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1999 Annual Site Environmental Report, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico (open access)

1999 Annual Site Environmental Report, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Duncan, Dianne K.; Sanchez, Rebecca D. & Fink, Charles H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2000 Transportation Baseline Report (DOE/ID-10754), 2000 Transporation Challenges, (open access)

2000 Transportation Baseline Report (DOE/ID-10754), 2000 Transporation Challenges,

The 2000 U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Waste and Materials Disposition “Transportation Challenges” report is provided as an update to or status report on the transportation “barriers” analysis conducted in October 1999 and published in November 1999 as the National Transportation Program (NTP) Transportation Challenges “Problems Tied to Disposition Pathways.” Much of the programmatic information concerning the “barriers” or, more accurately, “issues,” has not changed since the first publication; however, efforts to resolve the issues have progressed to varying degrees over the last year. This report provides a current status of efforts to eliminate or mitigate the issues, and includes new issues identified since the original analyses were conducted. Resolving these issues will increase the probability of successful waste and materials disposition and decrease the likelihood of delays due to inadequate transportation resources or infrastructure. The issues addressed in this report generally affect more than one site and more than one waste or material stream.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Fawcett, Ricky Lee; Kramer, George Leroy Jr.; Fawcett, Ricky Lee; Moss, Ralph John; Fawcett, Ricky Lee & John, Mark Earl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquisition and processing of multiparametric information from apixelmatrix (open access)

Acquisition and processing of multiparametric information from apixelmatrix

This paper addresses the design of a system intended to readout multiparametric information from a matrix of pixels. The system presented here acquires the charge associated with the signal and provides a timing information from each pixel. Although it lends itself to a broad range of time-correlated imaging situations involving any kind of pixel matrices, the design constraints assumed here are particularly tailored to the application with pixels that sense the output charge distribution from a Micro Channel Plate (MCP). The combination of a microchannel plate and a pixel matrix is an extremely versatile detector and the readout system must be able to fully exploit the intrinsically high position resolution and time accuracy featured by the MCP. The behavior of the readout system described in this paper is based upon advanced concepts to meet the above application requirements and is believed to provide a significant functional improvement over the conventional pixel systems.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Manfredi, P.F.; Millaud, J.E. & Sushkov, V.V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
AFREET: HUMAN-INSPIRED SPATIO-SPECTRAL FEATURE CONSTRUCTION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (open access)

AFREET: HUMAN-INSPIRED SPATIO-SPECTRAL FEATURE CONSTRUCTION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

The authors examine the task of pixel-by-pixel classification of the multispectral and grayscale images typically found in remote-sensing and medical applications. Simple machine learning techniques have long been applied to remote-sensed image classification, but almost always using purely spectral information about each pixel. Humans can often outperform these systems, and make extensive use of spatial context to make classification decisions. They present AFREET: an SVM-based learning system which attempts to automatically construct and refine spatio-spectral features in a somewhat human-inspired fashion. Comparisons with traditionally used machine learning techniques show that AFREET achieves significantly higher performance. The use of spatial context is particularly useful for medical imagery, where multispectral images are still rare.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: PERKINS, S. & HARVEY, N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Age, Volume 24, Number 2, February 2001 (open access)

The Age, Volume 24, Number 2, February 2001

Monthly publication containing information related to Chambers County, Texas, including current events of the Chambers County Historical Commission, the Wallisville Heritage Park, and the Chambers County historical and genealogical societies; reprinted newspaper articles about county events and citizens; and historical news and records.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Wallisville Heritage Park (Organization)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Monitoring Technician Working for an O&M Contractor (open access)

Air Monitoring Technician Working for an O&M Contractor

Periodic bulletin issued by the Texas Department of Health providing information and guidance regarding regulations around the use and abatement of asbestos. This issue clarifies confusion on whether or not a Air Monitoring Technician can be employed to take personal air samples for evaluation potential worker exposures.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Texas. Department of Health. Toxic Substances Control Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airline Competition: Issues Raised by Consolidation Proposals (open access)

