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The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2011 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 21, 2011
Creator: Banks, Shauna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 610, Chapter 108 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 610, Chapter 108

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to certain notices sent by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Date: May 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 755, Chapter 109 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 755, Chapter 109

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to eligibility of certain dependents for coverage under the state employee group benefits program.
Date: May 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 841, Chapter 110 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 841, Chapter 110

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to certain statutory references to the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Date: May 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding (open access)

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding

This report provides information about the Funding and Re authorization of Community Services Block Grants (CSBG).
Date: November 21, 2011
Creator: Spar, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations

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Date: June 21, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (open access)

Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

This report discusses the the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. It also discusses possible legislative issues involving OIRA.
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Copeland, Curtis W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery (open access)

Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery

This report discusses the CDBG program, which administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal government’s largest and most widely available source of financial assistance to support state and local government-directed neighborhood revitalization, housing rehabilitation, and economic development activities.
Date: September 21, 2011
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Current Issues and Legislation (open access)

Social Security Reform: Current Issues and Legislation

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Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fish and Wildlife Service: FY2012 Appropriations and Policy (open access)

Fish and Wildlife Service: FY2012 Appropriations and Policy

The annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriation funds agencies and program in three federal departments, as well as numerous related agencies and bureaus. Among the more controversial agencies represented in the bill is the Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Department of the Interior. This report analyzes the Fish and Wildlife Services funding levels contained in the FY2012 appropriations bill.
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Claims of Property Rights “Takings” (open access)

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Claims of Property Rights “Takings”

This report outlines the Endangered Species Act (ESA) provisions most relevant to the act's impacts on private property and surveys the major ESA-relevant principles of Fifth Amendment takings law. The report then proceeds to summarize the court decisions on whether particular government actions (or inaction) based on the ESA "take" private property.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Meltz, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Target Visualization at the National Ignition Facility (open access)

Target Visualization at the National Ignition Facility

As the National Ignition Facility continues its campaign to achieve ignition, new methods and tools will be required to measure the quality of the targets used to achieve this goal. Techniques have been developed to measure target surface features using a phase-shifting diffraction interferometer and Leica Microsystems confocal microscope. Using these techniques we are able to produce a detailed view of the shell surface, which in turn allows us to refine target manufacturing and cleaning processes. However, the volume of data produced limits the methods by which this data can be effectively viewed by a user. This paper introduces an image-based visualization system for data exploration of target shells at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It aims to combine multiple image sets into a single visualization to provide a method of navigating the data in ways that are not possible with existing tools.
Date: November 21, 2011
Creator: Potter, D
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
NA-42 TI Shared Software Component Library FY2011 Final Report (open access)

NA-42 TI Shared Software Component Library FY2011 Final Report

The NA-42 TI program initiated an effort in FY2010 to standardize its software development efforts with the long term goal of migrating toward a software management approach that will allow for the sharing and reuse of code developed within the TI program, improve integration, ensure a level of software documentation, and reduce development costs. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has been tasked with two activities that support this mission. PNNL has been tasked with the identification, selection, and implementation of a Shared Software Component Library. The intent of the library is to provide a common repository that is accessible by all authorized NA-42 software development teams. The repository facilitates software reuse through a searchable and easy to use web based interface. As software is submitted to the repository, the component registration process captures meta-data and provides version control for compiled libraries, documentation, and source code. This meta-data is then available for retrieval and review as part of library search results. In FY2010, PNNL and staff from the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) teamed up to develop a software application with the goal of replacing the aging Aerial Measuring System (AMS). The application under development includes an Advanced Visualization and Integration …
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Knudson, Christa K.; Rutz, Frederick C. & Dorow, Kevin E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantum Dot Light Enhancement Substrate for OLED Solid-State Lighting (open access)

