The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2004
Creator: Nettles, Marc
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secret Sessions of Congress: A Brief Historical Overview (open access)

Secret Sessions of Congress: A Brief Historical Overview

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Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2005: Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2005: Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies

This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity, and is updated as events warrant.
Date: December 21, 2004
Creator: Peterman, David Randall & Frittelli, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Bohning, October 21, 2004 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack Bohning, October 21, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jack Bohning. Bohning enlisted for Navy flight training shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He continued his service as a Marine Corps pilot, flying dive-bombers from 1943-1945. He completed several missions at Tarawa, Hollandia, Makin and the Marshall Islands. He remained in active service as a colonel with the Marines until 1973, training servicemen during the Korean War and as an advisor during the Vietnam War.
Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Bohning, Jack
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
FY2005 Budget: Chronology and Web Guide (open access)

FY2005 Budget: Chronology and Web Guide

This report provides a select chronology and resource guide concerning congressional and presidential actions and documents pertaining to the budget for FY 2005, which runs from October 1st, 2004, through September 30, 2005. The budget actions and documents referenced in this report relate to the President's FY 2005 budget submission, the FY 2005 Congressional Budget Resolution, reconciliation legislation, debt-limit legislation, and FY 2005 appropriation measures.
Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Murray, Justin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gerard Roland Vela, July 21, 2004

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Dr. Gerard Roland Vela, UNT Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. The interview includes Vela's personal experiences about childhood and education, serving in World War II-era U.S. Navy, having a fellowship at Harvard University, and joining the North Texas faculty in 1965. Additionally, Vela discusses his family history, his love of chemistry, genetics, and microbiology, the growing pains involved with transitioning North Texas into a research university, the construction of a research program, his relationship with students, and his service on the Denton City Council. Photographs are included throughout the interview.
Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Calderon, Roberto R. & Vela, Gerard Roland
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2004
Creator: Vanicek, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress

This report is the superfund program for cleaning up the nation's worst hazardous waste sites that was created by the comprehensive environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or CERLA.
Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Reisch, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peer-to-peer I/O (P2PIO) protocol specification Version 0.6 (open access)

Peer-to-peer I/O (P2PIO) protocol specification Version 0.6

Today's distributed systems require simple and powerful resource discovery queries in a dynamic environment consisting of a large number of resources spanning many autonomous administrative domains. The distributed search problem is hard due to the variety of query types, the number of resources and their autonomous, partitioned and dynamic nature. We propose a generalized resource discovery framework that is built around an application level messaging protocol called Peer-to-Peer I/O (P2PIO). P2PIO addresses a number of scalability problems in a general way. It provides flexible and uniform transport-independent resource discovery mechanisms to reduce both the client and network burden in multi-hop P2P systems.
Date: April 21, 2004
Creator: Berket, Karlo; Essiari, Abdelilah; Gunter, Dan & Hoschek, Wolfgang
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focused Crawling of the Deep Web Using Service Class Descriptions (open access)

Focused Crawling of the Deep Web Using Service Class Descriptions

Dynamic Web data sources--sometimes known collectively as the Deep Web--increase the utility of the Web by providing intuitive access to data repositories anywhere that Web access is available. Deep Web services provide access to real-time information, like entertainment event listings, or present a Web interface to large databases or other data repositories. Recent studies suggest that the size and growth rate of the dynamic Web greatly exceed that of the static Web, yet dynamic content is often ignored by existing search engine indexers owing to the technical challenges that arise when attempting to search the Deep Web. To address these challenges, we present DynaBot, a service-centric crawler for discovering and clustering Deep Web sources offering dynamic content. DynaBot has three unique characteristics. First, DynaBot utilizes a service class model of the Web implemented through the construction of service class descriptions (SCDs). Second, DynaBot employs a modular, self-tuning system architecture for focused crawling of the DeepWeb using service class descriptions. Third, DynaBot incorporates methods and algorithms for efficient probing of the Deep Web and for discovering and clustering Deep Web sources and services through SCD-based service matching analysis. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the service class discovery, probing, and …
Date: June 21, 2004
Creator: Rocco, D.; Liu, L. & Critchlow, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 2004
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congressional Oversight Manual (open access)

