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Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues (open access)

Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues

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Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 110th Congress (open access)

Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 110th Congress

This report discusses immigration-related issues that have seen legislative action or are of significant congressional interest.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inf-sup estimates for the Stokes problem in a periodic channel (open access)

Inf-sup estimates for the Stokes problem in a periodic channel

We derive estimates of the Babuska-Brezzi inf-sup constant {beta} for two-dimensional incompressible flow in a periodic channel with one flat boundary and the other given by a periodic, Lipschitz continuous function h. If h is a constant function (so the domain is rectangular), we show that periodicity in one direction but not the other leads to an interesting connection between {beta} and the unitary operator mapping the Fourier sine coefficients of a function to its Fourier cosine coefficients. We exploit this connection to determine the dependence of {beta} on the aspect ratio of the rectangle. We then show how to transfer this result to the case that h is C{sup 1,1} or even C{sup 0,1} by a change of variables. We avoid non-constructive theorems of functional analysis in order to explicitly exhibit the dependence of {beta} on features of the geometry such as the aspect ratio, the maximum slope, and the minimum gap thickness (if h passes near the substrate). We give an example to show that our estimates are optimal in their dependence on the minimum gap thickness in the C{sup 1,1} case, and nearly optimal in the Lipschitz case.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Wilkening, Jon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil and Gas Legislation, Revenue Sharing, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Iraq: Oil and Gas Legislation, Revenue Sharing, and U.S. Policy

This report reviews proposed legislation and contracts, analyzes the positions of various Iraqi political actors, and discusses potential implications for U.S. foreign policy goals in Iraq.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Israel and the Palestinians: Prospects for a Two-State Solution (open access)

Israel and the Palestinians: Prospects for a Two-State Solution

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Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Llano, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Moreno, Eric L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 137, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 137, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Hughes, Dustin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Measurements of NaI(Tl) electron response: comparison of different samples (open access)

Measurements of NaI(Tl) electron response: comparison of different samples

This paper measures the sample to sample variation in the light yield proportionality of NaI(Tl), and so explores whether this is an invariant characteristic of the material or whether it depends on the chemical and physical properties of the tested samples. We report on the electron response of nine crystals of NaI(Tl), differing in shape, volume, age, manufacturer and quality. The proportionality has been measured at the SLYNCI facility in the energy range between 3.5 to 460 keV. We observe that while samples produced by the same manufacturer at approximately the same time have virtually identical electron response curves, there are significant sample to sample variations among crystals produced by different manufacturers or at different times. In an effort to correlate changes in the electron response with details of the scintillation mechanism, we characterized other scintillation properties, including the gamma response and the x-ray excited emission spectra and decay times, for the nine crystals. While sample to sample differences in these crystals were observed, we have been unable to identify the underlying fundamental mechanisms that are responsible for these differences.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Hull, Giulia; Choong, Woon-Seng; Moses, William W.; Bizarri, Gregory; Valentine, John D.; Payne, Stephen A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Mercedes, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Coatings on LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 for Li-Ion Battery Composite Cathodes (open access)

Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Coatings on LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 for Li-Ion Battery Composite Cathodes

In this paper, we report results of a novel synthesis method of thin film conductive carbon coatings on LiNi{sub 1/3}Co{sub 1/3}Mn{sub 1/3}O{sub 2} cathode active material powders for lithium-ion batteries. Thin layers of graphitic carbon were produced from a solid organic precursor, anthracene, by a one-step microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) method. The structure and morphology of the carbon coatings were examined using SEM, TEM, and Raman spectroscopy. The composite LiNi{sub 1/3}Co{sub 1/3}Mn{sub 1/3}O{sub 2} electrodes were electrochemically tested in lithium half coin cells. The composite cathodes made of the carbon-coated LiNi{sub 1/3}Co{sub 1/3}Mn{sub 1/3}O{sub 2} powder showed superior electrochemical performance and increased capacity compared to standard composite LiNi{sub 1/3}Co{sub 1/3}Mn{sub 1/3}O{sub 2} electrodes.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Doeff, Marek M.; Kostecki, Robert M.; Marcinek, Marek L. & Wilcox, James W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obscenity, Child Pornography, and Indecency: Recent Developments and Pending Issues (open access)

Obscenity, Child Pornography, and Indecency: Recent Developments and Pending Issues

