. Outlying areas include Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Midway Islands, Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, and miscellaneous Pacific Islands. Each code identifies an aquifer or rock-stratigraphic unit and its age designation. The codes provide a standardized base for use by organizations in the storage, retrieval, and exchange of ground-water data; the indexing and inventory of ground-water data and information; the cataloging of ground-water data acquisition activities; and a variety of other applications.

  13. Airworthiness Certification of Aircraft, Engines, Propellers, And Related Products Imported to the United States (1987)

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1987-07-07

    This advisory circular (AC) provides information on the Federal Aviation : Administration's (FAA) objectives, regulations, and general practices for : United States of America (U.S.)airworthiness certification or acceptance of : civil aeronautical pr...

  14. 2014 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2016-05-01

    Based on information provided by operators who responded to the 2014 National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) conservatively estimates that ferries in the United States carried just over 115 million pas...

  15. 31 CFR 50.84 - Subrogation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE PROGRAM... of the United States as provided by section 107(c) of the Act by not taking any action that would prejudice the United States' right of subrogation. ...

  16. United States and New York State History, Grade 7. A Multicultural Perspective. Volume I.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY.

    This resource guide, designed for use by New York City teachers, provides a wide range of suggested approaches and materials from which teachers can select as they teach the grade 7 and grade 8 course "United States and New York State History." The resource guide strives to include the histories, perspectives, and contributions of all…

  17. Status and trends of land change in the Western United States--1973 to 2000

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Sleeter, Benjamin M.; Wilson, Tamara S.; Acevedo, William

    2012-12-05

    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Professional Paper 1794–A is the first in a four-volume series on the status and trends of the Nation’s land use and land cover, providing an assessment of the rates and causes of land-use and land-cover change in the Western United States between 1973 and 2000. Volumes B, C, and D provide similar analyses for the Great Plains, the Midwest–South Central United States, and the Eastern United States, respectively. The assessments of land-use and land-cover trends are conducted on an ecoregion-by-ecoregion basis, and each ecoregion assessment is guided by a nationally consistent study design that includes mapping, statistical methods, field studies, and analysis. Individual assessments provide a picture of the characteristics of land change occurring in a given ecoregion; in combination, they provide a framework for understanding the complex national mosaic of change and also the causes and consequences of change. Thus, each volume in this series provides a regional assessment of how (and how fast) land use and land cover are changing, and why. The four volumes together form the first comprehensive picture of land change across the Nation. Geographic understanding of land-use and land-cover change is directly relevant to a wide variety of stakeholders, including land and resource managers, policymakers, and scientists. The chapters in this volume present brief summaries of the patterns and rates of land change observed in each ecoregion in the Western United States, together with field photographs, statistics, and comparisons with other assessments. In addition, a synthesis chapter summarizes the scope of land change observed across the entire Western United States. The studies provide a way of integrating information across the landscape, and they form a critical component in the efforts to understand how land use and land cover affect important issues such as the provision of ecological goods and services and also the determination of risks to, and vulnerabilities of, human communities. Results from this project also are published in peer-reviewed journals, and they are further used to produce maps of change and other tools for land management, as well as to provide inputs for carbon-cycle modeling and other climate change research. This report is only one of the products produced by USGS on land-use and land-cover change in the United States. Other reports and land-cover statistics are available online at http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov.

  18. Great Decisions '86.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed.

    Designed to initiate discussion of foreign policy decisions, this book contains an analysis of eight foreign policy issues confronting the United States in 1986. Each unit provides the background and guidelines to provide perspective to assist in understanding foreign policy crises. The units included in this issue are: (1) "How Foreign Policy Is…

  19. Financing Child Care in the United States: An Illustrative Catalog of Current Strategies.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Mitchell, Anne; Stoney, Louise; Dichter, Harriet

    This catalog provides information on innovative financing strategies, primarily state and community strategies, being used successfully to fund child care in the United States. Five sections of the manual are devoted to profiles of programs using the following categories of strategies: (1) generating new public revenue for child care, including…

  20. 26 CFR 54.9815-2713T - Coverage of preventive health services (temporary).

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force with respect to the... States Preventive Services Task Force with respect to the individual. The provider bills the plan for an... A or B in the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force with...

  1. We, the Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Dwight L.; And Others

    Demographic data are presented about the people who have immigrated to the United States from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Twelve figures (pie charts, bar graphs, and maps), and eight tables provide detailed, statistical information on such things as (1) distribution of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, (2) states with the…

  2. The Economic Impact of Organized Camping in the United States in 1982: An Estimate and Analysis.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    University of Southern Maine, Portland. Organized Camping Resources Center for Research and Advanced Study.

    This study explored the economic value of organized camping in the United States. Organized camping provides: (1) job opportunities for target unemployment groups; (2) expenditures for food, insurance, equipment, supplies, improvements and services; and (3) an investment in recreational facilities. Separate state reports list total population of…

  3. Forest statistics for West-Central Tennessee counties - 1989

    Treesearch

    Dennis M. May; John S. Vissage

    1989-01-01

    Tabulated results were derived from data obtained during a recent inventory of 11 counties comprising the West-Central unit of Tennessee (fig. 1). Tables 1-25 were developed to provide compatibility among Forest Inventory and Analysis Projects. Tables 26-40 are supplementary tables and may change from unit to unit or State to State to address specific resource issues...

  4. Civil Rights Questions: Where Race, Economics, and Criminal Justice Intersect.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dutton, Marghi

    This curriculum unit on civil rights questions in the United States was developed as a history-social science project at San Jose State University. The unit is intended for high school students and needs one or two class periods to complete. It provides the teacher with a rationale, a framework, history-social science standards, student outcomes,…

  5. El Estado de la Educacion para los Hispanos en los Estados Unidos (The Condition of Education for Hispanics in the United States).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Brown, George H.; And Others

    Organized into 4 chapters, the report provides tabular data portraying the educational condition for about 12 million Hispanic Americans in the United States, and shows how Hispanics compare with the majority population on various measures of educational participation and achievement. Providing an overview of Hispanic Americans in the U.S.,…

  6. Implementing United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <1163> quality assurance in pharmaceutical compounding, Part 5: Outsourcing and responsible personnel.

    PubMed

    Allen, Loyd V

    2012-01-01

    This final installment of a five-part series relating to United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <1163> provides the pros and cons of outsourcing, an extremely important topic because of the many drug shortages and discontinued drugs being experienced, and provides a brief discussion of the importance of having a responsible employee in charge of the quality-assurance program.

  7. Comparison of prescription reimbursement methodologies in Japan and the United States.

    PubMed

    Akaho, Eiichi; MacLaughlin, Eric J; Takeuchi, Yoshikazu

    2003-01-01

    To compare methods of prescription reimbursement in Japan and the United States. Data were obtained through interviews and a search of the pharmacy literature using MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, the Iowa Drug Information Service, and the Internet. Search terms were pharmacy, dispensing fee, reimbursement, prescriptions, Japan, United States, and average wholesale price (AWP). A comprehensive search was done (i.e., no year limits were observed). Performed manually by the authors. The reimbursement systems for prescriptions differ widely between Japan and the United States. The reimbursement system in the United States is fairly straightforward and easy to understand; it is generally based on product cost (e.g., AWP minus a percentage) plus a small dispensing fee. The system in Japan is extremely complex. Reimbursement formulae have four components, including fees for professional dispensing, drug cost, counseling and administration, and medication supplies and devices. Additionally, various adjustments to the final amount are made based on dosage form, length of therapy, number of prescriptions dispensed by the pharmacy per month, and when the prescription is filled (e.g., after hours, on Sundays or holidays). In Japan, each pharmacist is limited to filling 40 prescriptions per day, but each "prescription" can involve several medication orders, making it difficult to compare Japanese pharmacists' workloads with those of their counterparts in the United States. In addition, Japanese pharmacists are provided remuneration for providing various cognitive services, such as taking a patient history, counseling a patient, consulting with a physician, and identifying drug-related problems. Japan and the United States have very different methods of reimbursing pharmacists for dispensing prescriptions, each with positive and negative features. Based on the features of pharmacy reimbursement systems in each country, perhaps the optimal pharmacy practice system would have workload limits that reflect safety standards and amount of support staff available, provide a fair and standardized method for determining drug cost, are relatively straightforward, pay for cognitive services, and provide care for all of citizens through of some type of national health care system.

  8. United States Army Garrison - Miami (USAG-Miami)

    Science.gov Websites

    quality customer service. Let us know how to address your specific or community needs through ICE. Send this site use Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) This site is provided as a public service by United States

  9. Transportation in the United States : a review

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    The United States has the largest transportation system in the world. It serves 260 million people and 6 million business establishments spread over the fourth largest country (in land area) in the world. This report provides a snapshot of the transp...

  10. Argentina: Its Physical-Cultural Backgrounds and Implications for United States Foreign Policy

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Vent, Herbert J.

    1974-01-01

    This article provides a short history of political events in Argentina and a look at the people, geography, and economy of the country in order to consider current relations between Argentina and the United States. (JH)

  11. The Learning Disabilities Unit at the State College of Optometry/SUNY.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Solan, Harold A.; Springer, Florence E.

    1986-01-01

    The Learning Disabilities Unit of New York's State College of Optometry, providing testing and research for learning disabled adults and children and professional instruction and clinical experience for students of optometry and related fields, is described. (MSE)

  12. Evolving reimbursement and pricing policies for devices in Europe and the United States should encourage greater value.

    PubMed

    Sorenson, Corinna; Drummond, Michael; Burns, Lawton R

    2013-04-01

    Rising health care costs are an international concern, particularly in the United States, where spending on health care outpaces that of other industrialized countries. Consequently, there is growing desire in the United States and Europe to take a more value-based approach to health care, particularly with respect to the adoption and use of new health technology. This article examines medical device reimbursement and pricing policies in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on value. Compared to the United States, Europe more formally and consistently considers value to determine which technologies to cover and at what price, especially for complex, costly devices. Both the United States and Europe have introduced policies to provide temporary coverage and reimbursement for promising technologies while additional evidence of value is generated. But additional actions are needed in both the United States and Europe to ensure wise value-based reimbursement and pricing policies for all devices, including the generation of better pre- and postmarket evidence and the development of new methods to evaluate value and link evidence of value to reimbursement.

  13. An analysis of context-based similarity tasks in textbooks from Brazil and the United States

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Barcelos Amaral, Rúbia; Hollebrands, Karen

    2017-11-01

    Three textbooks from Brazil and three textbooks from the United States were analysed with a focus on similarity and context-based tasks. Students' opportunities to learn similarity were examined by considering whether students were provided context-based tasks of high cognitive demand and whether those tasks included missing or superfluous information. Although books in the United States included more tasks, the proportion of tasks focused on similarity were about the same. Context-based similarity tasks accounted for 9%-29% of the similarity tasks, and many of these contextual tasks were of low cognitive demand. In addition, the types of contexts that were included in the textbooks were critiqued and examples provided.

  14. Radiation therapy facilities in the United States

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Ballas, Leslie K.; Elkin, Elena B.; Schrag, Deborah

    2006-11-15

    Purpose: About half of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as a part of their cancer treatment. Little is known, however, about the facilities that currently deliver external beam radiation. Our goal was to construct a comprehensive database of all radiation therapy facilities in the United States that can be used for future health services research in radiation oncology. Methods and Materials: From each state's health department we obtained a list of all facilities that have a linear accelerator or provide radiation therapy. We merged these state lists with information from the American Hospital Association (AHA),more » as well as 2 organizations that audit the accuracy of radiation machines: the Radiologic Physics Center (RPC) and Radiation Dosimetry Services (RDS). The comprehensive database included all unique facilities listed in 1 or more of the 4 sources. Results: We identified 2,246 radiation therapy facilities operating in the United States as of 2004-2005. Of these, 448 (20%) facilities were identified through state health department records alone and were not listed in any other data source. Conclusions: Determining the location of the 2,246 radiation facilities in the United States is a first step in providing important information to radiation oncologists and policymakers concerned with access to radiation therapy services, the distribution of health care resources, and the quality of cancer care.« less

  15. How Crime in the United States is Measured

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-01-03

    the screen questionnaire describe crimes in plain language, avoiding technical legal terms. To elicit an accurate response, respondents are provided...Order Code RL34309 How Crime in the United States Is Measured January 3, 2008 Nathan James Analyst in Crime Policy Domestic Social Policy Division...SUBTITLE How Crime in the United States is Measured 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e

  16. Flea market finds and global exports: Four multistate outbreaks of human Salmonella infections linked to small turtles, United States-2015.

    PubMed

    Gambino-Shirley, K; Stevenson, L; Concepción-Acevedo, J; Trees, E; Wagner, D; Whitlock, L; Roberts, J; Garrett, N; Van Duyne, S; McAllister, G; Schick, B; Schlater, L; Peralta, V; Reporter, R; Li, L; Waechter, H; Gomez, T; Fernández Ordenes, J; Ulloa, S; Ragimbeau, C; Mossong, J; Nichols, M

    2018-03-25

    Zoonotic transmission of Salmonella infections causes an estimated 11% of salmonellosis annually in the United States. This report describes the epidemiologic, traceback and laboratory investigations conducted in the United States as part of four multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to small turtles. Salmonella isolates indistinguishable from the outbreak strains were isolated from a total of 143 ill people in the United States, pet turtles, and pond water samples collected from turtle farm A, as well as ill people from Chile and Luxembourg. Almost half (45%) of infections occurred in children aged <5 years, underscoring the importance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to keep pet turtles and other reptiles out of homes and childcare settings with young children. Although only 43% of the ill people who reported turtle exposure provided purchase information, most small turtles were purchased from flea markets or street vendors, which made it difficult to locate the vendor, trace the turtles to a farm of origin, provide education and enforce the United States federal ban on the sale and distribution of small turtles. These outbreaks highlight the importance of improving public awareness and education about the risk of Salmonella from small turtles not only in the United States but also worldwide. © 2018 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.

  17. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.

    THOMAS, 111th Congress

    Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10

    2009-01-07

    House - 02/09/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  18. Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients.

    PubMed

    Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H

    2016-02-02

    Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison simultaneously shows the potential for substantially lowering mortality in other middle-income countries and highlights the United States' poor health performance. The United States' underperformance is strongly linked to its much steeper socioeconomic (SES) gradients in health. Although the highest SES quartile in the United States has better mortality than the highest quartile in Costa Rica, US mortality in its lowest quartile is markedly worse than in Costa Rica's lowest quartile, providing powerful evidence that the US health inequality patterns are not inevitable. High SES-mortality gradients in the United States are apparent in all broad cause-of-death groups, but Costa Rica's overall mortality advantage can be explained largely by two causes of death: lung cancer and heart disease. Lung cancer mortality in the United States is four times higher among men and six times higher among women compared with Costa Rica. Mortality by heart disease is 54% and 12% higher in the United States than in Costa Rica for men and women, respectively. SES gradients for heart disease and diabetes mortality are also much steeper in the United States. These patterns may be partly explained by much steeper SES gradients in the United States compared with Costa Rica for behavioral and medical risk factors such as smoking, obesity, lack of health insurance, and uncontrolled dysglycemia and hypertension.

  19. 20 CFR 655.102 - Special procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Employees' Benefits EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Labor Certification Process for Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States (H-2A Workers) § 655.102 Special procedures. To provide for a limited degree of...

  20. Availability of Data on Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New Unit Set-Asides for the 2015 Compliance Year

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides notice of the availability of preliminary calculations of emission allowance allocations to certain units under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).

  1. 19 CFR 201.170 - Compliance procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION GENERAL RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION.... International Trade Commission § 201.170 Compliance procedures. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this..., United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. (d) The agency...

  2. 19 CFR 201.170 - Compliance procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION GENERAL RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION.... International Trade Commission § 201.170 Compliance procedures. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this..., United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. (d) The agency...

  3. 19 CFR 201.170 - Compliance procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION GENERAL RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION.... International Trade Commission § 201.170 Compliance procedures. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this..., United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. (d) The agency...

  4. 19 CFR 201.170 - Compliance procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION GENERAL RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION.... International Trade Commission § 201.170 Compliance procedures. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this..., United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. (d) The agency...

  5. 19 CFR 201.170 - Compliance procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION GENERAL RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION.... International Trade Commission § 201.170 Compliance procedures. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this..., United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. (d) The agency...

  6. Toward an inventory of nitrogen input to the United States

    EPA Science Inventory

    Accurate accounting of nitrogen inputs is increasingly necessary for policy decisions related to aquatic nutrient pollution. Here we synthesize available data to provide the first integrated estimates of the amount and uncertainty of nitrogen inputs to the United States. Abou...

  7. 78 FR 14411 - Notice of Proposed Policy Clarification Concerning Designation of Adjacent Coastal States for...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-03-05

    ... United States. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (``UNCLOS'') further clarifies the... Ocean, or more than three marine leagues into the Gulf of Mexico.'' \\16\\ The SLA also provides that ``[t...

  8. A review of pedestrian safety research in the United States and abroad

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2003-11-01

    The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of research studies on pedestrian safety in the United States; some foreign research also is included. Readers will find details of pedestrian crash characteristics, measures of pedestrian exposure...

  9. A review of HOV lane performance and policy options in the United States

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2008-12-01

    The report provides an assessment of performance of existing HOV lane facilities in the United States, and explores policy alternatives and effects related to conversion of existing HOV lanes to HOT lane operations. The report includes sketch plannin...

  10. Introduction to United States Public Documents.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Morehead, Joseph

    This textbook, designed for use in library school government documents courses, provides an overview of the functions and characteristics of United States public documents. Chapters cover the Government Printing Office, the Superintendent of Documents, the depository library system, administration of documents collections, general guides to…

  11. 78 FR 57175 - Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-09-17

    ... United States in reimbursement of past response costs incurred by the United States with respect to the... site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html . We will provide a paper copy of the Consent...

  12. A compendium of existing HOV lane facilities in the United States

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2008-12-01

    The compendium provides an assembly of available information on existing HOV lane facilities in the United States. While it is comprehensive and thought to include virtually all existing facilities at this time, it is possible that there are isolated...

