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2008 Data Report: Groundwater Monitoring Program Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (open access)

2008 Data Report: Groundwater Monitoring Program Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site

This report is a compilation of the groundwater sampling results from the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (RWMS) including calendar year 2008 results. Each of the three Pilot Wells was sampled on March 11, 2008, and September 10, 2008. These wells were sampled for the following indicators of contamination: pH, specific conductance, total organic carbon, total organic halides, and tritium. Indicators of general water chemistry (cations and anions) were also monitored. Results from all samples collected in 2008 were within the limits established by agreement with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for each analyte. These data indicate that there has been no measurable impact to the uppermost aquifer from the Area 5 RWMS. There were no significant changes in measured groundwater parameters compared to previous years. Other information in the report includes an updated Cumulative Chronology for the Area 5 RWMS Groundwater Monitoring Program and a brief description of the site hydrogeology.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: National Security Technologies, LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Autonomous Pathogen Detection System (open access)

The Autonomous Pathogen Detection System

We developed, tested, and now operate a civilian biological defense capability that continuously monitors the air for biological threat agents. The Autonomous Pathogen Detection System (APDS) collects, prepares, reads, analyzes, and reports results of multiplexed immunoassays and multiplexed PCR assays using Luminex{copyright} xMAP technology and flow cytometer. The mission we conduct is particularly demanding: continuous monitoring, multiple threat agents, high sensitivity, challenging environments, and ultimately extremely low false positive rates. Here, we introduce the mission requirements and metrics, show the system engineering and analysis framework, and describe the progress to date including early development and current status.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Dzenitis, J M & Makarewicz, A J
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Cartwright, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterizing the Nano and Micro Structure of Concrete toImprove its Durability (open access)

Characterizing the Nano and Micro Structure of Concrete toImprove its Durability

New and advanced methodologies have been developed to characterize the nano and microstructure of cement paste and concrete exposed to aggressive environments. High resolution full-field soft X-ray imaging in the water window is providing new insight on the nano scale of the cement hydration process, which leads to a nano-optimization of cement-based systems. Hard X-ray microtomography images of ice inside cement paste and cracking caused by the alkali?silica reaction (ASR) enables three-dimensional structural identification. The potential of neutron diffraction to determine reactive aggregates by measuring their residual strains and preferred orientation is studied. Results of experiments using these tools are shown on this paper.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Monteiro, Paulo J. M.; Kirchheim, A. P.; Chae, S.; Fischer, Peter; MacDowell, Alastair A.; Schaible, Eirc et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy (open access)

China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy

This report examines the importance to the U.S. economy of China's investment in U.S. securities, as well as U.S. concerns over the possibility that China might unload a large share of those holdings, the likelihood that this would occur, and the potential implications such action could have for the U.S. economy. The report concludes that a large sell-off of Chinese Treasury securities holdings could negatively affect the U.S. economy, at least in the short-run. As a result, such a move could diminish U.S. demand for Chinese products and thus could lower China's economic growth as well.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M. & Labonte, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CHRONIC ZINC SCREENING WATER EFFECT RATIO FOR THE H-12 OUTFALL, SAVANNAH RIVER SITE (open access)

CHRONIC ZINC SCREENING WATER EFFECT RATIO FOR THE H-12 OUTFALL, SAVANNAH RIVER SITE

In response to proposed Zn limits for the NPDES outfall H-12, a Zn screening Water Effects Ratio (WER) study was conducted to determine if a full site-specific WER is warranted. Using standard assumptions for relating the lab results to the stream, the screening WER data were consistent with the proposed Zn limit and suggest that a full WER would result in a similar limit. Addition of a humate amendment to the outfall water reduced Zn toxicity, but the toxicity reduction was relatively small and unlikely to impact proposed Zn limits. The screening WER data indicated that the time and expense required to perform a full WER for Zn is not warranted.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Coughlin, Daniel P.; Looney, Brian B. & Millings, Margaret R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act: 110th Congress Legislation on Discharges from Recreational Boats (open access)

Clean Water Act: 110th Congress Legislation on Discharges from Recreational Boats

This report addresses 110th Congress Legislation on discharges from Recreational boats related to Clean Water Act.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Considerations in Project Level NEPA Analysis (open access)

Climate Change Considerations in Project Level NEPA Analysis

A document that provides initial Forest Service guidance on how to consider climate change in project-level National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and documentation.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Forest Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminal Restitution in the 110th Congress: A Sketch (open access)

Criminal Restitution in the 110th Congress: A Sketch

Congress enacted two restitution provisions in the 110th Congress, one as part of the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008, and the other as part of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008. It also devoted considerable time and attention to other restitution proposals that did not see final action before the end of the Congress.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dataset for a retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

Dataset generated for a recording of Robert Leivon retelling the Pear Story. A transcription with an English translation, flextext files (from Fieldworks Language Explorer), and accompanying derivative files are included. The speaker was living in Delhi when the recording was made.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Infrastructure: Additional Information Is Needed to Better Explain the Proposed 100,000-Acre Expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (open access)

