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The Condition of the Banking Industry (open access)

The Condition of the Banking Industry

This report provides information about The Condition of the Banking Industry. Smaller banks are less able to garner cheaper funds for lending from wholesale markets and are less able to mitigate their credit and interest rate risks.
Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: Eubanks, Walter W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA): Corps of Engineers Project Authorization Issues (open access)

Water Resources Development Act (WRDA): Corps of Engineers Project Authorization Issues

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Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved as Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than as Treaties (open access)

Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved as Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than as Treaties

Trade agreements such asthe NAFTA and the GATT Uruguay Round agreements have been approved by majority vote of each House of Congress rather than by twothirds vote of the Senate — that is, they have been treated as congressional-executive agreements rather than astreaties. The congressional-executive agreement has been the vehicle for implementingCongress' long-standing policy ofseeking trade benefitsfor the United States through reciprocal trade negotiations. In a succession of statutes, Congress has authorized the President to negotiate and enter into tariff and nontariff barrier (NTB) agreements for limited periods, while mandating that NTB and free trade area agreements negotiated under this authority could enter into force for the United States only if approved by both Houses in a bill enacted into public law and other statutory conditions were met.
Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Background and Analysis (open access)

Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Background and Analysis

This report is intended to serve as an introduction and primer on a complicated, broad, and often highly technical set of issues.
Date: August 24, 2009
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[History of TSDC Meetings] (open access)

[History of TSDC Meetings]

History of Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus meetings from April 2004 to March 2007, discussing proposed amendments and changes to the bylaws of the TSDC organization.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee] (open access)

[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee]

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006 through 2008 Executive Committee list of contact information, club information, and website links.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee] (open access)

[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee]

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006 through 2008 Executive Committee list of contact information, club information, and website links.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee] (open access)

[Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006-2008 Executive Committee]

Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus 2006 through 2008 Executive Committee list of contact information, club information, and website links.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006 (open access)

Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: Judson, Mary Henkel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 347, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 2007 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 347, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 2007

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 341, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 24, 2005 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 341, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2000 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 24, 2000
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 136, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 136, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sludge Treatment Project Cost Comparison Between Hydraulic Loading and Small Canister Loading Concepts (open access)

Sludge Treatment Project Cost Comparison Between Hydraulic Loading and Small Canister Loading Concepts

The Sludge Treatment Project (STP) is considering two different concepts for the retrieval, loading, transport and interim storage of the K Basin sludge. The two design concepts under consideration are: (1) Hydraulic Loading Concept - In the hydraulic loading concept, the sludge is retrieved from the Engineered Containers directly into the Sludge Transport and Storage Container (STSC) while located in the STS cask in the modified KW Basin Annex. The sludge is loaded via a series of transfer, settle, decant, and filtration return steps until the STSC sludge transportation limits are met. The STSC is then transported to T Plant and placed in storage arrays in the T Plant canyon cells for interim storage. (2) Small Canister Concept - In the small canister concept, the sludge is transferred from the Engineered Containers (ECs) into a settling vessel. After settling and decanting, the sludge is loaded underwater into small canisters. The small canisters are then transferred to the existing Fuel Transport System (FTS) where they are loaded underwater into the FTS Shielded Transfer Cask (STC). The STC is raised from the basin and placed into the Cask Transfer Overpack (CTO), loaded onto the trailer in the KW Basin Annex for transport …
Date: August 24, 2009
Creator: Conrad, E. A. & Rhoadarmer, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composit, Nanoparticle-Based Anode material for Li-ion Batteries Applied in Hybrid Electric (HEV's) (open access)

Composit, Nanoparticle-Based Anode material for Li-ion Batteries Applied in Hybrid Electric (HEV's)

