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Structure of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle Across the Arabian Peninsula (open access)

Structure of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle Across the Arabian Peninsula

Analysis of modern broadband (BB) waveform data allows for the inference of seismic velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle using a variety of techniques. This presentation will report inferences of seismic structure of the Arabian Plate using BB data from various networks. Most data were recorded by the Saudi Arabian National Digital Seismic Network (SANDSN) which consists of 38 (26 BB, 11 SP) stations, mostly located on the Arabian Shield. Additional data were taken from the 1995-7 Saudi Arabian IRIS-PASSCAL Deployment (9 BB stations) and other stations across the Peninsula. Crustal structure, inferred from teleseismic P-wave receiver functions, reveals thicker crust in the Arabian Platform (40-45 km) and the interior of the Arabian Shield (35-40 km) and thinner crust along the Red Sea coast. Lithospheric thickness inferred from teleseismic S-wave receiver functions reveals very thin lithosphere (40-80 km) along the Red Sea coast which thickens rapidly toward the interior of the Arabian Shield (100-120 km). We also observe a step of 20-40 km in lithospheric thickness across the Shield-Platform boundary. Seismic velocity structure of the upper mantle inferred from teleseismic P- and S-wave travel time tomography reveals large differences between the Shield and Platform, with the Shield being …
Date: January 5, 2007
Creator: Al-Amri, A. & Rodgers, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (open access)

Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP

For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are unavoidably limited, even for distinguishing the cosmological constant. They can pave the way for, but should not delay, SNAP by developing calibration, refinement, and systematics control (and they will also provide important, exciting astrophysics).
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: Albert, J.; Aldering, G.; Allam, S.; Althouse, W.; Amanullah, R.; Annis, J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sample Proficiency Test exercise (open access)

Sample Proficiency Test exercise

The current format of the OPCW proficiency tests has multiple sets of 2 samples sent to an analysis laboratory. In each sample set, one is identified as a sample, the other as a blank. This method of conducting proficiency tests differs from how an OPCW designated laboratory would receive authentic samples (a set of three containers, each not identified, consisting of the authentic sample, a control sample, and a blank sample). This exercise was designed to test the reporting if the proficiency tests were to be conducted. As such, this is not an official OPCW proficiency test, and the attached report is one method by which LLNL might report their analyses under a more realistic testing scheme. Therefore, the title on the report ''Report of the Umpteenth Official OPCW Proficiency Test'' is meaningless, and provides a bit of whimsy for the analyses and readers of the report.
Date: February 5, 2006
Creator: Alcaraz, A.; Gregg, H. & Koester, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FACT (Version 2.0) - Subsurface Flow and Contaminant Transport Documentation and User's Guide (open access)

FACT (Version 2.0) - Subsurface Flow and Contaminant Transport Documentation and User's Guide

This report documents a finite element code designed to model subsurface flow and contaminant transport, named FACT. FACT is a transient three-dimensional, finite element code designed to simulate isothermal groundwater flow, moisture movement, and solute transport in variably saturated and fully saturated subsurface porous media.
Date: May 5, 2000
Creator: Aleman, S. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The SPARX Project: R & D Activity Towards X-Rays FEL Sources (open access)

The SPARX Project: R & D Activity Towards X-Rays FEL Sources

SPARX is an evolutionary project proposed by a collaboration among ENEA-INFN-CNR-Universita di Roma Tor Vergata aiming at the construction of a FELSASE X-ray source in the Tor Vergata Campus. The first phase of the SPARX project, funded by Government Agencies, will be focused on R&D activity on critical components and techniques for future X-ray facilities as described in this paper.
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: Alesini, D.; Bellaveglia, M.; Bertolucci, S.; Biagini, M. E.; Boni, R.; Boscolo, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and Federal Water Rights (open access)

