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Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 165, Ed. 1 Monday, March 25, 2002 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 165, Ed. 1 Monday, March 25, 2002

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Snowmass 2001 : jet energy flow project. (open access)

Snowmass 2001 : jet energy flow project.

Conventional cone jet algorithms arose from heuristic considerations of LO hard scattering coupled to independent showering. These algorithms implicitly assume that the final states of individual events can be mapped onto a unique set of jets that are in turn associated with a unique set of underlying hard scattering partons. Thus each final state hadron is assigned to a unique underlying parton. The Jet Energy Flow (JEF) analysis described here does not make such assumptions. The final states of individual events are instead described in terms of flow distributions of hadronic energy. Quantities of physical interest are constructed from the energy flow distribution summed over all events. The resulting analysis is less sensitive to higher order perturbative corrections and the impact of showering and hadronization than the standard cone algorithms.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Berger, C. F.; L., Berger. E.; Bhat, P. C.; Butterworth, J. M.; Ellis, S. D.; Flaugher, B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing and modeling of seepage into underground openings in aheterogeneous fracture system at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (open access)

Testing and modeling of seepage into underground openings in aheterogeneous fracture system at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

We discuss field activities designed to characterize seepage into an underground opening at the potential site for geologic storage of high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and the use of these data for development and calibration of a model for predicting seepage into planned HLRW emplacement drifts. Air-injection tests were conducted to characterize the permeability of the fractured rock, and liquid-release tests (LRTs) were conducted and seepage monitored to characterize the seepage-relevant properties of the fractured rock. Both air-injection and liquid-release tests were performed in the same borehole intervals, located above the underground openings. For modeling, three-dimensional, heterogeneous permeability fields were generated, conditioned on the air-permeability data. The initial seepage data collected were used to calibrate the model and test the appropriateness of the modeling approach. A capillary-strength parameter and porosity were the model parameters selected for estimation by data inversion. However, due to the short-term nature of the initial data, the inversion process was unable to independently determine the capillary strength and porosity of the fractured rock. Subsequent seepage data collection focused on longer-term tests, a representative selection of which was used for data inversion. Field observations also played a key role by identifying factors such as …
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Ahlers, C. F.; Trautz, R. C.; Cook, P. J. & Finsterle, S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-480 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-480

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a raffle ticket may be awarded as a prize in a bingo game.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-481 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-481

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Harris County may prohibit a tow truck from having auxiliary stop and tail lamps in or under the factory-mounted light bar, and related question.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-482 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-482

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a private Texas nonprofit corporation may operate a "charitable sweepstakes fundraising program," and related questions (RQ-0443-JC)
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-483 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-483

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the term of a justice of the peace may be reduced from four to two years as a result of redistricting(RQ-0447-JC).
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Disease Prevention News, Volume 62, Number 7, March 2002 (open access)

Texas Disease Prevention News, Volume 62, Number 7, March 2002

Newsletter of the Texas Department of Health discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thermal Decomposition of New and Aged LX-04 and PBX 9501 (open access)

Thermal Decomposition of New and Aged LX-04 and PBX 9501

One-Dimensional-Time-To-Explosion (ODTX) experiments were conducted to study the thermal decomposition of aged LX-04, aged PBX 9501, HMX class 1 and class 2, Estane and Estane/BDNPA-F (PBX 950 1 plasticized-binder) materials. The tests involved heating 12.7 mm diameter spherical samples in pre-heated aluminum anvils until explosion. The times to explosion at different heating temperatures were compared to historical data on new LX-04 and PBX 9501 compounds to study any changes to their thermal stability. New and aged LX-04 showed comparable decomposition kinetics. The data for aged PBX 9501 showed slightly longer explosion times at equivalent temperatures. Analysis of the error in time measurement is limited and complicated by several experimental factors but the small time change appears to be experimentally significant. The thermal decomposition of these PBXs were modeled using a coupled thermal and heat transport code (chemical TOPAZ) using separate kinetics for HMX and binder decomposition. Separate decomposition models were developed for HMX and the reactive PBX 9501 binder component (1:1 Estane:BDNPA/F) based on the measured explosion times. Thermal aging models can describe longer explosion times by the loss of plasticizer-binder constituent which was more thermally reactive.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Tran, T. D.; Tarver, Craig M. & Idar, D. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waste Preparation and Transport Chemistry: Results of the FY 2001 Studies (open access)

Waste Preparation and Transport Chemistry: Results of the FY 2001 Studies

During FY 2001, tank farm operations at Hanford and the Savannah River Site (SRS) continued to be negatively impacted by the unintended formation of solids. At Hanford, the primary solids formation problem involves a series of plugged pipes and pumps during the saltwell pumping activities of the interim stabilization program. For example, transfers of tank S-102 waste were suspended due to a plugged pipeline or a mechanical problem with the transfer pump. The replacement pump then failed within 2 weeks. In contrast, since full-scale waste remediation activities such as vitrification were initiated, the SRS has encountered a wider range of problems due to unwanted solids. The 2H evaporator system was shut down because of the formation of aluminosilicate deposits with enriched uranium in the evaporator pot. While high concentrations of aluminum are expected in the tank waste due to previous canyon operations, the primary source of silicon is the recycle stream from the vitrifier. While solids formation can be expected when waste streams are combined, the formation of the aluminosilicate deposits required an elevated temperature within the evaporator. The shutdown of the 2H evaporator led to a severe shortage of tank space. Therefore, the SRS tank farm was forced to …
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Hunt, R.D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Based Continuous Neutron Source. (open access)

Accelerator Based Continuous Neutron Source.

