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17 USC 108(h): The “Last Twenty Years” Exception (open access)

17 USC 108(h): The “Last Twenty Years” Exception

This document is part of a series of white papers on various copyright issues. One statute, 17 USC § 108, provides a number of exceptions specifically for libraries. In addition to fair use, there are a variety of other exceptions built into the copyright law that don’t get as much attention.This paper specifically addresses one of 108’s lesser-used provisions and the value it may hold for libraries and archives: 108(h).
Date: December 2017
Creator: Wolfson, Stephen M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals (open access)

Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals

This article explores light-trapping enhancement in newly discovered graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with dual periodicity and dual basis.
Date: December 7, 2017
Creator: Hassan, Safaa; Lowell, David; Adewole, Murthada; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province (open access)

Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province

Article on the village characteristics and health of rural Chinese older adults and an examination of the CHARLS pilot study of a rich and poor province.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Pei, Xiaomei; Cready, Cynthia M.; Shen, Yuying; Luo, Hao & Tan, Junxin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intraocular Pressure Changes: An Important Determinant of the Biocompatibility of Intravitreous Implants (open access)

Intraocular Pressure Changes: An Important Determinant of the Biocompatibility of Intravitreous Implants

Article discussing intraocular pressure changes and an important determinant of the biocompatibility of intravitreous implants.
Date: December 14, 2011
Creator: Zou, Ling; Nair, Ashwin; Weng, Hong; Tsai, Yi-Ting; Hu, Zhibing & Tang, Liping
System: The UNT Digital Library
G6f-Like Is an ITAM-Containing Collagen Receptor in Thrombocytes (open access)

G6f-Like Is an ITAM-Containing Collagen Receptor in Thrombocytes

Article discussing how G6f-like is an ITAM-containing collagen receptor in thrombocytes.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Hughes, Craig E.; Radhakrishnan, Uvaraj P.; Lordkipanidzé, Marie; Egginton, S.; Dijkstra, Johannes M.; Jagadeeswaran, Pudur et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Genome of a Korean Isolate of the Pieris rapae Granulovirus Enabled by Its Separation from Total Host Genomic DNA by Pulse-Field Electrophoresis (open access)

Analysis of the Genome of a Korean Isolate of the Pieris rapae Granulovirus Enabled by Its Separation from Total Host Genomic DNA by Pulse-Field Electrophoresis

Article on an analysis of the genome of a Korean isolate of the Pieris rapae granulovirus enabled by its separation from total host genomic DNA by pulse-field electrophoresis.
Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Jo, Yong Hun; Patnaik, Bharat Bhusan; Kang, Se Won; Chae, Sung-Hwa; Oh, Seunghan; Kim, Dong Hyun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity (open access)

MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity

This article discusses the efficacy of mental and physical (MAP) training in improving symptoms of depression and rumination in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Date: October 5, 2015
Creator: Alderman, Brandon L.; Olson, Ryan L.; Brush, Christopher J. & Shors, Tracey J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Use in Latin America (open access)

Internet Use in Latin America

This paper explores the development of Internet use in Latin America by exploring the macro- and micro-social expectations and actualities of Internet use.
Date: August 18, 2011
Creator: Salzman, Ryan & Albarran, Alan B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virtualization Based Secure Execution And Testing Framework (open access)

Virtualization Based Secure Execution And Testing Framework

Article discussing the use of a virtualization software to build a Virtualization Based Secure Execution and Testing Framework for testing hardware secure architectures.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Kotikela, Srujan Das; Nimgaonkar, Satyajeet & Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charmed Hadron Physics at BABAR (open access)

Charmed Hadron Physics at BABAR

We present a study of the D{sup +}{pi}{sup -}, D{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}, and D*{sup +}{pi}{sup -} systems in inclusive e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} c{bar c} interactions in a search for new excited D meson states. We use a dataset, consisting of {approx}454 fb{sup -1}, collected at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy collider. We observe, for the first time, candidates for the radial excitations of the D{sup 0}, D*{sup 0}, and D*{sup +}, as well as the L = 2 excited states of the D{sup 0} and D{sup +}, where L is the orbital angular momentum of the quarks.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Benitez, Jose
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a two-step matrix solution to reduce the run time in KULL's magnetic diffusion package (open access)

Using a two-step matrix solution to reduce the run time in KULL's magnetic diffusion package

