Captain W.W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 Red River Reminiscences

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A selection of letters written to the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper from 1870-1871 about steamboat travel on the Red River in 1838-1841. W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of character and incident, and his profiles of persons, including three signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reflect years of acquaintance. The beauty of his writing ranks this among the best of the reminiscences that were written as the steamboat era was declining. “Bagur is an expert on the Red River in the nineteenth century, and it shows in this work. Informative and entertaining.” —Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell, author of Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State “This will rank as a great assistance to researchers if anyone wants to attack history of the Red River again. Some of his in-depth research was fabulous.”—Skipper Steely, author of Red River Pioneers
Date: April 2014
Creator: Bagur, Jacques D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report for Detection of Biothreat Agents and Environmental Samples using the LLNL Virulence Array for DHS (open access)

Report for Detection of Biothreat Agents and Environmental Samples using the LLNL Virulence Array for DHS

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Date: April 18, 2011
Creator: Jaing, C; Gardner, S; McLoughlin, K; Thissen, J & Jackson, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
California GAMA Special Study: A Noble Gas Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry (NG-MIMS) system for water and gas samples (open access)

California GAMA Special Study: A Noble Gas Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry (NG-MIMS) system for water and gas samples

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Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Visser, A.; Singleton, M. J.; Hillegonds, D. J.; Velsko, C. A.; Moran, J. E. & Esser, B. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine. (open access)

SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.

We present the Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine (SAPLE) web application, a directory search application for use by Sandia National Laboratories personnel. SAPLE's purpose is to return Sandia personnel 'results' as a function of user search queries, with its mission to make it easier and faster to find people at Sandia. To accomplish this, SAPLE breaks from more traditional directory application approaches by aiming to return the correct set of results while placing minimal constraints on the user's query. Two key features form the core of SAPLE: advanced search query interpretation and inexact string matching. SAPLE's query interpretation permits the user to perform compound queries when typing into a single search field; where able, SAPLE infers the type of field that the user intends to search on based on the value of the search term. SAPLE's inexact string matching feature yields a high-quality ranking of personnel search results even when there are no exact matches to the user's query. This paper explores these two key features, describing in detail the architecture and operation of SAPLE. Finally, an extensive analysis on logged search query data taken from an 11-week sample period is presented.
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Procopio, Michael J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee (open access)

Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee

This report discusses the process for appointing Supreme Court Justices. Each appointment to the nine-member Court is of consequence because of the enormous judicial power that the Court exercises, separate from, and independent of, the executive and legislative branches.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amplitude Analysis and Measurement of the Time-dependent CP Asymmetry of B0 to KsKsKs Decays (open access)

Amplitude Analysis and Measurement of the Time-dependent CP Asymmetry of B0 to KsKsKs Decays

We present the first results on the Dalitz-plot structure and improved measurements of the time-dependent CP-violation parameters of the process B{sup 0} {yields} K{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0} obtained using 468 x 10{sup 6} B{bar B} decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. The Dalitz-plot structure is probed by a time-integrated amplitude analysis that does not distinguish between B{sup 0} and {bar B}{sup 0} decays. We measure the total inclusive branching fraction {Beta}(B{sup 0} {yields} K{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0}) = (6.19 {+-} 0.48 {+-} 0.15 {+-} 0.12) x 10{sup -6}, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third represents the Dalitz-plot signal model dependence. We also observe evidence for the intermediate resonant states f{sub 0}(980), f{sub 0}(1710), and f{sub 2}(2010). Their respective product branching fractions are measured to be (2.70{sub -1.19}{sup +1.25} {+-} 0.36 {+-} 1.17) x 10{sup -6}, (0.50{sub -0.24}{sup +0.46} {+-} 0.04 {+-} 0.10) x 10{sup -6}, and (0.54{sub -0.20}{sup +0.21} {+-} 0.03 {+-} 0.52) x 10{sup -6}. Additionally, we determine the mixing-induced CP-violation parameters to be S = -0.94{sub -0.21}{sup +0.24} {+-} 0.06 and C = -0.17 {+-} 0.18 {+-} …
Date: April 11, 2012
Creator: Lees, J. P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Variable Renewable Energy in Electric Power Markets: Best Practices from International Experience (open access)

Integrating Variable Renewable Energy in Electric Power Markets: Best Practices from International Experience

Many countries -- reflecting very different geographies, markets, and power systems -- are successfully managing high levels of variable renewable energy on the electric grid, including that from wind and solar energy. This study documents the diverse approaches to effective integration of variable renewable energy among six countries -- Australia (South Australia), Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United States (Western region-Colorado and Texas)-- and summarizes policy best practices that energy ministers and other stakeholders can pursue to ensure that electricity markets and power systems can effectively coevolve with increasing penetrations of variable renewable energy. Each country has crafted its own combination of policies, market designs, and system operations to achieve the system reliability and flexibility needed to successfully integrate renewables. Notwithstanding this diversity, the approaches taken by the countries studied all coalesce around five strategic areas: lead public engagement, particularly for new transmission; coordinate and integrate planning; develop rules for market evolution that enable system flexibility; expand access to diverse resources and geographic footprint of operations; and improve system operations. The ability to maintain a broad ecosystem perspective, to organize and make available the wealth of experiences, and to ensure a clear path from analysis to enactment should be …
Date: April 1, 2012
Creator: Cochran, J.; Bird, L.; Heeter, J. & Arent, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GRiP - A flexible approach for calculating risk as a function of consequence, vulnerability, and threat. (open access)

GRiP - A flexible approach for calculating risk as a function of consequence, vulnerability, and threat.