Airline Competition: Issues Raised by Consolidation Proposals

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In May 2000, United Airlines proposed acquiring US Airways and divesting part of those assets to create a new airline to be called DC Air. More recently, American Airlines has proposed buying Trans World Airlines (TWA), along with certain assets from United. These proposals have raised questions about how such consolidation within the airline industry could affect competition in general and consumers in particular. Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Transportation need to answer several questions in evaluating the proposed mergers. For example, questions remain about whether American's purchase of financially-strapped TWA represents the last anticompetitive means to preserve its assets. The proposals by American, TWA, United, US Airways, and DC Air constitute the most significant recent changes that have occurred in the airline industry, and the outcome of these decisions could have both positive and negative effects for consumers for years to come. This testimony summarizes a December report (GAO-01-212)."
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Site Technology Deployment-Monitoring System for the U-3ax/bl Disposal Unit at the Nevada Test Site (open access)

Alternative Site Technology Deployment-Monitoring System for the U-3ax/bl Disposal Unit at the Nevada Test Site

In December 2000, a performance monitoring facility was constructed adjacent to the U-3ax/bl mixed waste disposal unit at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Recent studies conducted in the arid southwestern United States suggest that a vegetated monolayer evapotranspiration (ET) closure cover may be more effective at isolating waste than traditional Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) multi-layered designs. The monitoring system deployed next to the U-3ax/bl disposal unit consists of eight drainage lysimeters with three surface treatments: two are left bare; two are revegetated with native species; two are being allowed to revegetate with invader species; and two are reserved for future studies. Soil used in each lysimeter is native alluvium taken from the same location as the soil used for the cover material on U-3ax/bl. The lysimeters were constructed so that any drainage to the bottom can be collected and measured. To provide a detailed evaluation of the cover performance, an ar ray of 16 sensors was installed in each lysimeter to measure soil water content, soil water potential, and soil temperature. Revegetation of the U-3ax/bl closure cover establishes a stable plant community that maximizes water loss through transpiration while at the same time, reduces water and wind erosion …
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Dixon, J. M.; Levitt, D. G. & Rawlinson, S. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 277, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 277, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Americans With Disabilities (open access)

Americans With Disabilities

"This report presents information on the number and characteristics of individuals with disabilities and is based on data collected in wave 5 of the 1996 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)."
Date: February 2001
Creator: McNeil, Jack
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE ANALYTICAL MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR RADIATION TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS (open access)

THE ANALYTICAL MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR RADIATION TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS

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Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: MARTIN, W. & BROWN, F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (2005) (open access)

Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (2005)

This report presents the results of the 2003 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program conducted in accordance with 10 CFR 72.44 for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. A description of the facility and the monitoring program is provided. The results of monitoring the predominant radiation exposure pathway, direct radiation exposure, indicate the facility operation has not contributed to any increase in the estimated maximum potential dose commitment to the general public.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Newkirk, J. R. & Borst, F. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (2005) (open access)

Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (2005)

This report presents the results of the 2000 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program conducted in accordance with 10 CFR 72.44 for the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. A description of the facility and the monitoring program is provided. The results of monitoring the two predominant radiation exposure pathways, potential airborne radioactivity releases and direct radiation exposure, indicate the facility operation has not contributed to any increase in the estimated maximum potential dose commitment to the general public.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Hall, Gregory Graham
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of parallel computing techniques to a large-scale reservoir simulation (open access)

Application of parallel computing techniques to a large-scale reservoir simulation

Even with the continual advances made in both computational algorithms and computer hardware used in reservoir modeling studies, large-scale simulation of fluid and heat flow in heterogeneous reservoirs remains a challenge. The problem commonly arises from intensive computational requirement for detailed modeling investigations of real-world reservoirs. This paper presents the application of a massive parallel-computing version of the TOUGH2 code developed for performing large-scale field simulations. As an application example, the parallelized TOUGH2 code is applied to develop a three-dimensional unsaturated-zone numerical model simulating flow of moisture, gas, and heat in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a potential repository for high-level radioactive waste. The modeling approach employs refined spatial discretization to represent the heterogeneous fractured tuffs of the system, using more than a million 3-D gridblocks. The problem of two-phase flow and heat transfer within the model domain leads to a total of 3,226,566 linear equations to be solved per Newton iteration. The simulation is conducted on a Cray T3E-900, a distributed-memory massively parallel computer. Simulation results indicate that the parallel computing technique, as implemented in the TOUGH2 code, is very efficient. The reliability and accuracy of the model results have been demonstrated by comparing them to those …
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Zhang, Keni; Wu, Yu-Shu; Ding, Chris & Pruess, Karsten
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of the TAHPR and NESHAP to the Demolition of a Public Building (open access)