  13. 22 CFR 102.12 - Protective services for survivors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... Section 102.12 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United... accident. If a scheduled United States carrier is involved in an accident, the primary responsibility for... accident, primary responsibility for providing accommodation and onward transportation for passengers and...

  14. 22 CFR 102.12 - Protective services for survivors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Section 102.12 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United... accident. If a scheduled United States carrier is involved in an accident, the primary responsibility for... accident, primary responsibility for providing accommodation and onward transportation for passengers and...

  15. 22 CFR 102.12 - Protective services for survivors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... Section 102.12 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United... accident. If a scheduled United States carrier is involved in an accident, the primary responsibility for... accident, primary responsibility for providing accommodation and onward transportation for passengers and...

  16. 22 CFR 102.12 - Protective services for survivors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... Section 102.12 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United... accident. If a scheduled United States carrier is involved in an accident, the primary responsibility for... accident, primary responsibility for providing accommodation and onward transportation for passengers and...

  17. 22 CFR 102.12 - Protective services for survivors.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Section 102.12 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ECONOMIC AND OTHER FUNCTIONS CIVIL AVIATION United... accident. If a scheduled United States carrier is involved in an accident, the primary responsibility for... accident, primary responsibility for providing accommodation and onward transportation for passengers and...

  18. 12 CFR 403.1 - General policies and definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 403.1 Banks and Banking EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES CLASSIFICATION, DECLASSIFICATION, AND... the Export-Import Bank (the Bank) implements executive orders which govern the classification... the United States. (5) Confidential source means any individual or organization that has provided, or...

  19. 12 CFR 403.1 - General policies and definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 403.1 Banks and Banking EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES CLASSIFICATION, DECLASSIFICATION, AND... the Export-Import Bank (the Bank) implements executive orders which govern the classification... the United States. (5) Confidential source means any individual or organization that has provided, or...

  20. 12 CFR 403.1 - General policies and definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 403.1 Banks and Banking EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES CLASSIFICATION, DECLASSIFICATION, AND... the Export-Import Bank (the Bank) implements executive orders which govern the classification... the United States. (5) Confidential source means any individual or organization that has provided, or...

  1. 12 CFR 403.1 - General policies and definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 403.1 Banks and Banking EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES CLASSIFICATION, DECLASSIFICATION, AND... the Export-Import Bank (the Bank) implements executive orders which govern the classification... the United States. (5) Confidential source means any individual or organization that has provided, or...

  2. School Finance at a Glance. [Revised.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Verstegen, Deborah A.

    As in previous years, this publication provides information on two dimensions of public education finance in the United States--raising and distributing education dollars. Information as reported by each of the 50 states is provided. The first section shows the current financing structure used in each state. In 1990, states generally reported four…

  3. De Facto Language Policy in Legislation Defining Adult Basic Education in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Vanek, Jenifer

    2016-01-01

    This paper investigates the impact of differing interpretation of federal education policy in three different states. The policy, the Workforce Investment Act Title II, has defined the services provided for adult English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in Adult Basic Education programs in the United States since it was passed in 1998. At the…

  4. Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Services in the United States: Brief Report from a Survey of Clinical Neuropsychologists.

    PubMed

    Block, Cady; Santos, Octavio A; Flores-Medina, Yvonne; Rivera Camacho, Diego Fernando; Arango-Lasprilla, Juan Carlos

    2017-05-01

    To provide a brief presentation of preliminary data on rehabilitation services provided by clinical neuropsychologists within the United States. This survey utilized data extracted from a larger international research study conducted in 39 countries including N = 173 professionals who reported to engage in neuropsychological rehabilitative services within the past year (63.6% female, 44.36 ± 11.83 years of age) took part in the study. Neuropsychologists providing rehabilitation services in the United States in the past year were more likely to provide individual versus group therapy, likely to employ technology (e.g., personal computers, mobile phones/smartphones) as part of treatment services, see a range of diagnostic groups most prominently traumatic brain injury and stroke/vascular conditions, and work to address a range of both cognitive (e.g., memory, attention/concentration, and executive functioning) and psychological (e.g., emotional/behavioral adjustment and well-being, awareness of disability/disease) issues. Prior published surveys suggest that clinical neuropsychologists have a growing involvement in rehabilitation services within the United States but with little clarity as to the actual characteristics of actual professional activities and practices. The present study aimed to provide such information and hopefully will be helpful in promoting additional systematic studies in this area. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  5. Family Home Childcare Providers: A Comparison of Subsidized and Non-Subsidized Working Environments and Employee Issues

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    Shriner, Michael; Schlee, Bethanne M.; Mullis, Ronald L.; Cornille, Thomas A.; Mullis, Ann K.

    2008-01-01

    Federal and State Governments provide childcare subsidies for low-income working families. This study compares the encountered issues and working environments of family home providers of subsidized and non-subsidized childcare. Questionnaires were distributed throughout a southeastern state in the United States to 548 family home childcare…

  6. United States Air Force 611th Air Support Group/Civil Engineering Squadron Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. Remedial investigation and feasibility study. Bullen Point Radar Installation, Alaska. Final report

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Karmi, S.

    1996-03-18

    The United States Air Force (Air Force) has prepared this Remedial investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) report as part of the Installation Restoration Program (IRP) to present results of RI/FS activities at five sites at the Bullen Point radar installation. The IRP provides for investigating, quantifying, and remediating environmental contamination from past waste management activities at Air Force installations throughout the United States.

  7. Green Power Marketing in the United States. A Status Report (11th Edition)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Bird, Lori; Kreycik, Claire; Friedman, Barry

    This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. It presents aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States. It also provides summary data on utility green pricing programs offered in regulated electricity markets and green power marketing activity in competitive electricity markets, as well as green power sold to voluntary purchasers in the form of renewable energy certificates. Key market trends and issues are also discussed.

  8. Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (11th Edition)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Bird, L.; Kreycik, C.; Friedman, B.

    This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. It presents aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States. It also provides summary data on utility green pricing programs offered in regulated electricity markets and green power marketing activity in competitive electricity markets, as well as green power sold to voluntary purchasers in the form of renewable energy certificates. Key market trends and issues are also discussed.

  9. A CLIMATOLOGY OF WATER BUDGET VARIABLES FOR THE NORTHEAST UNITED STATES

    EPA Science Inventory

    This dataset provided only by the Northeast Regional Climatic Center is the basis for A Climatology of Water Budget Variables for the Northeast United States (Leathers and Robinson 1995). Climatic division precipitation and temperature data are used to calculate water budget vari...

  10. 78 FR 283 - United States Standards for Grades of Eggplant

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-01-03

    ... that permitting mixed colors and/or type packs will facilitate the marketing of eggplant by providing... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Marketing Service [Doc. Number FV-11-0052] United States Standards for Grades of Eggplant AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA. ACTION: Final notice. SUMMARY...

  11. 20 CFR 655.3 - Special procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... FOREIGN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Labor Certification Process and Enforcement of Attestations for Temporary Employment in Occupations Other Than Agriculture or Registered Nursing in the United States (H-2B Workers) § 655.3 Special procedures. (a) Systematic process. This subpart provides procedures for the...

  12. The llama industry in the United States.

    PubMed

    Ebel, S

    1989-03-01

    This chapter provides an overview of the llama in the United States. It covers the animal and its history, the people who own llamas, and the business that is developing around them and describes the industry's needs from the veterinary profession in terms of health care.

  13. Internationalizing Teacher Education in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shaklee, Beverly D., Ed.; Baily, Supriya, Ed.

    2012-01-01

    As countries become increasingly interdependent, student populations in the United States are becoming more culturally diverse. These students' transnational perspectives present significant challenges to teachers, but a disconnect exists between the skills teachers need and those provided to them by colleges of education. As teacher preparation…

  14. Detection and attribution of flood change across the United States

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Archfield, Stacey

    2017-04-01

    In the United States, there have a been an increasing number of studies quantifying trends in the annual maximum flood; yet, few studies examine trends in floods that may occur more than once in a given year and even fewer assess trends in floods on rivers that have undergone substantial changes due to urbanization, land-cover change, and agricultural drainage practices. Previous research has shown that, for streamgages having minimal direct human intervention, trends in the peak magnitude, frequency, duration and volume of frequent floods (floods occurring at an average of two events per year relative to a base period) across the United States show large changes; however, few trends are found to be statistically significant. This study extends previous research to provide a comprehensive assessment of flood change across the United States that includes streamgages having experienced confounding alterations to streamflow (urbanization, storage, and land-cover changes) that provides a comprehensive assessment of flood change. Attribution of these changes is also explored.

  15. Global Lessons In Frugal Innovation To Improve Health Care Delivery In The United States.

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    Bhatti, Yasser; Taylor, Andrea; Harris, Matthew; Wadge, Hester; Escobar, Erin; Prime, Matt; Patel, Hannah; Carter, Alexander W; Parston, Greg; Darzi, Ara W; Udayakumar, Krishna

    2017-11-01

    In a 2015 global study of low-cost or frugal innovations, we identified five leading innovations that scaled successfully in their original contexts and that may provide insights for scaling such innovations in the United States. We describe common themes among these diverse innovations, critical factors for their translation to the United States to improve the efficiency and quality of health care, and lessons for the implementation and scaling of other innovations. We highlight promising trends in the United States that support adapting these innovations, including growing interest in moving care out of health care facilities and into community and home settings; the growth of alternative payment models and incentives to experiment with new approaches to population health and care delivery; and the increasing use of diverse health professionals, such as community health workers and advanced practice providers. Our findings should inspire policy makers and health care professionals and inform them about the potential for globally sourced frugal innovations to benefit US health care.

  16. Systems identification and the adaptive management of waterfowl in the United States

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Williams, B.K.; Nichols, J.D.

    2001-01-01

    Waterfowl management in the United States is one of the more visible conservation success stories in the United States. It is authorized and supported by appropriate legislative authorities, based on large-scale monitoring programs, and widely accepted by the public. The process is one of only a limited number of large-scale examples of effective collaboration between research and management, integrating scientific information with management in a coherent framework for regulatory decision-making. However, harvest management continues to face some serious technical problems, many of which focus on sequential identification of the resource system in a context of optimal decision-making. The objective of this paper is to provide a theoretical foundation of adaptive harvest management, the approach currently in use in the United States for regulatory decision-making. We lay out the legal and institutional framework for adaptive harvest management and provide a formal description of regulatory decision-making in terms of adaptive optimization. We discuss some technical and institutional challenges in applying adaptive harvest management and focus specifically on methods of estimating resource states for linear resource systems.

  17. Regulation of prescriptive authority for certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives: a national overview.

    PubMed

    Osborne, Kathryn

    2011-01-01

    Certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) provide primary care to women across the lifespan. Yet these primary care providers face barriers to practice that include restrictive state laws and regulations regarding prescriptive authority. The purpose of this review is to critically examine and report the regulatory requirements relative to prescriptive authority for CNMs/CMs in the United States. State statutes and rules relative to midwifery practice were reviewed for all 50 United States and the District of Columbia. CNMs have been granted the authority to write prescriptions in all 50 United States and the District of Columbia, while CMs have been granted prescriptive authority only in the state of New York. Prescriptive authority for CNMs and CMs is regulated by individual state agencies and regulatory boards. Regulations regarding prescriptive authority for CNMs and CMs vary widely from state to state and are described, with a summary for each state presented. While CNMs are granted fully independent prescriptive authority in some states, the regulatory requirements relative to prescriptive authority for CNMs/CMs limit patients' access to necessary services in most states. © 2011 by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

  18. National Geochronological Database

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Revised by Sloan, Jan; Henry, Christopher D.; Hopkins, Melanie; Ludington, Steve; Original database by Zartman, Robert E.; Bush, Charles A.; Abston, Carl

    2003-01-01

    The National Geochronological Data Base (NGDB) was established by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to collect and organize published isotopic (also known as radiometric) ages of rocks in the United States. The NGDB (originally known as the Radioactive Age Data Base, RADB) was started in 1974. A committee appointed by the Director of the USGS was given the mission to investigate the feasibility of compiling the published radiometric ages for the United States into a computerized data bank for ready access by the user community. A successful pilot program, which was conducted in 1975 and 1976 for the State of Wyoming, led to a decision to proceed with the compilation of the entire United States. For each dated rock sample reported in published literature, a record containing information on sample location, rock description, analytical data, age, interpretation, and literature citation was constructed and included in the NGDB. The NGDB was originally constructed and maintained on a mainframe computer, and later converted to a Helix Express relational database maintained on an Apple Macintosh desktop computer. The NGDB and a program to search the data files were published and distributed on Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) in standard ISO 9660 format as USGS Digital Data Series DDS-14 (Zartman and others, 1995). As of May 1994, the NGDB consisted of more than 18,000 records containing over 30,000 individual ages, which is believed to represent approximately one-half the number of ages published for the United States through 1991. Because the organizational unit responsible for maintaining the database was abolished in 1996, and because we wanted to provide the data in more usable formats, we have reformatted the data, checked and edited the information in some records, and provided this online version of the NGDB. This report describes the changes made to the data and formats, and provides instructions for the use of the database in geographic information system (GIS) applications. The data are provided in .mdb (Microsoft Access), .xls (Microsoft Excel), and .txt (tab-separated value) formats. We also provide a single non-relational file that contains a subset of the data for ease of use.

  19. Tornado climatology of the contiguous United States

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Ramsdell, J.V.; Andrews, G.L.

    1986-05-01

    The characteristics of tornadoes that were reported in the contiguous United States for the period from January 1, 1954, through December 31, 1983, have been computed from data in the National Severe Storms Forecast Center tornado data base. The characteristics summarized in this report include frequency and locations of tornadoes, and their lengths, widths, and areas. Tornado strike and intensity probabilities have been estimated on a regional basis, and these estimates have been used to compute wind speeds with 10/sup -5/, 10/sup -6/, and 10/sup -7/ yr/sup -1/ probabilities of occurrence. The 10/sup -7/ yr/sup -1/ wind speeds range frommore » below 200 mph in the western United States to about 330 mph in the vicinity of Kansas and Nebraska. The appendices contain extensive tabulations of tornado statistics. Variations of the characteristics within the contiguous United States are presented in the summaries. Separate tabulations are provided for the contiguous United States, for each state, for each 5/sup 0/ and 1/sup 0/ latitude and longitude box, and for the eastern and western United States.« less

  20. The Great American Divide: The Military-Civilian Gap

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-03-14

    for the common defense … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America .”1 Such are the words to... and “provide for the common defense ” that enshrine the idea of shared sacrifice among all the American people in protecting and defending the ...United States. For much of the United States’ history, this idea of shared sacrifice in the

  1. Large-scale, long-term silvicultural experiments in the United States: historical overview and contemporary examples.

    Treesearch

    R. S. Seymour; J. Guldin; D. Marshall; B. Palik

    2006-01-01

    This paper provides a synopsis of large-scale, long-term silviculture experiments in the United States. Large-scale in a silvicultural context means that experimental treatment units encompass entire stands (5 to 30 ha); long-term means that results are intended to be monitored over many cutting cycles or an entire rotation, typically for many decades. Such studies...

  2. Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States. Urban Diversity Series No. 111.

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    Zhou, Min; Bankston, Carl L., III

    This monograph examines the current state of Vietnamese America, summarizing research findings on Vietnamese children, both those who are native born and those born in Vietnam and raised in the United States. It provides insight into the unique experience of these children in order to help educators, administrators, and social workers deal…

  3. A History of the Indians of the United States.

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    Debo, Angie

    At the insistence of students who were taught American Indian history by the author of this book, the author presents the course in book form. It provides basic historical information on all Indian tribes in the United States. The primary emphasis is on the history of Oklahoma Indians due to the large Indian population of the state and due to the…

  4. Amicus Curiae Brief for the United States Supreme Court on Mental Health Issues Associated with "Physician-Assisted Suicide"

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    Werth, James L., Jr.; Gordon, Judith R.

    2002-01-01

    After providing background material related to the Supreme Court cases on "physician-assisted suicide" (Washington v. Glucksberg, 1997, and Vacco v. Quill, 1997), this article presents the amicus curiae brief that was submitted to the United States Supreme Court by 2 national mental health organizations, a state psychological association, and an…

  5. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries and the United States Patent and Trademark Office: A Model for Information Dissemination

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jenda, Claudine Arnold

    2005-01-01

    This paper describes the network of Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs), a collaborative partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for disseminating patent and trademark information in every state plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Typical information sources and services provided at PTDLs are…

  6. The Lessons of Modularity in Informing Australian Army Transformation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-12-12

    States) CALL Center for Army Lessons Learned (United States) Cbt Bde Combat Brigade (Australian) CTC Combat Training Center DOTMLPF Doctrine ...Center ix TRADOC Training and Doctrine Command US United States x ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. The Australian Cbt Bde Structure...that could be task-organized for deployment and provide a sustained capability over multiple rotations. The changes to organization, doctrine , training

  7. Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States: A Review.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Starr, S. Frederick; Boisture, J. Bruce

    This study was prepared to provide a convenient compendium of data for those participating in a conference on "Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States" held at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, in May, 1972. The purpose of the conference and of the study was to assess the state of teaching and research…

  8. 40 CFR 60.2545 - Does this subpart directly affect CISWI unit owners and operators in my State?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... within your State reaches compliance with all the provisions of this subpart by December 1, 2005... enforce a federal plan, as provided in § 60.2525, to ensure that each unit within your state reaches... that commenced construction after November 29, 1999, but on or before June 4, 2010, reaches compliance...

  9. 14 CFR 121.590 - Use of certificated land airports in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Use of certificated land airports in the... Use of certificated land airports in the United States. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) or (c..., flag type operation, or supplemental type operation, an airplane at a land airport in any State of the...

  10. 14 CFR 121.590 - Use of certificated land airports in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Use of certificated land airports in the... Use of certificated land airports in the United States. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) or (c..., flag type operation, or supplemental type operation, an airplane at a land airport in any State of the...

  11. 14 CFR 121.590 - Use of certificated land airports in the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Use of certificated land airports in the... Use of certificated land airports in the United States. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) or (c..., flag type operation, or supplemental type operation, an airplane at a land airport in any State of the...