Lithium-ion batteries are promising energy storage devices in hybrid and electric vehicles with high specific energy values ({approx}150 Wh/kg), energy density ({approx}400 Wh/L), and long cycle life (>15 years). However, applications in hybrid and electric vehicles require increased energy density and improved low-temperature (<-10 C) performance. Silicon-based anodes are inexpensive, environmentally benign, and offer excellent theoretical capacity values ({approx}4000 mAh/g), leading to significantly less anode material and thus increasing the overall energy density value for the complete battery (>500 Wh/L). However, tremendous volume changes occur during cycling of pure silicon-based anodes. The expansion and contraction of these silicon particles causes them to fracture and lose electrical contact to the current collector ultimately severely limiting their cycle life. In Phase I of this project Yardney Technical Products, Inc. proposed development of a carbon/nano-silicon composite anode material with improved energy density and silicon's cycleability. In the carbon/nano-Si composite, silicon nanoparticles were embedded in a partially-graphitized carbonaceous matrix. The cycle life of anode material would be extended by decreasing the average particle size of active material (silicon) and by encapsulation of silicon nanoparticles in a ductile carbonaceous matrix. Decreasing the average particle size to a nano-region would also shorten Li-ion diffusion path and …
Date: August 24, 2009
Creator: Gulbinska, Dr. Malgorzata
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Environmental Analysis Report for the K-1251 Barge Facility at the East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (open access)

Baseline Environmental Analysis Report for the K-1251 Barge Facility at the East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

This report documents the baseline environmental conditions of the U. S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) K-1251 Barge Facility, which is located at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). DOE is proposing to lease the facility to the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee (CROET). This report provides supporting information for the use, by a potential lessee, of government-owned facilities at ETTP. This report is based upon the requirements of Sect. 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The lease footprint is slightly over 1 acre. The majority of the lease footprint is defined by a perimeter fence that surrounds a gravel-covered area with a small concrete pad within it. Also included is a gravel drive with locked gates at each end that extends on the east side to South First Avenue, providing access to the facility. The facility is located along the Clinch River and an inlet of the river that forms its southern boundary. To the east, west, and north, the lease footprint is surrounded by DOE property. Preparation of this report included the review of government records, title documents, historic aerial photos, visual and physical inspections of the property and adjacent properties, …
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: J.E., Van Winkle
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st century locomotive technology: quarterly technical status report 26 (open access)

21st century locomotive technology: quarterly technical status report 26

Parasitic losses due to hybrid sodium battery thermal management do not significantly reduce the fuel saving benefits of the hybrid locomotive. Optimal thermal management trajectories were converted into realizable algorithms which were robust and gave excellent performance to limit thermal excusions and maintain fuel savings.
Date: August 24, 2009
Creator: Salasoo, Lembit & Chandra, Ramu
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shielding of External Magnetic Perturbations By Torque In Rotating Tokamak Plasmas (open access)

Shielding of External Magnetic Perturbations By Torque In Rotating Tokamak Plasmas

The imposition of a nonaxisymmetric magnetic perturbation on a rotating tokamak plasma requires energy and toroidal torque. Fundamental electrodynamics implies that the torque is essentially limited and must be consistent with the external response of a plasma equilibrium ƒ = j x B. Here magnetic measurements on National Spherical Torus eXperiment (NSTX) device are used to derive the energy and the torque, and these empirical evaluations are compared with theoretical calculations based on perturbed scalar pressure equilibria ƒ = ∇p coupled with the theory of nonambipolar transport. The measurement and the theory are consistent within acceptable uncertainties, but can be largely inconsistent when the torque is comparable to the energy. This is expected since the currents associated with the torque are ignored in scalar pressure equilibria, but these currents tend to shield the perturbation.
Date: August 24, 2009
Creator: Jong-Kyu Park, Allen H. Boozer, Jonathan E. Menard, Stefan P. Gerhardt, and Steve A. Sabbagh
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Down Select Report of Chemical Hydrogen Storage Materials, Catalysts, and Spent Fuel Regeneration Processes (open access)

Down Select Report of Chemical Hydrogen Storage Materials, Catalysts, and Spent Fuel Regeneration Processes

The DOE Hydrogen Storage Program is focused on identifying and developing viable hydrogen storage systems for onboard vehicular applications. The program funds exploratory research directed at identifying new materials and concepts for storage of hydrogen having high gravimetric and volumetric capacities that have the potential to meet long term technical targets for onboard storage. Approaches currently being examined are reversible metal hydride storage materials, reversible hydrogen sorption systems, and chemical hydrogen storage systems. The latter approach concerns materials that release hydrogen in endothermic or exothermic chemical bond-breaking processes. To regenerate the spent fuels arising from hydrogen release from such materials, chemical processes must be employed. These chemical regeneration processes are envisioned to occur offboard the vehicle.
Date: August 24, 2008
Creator: Ott, Kevin; Linehan, Sue; Lipiecki, Frank & Aardahl, Christopher L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of 6061-Aluminum Windows for the MICE Liquid Absorber (open access)

