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Acoustical Imaging and Mechanical Properties of Soft Rock and Marine Sediments Progress Report: October-December 2001 (open access)

Acoustical Imaging and Mechanical Properties of Soft Rock and Marine Sediments Progress Report: October-December 2001

During this phase of the project the research team concentrated on acquisition of acoustic emission data from the high porosity rock samples. The initial experiments indicated that the acoustic emission activity from high porosity Danian chalk were of a very low amplitude. Even though the sample underwent yielding and significant plastic deformation the sample did not generate significant AE activity. This was somewhat surprising. These initial results call into question the validity of attempting to locate AE activity in this weak rock type. As a result the testing program was slightly altered to include measuring the acoustic emission activity from many of the rock types listed in the research program. The preliminary experimental results indicate that AE activity in the sandstones is much higher than in the carbonate rocks (i.e., the chalks and limestones). This observation may be particularly important for planning microseismic imaging of reservoir rocks in the field environment. The preliminary results suggest that microseismic imaging of reservoir rock from acoustic emission activity generated from matrix deformation (during compaction and subsidence) would be extremely difficult to accomplish.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Scott, Thurman E., Jr.; Abousleiman, Younane & Zaman, Musharraf
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 276, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 276, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 66, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 66, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterization of Radionuclides in H-Modified and Purex Waste Sludges from H-Area High Level Waste Tanks (open access)

Characterization of Radionuclides in H-Modified and Purex Waste Sludges from H-Area High Level Waste Tanks

This document contains the characterization methodology for sludge-contaminated waste generated from the H-Area Tank Farm, based on process knowledge and available analytical data. In addition, this document contains an evaluation for consolidation of sludge-contaminated waste from multiple HLW tanks in the H-Area Tank Farm. The scaling factors developed in this document supercede those presented in References 1 and 2, and any other previously developed radionuclide characterizations for H-Area Tank Farm sludge-contaminated waste.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: O'Bryant, R.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Weekly student newspaper published in Hurst, Texas and serving the Tarrant County College District that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Customs Service: Effects of Proposed Legislation on Officers' Pay (open access)

Customs Service: Effects of Proposed Legislation on Officers' Pay

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the effects of proposed legislation--H.R. 1833--on the pay of officers at the U.S. Customs Service. The proposal would amend the 1911 Act governing Customs officers' overtime and premium pay, and it would more closely align Customs differential pay with that of other federal agencies. Should the provision be enacted, Customs officers would be limited to the amount and times for which they would be eligible for night differential pay. In addition, another section of the proposed law would remove premium pay from the calculation of the $30,000 fiscal year overtime and premium pay cap that Customs officers may not exceed. GAO's analysis of Customs data showed that had the provisions of H.R. 1833 been in effect during fiscal year 1999, many officers would have experienced significant pay decreases. Managers and supervisors asked to analyze the proposal had mixed reviews, but those not in favor of the proposal were concerned that less eligibility for night differential pay would lead to low morale and staffing problems."
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Energetic Particle Effects Can Explain the Low Frequency of Alfvin Modes in the DIII-D Tokamak (open access)

Energetic Particle Effects Can Explain the Low Frequency of Alfvin Modes in the DIII-D Tokamak

During beam injection in the DIII-D tokamak, modes with lower frequencies than expected for toroidicity-induced Alfvin eigenmodes (TAE) are often observed. We present the analysis of one of these ''beta-induced Alfvin eigenmodes'' (BAE) with a high-n stability code HINST that includes the effect of the energetic ions on the mode frequency. It shows that the ''BAE'' could be the theoretically predicted resonant-TAE (RTAE), which is also called an energetic-particle mode (EPM).
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Gorelenkov, N. N. & Heidbrink, W. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing the Use of Coals by Reburning-Sorbent Injection (open access)

Enhancing the Use of Coals by Reburning-Sorbent Injection

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Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: National Energy Technology Laboratory (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Final report [FASEB Summer Research Conference ''Virus Assembly''--agenda and attendee list] (open access)