  12. Graduate Education and Professional Practice in International Peace and Conflict. Special Report 246

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Carstarphen, Nike; Zelizer, Craig; Harris, Robert; Smith, David J.

    2010-01-01

    Over the past two decades, the number of academic institutions providing education and training in international peace and conflict resolution in the United States has grown. Much of this development has been at the graduate level. In the fall of 2005, to assess the current state of the field more accurately, the United States Institute of Peace…

  13. METHODOLOGY TO ESTABLISH WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS ON THE U.S. COUNTY LEVEL

    EPA Science Inventory

    The United States Geological Survey (USGS) collects water quality data at approximately 1.5 million sites in the United States (US) for both surface water and ground water locations. These data are provided publicly through the National Water Information System (NWIS) web interfa...

  14. 46 CFR 252.2 - Policy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water...

  15. 46 CFR 252.2 - Policy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water...

  16. ADVANCES IN DRINKING WATER TREATMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

    EPA Science Inventory

    The United States drinking water public health protection goal is to provide water that meets all health-based standards to ninety-five percent of the population served by public drinking water supplies by 2005. In 2002, the level of compliance with some eighty-five health-based ...

  17. 78 FR 16297 - Earned Import Allowance Program: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Program for Certain...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-03-14

    ... INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [Investigation No. 332-503] Earned Import Allowance Program... Review AGENCY: United States International Trade Commission. ACTION: Notice of opportunity to provide... located in the United States International Trade Commission Building, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC...

  18. The United States in the Great War: A Historiography.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Showalter, Dennis

    2002-01-01

    Provides a historiography of the literature that focuses on the participation of the United States in World War I. Covers topics, such as general works, policy and diplomacy, domestic mobilization, soldiers, operations, domestic dissent, peace, and the aftermath of the war. Includes a bibliography. (CMK)

  19. Management characteristics of beef cattle production in the western United States

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    A comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of beef in the United States is being conducted to provide benchmarks and identify opportunities for improvement of the beef value chain. Region-specific data are being collected to accurately characterize cattle production practices. This study reports pr...

  20. 24 CFR 1003.4 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... moderate income areas that house various non-legislative functions or services provided by the government... from data compiled and published by the United States Bureau of the Census available from the latest... persons per room, based on data compiled and published by the United States Bureau of the Census available...

  1. The National Geospatial Technical Operations Center

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Craun, Kari J.; Constance, Eric W.; Donnelly, Jay; Newell, Mark R.

    2009-01-01

    The United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) provides geospatial technical expertise in support of the National Geospatial Program in its development of The National Map, National Atlas of the United States, and implementation of key components of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).

  2. Work-time Reduction in the U.S. and Western Europe.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Owen, John D.

    1988-01-01

    Available data indicate that, although the United States once pioneered in providing reduced working time for workers, achieving a 40-hour workweek well in advance of most other industrial nations, Western Europe has now caught up and passed the United States in this respect. (Author)

  3. 32 CFR 516.49 - Expert witnesses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... RELATIONS LITIGATION Release of Information and Appearance of Witnesses Scope Da Personnel As Witnesses in Private Litigation § 516.49 Expert witnesses. (a) General rule. Present DA personnel will not provide... in which the United States has an interest for a party other than the United States. Former DA...

  4. 22 CFR 141.4 - Assurances required.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... of the United States for the desegregation of such school or school system, and provides an assurance... other participants. Any such assurance shall include provisions which give the United States a right to... system which the responsible official of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare determines is...

  5. Distribution of specialized care centers in the United States.

    PubMed

    Wang, Henry E; Yealy, Donald M

    2012-11-01

    As a recommended strategy for optimally managing critical illness, regionalization of care involves matching the needs of the target population with available hospital resources. The national supply and characteristics of hospitals providing specialized critical care services is currently unknown. We seek to characterize the current distribution of specialized care centers in the United States. Using public data linked with the American Hospital Association directory and US Census, we identified US general acute hospitals providing specialized care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (≥40 annual primary percutaneous coronary interventions reported in Medicare Hospital Compare), stroke (The Joint Commission certified stroke centers), trauma (American College of Surgeons or state-designated, adult or pediatric, level I or II), and pediatric critical care (presence of a pediatric ICU) services. We determined the characteristics and state-level distribution and density of specialized care centers (centers per state and centers per state population). Among 4,931 acute care hospitals in the United States, 1,325 (26.9%) provided one of the 4 defined specialized care services, including 574 STEMI, 763 stroke, 508 trauma, and 457 pediatric critical care centers. Approximately half of the 1,325 hospitals provided 2 or more specialized services, and one fifth provided 3 or 4 specialized services. There was variation in the number of each type of specialized care center in each state: STEMI median 7 interquartile range (IQR 2 to 14), stroke 8 (IQR 3 to 17), trauma 6 (IQR 3 to 11), pediatric specialized care 6 (IQR 3 to 11). Similarly, there was variation in the number of each type of specialized care center per population: STEMI median 1 center per 585,135 persons (IQR 418,729 to 696,143), stroke 1 center per 412,188 persons (IQR 321,604 to 572,387), trauma 1 center per 610,589 persons (IQR 406,192 to 917,588), and pediatric critical care 1 center per 665,282 persons (IQR 441,525 to 942,254). The national distribution patterns differed for each type of specialized care center. The distribution of specialized care centers varies across the United States. These observations highlight unanswered questions about the regional organization of specialized care in the United States. Copyright © 2012. Published by Mosby, Inc.

  6. Should the United States Continue to Provide Aid to Africa?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-03-22

    this choice.75 History has shown that no amount of foreign aid can lead Africa to a meaningful developmental process without effective governance...aid and what approaches need to be taken into account to ensure it remains an effective ‘strategic investment.” 15. SUBJECT TERMS Foreign Policy...account to ensure it remains an effective ‘strategic investment.” SHOULD THE UNITED STATES CONTINUE TO PROVIDE AID TO AFRICA? The

  7. Abuse of Customer Premise Equipment and Recommended Actions

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-08-07

    as reflectors. Descriptions of hacks and control of CPE are more difficult to provide, as such operations are more clandestine. DNS changer provides...connected to broadband Internet, as of July 2013. 7 In the United States, about 84% of those connections have a local home network, such as WiFi . 8...with 324 million WiFi -enabled consumer electronics devices shipped during 2013 in the United States alone. 10 Thus if there were a systematic

  8. Alternative Fuels Data Center: Biodiesel Benefits

    Science.gov Websites

    provides safety benefits. Energy Security and Balance The United States imported 19% of its petroleum in energy balance meaning that biodiesel yields 4.56 units of energy for every unit of fossil energy

  9. Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients

    PubMed Central

    Rosero-Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H.

    2016-01-01

    Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison simultaneously shows the potential for substantially lowering mortality in other middle-income countries and highlights the United States’ poor health performance. The United States’ underperformance is strongly linked to its much steeper socioeconomic (SES) gradients in health. Although the highest SES quartile in the United States has better mortality than the highest quartile in Costa Rica, US mortality in its lowest quartile is markedly worse than in Costa Rica’s lowest quartile, providing powerful evidence that the US health inequality patterns are not inevitable. High SES-mortality gradients in the United States are apparent in all broad cause-of-death groups, but Costa Rica’s overall mortality advantage can be explained largely by two causes of death: lung cancer and heart disease. Lung cancer mortality in the United States is four times higher among men and six times higher among women compared with Costa Rica. Mortality by heart disease is 54% and 12% higher in the United States than in Costa Rica for men and women, respectively. SES gradients for heart disease and diabetes mortality are also much steeper in the United States. These patterns may be partly explained by much steeper SES gradients in the United States compared with Costa Rica for behavioral and medical risk factors such as smoking, obesity, lack of health insurance, and uncontrolled dysglycemia and hypertension. PMID:26729886

  10. Comparison of work related fatal injuries in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand: method and overall findings

    PubMed Central

    Feyer, A; Williamson, A; Stout, N; Driscoll, T; Usher, H; Langley, J

    2001-01-01

    Objectives—To compare the extent, distribution, and nature of fatal occupational injury in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Setting—Workplaces in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Methods—Data collections based on vital records were used to compare overall rates and distribution of fatal injuries covering the period 1989–92 in Australia and the United States, and 1985–94 in New Zealand. Household labour force data (Australia and the United States) and census data (New Zealand) provided denominator data for calculation of rates. Case definition, case inclusion criteria, and classification of occupation and industry were harmonised across the three datasets. Results—New Zealand had the highest average annual rate (4.9/100 000), Australia an intermediate rate (3.8/100 000), and the United States the lowest rate (3.2/100 000) of fatal occupational injury. Much of the difference between countries was accounted for by differences in industry distribution. In each country, male workers, older workers, and those working in agriculture, forestry and fishing, in mining and in construction, were consistently at higher risk. Intentional fatal injury was more common in the United States, being rare in both Australia and New Zealand. This difference is likely to be reflected in the more common incidence of work related fatal injuries for sales workers in the United States compared with Australia and New Zealand. Conclusions—The present results contrasted with those obtained by a recent study that used published omnibus statistics, both in terms of absolute rates and relative ranking of the three countries. Such differences underscore the importance of using like datasets for international comparisons. The consistency of high risk areas across comparable data from comparable nations provides clear targets for further attention. At this stage, however, it is unclear whether the same specific occupations and/or hazards are contributing to the aggregated industry and occupation group rates reported here. PMID:11289530

  11. Eugenics Past and Present: Remembering Buck v. Bell.

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    Berson, Michael J.; Cruz, Barbara

    2001-01-01

    Provides background information about the eugenics movement. Focuses on eugenics in the United States detailing the case, Buck v. Bell, and eugenics in Germany. Explores the present eugenic movement, focusing on "The Bell Curve," China's one child policy, and the use of eugenic sterilizations in the United States and Canada. Includes…

  12. 49 CFR 1562.23 - Aircraft operator and passenger requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... United States. (vi) Alien registration number, if applicable. (3) Must successfully complete a TSA... naturalization if the individual is a naturalized citizen of the United States. (F) Alien registration number, if... crewmember on an aircraft operating into or out of DCA provides TSA with a valid government-issued picture...

  13. 49 CFR 1562.23 - Aircraft operator and passenger requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... United States. (vi) Alien registration number, if applicable. (3) Must successfully complete a TSA... naturalization if the individual is a naturalized citizen of the United States. (F) Alien registration number, if... crewmember on an aircraft operating into or out of DCA provides TSA with a valid government-issued picture...

  14. Acculturation Experiences of Taiwanese Students during Exchanges in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lee, Annie (Ya-Ping); Bei, Lienti; DeVaney, Sharon A.

    2007-01-01

    This phenomenological study examined the acculturation experience of Taiwanese students who attended universities in the United States as exchange students. Hofstede's four dimensions of culture provided a framework for developing questions. Eight exchange students were interviewed. Taiwanese students realized there was a lower power distance…

  15. Preparation of regional shorebird monitoring plans

    Treesearch

    Jonathan Bart; Ann Manning; Susan Thomas; Catherine Wightman

    2005-01-01

    Shorebird monitoring programs in Canada and the United States are being developed under the auspices of PRISM, the Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring. PRISM provides a single blueprint for implementing the monitoring proposals in the shorebird conservation plans prepared recently in Canada and the United States. It includes four segments:...

  16. A climatology of late-spring freezes in the northeastern United States.

    Treesearch

    Brian E. Potter; Thomas W. Cate

    1999-01-01

    Presents maps of late-spring freeze characteristics for the northeastern and north central United States based on heat-sum thresholds and historic climate data. Discusses patterns seen in the maps. Provides examples and ways these maps could be used by resource managers and research scientists.

  17. 39 CFR 912.11 - Exclusiveness of remedy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 39 Postal Service 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Exclusiveness of remedy. 912.11 Section 912.11 Postal Service UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PROCEDURES PROCEDURES TO ADJUDICATE CLAIMS FOR PERSONAL... of remedy. The provisions of 28 U.S.C. 2679(b) provide that the remedy against the United States, as...

  18. 39 CFR 912.11 - Exclusiveness of remedy.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 39 Postal Service 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Exclusiveness of remedy. 912.11 Section 912.11 Postal Service UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PROCEDURES PROCEDURES TO ADJUDICATE CLAIMS FOR PERSONAL... of remedy. The provisions of 28 U.S.C. 2679(b) provide that the remedy against the United States, as...

  19. Energy: Machines, Science (Experimental): 5311.03.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Castaldi, June P.

    This unit of instruction was designed as an introductory course in energy involving six simple machines, electricity, magnetism, and motion. The booklet lists the relevant state-adopted texts and states the performance objectives for the unit. It provides an outline of the course content and suggests experiments, demonstrations, field trips, and…

  20. Aircraft: United States Air Force Child Care Program Activity Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Boggs, Juanita; Brant, Linda

    General information about United States' aircraft is provided in this program activity guide for teachers and caregivers in Air Force preschools and day care centers. The guide includes basic information for teachers and caregivers, basic understandings, suggested teaching methods and group activities, vocabulary, ideas for interest centers, and…

  1. Recreation Handbook for State and Local Unit Recreation Committees.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Association for Retarded Citizens, Arlington, TX.

    The recreation handbook provides broad guidelines and lists sources of information for state and local units of the National Association for Retarded Citizens (NARC) to develop recreational programs throughout the nation. Described are the importance of recreation for reasons such as developing good habits of physical fitness, survey results…

  2. SERS Nanosensors for in vivo Glucose Sensing

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2017-09-01

    United States. ‡N.L.: Department of Physics & Astronomy , The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, United States...Physics and Astronomy and from the College of Science of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Computing resources were provided by the Quest high

  3. 78 FR 69553 - Domestic Competitive Products Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes

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    2013-11-20

    ... increase 5.0 percent. The Intelligent Mail[supreg] package barcode (IMpb) will continue to provide free... Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]), to reflect changes to..., by class of mail, established by the Governors of the United States Postal Service[supreg]. New...

  4. Regional Patterns of Communication in the United States: A Theoretical Perspective.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Andersen, Peter A.; And Others

    1987-01-01

    Provides the rationale for a systematic study of regional patterns of communication in the United States. Conceptualizes regionalism, appraises regional influences on communication, and establishes their significance. Describes regional development of the U.S. and proposes a program of regional research on U.S. communication. Examines deficiencies…

  5. Waterborne Commerce of the United States, calendar year 1999. Part 3 : waterways and harbors Great Lakes

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1999-01-01

    This report is one of a series of publications which provides statistics on the foreign and domestic waterborne commerce moved on the United States waters. WCUS, Parts 1-4 present detailed data on the movements of vessels and commodities at the ports...

  6. 78 FR 75944 - Commencement of Claims Program

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-12-13

    ... Agreement Between the United States of America and the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.... Simkin, Chief Counsel, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, 600 E Street NW., Room... provided that (1) the claim was set forth by a claimant named in Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan...

  7. The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment

    EPA Science Inventory

    This assessment strengthens and expands our understanding of climate-related health impacts by providing a more definitive description of climate-related health burdens in the United States. It builds on the 2014 USGCRP National Climate Assessment and reviews and synthesizes key ...

  8. NAFTA Guidance Document on Data Requirements for Tolerances on Imported Commodities in the United States and Canada

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    The purpose of this document is to provide detailed guidance on data requirements that meet the North American Free Trade Agreement standards for the establishment of pesticide import tolerances or maximum residue levels in Canada and the United States.

  9. Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007 - 2012; NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Hand, Maureen

    This presentation provides a summary of IEA Wind Task 26 report on Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007-2012

  10. Illustrated surface mining methods

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    1979-01-01

    This manual provides a visual synopsis of surface coal mining methods in the United States. The manual presents various surface mining methods and techniques through artist renderings and appropriate descriptions. The productive coal fields of the United States were divided into four regions according to geology and physiography. A glossay of terminology is included. (DP)

  11. 7 CFR 1488.2 - Definition of terms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    .... Cotton Standards Act (7 CFR 28.40), by-products of cotton such as cotton mill waste, motes, and linters..., including eligible cotton, produced in the United States and designated as eligible for export under CCC's... cotton means Upland and Extra Long staple cotton grown in the United States: Provided, however, That...

  12. 7 CFR 1488.2 - Definition of terms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    .... Cotton Standards Act (7 CFR 28.40), by-products of cotton such as cotton mill waste, motes, and linters..., including eligible cotton, produced in the United States and designated as eligible for export under CCC's... cotton means Upland and Extra Long staple cotton grown in the United States: Provided, however, That...

  13. 7 CFR 1488.2 - Definition of terms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    .... Cotton Standards Act (7 CFR 28.40), by-products of cotton such as cotton mill waste, motes, and linters..., including eligible cotton, produced in the United States and designated as eligible for export under CCC's... cotton means Upland and Extra Long staple cotton grown in the United States: Provided, however, That...

  14. 7 CFR 1488.2 - Definition of terms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    .... Cotton Standards Act (7 CFR 28.40), by-products of cotton such as cotton mill waste, motes, and linters..., including eligible cotton, produced in the United States and designated as eligible for export under CCC's... cotton means Upland and Extra Long staple cotton grown in the United States: Provided, however, That...

  15. 7 CFR 1488.2 - Definition of terms.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    .... Cotton Standards Act (7 CFR 28.40), by-products of cotton such as cotton mill waste, motes, and linters..., including eligible cotton, produced in the United States and designated as eligible for export under CCC's... cotton means Upland and Extra Long staple cotton grown in the United States: Provided, however, That...

  16. EPA and a Brief History of Environmental Law in the United States

    EPA Science Inventory

    There are numerous environmental laws in the United States (US) which provide the common purpose to protect human health and the environment. Most current major environmental statutes were passed in a timeframe from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. On 1 January 1970, Pre...

  17. El Salvador.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Solberg, Mary

    1982-01-01

    Many El Salvador refugees who have sought asylum in the United States have been sent back, only to succumb to violence. Justice demands that the United States deal with the unfortunate consequences of violence by exercising such policy options as providing extended voluntary departure status to refugees or suspending military aid to the junta.…

  18. 22 CFR 308.4 - Disclosure of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... record for statistical research provided that such record is transmitted in a form which is not... will be used only for statistical purposes. (f) To the National Archives of the United States as a... governmental jurisdiction within the control of the United States for civil or criminal law enforcement...

