Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: A Possible Role for Congress (open access)

Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: A Possible Role for Congress

This report focuses on the creation of the Transatlantic Economic Council; the role of legislatures in the regulatory process; and the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue and its new role as an advisor to transatlantic regulatory efforts.
Date: March 9, 2009
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J. & Morelli, Vincent
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for improvements to plows with laterally extending adjustable wings, as well as other different styles of plow and cultivator standards, with illustration.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Armentraut, Richard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Debt Limit Since 2011 (open access)

The Debt Limit Since 2011

This report discusses the federal debt increase. The accumulation of federal debt accelerated in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Austin, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care and Markets (open access)

Health Care and Markets

This report discusses the Invisible Hand Theorem, which states that when certain assumptions hold, market outcomes will be efficient.
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manufacture of Gasolene. (open access)

Manufacture of Gasolene.

Patent for the manufacture of gasoline. The product is used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Bacon, Raymond F.; Brooks, Benjamin T. & Clark, Clinton W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Health Care for Veterans: Traumatic Brain Injury (open access)

Health Care for Veterans: Traumatic Brain Injury

This report focuses on current efforts of the VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to understand, identify, and treat Traumatic brain injury (TBI) among veterans.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates (open access)

Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates

This report briefly describes the methodology and selected findings of three large federally funded surveys that provide national prevalence estimates of diagnosable mental illness: the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This report presents prevalence estimates of any mental illness and serious mental illness based on each survey and ends with a brief discussion of how these prevalence estimates might inform policy discussions.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin & Napili, Angela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved cotton-chopper, which includes a vertical swinging movement, as well as a wheel at its base which, and has a chopper shaft that may be depressed by the feet of the operator so that the chopper can operate even on uneven ground.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Baker, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic Observations of the Growth of Uranium Dioxide Crystals by Vapor Deposition (open access)

Photographic Observations of the Growth of Uranium Dioxide Crystals by Vapor Deposition

Photographic observations of the behavior of uranium dioxide at high temperatures are of great value in designing and evaluating fuel elements. This paper reports the growth of uranium dioxide crystals by vapor deposition during out-of-reactor and in-reactor experiments.
Date: March 9, 1959
Creator: Bates, J. L. & Newkirk, H. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety-Stirrup. (open access)

Safety-Stirrup.

Patent for a safety stirrup which has a locking mechanism, which will open if a rider is thrown from the saddle to release the foot from the stirrup.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Batson, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop-Seal. (open access)

Envelop-Seal.

Patent for an envelop seal composed of a metal piece with two arms, which are threaded through a hole in the envelop and pressed down into the sticky gum surface on the inside of the envelop flap.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Bennick, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Federal Excise Tax on Gasoline and the Highway Trust Fund: A Short History (open access)

The Federal Excise Tax on Gasoline and the Highway Trust Fund: A Short History

A history and overview of current issues relating to the gasoline excise tax.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Bickley, James M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fire Tongs. (open access)

Fire Tongs.

Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date: March 9, 1886
Creator: Bishop, John Andrews
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Extinguisher. (open access)

Spark-Extinguisher.

Patent for a spark extinguisher "to prevent the burning of buildings and other combustible matter by steam engines" (lines 15-17).
Date: March 9, 1880
Creator: Blewett, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1963 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1963

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1963 activities, finance, public relations, honors, service, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: March 9, 1964
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for the improvement of resilient wheels meant to be applied to any vehicle running gear. Resilient wheel will allow tire to move freely and absorb shocks.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Burgess, Richard H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Tanning (open access)

Composition for Tanning

Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Burrows, Ira I
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Simulation of an Electromagnetic Nondestructive Test on an Analog Computer (open access)

Simulation of an Electromagnetic Nondestructive Test on an Analog Computer

The purpose of this report is to show the impedance of an approximate equivalent circuit on a complex plan for various constant frequencies and different metals. The equivalent circuit represents a testing coil driven with an AC voltage and a network to represent the impedance of the metal.
Date: March 9, 1959
Creator: Cameron, W. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Car-Ventilator. (open access)

Car-Ventilator.

Patent for a railroad car ventilator, which supplies fresh air to the car and sends stale air out of the car. It also is equipped with an ice cooling system and a disinfectant spray system.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Carroll, Samuel C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The President's Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for the Department of Energy (open access)

The President's Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for the Department of Energy

This report discusses President Trump's FY2019 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE) and it compares it with past budgets.
Date: March 9, 2018
Creator: Clark, Corrie E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Help America Vote Act and Election Administration: Overview and Issues (open access)

The Help America Vote Act and Election Administration: Overview and Issues

This report discusses the Help America Vote Act (HAVA; P.L. 107-252) enacted in 2002. It provides background information about HAVA and its provisions, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), funding for the agency and for state programs to improve elections, and a number of enduring election administration issues.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Coleman, Kevin J. & Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $433 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $433 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $433 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: March 9, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Executive Orders and Proclamations (open access)

Executive Orders and Proclamations

None
Date: March 9, 1999
Creator: Contrubis, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daylight Saving Time (open access)

Daylight Saving Time

This report discusses Daylight Saving Time (DST), which is a period of the year between spring and fall when clocks in the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. DST is currently observed in the United States from 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March until 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November.
Date: March 9, 2016
Creator: Cook, Beth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library