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81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 3 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 3

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 14, 2009, and ending on Monday, January 26, 2009.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advanced Waveform Simulation for Seismic Monitoring Events (open access)

Advanced Waveform Simulation for Seismic Monitoring Events

Abstract We conduct a detailed test of a recently developed technique, CAPloc, in recovering source parameters from a few stations against results from a large broadband network in Southern California. The method uses a library of 1D Green’s functions which are broken into segments and matched to waveform observations with adjustable timing shifts. These shifts can be established by calibration against a distribution of well-located earthquakes and assembled in tomographic images for predicting various phase-delays. Synthetics generated from 2D cross-sections through these models indicates that 1D synthetic waveforms are sufficient in modeling but simply shifted in time for most hard-rock sites. This simplification allows the source inversion for both mechanism and location to easily obtain by grid search. We test one-station mechanisms for 160 events against the array for both PAS and GSC which have data since 1960. While individual solutions work well (about 90%), joint solutions produce more reliable and defensible results. Inverting for both mechanism and location also works well except for certain complex paths across deep basins and along mountain ridges.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Helmberger, Donald V.; Tromp, Jeroen & Rodgers, Arthur J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress (open access)

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress

This report provides an overview of current issues surrounding alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 144, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 144, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Army's M-4 Carbine: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Army's M-4 Carbine: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the M-4 carbine, which is the Army's primary individual combat weapon for infantry units. Reports suggest that soldiers have expressed concerns regarding the reliability and lethality of the M-4.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards (open access)

Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards

This report discusses the current corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard, and the major issues on the CAFE debate. The report also offers an overview of Congressional interest in CAFE (1991-2005), and explains the CAFE and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Cartwright, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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: January 27, 2009
Creator: Koe, Crystal
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conductivity maximum in a charged colloidal suspension (open access)

Conductivity maximum in a charged colloidal suspension

Molecular dynamics simulations of a charged colloidal suspension in the salt-free regime show that the system exhibits an electrical conductivity maximum as a function of colloid charge. We attribute this behavior to two main competing effects: colloid effective charge saturation due to counterion 'condensation' and diffusion slowdown due to the relaxation effect. In agreement with previous observations, we also find that the effective transported charge is larger than the one determined by the Stern layer and suggest that it corresponds to the boundary fluid layer at the surface of the colloidal particles.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Bastea, S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Conference Registration Form for Allen] (open access)

[Conference Registration Form for Allen]

Photocopies of envelopes addressed to the Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus at Dallas, Texas from Allen at Windcrest, Texas. There is also a registration form filled out by Linda M. Allen for the Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Statewide Conference in Austin, including contact information and workshop selections in Technology Tips for Clubs, Making Your Endorsements Matter, and Building a Bigger Club.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Nominations to U.S. Service Academies: An Overview and Resources for Outreach and Management (open access)

Congressional Nominations to U.S. Service Academies: An Overview and Resources for Outreach and Management

This report describes statutory requirements for allocating congressional nominations to service academies and identifies the qualifications that must be met by potential nominees, as established by statute and each academy. Sample documents that could be used by congressional offices at various stages of the nomination selection process are included.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Petersen, R. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Couette-Taylor flow device with active minimization of secondary circulation (open access)

Development of a Couette-Taylor flow device with active minimization of secondary circulation

A novel Taylor-Couette experiment has been developed to produce rotating shear ows for the study of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which are believed to drive angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks. High speed, concentric, corotating cylinders generate the flow where the height of the cylinders is twice the radial gap width. Ekman pumping is controlled and minimized by splitting the vertical boundaries into pairs of nested, differentially rotating rings. The end rings and cylinders comprise four independently driven rotating components which provide exibility in developing flow profiles. The working fluids of the experiment are water, a water-glycerol mix, or a liquid gallium alloy. The mechanical complexity of the apparatus and large dynamic pressures generated by high speed operation with the gallium alloy presented unique challenges. The mechanical implementation of the experiment and some representative results obtained with Laser Doppler Velocimetry in water are discussed.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Schartman, Ethan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disability Evaluation of Military Servicemembers (open access)

Disability Evaluation of Military Servicemembers

This report is intended as a primer to describe disability evaluation in general, including evaluations used by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in addition to civilian evaluations used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and by workers' compensation programs. It also describes the DOD and VA disability rating processes in greater detail as well as recent congressional and executive actions and recommendations regarding DOD and VA disability evaluations.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Scott, Christine; Panangala, Sidath V.; Henning, Charles A. & Szymendera, Scott
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization: An Overview of Selected Provisions in Proposed Legislation Considered by the 110th Congress (open access)

Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization: An Overview of Selected Provisions in Proposed Legislation Considered by the 110th Congress

The report is intended to provide a brief summary and analysis of major legislative provisions in bills related to reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration and related aviation programs that were considered during the 110th Congress.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Elias, Bart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 16, January 27, 2009, Pages 4687-4902 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 74, Number 16, January 27, 2009, Pages 4687-4902

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Aid Reform: Issues for Congress and Policy Options (open access)

Foreign Aid Reform: Issues for Congress and Policy Options

This report discusses the role of foreign assistance as a tool of foreign policy and provides policy options for reform. Despite changing global conditions and challenges, U.S. foreign aid programs (including their organizational structure and their statutory underpinnings) still reflect the Cold War environment in which they originated.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Epstein, Susan B. & Veillette, Connie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fundamental Mechanistic Investigations of Silane and Chlorocarbon Addition to Low Valent Palladium Species and their Application to Catalysis (open access)

Fundamental Mechanistic Investigations of Silane and Chlorocarbon Addition to Low Valent Palladium Species and their Application to Catalysis

The collaboration between Mark Fink (Tulane University) and R. Morris Bullock (Brookhaven National Laboratory, currently at PNL) is an effort to understand some of the fundamental processes involved in catalytic bond activations with low coordinate palladium species. The project involves the photochemical generation of reactive low-valent palladium species as transients using nanosecond laser flash photolysis and the subsequent investigation of their reactions with chloroarenes and hydrosilanes. In the case of Si-H activation of hydrosilanes, relatively long-lived sigma complexes are implicated. These complexes may be important models for C-H activation in hydrocarbons. The information obtained from these studies will help in the understanding of fundamental processes involved in a number of important catalytic reactions in the petrochemical and environmental areas.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Fink, Mark J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 613, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 613, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 614, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 614, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Homeland Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations to Protect U.S. Airspace (open access)

Homeland Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations to Protect U.S. Airspace

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "According to U.S. intelligence, the threat to U.S airspace remains. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is to defend U.S. air space and the U.S. Air Force has 18 sites in the United States that conduct air sovereignty alert (ASA) operations. ASA operations support fighter aircraft in conducting homeland air defense operations. GAO examined the extent to which (1) NORAD has adopted a risk-based management approach to determine ASA operational requirements; (2) the Air Force has implemented ASA operations as a steady-state mission in accordance with Department of Defense (DOD), NORAD, and Air Force directives and guidance; (3) the Air Force assesses the readiness of units conducting ASA operations; and (4) the Air Force faces challenges in sustaining ASA operations for the future and what plans, if any, it has to address such challenges. GAO reviewed relevant ASA guidance, directives, and planning documents; and interviewed DOD officials, including the commanders of all 18 ASA sites."
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microbunching Instability in a Chicane: Two-Dimensional Mean Field Treatment (open access)

Microbunching Instability in a Chicane: Two-Dimensional Mean Field Treatment

We study the microbunching instability in a bunch compressor by a parallel code with some improved numerical algorithms. The two-dimensional charge/current distribution is represented by a Fourier series, with coefficients determined through Monte Carlo sampling over an ensemble of tracked points. This gives a globally smooth distribution with low noise. The field equations are solved accurately in the lab frame using retarded potentials and a novel choice of integration variables that eliminates singularities. We apply the scheme with parameters for the first bunch compressor system of FERMI{at}Elettra, with emphasis on the amplification of a perturbation at a particular wavelength. Gain curves agree with those of the linearized Vlasov model at long wavelengths, but show some deviation at the smallest wavelengths treated.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Bassi, G.; Ellison, James A.; Heinemann, Klaus & Warnock, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular dissection of the roles of the SOD genes in mammalian response to low dose irradiation (open access)

Molecular dissection of the roles of the SOD genes in mammalian response to low dose irradiation

“Molecular dissection of the roles of the SOD genes in mammalian response to low dose irradiation " was started on 09/01/03 and ended on 08/31/07. The primary objective of the project was to carry out mechanistic studies of the roles of the anti-oxidant SOD genes in mammalian cellular response to low dose ionizing radiation.
Date: January 27, 2009
Creator: Li, Dr. Chuan-Yaun
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library