  19. Review of Education-Focused Health Impact Assessments Conducted in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Gase, Lauren N.; DeFosset, Amelia R.; Gakh, Maxim; Harris, Celia; Weisman, Susan R.; Dannenberg, Andrew L.

    2017-01-01

    Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) provides a structured process for examining the potential health impacts of proposed policies, plans, programs, and projects. This study systematically reviewed HIAs conducted in the United States on prekindergarten, primary, and secondary education-focused decisions. Methods: Relevant HIA reports were…

  20. 22 CFR 1102.8 - Exemptions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2011-04-01 2009-04-01 true Exemptions. 1102.8 Section 1102.8 Foreign Relations INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, UNITED STATES SECTION FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT § 1102.8 Exemptions. (a) 5 U.S.C. 552(b) provides that the requirements of the...

  1. 20 CFR 404.1901 - Introduction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... social security system of the United States and the social security system of a foreign country. An... be based on a combination of a person's periods of coverage under the social security system of the United States and the social security system of the foreign country. An agreement also provides for the...

  2. Forum: Knowledge, Action, Involvement

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Weinberger, JoAnn

    2015-01-01

    St. Clair (EJ1072357) provides a summary and lays out some of the important issues inherent in the broad strategies articulated in "Making Skills Everyone's Business: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States" (MSEB) (United States Department of Education [USDoE], 2015) (see ED558793). In this commentary, JoAnn Weinberger…

  3. 29 CFR 14.20 - Dissemination to individuals and firms outside the executive branch.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... following guidelines: (a) Top Secret information. All requests for Top Secret information by an individual... Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret information, a report providing all available details must be immediately... outside the United States. All requests from outside the United States for Top Secret, Secret or...

  4. Mineralogy, Science (Experimental): 5343.02.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Gato, Jeannette

    This unit of instruction deals with the examination of minerals in the earth's crust and their formation into rocks. No prerequisites are required for enrollment in the course. The booklet lists the relevant state-adopted texts and states the performance objectives for the unit. It provides an outline of the course content and suggests…

  5. 46 CFR 349.3 - Certification criteria.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... other benefits substantially equivalent to the rights and benefits provided by chapter 43 of title 38, United States Code, for any member of a Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States who is... relevant documentation to MARAD, Office of Maritime Labor, Training, and Safety, MAR-250, 400 Seventh St...

  6. Report to Congress on the status of the public ports of the United States : 1996 - 1997

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1998-10-01

    This Report to Congress on the Status of the Public Ports of the United States, covering calendar years 1996 and 1997, discusses the U.S. public port industry's economic activities and the critical issues facing it. The first section provides an over...

  7. 78 FR 5169 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Procedures for Considering Requests and...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-01-24

    ... Safeguard Actions on Imports From Oman AGENCY: International Trade Administration (ITA), Commerce. ACTION... 328 of the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the ``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions, provided for in Article 3.1 of the United States-Oman Free Trade...

  8. America = Las Americas. Canada, United States, Mexico.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Toro, Leonor; And Others

    Written for teachers to use with migrant children in elementary grades and to highlight the many Americas, three magazines provide historical and cultural background information on Canada, the United States, and Mexico and feature biographies of Black and Hispanic leaders. Each edition has a table of contents indicating the language--Spanish…

  9. Developing a Dataset to Assess Ecosystem Services in the Midwest, United States

    EPA Science Inventory

    There is an urgent need in the science community to enhance our understanding of the services provided by the ecosystems of the Midwestern United States. The following paper describes a method for creating an enhanced spatially explicit land cover for the Midwest. We constructed...

  10. Educating the United States Army.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Anderson, Clinton L.

    The United State Army has an education/training strategy that provides the conceptual framework for planning, programming, budgeting, and conducting and/or overseeing all education and training necessary to accomplish its military needs and to care for the human needs of soldiers and their family members. This strategy includes education and…

  11. Critical Electronic Data Loss Perceptions of United States Military Contractors

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Singletary, Tod J.

    2017-01-01

    The United States Military has become increasingly dependent upon technology to meet its mission objectives with a consequence being greater dependence on civilian defense contractors to provide specialized services in support of high-tech mission requirements. Modern military defense contractors have also become dependent upon reliable and secure…

  12. 77 FR 35938 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-06-15

    ... United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (U.S.-Colombia TPA) AGENCY: International Trade...-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act (the ``Act'') [Pub. L. 112-42] implements the commercial availability provision provided for in Article 3.3 of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion...

  13. Evidence of Time-Of-Day Pricing In the United States. Volume 2, Appendices and Case Studies

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1984-05-01

    This is the companion volume to the research report, Evidence on Time of Transit Pricing in the United States. This volume serves as an expanded appendix to the Volume 1 report, principally providing detailed case-by-case summaries on experiences wit...

  14. India and the United States: Should the United States Provide Security Assistance to its new Strategic Partner

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-06-15

    Markets for US Products and Services ..............................................................67 Indian Interests...Willingness to Implement Market Oriented Reforms70 US Weaknesses...because it amounts to simple supply and demand in the global market for energy. This study will omit discussion of Indian relations with southeast

  15. Environmental Security in the Danube River Basin: Policy Implications for the United States

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1999-01-01

    United Nations Environmental Programme and Centre for Human Settlements jointly formed a Balkans Task Force that has been conducting independent and...1199 V ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the United States Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (TNSS) and the Army Environmental...regularly scheduled course on Responsibilities of Military Forces in Environmental Protection. Mr. Robert Jarrett of AEPI provided valuable review

  16. Prescription drug monitoring programs in the United States of America

    PubMed Central

    Félix, Sausan El Burai; Mack, Karin

    2015-01-01

    SYNOPSIS Since the late 1990s, the number of opioid analgesic overdose deaths has quadrupled in the United States of America (from 4 030 deaths in 1999 to 16 651 in 2010). The objectives of this article are to provide an overview of the problem of prescription drug overdose in the United States and to discuss actions that could help reduce the problem, with particular attention to the characteristics of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). These programs consist of state-level databases that monitor controlled substances. The information compiled in the databases is at the disposal of authorized persons (e.g., physicians, pharmacists, and other health-care providers) and may be used only for professional purposes. Suppliers can use such information to prevent interaction with other drugs or therapeutic duplication, or to identify drug-search behavior. Law enforcement agencies can use these programs to identify improper drug prescription or dispensing patterns, or drug diversion. PMID:25563153

  17. Government financial support for civil aircraft research, technology and development in four European countries and the United States

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Chandler, B.; Golaszewski, R.; Patten, C.; Rudman, B.; Scott, R.

    1980-01-01

    Data on the levels of government financial support for civil aircraft airframe and engine (CAAE) research and technology (R&T) in the United States and Europe (United Kingdom, West Germany, France and The Netherlands) and means of comparing these levels are provided. Data are presented for the years 1974-1977. European R&T expenditure data were obtained through visits to each of the four European countries, to the Washington office of the European Communities, and by a search of applicable literature. CAAE R&T expenditure data for the United States were obtained from NASA and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

  18. Scaling net ecosystem production and net biome production over a heterogeneous region in the Western United States

    Treesearch

    D.P. Turner; W.D. Ritts; B.E. Law; W.B. Cohen; Z. Yan; T. Hudiburg; J.L. Campbell; M. Duane

    2007-01-01

    Bottom-up scaling of net ecosystem production (NEP) and net biome production (NBP) was used to generate a carbon budget for a large heterogeneous region (the state of Oregon, 2.5x105 km2 ) in the Western United States. Landsat resolution (30 m) remote sensing provided the basis for mapping land cover and disturbance history...

  19. Trustees "versus" Directors, Whom Do They Serve? Boards, For-Profits and the Public Good in the United States

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fox Garrity, Bonnie

    2015-01-01

    Postsecondary education in the United States is provided by public, not-for-profit and for-profit institutions. Public and not-for-profit institutions are expected to serve the public good due to state control or chartering requirements; for-profit institutions are not. Therefore, the decision to serve the public good is vested in the board. The…

  20. UNESCO Science Programs: Impacts of U.S. Withdrawal and Suggestions for Alternative Interim Arrangements. A Preliminary Assessment.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Office of International Affairs.

    This study was conducted to provide the U.S. Department of State with an assessment of the potential impacts on science of a United States withdrawal from UNESCO and to suggest possible alternative arrangements to maintain essential U.S. scientific contacts with UNESCO-sponsored programs in case the United States were no longer a member of UNESCO…

  1. 76 FR 30499 - To Modify the Rules of Origin for the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, and for Other...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-05-25

    ... States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (USPTPA), and on June 24 and June 25, 2007, the Parties to the...(a) of the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act (the ``USPTPA Act... Note 5 to Annex 2.3 of the USPTPA provides that originating goods of Peru shall not be subject to any...

  2. CHIPS: Monitoring Colonias along the United States-Mexico border in Texas

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Parcher, Jean W.

    2008-01-01

    Colonias, which are unincorporated border settlements in the United States, have emerged in rural areas without the governance and services normally provided by local government. The expansion of colonias in the United States-Mexico border region can be traced to the rapid growth associated with the Mexican Border Industrial Program during the 1960s. This rapid population growth created a lack of affordable housing, causing new migrants in the United States to purchase rural homestead lots through a contract-for-deed program from land developers. Because of the need to keep prices affordable and the absence of effective land-use controls, these homesteads expanded into rural subdivisions, commonly called colonias, without proper infrastructure. Colonias have been identified in the four U.S. border states, with Texas having designated the majority, which numbered over 1,400 colonias in 2001. Because the region is binationally interconnected economically, politically, and socially, the phenomenon of colonias in the United States is a transborder issue.

  3. Green Power Marketing in the United States. A Status Report (2009 Data)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Bird, Lori; Sumner, Jenny

    This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. First, aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States are presented. Next, we summarize data on utility green pricing programs offered in regulated electricity markets; green power marketing activity in competitive electricity markets, as well as green power sold to voluntary purchasers in the form of RECs; and renewable energy sold as greenhouse gas offsets in the United States. Finally, this is followed by a discussion of key market trends and issues. The data presented in this report are based primarilymore » on figures provided to NREL by utilities and independent renewable energy marketers.« less

  4. Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (2009 Data)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Bird, L.; Sumner, J.

    This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. First, aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States are presented. Next, we summarize data on utility green pricing programs offered in regulated electricity markets; green power marketing activity in competitive electricity markets, as well as green power sold to voluntary purchasers in the form of RECs; and renewable energy sold as greenhouse gas offsets in the United States. Finally, this is followed by a discussion of key market trends and issues. The data presented in this report are based primarilymore » on figures provided to NREL by utilities and independent renewable energy marketers.« less

  5. Update: cholera--Western Hemisphere, and recommendations for treatment of cholera.

    PubMed

    1991-08-16

    Epidemic cholera appeared in Peru in January 1991 and subsequently spread to Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Guatemala. Cholera can be a severe, life-threatening illness but is highly preventable and easily treated; however, few health-care practitioners in the United States have experience identifying and treating cholera. This report provides an update on cholera in the Western Hemisphere and provides recommendations on the clinical diagnosis and treatment of cholera in the United States.

  6. A patient mobility framework that travels: European and United States-Mexican comparisons.

    PubMed

    Laugesen, Miriam J; Vargas-Bustamante, Arturo

    2010-10-01

    To develop a framework that parsimoniously explains divergent patient mobility in the United States and Europe. Review of studies of patient mobility; data from the 2007 Flash Eurobarometer and the 2001 California Health Interview Survey was analyzed; and we reviewed government policies and documents in the United States and Europe. Four types of patient mobility are defined: primary, complementary, duplicative, and institutionalized. Primary exit occurs when people without comprehensive insurance travel because they cannot afford to pay for health insurance or directly finance care, as in the United States and Mexico. Second, people will exit to buy complementary services not covered, or partially covered by domestic health insurance, in both the United States and Europe. Third, in Europe, patient mobility for duplicative services provides faster or better quality treatment. Finally, governments and insurers can encourage institutionalized exit through expanded delivery options and financing. Institutionalized exit is developing in Europe, but uncoordinated and geographically limited in the United States. This parsimonious framework explains patient mobility by considering domestic health system characteristics relating to cost and quality. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  7. The development of the U.S. Health Care System and the contemporary role of the public health department.

    PubMed

    Grott, Catherine J

    2006-01-01

    The absence of national health care reform and the growing number of uninsured individuals in the United States have prompted states to develop plans to provide medical care for the low income and the indigent. Many local health departments are not only responsible for the core public health functions; but they are increasingly called upon to provide person health care services for those who cannot afford it. This article chronicles the development of the health care system in the United States and describes the contemporary role of the local public health department.

  8. Results of analysis of flight and ground observation materials for first year of first stage of ""Program of experimental research to develop methods for remote sounding of soils and vegetation on analogous sections of the United States and USSR for 1975-1980''

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1978-01-01

    A joint U.S.S.R. and United States program to develop methods for remote sounding of soils and vegetation is reported. The program is being conducted on similar sections of land in the USSR and the United States. Details of the data obtained and the type of sensing equipments employed are provided in the appendices.

  9. A state-based national network for effective wildlife conservation

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    Meretsky, Vicky J.; Maguire, Lynn A.; Davis, Frank W.; Stoms, David M.; Scott, J. Michael; Figg, Dennis; Goble, Dale D.; Griffith, Brad; Henke, Scott E.; Vaughn, Jacqueline; Yaffee, Steven L.

    2012-01-01

    State wildlife conservation programs provide a strong foundation for biodiversity conservation in the United States, building on state wildlife action plans. However, states may miss the species that are at the most risk at rangewide scales, and threats such as novel diseases and climate change increasingly act at regional and national levels. Regional collaborations among states and their partners have had impressive successes, and several federal programs now incorporate state priorities. However, regional collaborations are uneven across the country, and no national counterpart exists to support efforts at that scale. A national conservation-support program could fill this gap and could work across the conservation community to identify large-scale conservation needs and support efforts to meet them. By providing important information-sharing and capacity-building services, such a program would advance collaborative conservation among the states and their partners, thus increasing both the effectiveness and the efficiency of conservation in the United States.

  10. The First United States Microgravity Laboratory

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Powers, C. Blake (Editor); Shea, Charlotte; Mcmahan, Tracy; Accardi, Denise; Mikatarian, Jeff

    1991-01-01

    The United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) is one part of a science and technology program that will open NASA's next great era of discovery and establish the United States' leadership in space. A key component in the preparation for this new age of exploration, the USML-1 will fly in orbit for extended periods, providing greater opportunities for research in materials science, fluid dynamics, biotechnology, and combustion science. The major components of the USML-1 are the Crystal Growth Furnace, the Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment (STDCE) Apparatus, and the Drop Physics Module. Other components of USML-1 include Astroculture, Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus, Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project, Protein Crystal Growth, Space Acceleration Measurement System, Solid Surface Combustion Experiment, Zeolite Crystal Growth and Spacelab Glovebox provided by the European Space Agency.

  11. Evaluation of the Level of Food Safety Protection Provided by the U.S. Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Its Associated Cooperative Grade "A" Milk Safety Program.

    PubMed

    Ma, Yinqing; Klontz, Karl C; DiNovi, Michael J; Edwards, Alison J; Hennes, Robert F

    2015-08-01

    The present study was conducted to evaluate the level of food safety protection provided to consumers of Grade "A" milk and milk products in the United States by the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) Grade "A" Milk Safety Program through its implementation and enforcement of the U.S. Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO). The number of reported illnesses associated with Grade "A" milk and milk products in the United States was obtained from state and federal agencies and published articles. The consumption of Grade "A" milk and milk products in the United States was estimated from food consumption survey data for individuals. The level of food safety protection was measured quantitatively using the metric of annual illness attack rate. During a 15-year period (1999 through 2013), the estimated annual illness attack rate was 0.41 reported illnesses per 1 billion exposures (estimated using person-day intake data) or 0.52 reported illnesses per 1 billion lb (454 million kg) of Grade "A" milk and milk products consumed. Food safety protection provided to consumers of Grade "A" milk and milk products by the NCIMS through its implementation and enforcement of the PMO is important given the common consumption of Grade "A" milk and milk products in the United States.

  12. Enrollment Management in Academic Units

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    DeBiaso, Nick

    2012-01-01

    This study provides an understanding of how administrative leaders make decisions regarding enrollment management within academic units at a major research university in the southwestern United States. Key enrollment management functions of recruiting, admissions, marketing, orientation, financial aid/scholarships, academic advising, student…

  13. Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in National Parks: Values for the Conterminous United States

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    Richardson, Leslie A.; Huber, Christopher; Zhu, Zhi-Liang; Koontz, Lynne

    2015-01-01

    Lands managed by the National Park Service (NPS) provide a wide range of beneficial services to the American public. This study quantifies the ecosystem service value of carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems within NPS units in the conterminous United States for which data were available. Combining annual net carbon balance data with spatially explicit NPS land unit boundaries and social cost of carbon estimates, this study calculates the net metric tons of carbon dioxide sequestered annually by park unit under baseline conditions, as well as the associated economic value to society. Results show that, in aggregate, NPS lands in the conterminous United States are a net carbon sink, sequestering more than 14.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. The associated societal value of this service is estimated at approximately $582.5 million per year. While this analysis provides a broad overview of the annual value of carbon sequestration on NPS lands averaged over a five year baseline period, it should be noted that carbon fluxes fluctuate from year to year, and there can be considerable variation in net carbon balance and its associated value within a given park unit. Future research could look in-depth at the spatial heterogeneity of carbon flux within specific NPS land units.

  14. Geography of community health information organization activity in the United States: Implications for the effectiveness of health information exchange.