The Development of 6061-Aluminum Windows for the MICE Liquid Absorber

The thin windows for the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) liquid Absorber will be fabricated from 6061-T6-aluminum. The absorber and vacuum vessel thin windows are 300-mm in diameter and are 180 mm thick at the center. The windows are designed for an internal burst pressure of 0.68 MPa (100 psig) when warm. The MICE experiment design calls for changeable windows on the absorber, so a bolted window design was adopted. Welded windows offer some potential advantages over bolted windows when they are on the absorber itself. This report describes the bolted window and its seal. This report also describes an alternate window that is welded directly to the absorber body. The welded window design presented permits the weld to be ground off and re-welded. This report presents a thermal FEA analysis of the window seal-weld, while the window is being welded. Finally, the results of a test of a welded-window are presented.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Lau, W.; Yang, S. Q.; Green, M. A.; Ishimoto, S. & Swanson, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report: Results of Aquifer Pumping and Groundwater Sampling at Everest, Kansas, in January-March 2006. (open access)

Final Report: Results of Aquifer Pumping and Groundwater Sampling at Everest, Kansas, in January-March 2006.

The 2005 investigation of contaminant sources at Agra, Kansas, was conducted at the request of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE; Gotto 2004). The Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory implemented the investigation on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CCC/USDA). The investigation was designed to (1) update the conceptual site model and (2) investigate sources of previously identified carbon tetrachloride contamination in groundwater. Six technical objectives were proposed in the ''Work Plan'' (Argonne 2005). The ''Work Plan'' was approved by the KDHE on March 28, 2005 (KDHE 2005). The six objectives were as follows: (1) Determine the current configuration of the carbon tetrachloride plume in the investigation area. (2) Delineate contamination detected in 1998-1999 at the former CCC/USDA facility. (3) Investigate the Pro-Ag Co-op property for evidence of releases of carbon tetrachloride. (4) Investigate the area adjacent to the site of the former retail store for evidence of releases of carbon tetrachloride to the subsurface. (5) Collect data to support the analysis of potential remedial alternatives. (6) Update the inventory of private wells to identify potential downgradient receptors. This report details and interprets the data collected during the 2005 investigation …
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of cerium incorporation into zirconia on the activity ofCu/ZrO2 for methanol synthesis via CO hydrogenation (open access)

Effect of cerium incorporation into zirconia on the activity ofCu/ZrO2 for methanol synthesis via CO hydrogenation

The effects of Ce incorporation into ZrO2 on the catalyticperformance of Cu/ZrO2 for the hydrogenation of CO have beeninvestigated. A Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 solid solution was synthesized by forcedhydrolysis at low pH. After calcination at 873 K, XRD and Ramanspectroscopy characterization indicated that the Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 had a t''crystal structure. 1.2 wt percent Cu/Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 exhibited H2consumption peaks at low temperature (<473 K) during H2-TPRindicating a significant fraction (~; 70 percent) of Ce4+ is reduced toCe3+. 1.2 wt percent Cu/Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 is 2.7 times more active formethanol synthesis than 1.2 wt percent Cu/m-ZrO2 at 3.0 MPa attemperatures between 473 and 523 K and exhibits a higher selectivity tomethanol. In-situ infrared spectroscopy shows that, analogous toCu/m-ZrO2, the primary surface species on Cu/Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 during COhydrogenation are formate and methoxide species. A shift in the bandposition of the bridged methoxide species indicated that some of thesegroups were bonded to both Zr4+ and Ce3+ cations. For both catalysts, therate-limiting step for methanol synthesis is the reductive elimination ofmethoxide species. The higher rate of methanol synthesis onCu/Ce0.3Zr0.7O2 relative to Cu/m-ZrO2 was primarily due to a ~; 2.4 timeshigher apparent rate constant, kapp, for methoxide hydrogenation, whichis attributed to the higher surface concentration of H atoms on theformer catalyst. The increased …
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Pokrovski, Konstantin A.; Rhodes, Michael D. & Bell, Alexis T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Long is the SLAC Gallery? (open access)

How Long is the SLAC Gallery?

How long is the gallery? Since the two methods of observation have similar accuracy and in the interest of keeping it simple, AEG averaged the two methods and determined that the length of the Gallery is 3073.72m.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: Imfeld, Hans
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library