1-D Van der Waals Foams Heated by Ion Beam Energy Deposition (open access)

1-D Van der Waals Foams Heated by Ion Beam Energy Deposition

One dimensional simulations of various initial average density aluminum foams (modeled as slabs of solid metal separated by low density regions) heated by volumetric energy deposition are conducted with a Lagrangian hydrodynamics code using a van der Waals equation of tate (EOS). The resulting behavior is studied to facilitate the design of future warm dense matter (WDM) experiments at LBNL. In the simulations the energy deposition ranges from 10 to 30 kJ/g and from 0.075 to 4.0 ns total pulse length, resulting in temperatures from approximately 1 o 4 eV. We study peak pressures and temperatures in the foams, expansion velocity, and the phase evolution. Five relevant time scales in the problem are identified. Additionally, we present a method for characterizing the level of inhomogeneity in a foam target as it is heated and the time it takes for a foam to homogenize.
Date: December 23, 2009
Creator: Zylstra, A. B.; Barnard, J. J. & More, R. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
234-5 project specification letter 235-41 Chemical Development Laboratory (open access)

234-5 project specification letter 235-41 Chemical Development Laboratory

This document presents details of the specifications for the chemical development laboratory, in accordance with project 234-5.
Date: December 23, 1947
Creator: Work, J.B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2011 Government Auditing Standards Listing of Technical Changes (open access)

2011 Government Auditing Standards Listing of Technical Changes

Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This document is a listing of technical changes related to the 2011 Government Auditing Standards."
Date: December 23, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2011 Government Auditing Standards Summary of Major Changes (open access)

2011 Government Auditing Standards Summary of Major Changes

Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This document summarizes major changes in the 2011 Government Auditing Standards."
Date: December 23, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2013 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): Designating Nonattainment Areas (open access)

2013 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): Designating Nonattainment Areas

This report focuses primarily on the NAAQS implementation process for designating geographical nonattainment areas with respect to the tightening of the PM2.5 annual standard under the 2013 particulates NAAQS.
Date: December 23, 2015
Creator: Esworthy, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century jobs initiative - Tennessee`s Resource Valley. Final report (open access)

21st Century jobs initiative - Tennessee`s Resource Valley. Final report

Tennessee`s Resource Valley, a regional economic development organization, was asked to facilitate a two-year, $750,000 grant from the Department of Energy. The grant`s purpose was to make the East Tennessee region less dependent on federal funds for its economic well-being and to increase regional awareness of the advantages of proximity to the Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge. The mission of Tennessee`s Resource Valley is to market the business location advantages of mid-East Tennessee to corporate decision makers and to facilitate regional initiatives that impact the creation of quality job opportunities. Tennessee`s Resource Valley represents fifteen (15) counties in East Tennessee: Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier and Union.
Date: December 23, 1996
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
S. 2270, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1971: Summary and Pro-Con Arguments (open access)

S. 2270, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1971: Summary and Pro-Con Arguments

This report discusses the Senate's Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1971, and presents arguments for and against the bill.
Date: December 23, 1971
Creator: Berkson, Harold
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2nd Generation PFBC Systems R&D Phase 2 AND Phase 3 (open access)

2nd Generation PFBC Systems R&D Phase 2 AND Phase 3

No work was performed; the two remaining Multi Annular Swirl Burner test campaigns are on hold pending selection of a new test facility (replacement for the shut down UTSI burner test facility) and identification of associated testing costs. The Second-Generation PFB Combustion Plant conceptual design prepared in 1987 is being updated to reflect the benefit of pilot plant test data and the latest advances in gas turbine technology. The updated plant is being designed to operate with 95 percent sulfur capture and a single Siemens Westinghouse (SW) 501G gas turbine. Using carbonizer and gas turbine data generated by Foster Wheeler (FW) and SW respectively, Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group prepared preliminary plant heat and materials based on carbonizer operating temperatures of 1700 and 1800 F and found the former to yield the higher plant efficiency. As a result, 1700EF has been selected as the preferred operating condition for the carbonizer. The previous first cut plant heat and material balance was refined and it predicts a 47.7% plant efficiency (HHV) with a net power output of 421 MWe. The latter includes a plant auxiliary load estimated to be 23.48 MWe or 5.26% of the gross plant power and a transformer loss …
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: Robertson, Archie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The acceleration and storage of radioactive ions for a neutrino factory (open access)