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    Vest, Joshua R

    The United States has invested nearly a billion dollars in creating community health information organizations (HIOs) to foster health information exchange. Community HIOs provide exchange services to health care organizations within a distinct geographic area. While geography is a key organizing principle for community HIOs, it is unclear if geography is an effective method for organization or what challenges are created by a geography-based approach to health information exchange. This study describes the extent of reported community HIO coverage in the United States and explores the practical and policy implications of overlaps and gaps in HIO service areas. Furthermore, because self-reported service areas may not accurately reflect the true extent of HIOs activities, this study maps the actual markets for health services included in each HIO. An inventory of operational community HIOs that included self-reported geographic markets and participating organizations was face-validated using a crowd-sourcing approach. Aggregation of the participating hospitals' individual health care markets provided the total geographic market served by each community HIO. Mapping and overlay analyses using geographic information system methods described the extent of community HIO activity in the United States. Evidence suggests that community HIOs may be inefficiently distributed. Parts of the United States have multiple, overlapping HIOs, while others do not have any providing health information exchange services. In markets served by multiple community HIOs, 45% of hospitals were participants of only one HIO. The current geography of community HIO activity does not provide comprehensive patient information to providers, nor community-wide information for public health agencies. The discord between the self-reported and market geography of community HIOs raises concerns about the potential effectiveness of health information exchange, illustrates the limitations of geography as an organizing principle, and indicates operational challenges facing those leading and working with community HIOs.

  15. Global Health Engagement and The Department of Defense as a Vehicle for Security and Sustainable Global Health.

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    Moten, Asad; Schafer, Daniel; Burkett, Edwin K

    2018-01-01

    The Unites States Department of Defense (DoD) is viewed by many in the general public as a monolithic government entity whose primary purpose is to coordinate this country's ability to make war and maintain a military presence around the world. However, the DoD is in fact a multidimensional organization whose global impact is as expansive as it is varying and is responsible for far-reaching global health interventions. The United States has worked toward providing long-term care among host nation populations by providing training in several areas related to medicine, with positive results. These efforts can be built upon with substantial positive effects. Building health infrastructure and capacity around the world is essential. The DoD is the most generously funded agency in the world, and the resources at its disposal provide the opportunity to make great gains in the long term in terms of both health and security worldwide. With efficient and careful use of DoD resources, and partnerships with key non-governmental organizations with specialized knowledge and great passion, partnerships can be forged with communities around the world to ensure that public health is achieved in even the most underserved communities. A move toward creating sustainable health systems with long-term goals and measurable outcomes is an essential complement to the already successful disaster and emergency relief that the United States military already provides. By ensuring that communities around the world are both provided with access to the sustainable health care they need and that emergency situations can be responded to in an efficient way, the United States can serve its duty as a leader in sharing expertise and resources for the betterment and security of all humankind. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2017. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

  16. Characterization of Intermediate Oxidation States in CO2 Activation

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    Dodson, Leah G.; Thompson, Michael C.; Weber, J. Mathias

    2018-04-01

    Redox chemistry during the activation of carbon dioxide involves changing the charge state in a CO2 molecular unit. However, such changes are usually not well described by integer formal charges, and one can think of COO functional units as being in intermediate oxidation states. In this article, we discuss the properties of CO2 and CO2-based functional units in various charge states. Besides covering isolated CO2 and its ions, we describe the CO2-based ionic species formate, oxalate, and carbonate. Finally, we provide an overview of CO2-based functional groups and ligands in clusters and metal-organic complexes.

  17. Ecosystem services provided by pacific NW Estuaries: State of knowledge

    EPA Science Inventory

    Coastal regions in the United States are rapidly developing areas, with increasing urbanization and growing populations. Estuarine and nearshore coastal marine waters provide valuable ecosystem services to resident and transient human communities. In the Pacific Northwest (PNW)...

  18. The National Map - Elevation

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    Gesch, Dean; Evans, Gayla; Mauck, James; Hutchinson, John; Carswell, William J.

    2009-01-01

    The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is the primary elevation data product produced and distributed by the USGS. The NED provides seamless raster elevation data of the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the island territories. The NED is derived from diverse source data sets that are processed to a specification with a consistent resolution, coordinate system, elevation units, and horizontal and vertical datums. The NED is the logical result of the maturation of the long-standing USGS elevation program, which for many years concentrated on production of topographic map quadrangle-based digital elevation models. The NED serves as the elevation layer of The National Map, and provides basic elevation information for earth science studies and mapping applications in the United States. The NED is a multi-resolution dataset that is updated bimonthly to integrate newly available, improved elevation source data. NED data are available nationally at grid spacings of 1 arc-second (approximately 30 meters) for the conterminous United States, and at 1/3 and 1/9 arc-seconds (approximately 10 and 3 meters, respectively) for parts of the United States. Most of the NED for Alaska is available at 2-arc-second (about 60 meters) grid spacing, where only lower resolution source data exist. Part of Alaska is available at the 1/3-arc-second resolution, and plans are in development for a significant upgrade in elevation data coverage of the State over the next 5 years. Specifications for the NED include the following: *Coordinate system: Geographic (decimal degrees of latitude and longitude), *Horizontal datum: North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), *Vertical datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) over the conterminous United States and varies in other areas, and *Elevation units: Decimal meters.

  19. Instructional Strategies That Promote Cultural Competence in Nutrition and Dietetics Education

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    Adkins, Cecile Marie

    2017-01-01

    Changing demographics in the United States to a minority-majority culture require health care professionals who are culturally competent to provide appropriate care to patients. In a university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, a gap existed between student education and the culturally competent professional practice of entry-level…

  20. Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the Southwestern United States. Vol. 1

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    Deborah M. Finch

    2004-01-01

    This report is volume 1 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broadscale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an...

  1. Distance Higher Education Experiences of Arab Gulf Students in the United States: A Cultural Perspective

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    Al-Harthi, Aisha S.

    2005-01-01

    This article reports on a phenomenological research study that was undertaken to provide cultural understanding about the nature of distance education experiences of Arab graduate students pursuing degree programs in the United States. As a theoretical framework, Hofstede's international difference dimensions and Hall's concept of low and high…

  2. Educational Attainment in the United States: 2003. Population Characteristics

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    Stoops, Nicole

    2004-01-01

    The population in the United States is becoming more educated, but significant differences in educational attainment remain with regard to age, sex, race, and origin. Nevertheless, the educational attainment of young adults (25 to 29 years), which provides a glimpse of our country's future, indicates dramatic improvement by groups who have…

  3. 20 CFR 655.1305 - Assurances and obligations of H-2A employers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ..., including employment-related health and safety laws; (2) Provide for or secure housing for those workers who... LABOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Labor Certification Process for Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States (H-2A Workers) § 655.1305 Assurances and obligations...

  4. 77 FR 39895 - New Analytic Methods and Sampling Procedures for the United States National Residue Program for...

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    2012-07-06

    ... Analytic Methods and Sampling Procedures for the United States National Residue Program for Meat, Poultry... implementing several multi-residue methods for analyzing samples of meat, poultry, and egg products for animal.... These modern, high-efficiency methods will conserve resources and provide useful and reliable results...

  5. Comparable Worth: Toward Theory and Practice in the United States.

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    Feldberg, Roslyn L.

    1984-01-01

    Argues that the concept of comparable worth provides a viable way out of the growing poverty of women. Reviews the history of low wages for women in the United States, discusses anomalies in the dominant economic-gender system exposed by comparable worth, and addresses the social and political implications of comparable worth. (KH)

  6. 26 CFR 1.819-2 - Foreign life insurance companies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 8 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Foreign life insurance companies. 1.819-2... companies. (a) Carrying on United States insurance business. Section 819(a) provides that a foreign life insurance company carrying on a life insurance business within the United States, if with respect to its...

  7. 26 CFR 1.819-2 - Foreign life insurance companies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 8 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Foreign life insurance companies. 1.819-2... companies. (a) Carrying on United States insurance business. Section 819(a) provides that a foreign life insurance company carrying on a life insurance business within the United States, if with respect to its...

  8. 26 CFR 1.819-2 - Foreign life insurance companies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 26 Internal Revenue 8 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Foreign life insurance companies. 1.819-2... companies. (a) Carrying on United States insurance business. Section 819(a) provides that a foreign life insurance company carrying on a life insurance business within the United States, if with respect to its...

  9. Nineteenth Strategy for Peace. Conference Report. October 5-8, 1978.

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    Tsipis, Kosta; And Others

    The document presents six Strategy for Peace Conference reports prepared by 94 participants who are leaders in government and the professions throughout the United States. Opening remarks by C. Maxwell Stanley, conference chairman, evaluate accomplishments of the United States in 1977 with regard to foreign policy and provide a context for the…

  10. 46 CFR 550.203 - Failure to provide information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... shall be liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each day... information ordered produced under § 550.201, make appropriate findings of fact and inferences, including the inference that conditions unfavorable to shipping in the foreign trade of the United States do exist. [58 FR...

  11. 46 CFR 550.203 - Failure to provide information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... shall be liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each day... information ordered produced under § 550.201, make appropriate findings of fact and inferences, including the inference that conditions unfavorable to shipping in the foreign trade of the United States do exist. [58 FR...

  12. A Multiple-Case Study Examining Promoters and Inhibitors of Teacher Transformational Leadership

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    Dininno, Margaret A.

    2012-01-01

    Business leaders, United States citizens, and American politicians continue to seek school reform as a means for providing the United States with a workforce consisting of employees who possess 21st century skills. The development of teacher transformational leadership and the use of distributed leadership practices are needed to create public…

  13. Convergence of agricultural intensification and climate change in the midwestern United States: Implications for soil and water conservation

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    Society faces substantial challenges to expand food production while adapting to climatic changes and ensuring ecosystem services are maintained. A convergence of these issues is occurring in the Midwestern United States, i.e., the ‘cornbelt’ region that provides substantial grain supplies to world ...

  14. 75 FR 24700 - Economic Impact Policy

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    2010-05-05

    ... EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Economic Impact Policy This notice is to inform the public that the Export-Import Bank of the United States has received an application to provide short-term... transaction by e-mail to economic[email protected] or by mail to 811 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 1238, Washington...

  15. The Role of International Medical Graduate Psychiatrists in the United States Healthcare System

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    Boulet, John Robin; Cassimatis, Emmanuel G.; Opalek, Amy

    2012-01-01

    Objective: International medical graduates (IMGs) make up a substantial proportion of the United States physician workforce, including psychiatrists in practice. The purpose of this study was to describe, based on current data, the characteristics and qualities of IMG psychiatrists who provide patient care in the US. Method: Physician data from…

  16. 76 FR 31575 - United States Standards for Grades of Frozen Onions

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    2011-06-01

    ... processors of frozen onions in the United States. The petition provided information on style, sample size... change in the style designations for minced style, and a correction to the text. The members agreed with the proposed section concerning requirements for Styles, Type I, Whole onions and Type II, Pearl...

  17. Pulse Check: National Trends in Drug Abuse.

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    Hunt, Dana

    This Pulse Check is a report of national trends in illicit drug abuse and drug markets in the United States. The report draws on conversations with ethnographers and epidemiologists working in the drug field, law enforcement agents, and drug treatment providers across the United States. Information from each of these sources is summarized in…

  18. The Invisible University; Postdoctoral Education in the United States.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC.

    The purpose of this study was to provide some basic facts about postdoctoral study in the United States. The report begins with a review of the history of postdoctoral education since its beginning more than 50 years ago. Succeeding chapters consider in detail the composition and distribution of the postdoctoral population; the significance of…

  19. Crop residues of the contiguous United States: Balancing feedstock and soil needs with conservation tillage, cover crops, and biochar

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    Crop residues are among the cellulosic feedstocks expected to provide renewable energy. The availability of crop species and residue availability varies across the United States. Estimates of harvestable residues must consider all the residues produced during the entire rotation. Inclusion of fallow...

  20. Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States (Final Report)

    EPA Science Inventory

    This final report provides a review and synthesis of available scientific information concerning the relationship between hydraulic fracturing activities and drinking water resources in the United States.

    The report is organized around activities in the hydraulic...

  1. Development of a biorefinery optimized biofuel supply curve for the western United States

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    Nathan Parker; Peter Tittmann; Quinn Hart; Richard Nelson; Ken Skog; Anneliese Schmidt; Edward Gray; Bryan Jenkins

    2010-01-01

    A resource assessment and biorefinery siting optimization model was developed and implemented to assess potential biofuel supply across the Western United States from agricultural, forest, urban, and energy crop biomass. Spatial information including feedstock resources, existing and potential refinery locations and a transportation network model is provided to a mixed...

  2. 76 FR 77483 - Nationwide Change in Postal Delivery Service Standards

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    2011-12-13

    ... whether certain changes in the nature of postal services conform to the applicable polices of title 39.\\1... D. Bradley on behalf of the United States Postal Service (USPS-T-10). Based upon quantitative and qualitative market research provided in Direct Testimony of Rebecca Elmore-Yalch on bhalf of the United States...

  3. Fate of Hexazinone and Picloram in Southern United States Forest Watersheds

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    D.G. Neary; P.B. Bush; J.L. Michael

    1986-01-01

    Herbicides are being used more frequently in the intensively managed forest ecosystems of the southeastern United States. Host of this increased use occurs during site preparation prior to replanting cutover or converted stands. Herbicides provide a cost effective tool for controlling herbaceous and woody weed competition which adversely affects pine establishment and...

  4. The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) - Naval Oceanography Portal

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    section Advanced Search... Sections Home Time Earth Orientation Astronomy Meteorology Oceanography Ice You Orientation Precise Time James M. Gilliss Library News, Tours & Events About Us Info The United States positions and motion of celestial bodies, motions of the Earth, and precise time. USNO provides tailored

  5. National Agricultural Library | United States Department of Agriculture

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    Skip to main content Home National Agricultural Library United States Department of Agriculture Ag is a data access system maintained by the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural websites. The Ag Data Commons provides access to a wide variety of open data relevant to agricultural

  6. 48 CFR 47.403-2 - Air transport agreements between the United States and foreign governments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Air transport agreements....-Flag Carriers 47.403-2 Air transport agreements between the United States and foreign governments... attend, the use of a foreign-flag air carrier that provides transportation under an air transport...

  7. 78 FR 69518 - North American Free Trade Agreement; Invitation for Applications for Inclusion on the Chapter 19...

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    2013-11-19

    ... Inclusion on the Chapter 19 Roster AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative. ACTION..., if applicable, clients of the roster member's firm. Criteria for Eligibility for Inclusion on Chapter...)) (``Section 402'') provides that selections by the United States of individuals for inclusion on the Chapter...

  8. 19 CFR 10.909 - Certification for goods exported to Peru.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ...; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. United States-Peru... from the United States to Peru must provide a copy of the certification (or such other medium or format... Peru and who has reason to believe that the certification contains or is based on incorrect information...

  9. 19 CFR 10.909 - Certification for goods exported to Peru.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ...; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. United States-Peru... from the United States to Peru must provide a copy of the certification (or such other medium or format... Peru and who has reason to believe that the certification contains or is based on incorrect information...

  10. 19 CFR 10.909 - Certification for goods exported to Peru.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ...; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. United States-Peru... from the United States to Peru must provide a copy of the certification (or such other medium or format... Peru and who has reason to believe that the certification contains or is based on incorrect information...

  11. Building Customized University-to-Business (U2B) Partnerships

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    Irvine, George; Verma, Lisa

    2013-01-01

    Continuing education (CE) units throughout the United States have successfully built University-to-Business (U2B) partnerships to provide greater value to their community partners and to increase revenue for the university. Our experience in building U2B partnerships and feedback from our partners--businesses, corporations, state agencies, and…

  12. 30 CFR 256.11 - Helium.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... the manner required by the United States to such plants or reduction works as the United States may provide. (c) The extraction of helium shall not cause a reduction in the value of the lessee's gas or any... necessary for the extraction of helium. The extraction of helium shall not cause substantial delays in the...

  13. 30 CFR 256.11 - Helium.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    .... Delivery shall be made in the manner required by the United States to such plants or reduction works as the United States may provide. (c) The extraction of helium shall not cause a reduction in the value of the... and other equipment necessary for the extraction of helium. The extraction of helium shall not cause...

  14. Agricultural Biology, Science (Experimental): 5314.09.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Basnett, Fred D.

    This unit of instruction was designed as a laboratory study of soils, plants, crop improvements and pesticides, and gives consideration to fish farming, tropical fish, and careers in agriculture. The booklet lists the relevant state-adopted texts and states the performance objectives for the unit. It provides an outline of the course content and…

  15. The Analysis of Teaching Effectiveness Evaluation Programs in Geography Departments in the United States

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    Cooper, Brian J.

    2012-01-01

    Teaching evaluation systems are an important part of the total evaluation of faculty in geography departments in the United States. As demands for accountability for teaching effectiveness continue to emerge from many groups, it has become increasingly important for geography departments to develop systems that not only provide teaching…

  16. A model for estimating windbreak carbon within COMET-Farm™

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    Justin ​Ziegler; Mark Easter; Amy Swan; James Brandle; William Ballesteros; Grant Domke; Adam Chambers; Marlen Eve; Keith Paustian

    2016-01-01

    Agroforestry as a land management practice presents a method for partially offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural land. Of all agroforestry practices in the United States, windbreaks in particular are used throughout the United States providing a useful starting point for deriving a modelling systemwhich could quantify the amount of carbon sequestered on...

  17. Disability in the United States: A Compendium of Data on Prevalence and Programs.

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    Riley, Lawrence E., Ed.; Nagi, Saad Z., Ed.

    The data are intended to offer a comprehensive picture of disability and rehabilitation in the United States. Provided are a selection of existing statistics on the prevalence and distributions of disability and the programs, organizations, and occupations concerned with the disabled and their rehabilitation. Also included is an account of…

  18. Centralized Negotiations of Salaries of Professional Staff in Education.

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    Peterson, LeRoy J.

    This document reports on a study conducted in six European countries -- Denmark, England, France, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden -- and suggests ways to implement Statewide negotiations in the United States. The author first provides an overview of negotiations in the United States and then gives a country-by-country analysis of salary negotiations.…

  19. Educational Exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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    Altenberger, Alicja

    1989-01-01

    Following a brief introductory discussion concerning organizations, activities, and agreements that promote exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union, this document provides: (1) an annotated bibliography of 18 ERIC documents and books on cultural, scientific, and educational exchanges between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; and (2) a…

  20. Differences and Similarities between School Principals in Costa Rica and the United States

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    Ballestero, Victor; Wright, Sam

    2008-01-01

    The need for effective school leadership is a global concern. This paper provides a comparison of the school principal in Costa Rica to the United States. Differences and similarities are described for principals in both nations. Major differences for principals in Costa Rica include administrative salaries, selection procedures, induction, no…

  1. Exploring Educators' Perceptions of Internet Technology for Classroom Education in Northern Virginia Schools

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    Stamey, Sherrill Dean, II.