Defense Infrastructure: Additional Information Is Needed to Better Explain the Proposed 100,000-Acre Expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2007, the Army announced that the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) had approved its request to expand its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado, by acquiring up to an additional 418,577 acres. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Army to address 29 provisions related to the expansion in a report to Congress. In July 2008, the Army reported that, although it had revalidated the requirement for at least 418,577 additional acres at the maneuver site, in response to community, cost, and other concerns it now proposed to limit the acquisition of additional training land to 100,000 acres. The act also required GAO to review the Army's report and the justification for the proposed expansion. This report examines the extent to which the Army's report (1) addresses the provisions of the mandate and (2) explains the selection of the 100,000-acre site. GAO compared the mandate requirements with the responses in the Army's report, met with Army officials to discuss the expansion, and visited the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and Fort Carson."
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Infrastructure: Army's Approach for Acquiring Land Is Not Guided by Up-to-Date Strategic Plan or Always Communicated Effectively (open access)

Defense Infrastructure: Army's Approach for Acquiring Land Is Not Guided by Up-to-Date Strategic Plan or Always Communicated Effectively

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recently, the Army forecast that it would experience a 4.5-million-acre training land shortfall by 2013 and proposed to purchase additional land adjacent to certain existing training ranges. In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's approach for acquiring training land. This report (1) evaluates the Army's approach to the acquisition of training land, (2) describes the Army's consideration of alternatives and assessment of the environmental and economic effects, and (3) analyzes the Army's effectiveness in communicating its approach for making decisions to pursue these acquisitions before the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD) approval. GAO reviewed the Army strategic plan for training lands and other relevant documents, and focused on all five land acquisitions since 2002 at Fort Irwin, California; three training sites in Hawaii; and the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in Colorado."
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discontinuous Galerkin solution of the Navier-Stokes equations on deformable domains (open access)

Discontinuous Galerkin solution of the Navier-Stokes equations on deformable domains

We describe a method for computing time-dependent solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on variable geometries. We introduce a continuous mapping between a fixed reference configuration and the time varying domain, By writing the Navier-Stokes equations as a conservation law for the independent variables in the reference configuration, the complexity introduced by variable geometry is reduced to solving a transformed conservation law in a fixed reference configuration, The spatial discretization is carried out using the Discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured meshes of triangles, while the time integration is performed using an explicit Runge-Kutta method, For general domain changes, the standard scheme fails to preserve exactly the free-stream solution which leads to some accuracy degradation, especially for low order approximations. This situation is remedied by adding an additional equation for the time evolution of the transformation Jacobian to the original conservation law and correcting for the accumulated metric integration errors. A number of results are shown to illustrate the flexibility of the approach to handle high order approximations on complex geometries.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Persson, P.-O.; Bonet, J. & Peraire, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Communications: The Future of 911 (open access)

Emergency Communications: The Future of 911

This report discusses possible paths toward the modernization of the 911 emergency response system's infrastructure.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Recent Financial Turmoil: Issues and Analysis (open access)

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Recent Financial Turmoil: Issues and Analysis

This report briefly introduces aspects of the current financial instability. Following this, it outlines the EESA legislation, the steps that Treasury has taken to implement EESA, and current legislation amending the EESA. The report concludes with a more in-depth analysis of the current financial instability, including potential causes of financial instability in general, some sources of the current instability, and how financial instability may spill over into the broader economy.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Webel, Baird & Murphy, Edward V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act’s Insurance for Troubled Assets (open access)

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act’s Insurance for Troubled Assets

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Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Prison Industries (open access)

Federal Prison Industries

This report discusses about Impact of UNICOR on the Federal Prison System and Society, Recent Administration Efforts to Reform FPI, Legislative History, Legislation in the 111th Congress and Issues for Congress.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 8, January 13, 2009, Pages 1583-1870 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 8, January 13, 2009, Pages 1583-1870

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Market Intervention (open access)

Financial Market Intervention

This report provides answers to some frequently asked questions concerning ongoing financial disruptions and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, enacted by Congress in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Murphy, Edward V. & Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Free Trade Agreements: Impact on U.S. Trade and Implications for U.S. Trade Policy (open access)

Free Trade Agreements: Impact on U.S. Trade and Implications for U.S. Trade Policy

The report is about the Impact on U.S. Trade and Implications for U.S. Trade Policy. The economic impact of FTAs and Relevant Legislation. United States has proposed to engage in negotiations to establish bilateral and free trade agreements with a number of trading partners.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Robert Samuel Polk, January 13, 2009] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Robert Samuel Polk, January 13, 2009]

Funeral program for Robert Samuel Park, born September 26, 1929 and died January 6, 2009. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at Friendship Baptist Church, officiated by R. L. Archield, Sr. Funeral arrangements were made through Meadowlawn & American Mortuary and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston national Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History