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Sugar Policy Actions Since The Expiration Of The Sugar Act
This report consists of sugar policy actions since the expiration of the sugar act.
Date:
April 3, 1978
Creator:
A. Ellen Terpstra
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of high-density cantilever arrays and through-wafer interconnects
Processes to fabricate dense, dry released microstructures with electrical connections on the opposite side of the wafer are described. A 10 x 10 array of silicon and polysilicon cantilevers with high packing density (5 tips/mm<sup>2</sup>) and high uniformity (<10 µm length variation across the wafer) are demonstrated. The cantilever release process uses a deep SF<sub>6</sub>/C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>8</sub>, plasma etch followed by a HBr plasma etch to accurately release cantilevers. A process for fabricating electrical contacts through the backside of the wafer is also described. Electrodeposited resist, conformal CVD metal deposition and deep SF<sub>6</sub>/C<sub>4</sub>F<sub>8</sub> plasma etching are used to make 30 µm/side square vias each of which has a resistance of 50 m(omega).
Date:
November 3, 1998
Creator:
A. Harley, J.; Abdollahi-Alibeik, S.; Chow, E. M.; Kenney, T. W.; McCarthy, A. M.; McVittie, J. P. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extending Performance and Evaluating Risks of PV Systems Failure Using a Fault Tree and Event Tree Approach: Analysis of the Possible Application
Performance and reliability of photovoltaic (PV) systems are important issues in the overall evaluation of a PV plant and its components. While performance is connected to the amount of energy produced by the PV installation in the working environmental conditions, reliability impacts the availability of the system to produce the expected amount of energy. In both cases, the evaluation should be done considering information and data coming from indoor as well as outdoor tests. In this paper a way of re-thinking performance, giving it a probabilistic connotation, and connecting the two concepts of performance and reliability is proposed. The paper follows a theoretical approach and discusses the way to obtaining such information, facing benefits and problems. The proposed probabilistic performance accounts for the probability of the system to function correctly, thus passing through the complementary evaluation of the probability of system malfunctions and consequences. Scenarios have to be identified where the system is not functioning properly or at all. They are expected to be combined in a probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) based approach, providing not only the required probability, but also being capable of giving a prioritization of the risks and the most dominant scenario associated to a specific situation. …
Date:
June 3, 2012
Creator:
A., Colli
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A MOBILE MELT-DILUTE MODULE FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALUMINUM RESEARCH REACTOR SPENT FUEL
A mobile melt-dilute (MMD) module for the treatment of aluminum research reactor spent fuel is being developed jointly by the Savannah River National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. The process uses a closed system approach to retain fission products/gases inside a sealed canister after treatment. The MMD process melts and dilutes spent fuel with depleted uranium to obtain an isotopic content of less than 20 percent. The final ingot is solidified inside the sealed canister and can be stored safely either wet or dry until final disposition or reprocessing. The MMD module can be staged at or near the research reactor fuel storage sites to facilitate the melt-dilute treatment of the spent fuel into a stable non-proliferable form.
Date:
November 3, 2004
Creator:
ADAMS, THAD
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Limits on the Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in $Pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector
None
Date:
June 3, 2013
Creator:
Aad, Georges
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the $\upsilon_{1S}$ Production Cross-Section in $Pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV in ATLAS
None
Date:
June 3, 2013
Creator:
Aad, Georges
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Significance of Soft Zone Sediments at the SRS
The purpose of this report is to provide information on the origin, extent and stability of ''soft zones'' in the carbonate bearing strata at the Savannah River Site (SRS). As part of this study, a comprehensive historical compendium of how soft zones have been addressed during the past 47 years at SRS is reviewed.
Date:
February 3, 2000
Creator:
Aadland, R. K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Holocene Paleohydrology of the tropical andes from lake records
Two century-scale time series in northern Bolivia constrain the ages of abrupt changes in the physical, geochemical, and biological characteristics of sediments obtained from lakes that formed during deglaciation from the late Pleistocene glacial maximum. The watersheds of Laguna Viscachani (16{degrees}12`S, 68{degrees}07`W, 3780m) and Lago Taypi Chaka Kkota (16{degrees}13`S, 68{degrees}21`W, 4300m), located on the eastern and western slopes of the Cordillera Real, respectively, contain small cirque glaciers. A high-resolution chronology of the lake sediments is provided by 23 AMS {sup 14}C dates of discrete macro-fossils. Late Pleistocene glaciers retreated rapidly, exposing the lake basins between 10,700 and 9700 {sup 14}C yr B.P. The sedimentary facies suggest that after 8900 {sup 14}C B.P. glaciers were absent from the watersheds and remained so during the middle Holocene. An increase in the precipitation-evaporation balance is indicated above unconformities dated to about 2300 {sup 14}C yr B.P. in both Lago Taypi Chaka Kkota and Laguna Viscachani. An abrupt increase in sediment accumulation rated after 1400 {sup 14}C yr B.P. signals the onset of Neoglaciation. A possible link exists between the observed millennial-scale shifts in the regional precipitation- evaporation balance and seasonal shifts in tropical insolation.
