wyszukanych pozycji: 2510
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Northeast Temperate Network Breeding Landbird Monitoring Protocol Northeast Temperate Network
ISBN: 9781492918608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This protocol has been developed for long-term monitoring of forest breeding bird populations within the National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) as part of the Inventory & Monitoring Program (IM). NETN consists of 13 parks, including the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (APPA). Excluding APPA, the parks total approximately 18,500 ha, with diverse cultural and natural resources. They range in size from just 4 ha at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (SAIR), located near densely populated Boston, Massachusetts, to over 15,800 ha at Maine's Acadia National Park...
This protocol has been developed for long-term monitoring of forest breeding bird populations within the National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Tempera...
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Cybercrime: Conceptual Issues for Congress and U.S. Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781507735503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-first century criminals increasingly rely on the Internet and advanced technologies to further their criminal operations. These criminals can easily leverage the Internet to carry out traditional crimes such as distributing illicit drugs and sex trafficking. In addition, they exploit the digital world to facilitate crimes that are often technology driven, including identity theft, payment card fraud, and intellectual property theft. Cybercrimes have economic, public health, and national security implications, among others. For over three decades, Congress has been concerned about...
Twenty-first century criminals increasingly rely on the Internet and advanced technologies to further their criminal operations. These criminals can e...
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Veterans? Medical Care: FY2015 Appropriations
ISBN: 9781502840905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides benefits to veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria. Benefits to veterans range from disability compensation and pensions to hospital and medical care. The VA provides these benefits through three major operating units: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), and the National Cemetery Administration (NCA). This report focuses on funding for the VHA. The VHA is primarily a direct service provider of primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services to veterans...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides benefits to veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria. Benefits to veterans range from disabilit...
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Climate Monitoring in the Northern Colorado Plateau Network: Annual Report 2008
ISBN: 9781492715306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report documents the 2008 monthly and annual climate summaries and climatic extremes for weather stations located within park units of the Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitor-ing Network (NCPN) and three stations located near park boundaries. In 2008, mean annual maxi-mum and minimum temperatures tended to be below average throughout much of the NCPN region, while snowfall was notably above long-term averages. Diff erences between long-term means and this year's measures of average minimum and maximum temperature and total precipitation (and snow-fall) were not related to the...
This report documents the 2008 monthly and annual climate summaries and climatic extremes for weather stations located within park units of the Northe...
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Lower Stehekin River Cutthroat Trout and Rainbow Trout spawning surveys 2009-2011 summary report
ISBN: 9781492847724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chelan County Public Utilities District, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States Forest Service and North Cascades National Park cooperatively manage fish populations within Lake Chelan and its tributaries in accordance with the Lake Chelan Fisheries Plan (Lake Chelan Fishery Plan 2007). The fish management goal under the Lake Chelan Fisheries Plan is to beneficially alter the abundance and composition of fish species in Lake Chelan through continuing efforts to restore and enhance native fisheries.
Chelan County Public Utilities District, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States Forest Service and North Cascades National Pa...
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PILT (Payments in Lieu of Taxes): Somewhat Simplified
ISBN: 9781512273458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress
ISBN: 9781505904819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress. Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. There have been exceptions to the Navy's ship-naming rules, particularly for the purpose of naming a ship for a person when the rule for that type of ship would have called for it to be named for something else. Some observers in recent years have perceived a breakdown in, or corruption of, the rules for naming Navy...
Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance...
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Changes in the Arctic
ISBN: 9781499669398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region's future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic country and has substantial interests in the region. On January 12, 2009, the George W. Bush Administration released a presidential directive, called National Security Presidential Directive 66/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 25 (NSPD 66/HSPD 25), establishing a new U.S. policy for the Arctic region. Record low extents of Arctic sea ice over the past decade have focused...
The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region...
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Eisenhower National Historic Site and Gettysburg National Military Park: Weather of 2009
ISBN: 9781491214992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Weather and climate are widely recognized as key drivers of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, affecting biotic as well as abiotic ecosystem characteristics and processes. Global and regional scale climatic patterns, trends, and variations are critical to the cycling of elements, nutrients, and minerals through the ecosystems and can deliver pollutants from regional and even global sources. These variations and trends influence the fundamental properties of ecologic systems such as soil-water relationships, and plant-soil processes and their disturbance rates and intensity. Information...
Weather and climate are widely recognized as key drivers of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, affecting biotic as well as abiotic ecosystem characte...
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Wetland Inventory and Mapping Report: Valley Forge National Historical Park
ISBN: 9781494453428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The primary objective of this report is to describe and document the wetland inventory and mapping work performed from 2 May 2011 to 28 July 2011 at Valley Forge National Historical Park (Valley Forge NHP). This report was prepared, in part, to satisfy the regulatory requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which has jurisdictional authority over wetlands and waterways of the United States under the purview of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act; the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), who have authority over wetlands and waterways under the purview of...
