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Application of a Sweating Manikin Controlled by a Human Physiological Model and Lessons Learned (open access)

Application of a Sweating Manikin Controlled by a Human Physiological Model and Lessons Learned

Discusses two applications of NREL's suite of thermal comfort tools: one to assess impact of an automotive ventilated seat on comfort and fuel economy, and another to evaluate liquid cooling garments for NASA spacesuits.
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: Rugh, J. & Lustbader, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of a Swelling/Shrinkage Model for Analysis of Reservoir Performance at a Field Site (open access)

Application of a Swelling/Shrinkage Model for Analysis of Reservoir Performance at a Field Site

This report talks about Application of a Swelling/Shrinkage Model for Analysis of Reservoir Performance at a Field Site
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: Siriwardane, H. & Smith, D. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Neutron-Absorbing Structural-Amorphous Metal (SAM) Coatings for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Container to Enhance Criticality Safety Controls (open access)

Application of Neutron-Absorbing Structural-Amorphous Metal (SAM) Coatings for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Container to Enhance Criticality Safety Controls

Spent nuclear fuel contains fissionable materials ({sup 235}U, {sup 239}Pu, {sup 241}Pu, etc.). Neutron multiplication and the potential for criticality are enhanced by the presence of a moderator during cask loading in water, water incursion in accidents conditions during spent fuel storage or transport. To prevent nuclear criticality in spent fuel storage, transportation, and during disposal, neutron-absorbing materials (or neutron poisons, such as borated stainless steel, Boral{trademark}, Metamic{trademark}, Ni-Gd, and others) would have to be applied. The success in demonstrating that the High-Performance Corrosion-Resistant material (HPCRM) can be thermally applied as coating onto base metal to provide for corrosion resistance for many naval applications raises the interest in applying the HPCRM to USDOE/OCRWM spent fuel management program. The fact that the HPCRM relies on the high content of boron to make the material amorphous--an essential property for corrosion resistance--and that the boron has to be homogeneously distributed in the HPCRM qualify the material to be a neutron poison.
Date: November 13, 2006
Creator: Choi, J.; Lee, C.; Day, D.; Wall, M.; Saw, C.; MoberlyChan, W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (open access)

Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We assisted the Department of Transportation (DOT) in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with the DOT Office of Inspector General, we evaluated fiscal year 2006 activity affecting distributions to the AATF. In performing the agreed-upon procedures, we conducted our work in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards, which incorporate financial audit and attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. These standards also provide guidance for performing and reporting the results of agreed-upon procedures. The adequacy of the procedures to meet DOT's objectives is the department's responsibility, and we make no representation in that respect. The procedures we agreed to perform were related to (1) detailed tests of transactions that represent the underlying basis of amounts distributed to the AATF, (2) Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) quarterly AATF certifications, (3) Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service adjustments to the AATF during fiscal year 2006, (4) IRS's precertification of receipts for each quarter completed in fiscal year …
Date: November 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes (open access)

Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We performed the procedures which we agreed to perform and with which the Department of Labor (DOL) concurred soley to assist the DOL in ascertaining whether the net federal unemployment tax (FUTA) revenue distributed to the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is supported by the underlying records. The procedures we agreed to perform relate to (1) transactions that represent underlying basis of amounts distributed to the UTF and (2) key reconciliations of the Internal Revenue Service records to the Department of the Treasury Records."
Date: November 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (open access)

Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We have performed procedures, which we agreed to perform and with which the Department of Transportation (DOT) concurred, solely to assist the office of the Inspector General in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with DOT, we evaluated fiscal year 2006 activity affecting distributions to the HTF. In performing the agreed-upon procedures, we conducted our work in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards, which incorporate financial audit and attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. These standards also provide guidance for performing and reporting the results of agreed-upon procedures. The adequacy of the procedures to meet DOT objectives is DOT's responsibility, and we make no representation in that respect. The procedures we agreed to perform were related to (1) detailed tests of transactions that represent the underlying basis of amounts distributed to the HTF, (2) Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) quarterly HTF certifications, (3) Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service adjustments to the HTF during fiscal year 2006, …
Date: November 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Aqueous Thermodynamics and Complexation Reactions of Anionic Silica and Uranium Species to High Concentration (open access)