Congressional Oversight Manual

Throughout its history, Congress has engaged in oversight of the executive branch — the review, monitoring, and supervision of the implementation of public policy. The first several Congresses inaugurated such important oversight techniques as special investigations, reporting requirements, resolutions of inquiry, and use of the appropriations process to review executive activity. Contemporary developments, moreover, have increased the legislature’s capacity and capabilities to check on and check the Executive. Public laws and congressional rules have measurably enhanced Congress’s implied power under the Constitution to conduct oversight.
Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Fisher, Louis; Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J. & Rosenberg, Morton
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 2004 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: September 21, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology: A neurophysicalmodel of the mind/brain interaction (open access)

Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology: A neurophysicalmodel of the mind/brain interaction

Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally posits that brain mechanisms will ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems from the idea that the brain is made up entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms relevant to neuroscience can therefore be formulated solely in terms of properties of these elements. Thus terms having intrinsic mentalistic and/or experiential content (e.g., ''feeling,'' ''knowing,'' and ''effort'') are not included as primary causal factors. This theoretical restriction is motivated primarily by ideas about the natural world that have been known to be fundamentally incorrect for more than three quarters of a century. Contemporary basic physical theory differs profoundly from classical physics on the important matter of how the consciousness of human agents enters into the structure of empirical phenomena. The new principles contradict the older idea that local mechanical processes alone can account for the structure of all observed empirical data. Contemporary physical theory brings directly and irreducibly into the overall causal structure certain psychologically described choices made by human agents about how they will act. This key development in basic physical theory is applicable to neuroscience, and it provides neuroscientists and psychologists with …
Date: September 21, 2004
Creator: Schwartz, Jeffrey M.; Stapp, Henry P. & Beauregard, Mario
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (open access)

The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2004
Creator: Kuckelman, Meghan
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 21, 2004 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Vanicek, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proceedings of the 26th Seismic Research Review: Trends in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (open access)

Proceedings of the 26th Seismic Research Review: Trends in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring

These proceedings contain papers prepared for the 26th Seismic Research Review: Trends in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring, held 21-23 September, 2004 in Orlando, Florida. These papers represent the combined research related to ground-based nuclear explosion monitoring funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and other invited sponsors. The scientific objectives of the research are to improve the United States capability to detect, locate, and identify nuclear explosions. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the sponsoring agencies, as well as potential users, an opportunity to review research accomplished during the preceding year and to discuss areas of investigation for the coming year. For the researchers, it provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information toward achieving program goals, and an opportunity to discuss results and future plans. Paper topics include: seismic regionalization and calibration; detection and location of sources; wave propagation from source to receiver; the nature of seismic sources, including mining practices; hydroacoustic, infrasound, and radionuclide methods; on-site inspection; and data processing.
Date: September 21, 2004
Creator: Chavez, Francesca C.; Benson, Jody; Hanson, Stephanie; Mark, Carol & Wetovsky, Marvin A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities, Reporting Relationships, Tenure, and Challenges (open access)

Federal Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities, Reporting Relationships, Tenure, and Challenges

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Although the federal government has invested substantially in information technology (IT), its success in managing information resources has varied. Agencies have taken steps to implement modern strategies, systems, and management policies and practices, but they still face significant information and technology management challenges. Recognizing the key role of the chief information officer (CIO) in helping an agency to achieve better results through IT, congressional requesters asked GAO to study the current status of CIOs at major departments and agencies. Among the topics this report describes are (1) CIOs' responsibilities and reporting relationships, and (2) current CIOs' professional backgrounds and the tenures of all of the CIOs since enactment of the Clinger-Cohen Act."
Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 2004
Creator: Vanicek, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 2004 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 21, 2004
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 2004 (open access)

South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 2004

Semi-monthly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas published by the Diocese of Corpus Christi that includes news of interest to Diocese members along with advertising.
Date: May 21, 2004
Creator: Goldapp, Paula J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 50, Ed. 1 Monday, June 21, 2004 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 50, Ed. 1 Monday, June 21, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 21, 2004
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Looby, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 2004 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 2004

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 2004 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 21, 2004
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History