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Targeted Technology Transfer to US Independents Annual Report: 2005
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) was established by domestic crude oil and natural gas producers in 1994 as a national not-for-profit organization to address the increasingly urgent need to improve the technology-transfer process in the U.S. upstream petroleum industry. PTTC's technology-transfer programs enhance U.S. national security. PTTC administers the only nation-wide, comprehensive program dedicated to maximizing America's supplies of domestic oil and gas. PTTC conducts grassroots programs through 10 Regional Lead Organizations (RLOs) and two satellite offices, leveraging their preexisting connections with industry. This organizational structure helps bring researchers and academia to the table. Nationally and regionally, volunteers within a National Board and Regional Producer Advisory Groups guide efforts. The National Board meets three times per year, an important function being approving the annual plans and budgets developed by the regions and Headquarters (HQ). Between Board meetings, an active Management and Budget Committee guide HQ activity. PTTC itself undergoes a thorough financial audit each year. The PTTC's HQ staff plans and manages all aspects of the PTTC program, conducts nation-wide technology-transfer activities, and implements a comprehensive communications program. Networking, involvement in technical activities, and an active exhibit schedule are increasing PTTC's sphere of influence with both producers and the oilfield …
Date:
November 1, 2005
Creator:
Duttlinger, Donald F. & Cole, E. Lance
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas State of Office Risk Management Annual Financial Report: 2005
Annual financial report for the Texas State Office of Risk Management during fiscal year 2005 including balance sheets for revenues, expenditures, and various funds, with associated notes.
Date:
November 10, 2005
Creator:
Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child Welfare: Program Reauthorizations and Recent and FY2006 Proposed Funding Levels
This report discusses current funding levels for child welfare programs, intended to protect children from abuse and neglect and to ensure their well-being. In FY2005 the federal government appropriated $7.8 billion for these purposes. Most of this funding is made available to states through open-ended entitlement programs or as formula grants and is authorized under Title IV-E and Title IV-B of the Social Security Act or under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).
Date:
November 29, 2005
Creator:
Stoltzfus, Emilie
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Hanford Seismic Report for fiscal year 2005
This reports on earthquakes recorded in the Hanford Seismic Network during Fiscal Year 2005.
Date:
December 1, 2005
Creator:
Rohay, Alan C.; Reidel, Steve P.; Hartshorn, Donald C.; Sweeney, Mark D. & Clayton, Ray E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2005
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the employee turnover statistics for fiscal year 2005. The key elements of this report examine the relationship between unemployment and turnover rates, analyse the reasons that workers leave state jobs and the various statistics of turnover, and provide information on the positive and negative effects of job turnover.
Date:
December 2005
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
FY05 FM Dial Summary Report
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Infrared Sensors team is focused on developing methods for standoff detection of nuclear proliferation. In FY05, PNNL continued the development of the FM DIAL (frequency-modulated differential absorption LIDAR) experiment. Additional improvements to the FM DIAL trailer provided greater stability during field campaigns which made it easier to explore new locations for field campaigns. In addition to the Hanford Townsite, successful experiments were conducted at the Marine Science Laboratory in Sequim, WA and the Nevada Test Site located outside Las Vegas, NV. The range of chemicals that can be detected by FM DIAL has also increased. Prior to FY05, distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers (DFB-QCL) were used in the FM DIAL experiments. With these lasers, only simple chemicals with narrow (1-2 cm-1) absorption spectra, such as CO2 and N2O, could be detected. Fabry-Perot (FP) QC lasers have much broader spectra (20-40 cm-1) which allows for the detection of larger chemicals and a wider array of chemicals that can be detected. A FP-QCL has been characterized and used during initial studies detecting DMMP (dimethyl methylphosphonate).
Date:
December 1, 2005
Creator:
Harper, Warren W.; Strasburg, Jana D.; Golovich, Elizabeth C.; Thompson, Jason S.; Stewart, Timothy L. & Batdorf, Michael T.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY05 SWIR-CRDS Summary Report
During FY05 PNNL continued to improve and field test its Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer (CRDS). Major accomplishments include a significant reduction in size and weight of the instrument ({approx} 50% reduction), and participation in two field campaigns. The first of these two field tests was conducted at DOE's Hanford site during the month of May which involved the release of ammonia. The second test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site during the Shrike Tests in July. During both of these tests the instrument performed as expected and was able to continuously sample the air and monitor the concentration of ammonia at a data rate of 1 absolute concentration point per second with a limit of detection (LOD) of approximately 500 ppbv. During the Shrike Tests the SWIR-CRDS instrument ran continuously in the desert environment for 4 days without the need for adjustment. In an attempt to increase the ultimate utility of Cavity Enhanced Sensing (CES) for monitoring more unique proliferation signatures, testing of a new broad-band CES approach was initiated. This was the final test of this instrument, no further development or fielding of this instrument has been funded.
