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Constructing a resilience index for the enhanced critical in Frastructure Protection Program. (open access)

Constructing a resilience index for the enhanced critical in Frastructure Protection Program.

Following recommendations made in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7, which established a national policy for the identification and increased protection of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) by Federal departments and agencies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2006 developed the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Protection (ECIP) program. The ECIP program aimed to provide a closer partnership with state, regional, territorial, local, and tribal authorities in fulfilling the national objective to improve CIKR protection. The program was specifically designed to identify protective measures currently in place in CIKR and to inform facility owners/operators of the benefits of new protective measures. The ECIP program also sought to enhance existing relationships between DHS and owners/operators of CIKR and to build relationships where none existed (DHS 2008; DHS 2009). In 2009, DHS and its protective security advisors (PSAs) began assessing CIKR assets using the ECIP program and ultimately produced individual protective measure and vulnerability values through the protective measure and vulnerability indices (PMI/VI). The PMI/VI assess the protective measures posture of individual facilities at their 'weakest link,' allowing for a detailed analysis of the most vulnerable aspects of the facilities (Schneier 2003), while maintaining the ability to produce an overall protective measures …
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Fisher, R. E.; Bassett, G. W.; Buehring, W. A.; Collins, M. J.; Dickinson, D. C.; Eaton, L. K. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research (open access)

Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research

This report discusses earthquake hazards and risk in the United States, federal programs that support earthquake monitoring, the U.S. capability to detect earthquakes and issue notifications and warnings, and federally-supported research to improve the fundamental scientific understanding of earthquakes with a goal of reducing U.S. vulnerability.
Date: January 14, 2010
Creator: Folger, Peter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Pump Water Heaters and American Homes: A Good Fit? (open access)

Heat Pump Water Heaters and American Homes: A Good Fit?

Heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) are over twice as energy-efficient as conventional electric resistance water heaters, with the potential to save substantial amounts of electricity. Drawing on analysis conducted for the U.S. Department of Energy's recently-concluded rulemaking on amended standards for water heaters, this paper evaluates key issues that will determine how well, and to what extent, this technology will fit in American homes. The key issues include: 1) equipment cost of HPWHs; 2) cooling of the indoor environment by HPWHs; 3) size and air flow requirements of HPWHs; 4) performance of HPWH under different climate conditions and varying hot water use patterns; and 5) operating cost savings under different electricity prices and hot water use. The paper presents the results of a life-cycle cost analysis of the adoption of HPWHs in a representative sample of American homes, as well as national impact analysis for different market share scenarios. Assuming equipment costs that would result from high production volume, the results show that HPWHs can be cost effective in all regions for most single family homes, especially when the water heater is not installed in a conditioned space. HPWHs are not cost effective for most manufactured home and multi-family installations, …
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Franco, Victor; Lekov, Alex; Meyers, Steve & Letschert, Virginie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Force KC-X Tanker Aircraft Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Air Force KC-X Tanker Aircraft Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the issues for Congress in FY2011, which are whether to approve, reject, or modify DOD's new KC-X competition strategy, and whether to approve, reject, or modify the Air Force's request for FY2011 research and development funding for the new KC-X program. Congress' decision on these issues could affect DOD capabilities and funding requirements, and the aircraft manufacturing industrial base.
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Gertler, Jeremiah
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate (open access)

Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate

This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimizing MPI Resource Contention in Multithreaded Multicore Environments (open access)

Minimizing MPI Resource Contention in Multithreaded Multicore Environments

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Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Goodell, D; Balaji, P; Buntinas, D; Dozsa, G; Gropp, W; Kumar, S et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Scientific/Technical Report for "Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas" (open access)

Final Scientific/Technical Report for "Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas"

