An Audit Report on Compliance with Benefits Proportional by Fund Requirements at Selected State Entities (open access)

An Audit Report on Compliance with Benefits Proportional by Fund Requirements at Selected State Entities

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether selected state entities required to pay benefits proportionally by fund complied with the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts' (Comptroller) Accounting Policy Statement (APS) 011 reporting requirements and processed needed adjustments to accomplish proportionality.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Career Information: Law Enforcement Division (open access)

Career Information: Law Enforcement Division

Pamphlet describing general information, eligibility requirements, and benefits of working as a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Case Study: Mobile Photovoltaic System at Bechler Meadows Ranger Station, Yellowstone National Park (Brochure) (open access)

Case Study: Mobile Photovoltaic System at Bechler Meadows Ranger Station, Yellowstone National Park (Brochure)

The mobile PV/generator hybrid system deployed at Bechler Meadows provides a number of advantages. It reduces on-site air emissions from the generator. Batteries allow the generator to operate only at its rated power, reducing run-time and fuel consumption. Energy provided by the solar array reduces fuel consumption and run-time of the generator. The generator is off for most hours providing peace and quiet at the site. Maintenance trips from Mammoth Hot Springs to the remote site are reduced. The frequency of intrusive fuel deliveries to the pristine site is reduced. And the system gives rangers a chance to interpret Green Park values to the visiting public. As an added bonus, the system provides all these benefits at a lower cost than the basecase of using only a propane-fueled generator, reducing life cycle cost by about 26%.
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coma Hierro Para Ser Fuerte. (open access)

Coma Hierro Para Ser Fuerte.

This pamphlet is in Spanish. The pamphlet promotes iron as part of a healthy diet.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commercial Management Facilities for Hazardous and Industrial Solid Wastes (open access)

Commercial Management Facilities for Hazardous and Industrial Solid Wastes

List of facilities that have permits or authorizations from the TCEQ to manage industrial waste, hazardous or non-hazardous.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Waste Permits Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Department of Defense Trends in Overseas Contract Obligations (open access)

Department of Defense Trends in Overseas Contract Obligations

This report examines Department of Defense's (DOD) overseas contract obligations in the larger context of U.S. government and DOD contract spending, and how contract obligations are used to support DOD operations in different regions. This report also examines the extent to which this data is sufficiently reliable to use as a factor when developing policy or understanding government operations.
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Schwartz, Moshe & Ginsberg, Wendy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Geographical Distribution, and Genetic Affinities of Corals on Offshore Platforms, Northern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Determining the Geographical Distribution, and Genetic Affinities of Corals on Offshore Platforms, Northern Gulf of Mexico

A report detailing the range of occurrence of corals on oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Sammarco, Paul W.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Spent Fuel Assembly for Advanced NDA Instrument Calibration - NGSI Spent Fuel Project (open access)

Developing Spent Fuel Assembly for Advanced NDA Instrument Calibration - NGSI Spent Fuel Project

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Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Hu, Jianwei; Gauld, Ian C; Banfield, James & Skutnik, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Don't Get Tagged (open access)

Don't Get Tagged

Flyer reminding hunters and anglers to remember to tag game.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 86, Number 2, March 2014 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 86, Number 2, March 2014

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Effect of Heat Treatments and Coatings on the Outgassing Rate of Stainless Steel Chambers (open access)

The Effect of Heat Treatments and Coatings on the Outgassing Rate of Stainless Steel Chambers

The outgassing rates of four nominally identical 304L stainless steel vacuum chambers were measured to determine the effect of chamber coatings and heat treatments. One chamber was coated with titanium nitride (TiN) and one with amorphous silicon (a-Si) immediately following fabrication. One chamber remained uncoated throughout, and the last chamber was first tested without any coating, and then coated with a-Si following a series of heat treatments. The outgassing rate of each chamber was measured at room temperatures between 15 and 30 deg C following bakes at temperatures between 90 and 400 deg C. Measurements for bare steel showed a significant reduction in the outgassing rate by more than a factor of 20 after a 400 deg C heat treatment (3.5 x 10{sup 12} TorrL s{sup -1}cm{sup -2} prior to heat treatment, reduced to 1.7 x 10{ sup -13} TorrL s{sup -1}cm{sup -2} following heat treatment). The chambers that were coated with a-Si showed minimal change in outgassing rates with heat treatment, though an outgassing rate reduced by heat treatments prior to a-Si coating was successfully preserved throughout a series of bakes. The TiN coated chamber exhibited remarkably low outgassing rates, up to four orders of magnitude lower than the …
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Mamum, Md Abdullah A.; Elmustafa, Abdelmageed A,; Stutzman, Marcy L.; Adderley, Philip A. & Poelker, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Savings and Peak Demand Reduction of a SEER 21 Heat Pump vs. a SEER 13 Heat Pump with Attic and Indoor Duct Systems (open access)

Energy Savings and Peak Demand Reduction of a SEER 21 Heat Pump vs. a SEER 13 Heat Pump with Attic and Indoor Duct Systems

This report describes results of experiments that were conducted in an unoccupied 1600 square foot house--the Manufactured Housing (MH Lab) at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC)--to evaluate the delivered performance as well as the relative performance of a SEER 21 variable capacity heat pump versus a SEER 13 heat pump. The performance was evaluated with two different duct systems: a standard attic duct system and an indoor duct system located in a dropped-ceiling space.
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Cummings, J. & Withers, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enrollment in Texas Public Schools: 2012-2013 (open access)