Date:
December 1, 2005
Creator:
Williams, Richard M.; Thompson, Jason S.; Golovich, Elizabeth C.; Stewart, Timothy L. & Tweedy, Brianna J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Report on an Audit of the Texas Lottery Commission's Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2005
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining that the financial statements of the Texas Lottery Commission for the year ended August 31, 2005, are materially correct and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Date:
December 2005
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Office of Risk Management Annual Report of Nonfinancial Data: 2005
Report on nonfinancial data of the Texas State Office of Risk Management for fiscal year 2005, including information about fees, spaces, progress on the HUB (historically underutilized business) plan, environmentally sensitive purchases, and indirect costs.
Date:
December 20, 2005
Creator:
Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
1st Quarter, 2007 Results New Community Supervision Diversion Funding Provided by the 79th Legislature
Series of charts and graphs representing funding expenses for state felony revocations, early discharge, and CSO employment numbers with comparisons to previous fiscal years.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Texas. Community Justice Assistance Division.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority of Texas Annual Financial Report: 2005
Annual financial report of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority of Texas documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year ending August 31, 2005.
Date:
2006~
Creator:
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (Tex.)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner's fiscal year 2005 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date:
January 2006
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Annual Report: 2005
Annual report of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2005.
Date:
January 2006
Creator:
Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Transportation Program Expenditures: 2005
Annual report detailing expenditures by the Texas Department of Transportation during 2005, including the unified transportation program (UTP), turnpike and toll road projects, and some rail facilities, as well as the amount of bonds, public securities, and other funds used for transportation projects.
Date:
January 6, 2006
Creator:
Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
FY05 LDRD Final Report The Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact?
P'P' (PKPPKP) are P waves that travel from a hypocenter through the Earth's core, reflect from the free surface and travel back through the core to a recording station on the surface. Here we report the observations of hitherto unobserved near-podal P'P' waves (at epicentral distance < 10{sup o}) and very prominent precursors preceding the main energy by as much as 60 s. We interpret these precursors as a back-scattered energy from previously undocumented horizontally connected small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle beneath the oceans in a zone between 150 and 220 km depth beneath the Earth's surface. From these observations, we identify a frequency dependence of attenuation quality factor Q in the lithosphere through forward modeling of the observed amplitude spectra of the main and back-scattered P'P' waves. In addition, we did not find that travel times corresponding to very polar paths through the centermost inner core with respect to the rotation axis of Earth are anomalously advanced, which argues for isotropic or at best --weakly-anisotropic center of Earth in the direction parallel with the rotation axis. More systematic sampling near Earth's center and characterization of anisotropy in Earth's center will be a subject of future research efforts.
Date:
January 9, 2006
Creator:
Tkalcic, H; Flanagan, M P & Mogri, H
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Infrastructure Financing: History of EPA Appropriations
This report summarizes, in chronological order, congressional activity to fund items in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account since 1987. In appropriations legislation, funding for EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) wastewater assistance is contained in the measure providing funds for the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.
Date:
January 19, 2006
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY05 LDRD Final Report, A Revolution in Biological Imaging
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are currently under development and will provide a peak brightness more than 10 orders of magnitude higher than modern synchrotrons. The goal of this project was to perform the fundamental research to evaluate the possibility of harnessing these unique x-ray sources to image single biological particles and molecules at atomic resolution. Using a combination of computational modeling and experimental verification where possible, they showed that it should indeed be possible to record coherent scattering patterns from single molecules with pulses that are shorter than the timescales for the degradation of the structure due to the interaction with those pulses. They used these models to determine the effectiveness of strategies to allow imaging using longer XFEL pulses and to design validation experiments to be carried out at interim ultrafast sources. They also developed and demonstrated methods to recover three-dimensional (3D) images from coherent diffraction patterns, similar to those expected from XFELs. The images of micron-sized test objects are the highest-resolution 3D images of any noncrystalline material ever formed with x-rays. The project resulted in 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals and four records of invention.
Date:
January 20, 2006
Creator:
Chapman, H. N.; Bajt, S.; Balhorn, R.; Barty, A.; Barsky, D.; Bogan, M. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring Accountability and Evaluation of Diversion Programs: First Quarter 2006 Results
This document represents the evaluation criteria established to track the impact and effectiveness of diversion funds.
Date:
February 1, 2006
Creator:
Texas. Community Justice Assistance Division.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Permanent School Fund's Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Statements
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Permanent School Fund's fiscal year 2005 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date:
February 2006
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Health Professions Council Annual Report: 2005
Report on the activities of the Health Professions Council for fiscal year 2005, highlighting the organization's accomplishments and budget.
