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[Flyer: Things Fall Apart] (open access)

[Flyer: Things Fall Apart]

Flyer advertising a conference of and lecture by writers produced and hosted by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters on April 26, 2008 at the Dallas Convention Center Theatre Complex.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel Cell Vehicle Learning Demonstration: Spring 2008 Results; Preprint (open access)

Fuel Cell Vehicle Learning Demonstration: Spring 2008 Results; Preprint

Conference paper presented at the 2008 National Hydrogen Association Meeting that describes the spring, 2008 results of the Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Wipke, K.; Sprik, S.; Kurtz, J. & Garbak, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for George W. Brown, April 1, 2008] (open access)

[Funeral Program for George W. Brown, April 1, 2008]

Funeral program for Reverend George W. Brown, born March 20, 1925 and died March 26, 2008 The funeral was held April 1, 2008 at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, officiated by Pastor Doctor E. Thurman Walker. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Capote Community Cemetery.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Crossover and Membrane-Pinhole Effects in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells (open access)

Gas-Crossover and Membrane-Pinhole Effects in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells

This paper investigates the effects of gas crossover. Specifically, mathematical simulations are conducted to elucidate the fundamental changes in fuel-cell operation as permeation of the various gases through the membrane increases. Two cases are explored, with the first one examining uniform increases in the set of gas-permeation coefficients, and the second one the existence of regions of high gas crossover (i.e., membrane pinholes). For the first case, operation at 120 C is studied and a maximum limit for the hydrogen permeation coefficient of 1 x 10{sup -10} mol/bar-cm-s for a 25 {micro}m membrane is determined. For the second case, it is shown that negative current densities and temperature spikes can arise due to mixed-potential and direct-combustion effects where there are large enough pinholes, thereby impacting performance and water and thermal management.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Weber, Adam & Weber, Adam Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Goodyear Tire Plant Gains Traction on Energy Savings After Completing Save Energy Now Assessment (Revised) (open access)

Goodyear Tire Plant Gains Traction on Energy Savings After Completing Save Energy Now Assessment (Revised)

This DOE Save Energy Now case study describes how the Goodyear Tire Plant saves approx. 93,000 MMBtu and $875,000 annually after increasing steam system energy efficiency in the Union City, TN, plant.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 97, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 97, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 98, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 98, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grid Logging: Best Practices Guide (open access)

Grid Logging: Best Practices Guide

The purpose of this document is to help developers of Grid middleware and application software generate log files that will be useful to Grid administrators, users, developers and Grid middleware itself. Currently, most of the currently generated log files are only useful to the author of the program. Good logging practices are instrumental to performance analysis, problem diagnosis, and security auditing tasks such as incident tracing and damage assessment. This document does not discuss the issue of a logging API. It is assumed that a standard log API such as syslog (C), log4j (Java), or logger (Python) is being used. Other custom logging API or even printf could be used. The key point is that the logs must contain the required information in the required format. At a high level of abstraction, the best practices for Grid logging are: (1) Consistently structured, typed, log events; (2) A standard high-resolution timestamp; (3) Use of logging levels and categories to separate logs by detail and purpose; (4) Consistent use of global and local identifiers; and (5) Use of some regular, newline-delimited ASCII text format. The rest of this document describes each of these recommendations in detail.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Tierney, Brian L; Tierney, Brian L & Gunter, Dan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Groundwater Monitoring Report Central Nevada Test Area, Corrective Action Unit 443 (open access)

Groundwater Monitoring Report Central Nevada Test Area, Corrective Action Unit 443

This report presents the 2007 groundwater monitoring results collected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) for the Central Nevada Test Area (CNTA) Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 443. Responsibility for the environmental site restoration of the CNTA was transferred from the DOE Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) to DOE-LM on October 1, 2006. Requirements for CAU 443 are specified in the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (FFACO 2005) entered into by DOE, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the State of Nevada and includes groundwater monitoring in support of site closure. This is the first groundwater monitoring report prepared by DOE-LM for the CNTA The CNTA is located north of U.S. Highway 6, approximately 30 miles north of Warm Springs in Nye County, Nevada (Figure 1). Three emplacement boreholes, UC-1, UC-3, and UC-4, were drilled at the CNTA for underground nuclear weapons testing. The initial underground nuclear test, Project Faultless, was conducted in borehole UC-1 at a depth of 3,199 feet (ft) (975 meters) below ground surface on January 19, 1968. The yield of the Project Faultless test was estimated to be 0.2 to 1 megaton (DOE 2004). The test resulted in a down-dropped …
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Zero Energy Demonstration Home (open access)

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Zero Energy Demonstration Home

