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[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 14, 2010 to December 16, 2010.
Date: 2010-01-14/2010-12-16
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Future of the Eurozone and U.S. Interests (open access)

The Future of the Eurozone and U.S. Interests

This report details the consequences of the European financial crisis of 2010 beginning with the economic fallout of the Greek economy. It then highlights six factors that would be instrumental regarding the "Eurozones" future.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.; Jackson, James K.; Nelson, Rebecca M. & Weiss, Martin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies of non-proportionality in alkali halide and strontium iodide scintillators using SLYNCI (open access)

Studies of non-proportionality in alkali halide and strontium iodide scintillators using SLYNCI

Recently a collaboration of LLNL and LBNL has constructed a second generation Compton coincidence instrument to study the non-proportionality of scintillators. This device, known as SLYNCI (Scintillator Light-Yield Non-proportionality Characterization Instrument), has can completely characterize a sample with less than 24 hours of running time. Thus, SLYNCI enables a number of systematic studies of scintillators since many samples can be processed in a reasonable length of time. These studies include differences in nonproportionality between different types of scintillators, different members of the same family of scintillators, and impact of different doping levels. The results of such recent studies are presented here, including a study of various alkali halides, and the impact of europium doping level in strontium iodide. Directions of future work area also discussed.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Ahle, Larry; Bizarri, Gregory; Boatner, Lynn; Cherepy, Nerine J.; Choong, Woon-Seng; Moses, William W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
IDENTIFYING IMPURITIES IN SURPLUS NON PIT PLUTONIUM FEEDS FOR MOX OR ALTERNATIVE DISPOSITION (open access)

IDENTIFYING IMPURITIES IN SURPLUS NON PIT PLUTONIUM FEEDS FOR MOX OR ALTERNATIVE DISPOSITION

This report provides a technical basis for estimating the level of corrosion products in materials stored in DOE-STD-3013 containers based on extrapolating available chemical sample results. The primary focus is to estimate the levels of nickel, iron, and chromium impurities in plutonium-bearing materials identified for disposition in the United States Mixed Oxide fuel process.
Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Allender, J & Moore, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Alls, August 14, 2010 transcript

Oral History Interview with James Alls, August 14, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Alls. Alls joined the Navy in June 1942. He was only 15 years old at the time. Alls went to submarine school and describes having to go through a depth chamber test. He was sent to diesel school and became a crewman on the USS Flier (SS-250) in early 1943. Alls describes an incident where the sub ran aground at Midway. His sub sank two ships in the Marianas and later endured 118 depth charges dropped by two Japanese destroyers after sinking a freighter. Alls was injured while on shore patrol and was recovering while the Flier was lost on another patrol. He was transferred to another sub. Alls left the Navy in 1948 after his six-year enlistment ended.
Date: August 14, 2010
Creator: Alls, James
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Alls, August 14, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Alls, August 14, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Alls. Alls joined the Navy in June 1942. He was only 15 years old at the time. Alls went to submarine school and describes having to go through a depth chamber test. He was sent to diesel school and became a crewman on the USS Flier (SS-250) in early 1943. Alls describes an incident where the sub ran aground at Midway. His sub sank two ships in the Marianas and later endured 118 depth charges dropped by two Japanese destroyers after sinking a freighter. Alls was injured while on shore patrol and was recovering while the Flier was lost on another patrol. He was transferred to another sub. Alls left the Navy in 1948 after his six-year enlistment ended.
Date: August 14, 2010
Creator: Alls, James
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

DOE Webinar - Residential Geothermal Heat Pump Retrofits

This presentation was given December 14, 2010, as part of DOE's Webinar series. The presentation discusses geothermal heat pump retrofits, technology options, and an overview of geothermal energy and geothermal heat pumps.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Anderson, E. R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The prediction of Neutron Elastic Scattering from Tritium for E(n) = 6-14 MeV (open access)

