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An Audit Report on the Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program at the Department of State Health Services (open access)

An Audit Report on the Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program at the Department of State Health Services

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Department of State Health Services has designed and implemented effective processes and related controls for the Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program (Program) to help ensure that only eligible persons receive services through the Program and that it manages the Program's waiting list in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and Department policies and procedures; and whether the Department has designed and implemented effective processes and related controls for the Program to help ensure that Program expenditures are allowable and made in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and Department policies and procedures.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Special Investigations Unit Report - The Higher Education Coordinating Board (open access)

A Special Investigations Unit Report - The Higher Education Coordinating Board

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an investigation by the State Auditor's Special Investigations Unit into allegations that the Higher Education Coordinating Board received a forged Hinson-Hazelwood College Access Loan program payment guaranty and promissory note.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Texas Education Agency's Investigation of the El Paso Independent School District (open access)

An Audit Report on the Texas Education Agency's Investigation of the El Paso Independent School District

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas Education Agency (Agency) has effective processes and related controls to investigate possible noncompliance with school accountability requirements, and determining why the Agency's investigation of El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) failed to identify the reporting of inaccurate data and other instances of noncompliance with school accountability requirements.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on On-site Audits of Residential Child Care Providers (open access)

A Report on On-site Audits of Residential Child Care Providers

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to performing on-site financial audits of selected residential child care providers, and verifying that the selected providers were spending federal and state funds on required services that promote the well-being of foster children in their care.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Overlay Tester (OT): Comparison with Other Crack Test Methods and Recommendations for Surrogate Crack Tests (open access)

The Overlay Tester (OT): Comparison with Other Crack Test Methods and Recommendations for Surrogate Crack Tests

Report on the comparison of crack test methods with different HMA mixes.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Walubita, Lubinda F.; Faruk, Abu N.; Koohi, Yasser; Luo, Rong; Scullion, Tom & Lytton, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterizing Fly Ash (open access)

Characterizing Fly Ash

A report on the character of fly ash from different sources and the types that work best in concrete.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Kuruse, Karla; Jasso, Andres; Folliard, Kevin; Ferron, Raisaa; Juenger, Maria & Drimalas, Thanos
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2011-2012 (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2011-2012

Annual compilation summarizing data regarding graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools, including historical information and longitudinal analyses, with information about data collection and other related information.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Analysis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pilot Implementation of Whitetopping: Final Report (open access)

Pilot Implementation of Whitetopping: Final Report

Report on an implementation project to develop whitetopping designs for two locations and provide technical support during preparation and construction stages.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Zhou, Wujun; Choi, Pangil; Ryu, Sungwoo & Won, Moon C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Audit Plan: 2014 (open access)

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Audit Plan: 2014

Annual report outlining the annual audit schedule for each division in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, including justifications and objectives for auditing.
Date: August 23, 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigation of Improvements to Truck Volume Assignments and Public Transportation Benefits Methodologies in TTI's Urban Mobility Report (open access)

Investigation of Improvements to Truck Volume Assignments and Public Transportation Benefits Methodologies in TTI's Urban Mobility Report

This is a report on Texas A&M Transportation Institute's often-cited Urban Mobility Report in relation to transportation decision-makers with urban-area congestion statistics and trends. The report seeks to investigate the Urban Mobility Reports methodology assumptions related to the daily volume distributions and possible methodology improvements.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Eisele, William L.; Schrank, David L.; Kang, Dong Hun; Polzin, Steven E. & Chu, Xuehao
System: The Portal to Texas History
Simulation of Investment Returns of Toll Projects (open access)

Simulation of Investment Returns of Toll Projects

Technical report developing a methodological framework for simulating return on investment of toll projects.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Yuwen, Weiyuan & Zhang, Zhanmin
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Comprehensive Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures in Compression (open access)

A Comprehensive Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures in Compression

This project provides a comprehensive viscoplastic-fracture mechanistic model to evaluate the wear of asphalt pavements. The report covers anisotropic viscoplasticp-fracture constitutive models for asphalt mixtures, laboratory experiments, and model validations.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Zhang, Yuqing; Luo, Rong & Lytton, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
2013 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals (open access)

