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WTO Dispute Settlement: Stages and Pending U.S. Activity Before the Dispute Settlement Body (open access)

WTO Dispute Settlement: Stages and Pending U.S. Activity Before the Dispute Settlement Body

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Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: Tatelman, Todd B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Multigrid for Overlapping Grids (open access)

On Multigrid for Overlapping Grids

The solution of elliptic partial differential equations on composite overlapping grids using multigrid is discussed. An approach is described that provides a fast and memory efficient scheme for the solution of boundary value problems in complex geometries. The key aspects of the new scheme are an automatic coarse grid generation algorithm, an adaptive smoothing technique for adjusting residuals on different component grids, and the use of local smoothing near interpolation boundaries. Other important features include optimizations for Cartesian component grids, the use of over-relaxed Red-Black smoothers and the generation of coarse grid operators through Galerkin averaging. Numerical results in two and three dimensions show that very good multigrid convergence rates can be obtained for both Dirichlet and Neumann/mixed boundary conditions. A comparison to Krylov based solvers shows that the multigrid solver can be much faster and require significantly less memory.
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: Henshaw, W
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Prison Industries (open access)

Federal Prison Industries

This report discusses about Impact of UNICOR on the Federal Prison System and Society, Recent Administration Efforts to Reform FPI, Legislative History, Legislation in the 111th Congress and Issues for Congress.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bankruptcy Reform: A Recap (open access)

Bankruptcy Reform: A Recap

This report reviews many of the core consumer bankruptcy features that have been common to most versions of bankruptcy reform legislation.
Date: January 13, 2003
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressionally Chartered Nonprofit Organizations (“Title 36 Corporations”): What They Are and How Congress Treats Them (open access)

Congressionally Chartered Nonprofit Organizations (“Title 36 Corporations”): What They Are and How Congress Treats Them

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Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Moe, Ronald C. & Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the Odessa American, December 2008]

Advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the Odessa American, a Texas Daily Newspaper Association member, for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the San Angelo Standard-Times, December 2008]

Advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the San Angelo Standard-Times, a Texas Daily Newspaper Association member, for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the Abilene Reporter-News, December 2008]

Advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the Abilene Reporter-News, a Texas Daily Newspaper Association member, for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the San Antonio Express-News, December 2008]

An excel spreadsheet from Grady Laster, of the San Antonio Express-News to Cyndi Brown of TDNA, with the advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the San Antonio Express-News for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the Plainview Daily Herald, December 2008]

Advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the Plainview Daily Herald, a Texas Daily Newspaper Association member, for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TDNA Advertising Linage Report for the Wichita Falls Times Record News, December 2008]

Advertising linage report that details ad revenue from the Wichita Falls Time Record News, a Texas Daily Newspaper Association member, for December 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2005 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 587, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 587, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterizing the Nano and Micro Structure of Concrete toImprove its Durability (open access)

Characterizing the Nano and Micro Structure of Concrete toImprove its Durability

New and advanced methodologies have been developed to characterize the nano and microstructure of cement paste and concrete exposed to aggressive environments. High resolution full-field soft X-ray imaging in the water window is providing new insight on the nano scale of the cement hydration process, which leads to a nano-optimization of cement-based systems. Hard X-ray microtomography images of ice inside cement paste and cracking caused by the alkali?silica reaction (ASR) enables three-dimensional structural identification. The potential of neutron diffraction to determine reactive aggregates by measuring their residual strains and preferred orientation is studied. Results of experiments using these tools are shown on this paper.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Monteiro, Paulo J. M.; Kirchheim, A. P.; Chae, S.; Fischer, Peter; MacDowell, Alastair A.; Schaible, Eirc et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viable Supersymmetry and Leptogenesis with Anomaly Mediation (open access)

Viable Supersymmetry and Leptogenesis with Anomaly Mediation

The seesaw mechanism that explains the small neutrino masses comes naturally with supersymmetric (SUSY) grand unification and leptogenesis. However, the framework suffers from the SUSY flavor and CP problems, and has a severe cosmological gravitino problem. We propose anomaly mediation as a simple solution to all these problems, which is viable once supplemented by the D-terms for U(1)_Y and U(1)_B-L. Even though the right-handed neutrino mass explicitly breaks U(1)_B-L and hence reintroduces the flavor problem, we show that it lacks the logarithmic enhancement and poses no threat to the framework. The thermal leptogenesis is then made easily consistent with the gravitino constraint.
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: Ibe, Masahiro; Kitano, Ryuichiro; Murayama, Hitoshi & Yanagida, Tsutomu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The New Minimal Standard Model (open access)

