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Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-416 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-416

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Travel expense of State employees in returning to headquarters daily or on weekends.
Date: April 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Potential of Fast Ignition and Related Experiments With a Petawatt Laser Facility (open access)

The Potential of Fast Ignition and Related Experiments With a Petawatt Laser Facility

A model of energy gain induced by fast ignition of thermonuclear burn in compressed deuterium-tritium fuel, is used to show the potential for 300x gain with a driver energy of 1 M J, if the National Ignition Facility (NIF) were to be adapted for fast ignition. The physics of fast ignition has been studied using a petawatt laser facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Laser plasma interaction in a preformed plasma on a solid target leads to relativistic self-focusing evidenced by x-ray images. Absorption of the laser radiation transfers energy to an intense source of relativistic electrons. Good conversion efficiency into a wide angular distribution is reported. Heating by the electrons in solid density CD{sub 2} produces 0.5 to 1/keV temperature, inferred from the D-D thermo-nuclear neutron yield.
Date: April 6, 2000
Creator: Key, M. H.; Campbell, E. M.; Cowan, T. E.; Hatchett, S. P.; Henry, E. A.; Koch, J. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing impacts of climate change on forests: The state of biological modeling (open access)

Assessing impacts of climate change on forests: The state of biological modeling

Models that address the impacts to forests of climate change are reviewed by four levels of biological organization: global, regional or landscape, community, and tree. The models are compared as to their ability to assess changes in greenhouse gas flux, land use, maps of forest type or species composition, forest resource productivity, forest health, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. No one model can address all of these impacts, but landscape transition models and regional vegetation and land-use models consider the largest number of impacts. Developing landscape vegetation dynamics models of functional groups is suggested as a means to integrate the theory of both landscape ecology and individual tree responses to climate change. Risk assessment methodologies can be adapted to deal with the impacts of climate change at various spatial and temporal scales. Four areas of research development are identified: (1) linking socioeconomic and ecologic models, (2) interfacing forest models at different scales, (3) obtaining data on susceptibility of trees and forest to changes in climate and disturbance regimes, and (4) relating information from different scales.
Date: April 6, 1993
Creator: Dale, V. H. & Rauscher, H. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1931 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1931

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1931, activities, finance, honors, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: April 6, 1932
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1936 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1936

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1936, activities, service reports, honors, finance, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: April 6, 1937
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Immigration Enforcement within the United States (open access)

Immigration Enforcement within the United States

This report provides an analysis of immigration enforcement within the United States. The report opens with a definition of immigration enforcement, a discussion of the statutory authority to conduct immigration enforcement, and an overview of immigration enforcement related legislation since 1986. It follows with an exposition on the dichotomy of interior and border enforcement. The report then details different aspects of immigration enforcement in the United States including detention and removal, alien smuggling and trafficking, document and benefit fraud, worksite enforcement, inspections at ports of entry, and patrolling the border between ports of entry. The report continues with a discussion of the role of state and local law enforcement in the enforcement of immigration laws. The report then presents a comparative analysis of the resources devoted to divergent immigration enforcement activities. It concludes with a discussion of crosscutting immigration enforcement issues related to the structure of the Department of Homeland Security.
Date: April 6, 2006
Creator: Siskin, Alison; Bruno, Andorra; Nuñez-Neto, Blas; Seghetti, Lisa M. & Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 65, April 6, 2010, Pages 17281-17554 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 65, April 6, 2010, Pages 17281-17554

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: April 6, 2010
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library