2013 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals

Summary of proceedings of the 2013 Transportation Security Institute (TSI) meeting in Houston, TX.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Godazi, Khosro & Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-cycle Energy Implications of Different Residential Settings: Recognizing Buildings, Travel, and Public Infrastructure (open access)

Life-cycle Energy Implications of Different Residential Settings: Recognizing Buildings, Travel, and Public Infrastructure

This is a report analyze how built environment can be used to influence travel demand. The analysis considers relative energy savings, quantifies day-to-day energy consumption, and various of influence. The report adds that policies and designs are needed to improve urban energy efficiency.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Nichols, Brice & Kockelman, Kara
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kenedy Brackish Desalination Plan: Historical Data Review and Performance Evaluation (open access)

Kenedy Brackish Desalination Plan: Historical Data Review and Performance Evaluation

Study using operating data from Kenedy's water facilities to evaluate the impacts on overall performance and system operating costs due to improvements to the existing system.
Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Cedar Bayou to Morgan's Point Pipeline Project, Within Parcel TX-HR-0004,0000 (Hog Island) Harris County, Texas (open access)

A Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Cedar Bayou to Morgan's Point Pipeline Project, Within Parcel TX-HR-0004,0000 (Hog Island) Harris County, Texas

A report on the findings of of a archaeological survey of the proposed route of the Cedar Bayou to Morgan's Point Pipeline Project on Hog Island, Harris County, Texas performed to determine whether there were any cultural resources in the area.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Atkins North America, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Literature Review: Performance of RAP/RAS Mixes and New Direction (open access)

Literature Review: Performance of RAP/RAS Mixes and New Direction

This is a report on reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) used in asphalt mixes in Texas. The report presents a review on the uses of RAP/RAS in asphalt mixes from research focus and the revised field tests.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Zhou, Fujie; Estakhri, Cindy & Scullion, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Business Process and Logical Model to Support a Tour-Based Travel Demand (open access)

Business Process and Logical Model to Support a Tour-Based Travel Demand

Technical report on tour-based models of travel demand.
Date: August 2013
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing a GIS-Based Intersection Traffic Control Planning Tool (open access)

Developing a GIS-Based Intersection Traffic Control Planning Tool

Study considering how to implement intersections into the previously created GIS traffic control planning tool.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Bringardner, Jack; Gemar, Mason & Machemehl, Randy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Emerging Transportation Technologies White Papers: Volumes 1-3 (open access)

Emerging Transportation Technologies White Papers: Volumes 1-3

Document discussing new and emerging transportation technology. This is volumes 1, 2, and 3 of a larger set and details governmental regulation and research on autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, and cloud computing and crowdsourcing.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Jin, Peter J.; Fagnant, Dan; Hall, Andrea & Walton, C. Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highway Funding Options (open access)

Texas Highway Funding Options

A report on highway funding options in Texas prepared before the 2013 Texas Legislative Session.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Boske, Leigh B.; Gamkhar, Shama; Harrison, Robert; Diamond-Ortiz, Andres D.; Harwin, Alexandra L.; Lazarus, Dana R. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Traffic Control Devices, Year 4 (open access)

Evaluation of Traffic Control Devices, Year 4

Report on rural intersection sign reduction evaluation, updates on sequential dynamic curve warning system research, development of hurricane evacuation animation maps for CRP, and mobile pavement marking retroreflectivity data training.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Pike, Adam M.; Carlson, Paul J. & Borchardt, Darrell W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pullout Resistance of Mechanically Stabilized Reinforcements in Backfills Typically Used in Texas, Volume 1: Research Report (open access)

Pullout Resistance of Mechanically Stabilized Reinforcements in Backfills Typically Used in Texas, Volume 1: Research Report

Volume 1 of a report on the results of a research study on the pullout resistance of mechanically stabilized backfill (MSE).
Date: August 15, 2013
Creator: Jayawickrama, Priyantha; Surles, James G.; Wood, Timothy D. & Lawson, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cycling in the African American Community: Safety Training Guidelines and Findings (open access)

Cycling in the African American Community: Safety Training Guidelines and Findings

This is a report is a users' manual for Cycling in the African American Community on safety. The report attempts to address perceived misunderstood beliefs that cycling is unsafe.
Date: August 2013
Creator: McCray, Talia; Durden, Teri & Schaubert, Eileen
System: The Portal to Texas History