The Aqueous Thermodynamics and Complexation Reactions of Anionic Silica and Uranium Species to High Concentration

During this contract period, a number of papers were published. The papers prior to this report have been reported in earlier annual reports. This final report covers the 2005 & 2006 publications which have been published as well as the last few which have been submitted, but are still under review for acceptance for publication. The titles and Abstract of the papers are presented in Section A, and the full published papers in Section B.
Date: November 28, 2006
Creator: Choppin, Gregory R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 2006 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 2, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 2006 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 9, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 2006 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 2006 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 23, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 2006 (open access)

Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 30, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Charlotte
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

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Date: November 16, 2006
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts, Humanities, and Museum Services: Background, Funding, and Issues (open access)

Arts, Humanities, and Museum Services: Background, Funding, and Issues

This report discusses the trends in funding, Issues in the arts, humanities and museum services and Recent developments.
Date: November 15, 2006
Creator: Boren, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASC Computational Environment (ACE) requirements version 8.0 final report. (open access)

ASC Computational Environment (ACE) requirements version 8.0 final report.

A decision was made early in the Tri-Lab Usage Model process, that the collection of the user requirements be separated from the document describing capabilities of the user environment. The purpose in developing the requirements as a separate document was to allow the requirements to take on a higher-level view of user requirements for ASC platforms in general. In other words, a separate ASC user requirement document could capture requirements in a way that was not focused on ''how'' the requirements would be fulfilled. The intent of doing this was to create a set of user requirements that were not linked to any particular computational platform. The idea was that user requirements would endure from one ASC platform user environment to another. The hope was that capturing the requirements in this way would assist in creating stable user environments even though the particular platforms would be evolving and changing. In order to clearly make the separation, the Tri-lab S&CS program decided to create a new title for the requirements. The user requirements became known as the ASC Computational Environment (ACE) Requirements.
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: Larzelere, Alex R. (Exagrid Engineering, Alexandria, VA) & Sturtevant, Judith E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Current Process Modeling Approaches to Determine Their Limitations, Applicability and Developments Needed for Long-Fiber Thermoplastic Injection Molded Composites (open access)

Assessment of Current Process Modeling Approaches to Determine Their Limitations, Applicability and Developments Needed for Long-Fiber Thermoplastic Injection Molded Composites

This report describes the status of the current process modeling approaches to predict the behavior and flow of fiber-filled thermoplastics under injection molding conditions. Previously, models have been developed to simulate the injection molding of short-fiber thermoplastics, and an as-formed composite part or component can then be predicted that contains a microstructure resulting from the constituents’ material properties and characteristics as well as the processing parameters. Our objective is to assess these models in order to determine their capabilities and limitations, and the developments needed for long-fiber injection-molded thermoplastics (LFTs). First, the concentration regimes are summarized to facilitate the understanding of different types of fiber-fiber interaction that can occur for a given fiber volume fraction. After the formulation of the fiber suspension flow problem and the simplification leading to the Hele-Shaw approach, the interaction mechanisms are discussed. Next, the establishment of the rheological constitutive equation is presented that reflects the coupled flow/orientation nature. The decoupled flow/orientation approach is also discussed which constitutes a good simplification for many applications involving flows in thin cavities. Finally, before outlining the necessary developments for LFTs, some applications of the current orientation model and the so-called modified Folgar-Tucker model are illustrated through the fiber orientation …
Date: November 30, 2006
Creator: Nguyen, Ba Nghiep; Holbery, Jim; Smith, Mark T.; Kunc, Vlastimil; Norris, Robert E.; Phelps, Jay et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Associate Members Recruitment] (open access)

[Associate Members Recruitment]

