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Final Report for LDRD Project 06-ERD-063 (open access)

Final Report for LDRD Project 06-ERD-063

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Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Beller, H R; Chakicherla, A; Coleman, M A; Esser, B K; Kane, S R; Legler, T C et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First Aerosol Indirect Effect: Beyond Twomey (open access)

The First Aerosol Indirect Effect: Beyond Twomey

The traditional first aerosol indirect effect or the Twomey effect involves several fundamental assumptions. Some of the assumptions (e.g., constant liquid water content) are explicitly stated in studies of the Twomey effect whereas others are only implicitly embedded in the quantitative formulation. This work focuses on examining the implicit assumptions. In particular, we will show that anthropogenic pollution not only increases aerosol loading and droplet concentrations but also alters the relative dispersions of both the aerosol and subsequent droplet size distributions. The indirect effects resulting from the two altered relative dispersions (aerosol dispersion effect and droplet dispersion effect) are likely opposite in sign and proportional in magnitude to the conventional Twomey effect. This result suggests that the outstanding problems of the Twomey effect (i.e., large uncertainty and overestimation reported in literature) may lie with violation of the constant spectral shapes of aerosol and droplet size distributions implicitly assumed in evaluation of the Twomey effect, and therefore, further progress in understanding and quantification of the first aerosol indirect effect demands moving beyond the traditional paradigm originally conceived by Twomey.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Liu, Y.; Dunn, M. & Daum, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Carrie Lee Hill, March 10, 2008] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Carrie Lee Hill, March 10, 2008]

Funeral program for Carrie Lee Hill, born June 7, 1927 and died March 4, 2008. The funeral was held March 10, 2008 at East St. United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. Hector Grant. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, near San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral Program for Willard Jackson, March 10, 2008] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Willard Jackson, March 10, 2008]

Funeral program for Willard Jackson, born July 3, 1922 and died March 3, 2008. The funeral was held Monday, march 10, 2008 at Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Otis I. Mitchell, Senior Pastor. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gary Borders presenting Charles Moser with an award]

Photograph of Gary Borders (left) presenting Charles Moser (right) with an award for Moser's leadership, at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Gary Borders speaking into mic during TDNA award ceremony]

Photograph of Gary Borders standing at a podium and speaking into the microphone during the award ceremony at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Gary Borders standing at podium giving speech at TDNA meeting]

Photograph of Gary Borders standing at a wooden podium and addressing the guests in attendance at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Information: Legal Issues Relating to Discrimination and Privacy (open access)

Genetic Information: Legal Issues Relating to Discrimination and Privacy

In April 2003, the sequence of the human genome was deposited into public databases. This milestone, which has been compared to the discoveries of Galileo, and other advances in genetics have created novel legal issues relating to genetic information. This report discusses current federal law, state statutes, and legislation related to these issues.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee & Sarata, Amanda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grazing Fees: An Overview and Current Issues (open access)

Grazing Fees: An Overview and Current Issues

This report discusses fees for grazing private livestock on federal lands that is a long-standing but contentious practice. Generally, livestock producers who use federal lands want to keep fees low, while conservation groups and others believe fees should be increased.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Guest Artist Recital: 2008-03-10 – Dexter Morrill, composer

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Morrill, Dexter
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Sergeant at Arms: Legislative and Administrative Duties (open access)

House Sergeant at Arms: Legislative and Administrative Duties

This report provides a brief overview of the legislative and administrative duties of the House Sergeant at arms.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Tong, Lorraine H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A human breast cell model of pre-invasive to invasive transition (open access)