    2011-01-01

    The pervasiveness of Internet technology in the educational environment of the United States has altered the way educators present information in the classroom. The schools of Northern Virginia, located in several of the financially wealthiest suburbs of the United States, provide a technologically advanced school system to explore Internet…

  2. 7 CFR 28.601 - Official cotton standards for fiber fineness and maturity.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Cotton Standards of the United States for Fiber Fineness and Maturity § 28.601 Official cotton standards for fiber fineness and maturity. The official cotton standards of the United States for fiber fineness and maturity shall be the measure of such qualities, in combination, provided by air flow instrument...

  3. Emotional Intelligence: A Key to Improving Federal Chief Information Officer Management

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    Borkowski, Tammy M.

    2012-01-01

    The United States Government relies on information technology to provide services to its citizens, spending more than $600 billion on its products and services in the last decade. Given the current fiscal climate, the Executive Branch of the United States Government has a renewed focus on information technology (IT) innovation, requiring federal…

  4. 75 FR 76664 - Commerce Control List: Revising Descriptions of Items and Foreign Availability

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    2010-12-09

    ... intelligence advantage; and the availability of the item outside certain groups of countries. DATES: Comments... an item provides the United States with a military or intelligence advantage and (b) the availability... military or intelligence advantage to the United States. Tier 2 items are almost exclusively available from...

  5. Forest Resources of the United States, 1997, METRIC UNITS.

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    W. Brad Smith; John S. Vissage; Davie R. Darr; Raymond M. Sheffield

    2002-01-01

    Forest resource statistics from the 1987 Forest Resources Planning Act (RPA) Asessment were updated to 1997 to provide current information on the Nation's forests. Resource tables present estimates in metric measure of forest area, volume, mortality, growth, removals, and timber products output in various ways, such as by ownership, region, or State.

  6. 12 CFR 211.8 - Investments and activities abroad.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... permitted to an Edge corporation in the United States; provided that an investor may: (A) Retain portfolio... indirectly in business in the United States that is not permitted to an Edge corporation; or (2) After notice... appropriate to prevent adverse effects, including prohibiting loans from the bank to the company in which the...

  7. 12 CFR 211.8 - Investments and activities abroad.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... permitted to an Edge corporation in the United States; provided that an investor may: (A) Retain portfolio... indirectly in business in the United States that is not permitted to an Edge corporation; or (2) After notice... appropriate to prevent adverse effects, including prohibiting loans from the bank to the company in which the...

  8. 12 CFR 211.8 - Investments and activities abroad.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... permitted to an Edge corporation in the United States; provided that an investor may: (A) Retain portfolio... indirectly in business in the United States that is not permitted to an Edge corporation; or (2) After notice... appropriate to prevent adverse effects, including prohibiting loans from the bank to the company in which the...

  9. Guide to Graduate Departments of Geography in the United States and Canada 1978-1979.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC.

    This guide to graduate departments of geography provides a comprehensive listing of information about requirements, course offerings, financial aid, and personnel for approximately 150 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is intended to assist college and university departments of geography in answering inquiries received…

  10. 8 CFR 215.8 - Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 8 Aliens and Nationality 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Requirements for biometric identifiers from... Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States. (a)(1) The Secretary of... of entry, to provide fingerprints, photograph(s) or other specified biometric identifiers...

  11. 8 CFR 215.8 - Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 8 Aliens and Nationality 1 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Requirements for biometric identifiers from... Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States. (a)(1) The Secretary of... of entry, to provide fingerprints, photograph(s) or other specified biometric identifiers...

  12. 8 CFR 215.8 - Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 8 Aliens and Nationality 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Requirements for biometric identifiers from... Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States. (a)(1) The Secretary of... of entry, to provide fingerprints, photograph(s) or other specified biometric identifiers...

  13. 8 CFR 215.8 - Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 8 Aliens and Nationality 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Requirements for biometric identifiers from... Requirements for biometric identifiers from aliens on departure from the United States. (a)(1) The Secretary of... of entry, to provide fingerprints, photograph(s) or other specified biometric identifiers...

  14. Visibility of Diversity within Association of Research Libraries Websites

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    Mestre, Lori S.

    2011-01-01

    Libraries in the United States have worked towards developing more inclusive environments and programs. This inclusiveness should also extend to the online library presence. This article provides results of a web page scan of all Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in the United States to document the visibility of diversity on their pages. A…

  15. Renewables-Friendly Grid Development Strategies. Experience in the United States, Potential Lessons for China

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Hurlbut, David; Zhou, Ella; Porter, Kevin

    2015-10-01

    This report aims to help China's reform effort by providing a concise summary of experience in the United States with "renewables-friendly"" grid management, focusing on experiences that might be applicable to China. It focuses on utility-scale renewables and sets aside issues related to distributed generation.

  16. Lessons Learned from Two Neighbors: How Educators Teach of United States Policies

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    Cashman, Timothy G.

    2013-01-01

    This study provides an analysis of data collected from Chihuahua, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada, educators on how United States (U. S.) policies are taught and discussed in their classrooms. Teachers and administrators were interviewed with regard to their respective curricula and classroom discussions. The researcher sought to gain insight on how…

  17. 7 CFR 1403.8 - Withholding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... payable to a debtor by CCC to ensure that the interests of CCC and the United States will be protected as provided in this section. (b) A payment may be withheld to protect the interests of CCC or the United States only if CCC determines that: (1) There has been a serious breach of contract or violation of...

  18. 7 CFR 1403.8 - Withholding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... payable to a debtor by CCC to ensure that the interests of CCC and the United States will be protected as provided in this section. (b) A payment may be withheld to protect the interests of CCC or the United States only if CCC determines that: (1) There has been a serious breach of contract or violation of...

  19. Development and evolution of The Knowledge Hub for Pathology and related electronic resources.

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    Hardwick, David F; Sinard, John; Silva, Fred

    2011-06-01

    The Knowledge Hub for Pathology was created to provide authenticated and validated knowledge for United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology members and pathologists worldwide with access to the Web. Using the material presented at the annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology with existing selection and review procedures ensured that these criteria were met without added costly procedures. Further submissions for courses and research papers are provided in electronic format and funded by universities and hospitals for their creation; thus, the principal costs borne by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology are Web site-posting costs. Use has escalated rapidly from 2 million hits in 2002 to 51 million in 2009 with use by 35,000 pathologists from now a total of 180 countries. This true "freemium" model is a successful process as are more traditional continuing professional development course structures such as Anatomic Pathology Electronic Case Series, a "premium" model for learning electronically also sponsored by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  20. Clinical Effects of Cigarette Smoking: Epidemiologic Impact and Review of Pharmacotherapy Options

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    Onor, IfeanyiChukwu O.; Stirling, Daniel L.; Williams, Shandrika R.; Bediako, Daniel; Borghol, Amne; Harris, Martha B.; Darensburg, Tiernisha B.; Clay, Sharde D.; Okpechi, Samuel C.; Sarpong, Daniel F.

    2017-01-01

    Cigarette smoking—a crucial modifiable risk factor for organ system diseases and cancer—remains prevalent in the United States and globally. In this literature review, we aim to summarize the epidemiology of cigarette smoking and tobacco use in the United States, pharmacology of nicotine—the active constituent of tobacco, and health consequence of cigarette smoking. This article also reviews behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for cigarette smokers and provides cost estimates for approved pharmacologic interventions in the United States. A literature search was conducted on Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, ClinicalKey, and PubMed databases using the following headings in combination or separately: cigarette smoking, tobacco smoking, epidemiology in the United States, health consequences of cigarette smoking, pharmacologic therapy for cigarette smoking, and non-pharmacologic therapy for cigarette smoking. This review found that efficacious non-pharmacologic interventions and pharmacologic therapy are available for cessation of cigarette smoking. Given the availability of efficacious interventions for cigarette smoking cessation, concerted efforts should be made by healthcare providers and public health professionals to promote smoking cessation as a valuable approach for reducing non-smokers’ exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. PMID:28956852

  1. Women in Combat: The Operational Impact of Meeting A National Security Necessity

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-02-11

    of physical strength and emotional stamina and impai.red male -bonding: United States public opinion; and the perceptions of America’s allies and...on the main thesis p6ints of demographics and noncombatants in the changing scenario of combat, and provides the arguments on both sides of the three...9 Unit Cohesion and Male -Bonding .................. 11 United States Public Opinion ......................... 12 Perceptions or Friend and Foe

  2. PREFACE: International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2012)

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    Ernst, Michael; Düllmann, Dirk; Rind, Ofer; Wong, Tony

    2012-12-01

    The International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) was held at New York University on 21- 25 May 2012. CHEP is a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the High Energy and Nuclear Physics community and related scientific and technical fields. The CHEP conference provides a forum to exchange information on computing progress and needs for the community, and to review recent, ongoing and future activities. CHEP conferences are held at roughly 18-month intervals, alternating between Europe, Asia, the Americas and other parts of the world. Recent CHEP conferences have been held in Taipei, Taiwan (2010); Prague, Czech Republic (2009); Victoria, Canada (2007); Mumbai, India (2006); Interlaken, Switzerland (2004); San Diego, United States (2003); Beijing, China (2001); Padova, Italy (2000). CHEP 2012 was organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and co-sponsored by New York University. The organizational structure for CHEP consists of an International Advisory Committee (IAC) which sets the overall themes of the conference, a Program Organizing Committee (POC) that oversees the program content, and a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) that is responsible for local arrangements (lodging, transportation and social events) and conference logistics (registration, program scheduling, conference site selection and conference proceedings). There were over 500 attendees with a program that included plenary sessions of invited speakers, a number of parallel sessions comprising around 125 oral and 425 poster presentations and industrial exhibitions. We thank all the presenters for the excellent scientific content of their contributions to the conference. Conference tracks covered topics on Online Computing, Event Processing, Distributed Processing and Analysis on Grids and Clouds, Computer Facilities, Production Grids and Networking, Software Engineering, Data Stores and Databases and Collaborative Tools. We would like to thank Brookhaven Science Associates, New York University, Blue Nest Events, the International Advisory Committee, the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee members for all their support and assistance. We also would like to acknowledge the support provided by the following sponsors: ACEOLE, Data Direct Networks, Dell, the European Middleware Initiative and Nexsan. Special thanks to the Program Committee members for their careful choice of conference contributions and enormous effort in reviewing and editing the conference proceedings. The next CHEP conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 14-18 October 2013. Conference Chair Michael Ernst (BNL) Program Committee Daniele Bonacorsi, University of Bologna, Italy Simone Campana, CERN, Switzerland Philippe Canal, Fermilab, United States Sylvain Chapeland, CERN, Switzerland Dirk Düllmann, CERN, Switzerland Johannes Elmsheuser, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Maria Girone, CERN, Switzerland Steven Goldfarb, University of Michigan, United States Oliver Gutsche, Fermilab, United States Benedikt Hegner, CERN, Switzerland Andreas Heiss, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Peter Hristov, CERN, Switzerland Tony Johnson, SLAC, United States David Lange, LLNL, United States Adam Lyon, Fermilab, United States Remigius Mommsen, Fermilab, United States Axel Naumann, CERN, Switzerland Niko Neufeld, CERN, Switzerland Rolf Seuster, TRIUMF, Canada Local Organizing Committee Maureen Anderson, John De Stefano, Mariette Faulkner, Ognian Novakov, Ofer Rind, Tony Wong (BNL) Kyle Cranmer (NYU) International Advisory Committee Mohammad Al-Turany, GSI, Germany Lothar Bauerdick, Fermilab, United States Ian Bird, CERN, Switzerland Dominique Boutigny, IN2P3, France Federico Carminati, CERN, Switzerland Marco Cattaneo, CERN, Switzerland Gang Chen, Institute of High Energy Physics, China Peter Clarke, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Günter Duckeck, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Richard Dubois, SLAC, United States Michael Ernst, BNL, United States Ian Fisk, Fermilab, United States Gonzalo Merino, PIC, Spain John Gordon, STFC-RAL, United Kingdom Volker Gülzow, DESY, Germany Frederic Hemmer, CERN, Switzerland Viatcheslav Ilyin, Moscow State University, Russia Nobuhiko Katayama, KEK, Japan Alexei Klimentov, BNL, United States Simon C. Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Milos Lokajícek, FZU Prague, Czech Republic David Malon, ANL, United States Pere Mato Vila, CERN, Switzerland Mauro Morandin, INFN CNAF, Italy Harvey Newman, Caltech, United States Farid Ould-Saada, University of Oslo, Norway Ruth Pordes, Fermilab, United States Hiroshi Sakamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan Alberto Santoro, UERJ, Brazil Jim Shank, Boston University, United States Dongchul Son, Kyungpook National University, South Korea Reda Tafirout, TRIUMF, Canada Stephen Wolbers, Fermilab, United States Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD, United States

  3. American Library Directory[TM], 2002-2003. Vol. 1: Libraries in the United States [and] Vol. 2: Libraries in Canada, Library Networks, Consortia & Schools, Organization Index, Personnel Index. 55th Edition.

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    2002

    The "American Library Directory[TM] 2002-2003," in two volumes, provides access to comparative data, additional resources, and sales prospects for the United States and Canadian library communities. Containing full profiles on public, academic, government, and special libraries, the totally updated 55th edition is organized by state and…

  4. Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2005-06. Statistical Analysis Report. NCES 2008-339

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    Garofano, Anthony; Sable, Jennifer

    2008-01-01

    This report describes the characteristics of the 100 largest public elementary and secondary school districts in the United States and its jurisdictions. These districts are defined as the 100 largest according to the size of their student population. The information in this report was provided by state education agency officials to the National…

  5. Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2008-09. Statistical Analysis Report. NCES 2011-301

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    Sable, Jennifer; Plotts, Chris; Mitchell, Lindsey

    2010-01-01

    This report describes the characteristics of the 100 largest public elementary and secondary school districts in the United States and its jurisdictions. These districts are defined as the 100 largest according to the size of their student population. The information in this report was provided by state education agency officials to the National…

  6. Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2007-08. Statistical Analysis Report. NCES 2010-349

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Plotts, Chris; Sable, Jennifer

    2010-01-01

    This report describes the characteristics of the 100 largest public elementary and secondary school districts in the United States and its jurisdictions. These districts are defined as the 100 largest according to the size of their student population. The information in this report was provided by state education agency officials to the National…

  7. Sex trafficking of adolescents and young adults in the United States: healthcare provider's role.

    PubMed

    Chaffee, Tonya; English, Abigail

    2015-10-01

    Sex trafficking of adolescents and young adults is both a human rights violation and a public health problem, globally and in the United States. Healthcare providers, including obstetricians and gynecologists, interact with victims, often while they remain under their traffickers' control, but because of providers' lack of training in identification and response many victims go unrecognized and unaided. This review provides an overview of the definitions of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, contributing factors, health consequences, recruitment of victims, and identification and response by healthcare providers. The literature on definitions and risk factors associated with sex trafficking is growing; however, literature on healthcare providers' role in addressing sex trafficking remains more limited. It is increasingly recognized that healthcare providers have an important role in victim identification and response and as advocates, collaborating with national, regional, and local agencies to increase awareness of sex trafficking as a public health problem and to address the needs of adolescent and young adult victims and survivors globally and in the United States. As professionals who interact with adolescent and young adult victims of sex trafficking, healthcare providers have an important role: in collaboration with other professionals and agencies they can help to identify, respond to, extricate, protect, and advocate for victims and survivors.

  8. Comparison of Plastic Surgery Residency Training in United States and China.

    PubMed

    Zheng, Jianmin; Zhang, Boheng; Yin, Yiqing; Fang, Taolin; Wei, Ning; Lineaweaver, William C; Zhang, Feng

    2015-12-01

    Residency training is internationally recognized as the only way for the physicians to be qualified to practice independently. China has instituted a new residency training program for the specialty of plastic surgery. Meanwhile, plastic surgery residency training programs in the United States are presently in a transition because of restricted work hours. The purpose of this study is to compare the current characteristics of plastic surgery residency training in 2 countries. Flow path, structure, curriculum, operative experience, research, and evaluation of training in 2 countries were measured. The number of required cases was compared quantitatively whereas other aspects were compared qualitatively. Plastic surgery residency training programs in 2 countries differ regarding specific characteristics. Requirements to become a plastic surgery resident in the United States are more rigorous. Ownership structure of the regulatory agency for residency training in 2 countries is diverse. Training duration in the United States is more flexible. Clinical and research training is more practical and the method of evaluation of residency training is more reasonable in the United States. The job opportunities after residency differ substantially between 2 countries. Not every resident has a chance to be an independent surgeon and would require much more training time in China than it does in the United States. Plastic surgery residency training programs in the United States and China have their unique characteristics. The training programs in the United States are more standardized. Both the United States and China may complement each other to create training programs that will ultimately provide high-quality care for all people.

  9. "Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Derive Numeric Criteria in Coastal and Inland Waters of the United States"

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Crawford, T. N.; Schaeffer, B. A.

    2016-12-01

    Anthropogenic nutrient pollution is a major stressor of aquatic ecosystems around the world. In the United States, states and tribes can adopt numeric water quality values (i.e. criteria) into their water quality management standards to protect aquatic life from eutrophication impacts. However, budget and resource constraints have limited the ability of many states and tribes to collect the water quality monitoring data needed to derive numeric criteria. Over the last few decades, satellite technology has provided water quality measurements on a global scale over long time periods. Water quality managers are finding the data provided by satellite technology useful in managing eutrophication impacts in coastal waters, estuaries, lakes, and reservoirs. In recent years EPA has worked with states and tribes to derive remotely sensed numeric Chl-a criteria for coastal waters with limited field-based data. This approach is now being expanded and used to derive Chl-a criteria in freshwater systems across the United States. This presentation will cover EPA's approach to derive numeric Chl-a criteria using satellite remote sensing, recommendations to improve satellite sensors to expand applications, potential areas of interest, and the challenges of using remote sensing to establish water quality management goals, as well as provide a case in which this approach has been applied.