Date:
March 3, 1997
Creator:
Abbott, M. B., LLNL
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
RadHeat V1 User's Manual
RadHeat is a one dimensional finite difference heat transfer code that can determine the transient temperature evolution of layered targets in pulsed penetrating radiation environments. It makes use of energy dependent opacity and stopping data to model the volumetric deposition of any number of photon or ion spectra each incident at arbitrary angles. Convective and radiative boundary conditions are handled as well as the ability to impose any initial temperature profile. The heat diffusion equation is formulated implicitly to eliminate timestep dependent stability issues. Simulations are, therefore, able to achieve high fidelity during times of thermal activity and greater speed elsewhere. The prototypical physical situation simulated by RadHeat is illustrated. RadHeat was originally written to study the temperature response of tungsten-armored target-facing walls to the pulsed photon and ion radiation emanating from fusion microexplosions in future IFE power plants. RadHeat's implementation is quite general, though, and the code can be applied to a very broad range of problems. Anything from the heating of the Earth's crust on a warm summer day to the temperature rise in a mirror after a laser pulse could potentially be modeled. This manual was written to help new users learn how to run the code …
Date:
January 3, 2005
Creator:
Abbott, R P
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Linear Collider Physics Resource Book for Snowmass 2001
The American particle physics community can look forward to a well-conceived and vital program of experimentation for the next ten years, using both colliders and fixed target beams to study a wide variety of pressing questions. Beyond 2010, these programs will be reaching the end of their expected lives. The CERN LHC will provide an experimental program of the first importance. But beyond the LHC, the American community needs a coherent plan. The Snowmass 2001 Workshop and the deliberations of the HEPAP subpanel offer a rare opportunity to engage the full community in planning our future for the next decade or more. A major accelerator project requires a decade from the beginning of an engineering design to the receipt of the first data. So it is now time to decide whether to begin a new accelerator project that will operate in the years soon after 2010. We believe that the world high-energy physics community needs such a project. With the great promise of discovery in physics at the next energy scale, and with the opportunity for the uncovering of profound insights, we cannot allow our field to contract to a single experimental program at a single laboratory in the world. …
Date:
May 3, 2001
Creator:
Abe, T.; Dawson, S.; Heinemeyer, S.; Marciano, W.; Paige, F.; Turcot, A. S. et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Improved Direct Measurement of Leptonic Coupling Asymmetries with Polarized Z{sup 0}'s
We report new direct measurements of the Z{sup 0}-lepton coupling asymmetry parameters A{sub e}, A{sub {mu}} and A{sub r}, with polarized Z{sup 0}'s collected by the SLD detector at the SLAC Linear Collider. The parameters are extracted from the measurement of the left-right-forward-backward asymmetries for each lepton species. The 1996, 1997 and 1998 SLD runs are included in this analysis and combined with published data from the 1993-95 runs. Preliminary results are A{sub e} = 0.1558 {+-} 0.0064, A{sub {mu}} = 0.137 {+-} 0.016 and A{sub {tau}} = 0.142 {+-} 0.016. If lepton universality is assumed, a combined asymmetry parameter A{sub l} = 0.1523 {+-} 0.0057 results. This translates into an effective weak mixing angle sin{sup 2} {theta}{sub W}{sup eff} = 0.23085 {+-} 0.00073 at the Z{sup 0} resonance.
Date:
August 3, 1999
Creator:
Abe, Toshinori
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric Transmission: Approaches for Energizing a Sagging Industry
This report discusses factors that have contributed to the lack of new transmission capacity and some of the resulting issues.
Date:
October 3, 2007
Creator:
Abel, Amy
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for Handling Brick.
Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veneer Basket.
Patent for stronger, lighter construction of baskets frequently used in shipping fruit, although the improvement "may be used for any and all purposes of which it is capable" (lines 13-15).
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The ATLAS level 2 trigger supervisor.
This paper presents an overview of the hardware and software proposed for the ATLAS level 2 Trigger ROI Builder/Supervisor. The essential requirements of this system are that it operate at the design Level 1 Trigger rate of 100kHz and that it support the technical requirements of the architectures suggested for the ATLAS Level 2 Trigger. Commercial equipment and software support are used to the maximum extent possible, with support from dedicated hardware. Timing requirements and latencies are discussed and simulation results are presented.
Date:
April 3, 1997
Creator:
Abolins, M.; Blair, R. E.; Dawson, J. W.; Owen, D.; Pope, B. G.; Schlereth, J. L. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
2006 Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference - February 12-17-2006
This report is a descriptive journey of 2006 Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference.
