The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1990 (open access)

The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1990

Weekly student newspaper from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 15, 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
RF Capture and Acceleration of Gold Ions in Booster (open access)

RF Capture and Acceleration of Gold Ions in Booster

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Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: Gardner, C. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 156, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1998 (open access)

The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 156, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1998

Weekly student newspaper from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 12, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1997 (open access)

The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1997

Weekly student newspaper from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 20, 1997
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 158, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1999 (open access)

The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 158, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1999

Weekly student newspaper from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Some tools of the trade we`ve developed for our cross-section calculations (open access)

Some tools of the trade we`ve developed for our cross-section calculations

A number of compute codes have been modified or developed, both main-frame and PC. Seven codes, of which three are discussed in some detail. The later are: a controller-driven, double-precision version of the coupled-channel code ECIS; the latest version of STAPRE, a precompound plus Hauser-Feshbach nuclear reaction code; and NUSTART, a PC code that analyzes large sets of discrete nuclear levels and the multipole transitions among them. All main-frame codes are now being converted to the UNICOS operating system.
Date: November 1, 1992
Creator: Gardner, D. G. & Gardner, M. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
7th International Workshop on the Identification of Transcribed Sequences. Beyond the Identification of Transcribed Sequences (open access)

7th International Workshop on the Identification of Transcribed Sequences. Beyond the Identification of Transcribed Sequences

The Seventh Annual Human Genome Conference: Beyond the Identification of Transcribed Sequences (BITS) was held November 16-19, 1997 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California. The format for the meeting was a combination of oral presentations, group discussions and poster sessions. The original workshop was held to discuss methodologies for the identification of transcribed sequences in mammalian genomes. Over the years, the focus of the workshops has gradually shifted towards functional analysis, with the most dramatic change in emphasis at this meeting, as reflected in the modest change in the workshop title. Topics presented and discussed included: (1) large scale expression and mutational analysis in yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila and zebrafish, (2) comparative mapping of zebrafish, chicken and Fugu; (3) functional analysis in mouse using promoter traps, mutational analysis of biochemical pathways, and Cre/lox constructs; (4) construction of 5 foot end and complete cDNA libraries; (5) expression analysis in mammalian organisms by array screening and differential display; (6) genome organization as determined by detailed transcriptional mapping and genomic sequence analysis; (7) analysis of genomic sequence, including gene and regulatory sequence predictions, annotation of genomic sequence, development of expression databases and verification of sequence analysis predictions; and (8) structural/functional relationships …
Date: November 19, 1997
Creator: Gardner, Kathleen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indium donor complexes with cation vacancies in CdTe and ZnSe (open access)

Indium donor complexes with cation vacancies in CdTe and ZnSe

Very dilute (10{sub 12} cm{sup {minus}3}) indium donors in CdTe and ZnSe powders and in CdTe single crystals were investigated using {sup 111}In Perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy. Most indium atoms are in uncomplexed sites but can form weakly-bound complexes with native defects in very defective material. The only complex observed in CdTe is an indium-Cd vacancy pair. The CdTe in which these pairs occur is apparently n-type, most Cd vacancies are free and doubly-charged, and the binding energy with indium is 0.15 eV. In ZnSe, indium can pair with a Zn vacancy or with some other presently unidentified defect. These complexes form in ZnSe containing large concentrations of both free Zn vacancies and complexes of Zn vacancies with other defects. In CdTe, the pair formation equilibration time constant is two days at 15C,an implication that Cd vacancies are mobile at room temperature. Lattice relaxation around a Cd vacancy in CdTe was probed by single crystal PAC experiments.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Griffith, J. W.; Lundquist, R.; Platzer, R.; Gardner, J. A.; Karczewski, G. & Furdyna, J. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intercomparison of theoretical calculations of important activation cross sections for fusion reactor technology (open access)

Intercomparison of theoretical calculations of important activation cross sections for fusion reactor technology

Various theoretical calculations of radionuclides in the reactions {sup 94}Mo(n,p){sup 94}Nb, {sup 109}Ag(n,2n){sup 108m}Ag, {sup 151}Eu(n,2n){sup 150m}Eu, {sup 153}Eu(n,2n){sup 152g+m2}Eu, {sup 159}Tb(n,2n){sup 158}Tb, {sup 187}Re(n,2n){sup 186m}Re, {sup 179}Hf(n,2n){sup l78m2}Hf, {sup 193}Ir(n,2n){sup 192m2}Ir are compared. We normalize the theoretical results to the evaluated experimental data at 14.5 MeV, and take their average. This yields averaged theoretical excitation functions for the production of the various radionuclides at neutron energies ranging from threshold to 14.5 MeV. We discuss differences between the various theoretical results, and between theory and data where they exist. Our theoretical results may be used in conjunction with experimental data to produce evaluated radionuclide production cross sections for neutron energies lower than 14.5 MeV.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Chadwick, M. B.; Gardner, M.; Gardner, D.; Grudzevich, O. T.; Ignatyuk, A. V.; Meadows, J. W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Optimization of a Shaped-Charge Design Using Parallel Computers (open access)

