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How to Find Information in a Library (open access)

How to Find Information in a Library

This report "includes background information (encyclopedias, almanacs, and business, statistical, and biographical directories), current information (books and magazines), sources such as organizations and foundations and sources for government, politics, and legislation. It lists a number of Internet search engines, which can be used at many public libraries." (from Summary)
Date: August 3, 2000
Creator: Platt, Suzy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings: Supplement to Information Needs of Texans, 1978 (open access)

Proceedings: Supplement to Information Needs of Texans, 1978

Proceedings of the town hall meeting reports including access to the meetings, facilities, conference concerns, funding, information services, planning, and respondents.
Date: November 3, 1978
Creator: Texas Conference on Library and Information Services
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The U.S. Science and Technology Workforce (open access)

The U.S. Science and Technology Workforce

This report provides an overview of the status of the U.S. science and technology (S&T) workforce, and identifies some of the issues and options that are currently being discussed in Congress.
Date: February 3, 2009
Creator: Stine, Deborah D. & Matthews, Christine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report: ASIS&T Task Force on Webinars (open access)

Final Report: ASIS&T Task Force on Webinars

This report was submitted to the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Board of Directors. In June 2011, an ASIS&T Task Force on Webinars was appointed. This is the final report discusses the findings of this task force and recommendations.
Date: October 3, 2011
Creator: Neal, Diane Rasmussen; Abbas, June, 1964-; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Garnett, Alex & Green, Remlee
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
JCZS: An Intermolecular Potential Database for Performing Accurate Detonation and Expansion Calculations (open access)

JCZS: An Intermolecular Potential Database for Performing Accurate Detonation and Expansion Calculations

Exponential-13,6 (EXP-13,6) potential pammeters for 750 gases composed of 48 elements were determined and assembled in a database, referred to as the JCZS database, for use with the Jacobs Cowperthwaite Zwisler equation of state (JCZ3-EOS)~l) The EXP- 13,6 force constants were obtained by using literature values of Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential functions, by using corresponding states (CS) theory, by matching pure liquid shock Hugoniot data, and by using molecular volume to determine the approach radii with the well depth estimated from high-pressure isen- tropes. The JCZS database was used to accurately predict detonation velocity, pressure, and temperature for 50 dif- 3 Accurate predictions were also ferent explosives with initial densities ranging from 0.25 glcm3 to 1.97 g/cm . obtained for pure liquid shock Hugoniots, static properties of nitrogen, and gas detonations at high initial pressures.
Date: November 3, 1998
Creator: Baer, Melvin R.; Hobbs, Michael L. & McGee, Bruce C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force (open access)

Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force

The increased presence of foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs and in the scientific workforce has been and continues to be of concern to some in the scientific community. Enrollment of U.S. citizens in graduate science and engineering programs has not kept pace with that of foreign students in those programs. In addition to the number of foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs, a significant number of university faculty in the scientific disciplines are foreign, and foreign doctorates are employed in large numbers by industry. This report examines these issues and discusses their policy implications.
Date: January 3, 2006
Creator: Matthews, Christine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Support for the State Legislatures: The Role of Advanced Technology (open access)

Information Support for the State Legislatures: The Role of Advanced Technology

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Date: January 3, 1978
Creator: Chartrand, Robert L. & Jane B. Staenberg
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specific Heats and Enthalpies of Technical Solids at Low Temperatures: A Compilation from the Literature (open access)

Specific Heats and Enthalpies of Technical Solids at Low Temperatures: A Compilation from the Literature

Report giving tables of the specific heat, cp, and the enthalpy of 28 metals, 3 alloys, 8 other inorganic substances, and 8 organic substances in the temperature range, 1º to 300º K.
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Corruccini, Robert J. & Gniewek, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A flexible object-oriented software framework for developing complex multimedia simulations. (open access)

A flexible object-oriented software framework for developing complex multimedia simulations.