The primary objective of this report is to describe and document the wetland inventory and mapping work performed from 2 May 2011 to 28 July 2011 at V...
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Food Safety Issues for the 114th Congress
ISBN: 9781508602941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Congress passed comprehensive food safety legislation in December 2010 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act FSMA], P.L. 111-353), representing the largest expansion and overhaul of U.S. food safety authorities since the 1930s. FSMA greatly expanded food safety oversight authority at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), but did not alter oversight authorities within other federal agencies responsible for food safety, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Given challenges facing FDA in implementing this law and also a...
Congress passed comprehensive food safety legislation in December 2010 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act FSMA], P.L. 111-353), representing the larg...
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An Evaluation of Biological Inventory Data Collected at Hot Springs National Park Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories
ISBN: 9781492388173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data. A list of species known to occur in NPS units is considered a basic inventory need (see: http: //science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/index.cfm). The I&M Program's Heartland Network (HTLN) recently completed inventories of vertebrate species and vascular plants at Hot Springs National Park (HOSP). In doing so, all existing data were cataloged,...
As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inv...
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The National Popular Vote Initiative: Direct Election of the President by Interstate Compact
ISBN: 9781505589184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The National Popular Vote (NPV) initiative proposes an agreement among the states, an interstate compact that would effectively achieve direct popular election of the President and Vice President without a constitutional amendment. It relies on the Constitution's grant of authority to the states in Article II, Section 1, to appoint presidential electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.... " Any state that joins the NPV compact pledges to award all its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that wins the most popular votes nationwide, regardless of who wins in that...
The National Popular Vote (NPV) initiative proposes an agreement among the states, an interstate compact that would effectively achieve direct popular...
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Vascular Plant Inventory of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
ISBN: 9781492359432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The primary objective of this study is to document the vascular plant flora of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (NRA). The secondary objective is to examine the rare, endemic, and nonnative species composition and distribution in Glen Canyon NRA(GLCA). Species that are rare, endemic, or nonnative often have management implications for land management agencies.
The primary objective of this study is to document the vascular plant flora of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (NRA). The secondary objective is ...
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Invasive Exotic Plant Monitoring at Hot Springs National Park Year 1 (2009)
ISBN: 9781492376057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Author's note. In this report, we use the term invasive exotic plant to refer to plants that are not native to the park and that are presumed to pose environmental harm to native plant populations and/or communities based on a review of numerous state and regional invasive exotic plant lists. The great majority of the introductory text was taken from Welch and Geissler (2007) with slight modification.
Author's note. In this report, we use the term invasive exotic plant to refer to plants that are not native to the park and that are presumed to pose ...
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Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway: Geologic Resources Inventory Report
ISBN: 9781492785361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report accompanies the digital geologic map data for Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway in Wyoming, produced by the Geologic Resources Division in collaboration with its partners. It contains information relevant to resource management and scientific research. This document incorporates preexisting geologic information and does not include new data or additional fieldwork.
This report accompanies the digital geologic map data for Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway in Wyoming, produced...
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A Field Manual for the Use of Antimycin A for Restoration of Native Fish Population
ISBN: 9781492847946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report, A Field Manual for the Use of Antimycin A for Restoration of Native Fish Populations, provides protocols for the use of antimycin A which have been successfully used in restoration efforts within units of the national park system and in national forest and state projects. This document is based upon experiences of biologists from the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The authors' hope that the information included in the manual will be applicable to any application of antimycin for the restoration...
This report, A Field Manual for the Use of Antimycin A for Restoration of Native Fish Populations, provides protocols for the use of antimycin A which...
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Veterans Affairs: Presumptive Service Connection and Disability Compensation
ISBN: 9781512273625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress
ISBN: 9781505904840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. CVN-78 was procured in FY2008. The Navy's proposed FY2015 budget estimates the ship's procurement cost at $12,887.2 million (i.e., about $12.9 billion) in then-year dollars. The ship received advance procurement funding in FY2001-FY2007 and was fully funded in FY2008-FY2011 using congressionally authorized four-year incremental funding. The Navy did not request any procurement funding for the ship in FY2012 and FY2013. To help cover cost growth on the ship, the ship received an additional $588.1 million in procurement funding in FY2014, and the Navy is requesting another $663.0 million in...
CVN-78 was procured in FY2008. The Navy's proposed FY2015 budget estimates the ship's procurement cost at $12,887.2 million (i.e., about $12.9 billion...
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Exotic Plant Management Team Program: 2009 Annual Report
ISBN: 9781491229637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The spread of invasive species is recognized as one of the major factors contributing to ecosystem change and instability throughout the world. The proliferation of invasive species is changing native landscapes across North American, including our national parks.
The spread of invasive species is recognized as one of the major factors contributing to ecosystem change and instability throughout the world. The pr...
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