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Border Security: DHS's Efforts to Modernize Key Enforcement Systems Could be Strengthened
ISBN: 9781502991874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. DHS's mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure the United States by preventing and deterring terrorist attacks and protecting against and responding to threats and hazards to the nation. As part of that mission, DHS is responsible for ensuring that the nation's borders are safe and secure, that they welcome lawful immigrants and visitors, and that they promote the free flow of commerce. Within the department, CBP is responsible for customs, immigration, and agricultural processing at ports of entry. 4 ICE is responsible for the investigation and enforcement of border control,...
DHS's mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure the United States by preventing and deterring terrorist attacks and protecting against ...
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Federal Protective Service: Action Needed to Asses Risk and Better Manage Contract Guards at Federal Facilities
ISBN: 9781492992349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. To achieve its facility protection mission, in fiscal year 2012, FPS has a budget of $1.3 billion; over 1,200 full-time employees; and about 12,500 contract security guards. Contract guards are responsible for controlling access to federal facilities, screening access areas to prevent the introduction of weapons and explosives, enforcing property rules and regulations, detecting and reporting criminal acts, and responding to emergency situations involving facility safety and security.
To achieve its facility protection mission, in fiscal year 2012, FPS has a budget of $1.3 billion; over 1,200 full-time employees; and about 12,500 co...
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ABM, MRV, SALT, and the Nuclear Arms Race: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Law and Organization of the Committee on Fo
ISBN: 9781931641920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Military Disability System: Improved Monitoring Needed to Better Track and Manage Performance
ISBN: 9781492785101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The IDES process begins at a military treatment facility when a physician identifies one or more conditions that may interfere with a servicemember's ability to perform his or her duties. The process involves four main phases: the Medical Evaluation Board (MEB), the Physical Evaluation Board (PEB), transition out of military service (transition), and VA benefits.
The IDES process begins at a military treatment facility when a physician identifies one or more conditions that may interfere with a servicemember's ...
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Department of the Treasury Technical Explanation of the Convention Between the Government of the United States of America and the Republic of Bulgaria
ISBN: 9781505657425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a technical explanation of the Convention between the United States and Bulgaria for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on February 23, 2007, and the Protocol between the United States and Bulgaria signed on the same date (the "Protocol"), as amended by the Protocol between the United States and Bulgaria signed on February 26, 2008 (collectively, the "Convention"). The Protocol is discussed below in connection with the relevant articles of the Convention.
This is a technical explanation of the Convention between the United States and Bulgaria for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fi...
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Financial Company Bankruptcies: Need to Further Consider Proposals' Impact on Systemic Risk
ISBN: 9781503201279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Personnel Security Clearances: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Correct Designations of National Security Positions
ISBN: 9781502986580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In light of delays in completing security clearance background investigations and adjudicative decisions, as well as a significant backlog of clearances to be processed, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), which set objectives and established requirements for improving the personnel security clearance process, including improving the timeliness of the clearance process, achieving interagency reciprocity, establishing an integrated database to track investigative and adjudicative information, and evaluating available technology for...
In light of delays in completing security clearance background investigations and adjudicative decisions, as well as a significant backlog of clearanc...
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Managing for Results: A Guide for Using the GPRA Modernization Act to Help Inform Congressional Decision Making
ISBN: 9781492344506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This guide builds upon a large body of work we have conducted during the past two decades related to performance management in the federal government. This includes a number of products focused on enhancing the usefulness and use of performance information in congressional decision making, including our recent briefings to congressional staff on opportunities for Congress to address government performance issues.
This guide builds upon a large body of work we have conducted during the past two decades related to performance management in the federal government....
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Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Opportunities for Improvements and Considerations for Restructuring
ISBN: 9781492740629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The federal government faces an array of challenges and opportunities to enhance performance, ensure accountability, and position the nation for the future. A number of overarching trends, such as fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, demographic and societal changes, developments in science and technology, diffuse security threats, global interdependence, and the rapid expansion of collaborative networks, underscore the need for a fundamental reconsideration of the role, operations, and structure of the federal government for the 21st century.
The federal government faces an array of challenges and opportunities to enhance performance, ensure accountability, and position the nation for the f...
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Corperative Income Tax: Effective Tax Rates Can Differ Significantly from the Statory Rate
ISBN: 9781503184657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Department of Homeland Security: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Visibility over Collaborative Field Mechanisms
ISBN: 9781502967954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. DHS's interest in better integrating its legacy agencies has been longstanding, and on several occasions since 2004 the department has identified an approach or vision for establishing a more unified field structure to enhance mission coordination among its component agencies but has not implemented such a structure. As we reported in September 2012, according to senior DHS officials, the fragmentation associated with each operational component having different boundaries for its area of responsibility prompted some in DHS and other stakeholders to promote the idea of a single unified DHS...
