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Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting (open access)

Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting

This GATEWAY report discusses the problems of pedestrian lighting that occur with all technologies with a focus on the unique optical options and opportunities offered by LEDs through the findings from two pedestrian-focused projects, one at Stanford University in California, and one at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. Incorporating user feedback this report reviews the tradeoffs that must be weighed among visual comfort, color, visibility, efficacy and other factors to stimulate discussion among specifiers, users, energy specialists, and in industry in hopes that new approaches, metrics, and standards can be developed to support pedestrian-focused communities, while reducing energy use.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Miller, Naomi J.; Koltai, Rita & McGowan, Terry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum Refinery Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) Model User Reference Guide (open access)

Petroleum Refinery Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) Model User Reference Guide

The Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) models, developed through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), are user-friendly tools utilized to estimate the economic impacts at the local level of constructing and operating fuel and power generation projects for a range of conventional and renewable energy technologies. The JEDI Petroleum Refinery Model User Reference Guide was developed to assist users in employing and understanding the model. This guide provides information on the model's underlying methodology, as well as the parameters and references used to develop the cost data utilized in the model. This guide also provides basic instruction on model add-in features, operation of the model, and a discussion of how the results should be interpreted. Based on project-specific inputs from the user, the model estimates job creation, earning and output (total economic activity) for a given petroleum refinery. This includes the direct, indirect and induced economic impacts to the local economy associated with the refinery's construction and operation phases. Project cost and job data used in the model are derived from the most current cost estimations available. Local direct and indirect economic impacts are estimated using economic multipliers derived from IMPLAN software. By determining the regional economic impacts and …
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Goldberg, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project Summary: A Generic Mode Choice Model Applicable for Small and Medium Sized MPOs (open access)

Project Summary: A Generic Mode Choice Model Applicable for Small and Medium Sized MPOs

Summary sheet describing research performed by the Center for Transportation Research regarding a generic mode choice model applicable for small and medium sized MPOs.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project Summary: New Technology Task Force: Phase II (open access)

Project Summary: New Technology Task Force: Phase II

Summary sheet describing research performed by the Center for Transportation Research regarding phase II of the new technology task force.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Salinity and Salinity Response in San Antonio Bay (open access)

Salinity and Salinity Response in San Antonio Bay

Provides data about the response of salinity from the san antonio bay
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Ward, George H.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 2013 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Gibbs, Angenene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shadow Banking: Background and Policy Issues (open access)

Shadow Banking: Background and Policy Issues

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Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Site Acceptance Testing Procedure for ISA MicroCT System (open access)

Site Acceptance Testing Procedure for ISA MicroCT System

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Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Brown, W D & Divin, C J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subtask 4.24 - Field Evaluation of Novel Approach for Obtaining Metal Emission Data (open access)

Subtask 4.24 - Field Evaluation of Novel Approach for Obtaining Metal Emission Data

Over the past two decades, emissions of mercury, nonmercury metals, and acid gases from energy generation and chemical production have increasingly become an environmental concern. On February 16, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) to reduce mercury, nonmercury metals, and HCl emissions from coal-fired power plants. The current reference methods for trace metals and halogens are wet-chemistry methods, EPA Method (M) 29 and M26A, respectively. As a possible alternative to EPA M29 and M26A, the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) has developed a novel multielement sorbent trap (ME-ST) method to be used to sample for trace elements and/or halogens. Testing was conducted at three different power plants, and the results show that for halogens, the ME-ST halogen (ME-ST-H) method did not show any significant bias compared to EPA M26A and appears to be a potential candidate to serve as an alternative to the reference method. For metals, the ME-ST metals (ME-ST-M) method offers a lower detection limit compared to EPA M29 and generally produced comparable data for Sb, As, Be, Cd, Co, Hg, and Se. Both the ME-ST-M and M29 had problems associated with high blanks for Ni, Pb, Cr, …
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Pavlish, John; Laudal, Dennis & Thompson, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Categorical Eligibility (open access)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Categorical Eligibility

This report discusses categorical eligibility and some of the issues raised by it. It first describes the three different types of categorical eligibility: traditional categorical eligibility conveyed through receipt of need-based cash assistance, and the newer "narrow" and "broad-based" categorical eligibilities conveyed via TANF "noncash" benefits. It also provides recent information on current state practices with regard to categorical eligibility. Finally, the report discusses proposals to restrict categorical eligibility.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Falk, Gene & Aussenberg, Randy Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Categorical Eligibility (open access)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Categorical Eligibility

This report discusses categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and some of the issues raised by it. It first describes the three different types of categorical eligibility. It then provides recent information on current state practices with regard to categorical eligibility. Finally, the report discusses proposals to restrict categorical eligibility.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Falk, Gene & Aussenberg, Randy Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unemployment: Issues in the 113th Congress (open access)

Unemployment: Issues in the 113th Congress

This report addresses three policy issues: whether to take additional measures to increase jobs (or avoid contractionary policies), what measures might be most effective, and how job creation proposals should be financed.
Date: December 31, 2013
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library