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Handbook of the Italian Military Forces 2 August 1943
ISBN: 9781783310746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This handbook was published to give U.S. military personnel a better understanding of the principal characteristics, and is dated 2 August 1943, about five weeks before the Italian surrender. It begins with a description of distinctive branches, or specialities, the most characteristic of which was the arm of the Royal Carabinieri, a semi-military body occupying, historically, the senior position in the Army. Other specialities included the Grenadiers of Sardinia, the Bersaglieri, the Alpini and the San Marco Marine Regiment, the equivalent to the US Marine Corps. The handbook then goes on to...
This handbook was published to give U.S. military personnel a better understanding of the principal characteristics, and is dated 2 August 1943, about...
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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument: Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis
ISBN: 9781491083611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The purpose of this report is to inventory existing park water quality data; establish baseline water quality at the park; identify potential water quality problems; and establish a park water quality database. This report is intended to enable park resource managers to compare and contrast water quality data collected as part of ongoing inventory and monitoring programs with historical water quality trends. Additionally, this report is intended to foster better designed park-based water quality inventory and monitoring programs in the future. The water quality databases which accompany this...
The purpose of this report is to inventory existing park water quality data; establish baseline water quality at the park; identify potential water qu...
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Asset Forfeiture: Selected Legal Issues and Reforms
ISBN: 9781508433422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Block Grants: Perspectives and Controversies
ISBN: 9781503032637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Block grants have been a part of the American federal system since 1966. They are one of three general types of grants-in-aid programs: categorical grants, block grants, and general revenue sharing. These grants differ along three dimensions: the range of federal control over who receives the grant; the range of recipient discretion concerning aided activities; and the type, number, detail, and scope of grant program conditions.
Block grants have been a part of the American federal system since 1966. They are one of three general types of grants-in-aid programs: categorical gr...
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Acoustic Monitoring Report, Denali National Park and Preserve, 2010
ISBN: 9781491098783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Park staff deployed acoustic monitoring systems to nine locations in Denali National Park and Preserve in 2010. The purpose of this monitoring effort was to inventory the ambient acoustic conditions and amount of non-natural sound in Denali National Park as called for in the 2006 Backcountry Management Plan. Data collected included existing ambient sound pressure levels, natural ambient sound pressure levels, percentage of time audible, and loud acoustic event statistics for intrinsic and extrinsic sound sources. Deployed systems were configured to log sound pressure levels every second and...
Park staff deployed acoustic monitoring systems to nine locations in Denali National Park and Preserve in 2010. The purpose of this monitoring effort ...
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2014 Farm Bill Provisions and WTO Compliance
ISBN: 9781505587821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The enacted 2014 farm bill (Agricultural Act of 2014; P.L. 113-79) could result in potential compliance issues for U.S. farm policy with the rules and spending limits for domestic support programs that the United States agreed to as part of the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). In general, the act's new farm safety net shifts support away from classification under the WTO's green/amber boxes and toward the blue/amber boxes, indicating a potentially more market-distorting U.S. farm policy regime. The 2014 farm bill eliminates many of the support...
The enacted 2014 farm bill (Agricultural Act of 2014; P.L. 113-79) could result in potential compliance issues for U.S. farm policy with the rules and...
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Water Quality Conditions and Patterns on the Grand Portage Reservation and Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota: Implications for Nutrient Crite
ISBN: 9781492145622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Inland lakes, streams, and wetlands are widespread in northern Minnesota landscapes and throughout the Boreal Shield, and have long been valued for their good water quality and the fish and wildlife resources they support (Steedman et al. 2004). In the Grand Portage Reservation, in far northeastern Minnesota, such water resources are central parts of Ojibwe heritage and culture and remain important for subsistence fishing and wild rice cultivation; these waters also played a fundamental role in the European fur trade era and were key to the establishment of Grand Portage National Monument...
Inland lakes, streams, and wetlands are widespread in northern Minnesota landscapes and throughout the Boreal Shield, and have long been valued for th...
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Security Assistance Reform: "Section 1206" Background and Issues for Congress
ISBN: 9781503282612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2006, as amended and regularly extended, provides the Secretary of Defense with authority to train and equip foreign military forces for two specified purposes-counterterrorism and stability operations-and foreign security forces for counterterrorism operations. Section 1206 authority now extends through FY2017. The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) version of the FY2015 NDAA would codify this authority as permanent law under Title 10. In doing so, it would make several changes to the current temporary law....
Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2006, as amended and regularly extended, provides the Secretary of Defen...
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Monitoring Coastal Salt Marshes in the Lake Clark and Katmai National Parklands of the Southwest Alaska Network
ISBN: 9781492211242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Monitoring of salt marshes in Lake Clark (LACL) and Katmai (KATM) National Parks and Preserves focuses on the major habitat characteristics that support nearshore and terrestrial indicators (e.g., brown bears, seabirds, intertidal marine invertebrates, and algae) in the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN), and on the major drivers of change in these habitats. Drivers include tectonic uplift, erosional and depositional geomorphic processes, changing topography and surface hydrology, tidal fluctuations and storm surges, sedimentation rates, salinity, and vegetation succession.
Monitoring of salt marshes in Lake Clark (LACL) and Katmai (KATM) National Parks and Preserves focuses on the major habitat characteristics that suppo...
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Bird Monitoring at Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas: 2007 Status Report
ISBN: 9781492948537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. During 2007, the Heartland I&M Network and Prairie Cluster Prototype Monitoring Program (HTLN) initiated breeding bird surveys on 36 plots at Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas (ARPO) to address two objectives. The first is to monitor change in bird community composition and abundance. The second is to monitor the response of bird communities to change in habitat structure and other habitat variables related to management activities. This report provides baseline information on populations and breeding habitat of birds at ARPO, as well as population information and habitat conditions...