Date:
April 3, 2007
Creator:
Abruna, Hector D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Vehicular Storage of Hydrogen in Insulated Pressure Vessels
This paper describes the development of an alternative technology for storing hydrogen fuel onboard automobiles. Insulated pressure vessels are cryogenic-capable pressure vessels that can accept cryogenic liquid fuel, cryogenic compressed gas or compressed gas at ambient temperature. Insulated pressure vessels offer advantages over conventional H{sub 2} storage approaches. Insulated pressure vessels are more compact and require less carbon fiber than GH{sub 2} vessels. They have lower evaporative losses than LH{sub 2} tanks, and are much lighter than metal hydrides. After outlining the advantages of hydrogen fuel and insulated pressure vessels, the paper describes the experimental and analytical work conducted to verify that insulated pressure vessels can be used safely for vehicular H{sub 2} storage. The paper describes tests that have been conducted to evaluate the safety of insulated pressure vessels. Insulated pressure vessels have successfully completed a series of DOT, ISO and SAE certification tests. A draft procedure for insulated pressure vessel certification has been generated to assist in a future commercialization of this technology. An insulated pressure vessel has been installed in a hydrogen fueled truck and it is currently being subjected to extensive testing.
Date:
January 3, 2005
Creator:
Aceves, S. M.; Berry, G. D.; Martinez-Frias, J. & Espinosa-Loza, F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance and Certification Testing of Insulated Pressure Vessels for Vehicular Hydrogen Storage
Insulated pressure vessels are cryogenic-capable pressure vessels that can be fueled with liquid hydrogen (LH2) or ambient-temperature compressed hydrogen (CH2). Insulated pressure vessels offer the advantages of liquid hydrogen tanks (low weight and volume), with reduced disadvantages (fuel flexibility, lower energy requirement for hydrogen liquefaction and reduced evaporative losses). The work described here is directed at verifying that commercially available pressure vessels can be safely used to store liquid hydrogen. The use of commercially available pressure vessels significantly reduces the cost and complexity of the insulated pressure vessel development effort. This paper describes a series of tests that have been done with aluminum-lined, fiber-wrapped vessels to evaluate the damage caused by low temperature operation. All analysis and experiments to date indicate that no significant damage has resulted. Required future tests are described that will prove that no technical barriers exist to the safe use of aluminum-fiber vessels at cryogenic temperatures. Future activities also include a demonstration project in which the insulated pressure vessels will be installed and tested on two vehicles. A draft standard will also be generated for obtaining certification for insulated pressure vessels.
Date:
June 3, 2001
Creator:
Aceves, S. M.; Martinez-Frias, J.; Garcia-Villazana, O. & Espinosa-Loza, F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogen Safety Training for Researchers
None
Date:
August 3, 2010
Creator:
Aceves, S.; Petitpas, G.; Ross, T. & Switzer, V.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U-Th/He age of phenocrystic garnet from the 79AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
None
Date:
November 3, 2003
Creator:
Aciego, Sarah; Kennedy, B. M.; DePaolo, Donald J.; Christensen, John N. & Hutcheon, Ian
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
SNAP re-entry orbit; comments on the atmospheric entry and discussion of a proposed test
In order to evaluate entry into the atmosphere of an oblate (equatorial bulge) earth a standard atmosphere was used in conjunction with the standard rotating oblate spheroid. The density variation encountered in any one polar orbit around the earth will vary by about a factor of ten, due to oblateness. Therefore, the important effects on the re-entry trajectory are atmospheric density and oblateness of the earth. The SNAP configuration burn up characteristics will differ considerably between the steep (6/sup 0/) entry of the NASA Scout test and the orbital decay trajectory. However, the test can verify heat transfer rates on the actual configuration, and by proper calculation of material response, the actual decay breakup prediction can be improved.
Date:
August 3, 1962
Creator:
Ackermann, W. O.; Arthur, P. D. & Nelson, D. K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Flushing Apparatus.
Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Fundamental Study of Dispersed Multiphase Flows at Small Scales
The purpose of the research supported by this grant was two-fold: I, to continue our earlier studies on the rheology of suspensions of non-colloidal particles; and, II, to study the transport of a nano-sized particle through a fluid-filled nano-channel using molecular dynamics simulations. In I, we investigated, by means of Stokesian Dynamics simulations, the dynamics of concentrated suspensions and discovered that their statistical properties could be described, even for particle concentrations up to 20%, by means of an analytical theory of pair-particle interactions, provided that pair-doublets are assumed to be totally absent. We also provided a quantitative explanation of the fascinating banding phenomenon of particle axial segregation which was observed when a suspension of neutrally buoyant particles was sheared in a partially filled horizontal Couette device or in a rotating horizontal cylinder. In II, independently of the shape and the relative size of the particle, we find two distinct regimes as a function of the degree of wetting, with a sharp transition between them. Specifically, in a highly wetting suspending fluid, the particle moves through the cylinder with an average axial velocity in agreement with that obtained from the solution of the continuum Stokes equations. In contrast, in the case …
Date:
May 3, 2005
Creator:
Acrivos, Andreas; Khusid, Boris & Koplik, Joel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Curtain-Pole Remover
Patent for a curtain pole remover that allows the user to remove or put in place curtain poles without climbing on anything.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Adair, Lulu N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History