Quantum Dot Light Enhancement Substrate for OLED Solid-State Lighting

With DOE Award No. DE-EE00000628, QD Vision developed and demonstrated a cost-competitive solution for increasing the light extraction efficiency of OLEDs with efficient and stable color rendering index (CRI) for solid state lighting (SSL). Solution processable quantum dot (QD) films were integrated into OLED ITO-glass substrates to generate tunable white emission from blue emitting OLED) devices as well as outcouple light from the ITO film. This QD light-enhancement substrate (QD-LED) technology demonstrated a 60% increase in OLED forward light out-coupling, a value which increases to 76% when considering total increase in multi-directional light output. The objective for the first year was an 80% increase in light output. This project seeks to develop and demonstrate a cost-competitive solution for realizing increased extraction efficiency organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) with efficient and stable color rendering index (CRI) for SSL. Solution processible quantum dot (QD) films will be utilized to generate tunable white emission from blue emitting phosphorescent OLED (Ph-OLED) devices.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Perkins, James; Stevenson, Matthew; Mahan, Gagan; Coe-Sullivan, Seth & Kazlas, Peter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illumina Unamplified Indexed Library Construction: An Automated Approach (open access)

Illumina Unamplified Indexed Library Construction: An Automated Approach

Manual library construction is a limiting factor in Illumina sequencing. Constructing libraries by hand is costly, time-consuming, low-throughput, and ergonomically hazardous, and constructing multiple libraries introduces risk of library failure due to pipetting errors. The ability to construct multiple libraries simultaneously in automated fashion represents significant cost and time savings. Here we present a strategy to construct up to 96 unamplified indexed libraries using Illumina TruSeq reagents and a Biomek FX robotic platform. We also present data to indicate that this library construction method has little or no risk of cross-contamination between samples.
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Hack, Christopher A.; Sczyrba, Alexander & Cheng, Jan-Fang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Wetting and Mass Transfer Properties of Organic Chemical Mixtures in Vadose Zone Materials on Groundwater Contamination by Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (open access)

Influence of Wetting and Mass Transfer Properties of Organic Chemical Mixtures in Vadose Zone Materials on Groundwater Contamination by Nonaqueous Phase Liquids

Previous studies have found that organic acids, organic bases, and detergent-like chemicals change surface wettability. The wastewater and NAPL mixtures discharged at the Hanford site contain such chemicals, and their proportions likely change over time due to reaction-facilitated aging. The specific objectives of this work were to (1) determine the effect of organic chemical mixtures on surface wettability, (2) determine the effect of organic chemical mixtures on CCl4 volatilization rates from NAPL, and (3) accurately determine the migration, entrapment, and volatilization of organic chemical mixtures. Five tasks were proposed to achieve the project objectives. These are to (1) prepare representative batches of fresh and aged NAPL-wastewater mixtures, (2) to measure interfacial tension, contact angle, and capillary pressure-saturation profiles for the same mixtures, (3) to measure interphase mass transfer rates for the same mixtures using micromodels, (4) to measure multiphase flow and interphase mass transfer in large flow cell experiments, all using the same mixtures, and (5) to modify the multiphase flow simulator STOMP in order to account for updated P-S and interphase mass transfer relationships, and to simulate the impact of CCl4 in the vadose zone on groundwater contamination. Results and findings from these tasks and summarized in the attached …
Date: May 21, 2011
Creator: Werth, Charles J & Albert J Valocchi, Hongkyu Yoon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solid Collection Efforts: Ta Collimator Evaluation (open access)

Solid Collection Efforts: Ta Collimator Evaluation

Ta collimator sets that were part of the gated x-ray detector diagnostic (GXD) at NIF were analyzed for debris distribution and damage in 2011. These disks (ranging in thickness from 250 to 750 {mu}m) were fielded approximately 10 cm from target chamber center (TCC) on various symcap, THD and re-emit shots. The nose cone holder and forward Ta collimator (facing target chamber center, TCC) from all shots show evidence of surface melt. Non-destructive analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, surface profilometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) were used to determine debris composition and degree of deformation associated with each Ta disk. Molten debris from the stainless steel nose cone contaminated the surface of the collimators along with other debris associated with the target assembly (Al, Si, Cu, Au and In). Surface elemental analysis of the forward collimator Ta disks indicates that Au hohlraum debris is less concentrated on these samples versus those fielded 50 cm from TCC in the wedge range filter (WRF) assembly. It is possible that the Au is distributed below or within the stainless steel melt layer covering the disk, as most of the foreign debris is captured in the …
Date: November 21, 2011
Creator: Gostic, J M
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Savings and Green Initiatives Project Grant (open access)

Energy Savings and Green Initiatives Project Grant

This project entails retrofitting all four foot, 2, 3 and 4 bulb 40 watt T12 fixtures to T8 28 watt and 150 watt incandescent to 26 watt compact fluorescent bulbs. In total, 2,086 fixtures will be retrofitted
Date: November 21, 2011
Creator: MacLennan, Kathy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small-Column Cesium Ion Exchange Elution Testing of Spherical Resorcinol-Formaldehyde (open access)