Application of the TAHPR and NESHAP to the Demolition of a Public Building

Periodic bulletin issued by the Texas Department of Health providing information and guidance regarding regulations around the use and abatement of asbestos. This issue discusses the requirement for buildings to be properly inspected before demolition.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Texas. Department of Health. Toxic Substances Control Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Approximate ad-hoc query engine for simulation data (open access)

Approximate ad-hoc query engine for simulation data

In this paper, we describe AQSim, an ongoing effort to design and implement a system to manage terabytes of scientific simulation data. The goal of this project is to reduce data storage requirements and access times while permitting ad-hoc queries using statistical and mathematical models of the data. In order to facilitate data exchange between models based on different representations, we are evaluating using the ASCI common data model which is comprised of several layers of increasing semantic complexity. To support queries over the spatial-temporal mesh structured data we are in the process of defining and implementing a grammar for MeshSQL.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Abdulla, G.; Baldwin, C.; Critchlow, T.; Kamimura, R.; Lozares, I.; Musick, R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Correctional Officer Staffing at the Department of Criminal Justice (open access)

An Audit Report on Correctional Officer Staffing at the Department of Criminal Justice

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the growing correctional officer shortage in the Department of Criminal Justice. The report assesses how current correctional officer staffing levels compare to authorized staffing patterns, evaluates whether the Department has an effective process for determining the number of correctional officers needed at its institutions, determines if the Department ensures the safety of staff members and inmates in light of its current staffing situation, and evaluates whether the Department has a sound process for recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining qualified correctional officers.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Petroleum Storage Tank Program at the Natural Resource Conservation Commission (open access)

An Audit Report on the Petroleum Storage Tank Program at the Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to evaluating the general condition and effectiveness of the Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) Program, focusing on the Natural Resource Conservation Commission's (Commission) efforts to analyze PST Program current and future resource needs, the Commission's evaluation of site cleanup and closure activities, and the Self-Certification Program implementation and financial assurance initiatives to lower future liability to the State.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Author Forecast] (open access)

[Author Forecast]

Document containing a schedule for author lectures hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters in February and March 2001.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 67, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 67, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bias and Uncertainty of Critical Experiment Models with CSAS25 from SCALE4.4a for Criticality Safety Analyses On the HP J-5600 (CMODB) Workstation (open access)

Bias and Uncertainty of Critical Experiment Models with CSAS25 from SCALE4.4a for Criticality Safety Analyses On the HP J-5600 (CMODB) Workstation

This report documents establishment of bias, bias trends and uncertainty for validation of the CSAS25 control module from the SCALE 4.4a computer code system for use in evaluating criticality safety of uranium systems. The 27-group ENDF/B-IV, 44-group ENDF/B-V, and 238-group ENDF/B-V cross-section libraries were used. The criticality validation calculations were performed using over 500 benchmark cases from Volumes II and IV of the ''International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments,'' published by the Nuclear Energy Agency Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (NEA/OECD). Based on statistical analysis of the calculation results, the bias, bias trends and uncertainty of the benchmark calculations have been established for these benchmark experiments. Numerical methods for applying margins are briefly described, but the determination of appropriate correlating parameter and values for additional margin, applicable to a particular analysis, must be determined as part of process analysis. As such, this document does not specify upper subcritical limits as has been done in the past. A follow-on report will be written to assess the methods for determination of an upper safety limit in more detail, provide comparisons, and recommend a preferred method. Analysts using these results are responsible for exercising sound engineering judgment using strong technical …
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Smith, R. H.; Keener, H. J.; DeClue, J. F.; Krass, A. W. & Cain, V. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001 (open access)

Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History