A human breast cell model of pre-invasive to invasive transition

A crucial step in human breast cancer progression is the acquisition of invasiveness. There is a distinct lack of human cell culture models to study the transition from pre-invasive to invasive phenotype as it may occur 'spontaneously' in vivo. To delineate molecular alterations important for this transition, we isolated human breast epithelial cell lines that showed partial loss of tissue polarity in three-dimensional reconstituted-basement membrane cultures. These cells remained non-invasive; however, unlike their non-malignant counterparts, they exhibited a high propensity to acquire invasiveness through basement membrane in culture. The genomic aberrations and gene expression profiles of the cells in this model showed a high degree of similarity to primary breast tumor profiles. The xenograft tumors formed by the cell lines in three different microenvironments in nude mice displayed metaplastic phenotypes, including squamous and basal characteristics, with invasive cells exhibiting features of higher grade tumors. To find functionally significant changes in transition from pre-invasive to invasive phenotype, we performed attribute profile clustering analysis on the list of genes differentially expressed between pre-invasive and invasive cells. We found integral membrane proteins, transcription factors, kinases, transport molecules, and chemokines to be highly represented. In addition, expression of matrix metalloproteinases MMP-9,-13,-15,-17 was up regulated …
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Bissell, Mina J; Rizki, Aylin; Weaver, Valerie M.; Lee, Sun-Young; Rozenberg, Gabriela I.; Chin, Koei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program, Entiat River Status and Trend Snorkel Surveys and Rotary Smolt Trap Operations in Nason Creek, March 2007 through March 2008. (open access)

Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program, Entiat River Status and Trend Snorkel Surveys and Rotary Smolt Trap Operations in Nason Creek, March 2007 through March 2008.

The Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP-BPA project No.2003-0017) has been created as a cost effective means of developing protocols and new technologies, novel indicators, sample designs, analytical, data management and communication tools and skills, and restoration experiments that support the development of a region-wide Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME) program to assess the status of anadromous salmonid populations, their tributary habitat and restoration and management actions. The most straightforward approach to developing a regional-scale monitoring and evaluation program would be to increase standardization among status and trend monitoring programs. However, the diversity of species and their habitat, as well as the overwhelming uncertainty surrounding indicators, metrics, and data interpretation methods, requires the testing of multiple approaches. Thus, the approach ISEMP has adopted is to develop a broad template that may differ in the details among subbasins, but one that will ultimately lead to the formation of a unified RME process for the management of anadromous salmonid populations and habitat across the Columbia River Basin. ISEMP has been initiated in three pilot subbasins, the Wenatchee/Entiat, John Day, and Salmon. To balance replicating experimental approaches with the goal of developing monitoring and evaluation tools that apply as broadly as possible …
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Collins, Matthew; Jorgensen, John & Murdock, Keely
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Laura Hartman attending TDNA dinner]

Photograph of Laura Hartman standing and chatting with other guests, one identified as Macy, dressed in their finest attire, in attendance at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Louisiana Road Home Program: Federal Aid for State Disaster Housing Assistance Programs (open access)

The Louisiana Road Home Program: Federal Aid for State Disaster Housing Assistance Programs

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Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Love, Natalie P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Many guests in attendance at the TDNA dinner]

Photograph of many guests, dressed in their finest attire, in attendance at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Sue Mayborn can be seen among the crowd of guests.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Many guests in attendance at the TDNA dinner, 2]

Photograph of many guests, dressed in their finest attire, in attendance at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Dennis "Denny" Orewiler and Terry E. Gandy can be seen on the right conversing over drinks.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mariachi band performing at the TDNA dinner]

Photograph of a local mariachi band performing for the guests at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Mariachi band performing for guests at dinner]

Photograph of a local mariachi band performing for the guests at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of CP Violation in B0 to Phi K0, and of Branching Fraction and CP Violation in B0 to F0(980) K0(S) (open access)

Measurement of CP Violation in B0 to Phi K0, and of Branching Fraction and CP Violation in B0 to F0(980) K0(S)

