Geothermal Materials Development, Annual Report FY 1991 (open access)

Geothermal Materials Development, Annual Report FY 1991

Advances in the development of new materials, the commercial availabilities of which are essential for the attainment of Hydrothermal Category Level I and II Objectives, continue to be made in the Geothermal Materials Development Project. Many successes have already been accrued and the results used commercially. In FY 1991, utility company sponsored full cost'' recovery programs based upon materials technology developed in this project were initiated on topics such as condensing heat exchangers, high temperature composites for utility vaults used in district heating systems, and corrosion resistant coatings for use in oil-fired electric generating processes. In FY 1991 the DOE/GD-sponsored R D project was focused on reducing well drilling, fluid transport and energy conversion costs. Specific activities being performed included lightweight CO{sub 2}- resistant well cements, chemical systems for lost circulation control, thermally conductive and scale resistant protective linear systems, corrosion mitigation in process components at The Geysers, and elastomer-metal bonding systems needed for use in high temperature well drilling and safety related applications.
Date: December 1, 1991
Creator: Kukacka, L. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
H-Area Seepage Basins (open access)

H-Area Seepage Basins

During the third quarter of 1990 the wells which make up the H-Area Seepage Basins (H-HWMF) monitoring network were sampled. Laboratory analyses were performed to measure levels of hazardous constituents, indicator parameters, tritium, nonvolatile beta, and gross alpha. A Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) scan was performed on all wells sampled to determine any hazardous organic constituents present in the groundwater. The primary contaminants observed at wells monitoring the H-Area Seepage Basins are tritium, nitrate, mercury, gross alpha, nonvolatile beta, trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene, lead, cadmium, arsenic, and total radium.
Date: December 1, 1990
Creator: Stejskal, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NQR-NMR studies of higher alcohol synthesis Cu-Co catalysts (open access)

NQR-NMR studies of higher alcohol synthesis Cu-Co catalysts

The primary objective of the project is to examine the relations between the catalytic and magnetic properties of the copper-cobalt higher alcohol synthesis catalysts. We have undertaken to investigate the magnetic character by studying the Nuclear Quadrupole resonance of copper and (Zerofield) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of cobalt in copper cobalt catalysts.
Date: December 17, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupational dose reduction at Department of Energy contractor facilities: Bibliography of selected readings in radiation protection and ALARA (open access)

Occupational dose reduction at Department of Energy contractor facilities: Bibliography of selected readings in radiation protection and ALARA

This bibliography contains abstracts relating to various aspects of ALARA program implementation and dose reduction activities, with a focus on DOE facilities. Abstracts included in this bibliography were selected from proceedings of technical meetings, journals, research reports, searches of the DOE Energy, Science and Technology Database (in general, the citation and abstract information is presented as obtained from this database), and reprints of published articles provided by the authors. Facility types and activities covered in the scope of this report include: radioactive waste, uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, spent fuel storage and reprocessing, facility decommissioning, hot laboratories, tritium production, research, test and production reactors, weapons fabrication and testing, fusion, uranium and plutonium processing, radiography, and aocelerators. Information on improved shielding design, decontamination, containments, robotics, source prevention and control, job planning, improved operational and design techniques, as well as on other topics, has been included. In addition, DOE/EH reports not included in previous volumes of the bibliography are in this volume (abstracts 611 to 684). This volume (Volume 5 of the series) contains 217 abstracts. An author index and a subject index are provided to facilitate use. Both indices contain the abstract numbers from previous volumes, as well as the current volume. …
Date: December 1, 1993
Creator: Dionne, B. J.; Sullivan, S. G. & Baum, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal dosimetry technical basis manual (open access)

Internal dosimetry technical basis manual

The internal dosimetry program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) consists of radiation protection programs and activities used to detect and evaluate intakes of radioactive material by radiation workers. Examples of such programs are: air monitoring; surface contamination monitoring; personal contamination surveys; radiobioassay; and dose assessment. The objectives of the internal dosimetry program are to demonstrate that the workplace is under control and that workers are not being exposed to radioactive material, and to detect and assess inadvertent intakes in the workplace. The Savannah River Site Internal Dosimetry Technical Basis Manual (TBM) is intended to provide a technical and philosophical discussion of the radiobioassay and dose assessment aspects of the internal dosimetry program. Detailed information on air, surface, and personal contamination surveillance programs is not given in this manual except for how these programs interface with routine and special bioassay programs.
Date: December 20, 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[RE: National Gallery Videodisc Competition, December 8, 1992] (open access)