The New Minimal Standard Model

We construct the New Minimal Standard Model that incorporates the new discoveries of physics beyond the Minimal Standard Model (MSM): Dark Energy, non-baryonic Dark Matter, neutrino masses, as well as baryon asymmetry and cosmic inflation, adopting the principle of minimal particle content and the most general renormalizable Lagrangian. We base the model purely on empirical facts rather than aesthetics. We need only six new degrees of freedom beyond the MSM. It is free from excessive flavor-changing effects, CP violation, too-rapid proton decay, problems with electroweak precision data, and unwanted cosmological relics. Any model of physics beyond the MSM should be measured against the phenomenological success of this model.
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: Davoudiasl, Hooman; Kitano, Ryuichiro; Li, Tianjun & Murayama, Hitoshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dataset for a retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

Dataset generated for a recording of Robert Leivon retelling the Pear Story. A transcription with an English translation, flextext files (from Fieldworks Language Explorer), and accompanying derivative files are included. The speaker was living in Delhi when the recording was made.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
A computational study of tandem dual wheel aerodynamics and the effect of fenders and fairings on spray dispersion (open access)

A computational study of tandem dual wheel aerodynamics and the effect of fenders and fairings on spray dispersion

With the goal of understanding how to mitigate the safety hazard of splash and spray around heavy vehicles, a computational study of the aerodynamics and spray dispersion about a simplified trailer wheel assembly has been completed. A tandem dual slick (TDS) wheel model that neglects complex geometric features such as brakes, wheel bolts and wheel cutouts but with the same dimensions as an actual trailer wheel assembly was used . A detailed simulation of the wheels alone demonstrated that the flow field is both unsteady and complex, containing a number of vortical structures that interact strongly with spray. Preliminary simulations with fenders and fairings demonstrated that these devices prevent the ballistic transport of drops larger than approximately 0.1 mm, but the fine mist speculated to be responsible for visibility reduction is unaffected. This work suggests that to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design and evaluate spray mitigation strategies the jet or sheet breakup processes can be modeled using an array of injectors of small (< 0.01 mm) water droplets; however the choice of size distribution, injection locations, directions and velocities is largely unknown and requires further study. Possible containment strategies would include using flow structures to 'focus' particles into …
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Paschkewitz, J S
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: Application and Transfer of Advanced Geological and Engineering Technologies for Incremental Production Opportunities (open access)

Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: Application and Transfer of Advanced Geological and Engineering Technologies for Incremental Production Opportunities

A play portfolio is being constructed for the Permian Basin in west Texas and southeast New Mexico, the largest onshore petroleum-producing basin in the United States. Approximately 1,300 reservoirs in the Permian Basin have been identified as having cumulative production greater than 1 MMbbl (1.59 x 10{sup 5} m{sup 3}) of oil through 2000. Of these significant-sized reservoirs, approximately 1,000 are in Texas and 300 in New Mexico. There are 32 geologic plays that have been defined for Permian Basin oil reservoirs, and each of the 1,300 major reservoirs was assigned to a play. The reservoirs were mapped and compiled in a Geographic Information System (GIS) by play. The final reservoir shapefile for each play contains the geographic location of each reservoir. Associated reservoir information within the linked data tables includes RRC reservoir number and district (Texas only), official field and reservoir name, year reservoir was discovered, depth to top of the reservoir, production in 2000, and cumulative production through 2000. Some tables also list subplays. Play boundaries were drawn for each play; the boundaries include areas where fields in that play occur but are smaller than 1 MMbbl (1.59 x 10{sup 5} m{sup 3}) of cumulative production. Oil production …
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: Dutton, Shirley P.; Kim, Eugene M.; Broadhead, Ronald F.; Breton, Caroline L.; Raatz, William D.; Ruppel, Stephen C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interfacing ?Soft? and ?Hard? Matter with Exquisite Chemical Control (open access)

Interfacing ?Soft? and ?Hard? Matter with Exquisite Chemical Control

The present paper reviews the recent development of new chemical and biological technologies for the site-specific immobilization of proteins onto inorganic materials and their potential applications to the fields of micro and nanotechnology.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Woo, Y & Camarero, J A
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The pleiotropic roles of transforming growth factor beta inhomeostasis and carcinogenesis of endocrine organs. (open access)

The pleiotropic roles of transforming growth factor beta inhomeostasis and carcinogenesis of endocrine organs.

Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a ubiquitous cytokine that plays a critical role in numerous pathways regulating cellular and tissue homeostasis. TGF-beta is regulated by hormones and is a primary mediator of hormone response in uterus, prostate and mammary gland. This review will address the role of TGF-beta in regulating hormone dependent proliferation and morphogenesis. The subversion of TGF-beta regulation during the processes of carcinogenesis, with particular emphasis on its effects on genetic stability and epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), will also be examined. An understanding of the multiple and complex mechanisms of TGF-beta regulation of epithelial function, and the ultimate loss of TGF-beta function during carcinogenesis, will be critical in the design of novel therapeutic interventions for endocrine-related cancers.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Fleisch, Markus C.; Maxwell, Christopher A. & Barcellos-Hoff,Mary-Helen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation of spray dispersion in a simplified heavy vehicle wake (open access)

Simulation of spray dispersion in a simplified heavy vehicle wake

Simulations of spray dispersion in a simplified tractor-trailer wake have been completed with the goal of obtaining a better understanding of how to mitigate this safety hazard. The Generic Conventional Model (GCM) for the tractor-trailer was used. The impact of aerodynamic drag reduction devices, specifically trailer-mounted base flaps, on the transport of spray in the vehicle wake was considered using the GCM. This analysis demonstrated that base flaps including a bottom plate may actually worsen motorist visibility because of the interaction of fine spray with large vortex flows in the wake. This work suggests that to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design and evaluate spray mitigation strategies the jet or sheet breakup processes can be modeled using an array of injectors of small (< 0.1 mm) water droplets; however the choice of size distribution, injection locations, directions and velocities is largely unknown and requires further study. Possible containment strategies would include using flow structures to 'focus' particles into regions away from passing cars or surface treatments to capture small drops.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Paschkewitz, J S
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allele-specific deposition of macroH2A1 in Imprinting Control Regions (open access)

Allele-specific deposition of macroH2A1 in Imprinting Control Regions

In the current study, we analyzed the deposition patterns of macroH2A1 at a number of different genomic loci located in X chromosome and autosomes. MacroH2A1 is preferentially deposited at methylated CpG CpG-rich regions located close to promoters. The macroH2A1 deposition patterns at the methylated CpG islands of several imprinted domains, including the Imprinting Control Regions (ICRs) of Xist, Peg3, H19/Igf2 Igf2, Gtl2/Dlk1, and Gnas domains, show consistent allele-specificity towards inactive, methylated alleles. The macroH2A1 deposition levels at the ICRs and other Differentially Methylated Regions (DMRs) of these domains are also either higher or comparable to those observed at the inactive X chromosome of female mammals. Overall, our results indicate that besides DNA methylation macroH2A1 is another epigenetic component in the chromatin of ICRs displaying differential association with two parental alleles.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Choo, J H; Kim, J D; Chung, J H; Stubbs, L & Kim, J
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-ray Induced Pinhole Closure in Point Projection X-ray Radiography (open access)

X-ray Induced Pinhole Closure in Point Projection X-ray Radiography

In pinhole-assisted point-projection x-ray radiography (or ''backlighting''), pinholes are placed between the sample of interest and an x-ray source (or ''backlighter'') to effectively limit the source size and hence improve the spatial resolution of the system. Pinholes are generally placed close to such x-ray backlighters to increase the field-of-view, leading to possible vaporization and pinhole closure due to x-ray driven ablation, thereby potentially limiting the usefulness of this method. An experimental study and modeling of time-dependent closure and resolution is presented. The pinhole closure timescale is studied for various pinhole sizes, pinhole to backlighter separations and filtering conditions. In addition the time-dependent resolution is extracted from one-dimensional wire imaging prior to pinhole closure. Cylindrical hydrodynamic modeling of the pinhole closure shows reasonable agreement with data, giving us a predictive capability for pinhole closure in future experiments.
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: Bullock, A. B.; Landen, O. L.; Blue, B. E.; Edwards, J. & Bradley, D. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library