The Optimization of a Shaped-Charge Design Using Parallel Computers

Current supercomputers use large parallel arrays of tightly coupled processors to achieve levels of performance far surpassing conventional vector supercomputers. Shock-wave physics codes have been developed for these new supercomputers at Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere. These parallel codes run fast enough on many simulations to consider using them to study the effects of varying design parameters on the performance of models of conventional munitions and other complex systems. Such studies maybe directed by optimization software to improve the performance of the modeled system. Using a shaped-charge jet design as an archetypal test case and the CTH parallel shock-wave physics code controlled by the Dakota optimization software, we explored the use of automatic optimization tools to optimize the design for conventional munitions. We used a scheme in which a lower resolution computational mesh was used to identify candidate optimal solutions and then these were verified using a higher resolution mesh. We identified three optimal solutions for the model and a region of the design domain where the jet tip speed is nearly optimal, indicating the possibility of a robust design. Based on this study we identified some of the difficulties in using high-fidelity models with optimization software to develop improved …
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: Gardner, David R. & Vaughan, Courtenay T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reservoir fracture mapping using microearthquakes: Austin chalk, Giddings field, TX and 76 field, Clinton Co., KY (open access)

Reservoir fracture mapping using microearthquakes: Austin chalk, Giddings field, TX and 76 field, Clinton Co., KY

Patterns of microearthquakes detected downhole defined fracture orientation and extent in the Austin chalk, Giddings field, TX and the 76 field, Clinton Co., KY. We collected over 480 and 770 microearthquakes during hydraulic stimulation at two sites in the Austin chalk, and over 3200 during primary production in Clinton Co. Data were of high enough quality that 20%, 31% and 53% of the events could be located, respectively. Reflected waves constrained microearthquakes to the stimulated depths at the base of the Austin chalk. In plan view, microearthquakes defined elongate fracture zones extending from the stimulation wells parallel to the regional fracture trend. However, widths of the stimulated zones differed by a factor of five between the two Austin chalk sites, indicating a large difference in the population of ancillary fractures. Post-stimulation production was much higher from the wider zone. At Clinton Co., microearthquakes defined low-angle, reverse-fault fracture zones above and below a producing zone. Associations with depleted production intervals indicated the mapped fractures had been previously drained. Drilling showed that the fractures currently contain brine. The seismic behavior was consistent with poroelastic models that predicted slight increases in compressive stress above and below the drained volume.
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Phillips, W. S.; Rutledge, J. T.; Gardner, T. L.; Fairbanks, T. D.; Miller, M. E. & Schuessler, B. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Instructor-Free Training Department (open access)

The Instructor-Free Training Department

Today`s skills will be obsolete in the year 2000. That workforce will require a much higher degree of technical sophistication and adaptability. Enormous demands will be made of DOE contractor training departments even as federal deficit reduction actions increasingly restrict resources and as the emergence of electronic performance support systems appear to diminish the need for training. True training will still be required but they must, and can, train better, faster, and cheaper. These goals are attainable by implementing the implications of performance-based training and by focusing on learning instead of on teaching. (Indeed, ability to learn efficiently and rapidly will be the premier talent in the next century.) Training Departments must dedicate themselves to changing performance, not to teaching classes. The best training department of the future will have no {open_quotes}instructors{close_quotes}. Trainingforce 2000 will look and function much differently.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Gardner, P. R. & Sanford, D. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implementation of deep soil mixing at the Kansas City Plant (open access)