Decision makers involved in brownfields redevelopment and long-term stewardship must consider environmental conditions, future-use potential, site ownership, area infrastructure, funding resources, cost recovery, regulations, risk and liability management, community relations, and expected return on investment in a comprehensive and integrated fashion to achieve desired results. Successful brownfields redevelopment requires the ability to assess the impacts of redevelopment options on multiple interrelated aspects of the ecosystem, both natural and societal. Computer-based tools, such as simulation models, databases, and geographical information systems (GISs) can be used to address brownfields planning and project execution. The transparent integration of these tools into a comprehensive and dynamic decision support system would greatly enhance the brownfields assessment process. Such a system needs to be able to adapt to shifting and expanding analytical requirements and contexts. The Dynamic Information Architecture System (DIAS) is a flexible, extensible, object-oriented framework for developing and maintaining complex multidisciplinary simulations of a wide variety of application domains. The modeling domain of a specific DIAS-based simulation is determined by (1) software objects that represent the real-world entities that comprise the problem space (atmosphere, watershed, human), and (2) simulation models and other data processing applications that express the dynamic behaviors of the domain entities. …
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Sydelko, P. J.; Dolph, J. E. & Christiansen, J. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of job burnout in technical writers and technical illustrators/designers at LLNL (open access)

Study of job burnout in technical writers and technical illustrators/designers at LLNL

According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress is estimated to cost American industry more than $200 billion a year. These costs are, in part, related to the estimated 1 million employees that will be absent on an average workday because of stress; 75 percent of visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related problems. California workers' compensation claims for stress cost $1 billion for medical and legal fees alone (Murphy, 1997). But, there is another dimension to stress that needs to be addressed. Job stress can be a precursor to job burnout. Burnout is a loss of motivation, and antidotes for job stress will not necessarily alleviate or stop job burnout. Job burnout is experienced as exhaustion on physical, emotional, and cognitive levels. Burnout can include withdrawal and decreasing involvement on the job, seriously affecting job satisfaction, turnover, absenteeism, and productivity (Dwyer & Ganster, 1991; Erickson & Gunderson, 1972; Spector & Jex, 1991). The research project described in this paper examined whether job burnout exists in the technical writer and technical illustrator/designer occupations in the Technical Information Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This study also determined at what age and after how many years of service these …
Date: June 3, 1998
Creator: Rice, J A
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CHANDRA AND XMM-NEWTON OBSERVATIONS OF RDCS1252.9-2927, A MASSIVE CLUSTER AT z = 1.24 (open access)

CHANDRA AND XMM-NEWTON OBSERVATIONS OF RDCS1252.9-2927, A MASSIVE CLUSTER AT z = 1.24

We present deep Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the galaxy cluster RDCS1252.9-2927, which was selected from the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey (RDCS) and confirmed by extensive spectroscopy with the VLT at redshift z = 1.237. With the Chandra data, the X-ray emission from the intra-cluster medium is well resolved and traced out to 500 kpc, thus allowing a measurement of the physical properties of the gas with unprecedented accuracy at this redshift. We detect a clear 6.7 keV Iron K line in the Chandra spectrum providing a redshift within 1% of the spectroscopic one. By augmenting our spectroscopic analysis with the XMM-Newton data (MOS detectors only), we significantly narrow down the 1{sigma} error bar to 10% for the temperature and 30% for the metallicity, with best fit values kT = 6.0{sup +0.7}{sub -0.5} keV, Z = 0.36{sup +0.12}{sup -0.10}Z{sub {circle_dot}}. In the likely hypothesis of hydrostatic equilibrium, we measure a total mass of M{sub 500} = (1.9{+-}0.3)10{sup 14}h{sup -1}{sub 70} M{sub {circle_dot}} within R{sub {Delta}=500} {approx} 536 kpc. Overall, these observations imply that RDCS1252.9-2927 is the most X-ray luminous and likely the most massive bona-fide cluster discovered to date at z > 1. When combined with current samples of distant …
Date: March 3, 2004
Creator: Demarco, R.; Ettori, S.; Tozzi, P.; Borgani, S.; Mainieri, V.; Nonino, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ISCR annual report FY 1998 (open access)

ISCR annual report FY 1998

Advances in scientific computing research have never been more vital to the core missions of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory than they are today. These advances are evolving so rapidly, and over such a broad front of computational science, that to remain on the leading edge, the Laboratory must collaborate with many academic centers of excellence. In FY 1998, ISCR dramatically expanded its interactions with academia through collaborations, visiting faculty, guests and a seminar series. The pages of this annual report summarize the activities of the 63 faculty members and 34 students who participated in ISCR collaborative activities during FY 1998. The 1998 ISCR call for proposals issued by the University Collaborative Research Program (UCRP) resulted in eight awards made by the University of California Office of the President to research teams at UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley. These projects are noted. ISCR is now part of the Laboratory�s Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC). Many CASC scientists participate actively in ISCR�University collaborations, as noted. The eight collaborations shown represent innovative research efforts supported by ISCR in FY 1998. Abstracts discussing each of these collaborations begin on page 79. The Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) …
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Alchorn, A & Fitzgerald, J M
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seismic Velocities Contain Information About Depth, Lithology, Fluid Content, and Microstructure (open access)

