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LSST Science Book, Version 2.0 (open access)

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

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Date: July 9, 2013
Creator: Abell, Paul A.; Allison, Julius; Anderson, Scott F.; Andrew, John R.; Angel, J.; Roger, P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany (open access)

Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany

Collection of popular Texas folklore, including cowboy and gaucho songs, information about boat-making and other folk crafts, religious anecdotes, and other miscellaneous stories of early cowboy life in Texas. The index begins on page 165.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 14, 2010 to December 16, 2010.
Date: 2010-01-14/2010-12-16
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 10, 2013 to December 19, 2013.
Date: 2013-01-10/2013-12-19
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2014] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2014]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 9, 2014 to December 18, 2014.
Date: 2014-01-09/2014-12-18
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building 419 Closure Report - May 2013 (open access)

Building 419 Closure Report - May 2013

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: Abri, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Phase Transition Enthalpy Measurements of Organic and Organometallic Compounds and Ionic Liquids. Sublimation, Vaporization and Fusion Enthalpies From 1880 to 2015. Part 2. C11-C192.

This article updates the second part of a compendium of phase change enthalpies published in 2010 to include the period 1880-2015.
Date: March 8, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Chickos, James S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Phase Transition Enthalpy Measurements of Organic and Organometallic Compounds. Sublimation, Vaporization and Fusion Enthalpies From 1880 to 2015. Part 1. C1-C10

This article updates a compendium of phase change enthalpies published in 2010 to include the period 1880-2015.
Date: July 21, 2016
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Chickos, James S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory Evaporation Testing Of Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Low Activity Waste Off-Gas Condensate Simulant (open access)

Laboratory Evaporation Testing Of Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Low Activity Waste Off-Gas Condensate Simulant

The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Low Activity Waste (LAW) vitrification facility will generate an aqueous condensate recycle stream, LAW Off-Gas Condensate, from the off-gas system. The baseline plan for disposition of this stream is to send it to the WTP Pretreatment Facility, where it will be blended with LAW, concentrated by evaporation and recycled to the LAW vitrification facility again. Alternate disposition of this stream would eliminate recycling of problematic components, and would enable de-coupled operation of the LAW melter and the Pretreatment Facilities. Eliminating this stream from recycling within WTP would also decrease the LAW vitrification mission duration and quantity of canistered glass waste forms. This LAW Off-Gas Condensate stream contains components that are volatile at melter temperatures and are problematic for the glass waste form. Because this stream recycles within WTP, these components accumulate in the Condensate stream, exacerbating their impact on the number of LAW glass containers that must be produced. Approximately 32% of the sodium in Supplemental LAW comes from glass formers used to make the extra glass to dilute the halides to be within acceptable concentration ranges in the LAW glass. Diverting the stream reduces the halides in the recycled Condensate and …
Date: January 27, 2014
Creator: Adamson, Duane J.; Nash, Charles A.; McCabe, Daniel J.; Crawford, Charles L. & Wilmarth, William R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwestern Regional Partnership For Carbon Sequestration (Phase 2) Pump Canyon CO2- ECBM/Sequestration Demonstration, San Juan Basin, New Mexico (open access)

Southwestern Regional Partnership For Carbon Sequestration (Phase 2) Pump Canyon CO2- ECBM/Sequestration Demonstration, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Within the Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP), three demonstrations of geologic CO{sub 2} sequestration are being performed -- one in an oilfield (the SACROC Unit in the Permian basin of west Texas), one in a deep, unmineable coalbed (the Pump Canyon site in the San Juan basin of northern New Mexico), and one in a deep, saline reservoir (underlying the Aneth oilfield in the Paradox basin of southeast Utah). The Pump Canyon CO{sub 2}-enhanced coalbed methane (CO{sub 2}/ECBM) sequestration demonstration project plans to demonstrate the effectiveness of CO{sub 2} sequestration in deep, unmineable coal seams via a small-scale geologic sequestration project. The site is located in San Juan County, northern New Mexico, just within the limits of the high-permeability fairway of prolific coalbed methane production. The study area for the SWP project consists of 31 coalbed methane production wells located in a nine section area. CO{sub 2} was injected continuously for a year and different monitoring, verification and accounting (MVA) techniques were implemented to track the CO{sub 2} movement inside and outside the reservoir. Some of the MVA methods include continuous measurement of injection volumes, pressures and temperatures within the injection well, coalbed methane production rates, pressures and …
Date: January 31, 2010
Creator: Advanced Resources International
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fate and Effects of Barium and Radium-Rich Fluid Emissions of Hydrocarbon Seeps on the Benthic Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Louisiana (open access)

Fate and Effects of Barium and Radium-Rich Fluid Emissions of Hydrocarbon Seeps on the Benthic Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Louisiana

An analysis of how barium and radium-laced fluid seeps affect the climate and habitats of the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Aharon, Paul; Gent, Dan Van; Fu, Baoshun & Scott, L. Max
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Texas Archeology and History, Volume 2, 2015 (open access)

Journal of Texas Archeology and History, Volume 2, 2015

Annual, peer-reviewed journal containing research articles related to archeology and history in Texas and surrounding areas -- Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and northern Mexico ("Texas Borderlands").
Date: 2015
Creator: Ahlman, Todd M.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expertise Revisited: Reflecting on the Intersection of Science and Democracy in the Case of Fracking (open access)

Expertise Revisited: Reflecting on the Intersection of Science and Democracy in the Case of Fracking