Get a GRiP (Gravitational Risk Procedure) on risk by using an approach inspired by the physics of gravitational forces between body masses! In April 2010, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Special Events staff (Protective Security Advisors [PSAs]) expressed concern about how to calculate risk given measures of consequence, vulnerability, and threat. The PSAs believed that it is not 'right' to assign zero risk, as a multiplicative formula would imply, to cases in which the threat is reported to be extremely small, and perhaps could even be assigned a value of zero, but for which consequences and vulnerability are potentially high. They needed a different way to aggregate the components into an overall measure of risk. To address these concerns, GRiP was proposed and developed. The inspiration for GRiP is Sir Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation: the attractive force between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the squares of the distance between them. The total force on one body is the sum of the forces from 'other bodies' that influence that body. In the case of risk, the 'other bodies' are the components of risk (R): consequence, vulnerability, and threat (which …
Date: April 8, 2011
Creator: Whitfield, R. G.; Buehring, W. A. & Bassett, G. W. (Decision and Information Sciences)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judge Merrick Garland: His Jurisprudence and Potential Impact on the Supreme Court (open access)

Judge Merrick Garland: His Jurisprudence and Potential Impact on the Supreme Court

This report provides an overview of Judge Garland's jurisprudence and discusses what the impact on the Court might be if he, or a judge of a similar judicial approach, were to be confirmed to succeed Justice Scalia. The report begins with his views on two overarching issues -- the role of the judiciary and statutory interpretation -- it then addresses 14 separate areas of law, which are arranged in alphabetical order from "administrative law" to "takings."
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Nolan, Andrew; Manuel, Kate M. & Murrill, Brandon J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608 656. I. Lens Potential Reconstruction (open access)

Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608 656. I. Lens Potential Reconstruction

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Date: April 25, 2013
Creator: Suyu, S. H.; Marshall, P. J.; Blandford, R. D.; Fassnacht, C. D.; Koopmans, L. V. E.; McKean, J. P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Microbial Detection Array Combined with Random Phi29-Amplification used as a Diagnostic Tool for Unbiased Virus Detection in Clinical Samples (open access)

The Microbial Detection Array Combined with Random Phi29-Amplification used as a Diagnostic Tool for Unbiased Virus Detection in Clinical Samples

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Date: April 13, 2011
Creator: Erlandsson, L.; Rosenstierne, M. W.; McLoughlin, K.; Jaing, C. & Fomsgaard, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Honors Day: 2016 captions transcript

UNT Honors Day: 2016

Recording of the 2016 UNT Honors Day event held at Winspear Hall to honor accomplished and distinguished students, faculty, and staff. Included are musical performances, speeches and introductions from Provost and Vice President Dr. Finley Graves and Dr. Elizabeth With, a keynote speech from Wisteria Wells and Ke'Yonna Hall, as well as the recognition and presentation of awards and honors to students and teachers alike.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Morphology and Cardiac Physiology Are Differentially Affected by Temperature in Developing Larvae of the Marine Fish Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus) (open access)

Morphology and Cardiac Physiology Are Differentially Affected by Temperature in Developing Larvae of the Marine Fish Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus)

This article investigates the influence of water temperature on cardiac plasticity in developing mahi-mahi.
Date: April 21, 2017
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Pasparakis, Christina; Mager, Edward M.; Stieglitz, John D.; Benetti, Daniel D.; Grosell, Martin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Mechanics Research and Support for Aerodynamics and Hydraulics at TFHRC, Year 2 Quarter 1 Progress Report. (open access)

Computational Mechanics Research and Support for Aerodynamics and Hydraulics at TFHRC, Year 2 Quarter 1 Progress Report.