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and Federal Water Rights

This report discusses federal authority over water, and federal "reserved" and non-reserved water rights. Based on the language of the act and its legislative history, it appears that the act creates federal water rights. The act does not specify the quantity of the right. The amount of the federal right is likely to vary from river to river depending on the river's flows, the unappropriated flows in the river at the time of designation, and the values for which the river is being protected.
Date: March 5, 2007
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gray Wolves Under the Endangered Species Act: Distinct Population Segments and Experimental Populations (open access)

Gray Wolves Under the Endangered Species Act: Distinct Population Segments and Experimental Populations

This report looks at the distinct population segments (DPSs) process as it is applied to the gray wolf. It also reviews experimental populations of wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and their protections.
Date: November 5, 2007
Creator: Alexander, Kristina & Corn, M. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 2004 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 2004 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 2004
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 2005 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 2005
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 2006 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 5, 2006
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 2007 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 2007
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 2007 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 5, 2007
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 5, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 2009 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 5, 2009
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 2009 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2009
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 2009 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 5, 2009
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crack growth rates and metallographic examinations of Alloy 600 and Alloy 82/182 from field components and laboratory materials tested in PWR environments. (open access)

Crack growth rates and metallographic examinations of Alloy 600 and Alloy 82/182 from field components and laboratory materials tested in PWR environments.

In light water reactors, components made of nickel-base alloys are susceptible to environmentally assisted cracking. This report summarizes the crack growth rate results and related metallography for field and laboratory-procured Alloy 600 and its weld alloys tested in pressurized water reactor (PWR) environments. The report also presents crack growth rate (CGR) results for a shielded-metal-arc weld of Alloy 182 in a simulated PWR environment as a function of temperature between 290 C and 350 C. These data were used to determine the activation energy for crack growth in Alloy 182 welds. The tests were performed by measuring the changes in the stress corrosion CGR as the temperatures were varied during the test. The difference in electrochemical potential between the specimen and the Ni/NiO line was maintained constant at each temperature by adjusting the hydrogen overpressure on the water supply tank. The CGR data as a function of temperature yielded activation energies of 252 kJ/mol for a double-J weld and 189 kJ/mol for a deep-groove weld. These values are in good agreement with the data reported in the literature. The data reported here and those in the literature suggest that the average activation energy for Alloy 182 welds is on the …
Date: May 5, 2008
Creator: Alexandreanu, B.; Chopra, O. K. & Shack, W. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plasma Diagnostic Calibration and Characterizations with High Energy X-rays (open access)

Plasma Diagnostic Calibration and Characterizations with High Energy X-rays

National Security Technologies’ High Energy X-ray (HEX) Facility is unique in the U.S. Department of Energy complex. The HEX provides fluorescent X-rays of 5 keV to 100 keV with fluence of 10^5–10^6 photons/cm^2/second at the desired line energy. Low energy lines can be filtered, and both filters and fluorescers can be changed rapidly. We present results of calibrating image plates (sensitivity and modulation transfer function), a Bremsstrahlung spectrometer (stacked filters and image plates), and the National Ignition Facility’s Filter- Fluorescer Experiment (FFLEX) high energy X-ray spectrometer. We also show results of a scintillator light yield and alignment study for a neutron imaging system.
Date: June 5, 2009
Creator: Ali, Zaheer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation-induced segregation and the relationship to physical properties in irradiated austenitic alloys. (open access)

Radiation-induced segregation and the relationship to physical properties in irradiated austenitic alloys.