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Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 93, No. 75, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 93, No. 75, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Simons, Meredith
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Jack Stoeber, December 10, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jack Stoeber, December 10, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jack Stoeber. Stoeber joined the Navy in January of 1940 and completed a 6-year tour of duty. He completed machine gun school, learning how to fire a 50 caliber anti-aircraft gun. He served aboard the USS Whitney (AD-4), which was docked at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He describes his experiences through that fateful day of events. In May of 1942 they traveled to Tongatapu, tending to the destroyers in that area. Beginning in 1944 Stoeber served as Chief Carpenter???s Mate aboard the USS Pickens (APA-190), which participated in the invasions of Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Philippines. He was discharged in January of 1946.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Stoeber, Jack
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack Stoeber, December 10, 2008 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack Stoeber, December 10, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jack Stoeber. Stoeber joined the Navy in January of 1940 and completed a 6-year tour of duty. He completed machine gun school, learning how to fire a 50 caliber anti-aircraft gun. He served aboard the USS Whitney (AD-4), which was docked at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He describes his experiences through that fateful day of events. In May of 1942 they traveled to Tongatapu, tending to the destroyers in that area. Beginning in 1944 Stoeber served as Chief Carpenter???s Mate aboard the USS Pickens (APA-190), which participated in the invasions of Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Philippines. He was discharged in January of 1946.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Stoeber, Jack
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 99, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 99, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 241, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 116, No. 241, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Practical error estimates for Reynolds' lubrication approximation and its higher order corrections (open access)

Practical error estimates for Reynolds' lubrication approximation and its higher order corrections

Reynolds lubrication approximation is used extensively to study flows between moving machine parts, in narrow channels, and in thin films. The solution of Reynolds equation may be thought of as the zeroth order term in an expansion of the solution of the Stokes equations in powers of the aspect ratio {var_epsilon} of the domain. In this paper, we show how to compute the terms in this expansion to arbitrary order on a two-dimensional, x-periodic domain and derive rigorous, a-priori error bounds for the difference between the exact solution and the truncated expansion solution. Unlike previous studies of this sort, the constants in our error bounds are either independent of the function h(x) describing the geometry, or depend on h and its derivatives in an explicit, intuitive way. Specifically, if the expansion is truncated at order 2k, the error is O({var_epsilon}{sup 2k+2}) and h enters into the error bound only through its first and third inverse moments {integral}{sub 0}{sup 1} h(x){sup -m} dx, m = 1,3 and via the max norms {parallel} 1/{ell}! h{sup {ell}-1}{partial_derivative}{sub x}{sup {ell}}h{parallel}{sub {infinity}}, 1 {le} {ell} {le} 2k + 2. We validate our estimates by comparing with finite element solutions and present numerical evidence that suggests …
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Wilkening, Jon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
QCD Evolution of the Transverse Momentum Dependent Correlations (open access)

QCD Evolution of the Transverse Momentum Dependent Correlations

We study the QCD evolution for the twist-three quark-gluon correlation functions associated with the transverse momentum odd quark distributions. Different from that for the leading twist quark distributions, these evolution equations involve more general twist-three functions beyond the correlation functions themselves. They provide important information on nucleon structure, and can be studied in the semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan lepton pair production in pp scattering process.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Zhou, Jian; Liang, Zuo-Tang & Yuan, Feng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Questions About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds (open access)

Questions About the $700 Billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Funds

December report of the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel describing their activities and findings regarding the U.S. Treasury's strategy in combating the ongoing financial crisis
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: United States. Congressional Oversight Panel.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Development in Proton Spin Physics (open access)

Recent Development in Proton Spin Physics

In the naive model of the proton, its 1/2 spin is carried by its quark constituents. However, experiments over the last several decades have shown that the quark spin only contribute a small portion of the proton spin. In this talk, I will present recent developments exploring this proton spin puzzle, and focus on the progress made in the last few years on the longitudinal spin physics, the generalized parton distribution physics, and the transverse spin physics.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Yuan, Feng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy: Background and Issues for the 110th Congress (open access)

Renewable Energy: Background and Issues for the 110th Congress

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Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resale Price Maintenance No Longer a Per Se Antitrust Offense: Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, Inc. (open access)

Resale Price Maintenance No Longer a Per Se Antitrust Offense: Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, Inc.

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Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 75, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 75, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Shance, Brenda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Semi-inclusive DIS: Factorization (open access)

Semi-inclusive DIS: Factorization

In this talk, we will present a QCD factorization theorem for the semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with hadrons in the current fragmentation region detected at low transverse momentum. There has been considerable experimental and theoretical interest in semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) processes. For example, by studying the polarized and unpolarized SIDIS, one will be able to identify the sea quark distribution and polarization in nucleon, and the experimental results from the HERMES collaboration have revealed nontrivial sea structure in nucleon [1]. More recently, SIDIS opened a new window to study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions and fragmentation functions from the low transverse momentum hadron production. The transverse momentum distribution of the final state hadron is directly related to the transverse momentum dependence of the parton distributions and fragmentation. These studies will provide new opportunities to explore the partonic structure of nucleon, especially the three-dimension distribution of partons inside nucleon. The DIS experiments, including HERMES, COMPAS, and JLab Hall B collaborations, have studied various azimuthal asymmetries in SIDIS. In particular, the HERMES collaboration found sizable single spin asymmetries in these processes involving nontrivial QCD effects and hadron structure.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Yuan, Feng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library