The prediction of Neutron Elastic Scattering from Tritium for E(n) = 6-14 MeV

In a recent report Navratil et al. evaluated the angle-integrated cross section and the angular distribution for 14-MeV n+T elastic scattering by inferring these cross sections from accurately measured p+3He angular distributions. This evaluation used a combination of two theoretical treatments, based on the no-core shell model and resonating-group method (NCSM/RGM) and on the R-matrix formalism, to connect the two charge-symmetric reactions n+T and p+{sup 3}He. In this report we extend this treatment to cover the neutron incident energy range 6-14 MeV. To do this, we evaluate angle-dependent correction factors for the NCSM/RGM calculations so that they agree with the p+{sup 3}He data near 6 MeV, and using the results found earlier near 14 MeV we interpolate these correction factors to obtain correction factors throughout the 6-14 MeV energy range. The agreement between the corrected NCSM/RGM and R-Matrix values for the integral elastic cross sections is excellent ({+-}1%), and these are in very good agreement with total cross section experiments. This result can be attributed to the nearly constant correction factors at forward angles, and to the evidently satisfactory physics content of the two calculations. The difference in angular shape, obtained by comparing values of the scattering probability distribution P({mu}) …
Date: June 14, 2010
Creator: Anderson, J. D.; Dietrich, F. S.; Luu, T.; McNabb, D. P.; Navratil, P. & Quaglioni, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues (open access)

International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues

This report provides background on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its investigations in Africa, with an overview of cases currently before the Court. The report also examines issues raised by the ICC's actions in Africa, including the potential deterrence of future abuses and the potential impact on African peace processes.
Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Arieff, Alexis; Margesson, Rhoda; Browne, Marjorie Ann & Weed, Matthew C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Deficits: Positives and Pitfalls (open access)

Running Deficits: Positives and Pitfalls

The FY2009 federal deficit swelled to $1.414 trillion, or nearly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP), due to the economic recession. The size of recent deficits has added to longstanding concerns regarding the federal government's long-term fiscal condition. However, deficit finance can serve as an important policy tool. This report discusses how deficit finance can help governments manage their economies and how large and persistent deficits can lead to severe economic problems.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interferometric adaptive optics for the National Ignition Facility (open access)

Interferometric adaptive optics for the National Ignition Facility

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Date: January 14, 2010
Creator: Baker, K.; Homoelle, D.; Stappaerts, E.; Siders, C. & Barty, C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank D. Barger, May 14, 2010 transcript

Oral History Interview with Frank D. Barger, May 14, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank D. Barger. Barger joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He started his career as an airplane mechanic. In 1941, he became an Air Cadet. After completing training he spent some time near Austin, Texas training cadets on C-46s and evaluating returning pilots. Barger was eventually sent overseas where he completed 170 missions while stationed in India and Burma flying supplies. He left service in 1945.
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Barger, Frank D.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank D. Barger, May 14, 2010 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank D. Barger, May 14, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank D. Barger. Barger joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He started his career as an airplane mechanic. In 1941, he became an Air Cadet. After completing training he spent some time near Austin, Texas training cadets on C-46s and evaluating returning pilots. Barger was eventually sent overseas where he completed 170 missions while stationed in India and Burma flying supplies. He left service in 1945.
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Barger, Frank D.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Precise Predictions for W 4 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider (open access)

Precise Predictions for W 4 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider

We present the first next-to-leading order QCD results for W + 4-jet production at hadron colliders. Total cross sections, as well as distributions in the jet transverse momenta and in the total transverse energy HT, are provided for the initial LHC energy of {radical}s = 7 TeV. We use a leading-color approximation, known to be accurate to 3% for W production with fewer jets. The virtual matrix elements and the most complicated real-emission matrix elements are handled by the BlackHat library, based on on-shell methods. The remaining parts of the calculation, including the integration over phase space, are performed by the SHERPA package.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Berger, C.F.; /MIT, LNS; Bern, Z.; /UCLA; Dixon, Lance J.; /SLAC, /CERN et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Issues for Congress (open access)

