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300 Area D4 Project Fiscal Year 2010 Building Completion Report (open access)

300 Area D4 Project Fiscal Year 2010 Building Completion Report

This report summarizes the deactiviation, decontamination, decommissioning, and demolition activities of facilities in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site in fiscal year 2010.
Date: January 27, 2011
Creator: Skwarek, B. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress (open access)

401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress

From Summary: "This report describes seven major policy issues with respect to defined contribution plans include: 1. access to employer-sponsored retirement plans; 2. participation in employer-sponsored plans; 3. contribution rates; 4. investment choices; 5. fee disclosure; 6. leakage from retirement savings; converting retirement savings into income."
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: Topoleski, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(K) Plans: Improved Regulation Could Better Protect Participants from Conflicts of Interest (open access)

401(K) Plans: Improved Regulation Could Better Protect Participants from Conflicts of Interest

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recent volatility in financial markets highlights the need for prudent investment decisions if 401(k) plans are to provide an adequate source of retirement income. While plan sponsors and participants may receive help in assessing their investment choices, concerns have been raised about the impartiality of the advice provided. GAO was asked to describe circumstances where service providers may have conflicts of interest in providing assistance related to the selection of investment options for (1) plan sponsors and (2) plan participants, and (3) steps the Department of Labor (Labor) has taken to address conflicts of interest related to the selection of investment options."
Date: January 28, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 1] captions transcript

["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 1]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on the 14th amendment, race, immigration, and transformation in the 21st century led by Curtis King on January 8th, 2011. The footage shows tables set up with food being served to members of the community from across DFW in education, pastoral, public service, and civic backgrounds. This tape focuses on the featured speaker from SMU setting up the context of the conversation in relation to the political power directed by different presidential administrations.
Date: January 8, 2011
Creator: King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 2] captions transcript

["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 2]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on the 14th amendment, race, immigration, and transformation in the 21st century led by Curtis King on January 8th, 2011. The footage shows tables set up with food being served to members of the community from across DFW in education, pastoral, public service, and civic backgrounds. This tape focuses on the economics of immigration and the phrase "immigration is the new slavery".
Date: January 8, 2011
Creator: King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Computation Directorate Annual Report (open access)

2010 Computation Directorate Annual Report

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Date: January 2011
Creator: Crawford, D. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Defects in Semiconductors GRC (open access)

2010 Defects in Semiconductors GRC

Continuing its tradition of excellence, this Gordon Conference will focus on research at the forefront of the field of defects in semiconductors. The conference will have a strong emphasis on the control of defects during growth and processing, as well as an emphasis on the development of novel defect detection methods and first-principles defect theories. Electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of bulk, thin film, and nanoscale semiconductors will be discussed in detail. In contrast to many conferences, which tend to focus on specific semiconductors, this conference will deal with point and extended defects in a broad range of electronic materials. This approach has proved to be extremely fruitful for advancing fundamental understanding in emerging materials such as wide-band-gap semiconductors, oxides, sp{sup 2} carbon based-materials, and photovoltaic/solar cell materials, and in understanding important defect phenomena such as doping bottleneck in nanostructures and the diffusion of defects and impurities. The program consists of about twenty invited talks and a number of contributed poster sessions. The emphasis should be on work which has yet to be published. The large amount of discussion time provides an ideal forum for dealing with topics that are new and/or controversial.
Date: January 6, 2011
Creator: Zhang, Shengbai
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report (open access)

