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One goal of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) is to protect the unique community found within the Sanctuary's boundaries. An understanding of the ecological interactions, including trophic...

As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services in the International Trade Administration, I have noticed two common threads woven into the fabric of America's private sector:...

Exporting provides opportunities to expand the sales of U.S. manufacturing industries, resulting in greater revenues for U.S. companies and higher employment for U.S. workers. However, investors and...

As Chairman of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), it is my privilege to present to you the National Export Strategy. Three years ago, the TPCC agencies committed themselves to...

As Chairman of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), it is my privilege to present to you the National Export Strategy of 2005. As the new Chairman, I appreciate the tremendous...

American companies, and the goods and services that they market, remain among the most competitive in the world.Author: Trade Promotion Coordinating CommitteePublisher: Createspace Independent...

U.S. exporters are hitting their stride in the global economy, with record exports making an increasingly importation contribution to overall U.S. economic growth.Author: Trade Pormotion Coordinating...

When the President announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) in 2010, with the ambitious goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years, he made clear that boosting U.S. exports was not only a...

Scenarios do not predict future changes, but describe future potential conditions in a manner that supports decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Scenarios are used to develop and test...

This document presents questions and answers based on the transcripts of four public meetings conducted from April 9 to April 20, 1987 by the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Author:...

On June 28, 1991, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued Supplement 4 to Generic Letter "Individual Plant Examination of External Events for Severe Accident Vulnerabilities, 10 CFR 50.54," and...

During plant operation, the walls of reactor pressure vessels are exposed to neutron radiation, resulting in localized embrittlement of the vessel steel and weld materials in the core area.Author: U...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or agency) was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and began operations in 1975. The NRC was established to regulate the civilian use of...

Guidelines for Staffing a Local Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee describes the staffing functions of a CJCC and provides specific guidance for obtaining and improving a jurisdiction's criminal...

This annual report is prepared pursuant to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs; Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Part 61, Subpart H). Subpart H governs...

In large-scale grid systems with decentralized control, the interactions of many service providers and consumers will likely lead to emergent global system behaviors that result in unpredictable,...

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged goods is the determination of the...

One of the primary requirements for performing asset management is the ability to identify assets based on some set of data known about them. Asset identification, the use of attributes and methods...

This specification describes the Asset Reporting Format (ARF), a data model for expressing the transport format of information about assets and the relationships between assets and reports. The...

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the ability of face recognition algorithms to compare compressed standard face images. Six well performing algorithms from the Multiple Biometric...

The criminal justice communities use the science of fingerprints to perform two major operations. The first is 10-print fingerprint operations with the primary purpose of establishing an individual's...

The purpose of this report is to update calculations, originally performed in 1993, that predict the ground level concentration of smoke particulate from hypothetical in situ burns of crude oil...

Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) is a standardized method of describing and identifying classes of applications, operating systems, and hardware devices present among an enterprise's computing...

In 2009, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on behalf of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),...

Prior to PFTII, the proprietary fingerprint template (PFT) evaluations were performed to measure the accuracy of two-finger matching verification systems for two plain impression fingerprints. In...

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) protects the absentee voting rights for U.S. Citizens, including active members of the uniformed services and the merchant marines,...

This document outlines the basic process for the distribution of election material including registration material and blank ballots to Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)...

For twenty years the American public has been trained to avoid the use of elevators during fire emergencies. Warning signs at elevators tell people not to use the elevators during fire evacuation...

Powered industrial vehicles, such as forklifts, are widely used in manufacturing and other industries. Potential safety issues exist due to limitations in the operators ability to see all around the...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received thousands of consumer reports of a particular type of drywall causing problems in homes in the United States. Many of these consumer...