Final report [FASEB Summer Research Conference ''Virus Assembly''--agenda and attendee list]

The conference brought together researchers working on virus structure and virus assembly in diverse systems. Information was integrated from many viral systems, including plant bacterial and eukaryotic viruses, and many techniques such as biophysical approaches of x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and spectroscopy, along with molecular biological and molecular genetic analysis.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Feiss, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fish and Wildlife Service: Challenges to Managing the Carlsbad, California, Field Office's Endangered Species Workload (open access)

Fish and Wildlife Service: Challenges to Managing the Carlsbad, California, Field Office's Endangered Species Workload

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Carlesbad office is developing a computerized project-tracking system for its consultation and habitat conservation planning (HCP) projects. This system, if properly implemented, should improve the office's record keeping and its ability to track the status of projects and help determine why they are in that status. The new system could also improve project management by allowing office managers to determine how long an applicant has been involved in the consultation or HCP process and whether the recommended time frames for completing consultations and the targeted frames for processing HCPs have been exceeded. The Carlsbad office will still have difficulty completing its consultations and HCP projects within recommended or targeted time frames if it is unable to address its staffing problems. An inability to hire new staff and retain existing, experienced staff has made it difficult for the Carlsbad office to meet the demands of its workload. Because the Carlsbad office does not maintain its project files in accordance with federal internal control standards and FWS' guidelines, there has often been confusion between the office and its customers on what was …
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety: Federal Oversight of Seafood Does Not Sufficiently Protect Consumers (open access)

Food Safety: Federal Oversight of Seafood Does Not Sufficiently Protect Consumers

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) regulations for seafood, the food industry has made some progress in ensuring the safety of seafood. However, several important weaknesses compromise the overall effectiveness of the federal seafood safety system. If left uncorrected, they will continue to undermine the goal of HACCP systems--that is, controlling hazards in the production process before the product reaches the market. More importantly, U.S. consumers may remain at risk of contracting foodborne illness from contaminated domestic and imported seafood products."
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Ida M. Retledge, January 31, 2001] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Ida M. Retledge, January 31, 2001]

Funeral program for Mrs. Ida M. Retledge, born July 24, 1920 and died January 26, 2001. The funeral was held Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at Tried Stone Baptist Church, officiated by Reverend H. Franklin Harris, II. Funeral arrangements were made through Sutton-Sutton Mortuary, Inc. and she was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gasrail 2001

Air Quality Issues--Alameda Corridor - 19 miles - $2.4B; Alameda Corridor East - 35 miles - $0.95B; 65% increase in rail traffic next 20 years; Environmental Justice issues; Electrification not cost- effective; and Need to reduce locomotive emissions. Background--GasRail USA 1993- 1998; Develop LNG EMD 12- 710 commuter locomotive; 75% red. in NOx, opt. power & efficiency; Selected & developed LaCHIP; 1998 project halted - EMD withdrew; and Need to develop & demonstrate a low- emission locomotive. GasRail 2001 Objectives--Complete GasRail USA; SCAQMD, MetroLink, SwRI; 2- 3 year project; $4 M (estimated); Freight? Commercialization?; and Seeking partners/alternatives?
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bogdanoff, Mike
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hazardous Waste Code Determination for First/Second-Stage Sludge Waste Stream (IDCs 001, 002, 800) (open access)

Hazardous Waste Code Determination for First/Second-Stage Sludge Waste Stream (IDCs 001, 002, 800)

