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Towards development of a nutrient budget for the Trinity-San Jacinto Estuary (open access)

Towards development of a nutrient budget for the Trinity-San Jacinto Estuary

"The Galveston Bay Program identified an "examination of the impacts of freshwater inflow and Bay circulation" as priority areas in its comprehensive conservation management action plan for 2001-2005. Specifically to ensure beneficial freshwater inflow necessary for a salinity, nutrient and sediment loading regime adequate to maintain the productivity of economically important and ecologically characteristic species in Trinity-San Jacinto Estuary." (p. 6).
Date: July 2010
Creator: Quigg, Antonietta Salvatrice
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: June 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: June 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comparison Between Vehicular Emissions from Real-World In-Use Testing and  EPA MOVES Estimation (open access)

Comparison Between Vehicular Emissions from Real-World In-Use Testing and EPA MOVES Estimation

This research study developed a methodology to perform mandatory dynamometer vehicular emissions tests on real roads, performed on-road emissions tests, and compared the test results to the estimates using the current EPA emissions estimation model.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Lee, Doh-Won; Johnson, Jeremy; Lv, Jinpeng; Novak, Kristen & Zietsman, Josias
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifer Test and Related Well Information from Public Water Supply Wells in Groundwater Management Area 8: Final Report (open access)

Aquifer Test and Related Well Information from Public Water Supply Wells in Groundwater Management Area 8: Final Report

This report developed a database and a suite of visualization tools to support the analysis of information from approximately 1,000 aquifer tests and 4,000 public water supply (PWS) wells located in Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA 8). (p. ix).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Jia, Meng; Pinkard, James & Lupton, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Transportation Economy :  Just in Time (open access)

The Transportation Economy : Just in Time

This document discusses a "project to produce a short educational video, targeted at middle school and high school students, illustrating the critical role transportation plays in our modern economy. This report documents the production of 6.5-minute video that provides students with a glimpse of how transportation has become an integral part of the modern economy." (p. 7).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Cole, Richard G. & Dennis, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Highlights of the 77th Texas Legislature, Regular Session: A Summary of the Most Significant Legislative Action (open access)

Highlights of the 77th Texas Legislature, Regular Session: A Summary of the Most Significant Legislative Action

Report providing summaries of significant legislative actions conducted by the 77th Texas Legislature, broken down by topical categories.
Date: July 2001
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sediment Transport Modeling of Channel Scale Geomorphic Processes (open access)

Sediment Transport Modeling of Channel Scale Geomorphic Processes

This report investigated the use of two-dimensional (2D) modeling strategy to predict channel adjustment in the lower San Antonio River in response to a range of flood magnitudes.
Date: July 31, 2012
Creator: Haschenburger, Judith K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: June 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: June 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Agriculture Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas Department of Agriculture Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Agriculture describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: July 2, 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: July 6, 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas School for the Deaf Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas School for the Deaf Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Texas School for the Deaf describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: July 6, 2012
Creator: Texas School for the Deaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riparian Productivity along the Lower Brazos River (open access)

Riparian Productivity along the Lower Brazos River

Report on riparian productivity along the lower Brazos River (LBR) concerns two riparian research sites (Wallis and San Felipe).
Date: July 18, 2016
Creator: Hayes, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas (open access)

International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas

"This report examines the potential of Texas-based airports, especially Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and the Houston Airport System, to emerge as international gateways for global trade in general and trans-Pacific trade in particular. The period covered is 2001 to 2006."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cho, Hee Deok & Boske, Leigh B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance (open access)

Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance

"This report proposes a methodological framework that is aimed at assisting highway agencies with the problem of objectively analyzing policy decisions in terms of the performance goals for their highway networks that would minimize the total transport costs to the society."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Jaipuria, Sunny
System: The Portal to Texas History
Another look at the question of density and rail transit (open access)

Another look at the question of density and rail transit

"This research compares density in a few select cities with the accepted transit efficiency performance measure of operating cost per passenger mile to determine whether this statistic is better in more dense cities."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Hall, Kadijah & Lewis, Carol Abel
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation (open access)

U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation

"This report examines various aspects of international trade, transportation, and foreign practices implemented to facilitate and fund transport-related infrastructure. The report is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the U.S. international trade outlook. The second chapter describes the roles played by air cargo transport, ports and ocean carriers, railroads, and the motor carrier industry in U.S. international trade. The third and fourth chapters focus on Texas-specific international trade and modal gateways. The fifth chapter reviews various transport funding mechanisms, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications, and forms of public-private partnerships adopted in various foreign countries. The final chapter describes the expansion of the Panama Canal and its likely Texas impacts."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Anazia, Larry K. & Boske, Leigh B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Legislative Budget Board, Annual Report on Major State Investment Funds: Fiscal Year 2006 (open access)

Texas Legislative Budget Board, Annual Report on Major State Investment Funds: Fiscal Year 2006

This fiscal year Annual Report on Major State Investment Funds presents the financial performance for Texas' major investment funds.
Date: July 25, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program Annual Report, 2011 (open access)

Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program Annual Report, 2011

The annual report for the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program for the fiscal year August 31, 2011.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifers of Texas (open access)

Aquifers of Texas

"This report is an update to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Report 345, Major and Minor Aquifers of Texas, published in 1995 and coauthored by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Mace, Robert E.; Petrossian, Rima & George, Peter G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thinking critically about models used to predict emergency evacuation in Gulf Coast states (open access)

Thinking critically about models used to predict emergency evacuation in Gulf Coast states

Report examining evacuation procedures using existing forecasting models in the gulf coast states and discusses ways to improve the use of forecasting models by government officials.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Moseley, Brandon; Wynn, Garlin & Lewis, Carol Abel
System: The Portal to Texas History
National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Site 41SM404 Within TXDOT's Tyler Distrct, Smith County, Texas (open access)

National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Site 41SM404 Within TXDOT's Tyler Distrct, Smith County, Texas

Report of the findings of an archaeological survey of a site in Smith County, Texas to determine whether it was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Atkins North America, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Field Evaluation of Automated Rutting Equipment (open access)

Field Evaluation of Automated Rutting Equipment

Report on the accuracy and repeatability of the newly developed automated rutting measurement system.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Serigos, Pedro A.; Prozzi, Jorge A.; Nam, Boo H. & Murphy, Mike R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final Results of Sunset Reviews 2014-2015 (open access)

Final Results of Sunset Reviews 2014-2015

Report from the Sunset Commission providing a description of reviews conducted 2014-2015, including an overview of each review by agency and an overall summary of activities.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Texas. Sunset Advisory Commission.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stochastic Optimization and Simulation Techniques for Management of Regional Water Resource Systems (open access)

Stochastic Optimization and Simulation Techniques for Management of Regional Water Resource Systems

Report on stochastic optimization and simulation techniques for management of regional water resource systems
Date: July 1971
Creator: Texas Water Development Board Systems Engineering Division
System: The Portal to Texas History