DHS's interest in better integrating its legacy agencies has been longstanding, and on several occasions since 2004 the department has identified an a...
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Ryan White Care Act: Improvements Needed in Oversight of Grantees
ISBN: 9781492344353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Under the CARE Act, Part A and Part B grantees are awarded grants to provide a range of services-both medical and support-to uninsured and underinsured clients with HIV/AIDS. In fiscal year 2011, most CARE Act funding was distributed to grantees either as base or supplemental grants.
Under the CARE Act, Part A and Part B grantees are awarded grants to provide a range of services-both medical and support-to uninsured and underinsure...
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Nursing Homes: CMS Needs Milestones and Timelines to Ensure Goals for the Five-Star Quality Rating System Are Met
ISBN: 9781492305439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. CMS has publicly reported information on nursing home quality on its Nursing Home Compare website since 1998 and has increased the amount of information it reports on the website over time.9 7GAO, Managing for Results: Enhancing Agency Use of Performance Information for Management Decision Making, On June 18, 2008, CMS announced its plans to make use of the information available on the Nursing Home Compare website and begin assigning each nursing home "star" ratings to help beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily.
CMS has publicly reported information on nursing home quality on its Nursing Home Compare website since 1998 and has increased the amount of informati...
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Antibiotics: FDA Needs to Do More to Ensure That Drug Labels Contain Up-to-Date Information
ISBN: 9781492280613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. FDA's mission is to protect the public health by ensuring the safety and effectiveness of human drugs marketed in the United States. The agency's responsibilities begin years before a drug is marketed and continue after a drug's approval.
FDA's mission is to protect the public health by ensuring the safety and effectiveness of human drugs marketed in the United States. The agency's resp...
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Defense Infrastructure: DOD Should Improve Reporting and Communication on Its Corrosion Prevention and Control Activities
ISBN: 9781503170728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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State and Local Governments: Knowledge of Past Recessions Can Inform Future Federal Fiscal Assistance
ISBN: 9781492182771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recessions mark a distinct phase of the overall business cycle, beginning with a business cycle "peak" and ending with a business cycle "trough." Between trough and peak the economy is in an expansion. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) identifies dates for national recessions, which can vary in overall duration and magnitude.7 While NBER sets dates for the peaks and troughs of national recessions, no dates are set for turning points in state economies. State economic downturns vary in magnitude, duration, and timing, and do not necessarily coincide with dates identified for...
Recessions mark a distinct phase of the overall business cycle, beginning with a business cycle "peak" and ending with a business cycle "trough." Betw...
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Private Pensions: Better Agency Coordintion Could Help Small Employers Address Challanges to Plan Sponsorship
ISBN: 9781492230182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. To encourage employers to establish and maintain retirement plans for their employees, the federal government provides preferential tax treatment under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) for plans that meet certain requirements. In addition, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended, sets forth certain protections for participants in private-sector retirement plans and establishes standards of conduct for those that manage the plans and their assets, generally called fiduciaries.
To encourage employers to establish and maintain retirement plans for their employees, the federal government provides preferential tax treatment unde...
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DODD-Frank Act: Hybrid Capital Instruments and Small Institutional Access to Capital
ISBN: 9781492288862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Capital reassures an institution's depositors, creditors, and counterparties that unanticipated losses or decreased earnings will not impair a financial institution's ability to repay its creditors or protect the savings of depositors. In general, capital represents the share of an institution's assets with no obligation for repayment, although this condition varies for less traditional forms of capital such as some hybrid instruments. Because capital generally does not have to be repaid, it can serve as a buffer against declines in asset values without subjecting an institution to default or...
Capital reassures an institution's depositors, creditors, and counterparties that unanticipated losses or decreased earnings will not impair a financi...
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Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations
ISBN: 9781503223608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Troubled Asset Relief Program: A Treasuring Continues to Exit Programs, Opportunities to Enhnce Communication on Costs Exist
ISBN: 9781492288688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When EESA was signed on October 3, 2008, the U.S. financial system faced a severe crisis that has rippled throughout the global economy, moving from the U.S. housing market to an array of financial assets and interbank lending. The crisis restricted access to credit and made the financing on which businesses and individuals depend increasingly difficult to obtain. Further tightening of credit exacerbated a global economic slowdown. During the crisis, Congress, the President, federal regulators, and others undertook a number of steps to facilitate financial intermediation by banks and the...
When EESA was signed on October 3, 2008, the U.S. financial system faced a severe crisis that has rippled throughout the global economy, moving from t...
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