Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Larry Forehand of Pasadena on the 30th anniversary of Casa Ole restaurants.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Weldon Willig on being named Southwest Region National Coach of the Year by Schutt Sports.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring John McDivitt of Houston on the occasion of his retirement from the American Red Cross after 38 years of service.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring James Ellis "Jim" Hall for his motor sports achievements and congratulating him on the opening of the Chaparral Gallery at the Petroleum Museum in Midland.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to designating September 2004 as Luekemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month in Texas.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating the Coyle Middle School Band of Garland on receiving the John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Silver Cup award for 2003.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Dr. Claude Thomas and the First Baptist Church Euless on the occasion of the church's 100th anniversary.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating the Shallowater High School girls' basketball team on winning the 2003-2004 UIL Class 2A State Championship.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating the Shallowater High School boys' basketball team on winning the 2004 UIL Class 2A State Championship.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to congratulating Coach Doug Davalos and the Sul Ross State University Lobos men's basketball team on repeating as American Southwest Conference West Division champs, winning the American Southwest Conference title, and advancing to the Sweet 16 in the 2004 NCAA Division III tournament.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to paying tribute to the life of US Army Sgt. William Cody Eckhart of Rocksprings, who died on April 10, 2004, at the age of 25 while serving in Iraq.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to commending the Big Spring Veterans Administration Medical Center for providing quality medical treatment and care to our nation's veterans.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to extending best wishes to the Saint Cecilia Catholic Church in Los Fresnos on the occasion of its 47th anniversary.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to honoring Dr. Richard R. Moore on the occasion of his retirement from Del Mar College in Corpus Christi in August, 2004, after 40 years of service.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

After a brief introduction and work motivation, static and dynamic methods for minority carrier lifetime measurements will be compared. Data on recombination velocity at heterointerfaces for both p-type and n-type quaternaries will be summarized. Radiative recombination and effect of photon recycling will be considered in detail.

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In the process of Savannah River Site (SRS) operations limited amounts of waste are generated containing petroleum, and radiological contaminated soils. Currently, this combination of radiological and petroleum contaminated waste does not have an immediate disposal route and is being stored in low activity vaults. SRS developed and implemented a successful plan for clean up of the petroleum portion of the soils in situ using simple, inexpensive, bioreactor technology. Treatment in a bioreactor removes the petroleum contamination from the soil without spreading radiological contamination to the environment. This bioreactor uses the bioventing process and bioaugmentation or the addition of the select hydrocarbon degrading bacteria. Oxygen is usually the initial rate-limiting factor in the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons. Using the bioventing process allowed control of the supply of nutrients and moisture based on petroleum contamination concentrations and soil type. The results of this work have proven to be a safe and cost-effective means of cleaning up low level radiological and petroleum-contaminated soil. Many of the other elements of the bioreactor design were developed or enhanced during the demonstration of a ''biopile'' to treat the soils beneath a Polish oil refinery's waste disposal lagoons. Aerobic microorganisms were isolated from the aged refinery's …

Some genes produce transcripts that function directly in regulatory, catalytic, or structural roles in the cell. These non-coding RNAs are prevalent in all living organisms, and methods that aid the understanding of their functional roles are essential. RNA secondary structure, the pattern of base-pairing, contains the critical information for determining the three dimensional structure and function of the molecule. In this work we examine whether the basic geometric and topological properties of secondary structure are sufficient to distinguish between RNA families in a learning framework. First, we develop a labeled dual graph representation of RNA secondary structure by adding biologically meaningful labels to the dual graphs proposed by Gan et al [1]. Next, we define a similarity measure directly on the labeled dual graphs using the recently developed marginalized kernels [2]. Using this similarity measure, we were able to train Support Vector Machine classifiers to distinguish RNAs of known families from random RNAs with similar statistics. For 22 of the 25 families tested, the classifier achieved better than 70% accuracy, with much higher accuracy rates for some families. Training a set of classifiers to automatically assign family labels to RNAs using a one vs. all multi-class scheme also yielded encouraging …

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A critical element of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) information technology program is its continuing work with the Department of Defense (DOD) to achieve the ability to exchange patient health care information and create electronic medical records for use by veterans, active-duty military personnel, and their health care providers."

Use of a large-area liquid lithium surface as a first wall has significantly improved the plasma performance in the Current Drive Experiment-Upgrade (CDX-U) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Previous CDX-U experiments with a partially-covered toroidal lithium limiter tray have shown a decrease in impurities and the recycling of hydrogenic species. Improvements in loading techniques have permitted nearly full coverage of the tray surface with liquid lithium. Under these conditions, there was a large drop in the loop voltage needed to sustain the plasma current. The data are consistent with simulations that indicate more stable plasmas having broader current profiles, higher temperatures, and lowered impurities with liquid lithium walls. As further evidence for reduced recycling with a liquid lithium limiter, the gas puffing had to be increased by up to a factor of eight for the same plasma density achieved with an empty toroidal tray limiter.

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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