Radiation-induced changes in composition are studied because these changes can degrade failure of materials irradiated in nuclear reactors. In this work, the effect of alloy composition on radiation-induced segregation, hardening, and void swelling is presented. Five alloys, Fe-18Cr-8Ni, Fe-16Cr-13Ni, Fe-18Cr-40Ni, Fe-16Cr-13Ni+Mo, and Fe-16Cr-13Ni+Mo+P (all compositions in wt. %), were irradiated with 3.2 MeV protons at 400 C to a dose of 0.5 displacements per atom. The change in grain boundary composition was measured using field emission gun scanning transmission electron microscopy and the hardening was measured using Vickers indentation. Void swelling is calculated from the void size distribution measured using transmission electron microscopy. After irradiation, Cr depletes and Ni enriches at grain boundaries. Increasing bulk Ni concentration causes greater Cr depletion and Ni enrichment at grain boundaries. For alloys with 16 Cr, the addition of P reduces the Cr depletion and Ni enrichment. Hardening does not directly correlate with composition, but a framework for isolating the effect of hardening and segregation on cracking is suggested. The amount of void swelling in the irradiated material is shown to correspond inversely with segregation. Those alloys with greater segregation tend to swell less.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Allen, T. R.; Cole, J. I.; Was, G. S. & Kenik, E. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Properties of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel irradiated at low dose rate. (open access)

Properties of 20% cold-worked 316 stainless steel irradiated at low dose rate.

To assess the effects of long-term, low-dose-rate neutron exposure, tensile, hardness, and fracture properties were measured and microstructural characterization performed on irradiated 20% cold-worked Type 316 stainless steel. Samples were prepared from reactor core components retrieved from the EBR-II reactor following final shutdown. Sample locations were chosen to cover a dose range of 1-56 dpa at temperatures from 371-390 C and dose rates from 0.8-3.3 x 10{sup -7} dpa/s. Irradiation caused hardening, with the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) reaching about 800 MPa near 20 dpa and appearing to saturate at higher doses. The yield strength (YS) follows approximately the same trend as the ultimate tensile strength. At higher dose, the difference between the UTS and YS decreases, suggesting the work-hardening capability of the material is decreasing with increasing dose. The hardness and yield strength increases occur roughly over the same range of dose. While the material retained respectable ductility at 20 dpa, the uniform and total elongation decreased to <1 and <3%, respectively, at 47 dpa. Fracture in the 30 dpa specimen is mainly ductile but with local regions of mixed-mode failure, consisting mainly of dimples and microvoids. The fracture surface of the higher-exposure 47 dpa specimen displays more brittle …
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Allen, T. R.; Tsai, H.; Cole, J. I.; Ohta, J.; Dohi, K. & Kusanagi, H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological impacts and context of network theory (open access)

Biological impacts and context of network theory

Many complex systems can be represented and analyzed as networks, and examples that have benefited from this approach span the natural sciences. For instance, we now know that systems as disparate as the World-Wide Web, the Internet, scientific collaborations, food webs, protein interactions and metabolism all have common features in their organization, the most salient of which are their scale-free connectivity distributions and their small-world behavior. The recent availability of large scale datasets that span the proteome or metabolome of an organism have made it possible to elucidate some of the organizational principles and rules that govern their function, robustness and evolution. We expect that combining the currently separate layers of information from gene regulatory-, signal transduction-, protein interaction- and metabolic networks will dramatically enhance our understanding of cellular function and dynamics.
Date: January 5, 2007
Creator: Almaas, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low Mach Number Modeling of Type Ia Supernovae (open access)

Low Mach Number Modeling of Type Ia Supernovae

We introduce a low Mach number equation set for the large-scale numerical simulation of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs experiencing a thermonuclear deflagration. Since most of the interesting physics in a Type Ia supernova transpires at Mach numbers from 0.01 to 0.1, such an approach enables both a considerable increase in accuracy and savings in computer time compared with frequently used compressible codes. Our equation set is derived from the fully compressible equations using low Mach number asymptotics, but without any restriction on the size of perturbations in density or temperature. Comparisons with simulations that use the fully compressible equations validate the low Mach number model in regimes where both are applicable. Comparisons to simulations based on the more traditional an elastic approximation also demonstrate the agreement of these models in the regime for which the anelastic approximation is valid. For low Mach number flows with potentially finite amplitude variations in density and temperature, the low Mach number model overcomes the limitations of each of the more traditional models and can serve as the basis for an accurate and efficient simulation tool.
Date: August 5, 2005
Creator: Almgren, Ann S.; Bell, John B.; Rendleman, Charles A. & Zingale,Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library