Date:
February 1, 2006
Creator:
Texas. Health Professions Council.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
FY05 LDRD Final Report Molecular Radiation Biodosimetry LDRD Project Tracking Code: 04-ERD-076
In the event of a nuclear or radiological accident or terrorist event, it is important to identify individuals that can benefit from prompt medical care and to reassure those that do not need it. Achieving these goals will maximize the ability to manage the medical consequences of radiation exposure that unfold over a period of hours, days, weeks, years, depending on dose. Medical interventions that reduce near term morbidity and mortality from high but non-lethal exposures require advanced medical support and must be focused on those in need as soon as possible. There are two traditional approaches to radiation dosimetry, physical and biological. Each as currently practiced has strengths and limitations. Physical dosimetry for radiation exposure is routine for selected sites and for individual nuclear workers in certain industries, medical centers and research institutions. No monitoring of individuals in the general population is currently performed. When physical dosimetry is available at the time of an accident/event or soon thereafter, it can provide valuable information in support of accident/event triage. Lack of data for most individuals is a major limitation, as differences in exposure can be significant due to shielding, atmospherics, etc. A smaller issue in terms of number of people …
Date:
February 3, 2006
Creator:
Jones, I. M.; A.Coleman, M.; Lehmann, J.; Manohar, C. F.; Marchetti, F.; Mariella, R. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY05 LDRD Final ReportNanomaterials for Radiation Detection
We have demonstrated that it is possible to enhance current radiation detection capability by manipulating the materials at the nano level. Fabrication of three-dimensional (3-D) nanomaterial composite for radiation detection has great potential benefits over current semiconductor- and scintillation-based technologies because of the precise control of material-radiation interaction and modulation of signal output. It is also a significant leap beyond current 2-D nanotechnology. Moreover, since we are building the materials using a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches, this strategy to make radiation detection materials can provide significant improvement to radiation-detection technologies, which are currently based on difficult-to-control bulk crystal growth techniques. We are applying this strategy to tackle two important areas in radiation detection: gamma-rays and neutrons. In gamma-ray detection, our first goal is to employ nanomaterials in the form of quantum-dot-based mixed matrices or nanoporous semiconductors to achieve scintillation output several times over that from NaI(Tl) crystals. In neutron detection, we are constructing a 3-D structure using a doped nanowire ''forest'' supported by a boron matrix and evaluating the detection efficiency of different device geometry with simulation.
Date:
February 6, 2006
Creator:
Wang, T. F.; Letant, S. E.; Nikolic, R. J. & Chueng, C. L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY05 LDRD Final Report A Computational Design Tool for Microdevices and Components in Pathogen Detection Systems
We have developed new algorithms to model complex biological flows in integrated biodetection microdevice components. The proposed work is important because the design strategy for the next-generation Autonomous Pathogen Detection System at LLNL is the microfluidic-based Biobriefcase, being developed under the Chemical and Biological Countermeasures Program in the Homeland Security Organization. This miniaturization strategy introduces a new flow regime to systems where biological flow is already complex and not well understood. Also, design and fabrication of MEMS devices is time-consuming and costly due to the current trial-and-error approach. Furthermore, existing devices, in general, are not optimized. There are several MEMS CAD capabilities currently available, but their computational fluid dynamics modeling capabilities are rudimentary at best. Therefore, we proposed a collaboration to develop computational tools at LLNL which will (1) provide critical understanding of the fundamental flow physics involved in bioMEMS devices, (2) shorten the design and fabrication process, and thus reduce costs, (3) optimize current prototypes and (4) provide a prediction capability for the design of new, more advanced microfluidic systems. Computational expertise was provided by Comp-CASC and UC Davis-DAS. The simulation work was supported by key experiments for guidance and validation at UC Berkeley-BioE.
Date:
February 7, 2006
Creator:
Trebotich, D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY05 LDRD Final Report Chemical Dynamics At Interfaces
At high pressure and temperature, the phase diagram of elemental carbon is poorly known. We present predictions of diamond and BC8 melting lines and their phase boundary in the solid phase, as obtained from first principles calculations. Maxima are found in both melting lines, with a triple point located at {approx} 850 GPa and {approx} 7400 K. Our results show that hot, compressed diamond is a semiconductor which undergoes metalization upon melting. In contrast, in the stability range of BC8, an insulator to metal transition is likely to occur in the solid phase. Close to the diamond/ and BC8/liquid boundaries, molten carbon is a low-coordinated metal retaining some covalent character in its bonding up to extreme pressures. Our results provide constraints on the carbon equation of state, which is of critical importance for devising models of Neptune, Uranus and white dwarf stars, as well as of extra-solar carbon-rich planets.
Date:
February 9, 2006
Creator:
Schwegler, E; Ogitsu, T; Bonev, S; Correa, A; Militzer, B & Galli, G
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library