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Anode Sheath Switching in a Carbon Nanotube Arc Plasma (open access)

Anode Sheath Switching in a Carbon Nanotube Arc Plasma

The anode ablation rate is investigated as a function of anode diameter for a carbon nanotube arc plasma. It is found that anomalously high ablation occurs for small anode diameters. This result is explained by the formation of a positive anode sheath. The increased ablation rate due to this positive anode sheath could imply greater production rate for carbon nanotubes.
Date: April 8, 2008
Creator: Abe Fetterman, Yevgeny Raitses, and Michael Keidar
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring (open access)

Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring

The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) were enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. Comprehensive energy legislation has passed the House and Senate. The House passed H.R. 6 on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the Senate suspended debate on S. 14, inserted the text of H.R. 4 (107th Congress) as a substitute, and passed H.R. 6. A conference agreement was reached November 17, 2003, and passed by the House the next day. H.R. 6 includes an electricity title that would, in part, repeal PUHCA, would prospectively repeal the mandatory purchase requirement under PURPA, and would create an electric reliability organization. On June 15, 2004, H.R. 4503, a comprehensive energy policy bill, passed the House.
Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Abel, Amy & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Vouchers: Constitutional Issues and Cases (open access)

Education Vouchers: Constitutional Issues and Cases

This report details the constitutional standards that currently apply to indirect aid programs and summarizes all of the pertinent state and federal court decisions, including the Ohio case that will be heard by the Supreme Court. On September 25, 2001, the Supreme Court agreed to review a case raising the controversial issue of the constitutionality of education vouchers. In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris the Sixth Circuit held Ohio’s Pilot Scholarship Program, which provided up to $2500 to help low-income students in Cleveland’s public schools attend private schools in the city, to violate the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment.
Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Ackerman, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
European Union–U.S. Trade and Investment Relations: Key Issues (open access)

European Union–U.S. Trade and Investment Relations: Key Issues

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Date: April 8, 2008
Creator: Aheam, Raymond J.; Fischer, John W.; Goldfarb, Charles B.; Hanrahan, Charles E.; Eubanks, Walter W. & Rubin, Janice E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade and the Americas (open access)

Trade and the Americas

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Date: April 8, 2002
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Angularly resolved measurements of ion energy of vacuum arc plasmas (open access)

Angularly resolved measurements of ion energy of vacuum arc plasmas

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Date: April 8, 2005
Creator: Anders, Andre & Yushkov, George Yu.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Wave: A Web-based Heat Stress Management Tool (open access)

Heat Wave: A Web-based Heat Stress Management Tool

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Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Anderson, R B; MacQueen, D H & Laguna, G W
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Possible Voucher Issues (open access)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Possible Voucher Issues

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Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Apling, Richard N.; Jones, Nancy Lee & Smole, David P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of B to X(3872)K, with X(3872) to J/Psi pi+ pi- (open access)

Study of B to X(3872)K, with X(3872) to J/Psi pi+ pi-

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Date: April 8, 2008
Creator: Aubert, B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What can we learn from neutrinoless double beta decay experiments? (open access)

What can we learn from neutrinoless double beta decay experiments?

We assess how well next generation neutrinoless double beta decay and normal neutrino beta decay experiments can answer four fundamental questions. 1) If neutrinoless double beta decay searches do not detect a signal, and if the spectrum is known to be inverted hierarchy, can we conclude that neutrinos are Dirac particles? 2) If neutrinoless double beta decay searches are negative and a next generation ordinary beta decay experiment detects the neutrino mass scale, can we conclude that neutrinos are Dirac particles? 3) If neutrinoless double beta decay is observed with a large neutrino mass element, what is the total mass in neutrinos? 4) If neutrinoless double beta decay is observed but next generation beta decay searches for a neutrino mass only set a mass upper limit, can we establish whether the mass hierarchy is normal or inverted? We base our answers on the expected performance of next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments and on simulations of the accuracy of calculations of nuclear matrix elements.
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Bahcall, John N.; Murayama, Hitoshi & Pena-Garay, Carlos
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Risk Reduction With a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool (open access)