Implementation of deep soil mixing at the Kansas City Plant

In July 1996, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Kansas City Plant (KCP), AlliedSignal Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), conducted field-scale tests of in situ soil mixing and treatment technologies within the Northeast Area (NEA) of the KCP at the Former Ponds site. This demonstration, testing, and evaluation effort was conducted as part of the implementation of a deep soil mixing (DSM) innovative remedial technology demonstration project designed to test DSM in the low-permeability clay soils at the KCP. The clay soils and groundwater beneath this area are contaminated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs), primarily trichloroethene (TCE) and 1,2-dichloroethene (1,2-DCE). The demonstration project was originally designed to evaluate TCE and 1,2-DCE removal efficiency using soil mixing coupled with vapor stripping. Treatability study results, however, indicated that mixed region vapor stripping (MRVS) coupled with calcium oxide (dry lime powder) injection would improve TCE and 1,2-DCE removal efficiency in saturated soils. The scope of the KCP DSM demonstration evolved to implement DSM with the following in situ treatment methodologies for contaminant source reduction in soil and groundwater: DSM/MRVS coupled with calcium oxide injection; DSM/bioaugmentation; and DSM/chemical oxidation using potassium permanganate. Laboratory treatability studies were started in 1995 …
Date: November 1, 1998
Creator: Gardner, F. G.; Korte, N.; Strong-Gunderson, J.; Siegrist, R. L.; West, O. R.; Cline, S. R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transition and gap models of forest dynamics (open access)

Transition and gap models of forest dynamics

Article discussing transition and gap models of forest dynamics.
Date: November 1, 1995
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Urban, D. L. & Ablan, Magdiel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of Foreign Travel of Environmental Sciences Research Staff, October 1990 (open access)

Report of Foreign Travel of Environmental Sciences Research Staff, October 1990

BIOMOVS (BIOspheric MOdel Validation Study) is an international cooperative study initiated in 1985 by the Swedish National Institute of Radiation Protection to test models designed to calculate the environmental transfer and bioaccumulation of radionuclides and other trace substances. The objective of the symposium and workshop was to synthesize results obtained during Phase 1 of BIOMOVS (the first five years of the study) and to suggest new directions that might be pursued during Phase 2 of BIOMOVS. The travelers were an instrumental part of the development of BIOMOVS. This symposium allowed the travelers to present a review of past efforts at model validation and a synthesis of current activities and to refine ideas concerning future development of models and data for assessing the fate, effect, and human risks of environmental contaminants. R. H. Gardner also visited the Free University, Amsterdam, and the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM) in Bilthoven to confer with scientists about current research in theoretical ecology and the use of models for estimating the transport and effect of environmental contaminants and to learn about the European efforts to map critical loads of acid deposition.
Date: November 7, 1990
Creator: Blaylock, B. Gordon; Hoffman, F. Owen & Gardner, Robert H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift (open access)

The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift

Hyron Spinrad's career has spanned several decades, and has stretched from our neighboring planets to the most remote galaxies in the Universe, pausing in between to ''enrich'' our knowledge of the compositions of stars.
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: Bunker, A. J. & van Breugel, W. J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A survey of metallurgical research on several actinides (open access)

A survey of metallurgical research on several actinides

A Los Alamos perspective on metallurgical research on neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, and californium is presented. Alloying behaviors of these metals are discussed. Metal fabrication technologies, principally for plutonium, are emphasized.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Olivas, J. D. & Schonfeld, F. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of pulse stretching cell for a sodium guide star optical system (open access)

Design of pulse stretching cell for a sodium guide star optical system

A pulse stretcher has been designed for the LLNL sodium guide star experiment to lower the laser flux and avoid saturation effects. The optical design, mechanical layout and wavefront error analysis are presented.
Date: November 10, 1992
Creator: Friedman, H. W.; Horton, J. A.; Kuklo, T. J. & Wong, N. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Origin of relativistic effects in the reaction D(e, e{prime}p)n at GeV energies (open access)

Origin of relativistic effects in the reaction D(e, e{prime}p)n at GeV energies

In a series of recent publications, a new approach to the non-relativistic reduction of the electromagnetic current operator in calculations of electro-nuclear reactions has been introduced. In one of these papers, the conjecture that at energies of a few GeV, the bulk of the relativistic effects comes from the current and not from the nuclear dynamics was made, based on the large relativistic effects in the transverse-longitudinal response. Here, the authors explicitly compare a fully relativistic, manifestly covariant calculation performed with the Gross equation, with a calculation that uses a non-relativistic wave function and a fully relativistic current operator. They find very good agreement up to missing momenta of 400 MeV/c, thus confirming the previous conjecture. They discuss slight deviations in cross sections for higher missing momenta and their possible origin, namely p-wave contributions and off-shell effects.
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: Jeschonnek, S. & Van Orden, J.W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Imaging the Universe in Three Dimensions: Astrophysics with Advanced Multi-Wavelength Imaging Devices (open access)

Imaging the Universe in Three Dimensions: Astrophysics with Advanced Multi-Wavelength Imaging Devices