[RE: National Gallery Videodisc Competition, December 8, 1992]

Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, project coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to the NTIEVA Art Supervisors. In regards to the National Gallery Videodisc Competition, a competition that North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts had entered. Attached to the letter is a copy of the new release from the Nation Gallery in Washington, D.C. Reynolds writes that they will be one of the recipients of the American Art videodisc and that she encourages other school districts to apply as there are a number of spots still available and the Gallery has extended their deadline. Enclosed with the letter is a Call For Entry Letter from the National Gallery.
Date: December 8, 1992
Creator: Reynolds, Nancy
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Elaine Schad, December 3, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Elaine Schad, December 3, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Elaine Schad, Denton Record-Chronicle. In regards to the interview Broadus had with Schad about the NTIEVA program and partnership with Pilot Point ISD. Broadus writes to Schad that NTIEVA is funded by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the University of North Texas Foundation and to mail Jack Davis for any inquiries they may have about it.
Date: December 3, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Harold M. Williams to Bill McCarter, December 5, 1994] (open access)

[Letter from Harold M. Williams to Bill McCarter, December 5, 1994]

Photocopy of a letter from Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, to Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Inviting McCarter to attend a special dinner for invited guests on January 12, 1995 at the National Gallery of Art. The dinner will be held in conjunction with the Getty Center's fifth national conference on arts education January 12 - 14, 1995. The purpose of this dinner is to recognize the accomplishments of McCarter's institute and the contribution to the achievements of education.
Date: December 5, 1994
Creator: Williams, Harold M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from UNT Health Science Board of Regents, to Harold M. Williams, December 3, 1993] (open access)

[Letter from UNT Health Science Board of Regents, to Harold M. Williams, December 3, 1993]

Photocopy of a letter from the University of North Texas Health Science Center Board of Regents, chairman Jerry Farrington, vice chair E.L. Langley, W. David Bayless, Sr., R.L Crawford, Jr., Nancy Halbreich, Joe Kirven, Lucille G. Murchison, Don Rives and Topsy Wright to Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust. In regards to the Board of Regents wanting to let Williams known how much they appreciate the continued support of the Getty Trust towards the University's art education efforts through North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program.
Date: December 3, 1993
Creator: Farrington, Jerry
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Linda Kirby, December 3, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Linda Kirby, December 3, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Linda Kirby, Community Relations Coord., Pilot Point. In regards to a schedule interview with the Denton Record-Chronicle and how Broadus is looking forward to the presentation in January and working with Davis Lewis on the special arts edition for Post-Signal.
Date: December 3, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Jim Surratt to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, December 5, 1994] (open access)

[Letter from Jim Surratt to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, December 5, 1994]

Photocopy of a letter from Jim Surratt, Superintendent Plano ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to Plano's commitment as a full partner in the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and their implementation of full two-week summer institute in the summer of 1995. Attached to the letter are stipend worksheets for the current income of the faculty to be involved with the program.
Date: December 5, 1994
Creator: Surratt, Jim
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, December 27, 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, December 27, 1995]