Seismic Velocities Contain Information About Depth, Lithology, Fluid Content, and Microstructure

Recent advances in field and laboratory methods for measuring elastic wave velocities provide incentive and opportunity for improving interpretation of geophysical data for engineering and environmental applications. Advancing the state-of-the-art of seismic imaging requires developing petrophysical relationships between measured velocities and the hydrogeology parameters and lithology. Our approach uses laboratory data and rock physics methods. Compressional (Vp) and shear (Vs) wave velocities, Vp/Vs ratios, and relative wave amplitudes show systematic changes related to composition, saturation, applied stress (analogous to depth), and distribution of clay for laboratory ultrasonic measurements on soils. The artificial soils were mixtures of Ottawa sand and a second phase, either Wyoming bentonite or peat moss used to represent clay or organic components found in natural soils. Compressional and shear wave velocities were measured for dry, saturated, and partially-saturated conditions, for applied stresses between about 7 and 100 kPa, representing approximately the top 5 m of the subsurface. Analysis of the results using rock physics methods shows the link between microstructure and wave propagation, and implications for future advances in seismic data interpretation. For example, we found that Vp in dry sand-clay mixtures initially increases as clay cements the sand grains and fills porosity, but then Vp decreases …
Date: January 3, 2002
Creator: Berge, P A & Bonner, B P
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Early-type Field Galaxies Selected from a NICMOS Map of the Hubble Deep Field North (open access)

The Evolution of Early-type Field Galaxies Selected from a NICMOS Map of the Hubble Deep Field North

The redshift distribution of well-defined samples of distant early-type galaxies offers a means to test the predictions of monolithic and hierarchical galaxy formation scenarios. NICMOS maps of the entire Hubble Deep Field North in the F110W and F160W filters, when combined with the available WFPC2 data, allow us to calculate photometric redshifts and determine the morphological appearance of galaxies at rest-frame optical wavelengths out to z {approx} 2.5. Here we report results for two subsamples of early-type galaxies, defined primarily by their morphologies in the F160W band, which were selected from the NICMOS data down to H{sub 160AB} < 24.0. A primary subsample is defined as the 34 galaxies with early-type galaxy morphologies and early-type galaxy spectral energy distributions. The secondary subsample is defined as those 42 objects which have early-type galaxy morphologies with non-early type galaxy spectral energy distributions. The observed redshift distributions of our two early-type samples do not match that predicted by a monolithic collapse model, which shows an overabundance at z > 1.5. A (V/V{sub max}) test confirms this result. When the effects of passive luminosity evolution are included in the calculation, the mean value of Vmax for the primary sample is 0.22 {+-} 0.05, and …
Date: March 3, 2004
Creator: Somerville, R,; Stanford, S. A.; Budavari, T. & Conselice, C. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
BUGLE-96 validation with MORSE-SGC/S using water and iron experiments from SINBAD 97 (open access)

BUGLE-96 validation with MORSE-SGC/S using water and iron experiments from SINBAD 97

This document summarizes the validation of MORSE-SGC/S with the BUGLE-96 cross section library. SINBAD Benchmark Experiment 2.004, Winfrith Water Benchmark Experiment and SBE 6.001, Karlsruhe Iron Sphere Benchmark Experiment were utilized for this validation. The MORESE-SGC/S code with the BUGLE-96 cross-section library was used to model the experimental configurations as given in SINDBAD 97. SINDBAD is a shielding integral benchmark archive and database developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). For means of comparison, the experimental models were also executed with MORSE-SGC/S using the BUGLE-80 cross-section library. BUGLE-96 cross section will be used for shielding applications only as recommended by ORNL.
Date: December 3, 1999
Creator: Blanchard, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comix, a New Matrix Element Generator (open access)

Comix, a New Matrix Element Generator

We present a new tree-level matrix element generator, based on the color dressed Berends-Giele recursive relations. We discuss two new algorithms for phase space integration, dedicated to be used with large multiplicities and color sampling.
Date: September 3, 2008
Creator: Gleisberg, Tanju & Hoche, Stefan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resolving Some Selected Issues of A National Materials Policy (open access)

Resolving Some Selected Issues of A National Materials Policy

This report is about the A National Materials Policy and resolving some of its selected issues.
Date: July 3, 1973
Creator: The Science Policy Research Division
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement of the Computing - Related Procurement Process at a Government Research Facility (open access)

Improvement of the Computing - Related Procurement Process at a Government Research Facility