Small-Column Cesium Ion Exchange Elution Testing of Spherical Resorcinol-Formaldehyde

This report summarizes the work performed to evaluate multiple, cesium loading, and elution cycles for small columns containing SRF resin using a simple, high-level waste (HLW) simulant. Cesium ion exchange loading and elution curves were generated for a nominal 5 M Na, 2.4E-05 M Cs, 0.115 M Al loading solution traced with 134Cs followed by elution with variable HNO3 (0.02, 0.07, 0.15, 0.23, and 0.28 M) containing variable CsNO3 (5.0E-09, 5.0E-08, and 5.0E-07 M) and traced with 137Cs. The ion exchange system consisted of a pump, tubing, process solutions, and a single, small ({approx}15.7 mL) bed of SRF resin with a water-jacketed column for temperature-control. The columns were loaded with approximately 250 bed volumes (BVs) of feed solution at 45 C and at 1.5 to 12 BV per hour (0.15 to 1.2 cm/min). The columns were then eluted with 29+ BVs of HNO3 processed at 25 C and at 1.4 BV/h. The two independent tracers allowed analysis of the on-column cesium interaction between the loading and elution solutions. The objective of these tests was to improve the correlation between the spent resin cesium content and cesium leached out of the resin in subsequent loading cycles (cesium leakage) to help establish …
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Brown, Garrett N.; Russell, Renee L. & Peterson, Reid A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Godiva and Juliet Diagnostics CED-1 (IER-176) (open access)

Godiva and Juliet Diagnostics CED-1 (IER-176)

A suite of diagnostics are being proposed for use in the Juliet experiment (IER-128). In order to calibrate and test the diagnostics prior to use, the LLNL calibration facility and Godiva pulsed reactor will be used to provide intense sources of neutrons and gammas. Due to the similarities of the Godiva and Juliet radiation fields, the diagnostics being developed and tested for Juliet can also play an on-going role in diagnostics for Godiva as well as, perhaps, other critical assembly experiments. Similar work is also being conducted for IER-147 for the purpose of characterizing the Godiva radiation field in support of an upcoming international nuclear accident dosimetry exercise. Diagnostics developed and fielded under IER-147 can provide valuable data with respect to the neutron and gamma energy spectrums in the vicinity of Godiva which is relevant to the calibration of Juliet diagnostics.
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Scorby, J C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FINAL SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL REPORT (open access)

FINAL SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL REPORT

Dynalene Inc has developed and patented a fuel cell coolant with the help of DOE SBIR Phase I and Phase II funding (Project DE-FG02-04ER83884). However, this coolant could only be produced in lab scale (500 ml to 2 L) due to problems in the optimization and scale-up of a nanoparticle ingredient. This project optimized the nanoparticle production process in 10 L and 100 L reactors (which translates to about 5000 gallons of coolant), optimized the filtration process for the nanoparticles, and develop a high throughput production as well as quality control method for the final coolant formulation. Scale-up of nanoparticle synthesis (using emulsion polymerization) is an extremely challenging task. Dynalene researchers, in collaboration with a university partner, identified all the parameters affecting the size, charge density and coagulation characteristics of the nanoparticles and then optimized these parameters to achieve the goals and the objectives of this project. Nanoparticle synthesis was demonstrated to be reproducible in the 10 L and 100 L scales.
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Mohapatra, Satish
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing (open access)

The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing

The goal of Magellan, a project funded through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), was to investigate the potential role of cloud computing in addressing the computing needs for the DOE Office of Science (SC), particularly related to serving the needs of mid- range computing and future data-intensive computing workloads. A set of research questions was formed to probe various aspects of cloud computing from performance, usability, and cost. To address these questions, a distributed testbed infrastructure was deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The testbed was designed to be flexible and capable enough to explore a variety of computing models and hardware design points in order to understand the impact for various scientific applications. During the project, the testbed also served as a valuable resource to application scientists. Applications from a diverse set of projects such as MG-RAST (a metagenomics analysis server), the Joint Genome Institute, the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), were used by the Magellan project for benchmarking within the cloud, but the project teams were also able …
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Coghlan, Susan & Yelick, Katherine
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library