Until the last decade, most neutron experiments have been performed at steady-state, reactor-based sources. Recently, however, pulsed spallation sources have been shown to be very useful in a wide range of neutron studies. A major review of neutron sources in the US was conducted by a committee chaired by Nobel laureate Prof. W. Kohn: ''Neutron Sources for America's Future-BESAC Panel on Neutron Sources 1/93''. This distinguished panel concluded that steady state and pulsed sources are complementary and that the nation has need for both to maintain a balanced neutron research program. The report recommended that both a new reactor and a spallation source be built. This complementarity is recognized worldwide. The conclusion of this report is that a new continuous neutron source is needed for the second decade of the 20 year plan to replace aging US research reactors and close the US neutron gap. it is based on spallation production of neutrons using a high power continuous superconducting linac to generate protons impinging on a heavy metal target. There do not appear to be any major technical challenges to the building of such a facility since a continuous spallation source has been operating in Switzerland for several years.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Shapiro, S. M.; Ruggiero, A. G. & Ludewig, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs

This report provides appropriations of Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs for FY2003.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict (open access)

Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

This report presents an overview of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. This is a clash between the principles of territorial integrity and self-determination that is occurring in the Caucasus, creating the longest inter-ethnic dispute in the former Soviet Union. The report includes the background and analysis of history, warfare and peace process in the region. The report discusses the Armenian and Azerbaijani perspective, the role and views of others (Iran, Turkey, Russia), as well as the U.S. policy regarding the conflict.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program (open access)

Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program

The report discusses the issues regarding the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135), which contains provisions to arm pilots of passenger aircraft and gives deputized pilots the authority to use force, including lethal force, to defend the flight deck against criminal and terrorist threats. The report includes the legislative Background, implementation issues, equipment, training, operational procedures and costs.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Stryker Brigades: Assessment of External Logistics Support Should Be Documented for the Congressionally Mandated Review of the Army's Operational Evaluation Plan (open access)

Army Stryker Brigades: Assessment of External Logistics Support Should Be Documented for the Congressionally Mandated Review of the Army's Operational Evaluation Plan

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "We are reviewing the Army's plans for deploying and sustaining Stryker brigades. We plan to complete our review and report the results in June 2003. In the meantime, the Army will be conducting an operational evaluation of the first Stryker brigade from late April through May 2003 as required by law. The purpose of this letter is to bring attention to issues concerning the adequacy of the Army's proposed operational evaluation plan. The operational evaluation is intended to facilitate an understanding of the initial brigade's overall capabilities. The evaluation was first directed by the conference report accompanying the 2001 defense authorization act. Subsequently, Congress included the requirement in Section 113 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2002, which provides that (1) the Secretary of the Army is to evaluate the brigade's execution of combat missions across the full spectrum of potential threats and operational scenarios, (2) the Department of Defense's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) must approve the Army's operational evaluation plan before the evaluation may be conducted, and (3) the Secretary of Defense is to certify to Congress that the results of …
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 120, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 120, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Cartwright, Brian & Collins, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Semiweekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 (open access)

The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Weekly student newspaper from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress

The Superfund program for cleaning up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites was created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or CERCLA (P.L. 96-510, as amended). This report discusses recent development and background issues, superfund issues, revenue issues, comprehensive reauthorization, and legislation regarding superfund program.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Reisch, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity (open access)

Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity

The entry into force, on January 1, 1994, of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has eliminated the advantage that the beneficiaries of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) and related provisions of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) had enjoyed in trade with the United States relative to Mexico, and gave Mexico an increasingly significant competitive edge over the CBERA countries. The scheduled further implementation of the NAFTA would have resulted in a substantial advantage to Mexico over the CBERA countries and vitiate in part the purpose of the CBERA.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Pregelj, Vladimir N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Certificate of Membership to the Order of Daedalians] (open access)

[Certificate of Membership to the Order of Daedalians]

Certificate of Membership to the Order of Daedalians appointing Eleanor Brown to the Founder Membership of Henry J. Brown. The certificate includes a picture of a winged figure hovering in front of the sun along with the phrase "Volabamus Volamus."
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Order of Daedalians
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations (open access)

Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform asked GAO to testify on its experiences with the use of data mining as part of its audits and investigations of various government programs. GAO's testimony focused on (1) examples and benefits of the use of data mining in audits and investigations and (2) some of the future uses and challenges in expanding the use of data mining in audits of federal programs. Much of GAO's experience with data mining to date relates to its audits of the Department of Defense's (DOD) credit card programs."
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Mesoporous Membrane Materials for CO2 Separation: Final Report (open access)

Development of Mesoporous Membrane Materials for CO2 Separation: Final Report

The huge emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel fired power plants and industrial plants over the last century have resulted in an increase of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Climatological modeling work has predicted severe climate disruption as a result of the trapping of heat due to CO{sub 2}. As an attempt to address this global warming effect, DOE has initiated the Vision 21 concept for future power plants. We first synthesized mesoporous aluminosilicates that have high surface area and parallel pore channels for membrane support materials. Later we synthesized microporous aluminosilicates as the potential thin membrane materials for selective CO{sub 2} adsorption. The pore size is controlled to be less that 1 nm so that the adsorption of CO{sub 2} on the pore wall will block the passage of N{sub 2}. Mesoporous and precipitated alumina were synthesized as the base material for CO{sub 2} adsorbent. The porous alumina is doped with Ba to enhance its CO{sub 2} affinity due to the basicity of Ba. It is shown by gas chromatograph (GC) that the addition of Ba enhances the separation CO{sub 2} from N{sub 2}. It was found that mesoporous alumina has larger specific surface area and better selectivity …
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Shih, Wei-Heng; Patil, Tejas & Zhao, Qiang
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library