Recently a Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) package has been added to the KULL code. In order to be compatible with the underlying hydrodynamics algorithm, a new sub-zonal magnetics discretization was developed that supports arbitrary polygonal and polyhedral zones. This flexibility comes at the cost of many more unknowns per zone - approximately ten times more for a hexahedral mesh. We can eliminate some (or all, depending on the dimensionality) of the extra unknowns from the global matrix during assembly by using a Schur complement approach. This trades expensive global work for cache-friendly local work, while still allowing solution for the full system. Significant improvements in the solution time are observed for several test problems.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Brunner, T A & Kolev, T V
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward TW-Level, Hard X-Ray Pulses at LCLS (open access)

Toward TW-Level, Hard X-Ray Pulses at LCLS

Coherent diffraction imaging of complex molecules such as proteins requires a large number (e.g., {approx} 10{sup 13}/pulse) of hard X-ray photons within a time scale of {approx} 10 fs or less. This corresponds to a peak power of {approx} 1 TW, much larger than that currently generated by LCLS or other proposed X-ray free electron lasers (FELs). We study the feasibility of producing such pulses using a LCLS-like, low charge electron beam, as will be possible in the LCLS-II upgrade project, employing a configuration beginning with a SASE amplifier, followed by a 'self-seeding' crystal monochromator, and finishing with a long tapered undulator. Our results suggest that TW-level output power at 8.3 keV is possible from a total undulator system length around 200 m. In addition power levels larger than 100 GW are generated at the third harmonic. We present a tapering strategy that extends the original 'resonant particle' formalism by optimizing the transport lattice to maximize optical guiding and enhance net energy extraction. We discuss the transverse and longitudinal coherence properties of the output radiation pulse and the expected output pulse energy sensitivity, both to taper errors and to power fluctuations on the monochromatized SASE seed.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Fawley, W. M.; Frisch, J.; Huang, Z.; Jiao, Y.; Nuhn, H. D.; Pellegrini, C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The use of a high-order MEMS deformable mirror in the Gemini Planet Imager (open access)

The use of a high-order MEMS deformable mirror in the Gemini Planet Imager

We briefly review the development history of the Gemini Planet Imager's 4K Boston Micromachines MEMS deformable mirror. We discuss essential calibration steps and algorithms to control the MEMS with nanometer precision, including voltage-phase calibration and influence function characterization. We discuss the integration of the MEMS into GPI's Adaptive Optics system at Lawrence Livermore and present experimental results of 1.5 kHz closed-loop control. We detail mitigation strategies in the coronagraph to reduce the impact of abnormal actuators on final image contrast.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Poyneer, L. A.; Bauman, B.; Cornelissen, S.; Jones, S.; Macintosh, B.; Palmer, D. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Ignition Facility and the Promise of Inertial Fusion Energy (open access)

The National Ignition Facility and the Promise of Inertial Fusion Energy

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, CA, is now operational. The NIF is the world's most energetic laser system capable of producing 1.8 MJ and 500 TW of ultraviolet light. By concentrating the energy from its 192 extremely energetic laser beams into a mm{sup 3}-sized target, NIF can produce temperatures above 100 million K, densities of 1,000 g/cm{sup 3}, and pressures 100 billion times atmospheric pressure - conditions that have never been created in a laboratory and emulate those in planetary interiors and stellar environments. On September 29, 2010, the first integrated ignition experiment was conducted, demonstrating the successful coordination of the laser, cryogenic target system, array of diagnostics and infrastructure required for ignition demonstration. In light of this strong progress, the U.S. and international communities are examining the implication of NIF ignition for inertial fusion energy (IFE). A laser-based IFE power plant will require a repetition rate of 10-20 Hz and a laser with 10% electrical-optical efficiency, as well as further development and advances in large-scale target fabrication, target injection, and other supporting technologies. These capabilities could lead to a prototype IFE demonstration plant in the 10- to 15-year time frame. …
Date: December 13, 2010
Creator: Moses, E I
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Hierarchical Control Architecture for a PEBB-Based ILC Marx Modulator (open access)

A Hierarchical Control Architecture for a PEBB-Based ILC Marx Modulator

The idea of building power conversion systems around Power Electronic Building Blocks (PEBBs) was initiated by the U.S. Office of Naval Research in the mid 1990s. A PEBB-based design approach is advantageous in terms of power density, modularity, reliability, and serviceability. It is obvious that this approach has much appeal for pulsed power conversion including the International Linear Collider (ILC) klystron modulator application. A hierarchical control architecture has the inherent capability to support the integration of PEBBs. This has already been successfully demonstrated in a number of industrial applications in the recent past. This paper outlines the underlying concepts of a hierarchical control architecture for a PEBB-based Marx-topology ILC klystron modulator. The control in PEBB-based power conversion systems can be functionally partitioned into (three) hierarchical layers; system layer, application layer, and PEBB layer. This has been adopted here. Based on such a hierarchical partition, the interfaces are clearly identified and defined and, consequently, are easily characterised. A conceptual design of the hardware manager, executing low-level hardware oriented tasks, is detailed. In addition, the idea of prognostics is briefly discussed.
Date: December 15, 2011
Creator: Macken, K.; Burkhart, C.; Larsen, R.; Nguyen, M. N. & Olsen, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
INSTALLATION OF BUBBLERS IN THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITED DEFENSE WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY MELTER (open access)