This brochure describes the 2005 demonstration home designed by NREL and the Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. The completed home produced 24% more energy than it consumed over 12 months.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat-Lite: A GSC case study based on free text terms for environmental metadata (open access)

Habitat-Lite: A GSC case study based on free text terms for environmental metadata

There is an urgent need to capture metadata on the rapidly growing number of genomic, metagenomic and related sequences, such as 16S ribosomal genes. This need is a major focus within the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), and Habitat is a key metadata descriptor in the proposed 'Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence' (MIGS) specification. The goal of the work described here is to provide a light-weight, easy-to-use (small) set of terms ('Habitat-Lite') that captures high-level information about habitat while preserving a mapping to the recently launched Environment Ontology (EnvO). Our motivation for building Habitat-Lite is to meet the needs of multiple users, such as annotators curating these data, database providers hosting the data, and biologists and bioinformaticians alike who need to search and employ such data in comparative analyses. Here, we report a case study based on semi-automated identification of terms from GenBank and GOLD. We estimate that the terms in the initial version of Habitat-Lite would provide useful labels for over 60% of the kinds of information found in the GenBank isolation-source field, and around 85% of the terms in the GOLD habitat field. We present a revised version of Habitat-Lite and invite the community's feedback on its further …
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Kyrpides, Nikos; Hirschman, Lynette; Clark, Cheryl; Cohen, K. Bretonnel; Mardis, Scott; Luciano, Joanne et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Half-Wave, beta=0.43 Cavity Prototyping for a Heavy Ion Linac (open access)

Half-Wave, beta=0.43 Cavity Prototyping for a Heavy Ion Linac

A medium velocity half wave resonator has been designed and prototyped at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU) for use in a heavy ion linac. The cavity is designed to provide 3.7 MV of accelerating voltage at an optimum beta = v/c = 0.53, with peak surface electric and magnetic fields of 32.5 MV/m and 79 mT, respectively. The cavity was designed for stiffness and tunability, as well as straightforward fabrication, assembly and cleaning. Measurements were performed to confirm Finite Element Analysis (FEA) predictions for modal analysis, bath pressure sensitivity, tuner stiffness and tuning range. A copper cavity prototype has been fabricated to confirm tolerances and formability. A tuner prototype has been built. The helium vessel and power coupler have been designed.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Popielarski, John; Compton, Chris C.; Hartung, Walter; Johnson, Mat; Oliva, John; York, R. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Handbook for Handling, Storing, and Dispensing E85 (open access)

Handbook for Handling, Storing, and Dispensing E85

Guidebook contains information about EPAct alternative fuels regulations for fleets, flexible fuel vehicles, E85 properties and specifications, and E85 handling and storage guidelines.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HEADSPACE GAS EVALUATION OF WELDED PLUTONIUM STORAGE CONTAINERS (open access)

HEADSPACE GAS EVALUATION OF WELDED PLUTONIUM STORAGE CONTAINERS

The Can Puncture Device (CPD) serves as a containment vessel during the puncture of nested 3013 containers as part of surveillance operations in K-Area. The purpose of the CPD sampling process is to determine the original pressure and composition of gases within the inner 3013 container. The relation between the composition of the gas sample drawn from the CPD and that originally in the inner 3013 container depends on the degree of mixing that occurs over the interval of time from the puncture to drawing the sample. Gas mixing is bounded by the extremes of no mixing of gases in the inner container and that of complete mixing, in which case the entire CPD system is of uniform composition. Models relating the sample composition and pressure to the initial (pre-puncture) inner can composition and pressure for each of these extremes were developed. Predictions from both models were compared to data from characterization experiments. In the comparison, it was found that the model that assumed complete gas mixing after puncture, the Uniform Mixing Model, showed significantly better agreement with the data than the model that assumed no change in the composition of the inner container, referred to as the Non-Uniform Mixing …
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Hardy, B; Stephen Harris, S; Matthew Arnold, M & Steve Hensel, S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Physics Enrollments and Degrees Survey, 2007 Data (open access)

Health Physics Enrollments and Degrees Survey, 2007 Data

The survey includes degrees granted between September 1, 2006 and August 31, 2007. Enrollment information refers to the fall term 2007. Twenty-nine academic programs were included in the survey universe, and 28 of the 29 responded. The report includes data by degree level including citizenship, gender, and race/ethnicity plus enrollments of junior and senior undergraduate students and graduate students.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Analysis and Evaluation, Science Education Programs
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Savings Accounts: Participation Increased and Was More Common among Individuals with Higher Incomes (open access)

Health Savings Accounts: Participation Increased and Was More Common among Individuals with Higher Incomes