The authors measure the time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters in B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -}K{sup 0} based on a data sample of approximately 277 million B-meson pairs recorded at the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-meson Factory at SLAC. They reconstruct two-body B{sup 0} decays to {phi}(1020)K{sub s}{sup 0} and {phi}(1020)K{sub L}{sup 0}. Using a time-dependent maximum-likelihood fit, they measure sin2{beta}{sub eff}({phi}K{sup 0}) = 0.48 {+-} 0.28 {+-} 0.10, and C({phi}K{sup 0}) = 0.16 {+-} 0.25 {+-} 0.09, where the first error is statistical, and the second is systematic. They also present measurements of the CP-violating asymmetries in the decay B{sup 0} {yields} f{sub 0}({yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -})K{sub s}{sup 0}. The results are obtained from a data sample of 209 x 10{sup 6} {Upsilon}(4S) {yields} B{bar B} decays, also collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. From a time-dependent maximum-likelihood fit they measure the mixing-induced CP violation parameter S(f{sub 0}(980)K{sub S}{sup 0}) = - sin 2{beta}{sub eff}f{sub 0}(980)K{sub S}{sup 0} = -0.95{sub -0.23}{sup +0.32} {+-} 0.10 and the direct CP violation parameter C(f{sub 0}(980)K{sub S}{sup 0}) = - 0.24 {+-} 0.31 {+-} 0.15, where the first errors are statistical and …
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Kutter, Paul E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mental Health Parity Act: A Legislative History (open access)

The Mental Health Parity Act: A Legislative History

This report provides a detailed history of mental health parity legislation, including a discussion of bills introduced in each Congress, and accompanying legislative action, including hearings, markups, and floor votes. This legislation is in response to concerns about the coverage of mental health benefits in group health plans, which is often much more restricted than the coverage of physical illness.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Sundararaman, Ramya & Redhead, C. Stephen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Models of Longitudinal Space-Charge Impedance for the Study of theMicrobunching Instability (open access)

Models of Longitudinal Space-Charge Impedance for the Study of theMicrobunching Instability

A 1D model of space-charge impedance, assuming atransversely uniform beam with circular cross-section, has been proposedand is being extensively used in the modelling of the microbunchinginstability of relevance for the beam delivery systems of x-ray FELs. Inthis paper we investigate the limitation of the model when applied tostudying the effect of shot noise--one of the sources of themicrobunching instability. We make comparison witha fully 3D calculationand identify the upper end of the frequency spectrum for applicability ofthe 1D model. Relaxation of the assumptions regarding axis-symmetry anduniformity of the transverse density is also reviewed.
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Venturini, Marco
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay (open access)

A nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay

We describe a Nanostructure-Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS) enzymatic (Nimzyme) assay in which enzyme substrates are immobilized on the mass spectrometry surface by using fluorous-phase interactions. This 'soft' immobilization allows efficient desorption/ionization while also enabling the use of surface-washing steps to reduce signal suppression from complex biological samples, which results from the preferential retention of the tagged products and reactants. The Nimzyme assay is sensitive to subpicogram levels of enzyme, detects both addition and cleavage reactions (sialyltransferase and galactosidase), is applicable over a wide range of pHs and temperatures, and can measure activity directly from crude cell lysates. The ability of the Nimzyme assay to analyze complex mixtures is illustrated by identifying and directly characterizing {beta}-1,4-galactosidase activity from a thermophilic microbial community lysate. The optimal enzyme temperature and pH were found to be 65 C and 5.5, respectively, and the activity was inhibited by both phenylethyl-{beta}-d-thiogalactopyranoside and deoxygalactonojirimycin. Metagenomic analysis of the community suggests that the activity is from an uncultured, unsequenced {gamma}-proteobacterium. In general, this assay provides an efficient method for detection and characterization of enzymatic activities in complex biological mixtures prior to sequencing or cloning efforts. More generally, this approach may have important applications for screening both enzymatic and …
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: Siuzdak, Gary; Northen, Trent R.; Lee, Jinq-Chyi; Hoang, Linh; Raymond, Jason; Hwang, Der-Ren et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Newspaper Leader of the Year Doug Toney]

Photograph of an Pat Taggart Award for Doug Toney taken at the 2008 Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual conference awards dinner, held at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The award reads, "2007 Newspaper Leader of the Year, Doug Toney. New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung."
Date: March 10, 2008
Creator: McLeroy, Robert
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library