During 2007, the Heartland I&M Network and Prairie Cluster Prototype Monitoring Program (HTLN) initiated breeding bird surveys on 36 plots at Arkansas...
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Brazil: Political and Economic Situation and U.S. Relations
ISBN: 9781507737453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The United States enjoys cooperative relations with Brazil, which is the seventh-largest economy in the world and is recognized by the Obama Administration as an emerging center of international influence. Administration officials have often highlighted Brazil's status as a multicultural democracy, referring to the country as a natural partner that shares values and goals with the United States. Bilateral ties have been strained from time to time, however, as the countries' occasionally divergent national interests and independent foreign policies have led to disagreements. U.S.-Brazilian...
The United States enjoys cooperative relations with Brazil, which is the seventh-largest economy in the world and is recognized by the Obama Administr...
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Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
ISBN: 9781503000377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Afghan security forces have lead security responsibility throughout the country, and the United States and its partner countries are in the process of winding down the current international security mission by the end of 2014. A planned post-2014 mission will consist mostly of training the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF). The number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, which peaked at about 100,000 in June 2011, was reduced to a "pre-surge" level of about 66,000 by September 2012, and to about 34,000 as of February 2014. The U.S. force will be about 28,000 as of June 1 and will decline...
Afghan security forces have lead security responsibility throughout the country, and the United States and its partner countries are in the process of...
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Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park Elk Monitoring Program Annual Report 2010
ISBN: 9781492903949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fiscal year 2010 was the third year of gathering data needed for protocol development while simultaneously implementing what is expected to be the elk monitoring protocol at Mount Rainier (MORA) and Olympic (OLYM) national parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). Elk monitoring in these large wilderness parks relies on aerial surveys from a helicopter. Summer surveys are planned for both parks and are intended to provide quantitative estimates of abundance, sex and age composition, and distribution of migratory elk in high elevation trend count areas. Spring surveys are planned...
Fiscal year 2010 was the third year of gathering data needed for protocol development while simultaneously implementing what is expected to be the elk...
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North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation
ISBN: 9781502730817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. North Korea has been among the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The United States has never had formal diplomatic relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the official name for North Korea). Negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program have occupied the past three U.S. administrations, even as some analysts anticipated a collapse of the isolated authoritarian regime. North Korea has been the recipient of well over $1 billion in U.S. aid and the target of dozens of U.S. sanctions.
North Korea has been among the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The United States has never had...
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Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis: Lava Beds National Monument
ISBN: 9781492182962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The National Park Service's (NPS) Organic Act of 1916 states that the mission of the NPS is to promote and regulate the use of national parks, monuments, and other units ..". to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such a manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." One task embodied by this mission is preserving and protecting water resources and water dependent environments in parks. Ensuring the integrity of park water quality, due to its importance...
The National Park Service's (NPS) Organic Act of 1916 states that the mission of the NPS is to promote and regulate the use of national parks, monumen...
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Vanishing Treasures Cultural Conections Issue
ISBN: 9781484816042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Vanishing Treasures Program is focused on resources located in the arid Southwest. The National Parks on the Hawaiian Islands preserve and interpret places that are of significance to the descendants of the early Hawaiians. The Hawaiian Legacy program, which had been discussed for many years, strives to perpetuate Native Hawaiian activities and culture, ensure the preservation of knowledge of traditional skills in traditional construction methods, and provide future employment opportunities for skilled craftsmen in traditional construction technology.
The Vanishing Treasures Program is focused on resources located in the arid Southwest. The National Parks on the Hawaiian Islands preserve and interpr...
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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site; Chicken House/Wash House: Histroric Structure Report
ISBN: 9781490423487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Gustavus Memminger was a prominent Charleston, South Carolina, attorney, legislator and investor who in the 1830s purchased a parcel of land in the mountains of North Carolina and began construction on a summer residence he named Rock Hill. The estate was apparently well established by the 1850s as his sketch and journal indicate a main house with an addition, a kitchen building, ice house, fountain, wagon house, and two servants' quarters, one of which is the subject of this report.
Christopher Gustavus Memminger was a prominent Charleston, South Carolina, attorney, legislator and investor who in the 1830s purchased a parcel of la...
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Federal Research and Development Funding: Fy2015
ISBN: 9781508432838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions
ISBN: 9781505877021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.S. government. Its mission is to assist in the financing of U.S. exports of goods and services to support U.S. employment. The FY2015 continuing resolution (CR; Sec. 147 of P.L. 113-164) extends Ex-Im Bank's general statutory charter (Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 635 et seq.) through June 30, 2015. Previously, the charter was set to sunset on September 30, 2014 (P.L. 112-122). A sunset in Ex-Im Bank's...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit age...
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Mexico's Oil and Gas Sector: Background, Reform Efforts, and Implications for the United States
ISBN: 9781503005624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The future of oil and natural gas production in Mexico is of importance for both Mexico's economic growth, as well as for U.S. energy security, a key congressional interest. Mexico is a top trade partner and crude oil supplier to the United States. Mexico's state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) remains an important source of government revenue even as it is struggling to counter declining oil production and reserves. Due to an inability to meet rising demand, Mexico has also significantly increased natural gas imports from the United States. Still, gas shortages have hindered the...
The future of oil and natural gas production in Mexico is of importance for both Mexico's economic growth, as well as for U.S. energy security, a key ...
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