Lifting Jack (open access)

Lifting Jack

Patent for lifting jack used to lift vehicles.
Date: January 18, 1916
Creator: Applewhite, Scott C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
“Fast-Track” or Expedited Procedures: Their Purposes, Elements, and Implications (open access)

“Fast-Track” or Expedited Procedures: Their Purposes, Elements, and Implications

This report discusses certain provisions of law that commonly are known as "fast-track" or expedited procedures.
Date: January 18, 2001
Creator: Bach, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: Conceptual Framework and Continuing Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: Conceptual Framework and Continuing Issues

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Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, as Passed by the House of Representatives (open access)

Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, as Passed by the House of Representatives

This report summarizes the bill as passed by the House and analyzes the potential impact of its provisions were they to become law.
Date: January 18, 2007
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Animal Identification and Meat Traceability (open access)

Animal Identification and Meat Traceability

None
Date: January 18, 2007
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Report on the Design of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Forced Convection Alkali Metal Vaporization Condensation Heat Transfer Rig (open access)

Engineering Report on the Design of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Forced Convection Alkali Metal Vaporization Condensation Heat Transfer Rig

Summary. A test rig has been designed to obtain basic two phase forced convection liquid metal heat transfer and pressure drop data for use in the design of liquid metal boilers. This engineering report includes background of the boiling problem, partial summary of work done by other investigators, the object, scope, engineering, and operations of this test rig, and a summary of reproducibility tests conducted in a water back-up rig.
Date: January 18, 1963
Creator: Bernstein, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Investigations of the Removal of Sodium Oxide From Liquid Sodium (open access)

Experimental Investigations of the Removal of Sodium Oxide From Liquid Sodium

Experimental investigations were conducted to obtain additional information on the growth and characteristics of sodium oxide deposits in liquid sodium which could lead to system plugging. These investigations included the removal of sodium oxide from molten sodium by the cold trap method.
Date: January 18, 1960
Creator: Billuris, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Islamic State and U.S. Policy (open access)

The Islamic State and U.S. Policy

This report provides background on the Islamic State organization, discusses its goals, operations, and affiliates, reviews U.S. legislative and policy debates, and describes select FY2017 legislative proposals.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M. & Humud, Carla E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Force Transformation (open access)

Air Force Transformation

This report considers how the Air Force is changing itself to meet new defensive needs. The issues for Congress on this are mostly budgetary and how effective it will be.
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Press (open access)

Cotton-Press

Patent for a cotton press that operates slowly and requires minimum power. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Breihan, Frederick F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 111th Congress (open access)

Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 111th Congress

This report synthesizes the multi-tiered debate over immigration reform into key elements: legal immigration; legalization; immigration control; refugees, asylees, and humanitarian migrants; and alien rights, benefits, and responsibilities. It delineates the issues for the 111th Congress on permanent residence, temporary admissions, border security, worksite enforcement, employment eligibility verification, document fraud, criminal aliens, and the grounds for inadmissibility.
Date: January 18, 2011
Creator: Bruno, Andorra; Ester, Karma; Lee, Margaret Mikyung; Siskin, Alison & Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: Living Resources Provisions (open access)

U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: Living Resources Provisions

This report describes provisions of the Law of the Sea Convention relating to living marine resources and discusses how these provisions comport with current U.S. marine policy.
Date: January 18, 2011
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hen's Nest. (open access)

Hen's Nest.

Patent for an automatic gate or door for a hen's nest enclosure that will swing shut to keep out intruders when a hen enters and open when the hen leaves.
Date: January 18, 1916
Creator: Buie, Daniel C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Isotopic Examination of Tantalum (open access)

Isotopic Examination of Tantalum

Introduction: "The ionization region in the Nier mass spectrometer is customarily constructed of copper. Various other metals were tried for this purpose; among them tantalum and molybdenum, with both metals it was found that a spectrum of the fluoride of the metal appeared when uranium hexafluoride was admitted. It was thus possible to produce tantalum fluoride with comparative ease and to make a critical examination of the mass spectrum to set an upper limit of abundance of tantalum isotopes. For positive identification, a line must appear in all ion positions in the same abundance, relative to the main line. It must be shown that any lines which appear are not contributed by other elements or compounds."
Date: January 18, 1946
Creator: Cameron, Alan E. & White, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flood Risk Management: Federal Role in Infrastructure (open access)

Flood Risk Management: Federal Role in Infrastructure

This report discusses federal flood-related infrastructure investments, such as levees, floodwalls, and dams.
Date: January 18, 2007
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consumer Price Index: Recent Improvements and Prospective Changes (open access)

The Consumer Price Index: Recent Improvements and Prospective Changes

As part of a long running effort to make the Consumer Price Index (CPI) a better measure of price change, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor has made a number of changes in recent years which have affected actual measures of inflation and hence both federal outlays and receipts. This report summarizes those changes, presents estimates of their effect on measured inflation, and expands what other changes are expected for the CPI.
Date: January 18, 2000
Creator: Cashell, Brian W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U.S.-Japan Alliance (open access)

The U.S.-Japan Alliance

This report looks at the pros and cons of the alliance with Japan, in which the United States maintains exclusive use of 89 military bases in Japan and, in exchange, guarantees Japan's security. The alliance has endured over 50 years, through periods of intense partnership and stretches of political drift; this report reevaluates the relationship based on international developments.
Date: January 18, 2011
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism.

Patent for improvements in automatic time-controlled operating mechanisms by using a combination of a spring-actuated rotary disk, a clock mechanism, and co-acting cams to automatically operating at predetermined times, electric switches and other devices, such as locking and unlocking doors of warehouses. Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Chappel, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Constitutionality of Requiring Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet to be Under a Separate Domain Name (open access)

Constitutionality of Requiring Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet to be Under a Separate Domain Name

This report discusses the constitutionality of proposal that there be a separate domain on the Internet exclusively for websites that contain sexually explicit material; it might be labeled “.xxx” to complement the current “.com,” “.org,” and others.
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: H.R. 5, 109th Congress (open access)

Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: H.R. 5, 109th Congress

This report discusses H.R. 5, which would preempt state law regarding some aspects of medical malpractice liability and liability for defective medical products, including drugs. The legislation would among other things, place caps on noneconomic and punitive damages (in states that have not enacted and do not enact caps), eliminate joint and several liability, modify the collateral source rule, limit lawyers' contingent fees, enact a federal statute of limitations, and provide for periodic payment of future damages.
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automobile-Jack (open access)

Automobile-Jack

Patent for an automobile jack that lifts the vehicle so that necessary repairs can be made and that relieves constant pressure of the tires.
Date: January 18, 1916
Creator: Davidson, Charles Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017

This report is a research aid that lists the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bills (Table 1) and appropriations bills (Table 2) for FY1970-FY2017. This report includes all the pertinent information on the passage of these bills through the legislative process: bill numbers, report numbers, dates reported and passed, recorded vote numbers and vote tallies, dates of passage of the conference reports with their numbers and votes, vetoes, substitutions, dates of final passage, and public law numbers.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disinfectant Telephone-Mouthpiece (open access)

Disinfectant Telephone-Mouthpiece

Patent for a mouthpiece for transmitters that contains a disinfectant used to prevent the spread of bacteria that has been exhaled into the mouthpiece. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Dixon, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization: Data Options for the English Language Acquisition State Grants Formula (Title III-A) (open access)

Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization: Data Options for the English Language Acquisition State Grants Formula (Title III-A)

Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about data options for the English Language Acquisition State Grants Formula (Title III-A) in regards to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Topics include, additional LEP data considerations, census data, a description of allocations etc..
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Dortch, Cassandria
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library