Intelligence Issues for Congress

To address the challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community in the 21st century, congressional and executive branch initiatives have sought to improve coordination among the different agencies and to encourage better analysis. This report discusses these challenges and efforts the current and previous Administrations and Congresses have taken and are taking to address them. The report includes criticism of the intelligence community's efforts regarding Iraq, Iran, and other areas. Improved analysis remains a key goal in these discussions.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ruled by the Al Saud family since its founding in 1932, wields significant political and economic influence as the birthplace of the Islamic faith and by virtue of its large energy reserves. This report provides background information about Saudi Arabia and analyzes current issues in U.S.-Saudi relations.
Date: June 14, 2010
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantitative Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem in Commercial Buildings in the U.S.: Focus on Central Space Heating and Cooling (open access)

Quantitative Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem in Commercial Buildings in the U.S.: Focus on Central Space Heating and Cooling

We investigate the existence of the principal-agent (PA) problem in non-government, non-mall commercial buildings in the U.S. in 2003. The analysis concentrates on space heating and cooling energy consumed by centrally installed equipment in order to verify whether a market failure caused by the PA problem might have prevented the installation of energy-efficient devices in non-owner-occupied buildings (efficiency problem) and/or the efficient operation of space-conditioning equipment in these buildings (usage problem). Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) 2003 data for single-owner, single-tenant and multi-tenant occupied buildings were used for conducting this evaluation. These are the building subsets with the appropriate conditions for assessing both the efficiency and the usage problems. Together, these three building types represent 51.9percent of the total floor space of all buildings with space heating and 59.4percent of the total end-use energy consumption of such buildings; similarly, for space cooling, they represent 52.7percent of floor space and 51.6percent of energy consumption. Our statistical analysis shows that there is a usage PA problem. In space heating it applies only to buildings with a small floor area (<_50,000 sq. ft.). We estimate that in 2003 it accounts for additional site energy consumption of 12.3 (+ 10.5 ) TBtu (primary …
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Blum, Helcio & Sathaye, Jayant
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricane Intensity, Sea Surface Temperature, and Stochastic Variation (open access)

Hurricane Intensity, Sea Surface Temperature, and Stochastic Variation

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Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Bogen, K. T.; Fischer, L. E. & Jones, E. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cellulosic Biofuels: Analysis of Policy Issues for Congress (open access)

Cellulosic Biofuels: Analysis of Policy Issues for Congress

This report is an Analysis of Policy Issues for Congress regarding Cellulosic Biofuels.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Bracmort, Kelsi; Schnepf, Randy; Stubbs, Megan & Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional-Scale Climate Change: Observations and Model Simulations (open access)

Regional-Scale Climate Change: Observations and Model Simulations

This collaborative proposal addressed key issues in understanding the Earth’s climate system, as highlighted by the U.S. Climate Science Program. The research focused on documenting past climatic changes and on assessing future climatic changes based on suites of global and regional climate models. Geographically, our emphasis was on the mountainous regions of the world, with a particular focus on the Neotropics of Central America and the Hawaiian Islands. Mountain regions are zones where large variations in ecosystems occur due to the strong climate zonation forced by the topography. These areas are particularly susceptible to changes in critical ecological thresholds, and we conducted studies of changes in phonological indicators based on various climatic thresholds.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Bradley, Raymond S. & Diaz, Henry F.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panhandle Progress (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (open access)

Panhandle Progress (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Panhandle, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Braidfoot, Margie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Benchmark Comparison of Monte Carlo Particle Transport Algorithms for Binary Stochastic Mixtures (open access)

A Benchmark Comparison of Monte Carlo Particle Transport Algorithms for Binary Stochastic Mixtures

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Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Brantley, P
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 2010 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 14, 2010
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History