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "With health care spending increasing in the United States, you enacted legislation effective in 2004 establishing tax advantaged health savings accounts (HSA) to be coupled with high-deductible health insurance plans. HSA-eligible high-deductible health plans typically have lower premiums than traditional health plans and HSAs allow account holders to accumulate tax-free savings to pay for medical expenses. The novel structure of HSA-eligible plans coupled with HSAs has raised questions about who selects them and how they use the accounts. Proponents contend that the low premiums of HSA-eligible plans and the tax-free savings potential of HSAs appeal to many consumers, while the high deductibles encourage them to be more astute health care consumers. However, some critics are concerned that HSA-eligible plans may attract enrollees who seek lower premiums but lack the resources to contribute to an HSA, and wealthy enrollees who may seek to use the HSA primarily to accumulate tax-advantaged savings rather than pay for medical expenses. In a 2006 report, GAO described individuals' early experiences with HSA-eligible plans and HSAs and certain characteristics of HSA account holders. You asked us to update certain information from that report with …
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy diboson production at the Tevatron (open access)

Heavy diboson production at the Tevatron

Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in the measurement of heavy boson pair-production at the Tevatron collider. I will briefly review the current status of heavy diboson production measurements at CDF and D0 with special emphasis on the recently released ZZ cross section measurements.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Waters, David S. & London, /University Coll.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy Flavor decays and light hadrons in the FOCUS experiment: Recent results (open access)

Heavy Flavor decays and light hadrons in the FOCUS experiment: Recent results

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Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Malvezzi, Sandra & /INFN, Milan Bicocca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy-light mesons and chiral symmetry (open access)

Heavy-light mesons and chiral symmetry

The chiral structure of heavy-light mesons is explored with a particular focus on the nature of the D{sub sJ} charmed mesons. Theoretical predictions for the hadronic and radiative decays of these mesons are compared to recent experimental data.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Bardeen, William A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News, (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 8, Ed. 1, April 2008 (open access)

Hellcat News, (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 8, Ed. 1, April 2008

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
High-Fidelity Geometric Modelling for Biomedical Applications (open access)

High-Fidelity Geometric Modelling for Biomedical Applications

We describe a combination of algorithms for high fidelity geometric modeling and mesh generation. Although our methods and implementations are application-neutral, our primary target application is multiscale biomedical models that range in scales across the molecular, cellular, and organ levels. Our software toolchain implementing these algorithms is general in the sense that it can take as input a molecule in PDB/PQR forms, a 3D scalar volume, or a user-defined triangular surface mesh that may have very low quality. The main goal of our work presented is to generate high quality and smooth surface triangulations from the aforementioned inputs, and to reduce the mesh sizes by mesh coarsening. Tetrahedral meshes are also generated for finite element analysis in biomedical applications. Experiments on a number of bio-structures are demonstrated, showing that our approach possesses several desirable properties: feature-preservation, local adaptivity, high quality, and smoothness (for surface meshes). The availability of this software toolchain will give researchers in computational biomedicine and other modeling areas access to higher-fidelity geometric models.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Zeyun Yu, Michael Holst, and J.A. McCammon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homebuilder's Guide to Going Solar (Brochure) (open access)

Homebuilder's Guide to Going Solar (Brochure)

A Homebuilder's Guide to Going Solar is designed to help you assess the benefits to your business and customers of installing solar equipment or making your houses solar-ready. The information comes from studies of builders who have successfully integrated solar into their operations as well as conversations with builders and solar professionals. These studies and conversations indicate that builders want to know: (1) Do solar economics work in my area? (2) If not, are there other reasons to go solar?; and (3) Is there a local support system of solar professionals I can call on to help me integrate solar seamlessly into my projects? This effort to educate builders about solar is a work in progress.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Idaho National Laboratory Environmental Monitoring Plan (open access)

Idaho National Laboratory Environmental Monitoring Plan

This plan describes environmental monitoring as required by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 450.1, “Environmental Protection Program,” and additional environmental monitoring currently performed by other organizations in and around the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The objective of DOE Order 450.1 is to implement sound stewardship practices that protect the air, water, land, and other natural and cultural resources that may be impacted by DOE operations. This plan describes the organizations responsible for conducting environmental monitoring across the INL, the rationale for monitoring, the types of media being monitored, where the monitoring is conducted, and where monitoring results can be obtained. This plan presents a summary of the overall environmental monitoring performed in and around the INL without duplicating detailed information in the various monitoring procedures and program plans currently used to conduct monitoring.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Knight, Joanne L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Air Quality with Solar Energy (open access)

Improving Air Quality with Solar Energy

This fact sheet series highlights how renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies can and are being used to reduce air emissions and meet environmental goals, showcasing case studies and technology-specific topics. This one focus on solar energy technologies.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library