Risk Reduction With a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool

Incomplete or sparse information on types of data such as geologic or formation characteristics introduces a high level of risk for oil exploration and development projects. ''Expert'' systems developed and used in several disciplines and industries have demonstrated beneficial results. A state-of-the-art exploration ''expert'' tool, relying on a computerized database and computer maps generated by neural networks, is being developed through the use of ''fuzzy'' logic, a relatively new mathematical treatment of imprecise or non-explicit parameters and values. Oil prospecting risk can be reduced with the use of a properly developed and validated ''Fuzzy Expert Exploration (FEE) Tool.'' This FEE Tool can be beneficial in many regions of the U.S. by enabling risk reduction in oil and gas prospecting as well as decreased prospecting and development costs. In the 1998-1999 oil industry environment, many smaller exploration companies lacked the resources of a pool of expert exploration personnel. Downsizing, low oil prices, and scarcity of exploration funds have also affected larger companies, and will, with time, affect the end users of oil industry products in the U.S. as reserves are depleted. The FEE Tool will benefit a diverse group in the U.S., leading to a more efficient use of scarce funds, …
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Balch, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies Related to Chemical Mechanisms of Gas Formation in Hanford High-Level Nuclear Wastes (open access)

Studies Related to Chemical Mechanisms of Gas Formation in Hanford High-Level Nuclear Wastes

The objective of this work is to develop a more detailed mechanistic understanding of the thermal reactions that lead to gas production in certain high-level waste storage tanks at the Hanford, Washington site. Prediction of the combustion hazard for these wastes and engineering parameters for waste processing depend upon both a knowledge of the composition of stored wastes and the changes that they undergo as a result of thermal and radiolytic decomposition. Since 1980 when Delagard first demonstrated that gas production (H2and N2O initially, later N2 and NH3)in the affected tanks was related to oxidative degradation of metal complexants present in the waste, periodic attempts have been made to develop detailed mechanisms by which the gases were formed. These studies have resulted in the postulation of a series of reactions that account for many of the observed products, but which involve several reactions for which there is limited, or no, precedent. For example, Al(OH)4 has been postulated to function as a Lewis acid to catalyze the reaction of nitrite ion with the metal complexants, NO is proposed as an intermediate, and the ratios of gaseous products may be a result of the partitioning of NO between two or more reactions. …
Date: April 8, 2002
Creator: Barefield, E. Kent; Liotta, Charles L. & Neumann, Henry M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Facility Radionuclide Emission Points and Sampling Systems (open access)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Facility Radionuclide Emission Points and Sampling Systems

Battelle—Pacific Northwest Division operates numerous research and development laboratories in Richland, Washington, including those associated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site that have the potential for radionuclide air emissions. The National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP 40 CFR 61, Subparts H and I) requires an assessment of all effluent release points that have the potential for radionuclide emissions. Potential emissions are assessed annually. Sampling, monitoring, and other regulatory compliance requirements are designated based upon the potential-to-emit dose criteria found in the regulations. The purpose of this document is to describe the facility radionuclide air emission sampling program and provide current and historical facility emission point system performance, operation, and design information. A description of the buildings, exhaust points, control technologies, and sample extraction details is provided for each registered or deregistered facility emission point. Additionally, applicable stack sampler configuration drawings, figures, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 8, 2009
Creator: Barfuss, Brad C.; Barnett, J. M. & Ballinger, Marcel Y.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MESERAN Calibration for Low Level Organic Residues (open access)

MESERAN Calibration for Low Level Organic Residues

Precision cleaning studies done at Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T), the Kansas City Plant (KCP), and at other locations within the Department of Energy (DOE) Weapons complex over the last 30 years have depended upon results from MESERAN Evaporative Rate Analysis for detecting low levels of organic contamination. The characterization of the surface being analyzed is carried out by depositing a Carbon-14 tagged radiochemical onto the test surface and monitoring the rate at which the radiochemical disappears from the surface with a Geiger-Mueller counter. In the past, the total number of counts over a 2-minute span have been used to judge whether a surface is contaminated or not and semi-quantitatively to what extent. This technique is very sensitive but has not enjoyed the broad acceptance of a purely quantitative analysis. The work on this project developed calibrations of various organic contaminants typically encountered in KCP operations. In addition, a new analysis method was developed to enhance the ability of MESERAN Analyzers to detect organic contamination and yield quantitative data in the microgram and nanogram levels.
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Benkovich, M.G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Research to Improve the Efficacy of Captive Broodstock Programs and Advance Hatchery Reform Throughout the Columbia River Basin." [from the Abstract], 2007-2008 Annual Progress Report. (open access)

"Research to Improve the Efficacy of Captive Broodstock Programs and Advance Hatchery Reform Throughout the Columbia River Basin." [from the Abstract], 2007-2008 Annual Progress Report.