This dissertation aims to explain the conditions under which expertise can undermine democratic decision making. I argue that the root of the conflict between expertise and democracy lies in what I call insufficiently “representative” expertise – that is forms of scientific research that are not relevant to the policy questions at hand and that fail to make visible their hidden values dimensions. I claim that the scholarly literature on the problem of expertise fails to recognize and address the issue correctly, because it does not open the black box of scientific methodologies. I maintain that only by making sense of the methodological choices of experts in the context of policy making can we determine the relevance of research and reveal the hidden socio-political values and consequences. Using the case of natural gas fracking, I demonstrate how expert contributions – even though epistemically sound – can muddle democratic policy processes. I present four case studies from controversies about fracking to show how to contextualize scientific methodologies in the pertinent political process. I argue that the common problem across all case studies is the failure of expertise to sufficiently represent stakeholders’ problems and concerns. In this context, “representation” has three criteria: (1) …
Date: December 2015
Creator: Ahmadi, Mahdi
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia (open access)

Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia

.This Asian Development Bank (ADB) study examined the economic costs associated with the impacts of climate change and the cost and benefits of adaptation in Bangladesh,Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study aimed to (i) assess the biophysical impacts of climate change in the region, including individual country impacts, and (ii) estimate the total economic loss to the countries in the region by 2100, taking into account the different scenarios and impacts projected across vulnerable sectors, and then to estimate the magnitude of funding for adaptation measures required to avert such potential losses. Results of the study will aid development of future policies and programs for climate change adaptation in the region, including initiatives for regional cooperation and capacity building in climate change management. The study covered the following sectors: agriculture, terrestrial ecosystems, water, marine and coastal resources (except Bhutan and Nepal), health, and energy.
Date: June 1, 2014
Creator: Ahmed, Mahfuz & Suphachol Suphachalasai
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Multi-TeV Linear Collider Based on CLIC Technology : CLIC Conceptual Design Report (open access)

A Multi-TeV Linear Collider Based on CLIC Technology : CLIC Conceptual Design Report

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Date: February 13, 2014
Creator: Aicheler, M; Burrows, P.; Draper, M.; Garvey, T.; Lebrun, P.; Peach, K. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wills Road Map: Practical Considerations in Will Drafting (open access)

Wills Road Map: Practical Considerations in Will Drafting

From introduction: "The purpose of Wills Road Map is to pull together legal concepts from various areas that impact the preparation of wills, including wills, probate, and trust law. While it features a very basic discussion of estate tax planning, the primary focus is on the various state law issues [...] to provide practical help, so the emphasis is on addressing principles that can affect the will beyond the language used in the will itself" (p. xiii).
Date: 2014
Creator: Akers, Steve R.; Jones, Bernard E. & Watts, R. J., II
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
OPIC, USAID, and Proposed Development Finance Reorganization (open access)

OPIC, USAID, and Proposed Development Finance Reorganization

This report discusses a proposed reorganization of U.S. developmental aid programs that would consolidate several agencies into one central agency. Various pros and cons of the proposal are also included.
Date: April 27, 2018
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias & Tarnoff, Curt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oil in Ghana: a curse or not? Examining environmental justice and the social process in policymaking (open access)

Oil in Ghana: a curse or not? Examining environmental justice and the social process in policymaking

There is great expectation that oil development in Ghana will catapult the nation towards prosperity and lead to drastic improvement in the wellbeing of Ghanaians. However, there is also concern that Ghana could fail to achieve these due to the resource curse notwithstanding the fact that scholars of the curse have yet to agree on the inevitability of the curse. Resource curse scholars adduce different reasons for its occurrence or absence. One thing common among the scholars, however, is that none discusses environmental justice in the context of the curse. In this dissertation, I examine Ghana's attempts at avoiding the resource curse through policymaking and implementation using the Guidelines on Environmental Assessment and Management of Ghana's offshore oil sector as a case study. I argue that a strong environmental justice frame is required to avert the curse in Ghana. Specifically, I assess the policy process in Ghana's oil sector, the institutional framework for managing the sector, and analyze the perception of environmental justice for policymaking. The outcome of these assessments show that although the policy process requires broadening for full and effective participation, Ghana has checks and balances policies to avert the resource curse and to deliver environmental justice in …
Date: May 2018
Creator: Akon Yamga, Gordon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Potable Reuse Resource Document, Final Report, Volume 2 (open access)

Direct Potable Reuse Resource Document, Final Report, Volume 2

Appendix to report on on direct potable resuse of water that addresses common chemicals found in water, treatment methods, and standards for potability.
Date: April 2015
Creator: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-mexico Border

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The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to one’s health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today’s Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border.” In Riding Lucifer’s Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande. The timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory sections: “The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874-1901” and “The Ranger Force Era, 1901-1935,” wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological times. Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, Riding Lucifer’s Line is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is …
Date: May 15, 2013
Creator: Alexander, Bob
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones

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Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four “great” captains of that era: J.A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney "P.C." Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar "Baz" Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones’ law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. …
Date: March 2015
Creator: Alexander, Bob
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Whiskey River Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

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Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), “A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men.” Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw “was one of the worst and most dangerous” because “he never knew what fear was.” But not all thought so highly of him. In Whiskey River Ranger, Bob Alexander tells for the first time the full story of this troubled Texas Ranger and his losing battle with alcoholism. In his career Baz Outlaw wore a badge as a Texas Ranger and also as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. He could be a fearless and crackerjack lawman, as well as an unmanageable manic. Although Baz Outlaw’s badge-wearing career was sometimes heroically creditable, at other times his self-induced nightmarish imbroglios teased and tested Texas Ranger management’s resoluteness. Baz Outlaw’s true-life story is jam-packed with fellows owning well-known names, including Texas Rangers, city marshals, sheriffs, and steely-eyed mean-spirited miscreants. Baz Outlaw’s tale is complete with horseback chases, explosive train robberies, vigilante justice (or injustice), nighttime ambushes and bushwhacking, and episodes of scorching six-shooter finality. Baz met his end in a …
Date: April 2016
Creator: Alexander, Bob
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library