INSTALLATION OF BUBBLERS IN THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITED DEFENSE WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY MELTER

Savannah River Remediation (SRR) LLC assumed the liquid waste contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in the summer of 2009. The main contractual agreement was to close 22 High Level Waste (HLW) tanks in eight years. To achieve this aggressive commitment, faster waste processing throughout the SRS liquid waste facilities will be required. Part of the approach to achieve faster waste processing is to increase the canister production rate of the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) from approximately 200 canisters filled with radioactive waste glass per year to 400 canisters per year. To reach this rate for melter throughput, four bubblers were installed in the DWPF Melter in the late summer of 2010. This effort required collaboration between SRR, SRR critical subcontractor EnergySolutions, and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, including the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). The tasks included design and fabrication of the bubblers and related equipment, testing of the bubblers for various technical issues, the actual installation of the bubblers and related equipment, and the initial successful operation of the bubblers in the DWPF Melter.
Date: December 8, 2010
Creator: Smith, M. & Iverson, D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Changing Atmospheric Conditions on Wind Turbine Performance (Poster) (open access)

Effects of Changing Atmospheric Conditions on Wind Turbine Performance (Poster)

Multi-megawatt, utility-scale wind turbines operate in turbulent and dynamic winds that impact turbine performance in ways that are gradually becoming better understood. This poster presents a study made using a turbulent flow field simulator (TurbSim) and a Turbine aeroelastic simulator (FAST) of the response of a generic 1.5 MW wind turbine to changing inflow. The turbine power output is found to be most sensitive to wind speed and turbulence intensity, but the relationship depends on the wind speed with respect to the turbine's rated wind speed. Shear is found to be poorly correlated to power. A machine learning method called 'regression trees' is used to create a simple model of turbine performance that could be used as part of the wind resource assessment process. This study has used simple flow fields and should be extended to more complex flows, and validated with field observations.
Date: December 1, 2012
Creator: Clifton, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for 14.4-KeV Solar Axions Emitted in the M1-Transition of Fe-57 Nuclei with CAST (open access)

Search for 14.4-KeV Solar Axions Emitted in the M1-Transition of Fe-57 Nuclei with CAST

We have searched for 14.4 keV solar axions or more general axion-like particles (ALPs), that may be emitted in the M1 nuclear transition of 57Fe, by using the axion-to-photon conversion in the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) with evacuated magnet bores (Phase I). From the absence of excess of the monoenergetic X-rays when the magnet was pointing to the Sun, we set model-independent constraints on the coupling constants of pseudoscalar particles that couple to two photons and to a nucleon g{sub ay}|-1.19g{sub aN}{sup 0}+g{sub aN}{sup 3}| < 1.36 x 10{sup -16} GeV{sup -1} for ma < 0.03 eV at the 95% confidence level.
Date: December 2, 2011
Creator: Andriamonje, S.; Aune, S.; Autiero, D.; Barth, K.; Belov, A.; Beltran, B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of session 3 on synchrotron radiation and beam dynamics (open access)

Summary of session 3 on synchrotron radiation and beam dynamics

We summarize presentations, discussions and general conclusions of the Workshop session on 'Beam Dynamics Issues'. Major subjects include effects due to synchrotron radiation (SR), cryogenic loads, electron cloud, impedances, intra-beam scattering (IBS) and beam-beam interactions.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: Shiltsev, V. & Metral, E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The nature of the lightest scalar meson, its N_c behaviour and semi-local duality (open access)

The nature of the lightest scalar meson, its N_c behaviour and semi-local duality

