This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, discusses the disruption in Union Pacific Railroad service and its impact on the economy in the state of Texas and other areas of the United States.

This report is on China’s Economy: Findings of a Research Trip.

Video footage from the NBC 5/KXAS station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about flooding in Clear Lake, California. This story was produced for the 10:00 P.M. news broadcast.

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story. This story aired at 10pm.

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Funeral program for George Hardeman, Jr., born August 11, 1933 and died January 29, 1998. The funeral was held Monday, February 9, 1998 at Jacobs Chapels United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. Howard E. Mims. Funeral arrangements were made through Sutton-Sutton Mortuary and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.

This report provides a brief overview of federal law with respect to five selected advertising issues: alcohol advertising, tobacco advertising, the Federal Trade Commission Act, advertising by mail, and advertising by telephone. There are numerous federal statues regulating advertising that do not fit within any of these categories; as random examples, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires disclosures in advertisements for prescription drugs; the Truth in Lending Act governs the advertising of consumer credit; and a federal criminal statute makes it illegal falsely yo convey in an advertisement that a business is connected with a federal agency.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local and regional news along with advertising.

A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

This report provides a brief history of the issues surroundings DST, an outline of the legislative that created and modified it, and a list of references to more discussions.

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

This project developed an analytical technique for measuring the isotope abundance for 14C and 13C in total organic carbon (TOC) in order to test whether these measurements can trace TOC interaction with sedimentary material at the bottom of rivers and lakes, soils, and subsurface aquifer rocks.

A new accelerator technology, the dielectric wall accelerator (DWA), is potentially an ultra compact accelerator/pulsed power driver. This new accelerator relies on three new components: the ultra-high gradient insulator, the asymmetric Blumlein and low jitter switches. In this report, we focused our attention on the first two components of the DWA system the insulators and the asymmetric Blumlein. First, we sought to develop the necessary design tools to model and scale the behavior of the high gradient insulator. To perform this task we concentrated on modeling the discharge processes (i.e., initiation and creation of the surface discharge). In addition, because these high gradient structures exhibit favorable microwave properties in certain accelerator configurations, we performed experiments and calculations to determine the relevant electromagnetic properties. Second, we performed circuit modeling to understand energy coupling to dynamic loads by the asymmetric Blumlein. Further, we have experimentally observed a non-linear coupling effect in certain asymmetric Blumlein configurations. That is, as these structures are stacked into a complete module, the output voltage does not sum linearly and a lower than expected output voltage results. Although we solved this effect experimentally, we performed calculations to understand this effect more fully to allow better optimization of this …

A sonoluminescing bubble has been modeled as a thermally conducting, partially ionized, two-component radiating plasma. The recent measurements of {approximately} 100ps pulse widths by Gompf et al. are useful for constructing a consistent plasma thermal conduction model that refines our previous model. Normal thermal conduction in the gas and liquid, vapor pressure, and temperature-dependent surface tension are also included in our nonlinear hydrodynamic simulations of the growth and collapse of a gas bubble and the liquid that surrounds it. We validate the model by comparing our simulations with the experimental data of Gaitan and Holt [R{sub 0}, R{sub max}, and intensity, for different driving pressures]. We also calculate the 2D collapse of a sonoluminescing bubble in a uniform magnetic field. The numerical results show that the magnetic field induces an aspherical collapse that reduces the peak temperature in the gas and quenches SBSL. The calculated quenching is consistent with experimental data.

The purpose of this effort was to theoretically model the underlying metal-coating phenomena when metal particles impact a metal surface at high velocities under room temperature conditions. The physical processes involved in the novel metal-coating process called Kinetic Energy Metallization (KEM) have been theoretically and numerically analyzed. A bonding model between the incident and the target metals has been proposed and preliminary numerical results agree reasonably well with the laboratory-obtained metal samples and suggest promise of validity for the present model. However, to put the proposed bonding model on a firmer basis further numerical effort is needed to be carried for various metals and operating conditions.

In support of the closure of Tank 16H, a sample of the solids residue on the bottom of the tank interior and three samples from the tank annulus will be sent to SRTC for analysis. The results of the analysis of the samples from the tank interior and the annulus will define the source term inventory used for fate and transport modeling. In addition, the samples from the tank annulus will be used for dissolution tests to evaluate the effectiveness of various cleaning alternatives.

In the US, impure Pu-containing materials such as residues and scrapes are in storage, in known quantities, and in materials of various compositions with known Pu contents. However, in Russia, there are no substantial quantities of accumulated impure Pu-containing materials awaiting processing either for disposition or for transuranic (TRU) geologic disposal as there are in the Us. during the Cold War, the Russian approach to Pu processing for weapons production was different from that of the US. All impure Pu- containing materials were routinely reprocessed, and the residual Pu was recovered and purified for reuse until residual Pu levels of less than 200 mg/kg (less than 200 ppm) in any discharged solid process waste streams were reached. Wastes containing less than 200 ppm Pu were routinely discharged for burial in cement waste forms. Russia is studying changing from this practice of recovery of impure Pu for reuse to immobilizing future impure Pu-containing materials into solids at higher concentrations of Pu than 200 ppm for eventual geologic disposal.

This feasibility study examined the effectiveness and potential of a center for collaborative research in atmospheric science and remote sensing. Strongly related to this effort was the development of a telescope facility by Howard University into an atmospheric observatory and remote sensor test-bed. Several remote sensing techniques were evaluated here and the most promising were further developed. Atmospheric assessment concentrated on aerosols, winds, constituent analysis, and the detection of hazardous agents including biologicals. This mission defined the suite of instrumentation. Being a feasibility study, the scope of the project was limited to examining the state of the technology and pushing it when possible. Research performed in applying laser technology lead to the development and subsequent patent application of a new laser heterodyne amplifier, progress toward the development of a laser probe to determine the range resolved size distribution of aerosols, and studies which may lead to the development of a laser induced fluorescence sensing technique for biologicals in the atmosphere. Research in passive atmospheric sensing helped to motivate a field experiment to better understand atmospheric radiance and radiation transport in three-dimensions.

The purpose of this plan is to describe the preferred alternative for addressing the Motor Shops Seepage Basin located at the Savannah River site in Aiken County, Aiken, South Carolina and to provide an opportunity for public input into the remedial action selection process.

From October 1994 to June 1997, a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were funded through LDRD to develop and integrate technologies for diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke. The project was summarized in a Science and Technology Review article `Brain Attack` that appeared in June 1997 and again in the Center for Healthcare Technologies Report (UCRL-LR-124761). This article is the best overview of the project, epidemiology of stroke and technical progress. Most of the technical progress has been documented in conference papers and presentations and refereed journal articles. Additional technical publication can be expected as our remaining patent applications progress through the US Patent and Trademark Office. The purpose of this report is to provide an appropriate introduction and organization to the numerous publications so that interested readers can quickly find information. Because there is no documentation for the history of this project, this report provides a summary. It also provides the final status report for the LDRD funding.