This project was developed to conduct research to improve the efficacy of captive broodstock programs and advance hatchery reform throughout the Columbia river basin. The project has three objectives: (1) maintain adaptive life history characteristics in Chinook salmon, (2) improve imprinting in juvenile sockeye salmon, and (3) match wild phenotypes in Chinook and sockeye salmon reared in hatcheries. A summary of the results are as follows: Objective 1: Adult and jack Chinook salmon males were stocked into four replicate spawning channels at a constant density (N = 16 per breeding group), but different ratios, and were left to spawn naturally with a fixed number of females (N = 6 per breeding group). Adult males obtained primary access to females and were first to enter the nest at the time of spawning. Jack male spawning occurred primarily by establishing satellite positions downstream of the courting pair, and 'sneaking' into the nest at the time of spawning. Male dominance hierarchies were fairly stable and strongly correlated with the order of nest entry at the time of spawning. Spawning participation by jack and adult males is consistent with a negative frequency dependent selection model, which means that selection during spawning favors the rarer …
Date: April 8, 2009
Creator: Berejikian, Barry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Success of Captive Broodstock Programs Depends on High In-Culture Survival, ..." [from the Abstract], 2006-2007 Progress Report. (open access)

"The Success of Captive Broodstock Programs Depends on High In-Culture Survival, ..." [from the Abstract], 2006-2007 Progress Report.

The success of captive broodstock programs depends on high in-culture survival, appropriate development of the reproductive system, and the behavior and survival of cultured salmon after release, either as adults or juveniles. Continuing captive broodstock research designed to improve technology is being conducted to cover all major life history stages of Pacific salmon. Accomplishments detailed in this report are listed below by major objective. Objective 1: This study documented that captively reared Chinook exhibited spawn timing similar to their founder anadromous population. An analysis of spawn timing data of captively reared Chinook salmon that had received different levels of antibiotic treatment did not suggest that antibiotic treatments during the freshwater or seawater phase of the life cycle affects final maturation timing. No effect of rearing density was found with respect to spawn timing or other reproductive behaviors. Objective 2: This study investigated the critical period(s) for imprinting for sockeye salmon by exposing juvenile salmon to known odorants at key developmental stages. Molecular assessments of imprinting-induced changes in odorant receptor gene expression indicated that regulation of odorant expression differs between coho and sockeye salmon. While temporal patterns differ between these species, exposure to arginine elicited increases in odorant receptor mRNA expression …
Date: April 8, 2009
Creator: Berejikian, Barry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longitudinal Dynamics in High Frequency FFAG Recirculating Accelerators. (open access)

Longitudinal Dynamics in High Frequency FFAG Recirculating Accelerators.

A recirculating accelerator accelerates the beam by passing through accelerating cavities multiple times. An FFAG recirculating accelerator uses a single arc to connect the linacs together, as opposed to multiple arcs for the different energies. For most scenarios using high-frequency RF, it is impractical to change the phase of the RF on each pass, at least for lower energy accelerators. Ideally, therefore, the WAG arc will be isochronous, so that the particles come back to the same phase (on-crest) on each linac pass. However, it is not possible to make the FFAG arcs isochronous (compared to the RF period) over a large energy range. This paper demonstrates that one can nonetheless make an WAG recirculating accelerator work. Given the arc's path length as a function of energy and the number of turns to accelerate for, one can find the minimum voltage (and corresponding initial conditions) required to accelerate a reference particle to the desired energy. I also briefly examine how the longitudinal acceptance varies with the number of turns that one accelerates.
Date: April 8, 2002
Creator: Berg, J. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is U3Ni3Sn4 best described as near a quantum critical point? (open access)

Is U3Ni3Sn4 best described as near a quantum critical point?

Although most known non-Fermi liquid (NFL) materials are structurally or chemically disordered, the role of this disorder remains unclear. In particular, very few systems have been discovered that may be stoichiometric and well ordered. To test whether U{sub 3}Ni{sub 3}Sn{sub 4} belongs in this latter class, we present measurements of the x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) of polycrystalline and single-crystal U{sub 3}Ni{sub 3}Sn{sub 4} samples that are consistent with no measurable local atomic disorder. We also present temperature-dependent specific heat data in applied magnetic fields as high as 8 T that show features that are inconsistent with the antiferromagnetic Griffiths' phase model, but do support the conclusion that a Fermi liquid/NFL crossover temperature increases with applied field. These results are inconsistent with theoretical explanations that require strong disorder effects, but do support the view that U{sub 3}Ni{sub 3}Sn{sub 4} is a stoichoiometric, ordered material that exhibits NFL behavior, and is best described as being near an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point.
Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Booth, C. H.; Shlyk, L.; Nenkov, K.; Huber, J. G. & De Long, L. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty Recital: 2003-04-08 - Brian L. Bowman, euphonium and Steve Harlos, piano

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Concert presented at Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Brian, 1946- & Harlos, Steven, 1953-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 154, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 154, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 8, 2003

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 2003
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 174, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 174, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 8, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History