2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report

This document provides a detailed report and recommendations of the 2010 Forest Carbon Work group to the Director of the Department of Ecology and the Commissioner of Public Lands. The recommendations relate to the critical role Washington’s forest lands will play in addressing the challenge of climate change; appropriate responses to pressure for conversion of working forest lands to non-forest uses; and the role of ecosystem service markets, including carbon offset markets, and other incentive systems in bringing about desired results. The 2010 Work group included some members of a similar 2008 Work group and built on the results of that 2008 effort. The report appendix contains purpose statements by each participating interest, explaining its rationale for participation. In light of the 2010 Work group emphasis, this document focused on three topics: Forest carbon considerations in avoiding forest land use conversion; incentives to reward forest landowners for providing ecosystem services, including carbon storage and improvement of forest health; and features of forest carbon offset protocols and registries that are appropriate for use by forest offset project developers in Washington State.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Partridge, Craig; Boese, Jerry & Bernath, Stephen
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2011 RENEWABLE ENERGY: SOLAR FUELS GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE (open access)

2011 RENEWABLE ENERGY: SOLAR FUELS GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE

The conference will present and discuss current science that underlies solar fuels production, and will focus on direct production pathways for production. Thus, recent advances in design and understanding of molecular systems and materials for light capture and conversion of relevance for solar fuels will be discussed. An important set of topics will be homogeneous, heterogeneous and biological catalysts for the multi-electron processes of water oxidation, hydrogen production and carbon dioxide reduction to useful fuels. Also, progress towards integrated and scalable systems will be presented. Attached is a copy of the formal schedule and speaker program and the poster program.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Hupp, Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference: Summary Of Sessions EX/C and ICC (open access)

23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference: Summary Of Sessions EX/C and ICC

An overview is given of recent experimental results in the areas of innovative confinement concepts, operational scenarios and confinement experiments as presented at the 2010 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. Important new findings are presented from fusion devices worldwide, with a strong focus towards the scientific and technical issues associated with ITER and W7-X devices, presently under construction.
Date: January 5, 2011
Creator: Hawryluk, Richard J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert] captions transcript

[28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert event in 2011. This video features the annual concert of various performances that pay tribute the civil rights movement and the life of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This video shows narration, music, and dance live at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
Date: January 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
["28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert" behind the scenes] captions transcript

["28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert" behind the scenes]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded behind the scenes of the 28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement concert rehearsals held during the month of January 2011. The footage shows choirs, dancers, and soloists practicing for the performance as well as interviews of musicians on their feelings about the upcoming event. The video cuts to black at the 45:00 minute mark.
Date: January 16, 2011
Creator: Shaifer, DeAndre & King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, Uncut!] captions transcript

[28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert, Uncut!]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 28th Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert event in 2011. This video features the annual concert of various performances that pay tribute the civil rights movement and the life of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This video shows narration, music, and dance live at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
Date: January 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
36th Annual International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (open access)

36th Annual International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves

The Major Topic List of the 2011 conference featured a category entitled “IR, millimeter-wave, and THz spectroscopy,” another entitled “Gyro- Oscillators and Amplifiers, Plasma Diagnostics,” and a third called “Free Electron Lasers and Synchrotron Radiation.” Topical areas of interest to meeting participants include millimeter-wave electronics, high-power sources, high-frequency communications systems, and terahertz sensing and imaging, all of which are prominent in the research portfolios of the DOE. The development and study of new materials, components, and systems for use in the IR, THz, and MMW regions of the spectrum are of significant interest as well. a series of technical sessions were organized on the following topics:  terahertz metamaterials and plasmonics;  imaging techniques and applications;  graphene spectroscopy;  waveguide concepts;  gyrotron science and technology;  ultrafast terahertz measurements; and  quantum cascade lasers.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Mittleman, Daniel M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 26 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 26

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating the Midland High School Bulldogs football team on its success during the 2010 season.
Date: January 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 3

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to providing for procedures for the canvass of votes for the governor and lieutenant governor and the inauguration of the governor and lieutenant governor.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 6

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 Thursday, January 13, 2011, and ending on Tuesday, January 18, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 7 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 7

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 19, 2011, and ending on Monday, January 24, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 8

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 26, 2011, and ending on Monday, January 31, 2011.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
9975 SHIPPING PACKAGE LIFE EXTENSION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM RESULTS SUMMARY (open access)