The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural mechanics (CSM) focus areas at Argonne's Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC) initiated a project to support and compliment the experimental programs at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) with high performance computing based analysis capabilities in August 2010. The project was established with a new interagency agreement between the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation to provide collaborative research, development, and benchmarking of advanced three-dimensional computational mechanics analysis methods to the aerodynamics and hydraulics laboratories at TFHRC for a period of five years, beginning in October 2010. The analysis methods employ well-benchmarked and supported commercial computational mechanics software. Computational mechanics encompasses the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Wind Engineering (CWE), Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM), and Computational Multiphysics Mechanics (CMM) applied in Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. The major areas of focus of the project are wind and water effects on bridges - superstructure, deck, cables, and substructure (including soil), primarily during storms and flood events - and the risks that these loads pose to structural failure. For flood events at bridges, another major focus of the work is assessment of the risk to bridges caused by scour …
Date: April 9, 2012
Creator: Lottes, S.A.; Bojanowski, C.; Shen, J.; Xie, Z.; Zhai, Y. (Energy Systems) & Center), (Turner-Fairbank Highway Research
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HEP Science Network Requirements (open access)

HEP Science Network Requirements

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is the primary provider of network connectivity for the US Department of Energy Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. In support of the Office of Science programs, ESnet regularly updates and refreshes its understanding of the networking requirements of the instruments, facilities, scientists, and science programs that it serves. This focus has helped ESnet to be a highly successful enabler of scientific discovery for over 20 years. In August 2009 ESnet and the Office of High Energy Physics (HEP), of the DOE Office of Science, organized a workshop to characterize the networking requirements of the programs funded by HEP. The International HEP community has been a leader in data intensive science from the beginning. HEP data sets have historically been the largest of all scientific data sets, and the communty of interest the most distributed. The HEP community was also the first to embrace Grid technologies. The requirements identified at the workshop are summarized below, and described in more detail in the case studies and the Findings section: (1) There will be more LHC Tier-3 sites than orginally thought, and likely more Tier-2 …
Date: April 27, 2010
Creator: Bakken, Jon; Barczyk, Artur; Blatecky, Alan; Boehnlein, Amber; Carlson, Rich; Chekanov, Sergei et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
STOMP Subsurface Transport Over Multiple Phases: STOMP-CO2 and STOMP-CO2e Guide: Version 1.0 (open access)

STOMP Subsurface Transport Over Multiple Phases: STOMP-CO2 and STOMP-CO2e Guide: Version 1.0

This STOMP (Subsurface Transport Over Multiple Phases) guide document describes the theory, use, and application of the STOMP-CO2 and STOMP-CO2e operational modes. These operational modes of the STOMP simulator are configured to solve problems involving the sequestration of CO2 in geologic saline reservoirs. STOMP-CO2 is the isothermal version and STOMP-CO2e is the nonisothermal version. These core operational modes solve the governing conservation equations for component flow and transport through geologic media; where, the STOMP-CO2 components are water, CO2 and salt and the STOMP-CO2e operational mode also includes an energy conservation equation. Geochemistry can be included in the problem solution via the ECKEChem (Equilibrium-Conservation-Kinetic-Equation Chemistry) module, and geomechanics via the EPRMech (Elastic-Plastic-Rock Mechanics) module. This addendum is designed to provide the new user with a full guide for the core capabilities of the STOMP-CO2 and -CO2e simulators, and to provide the experienced user with a quick reference on implementing features. Several benchmark problems are provided in this addendum, which serve as starting points for developing inputs for more complex problems and as demonstrations of the simulator’s capabilities.
Date: April 3, 2012
Creator: White, Mark D.; Bacon, Diana H.; McGrail, B. Peter; Watson, David J.; White, Signe K. & Zhang, Z. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Law Review, Volume 95, Number 5, April 2017 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 95, Number 5, April 2017

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Postdoctoral program guidelines. (open access)

Postdoctoral program guidelines.

We, the Postdoc Professional Development Program (PD2P) leadership team, wrote these postdoc guidelines to be a starting point for communication between new postdocs, their staff mentors, and their managers. These guidelines detail expectations and responsibilities of the three parties, as well as list relevant contacts. The purpose of the Postdoc Program is to bring in talented, creative people who enrich Sandia's environment by performing innovative R&D, as well as by stimulating intellectual curiosity and learning. Postdocs are temporary employees who come to Sandia for career development and advancement reasons. In general, the postdoc term is 1 year, renewable up to five times for a total of six years. However, center practices may vary; check with your manager. At term, a postdoc may apply for a staff position at Sandia or choose to move to university, industry or another lab. It is our vision that those who leave become long-term collaborators and advocates whose relationships with Sandia have a positive effect upon our national constituency.
Date: April 1, 2012
Creator: Teich-McGoldrick, Stephanie; Miller, Andrew W.; Sava, Dorina Florentina; Liu, Yanli; Ferreira, Summer Rhodes; Biedermann, Laura Butler et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2013 (open access)

Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2013

Annual report compiling information about required groundwater monitoring activities and cases of contamination by state-regulated activities during the 2013 calendar year. Includes tables with the enforcement status of each case of contamination.
Date: April 2014
Creator: Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Thursday, April 18, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the 43rd day of the regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 90, Number 5, April 2012 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 90, Number 5, April 2012

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 2015 (open access)

The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Student newspaper from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 29, 2015
Creator: St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Microarrays for Pathogen Detection and Analysis (open access)

Microarrays for Pathogen Detection and Analysis

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Date: April 28, 2011
Creator: McLoughlin, K S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. [114], No. [147], Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 2014 (open access)

Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. [114], No. [147], Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Brownwood, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 4, 2014
Creator: Hanrahan, Thom
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History