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Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: Since it was established in 1930, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the Nation. With Congress?s passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, mandating the collection of those crimes that law enforcement has determined were motivated by the offenders? bias against a race, ...
Technical Reference Publication
Excerpt: Today?s rapidly changing technical environment requires federal agencies to adopt a minimum set of management controls to protect vital information technology (IT) resources. These management controls are directed at individual IT users in order to reflect the distributed nature of today?s technology. Technical and operational controls support management controls. To be effective, all of these controls must interrelate.
Excerpt: Focus Question. How are marine protected areas used in various countries to protect natural and cultural resources? Learning Objectives. Students will be able to identify internet resources containing information on international Marine Protected Area projects. Students will be able to describe a process for evaluating the effectiveness of marine protected areas. Students will be able to explain the relationships between biophysical, socioeconomic, and governanc...
Excerpt: To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to health professions programs regarding the practice of pharmacy. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4 This Act may be cited as the ??Pharmacy Education 5 Aid Act of 2002??.
Excerpt: Since 1997, the average absolute forecast error in net borrowing of marketable debt for the current quarter is $9 billion and the average absolute forecast error for the end-of-quarter cash balance is $9 billion. Similarly, the average absolute forecast error for the following quarter is $30 billion and the average absolute forecast error for the end-of-quarter cash balance is $11 billion.
Export and Trade Government Reference Document:
Executive Summary: This Report sets forth the Commission?s analysis of the U.S.- China relationship in the designated areas of investigation in our Congressional mandate: China?s proliferation practices, China?s economic reforms and U.S. economic transfers to China, China?s energy needs, Chinese firms? access to the U.S. capital markets, U.S. investments into China, China?s economic and security impacts in Asia, U.S.-China bilateral programs and agreements, China?s recor...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War THUCYDIDES, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last sta...
Excerpt: [My father?s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children, and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, ?Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,? and end with the following note: ?Aug. 3, 1876. This sketch of my l...
ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY. An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden How does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be sought in those phenomena which have given rise to the theory of action at a distance, and in the properties of light which have le...
Bibliographies
Excerpt: The U.S. military is, in fact, one of the leaders in using Internet e-mail for teleconsultations. For example, since 1996, a dermatologist employed by the U.S. Navy as a consulting specialist for various shipboard primary care physicians has used telemedicine to treat sailors aboard aircraft carriers and other vessels. The Department of Defense is also implementing Web-based dermatology programs, and a total of 16 central sites in the United States and Europe wi...
Zueignung. / Ihr naht euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten, / Die frueh sich einst dem trueben Blick gezeigt. / Versuch ich wohl, euch diesmal festzuhalten? / Fuehl ich mein Herz noch jenem Wahn geneigt? / Ihr draengt euch zu! nun gut, so moegt ihr walten, / Wie ihr aus Dunst und Nebel um mich steigt; / Mein Busen fuehlt sich jugendlich erschuettert / Vom Zauberhauch, der euren Zug umwittert.`...