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer for the Getty Center, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Requesting further revised materials from NTIEVA as they've submitted a proposal for the FY96/FY97 year using their proposal from FY95. Rosenberg notes that there have been new developments with the NTIEVA program and is hesitant using a proposal from the FY95 year, and so to proceed with the review process they need to submit a proposal that is up to date. The last page has a scribbled note.
Date: December 27, 1995
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Donna Engles, December 6, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Donna Engles, December 6, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Donna Engels, Evers Park Elementary School. In regards to an upcoming class visitation on January 8th and how Broadus will plan to present a lesson dealing with winter. Broadus plans on bringing a reproduction of a winter landscape or something visually similar, in order to get the children to talk about the art.
Date: December 6, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Nancy Berry, December 9, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Nancy Berry, December 9, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, the Getty Center, to Nancy Berry, National Center for Art Museums, School Collaborations, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. This is the second page of a letter Rosenberg has sent to Berry in regards to Berry's participation in the Education Institute's National Conference, "Education For the Workplace Through the Arts." The Education Institute is inviting Berry to represent museum educators during a panel to comment on the DBAE program in general education and implementation. Cc'd on the letter is Val Marmillion, Lori Weisgerber, Jack Davis and Bill McCarter.
Date: December 9, 1996
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[RE: FY97 Rig Budgets and Final FY97 Grant Payments, December 19, 1996] (open access)

[RE: FY97 Rig Budgets and Final FY97 Grant Payments, December 19, 1996]

Photocopy of a letter from Julie Abel, the Getty Center, to the Regional Institute Directors. In regards to the FY97 budgets and grant payments. Abel writes that to facilitate the FY97 grant funding, the Center will limit their analysis to the RIG's core program budgeting only.
Date: December 19, 1996
Creator: Abel, Julie
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds to Veronika Jenke, December 7, 1992] (open access)

[Letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds to Veronika Jenke, December 7, 1992]

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Veronika Jenke, National Museum of African Art. In regards to Jenke loaning McCarter and Reynolds slide programs, video tapes and books from the museum. In turn McCarter and Reynolds ask of Jenke to make the materials available on loan for the teachers in the NTIEVA consortium as the information is invaluable. McCarter and Reynolds have included information for a Frequency of Use Report, for the National Gallery of Art of which NTIEVA is an affiliate of and loan materials from, hoping that Jenke will take their request into consideration.
Date: December 7, 1992
Creator: McCarter, William & Reynolds, Nancy
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Bill McCarter to Robert Estes, December 19, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Bill McCarter to Robert Estes, December 19, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Robert Estes, Principal of Borman Elementary School. Addressing how proud North Texas Institute is in the award given to Estes by TAEA, and how no principal in the state of Texas has given more time or energy to the arts in public school education. McCarter ends the letter wishing Estes a joyous holiday.
Date: December 19, 1990
Creator: McCarter, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Jack Davis to Mitch Jericho, December 15, 1992] (open access)

[Letter from Jack Davis to Mitch Jericho, December 15, 1992]

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Mitch Jericho. Thanking Jericho for visiting the University of North Texas campus to talk about a collaboration between them and Young Audiences. As requested by Jericho, Davis has enclosed a copy of the paper on accountability which will appear in the Winter 1993 issues of Studies in Art Education. Copied on the letter is Bill McCarter.
Date: December 15, 1992
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Jeannie Sellmeyer, December 17, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Jeannie Sellmeyer, December 17, 1990]

Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus to Jeannine Sellmeyer, Director of Education at the Denton Co. Historical Museum, writing how much Broadus enjoyed the Docent Training Workshop and for giving Broadus an opportunity to work with the docents. Enclosed in the letter to Sellmeyer, Broadus has sent teacher packets and museum education brochures from Meadows Museum at SMU, to help Sellmeyer gather new ideas for her education tour at the Historical Museum. Teacher packets not present with letter.
Date: December 17, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNLV Information Science Research Institute quarterly progress report (open access)

UNLV Information Science Research Institute quarterly progress report

This report presents research on information systems, information retrieval, and optical character recognition. (CBS)
Date: December 31, 1991
Creator: Nartker, T.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nitrogen control of chloroplast development and differentiation (open access)