This document, Hazardous Waste Code Determination for the First/Second-Stage Sludge Waste Stream, summarizes the efforts performed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) to make a hazardous waste code determination on Item Description Codes (IDCs) 001, 002, and 800 drums. This characterization effort included a thorough review of acceptable knowledge (AK), physical characterization, waste form sampling, chemical analyses, and headspace gas data. This effort included an assessment of pre-Waste Analysis Plan (WAP) solidified sampling and analysis data (referred to as preliminary data). Seventy-five First/Second-Stage Sludge Drums, provided in Table 1-1, have been subjected to core sampling and analysis using the requirements defined in the Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPP). Based on WAP defined statistical reduction, of preliminary data, a sample size of five was calculated. That is, five additional drums should be core sampled and analyzed. A total of seven drums were sampled, analyzed, and validated in compliance with the WAP criteria. The pre-WAP data (taken under the QAPP) correlated very well with the WAP compliant drum data. As a result, no additional sampling is required. Based upon the information summarized in this document, an accurate hazardous waste determination has been made for the First/Second-Stage Sludge Waste Stream.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Arbon, R.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illustrated Paperboy (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001 (open access)

Illustrated Paperboy (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improving a Gripper End Effector (open access)

Improving a Gripper End Effector

This paper discusses the improvement made to an existing four-bar linkage gripping end effector to adapt it for use in a current project. The actuating linkage was modified to yield higher jaw force overall and particularly in the critical range of jaw displacement
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Mullen, O Dennis; Smith, Christopher M. & Gervais, Kevin L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
In-Situ Electrolyte Replenishment for Long Fuel Cell Life. Phase II Final Report (open access)

In-Situ Electrolyte Replenishment for Long Fuel Cell Life. Phase II Final Report

The carbonate fuel cell has many advantages over conventional methods of producing electricity. It converts hydrocarbon fuels directly into electricity with a high efficiency (>70% in a co-generation plant configuration) and consequently releases less carbon dioxide greenhouse gases (>30% less compared to a combined cycle gas turbine plant). Its adaptability to meet the customers' specific power requirements is ideally suited for distributed power generation. The advantages of distributed power generation include site flexibility, fuel source flexibility, less capital investment risk and elimination of transmission and distribution investments. The fuel cell becomes economically competitive if its life exceeds 40,000h. The current predicted lifetime of the central cells of a stack is 44,000h, based on electrolyte inventory considerations. Methods of extending fuel cell life even further are being sought to enhance its commercial competitiveness.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Johnsen, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Security: Weak Controls Place DC Highway Trust Fund and Other Data at Risk (open access)

Information Security: Weak Controls Place DC Highway Trust Fund and Other Data at Risk

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed information system general controls over the financial systems that process and account for the financial activities of the District of Columbia's Highway Trust Fund. GAO identified serious computer security weaknesses that place District information at risk of deliberate or inadvertent misuse. These general control problems affected the District's ability to (1) prevent or detect unauthorized changes to sensitive data and (2) control electronic and physical access to confidential information. The District's lack of a comprehensive computer management program was the primary reason for its information system control problems."
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intact and Degraded Component Criticality Calculations of N Reactors Spent Nuclear Fuel (open access)

Intact and Degraded Component Criticality Calculations of N Reactors Spent Nuclear Fuel

The objective of this calculation is to perform intact and degraded mode criticality evaluations of the Department of Energy's (DOE) N Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel codisposed in a 2-Defense High-Level Waste (2-DHLW)/2-Multi-Canister Overpack (MCO) Waste Package (WP) and emplaced in a monitored geologic repository (MGR) (see Attachment I). The scope of this calculation is limited to the determination of the effective neutron multiplication factor (k{sub eff}) for both intact and degraded mode internal configurations of the codisposal waste package. This calculation will support the analysis that will be performed to demonstrate the technical viability for disposing of U-metal (N Reactor) spent nuclear fuel in the potential MGR.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Angers, L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet: An Overview of Key Technology Policy Issues Affecting Its Use and Growth (open access)

Internet: An Overview of Key Technology Policy Issues Affecting Its Use and Growth

This report gives an overview of key technology policy issues of the internet affecting its use and growth.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.; Moteff, John D.; Kruger, Lennard G.; McLoughlin, Glenn J. & Seifert, Jeffrey W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library