Photograph of an art installation text titled "Contributions of Our Food from the Americas" listing various foods in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl; in the background there is a drawing of a cactus.

Recording of Roger Doyle's The stairwell. For violin, pre-recorded voice, and electronics.

Photograph of a woman onstage in front of a large display featuring four skulls and an ear of cor with various vegetables, foods, and drinks next to them; there are two poems (in Nahuatl, left, and Spanish, right) and some drawings on the wall in the background.

This home movie excerpt documents a Saniei family gathering. In this footage, Abbus, Ahmad, and Saeed (Michael) converse in Farsi, watch television (soccer and Gilligan's Island), and cook. They speak directly to the camera delivering messages for their families back home in Iran.

Photograph of three paper snowflakes hanging on a wall with a small pile of grain in front of them and a Nahuatl text on the wall in the background.

Photograph of three paper snowflakes hanging on a wall with a small pile of grain in front of them and a Nahuatl text on the wall in the background.

Solar domestic hot water systems have been installed at Camp Darby and the Leghorn Army Depot near Livorno, Italy, by the United States Army. These systems range from single panel installations providing hot water to maintenance shops to large multipanel systems serving barracks. Guidance provided in this bilingual (English-Italian) report includes operating and maintenance procedures and recommendations for spare parts inventory. Operating procedures address start-up, normal operations, shut-down, and response to abnormal conditions; maintenance procedures address collector fluid drainage and replacement and equipment change-out. Flow diagrams reflecting as-built conditions are also included for many of the systems. Water quality and corrosion control are also discussed.

Recording of Simo Lazarov's Singing more. The language of this composition is Bulgarian, with vocal audio recorded from the mountains surrounding the Bulgarian region of Sofia serving as the basic sound source of the composition. The composer's goals are to submerge the listener in an atmosphere of Bulgarian folklore, and to attain an associative effect by means of overdubbing and modification of original sound and songs, bearing in mind the wide variety and richness of the Bulgarian folklore and the immense attention it has gained abroad.

Recording of Roderik De Man's Vision. This composition is based on themes from the work of the Frisian painter Boele Bregman. He started out with a figurative and poetical approach of painting, later develop an abstract style. These aspects of his work form the basis of the composition: the idealism at the beginning of his career (boy soprano); the terror of war and meaningless speeches of politicians; and the final resignation and consolation found in his work (aria for baritone).

The effect of thermal aging on tensile properties of cast stainless steels during service in light water reactors has been evaluated. Tensile data for several experimental and commercial heats of cast stainless steels are presented. Thermal aging increases the tensile strength of these steels. The high-C Mo-bearing CF-8M steels are more susceptible to thermal aging than the Mo-free CF-3 or CF-8 steels. A procedure and correlations are presented for predicting the change in tensile flow and yield stresses and engineering stress-vs.-strain curve of cast stainless steel as a function of time and temperature of service. The tensile properties of aged cast stainless steel are estimated from known material information, i.e., chemical composition and the initial tensile strength of the steel. The correlations described in this report may be used for assessing thermal embrittlement of cast stainless steel components.

An Ensemble Concert performed in the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking of piping, pressure vessel cladding, and core components in light water reactors are potential concerns to the nuclear industry and regulatory agencies. The degradation processes include intergranular stress corrosion cracking of austenitic stainless steel (SS) piping in boiling water reactors (BWRs), and propagation of fatigue or stress corrosion cracks (which initiate in sensitized SS cladding) into low-alloy ferritic steels in BWR pressure vessels. Crack growth data for wrought and cast austenitic SSs in simulated BWR water, developed at Argonne National Laboratory under US Nuclear Regulatory Commission sponsorship over the past 10 years, have been compiled into a data base along with similar data obtained from the open literature. The data were analyzed to develop corrosion-fatigue curves for austenitic SSs in aqueous environments corresponding to normal BWR water chemistries, for BWRs that add hydrogen to the feedwater, and for pressurized water reactor primary-system-coolant chemistry. The corrosion-fatigue data and curves in water were compared with the air line in Section XI of the ASME Code.