The acceleration and storage of radioactive ions for a neutrino factory

The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated to a Lorentz gamma of 150 for {sup 6}He and 60 for {sup 18}Ne. The neutrino source itself consists of a storage ring for this energy range, with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). Such a decay ring does not exist at CERN today, nor does a high-intensity proton source for the production of the radioactive ions. Nevertheless, the existing CERN accelerator infrastructure could be used as this would still represent an important saving for a beta-beam facility. This paper outlines the first study, while some of the more speculative ideas will need further investigations.
Date: December 23, 2003
Creator: al., B. Autin et
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accumulation and altered localization of telomere-associated protein TRF2 in immortally transformed and tumor-derived human breast cells (open access)

Accumulation and altered localization of telomere-associated protein TRF2 in immortally transformed and tumor-derived human breast cells

We have used cultured human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC) and breast tumor-derived lines to gain information on defects that occur during breast cancer progression. HMEC immortalized by a variety of agents (the chemical carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene, oncogenes c-myc and ZNF217, and/or dominant negative p53 genetic suppressor element GSE22) displayed marked up regulation (10-15 fold) of the telomere binding protein, TRF2. Up-regulation of TRF2 protein was apparently due to differences in post-transcriptional regulation, as mRNA levels remained comparable in finite life span and immortal HMEC. TRF2 protein was not up-regulated by the oncogenic agents alone in the absence of immortalization, nor by expression of exogenously introduced hTERT genes. We found TRF2 levels to be at least 2-fold higher than in control cells in 11/15 breast tumor cell lines, suggesting that elevated TRF2 levels are a frequent occurrence during the transformation of breast tumor cells in vivo. The dispersed distribution of TRF2 throughout the nuclei in some immortalized and tumor-derived cells indicated that not all the TRF2 was associated with telomeres in these cells. The process responsible for accumulation of TRF2 in immortalized HMEC and breast tumor-derived cell lines may promote tumorigenesis by contributing to the cells ability to maintain an indefinite life …
Date: December 23, 2004
Creator: Nijjar, Tarlochan; Bassett, Ekaterina; Garbe, James; Takenaka, Yasuhiro; Stampfer, Martha R.; Gilley, David et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic Characteristics of Two Delta Wings at Mach Number 4.04 and Correlations of Lift and Minimum-Drag Data for Delta Wings at Mach Numbers From 1.62 to 6.9 (open access)

Aerodynamic Characteristics of Two Delta Wings at Mach Number 4.04 and Correlations of Lift and Minimum-Drag Data for Delta Wings at Mach Numbers From 1.62 to 6.9

Report presenting tests of the aerodynamic characteristics of two delta wings of the same aspect ratio and airfoil sections at Mach number 4.04. The results indicated that the ratio of the experimental lift-curve slope to the theoretical two-dimensional lift-curve slope from previous testing is valid at this Mach number.
Date: December 23, 1952
Creator: Ulmann, Edward F. & Dunning, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the failing effort to stabilize Afghanistan. Specifically, the report points to Pakistan's inability to prevent Al Qaeda from entering Afghanistan and corruption in the new Afghan government. The future strategy of the U.S. in Afghanistan has been rendered unclear.
Date: December 23, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture and Forestry Provisions in Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress (open access)

Agriculture and Forestry Provisions in Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress

This report compares and contrasts the House's American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 and the Senate's Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Both bills establish further regulations on greenhouse gases. The contention is that both of these bills potentially raise costs.
Date: December 23, 2009
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture and FY2006 Budget Reconciliation (open access)

Agriculture and FY2006 Budget Reconciliation

During the week of December 18, 2005, both the House and Senate approved the conference agreement on the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (H.Rept. 109-362, S. 1932), which includes net reductions of $2.7 billion over five years for USDA mandatory programs. Included in the agreement is a $1.7 billion reduction in farm commodity support programs, a $934 million reduction in conservation spending, a $620 million reduction in a mandatory research program, and $419 million cut in rural development programs, as scored by CBO over a five-year period (FY2006-2010). The measure also includes a two-year extension of a dairy income support program, at an estimated cost of $998 million. No reductions to food stamp spending were included in the conference agreement.
Date: December 23, 2005
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships (open access)

Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships

This report provides information regarding pollution from ships and port facilities; discusses some of the measures being implemented and considered by local, state, and federal regulatory agencies; discusses the efforts to ratify and to strengthen Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL); and describes legislation in Congress to control emissions from ships by amending the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Date: December 23, 2009
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality: EPA's 2013 Changes to the Particulate Matter (PM) Standard (open access)

Air Quality: EPA's 2013 Changes to the Particulate Matter (PM) Standard

This report summarizes the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed changes to the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and includes comparisons with previous (1997 and 2006) promulgated and proposed standards.
Date: December 23, 2015
Creator: Esworthy, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aircraft Propelling and Manipulating (open access)

Aircraft Propelling and Manipulating

Patent for air craft propelling systems for improvements in control of the aircraft by way of a "universal connection" (Lines 13-14) which makes for easier manipulation of the craft and aids in the prevention of air disasters.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Schelb, Peter J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress (open access)

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress

High levels of oil imports and high crude oil and gasoline prices in recent years have led to increased interest in the U.S. fuel supply. Recent congressional interest has focused on alternatives to petroleum, ways to improve the efficiency of the U.S. transportation sector, and ways to improve the stability and security of the petroleum supply and refining sectors. Key components of federal policies to reduce petroleum consumption include the promotion of alternatives to petroleum fuels and the promotion of more efficient vehicles. This report provides an overview of current issues surrounding alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles.
Date: December 23, 2010
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Set to Expire February 28, 2010 (open access)

Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Set to Expire February 28, 2010

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provides a statutory framework by which government agencies may, when gathering foreign intelligence investigation, obtain authorization to conduct electronic surveillance or physical searches, utilize pen registers and trap and trace devices, or access specified business records and other tangible things. This report discusses three sunsetting amendments of FISA which include the "Lone Wolf" provision, "roving" wiretaps, and access to business records.
Date: December 23, 2009
Creator: Henning, Anna C. & Liu, Edward C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amtrak: The Political and Social Aspects of Federal Intercity Passenger Rail Policy (open access)

Amtrak: The Political and Social Aspects of Federal Intercity Passenger Rail Policy

This report is on Amtrak: The Political and Social Aspects of Federal Intercity Passenger Rail Policy.
Date: December 23, 2004
Creator: Frittelli, John & Kirk, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2000: District of Columbia (open access)

Appropriations for FY2000: District of Columbia

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on the District of Columbia.
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonne National Laboratory: Laboratory Directed Research and Development FY 1993 program activities. Annual report (open access)

Argonne National Laboratory: Laboratory Directed Research and Development FY 1993 program activities. Annual report

The purposes of Argonne`s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program are to encourage the development of novel concepts, enhance the Laboratory`s R&D capabilities, and further the development of its strategic initiatives. Projects are selected from proposals for creative and innovative R&D studies which are not yet eligible for timely support through normal programmatic channels. Among the aims of the projects supported by the Program are establishment of engineering ``proof-of-principle`` assessment of design feasibility for prospective facilities; development of an instrumental prototype, method, or system; or discovery in fundamental science. Several of these projects are closely associated with major strategic thrusts of the Laboratory as described in Argonne`s Five Year Institutional Plan, although the scientific implications of the achieved results extend well beyond Laboratory plans and objectives. The projects supported by the Program are distributed across the major programmatic areas at Argonne as indicated in the Laboratory LDRD Plan for FY 1993.
Date: December 23, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Article II Council of Election (open access)

Article II Council of Election

This report describes law and legal of election council
Date: December 23, 2020
Creator: City of Denton
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Assembly of Fifty Prototype Fuel Elements for the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor (open access)

Assembly of Fifty Prototype Fuel Elements for the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor

Report that describes the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor, problems with the procurement and assembly of its components, and its economic feasibility.
Date: December 23, 1960
Creator: Wick, E. A. & Heestand, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library