The purpose of the project was to develop, implement, and market value-added services through the Computing Resource Center in an effort to streamline computing-related procurement processes across the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The power of the project was in focusing attention on and value of centralizing the delivery of computer related products and services to the institution. The project required a plan and marketing strategy that would drive attention to the facility's value-added offerings and services. A significant outcome of the project has been the change in the CRC internal organization. The realignment of internal policies and practices, together with additions to its product and service offerings has brought an increased focus to the facility. This movement from a small, fractious organization into one that is still small yet well organized and focused on its mission and goals has been a significant transition. Indicative of this turnaround was the sharing of information. One-on-one and small group meetings, together with statistics showing work activity was invaluable in gaining support for more equitable workload distribution, and the removal of blame and finger pointing. Sharing monthly reports on sales and operating costs also had a positive impact.
Date: April 3, 2000
Creator: Gittins, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of existing reactive transport software (open access)

Review of existing reactive transport software

Simulations of thermal and hydrological evolution following the potential emplacement of a subterranean nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, NV provide data that suggest the inevitability of dependent, simultaneous chemical evolution in this system. These chemical changes will modify significantly both the magnitude and structure of local porosity and permeability; hence, they will have a dynamic feedback effect on the evolving thermal and hydrological regime. Yet, despite this intimate interdependence of transport and chemical processes, a rigorous quantitative analysis of the post- emplacement environment that incorporates this critical feedback mechanism has not been completed to date. As an initial step in this direction, the present document outlines the fundamental chemical and transport processes that must be accounted for in such an analysis, and reviews the inventory of existing software that encodes these processed in explicitly coupled form. A companion report describes the prioritization of specific capabilities that are needed for modeling post-emplacement reactive transport at Yucca Mountain.
Date: February 3, 1998
Creator: Glassley, W., LLNL
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ISCR Annual Report: Fical Year 2004 (open access)

ISCR Annual Report: Fical Year 2004

Large-scale scientific computation and all of the disciplines that support and help to validate it have been placed at the focus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) by the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) initiative of the Office of Science of the Department of Energy (DOE). The maturation of computational simulation as a tool of scientific and engineering research is underscored in the November 2004 statement of the Secretary of Energy that, ''high performance computing is the backbone of the nation's science and technology enterprise''. LLNL operates several of the world's most powerful computers--including today's single most powerful--and has undertaken some of the largest and most compute-intensive simulations ever performed. Ultrascale simulation has been identified as one of the highest priorities in DOE's facilities planning for the next two decades. However, computers at architectural extremes are notoriously difficult to use efficiently. Furthermore, each successful terascale simulation only points out the need for much better ways of interacting with the resulting avalanche of data. Advances in scientific computing research have, therefore, never been more vital to LLNL's core missions than at present. Computational science is …
Date: March 3, 2005
Creator: McGraw, J R
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange: theory and practice (open access)

Authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange: theory and practice

Authenticated two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange allows two principals A and B, communicating over a public network, and each holding a pair of matching public/private keys to agree on a session key. Protocols designed to deal with this problem ensure A (B resp.)that no other principals aside from B (A resp.) can learn any information about this value. These protocols additionally often ensure A and B that their respective partner has actually computed the shared secret value. A natural extension to the above cryptographic protocol problem is to consider a pool of principals agreeing on a session key. Over the years several papers have extended the two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange to the multi-party setting but no formal treatments were carried out till recently. In light of recent developments in the formalization of the authenticated two-party Diffie-Hellman key exchange we have in this thesis laid out the authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange on firmer foundations.
Date: October 3, 2002
Creator: Chevassut, Olivier
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers (open access)

Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers

Final report for the Z39.50 interoperability testbed project, phase 2.
Date: December 3, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
50th Anniversary, 1931-1981: symposium and banquet speeches (open access)

50th Anniversary, 1931-1981: symposium and banquet speeches

The proceedings includes talks given at the symposium and the banquet. They include examples of technology at the laboratory and speculation on the future at the laboratory. (GHT)
Date: October 3, 1981
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A methodology for selecting an optimal experimental design for the computer analysis of a complex system (open access)

A methodology for selecting an optimal experimental design for the computer analysis of a complex system

Investigation and evaluation of a complex system is often accomplished through the use of performance measures based on system response models. The response models are constructed using computer-generated responses supported where possible by physical test results. The general problem considered is one where resources and system complexity together restrict the number of simulations that can be performed. The levels of input variables used in defining environmental scenarios, initial and boundary conditions and for setting system parameters must be selected in an efficient way. This report describes an algorithmic approach for performing this selection.
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: RUTHERFORD,BRIAN M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library