This conference was held July 27--28, 1994 in Moscow. The main purpose of the meeting was to implement an agreement between the Russian Federation and the US to facilitate cooperative research on health and environmental effects of radiation. It was hoped that the exchange of information would provide a good basis for employing new scientific knowledge to implement practical measures to facilitate the rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated areas and to treat radiation illnesses. The Russian Federation suggested five main scientific areas for cooperative research. They will prepare proposals on 4--5 projects within the scope of the scientific areas discussed and forward them to the US delegation for consideration of the possibility to facilitate joint research.

Recording of Igor de Gandarias' La Feria Fantástica. This work was realized at the University of Maryland Electronic Music Studio using a Fairlight Series III station. The sound sources come from live recordings made in 1991 during the celebration of the most important popular feast in Guatemala City, called “Feria de Jocotenago” (Jocotenango’s fair). The feast, dedicated to celebrate the city’s patron anniversary (Virgin of the Assumption), takes place in August every year, enduring the complete month. Its activities contain not only religious ceremonies and processions with their particular musical environment (choirs and processional bands) but folk dances, food, games and entertainment. The recordings include: voices of a children's choir and voices of congregated people singing into the church, Indian speaking voices, snare drum processional patterns and rolls, a popular processional band piece, and a traditional Indian marimba piece which accompanies popular Indian dances during the procession. The sound of rhythmic patterns played on the rattles by the dancers; electronic games, church bells and the little bell of an ice-cream vendor were also recorded at the fair. Other sounds coming from three musical toys, which are usually on sale on these feasts, were recorded in studio.

Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Moin Mor. In music using concepts or ideas which belong to other domains is something that has been realized by composers for a long time. The central element of sound work is language, which is what characterizes a determinate culture. Language is made out of sound and meaning, out of syntax (rhythm) and out of words (signs) For this work English, Gaelic, and Spanish are used.

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family and their young children at an unidentified park. The family speaks English and Farsi.

Recording of Peter Cusack's Two small boys go shopping. The piece is a representation of composer Peter Cusack and his son simply shopping together in North London. This trip includes a visit to a toy store and a musical instrument shop where Peter tries out a guitar by playing a few notes from Stairway to Heaven.

An ensemble concert performed in the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

An Ensemble Concert performed in the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Chilhood (l'enfance). This piece is the third movement of the work "Amarcord" that the composer describes as a trilogy of sonorous memories. This work was conceived as a combination of electronic, electroacoustic, and ambient instrumental recordings that were all produced in the years from 1976 to 1996.

Recording of Michel Karsky's En Babel éclatée. Mourning waltzes around Besieged Babels. The man is in the world. And the creator is not exempted from being in the world with the full enjoyment of his faculties of intelligence and sensitivity of intimate and collective memory, echo of history and art. In addition, when he is a musician, the sense of dance works on his sound material until he imprints an irresistible program on him. How can a frail waltz subject become a song of mercy for a wounded humanity? How can an armful of the languages ​​of the earth bear witness suddenly to the history of human life, to their pains and their songs? How is the sensation amplified in the painful exchange in the attentive listener, open to the message of the things of the spirit, the resonance of being as cradled as a child, subjected to madness, wounded by history? With his personal writing, Michel Karsky once again takes up the challenge. His aesthetics of fragment, collage and superimposition, his subtle technique of intertwining themes and sound material, his lyricism of captured sounds, torn voices and his singular breathing produce here, in about thirty minutes, a block of …

This home movie excerpt documents Jasmine Saniei at home with her family. In this footage, Jasmine's father speaks to her in Farsi.

UNT Global Rhythms: Drums Around the World concert presented at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.

The goal of this work was to study the behavior of the angular distribution of the electron form the decay of the W boson in a specific rest-frame of the W, the Collins-Soper frame. This thesis consists of four major divisions, each dealing with closely related themes: (a) Physics Background, (b) Description of the Hardware and General Software Tools, (c) Description of the Analysis and Specific Tools, and (d) Results and Conclusions. Each division is comprised of one or more chapters and each chapter is divided into sections and subsections.