Enrollment in Texas Public Schools: 2012-2013

Annual report documenting statistics for the previous academic year regarding enrollment in Texas public schools, broken down by demographic and geographic criteria, with an analysis of longer-term trends.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Analysis.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 3, Pages 1646 to 2572, February 18 - March 7, 2014 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 3, Pages 1646 to 2572, February 18 - March 7, 2014

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 2014
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 4, Pages 2573 to 3457, March 10 - March 31, 2014 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 4, Pages 2573 to 3457, March 10 - March 31, 2014

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 2014
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishing Licenses Fees, 2014-2015 License Year (open access)

Fishing Licenses Fees, 2014-2015 License Year

Information sheet listing the rates for various types of fishing licenses in Texas for the 2014-2015 license year ending August 31, 2015.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freshwater Mussel (Family: Unionidae) Data Collection in the Middle and Lower Brazos River (open access)

Freshwater Mussel (Family: Unionidae) Data Collection in the Middle and Lower Brazos River

Report over the Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources's project to determine the status and distribution of freshwater mussels in the three Texas Instream Flow Program (TIFP) study reaches located on the Brazos River and to examine the effects of low and high flows on select mussel populations within each of the reaches.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Randklev, Charles R.; Cordova, Mark; Groce, Julie; Tsakiris, Eric & Sowards, Bryan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freshwater mussel (Family: Unionidae) survey of Allens Creek and the lower Brazos River (open access)

Freshwater mussel (Family: Unionidae) survey of Allens Creek and the lower Brazos River

This is a report to determine the current status and distribution of freshwater mussels in Allens Creek and the Brazos River.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Randklev, Charles R.; Cordova, Mark; Tsakiris, Eric; Groce, Julie & Sowards, Bryan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Giữ Khỏe Mạnh Với Chất Sắt (open access)

Giữ Khỏe Mạnh Với Chất Sắt

This pamphlet offers information on the importance iron as part of a healthy diet.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
HIV / AIDS (open access)

HIV / AIDS

This pamphlet goes over the various ways a person can and cannot contract HIV and subsequently AIDS. It also includes a step-by-step instruction guide for putting on a condom properly.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
HTR-PROTEUS PEBBLE BED EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM CORE 4: RANDOM PACKING WITH A 1:1 MODERATOR-TO-FUEL PEBBLE RATIO (open access)

HTR-PROTEUS PEBBLE BED EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM CORE 4: RANDOM PACKING WITH A 1:1 MODERATOR-TO-FUEL PEBBLE RATIO

In its deployment as a pebble bed reactor (PBR) critical facility from 1992 to 1996, the PROTEUS facility was designated as HTR-PROTEUS. This experimental program was performed as part of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on the Validation of Safety Related Physics Calculations for Low Enriched HTGRs. Within this project, critical experiments were conducted for graphite moderated LEU systems to determine core reactivity, flux and power profiles, reaction-rate ratios, the worth of control rods, both in-core and reflector based, the worth of burnable poisons, kinetic parameters, and the effects of moisture ingress on these parameters. One benchmark experiment was evaluated in this report: Core 4. Core 4 represents the only configuration with random pebble packing in the HTR-PROTEUS series of experiments, and has a moderator-to-fuel pebble ratio of 1:1. Three random configurations were performed. The initial configuration, Core 4.1, was rejected because the method for pebble loading, separate delivery tubes for the moderator and fuel pebbles, may not have been completely random; this core loading was rejected by the experimenters. Cores 4.2 and 4.3 were loaded using a single delivery tube, eliminating the possibility for systematic ordering effects. The second and third cores differed slightly …
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Bess, John D. & Montierth, Leland M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HTR-PROTEUS PEBBLE BED EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM CORES 9 & 10: COLUMNAR HEXAGONAL POINT-ON-POINT PACKING WITH A 1:1 MODERATOR-TO-FUEL PEBBLE RATIO (open access)

HTR-PROTEUS PEBBLE BED EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM CORES 9 & 10: COLUMNAR HEXAGONAL POINT-ON-POINT PACKING WITH A 1:1 MODERATOR-TO-FUEL PEBBLE RATIO

PROTEUS is a zero-power research reactor based on a cylindrical graphite annulus with a central cylindrical cavity. The graphite annulus remains basically the same for all experimental programs, but the contents of the central cavity are changed according to the type of reactor being investigated. Through most of its service history, PROTEUS has represented light-water reactors, but from 1992 to 1996 PROTEUS was configured as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR) critical facility and designated as HTR-PROTEUS. The nomenclature was used to indicate that this series consisted of High Temperature Reactor experiments performed in the PROTEUS assembly. During this period, seventeen critical configurations were assembled and various reactor physics experiments were conducted. These experiments included measurements of criticality, differential and integral control rod and safety rod worths, kinetics, reaction rates, water ingress effects, and small sample reactivity effects (Ref. 3). HTR-PROTEUS was constructed, and the experimental program was conducted, for the purpose of providing experimental benchmark data for assessment of reactor physics computer codes. Considerable effort was devoted to benchmark calculations as a part of the HTR-PROTEUS program. References 1 and 2 provide detailed data for use in constructing models for codes to be assessed. Reference 3 is a comprehensive summary of …
Date: March 1, 2014
Creator: Bess, John D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hunting & Fishing Licenses (open access)

Hunting & Fishing Licenses

Information sheet on hunting and fishing license fees, organized by age of residents/non-residents seeking the license.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: February 2014 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: February 2014

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History