  10. What Kind of School Board Member Would Help Homeless Children?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Harrington-Lueker, Donna

    1989-01-01

    Homelessness is a growing problem in every part of the United States. Federal legislation requires state plans for educating homeless children, but will provide less than $23 per child. Summarizes some of the state plans and suggests steps school boards can take to provide homeless children with public education. (MLF)

  11. The Copyright Infringement Liability of Online and Internet Service Providers. Hearing on S.1146, a Bill To Amend Title 17, United States Code, To Provide Limitations on Copyright Liability Relating to Material Online, and for Other Purposes. Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session (September 4, 1997).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

    This Congressional hearing transcript presents testimony on how to best combat the risk of copyright infringement facing content providers on the Internet. The Internet enables users to reproduce perfectly and distribute globally copies of the digital works that represent some of the most valuable products of American creativity. While some of…

  12. Facts, fallacies, and politics of comparative effectiveness research: Part 2 - implications for interventional pain management.

    PubMed

    Manchikanti, Laxmaiah; Falco, Frank J E; Boswell, Mark V; Hirsch, Joshua A

    2010-01-01

    The United States leads the world in many measures of health care innovation. However, it has been criticized to lag behind many developed nations in important health outcomes including mortality rates and higher health care costs. The surveys have shown the United States to outspend all other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with spending on health goods and services per person of $7,290 - almost 2(1/2) times the average of all OECD countries in 2007. Rising health care costs in the United States have been estimated to increase to 19.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) or $4.4 trillion by 2018. CER is defined as the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternate methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition or to improve the delivery of care. The, comparative effectiveness research (CER) has been touted by supporters with high expectations to resolve most ill effects of health care in the United States providing high quality, less expensive, universal health care. The efforts of CER in the United States date back to the late 1970s and it was officially inaugurated with the enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA). It has been rejuvenated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 with an allocation of $1.1 billion. CER has been the basis of decision for health care in many other countries. Of all the available agencies, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the United Kingdom is the most advanced, stable, and has provided significant evidence, though based on rigid and proscriptive economic and clinical formulas. While CER is taking a rapid surge in the United States, supporters and opponents are emerging expressing their views. Since interventional pain management is a new and evolving specialty, with ownership claimed by numerous organizations, at times it is felt as if it has many fathers and other times it becomes an orphan. Part 2 of this comprehensive review will provide facts, fallacies, and politics of CER along with discussion of potential outcomes, impact of CER on health care delivery, and implications for interventional pain management in the United States.

  13. Responsiveness summary, bomarc missile site proposed plan. Final report, November 1989-May 1992

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Vest, G.

    1992-11-20

    A Public Meeting on the United States Air Force proposed plan for the clean-up of contamination at the BOMARC Missile Site, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey was conducted at Fort Dix, Now Jersey on June 20, 1992. A summary of responses to comments provided at the Public Meeting is provided. Responses to written comments are provided. A transcript of the public hearing is provided as Appendix A. A copy of all letters provided to the United States Air Force are provided as Appendix B. The BOMARC Missile Site became contaminated in 1960 as the result of a fire whichmore » partially consumed a nuclear warhead-equipped BOMARC missile.« less

  14. The state of amphibians in the United States

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Muths, E.; Adams, M.J.; Grant, E.H.C.; Miller, D.; Corn, P.S.; Ball, L.C.

    2012-01-01

    More than 25 years ago, scientists began to identify unexplained declines in amphibian populations around the world. Much has been learned since then, but amphibian declines have not abated and the interactions among the various threats to amphibians are not clear. Amphibian decline is a problem of local, national, and international scope that can affect ecosystem function, biodiversity, and commerce. This fact sheet provides a snapshot of the state of the amphibians and introduces examples to illustrate the range of issues in the United States.

  15. The Challenges in Measuring Local Immunization Coverage: A Statewide Case Study

    PubMed Central

    Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali; Duchin, Jeffrey; DeHart, M. Patricia; Opel, Douglas

    2016-01-01

    There are many forms of existing immunization surveillance in the United States and Washington state, but all are limited in their ability to provide timely identification of clusters of unimmunized individuals and assess the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. This article aims to: (1) describe challenges to measuring immunization coverage at a local level in the United States using Washington State as a case study; and (2) propose improvements to existing surveillance systems that address the challenges identified. PMID:27244807

  16. Hospice and nursing homes.

    PubMed

    Castle, N G

    1999-01-01

    In this article a descriptive analysis of nursing homes with special care hospice units is provided. These are compared to nursing homes with other special care units and to nursing homes without any special care units. An analysis of the determinants of nursing homes with special care hospice units is also provided. Factors such as ownership, staffing levels, having other special care units, case-mix intensity, competitiveness of the nursing home market, and the state Medicaid reimbursement rate structure are examined. Finally, the influence of policies on hospice care in nursing homes is discussed.

  17. United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Eastern Regional Research Center Core Technologies

    PubMed Central

    Nunez, A.; Strahan, G.; Soroka, D.S.; Damert, W.; Needleman, D.

    2011-01-01

    The Core Technologies (CT) unit, located at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC), is a centralized resource of specialized instrumentation and technologies. Its objective is to provide supplementary research data processing, interpretation, analysis and consultation for a broad range of research programs approved by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the in-house research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture. The CT unit is comprised of four research related components: genetic analysis, proteomicsbiopolymers mass spectrometry, electron microscopy, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). In addition, the Research Data Systems, the information pipeline of the CT, provides the means to facilitate data distribution to researchers, stakeholders, and the general public. The availability of integrated resource laboratories assures professional and dependable support to the goals of the ARS community.

  18. Potential Implications of Approaches to Climate Change on the Clean Water Rule Definition of "Waters of the United States".

    PubMed

    Faust, Derek R; Moore, Matthew T; Emison, Gerald Andrews; Rush, Scott A

    2016-05-01

    The 1972 Clean Water Act was passed to protect chemical, physical, and biological integrity of United States' waters. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers codified a new "waters of the United States" rule on June 29, 2015, because several Supreme Court case decisions caused confusion with the existing rule. Climate change could affect this rule through connectivity between groundwater and surface waters; floodplain waters and the 100-year floodplain; changes in jurisdictional status; and sea level rise on coastal ecosystems. Four approaches are discussed for handling these implications: (1) "Wait and see"; (2) changes to the rule; (3) use guidance documents; (4) Congress statutorily defining "waters of the United States." The approach chosen should be legally defensible and achieved in a timely fashion to provide protection to "waters of the United States" in proactive consideration of scientifically documented effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems.

  19. Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis in the United States: a systematic review--1940-2010.

    PubMed

    Starr, Michelle C; Montgomery, Susan P

    2011-10-01

    The epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminth infections (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides, and Strongyloides stercoralis) in the United States is poorly understood. To gain understanding of the status of disease, a systematic review was performed to assess the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in the United States. Of all studies reviewed, 14 were designated as high-quality. High-quality studies were published from 1942 to 1982 and showed that infection was prevalent throughout the southern United States and Appalachia as recently as 1982, finding that hookworm (19.6%), T. trichiura (55.2%), A. lumbricoides (49.4%), and S. stercoralis (3.8%) affected significant percentages of the population. However, because the most recent high-quality studies were published over 25 years ago, the literature does not provide sufficient data to assess current endemic transmission. Because the status of disease remains unclear, there is a need for additional studies to determine if soil-transmitted helminths remain endemic in the United States.

  20. The United States Does CAIR About Cultural Safety: Examining Cultural Safety Within Indigenous Health Contexts in Canada and the United States.

    PubMed

    Darroch, Francine; Giles, Audrey; Sanderson, Priscilla; Brooks-Cleator, Lauren; Schwartz, Anna; Joseph, Darold; Nosker, Roger

    2017-05-01

    This article examines the concept and use of the term cultural safety in Canada and the United States. To examine the uptake of cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, cultural competence, and cultural safety between health organizations in Canada and the United States, we reviewed position statements/policies of health care associations. The majority of selected health associations in Canada include cultural safety within position statements or organizational policies; however, comparable U.S. organizations focused on cultural sensitivity and cultural competence. Through the work of the Center for American Indian Resilience, we demonstrate that U.S. researchers engage with the tenets of cultural safety-despite not using the language. We recommend that health care providers and health researchers consider the tenets of cultural safety. To address health disparities between American Indian populations and non-American Indians, we urge the adoption of the term and tenets of cultural safety in the United States.

  1. Econometric models for predicting confusion crop ratios

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    Umberger, D. E.; Proctor, M. H.; Clark, J. E.; Eisgruber, L. M.; Braschler, C. B. (Principal Investigator)

    1979-01-01

    Results for both the United States and Canada show that econometric models can provide estimates of confusion crop ratios that are more accurate than historical ratios. Whether these models can support the LACIE 90/90 accuracy criterion is uncertain. In the United States, experimenting with additional model formulations could provide improved methods models in some CRD's, particularly in winter wheat. Improved models may also be possible for the Canadian CD's. The more aggressive province/state models outperformed individual CD/CRD models. This result was expected partly because acreage statistics are based on sampling procedures, and the sampling precision declines from the province/state to the CD/CRD level. Declining sampling precision and the need to substitute province/state data for the CD/CRD data introduced measurement error into the CD/CRD models.

  2. State-Wide Nursing Assistant Curriculum. Health Occupations Education: We Make a Difference.

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    Richards, Beverly; Moore, Susan

    These curriculum materials for preparing nursing assistants in Pennsylvania provide 14 units of secondary and postsecondary instruction. Presented within the topic of the role and function of the nursing assistant are units providing an introduction to health care, communications, infection control, emergency and disaster procedures, and ethical…

  3. Value-based cost sharing in the United States and elsewhere can increase patients' use of high-value goods and services.

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    Thomson, Sarah; Schang, Laura; Chernew, Michael E

    2013-04-01

    This article reviews efforts in the United States and several other member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to encourage patients, through cost sharing, to use goods such as medications, services, and providers that offer better value than other options--an approach known as value-based cost sharing. Among the countries we reviewed, we found that value-based approaches were most commonly applied to drug cost sharing. A few countries, including the United States, employed financial incentives, such as lower copayments, to encourage use of preferred providers or preventive services. Evidence suggests that these efforts can increase patients' use of high-value services--although they may also be associated with high administrative costs and could exacerbate health inequalities among various groups. With careful design, implementation, and evaluation, value-based cost sharing can be an important tool for aligning patient and provider incentives to pursue high-value care.

  4. Health beliefs, practice, and priorities for health care of Arab Muslims in the United States.

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    Yosef, Abdel Raheem Odeh

    2008-07-01

    The Arab Muslim population is one of the dramatically increasing minorities in the United States. In addition to other factors, religion and cultural background influence individuals' beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes toward health and illness. The author describes health beliefs and practices of the Arab Muslim population in the United States. That population is at an increased risk for several diseases and faces many barriers to accessing the American health care system. Some barriers, such as modesty, gender preference in healthcare providers, and illness causation misconceptions, arise out of their cultural beliefs and practices. Other barriers are related to the complexity of the health care system and the lack of culturally competent services within it. Nurses need to be aware of these religious and cultural factors to provide culturally competent health promotion services for this population. Nurses also need to integrate Islamic teachings into their interventions to provide appropriate care and to motivate healthy behaviors.

  5. Oral Health Care for Children in Countries Using Dental Therapists in Public, School-Based Programs, Contrasted with That of the United States, Using Dentists in a Private Practice Model

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    Friedman, Jay W.; Nash, David A.

    2013-01-01

    The United States faces a significant problem with access to oral health care, particularly for children. More than 50 countries have developed an alternative dental provider, a dental therapist, practicing in public, school-based programs, to address children’s access to care. This delivery model has been demonstrated to improve access to care and oral health outcomes while providing quality care economically. We summarize elements of a recent major review of the global literature on the use of dental therapists, “A Review of the Global Literature on Dental Therapists: In the Context of the Movement to Add Dental Therapists to the Oral Health Workforce in the United States.” We contrast the success of a school-based model of caring for children by dental therapists with that of the US model of dentists providing care for children in private practices. PMID:23865650

  6. NHDPlusHR: A national geospatial framework for surface-water information

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    Viger, Roland; Rea, Alan H.; Simley, Jeffrey D.; Hanson, Karen M.

    2016-01-01

    The U.S. Geological Survey is developing a new geospatial hydrographic framework for the United States, called the National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlusHR), that integrates a diversity of the best-available information, robustly supports ongoing dataset improvements, enables hydrographic generalization to derive alternate representations of the network while maintaining feature identity, and supports modern scientific computing and Internet accessibility needs. This framework is based on the High Resolution National Hydrography Dataset, the Watershed Boundaries Dataset, and elevation from the 3-D Elevation Program, and will provide an authoritative, high precision, and attribute-rich geospatial framework for surface-water information for the United States. Using this common geospatial framework will provide a consistent basis for indexing water information in the United States, eliminate redundancy, and harmonize access to, and exchange of water information.

  7. Effect of mifepristone on abortion access in the United States.

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    Finer, Lawrence B; Wei, Junhow

    2009-09-01

    To examine the pattern of mifepristone uptake in the United States and whether the introduction of this drug has facilitated access to abortion services. Using data from a national census of abortion providers and from the U.S. distributor of mifepristone, we assessed the number and proportion of abortions performed using mifepristone, the distribution of mifepristone providers by provider type and medical specialty, and the geographic distribution of mifepristone and surgical providers. The number of mifepristone providers increased from 208 in the last 2 months of 2000 to 700 in 2001, the first full year of availability, and to 902 in 2007. Some 158,000 mifepristone abortions were performed in 2007, representing an estimated 14% of all abortions and 21% of eligible early abortions. Physicians represented 51% of mifepristone providers but accounted for just 11% of abortions; most were obstetrician-gynecologists. The proportion of abortions in each state performed using mifepristone ranged from 0% to 80%. Most mifepristone abortions were performed at or near facilities that also provided surgical abortion. Only five mifepristone-only providers of 10 or more abortions were located farther than 50 miles from any surgical provider of 400 or more abortions. Mifepristone has become an integral part of abortion provision in the United States and likely has contributed to a trend toward very early abortions. However, expectations that approval of mifepristone would result in a wider range of providers offering abortion have not yet been met, and mifepristone has not brought a major improvement in the geographic availability of abortion. III.

  8. Ecoregions of the conterminous United States: evolution of a hierarchical spatial framework

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    Omernik, James M.; Griffith, Glenn E.

    2014-01-01

    A map of ecological regions of the conterminous United States, first published in 1987, has been greatly refined and expanded into a hierarchical spatial framework in response to user needs, particularly by state resource management agencies. In collaboration with scientists and resource managers from numerous agencies and institutions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the framework has been expanded to cover North America, and the original ecoregions (now termed Level III) have been refined, subdivided, and aggregated to identify coarser as well as more detailed spatial units. The most generalized units (Level I) define 10 ecoregions in the conterminous U.S., while the finest-scale units (Level IV) identify 967 ecoregions. In this paper, we explain the logic underpinning the approach, discuss the evolution of the regional mapping process, and provide examples of how the ecoregions were distinguished at each hierarchical level. The variety of applications of the ecoregion framework illustrates its utility in resource assessment and management.

  9. Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States: Evolution of a Hierarchical Spatial Framework

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    Omernik, James M.; Griffith, Glenn E.

    2014-12-01

    A map of ecological regions of the conterminous United States, first published in 1987, has been greatly refined and expanded into a hierarchical spatial framework in response to user needs, particularly by state resource management agencies. In collaboration with scientists and resource managers from numerous agencies and institutions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the framework has been expanded to cover North America, and the original ecoregions (now termed Level III) have been refined, subdivided, and aggregated to identify coarser as well as more detailed spatial units. The most generalized units (Level I) define 10 ecoregions in the conterminous U.S., while the finest-scale units (Level IV) identify 967 ecoregions. In this paper, we explain the logic underpinning the approach, discuss the evolution of the regional mapping process, and provide examples of how the ecoregions were distinguished at each hierarchical level. The variety of applications of the ecoregion framework illustrates its utility in resource assessment and management.

  10. Short and long nightly hemodialysis in the United States.

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    Lockridge, Robert S; Pipkin, Mary

    2008-07-01

    When hemodialysis first started in the United States in the 1960s, a large percentage of patients performed their treatments at home. However, because of reimbursement issues, home hemodialysis (HHD) gradually succumbed to an in-center approach and eventually a mindset. Since the introduction of nightly HHD by Uldall and Pierratos in 1993, there has been a resurgence of interest in HHD. This paper describes the different types of home hemodialysis being performed as of December 31, 2007 in this country. Because neither the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) nor the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks break down home dialysis into the different modalities, a provider questionnaire was sent out to 2 major providers, a number of mid-level providers and other providers known to do HHD. In addition, a questionnaire was sent out to 3 machine providers to obtain the number of patients using their machine for HHD as of December 31, 2007. The results showed that 91.7% of patients are dialyzing in-center, 7.3% are doing peritoneal dialysis, and 0.7% are doing HHD. Currently about 1% of ESRD patients in the United States are doing home hemodialysis. NxStage, however, has started 1000 patients in the past year on short-daily home hemodialysis. Patients are beginning to understand that there are better options than 3 times a week in-center dialysis. And as a result of the "HEMO Study," nephrologists now believe that longer and more frequent dialysis is a better therapy for ESRD patients. Therefore, promotion of HHD should become a priority for the renal community in the future.

  11. Vocational Rehabilitation Act Reauthorization. Hearing on Examining Proposed Legislation Authorizing Funds for Programs of the Rehabilitation Act, Including H.R. 1385, to Consolidate, Coordinate, and Improve Employment, Training, Literacy, and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs in the United States, before the Subcommittee on Employment and Training of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session.