This conference demonstrated the coming of age of 3-D astronomy as a standard tool, rather than as a technological niche. In particular, several integral field spectrometers are now in use, and many more are now in development for the new ground-based 6-10 meter class telescopes, and in study for space use, and are described in the papers of this conference. The astronomical roles of various forms of 3-D technologies are summarized.
Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: van Breugel, W & Bland-Hawthorn, J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eddy current control in the AGS rapid cycling booster accelerator magnets (open access)

Eddy current control in the AGS rapid cycling booster accelerator magnets

The Booster requires highly variable magnet cycles. When B is large, eddy current induced sextupole, etc., in the dipole vacuum chamber (VC) is large, with a much smaller contribution from magnet ends. Simple passive coils excited automatically by transformer action cancel the B induced sextupole. A self correction coil is not required for the quadrupoles, since g induced aberrations are very small (< 1.0 {times} 10{sup {minus}4} at full aperture). Iron magnetization does not produce dipole or quadrupole magnet multipole aberrations, so these magnets have been effectively made independent of unwanted multipoles for all cycles. However, variations in the transfer functions and thus the Booster tune have not been automatically eliminated. Iron magnetization contributions are almost matched, but the B induced field retardation in the dipoles VC is larger than in the quadrupoles. Results of measurements will be presented, plus a simple system to overcome the mismatch and make the tune independent of B. Properties of special lattice magnets and their corrections will also be described.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Danby, G. T.; Jackson, J. W. & Spataro, C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Busted Butte Unsaturated Zone Transport Test: Fiscal Year 1998 Status Report Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Program Deliverable SPU85M4 (open access)

Busted Butte Unsaturated Zone Transport Test: Fiscal Year 1998 Status Report Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Program Deliverable SPU85M4

This report describes the status of the Busted Butte Unsaturated Zone Transport Test (UZTT) and documents the progress of construction activities and site and laboratory characterization activities undertaken in fiscal year 1998. Also presented are predictive flow-and-transport simulations for Test Phases 1 and 2 of testing and the preliminary results and status of these test phases. Future anticipated results obtained from unsaturated-zone (UZ) transport testing in the Calico Hills Formation at Busted Butte are also discussed in view of their importance to performance assessment (PA) needs to build confidence in and reduce the uncertainty of site-scale flow-and-transport models and their abstractions for performance for license application. The principal objectives of the test are to address uncertainties associated with flow and transport in the UZ site-process models for Yucca Mountain, as identified by the PA working group in February 1997. These include but are not restricted to: (1) The effect of heterogeneities on flow and transport in unsaturated and partially saturated conditions in the Calico Hills Formation. In particular, the test aims to address issues relevant to fracture-matrix interactions and permeability contrast boundaries; (2) The migration behavior of colloids in fractured and unfractured Calico Hills rocks; (3) The validation through field …
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: Bussod, G.Y.; Turin, H.J. & Lowry, W.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury migration into ground water, a literature study (open access)

Mercury migration into ground water, a literature study

This report presents a broad review of the technical literature dealing with mercury migration in the soil. The approach followed was to identify relevant articles by searching bibliographic data bases, obtaining the promising articles and searching these articles for any additional relevant citations. Eight catagories were used to organize the literature, with a review and summary of each paper. Catagories used were the following: chemical states of mercury under environmental conditions; diffusion of mercury vapor through soil; solubility and stability of mercury in environmental waters; transport of mercury on colloids; models for mercury migration through the environment; analytical techniques; retention of mercury by soil components; formation of organomecurials.
Date: November 1, 1994
Creator: Carlton, W. H.; Carden, J. L.; Kury, R. & Eichholz, G. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tank Vapor Characterization Project: Headspace vapor characterization of Hanford Waste Tank U-204, Results from samples collected on August 8, 1995 (open access)

Tank Vapor Characterization Project: Headspace vapor characterization of Hanford Waste Tank U-204, Results from samples collected on August 8, 1995

This report describes the analytical results of vapor samples taken from the headspace of the waste storage tank 241-U-204 (Tank U-204) at the Hanford Site in Washington State. The results described in this report were obtained to characterize the vapors present in the tank headspace and to support safety evaluations and tank-farm operations. The results include air concentrations of selected inorganic and organic analytes and grouped compounds from samples obtained by Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC) and provided for analysis to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL). Analyses were performed by the Vapor Analytical Laboratory (VAL) at PNL. Analyte concentrations were based on analytical results and, where appropriate, sample volumes provided by WHC. A summary of the results is listed. Detailed descriptions of the analytical results appear in the text.
Date: November 1, 1995
Creator: Clauss, T. W.; Evans, J. C.; McVeety, B. D.; Pool, K. H.; Thomas, B. L.; Olsen, K. B. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library