Nitrogen control of chloroplast development and differentiation

The growth and development of plants and photosynthetic microorganisms is commonly limited by the availability of nitrogen. Our work concerns understanding the mechanisms by which plants and algae that are subjected to nitrogen deprivation alter the composition of photosynthetic membranes and enzymes involved in photosynthetic carbon metabolism. Toward these ends, we study biosynthetic and gene expression processes in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which is grown in an ammonium-limited continuous culture system. We have found that the expression of nuclear genes, including those encoding for light-harvesting proteins, are severely repressed in nitrogen-limited cells whereas, in general, chloroplast protein synthesis is attenuated primarily at the level of mRNA translation. Conversely, nitrogen deprivation appears to lead to enhanced synthesis of enzymes that are involved in starch and storage lipid deposition. In addition, as a possible means by which photosynthetic electron transport activities and ATP synthesis is sustained during chronic periods of nitrogen deprivation, thylakoid membranes become enriched with components for chlororespiration. Characterization of the chlororespiratory electron transport constituents, including cytochrome complexes and NAD(P)H dehydrogenase is a major current effort. Also, we are striving to isolate the genes encoding chlororespiration proteins toward determining how they and others that are strongly responsive to …
Date: December 1, 1991
Creator: Schmidt, G.W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Removal of trichloroethylene contamination from the subsurface: A comparative evaluation of different remediation strategies by means of numerical simulation (open access)

Removal of trichloroethylene contamination from the subsurface: A comparative evaluation of different remediation strategies by means of numerical simulation

Volatile organic compounds such as petroleum hydrocarbons and halogenated hydrocarbon solvents are common contaminants of the subsurface environment. Although immiscible with water, many of these organics have large enough aqueous phase solubilities to significantly degrade the quality of groundwater with which they come in contact. In addition, many of these substances exhibit high vapor pressures, causing them to partition strongly into the gas phase in their surroundings. Because of these properties, a volatile organic compound (VOC), once introduced into the subsurface may be transported as a solute, a vapor, or as a constituent in a non- aqueous phase liquid (NAPL). This implies that at some sits, an adequate description of the migration of these contaminants in the subsurface would necessarily involve three phases, -- gas, aqueous and NAPL. For example, to design an effective aquifer remediation scheme for a site where NAPL is present, it would be wrong to focus solely on the aqueous phase while ignoring either the gas phase or the NAPL phase. In the present work, we use a simulator developed by Falta et al. (1990a), known as STMVOC,'' which models true three-phase flow in which NAPL, gas and aqueous phases can move in response to pressure, …
Date: December 1, 1990
Creator: Adenekan, A.E.; Pruess, K. & Falta, R.W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unusual initial and final state effects in quantum chromodynamics (open access)

Unusual initial and final state effects in quantum chromodynamics

We have constructed a number of fundamental tests which can be used to probe discrete symmetries, and their possible violations, in the required new physics'' beyond the standard model. On-going experiments with unpolarized e{sup {minus}}e{sup +} collisions contain many events for the production-decay sequence e{sup {minus}}e{sup +} {yields} Z{degrees}, {gamma}* {yields} {tau}{sup {minus}}{tau}{sup +} {yields} (A{sup {minus}X}) (B{sup +}X). From the beam referenced spin-correlation function for this sequence, the photon and Z{degrees} boson couplings of the tau lepton can be completely measured. There are four distinct tests for CP/T violation in Z{degrees} {yields} {tau}{sup {minus}}{tau}{sup +}, and in {gamma}* {yields} {tau}{sup {minus}}{tau}{sup +}. The Lorentz structure of the associated helicity amplitudes is very simple. In other research programs, we are (1) continuing to investigate our proposal that partons be identified with nearly degenerate, coherent quark-gluon jet'' states, and are (2) investigating the novel consequences of q-analogue quantization of quantum fields, and of a completeness relation for the q-analogue coherent states.
Date: December 1, 1991
Creator: Nelson, C.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lectures notes for introduction to environmental law (open access)

Lectures notes for introduction to environmental law

This four-hour overview course is designed to briefly describe the environmental law system. The course provides an overview that managers and technical people will find useful as a beginning course or a course that puts formerly taken detailed courses in perspective. The course begins by defining environmental law and describing the legal system that establishes compliance obligations. Then, all the major Environmental Acts such as The Water Pollution Control Act, The National Environmental Policy Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) are briefly described and interrelated. All the environmental DOE Orders, selected books, and other source material are referenced. Radioactive pollutants are not discussed; however, reference material is provided.
Date: December 1, 1991
Creator: Cadwell, J.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library