One-loop unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory (UChPT) calculations, suggest a different N{sub c} behaviour for the {sigma} or f{sub 0}(600) and {rho}(770) mesons: while the {rho} meson becomes narrower with N{sub c}, as expected for a {bar q}q meson, the f{sub 0}(600) contribution to the total cross section below 1 GeV becomes less and less important. Here we review our recent work where we have shown, by means of finite energy sum rules, that a different N{sub c} behavior for these resonances may lead to a conflict with semi-local duality for large N{sub c}, since local duality requires a cancellation between the f{sub 0}(600) and {rho}(770) amplitudes. However, UChPT calculations also suggest a subdominant {bar q}q component for the f{sub 0}(600) with a mass above 1 GeV and this can restore semi-local duality, as we show.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: JR Pelaez, MR Pennington, J Ruiz de Elvira, DJ Wilson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adjoint-Based Implicit Uncertainty Analysis for Figures of Merit in a Laser Inertial Fusion Engine (open access)

Adjoint-Based Implicit Uncertainty Analysis for Figures of Merit in a Laser Inertial Fusion Engine

A primary purpose of computational models is to inform design decisions and, in order to make those decisions reliably, the confidence in the results of such models must be estimated. Monte Carlo neutron transport models are common tools for reactor designers. These types of models contain several sources of uncertainty that propagate onto the model predictions. Two uncertainties worthy of note are (1) experimental and evaluation uncertainties of nuclear data that inform all neutron transport models and (2) statistical counting precision, which all results of a Monte Carlo codes contain. Adjoint-based implicit uncertainty analyses allow for the consideration of any number of uncertain input quantities and their effects upon the confidence of figures of merit with only a handful of forward and adjoint transport calculations. When considering a rich set of uncertain inputs, adjoint-based methods remain hundreds of times more computationally efficient than Direct Monte-Carlo methods. The LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy) engine is a concept being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Various options exist for the LIFE blanket, depending on the mission of the design. The depleted uranium hybrid LIFE blanket design strives to close the fission fuel cycle without enrichment or reprocessing, while simultaneously achieving high discharge …
Date: December 3, 2010
Creator: Seifried, J. E.; Fratoni, M.; Kramer, K. J.; Latkowski, J. F.; Peterson, P. F.; Powers, J. J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Femtosecond X-ray Pulse Temporal Characterization in Free-Electron Lasers Using a Transverse Deflector (open access)

Femtosecond X-ray Pulse Temporal Characterization in Free-Electron Lasers Using a Transverse Deflector

We propose a novel method to characterize the temporal duration and shape of femtosecond x-ray pulses in a free-electron laser (FEL) by measuring the time-resolved electron-beam energy loss and energy spread induced by the FEL process, with a transverse radio-frequency deflector located after the undulator. Its merits are simplicity, high resolution, wide diagnostic range, and non-invasive to user operation. When the system is applied to the Linac Coherent Light Source, the first hard x-ray free-electron laser in the world, it can provide single-shot measurements on the electron beam and x-ray pulses with a resolution on the order of 1-2 femtoseconds rms.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Ding, Y.; Behrens, C.; Emma, P.; Frisch, J.; Huang, Z.; Loos, H. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for universal extra dimensions in ppbar collisions (open access)

Search for universal extra dimensions in ppbar collisions

We present a search for Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles predicted by models with universal extra dimensions (UED) using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 fb{sup -1}, collected by the D0 detector at a p{bar p} center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The decay chain of KK particles can lead to a final state with two muons of the same charge. This signature is used to set a lower limit on the compactification scale of R{sup -1} > 260 GeV in a minimal UED model.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich; /Dubna, JINR; Abbott, Braden Keim; U., /Oklahoma; Acharya, Bannanje Sripath; Inst., /Tata et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theory of Microwave Instability and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in Electron Storage Rings (open access)

Theory of Microwave Instability and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in Electron Storage Rings

Bursting of coherent synchrotron radiation has been observed and in fact used to generate THz radiation in many electron storage rings. In order to understand and control the bursting, we return to the study of the microwave instability. In this paper, we will report on the theoretical understanding, including recent developments, of the microwave instability in electron storage rings. The historical progress of the theories will be surveyed, starting from the dispersion relation of coasting beams, to the work of Sacherer on a bunched beam, and ending with the Oide and Yokoya method of discretization. This theoretical survey will be supplemented with key experimental results over the years. Finally, we will describe the recent theoretical development of utilizing the Laguerre polynomials in the presence of potential-well distortion. This self-consistent method will be applied to study the microwave instability driven the impedances due to the coherent synchrotron radiation. Over the past quarter century, there has been steady progress toward smaller transverse emittances in electron storage rings used for synchrotron light sources, from tens of nm decades ago to the nm range recently. In contrast, there is not much progress made in the longitudinal plane. For an electron bunch in a typical …
Date: December 9, 2011
Creator: Cai, Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library