The subject of the project is the basic-plasma physics topic of strongly-coupled plasmas, as studied experimentally using dusty plasmas. This topic is highly interdisciplinary, with significant overlap with astrophysics, space physics, and condensed matter physics. Among the successes of this project during the most recent four-year period are the 23 papers were produced for peer-reviewed scientific journals. These papers mostly report experiments, as well as some numerical simulations. Coauthors of the papers include collaborators in Germany, Hungary, and Russia, as well as the U.S. Research topics included traditional plasma physics themes such as transport, waves, instabilities, and experimental diagnostics. They also included interdisciplinary topics of melting (condensed matter physics) and rarefied gas dynamics (fluid mechanics). All of the research topics were chosen to have a high impact. Our success in achieving a high impact is demonstrated by the seven papers published in Physical Review Letters over a four-year period, and a significant number of invited talks. The project included a broader-impact element that included not only training of graduate students and public dissemination of research results, but also an outreach program. The outreach Included presentations motivated by the sound-wave experiments in this project for the 'Family Science Adventures' (for children …
Date: August 14, 2010
Creator: Goree, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010 (open access)

The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Bi-weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes campus news and local news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Hahne, Elyse
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 205, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 205, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Halter Gray, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 14, 2010
Creator: Halter Gray, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 248, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 248, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Halter Gray, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 74, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 74, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Halter, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 96, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 96, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 14, 2010
Creator: Halter, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 139, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 139, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Halter, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Halter, Janie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Benzene-derived N2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-deoxyguanosine adduct: UvrABC incision and its conformation in DNA (open access)

Benzene-derived N2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-deoxyguanosine adduct: UvrABC incision and its conformation in DNA

Benzene, a ubiquitous human carcinogen, forms DNA adducts through its metabolites such as p-benzoquinone (p-BQ) and hydroquinone (HQ). N(2)-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine (N(2)-4-HOPh-dG) is the principal adduct identified in vivo by (32)P-postlabeling in cells or animals treated with p-BQ or HQ. To study its effect on repair specificity and replication fidelity, we recently synthesized defined oligonucleotides containing a site-specific adduct using phosphoramidite chemistry. We here report the repair of this adduct by Escherichia coli UvrABC complex, which performs the initial damage recognition and incision steps in the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. We first showed that the p-BQ-treated plasmid was efficiently cleaved by the complex, indicating the formation of DNA lesions that are substrates for NER. Using a 40-mer substrate, we found that UvrABC incises the DNA strand containing N(2)-4-HOPh-dG in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The specificity of such repair was also compared with that of DNA glycosylases and damage-specific endonucleases of E. coli, both of which were found to have no detectable activity toward N(2)-4-HOPh-dG. To understand why this adduct is specifically recognized and processed by UvrABC, molecular modeling studies were performed. Analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories showed that stable G:C-like hydrogen bonding patterns of all three Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds are …
Date: June 14, 2010
Creator: Hang, Bo; Rodriguez, Ben; Yang, Yanu; Guliaev, Anton B. & Chenna, Ahmed
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Harmon, C. L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2010 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Harmon, C. L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 14, 2010 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 14, 2010
Creator: Harmon, C. L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 65, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 2010 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 65, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Harmon, C. L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
LLNL's Precision Compton Scattering Light Source (open access)

LLNL's Precision Compton Scattering Light Source

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Date: September 14, 2010
Creator: Hartemann, F.; Albert, F.; Anderson, S.; Bayramian, A.; Cross, R.; Ebbers, C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2011 Appropriations (open access)

Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2011 Appropriations

This report discusses the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) FY2011 appropriations bill, which includes funding for the Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President (EOP), the judiciary, the District of Columbia, and 26 independent agencies, including the Small Business Administration and the United States Postal Service.
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Hatch, Garrett
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Senate (open access)

The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Senate

This report discusses the Office of the Parliamentarian, which provides expert advice and assistance on questions relating to the meaning and application of that chamber's legislative rules, precedents, and practices, in both the House and Senate. The Speaker began naming a parliamentarian in 1927; the Senate first recognized its parliamentarian in 1935.
Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities (open access)

Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities

Each major party in the House has a leadership hierarchy. This report summarizes the election, duties, and responsibilities of the Speaker of the House, the majority and minority leaders, and the whips and whip system.
Date: July 14, 2010
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library