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

    This congressional report contains testimony pertaining to reauthorization of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, which was drafted to authorize funds for programs covered by the act and consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States. Statements were provided by three…

  12. United States Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Gene and Cell Therapies.

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    Bailey, Alexander M; Arcidiacono, Judith; Benton, Kimberly A; Taraporewala, Zenobia; Winitsky, Steve

    2015-01-01

    The United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a regulatory agency that has oversight for a wide range of products entering the US market, including gene and cell therapies. The regulatory approach for these products is similar to other medical products within the United States and consists of a multitiered framework of statutes, regulations, and guidance documents. Within this framework, there is considerable flexibility which is necessary due to the biological and technical complexity of these products in general. This chapter provides an overview of the US FDA regulatory oversight of gene and cell therapy products.

  13. Potential Threats to Spanish Security: Implications for the United States and NATO

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    1990-12-01

    already provided by the bilateral agreement with the United States." The possibility of "militarization" was seen by some as a negative effect of...united Europe within the developing global system. According to Spain’s Foreign Minister, Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, "the European Community has three...a continent whose nationalistic tendencies have, in the past, threatened to tear it apart. In order to develop this hypothesis, this thesis will

  14. 29 CFR 790.19 - “Agency of the United States.”

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    ... Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STATEMENTS OF GENERAL... PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 ON THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 Defense of Good Faith Reliance on Administrative Regulations, Etc. § 790.19 “Agency of the United States.” (a) In order to provide a defense under...

  15. 29 CFR 790.19 - “Agency of the United States.”

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    ... Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STATEMENTS OF GENERAL... PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 ON THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 Defense of Good Faith Reliance on Administrative Regulations, Etc. § 790.19 “Agency of the United States.” (a) In order to provide a defense under...

  16. 29 CFR 790.19 - “Agency of the United States.”

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    ... Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STATEMENTS OF GENERAL... PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 ON THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 Defense of Good Faith Reliance on Administrative Regulations, Etc. § 790.19 “Agency of the United States.” (a) In order to provide a defense under...

  17. 29 CFR 790.19 - “Agency of the United States.”

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    ... Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STATEMENTS OF GENERAL... PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ACT OF 1947 ON THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 Defense of Good Faith Reliance on Administrative Regulations, Etc. § 790.19 “Agency of the United States.” (a) In order to provide a defense under...

  18. Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015. Population Characteristics. Current Population Reports. P20-578

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    Ryan, Camille L.; Bauman, Kurt

    2016-01-01

    This report provides a portrait of educational attainment in the United States based on data collected from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The report examines educational attainment of the adult population by demographic and social characteristics such as age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, and disability status, as well as differences in…

  19. Evaluating ozone air pollution effects on pines in the western United States

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    Paul R. Miller; Kenneth W. Stolte; Daniel M. Duriscoe; John Pronos

    1996-01-01

    Historical and technical background is provided about ozone air pollution effects on ponderosa (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws) and Jeffrey (P. jeffreyi Grev. and Balf.) pines in forests of the western United States. The principal aim is to document the development of field survey methods to be applied to assessment of chronic...

  20. A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Students' Preferences for Lecturers' Personalities in Britain, Malaysia and the United States

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    Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian; Maakip, Ismail; Ahmad, Sharani; Hudani, Nurul; Voo, Peter S. K.; Christopher, Andrew N.; Garwood, Jeanette

    2007-01-01

    This study examined students' preferences for lecturers' personalities on three continents. Two-hundred and 35 university students in Malaysia, 347 university students in Britain and 139 university students in the United States provided ratings of 30 desirable and undesirable lecturer trait characteristics, which were coded into an internally…

  1. Status and trends : profile of structural panels in the United States and Canada

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    Henry Spelter; David McKeever; Matthew Alderman

    2006-01-01

    This paper provides an overview of the North American (United States and Canada) structural panel industry, which consists of softwood plywood and oriented strandboard (OSB). The paper describes the evolution of overall capacities, effective capacity utilization, and manufacturing costs. As part of that, it describes changes in industry operating parameters such as...

  2. Energy: Light, Sound, and Heat, Science (Experimental): 5311.04.

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    Castaldi, June P.

    This unit of instruction was designed as a basic course involving the study of light, sound, and heat at the junior high school level. The booklet lists the relevant state-adopted texts and states the performance objectives for the unit. It provides an outline of the course content and suggests experiments, demonstrations, field trips, and topics…

  3. Science, Engineering, and Humanities Doctorates in the United States: 1981 Profile.

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    Maxfield, Betty; And Others

    This report provides information on the demographic characteristics and employment status of recipients of doctoral degrees granted from June 1980 to January 1983 (who were residing in the United States in February 1981). Information was collected on 39,547 of the 63,022 individuals in the survey sample, yielding a response rate of 63 percent.…

  4. Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the United States: Higher Education.

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    Washburn, David E.

    In order to discern the role of higher education in the training of personnel for bilingual/bicultural education, 3,038 postsecondary institutions in the United States, Guam, and the Virgin Islands were surveyed during the 1977-78 academic year. Data are presented on the groups studied and the courses offered. Tables also provide information on…

  5. The spatial relationship between exurban development and designated wilderness lands in the contiguous United States

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    Allison L. Ginn; Gary T. Green; Nathan P. Nibbelink; H. Ken Cordell

    2008-01-01

    Public lands provide recreational opportunities and preserve historic and ecological values. Increases in low-density residential development in the contiguous United States pose a threat not only along the boundaries of national parks and forests, but also around uniquely valuable Wilderness areas. Development within and around protected lands can affect land...

  6. Military, University, and Police Agency Command and Staff Colleges in the United States

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    Martin, Richard H.

    2017-01-01

    This article discusses three models of command and staff colleges (CSC). Five university models, five United States Military models, and one police agency model are discussed. The 11 CSCs provide leadership development in various training and education programs all leading to the increased capabilities of leaders and potential leaders for public…

  7. 31 CFR 542.526 - Exportation of services related to conferences in the United States or third countries authorized.

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    2014-07-01

    ... authorized. (a) The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply of services from the United States or by a U... from the prohibitions of this part, the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply of services...), is authorized, provided that the conference or other similar event is not tailored in whole or in...

  8. A Multilevel Approach to Building the Strength and Effectiveness of the Infant-Toddler Workforce

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    LeMoine, Sarah; Reschke, Kathy; Greene, Kristen

    2017-01-01

    Educators interact with more than 4 million infants and toddlers each week in the United States and can provide positive, nurturing experiences that enhance development. Tragically, the infant-toddler workforce in the United States often lacks the support and resources necessary to support their work. These urgent needs require comprehensive…

  9. 75 FR 17423 - Memorandum of Understanding Between the Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0004] [FDA 225-10-0007] Memorandum of Understanding Between the Food and Drug Administration, United States...) is providing notice of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the FDA, U.S. Department of Health...

  10. Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Fiscal Year 2010

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    Grimes, Justin; Manjarrez, C. Arturo; Miller, Kim A.; Owens, Timothy; Swan, Deanne W.; Vese, Rodney D., Jr.; Arroyo, J. Andrea; Craig, Terri; Dorinski, Suzanne; Freeman, Michael; Isaac, Natasha; O'Shea, Patricia; Schilling, Peter; Scotto, Jennifer

    2013-01-01

    The relatively high use rates and program attendance highlight the public value provided by local libraries at a time of dramatic economic, technology, and demographic change. The Public Libraries in the United States Survey is one important way of examining when, where and how library services are changing to meet those needs. The data, supplied…

  11. INL Director Discusses the Future for Nuclear Energy in the United States

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    Grossenbacher, John

    2018-01-15

    Idaho National Laboratory's Director John Grossenbacher explains that the United States should develop its energy policies based on an assessment of the current events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors and the costs and benefits of providing electricity through various energy sources. For more information about INL's nuclear energy research, visit http://www.facebook.com/idahonationallaboratory.

  12. Giftedness as Property: Troubling Whiteness, Wealth, and Gifted Education in the United States

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    Mansfield, Katherine Cumings

    2015-01-01

    The purposes of this article are to illumine the racist genealogy of gifted education policies and practices in the United States, to demonstrate how deficit discourses continue today, and to provide personal examples from the field of how educators can begin to question the status quo, resist taken-for-granted assumptions, and alternatively make…

  13. Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the Southwestern United States: Wildlife and fish. Vol. 2

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    Deborah M. Finch

    2005-01-01

    This report is volume 2 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broad-scale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an...

  14. A new species of Niditinea (Tineidae: Tineinae) with a preference for bird nests and the known larval habitats of the species in the United States

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    We describe and illustrate Niditinea sabroskyi new species, a species mostly associated with bird nests. We provide diagnostic information to distinguish the new species from the other two species occurring in the United States, Niditinea fuscella (Linnaeus, 1758) and Niditinea orleansella (Chambers...

  15. MIGRATORY FARMWORKERS IN THE MIDCONTINENT STREAMS, PRODUCTION RESEARCH REPORT NUMBER 41.

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    METZLER, WILLIAM H.; SARGENT, FREDERIC O.

    THE SPANISH-AMERICANS OF SOUTHERN TEXAS PROVIDE ONE OF THE LARGEST RESERVOIRS OF SEASONAL FARM LABOR WHOSE RATE OF MOVEMENT IS AFFECTED BY ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. RECRUITMENT OF WORKERS HAS BECOME HIGHLY ORGANIZED. SINCE MIGRATORY WORKERS HAVE BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY AND HAVE DERIVED SO LITTLE…

  16. SeaWiFS: Asian Dust over the Western United States

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    2002-01-01

    This SeaWiFS image, captured on April 15, 2001, shows dust from the Asian continent over the United States. Atmospheric aerosoles are much easier to see over water than over land, so you can best see the haze offshore. Credit: Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

  17. The Newspaper in the Classroom: Suggestions for Using Your Newspaper in Classrooms of Junior and Senior High Schools.

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    Copley Newspapers, San Diego, CA. Dept. of Education.

    Consisting of the combined findings of recent Newspaper in the Classroom Workshops and methods already successfully used in the schools in areas where Copley newspapers are published, this booklet provides techniques for using the newspaper in the following subject areas: social studies, United States history, United States government, world…

  18. Field of Bachelor's Degree in the United States: 2009. American Community Survey Reports. ACS-18

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    Siebens, Julie; Ryan, Camille L.

    2012-01-01

    This report provides information on fields of bachelor's degrees in the United States using data from the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS). It includes estimates of fields of bachelor's degree by demographic characteristics including age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, nativity, and educational attainment. This report also looks at geographic and…

  19. The spatial relationship between exurban development and designated wilderness lands in the contiguous United States

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    Allison L. Ginn; Gary T. Green; Nathan P. Nibbelink; H. Ken Cordell

    2009-01-01

    Public lands provide recreational opportunities and preserve historic and ecological values. Increases in low-density residential development in the contiguous United States pose a threat not only along the boundaries of national parks and forests, but also around uniquely valuable Wilderness areas. Development within and around protected lands can affect land...

  20. School-Based Mental Health Programs in the United States: Present Status and a Blueprint for the Future.

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    Pfeiffer, Steven I.; Reddy, Linda A.

    1998-01-01

    Provides overview of sociocultural and political factors in the United States that have influenced recent interest in school-based health and mental health programs. Describes four well-known programs and presents a new framework, the Tripartite Model of School-Based Mental Health Interventions, to stimulate thinking on future programs. Addresses…

  1. To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed, deported, or excluded from the United States.

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    Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16

    2009-01-06

    House - 02/09/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  2. Alcohol and Drug Prevention Curriculum Resource Guide Grades 10-12: Social Studies--United States History.

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    North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Alcohol and Drug Defense Program.

    This curriculum resource guide on alcohol and drug prevention provides suggested activities for teachers of grades 10 through 12. Three integrated learning activities for United States history and healthful living are presented. The history goals are understanding that the years since 1945 have been years of great changes, and learning to organize…

  3. An Analysis of Context-Based Similarity Tasks in Textbooks from Brazil and the United States

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    Barcelos Amaral, Rúbia; Hollebrands, Karen

    2017-01-01

    Three textbooks from Brazil and three textbooks from the United States were analysed with a focus on similarity and context-based tasks. Students' opportunities to learn similarity were examined by considering whether students were provided context-based tasks of high cognitive demand and whether those tasks included missing or superfluous…

  4. Nontimber forest products in the United States: an analysis for the 2015 National Sustainable Forest Report

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    James Chamberlain; Aaron Teets; Steve Kruger

    2018-01-01

    Worldwide, forest plants and fungi that are harvested for their nontimber products are critical for the health of the ecosystems and the well-being of people who benefit from the harvest. This document provides an analysis of the volumes and values of nontimber forest products in the United States. It presents...

  5. Nontimber forest products management on national forests in the United States.

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    Rebecca J. McLain; Eric T. Jones

    2005-01-01

    This study provides an overview of nontimber forest products (NTFP) programs on national forests in the United States. We conducted an email survey in 2003 to obtain data on NTFP management activities on national forests across the country. Program characteristics examined in the study included important NTFPs managed on national forests, presence of NTFP coordinators...

  6. Autism: Assessment and Intervention Practices of School Psychologists and the Implications for Training in the United States

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    Rasmussen, Jenny Elizabeth

    2009-01-01

    Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are being diagnosed at alarmingly high rates and school psychologists are charged with evaluating, identifying, and providing interventions for students with ASD in the United States' public school systems. A national survey probed Nationally Certified School Psychologists (NCSP) to determine their level of…

  7. Technology assessment of automation trends in the modular home industry

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    Phil Mitchell; Robert Russell Hurst

    2009-01-01

    This report provides an assessment of technology used in manufacturing modular homes in the United States, and that used in the German prefabricated wooden home industry. It is the first step toward identifying the research needs in automation and manufacturing methods that will facilitate mass customization in the home manufacturing industry. Within the United States...

  8. Federal fire managers' perceptions of the importance, scarcity and substitutability of suppression resources

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    Crystal S. Stonesifer; David E. Calkin; Michael S. Hand

    2017-01-01

    Wildland firefighting in the United States is a complex and costly enterprise. While there are strong seasonal signatures for fire occurrence in specific regions of the United States, spatiotemporal occurrence of wildfire activity can have high inter-annual variability. Suppression resources come from a variety of jurisdictions and provide a wide range of skills,...

  9. 77 FR 62529 - Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response...

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    ...). The complaint seeks injunctive relief and payment of past and future costs that the United States... pay the United States' past and future response costs and to perform the selected remedy for the.../Consent_Decrees.html . We will provide a paper copy of the proposed Consent Decree upon written request...

  10. Ethnic Folklife Dissertations from the United States and Canada, 1960-1980. A Selected, Annotated Bibliography.

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    Kerst, Catherine Hiebert

    This annotated bibliography lists over 220 multi-disciplinary Ph.D. dissertations written between 1960 and 1980 on the subject of indigenous and immigrant ethnic folklife in the United States and Canada. Only dissertations providing substantial attention to traditional forms of ethnic folk culture in context were considered. The concept of…

  11. 76 FR 30937 - Small Hydropower Development in the United States; Notice of Small/Low-Impact Hydropower Webinar

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    ... Development in the United States; Notice of Small/Low-Impact Hydropower Webinar The Federal Energy Regulatory... projects. Specifically, the webinar will provide the opportunity for participants to learn the differences..., learn how to get more information and assistance from FERC staff, and ask questions. To register for...

  12. School Hopscotch: A Comprehensive Review of K-12 Student Mobility in the United States

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    Welsh, Richard O.

    2017-01-01

    This article provides an integrative review of the extant literature on K-12 student mobility in the United States. Student mobility is a widespread phenomenon with significant policy implications. Changing schools is most prevalent among minority and low-income students in urban school districts. There is an ongoing debate about whether student…

  13. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States.

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    Spring, Joel

    This book provides background for understanding contemporary issues and problems in multicultural education by examining the history of education of four dominated groups in the United States: Native Americans, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican Americans. The book focuses on three concepts: deculturalization--attempts to strip away the…

  14. 78 FR 43854 - Designation for the Muncie, IN; Fremont, NE; Annapolis, MD; and West Lafayette, IN Areas...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-07-22

    ... Grain Inspection, Inc. (Titus) to provide official services under the United States Grain Standards Act.... Comments were due by February 14, 2013. GIPSA received one comment from a grain company that used East... herein. Pursuant to Section 79(f)(2) of the United States Grain Standards Act, the following amended...

  15. Mapping severe fire potential across the contiguous United States

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    Brett H. Davis

    2016-01-01

    The Fire Severity Mapping System (FIRESEV) project is an effort to provide critical information and tools to fire managers that enhance their ability to assess potential ecological effects of wildland fire. A major component of FIRESEV is the development of a Severe Fire Potential Map (SFPM), a geographic dataset covering the contiguous United States (CONUS) that...

  16. Race and Law in Britain and the United States. MRG Report No. 22.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Claiborne, Louis

    This report surveys American and British experiences in applying law to problems of race relations, and assesses the achievements and setbacks in each nation. An overview of racial issues in the course of United States and British history, beginning with the slavery issue, provides a perspective on the common and different problems experienced by…

  17. Living in the United States. A Brief Introduction to the Culture for Visitors, Students and Business Travelers.

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    Hawkinson, Anni; Clark, Raymond C.

    The guide provides a brief introduction to the culture and language of the United States, and is designed for visitors, students, and business travelers. It offers practical information on various aspects of daily living, including: money and banks; food; restaurants; drinking and smoking laws; hotels; postal and telecommunications services;…

  18. Annual Science and Technology Report to the Congress: 1982.

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    Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC.

    This report provides a comprehensive statement of the Reagan administration's science and technology (S/T) policy and priorities. The report is organized into three chapters. Chapter I discusses S/T and United States society and the United States S/T policy. Highlights of the 1982 accomplishments in implementing the policy and of the fiscal year…

  19. Urban forest sustainability in the United States

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    David J. Nowak

    2017-01-01

    Urban forests in the United States provide numerous ecosystem services that vary in magnitude across the country and are valued in the billions of dollars per year. Urban tree cover has been on the decline in recent years. Numerous forces for change will continue to alter urban forests in the coming years (i.e., development, climate change, insects and diseases,...

  20. Secularization - Public Trust: The Development of Catholic Higher Education in the United States.

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    Kelly, Joseph P.

    Catholic education in the United States was initially avowedly catholic: its purpose was to train catholics, and it rested on the purpose that there would always be enough religious personnel to staff the institutions. The G.I. Bill of Rights and federal funding for higher education were instrumental in providing growth capital for catholic…

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