Associate Member Recruitment list of invitations sent to join or rejoin TDNA. The letter of invitiation was signed by Jeremy L. Halbreich, Charles Moser and Larry Walker and sent to David H. Donaldson, Eric Webber, Jeanne Acton, B.J. Irvin, Kathy E. Stacey, Mike Cohen, Gregory Harabin, David K. Kaspar, Tom Ratkovich.
Date: November 21, 2006
Creator: Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Association Between HIV-Related Copoing, Health Distress, Energy and Cognitive Functioning

This poster discusses the relationships between HIV-related coping and quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Date: November 16, 2006
Creator: Martin, Luci A.; Vosvick, Mark A.; Smith, Nathan Grant & Chng, Chwee-Lye
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audit Report on the Office of Inspector General at the Health and Human Services Commission (open access)

An Audit Report on the Office of Inspector General at the Health and Human Services Commission

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Health and Human Services Commission's Office of Inspector General (OIG) is investigating fraud, waste, and abuse as intended by state law; whether the OIG maintains complete and accurate records of complaints and investigations in the Waste, Abuse, and Fraud Electronic Reporting System (WAFERS); and whether the OIG is effectively coordinating and communicating with sister agencies and departments such as the Office of the Attorney General, the Health and Human Services Commission's Rate Analysis Division, and the health and human services programmatic contract monitors.
Date: November 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Background Modelling in Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (open access)

Background Modelling in Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Ground based Cherenkov telescope systems measure astrophysical {gamma}-ray emission against a background of cosmic-ray induced air showers. The subtraction of this background is a major challenge for the extraction of spectra and morphology of {gamma}-ray sources. The unprecedented sensitivity of the new generation of ground based very-high-energy {gamma}-ray experiments such as H.E.S.S. has lead to the discovery of many previously unknown extended sources. The analysis of such sources requires a range of different background modeling techniques. Here we describe some of the techniques that have been applied to data from the H.E.S.S. instrument and compare their performance. Each background model is introduced and discussed in terms of suitability for image generation or spectral analysis and possible caveats are mentioned. We show that there is not a single multi-purpose model, different models are appropriate for different tasks. To keep systematic uncertainties under control it is important to apply several models to the same data set and compare the results.
Date: November 7, 2006
Creator: Berge, David; /Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. /CERN; Funk, S.; /Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. /KIPAC, Menlo Park; Hinton, J. & /Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. /Heidelberg Observ. /Leeds U.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress (open access)

Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress

This report is on Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress.
Date: November 13, 2006
Creator: Shea, Dana A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Barrel IFR Instrumented With Limited Streamer Tubes for BABAR Experiment (open access)

A Barrel IFR Instrumented With Limited Streamer Tubes for BABAR Experiment

The new barrel Instrumented Flux Return (IFR) of BABAR detector will be reported here. Limited Streamer Tubes (LSTs) have been chosen to replace the existing RPCs as active elements of the barrel IFR. The layout of the new detector will be discussed: in particular, a cell bigger than the standard one has been used to improve efficiency and reliability. The extruded profile is coated with a resistive layer of graphite having a typical surface resistivity between 0.2 and 0.4 MOhm/square. The tubes are assembled in modules and installed in 12 active layers of each sextant of the IFR detector. R&D studies to choose the final design and Quality Control procedure adopted during the tube production will be briefly discussed. Finally the performances of installed LSTs into 2/3 of IFR after 8 months of operations will be reported.
Date: November 15, 2006
Creator: Andreotti, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic Research Needs for Clean and Efficient Combustion of 21st Century Transportation Fuels (open access)

Basic Research Needs for Clean and Efficient Combustion of 21st Century Transportation Fuels

To identify basic research needs and opportunities underlying utilization of evolving transportation fuels, with a focus on new or emerging science challenges that have the potential for significant long-term impact on fuel efficiency and emissions.
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: McIlroy, A.; McRae, G.; Sick, V.; Siebers, D. L.; Westbrook, C. K.; Smith, P. J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Battery Thermal Management System Design Modeling (open access)

Battery Thermal Management System Design Modeling

Looks at the impact of cooling strategies with air and both direct and indirect liquid cooling for battery thermal management.
Date: November 1, 2006
Creator: Pesaran, A. & Kim, G. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library