9975 SHIPPING PACKAGE LIFE EXTENSION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM RESULTS SUMMARY

Results from the 9975 Surveillance Program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are summarized for justification to extend the life of the 9975 packages currently stored in the K-Area Materials Storage (KAMS) facility from 10 years to 15 years. This justification is established with the stipulation that surveillance activities will continue throughout this extended time to ensure the continued integrity of the 9975 materials of construction and to further understand the currently identified degradation mechanisms. The current 10 year storage life was developed prior to storage. A subsequent report was later used to extend the qualification of the 9975 shipping packages for 2 years for shipping plus 10 years for storage. However the qualification for the storage period was provided by the monitoring requirements of the Storage and Surveillance Program. This report summarizes efforts to determine a new safe storage limit for the 9975 shipping package based on the surveillance data collected since 2005 when the surveillance program began. KAMS is a zero-release facility that depends upon containment by the 9975 to meet design basis storage requirements. Therefore, to confirm the continued integrity of the 9975 packages while stored in KAMS, a 9975 Storage and Surveillance Program was implemented alongside …
Date: January 6, 2011
Creator: Daugherty, W.; Dunn, K.; Hackney, B.; Hoffman, E. & Skidmore, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2011] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2011]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 13, 2011 to December 15, 2011.
Date: 2011-01-13/2011-12-15
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abortion Services and Military Medical Facilities (open access)

Abortion Services and Military Medical Facilities

The purpose of this report is to describe and discuss the provisions for providing abortion services to military personnel, their dependents, and other military health care beneficiaries at military medical facilities. The report describes the history of these provisions, with particular emphasis on legislative actions. Finally, this report discusses a number of proposals to modify the law, as well as other related legislative and administrative actions.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: Burrelli, David F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ACCELERATED PILOT PROJECT FOR U CANYON DEMOLITION (open access)

ACCELERATED PILOT PROJECT FOR U CANYON DEMOLITION

At the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site in southeast Washington State, CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M HILL) is underway on a first-of-a-kind project with the decommissioning and demolition of the U Canyon. Following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) Record of Decision for the final remediation of the canyon, CH2M HILL is combining old and new technology and techniques to prepare U Canyon for demolition. The selected remedial action called first for consolidating and grouting equipment currently in the canyon into lower levels of the plant (openings called cells), after which the cell galleries, hot pipe trench, ventilation tunnel, drains and other voids below the operating deck and crane-way deck levels will be filled with approximately 20,000 cubic yards of grout and the canyon roof and walls demolished down to the approximate level of the canyon deck. The remaining canyon structure will then be buried beneath an engineered barrier designed to control potential contaminant migration for a 500-year life. Methods and lessons learned from this project will set the stage for the future demolition of Hanford's four other canyon-type processing facilities.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: KL, KEHLER
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerating Battery Design Using Computer-Aided Engineering Tools: Preprint (open access)

Accelerating Battery Design Using Computer-Aided Engineering Tools: Preprint

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is a proven pathway, especially in the automotive industry, to improve performance by resolving the relevant physics in complex systems, shortening the product development design cycle, thus reducing cost, and providing an efficient way to evaluate parameters for robust designs. Academic models include the relevant physics details, but neglect engineering complexities. Industry models include the relevant macroscopic geometry and system conditions, but simplify the fundamental physics too much. Most of the CAE battery tools for in-house use are custom model codes and require expert users. There is a need to make these battery modeling and design tools more accessible to end users such as battery developers, pack integrators, and vehicle makers. Developing integrated and physics-based CAE battery tools can reduce the design, build, test, break, re-design, re-build, and re-test cycle and help lower costs. NREL has been involved in developing various models to predict the thermal and electrochemical performance of large-format cells and has used in commercial three-dimensional finite-element analysis and computational fluid dynamics to study battery pack thermal issues. These NREL cell and pack design tools can be integrated to help support the automotive industry and to accelerate battery design.
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Pesaran, A.; Heon, G. H. & Smith, K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library