Texas Pecan Pest Management Newsletter, Volume 92, Number 8, August 1992 (open access)

Texas Pecan Pest Management Newsletter, Volume 92, Number 8, August 1992

Newsletter focusing on pecan disease and pest control in Texas, including prevention, identification, treatment, and educational opportunities.
Date: August 24, 1992
Creator: Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Commission of Texas Oil and Gas Division Annual Report: 1991, Volume 1 (open access)

Railroad Commission of Texas Oil and Gas Division Annual Report: 1991, Volume 1

First part of an annual report of the Texas Railroad Commission's Oil and Gas Division providing background on the industry and the agency's activities, information related to the production of oil and gas, and data regarding production by field.
Date: August 24, 1992
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas. Oil and Gas Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Nuclear Reactor with a Transverse Air Gap (open access)

The Nuclear Reactor with a Transverse Air Gap

Diffusion theory and transport theory approaches to the problem of a nuclear reactor with a transverse air gap are compared. It is suggested that the differences in results for thin gaps is due to the fact that diffusion theory does not adequately represent the flux distribution in the immediate vicinity of the gap. For mathematical conveniences previous treatments of the gap problem have made use of fictitious image piles which exaggerate the neutron losses. The extent of the error is estimated by direct neutron leakage calculations.
Date: August 24, 1954
Creator: Chernick, J. & Kaplan, I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eurochemic Questions -- Preliminary Report (open access)

Eurochemic Questions -- Preliminary Report

The referenced memo asked several questions on the operation of the Purex Plant which are of interest to the Eurochemic personnel. These questions are answered below. 1. A qualitative description of the nitric acid recovery systems is desired -- flow of materials, number of pieces of equipment, etc.
Date: August 24, 1959
Creator: Geier, R. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eddy Current Ultrasonic Transducer (open access)

Eddy Current Ultrasonic Transducer

In the field of nondestructive testing the ultrasonic test method is used extensively. In this method ultrasonic energy generated by a transducer is caused to enter the test specimen. The effect on the transducer is cause to enter the test specimen. The effect on the transmission or reflection of the ultrasonic energy by differing test specimen structure is used as an indirect measure of test specimen characteristics.
Date: August 24, 1959
Creator: Libby, Hugo L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of a Nuclear Incident in a Redox Dissolver (open access)

Analysis of a Nuclear Incident in a Redox Dissolver

Since the start of E-metal processing in December, 1958, critical mass control in the Redox dissolvers has been provided by a combination of administrative controls, revised dissolver charging procedures, and new dissolving processes and operation control procedures. These were all based on a maximum allowable charge of E-Metal to the dissolvers which was equivalent to 45 percent of the minimum critical mass.
Date: August 24, 1959
Creator: Neely, V. I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coating Apparatus and Mathod. (open access)

Coating Apparatus and Mathod.

Patent for a new apparatus into which long objects such as pipes can be placed, dipped into coating material, and spun so that objects are coated evenly.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Watrous, Edward L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose Reel (open access)

Hose Reel

Patent for a hose reel that makes water easily available to the people in a building that has caught fire and is more easily maneuverable.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Hamner, Edward M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pusher Attachment for Tractors. (open access)

Pusher Attachment for Tractors.

Patent for an improved tractor attachment that is efficient to operate. The attachment can be fixated to connect both traditional tractors and grain headers.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Records, Paul A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Bed and Rail-Support. (open access)

Railroad-Bed and Rail-Support.

Patent for increased construction and durability of railway beds and their supports. The new design allows for rail supports to be removed and replaced without disrupting the road bed portion.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Usher, George S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft Bearing. (open access)

Shaft Bearing.

Patent for Improvements in Shaft Bearing. This bearing shaft is used to withstand heavy thrusts.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Ball, Authur T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent introduces the inventor's specific improvements to oil-burning stoves. The air and oil are fed into the chamber of the stove and thoroughly mixed before burning.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Beckman, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General's Office Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 (open access)

Texas Attorney General's Office Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021

Report submitted by the Office of Attorney General to the Texas 86th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, and supporting documentation.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Laws Passed By The 1995 Texas Legislature Affecting People With Disabilities (open access)

Texas Laws Passed By The 1995 Texas Legislature Affecting People With Disabilities

This describes about various things faced by people with disabilities due to the laws passed by the Texas Legislature.
Date: August 24, 1995
Creator: Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Photoproduction of Mesons from Hydrogen (open access)

The Photoproduction of Mesons from Hydrogen

In an effort to gain information on the nature of the photon-meson and photon-nucleon interaction, a study of the artificial production of mesons by photons has been made at the Berkeley synchrotron. The major effort of this research was concentrated on a measurement of the energy and angular distribution of u+-mesons produced when the photons strike a target of liquid hydrogen. Detection of the mesons is accomplished electronically by the technique of delayed coincidence.
Date: August 24, 1950
Creator: Bishop, Amasa Stone
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lattice Cell Calculations I:  Determination of X for a Uranium Slug (open access)

Lattice Cell Calculations I: Determination of X for a Uranium Slug

A first iteration of the diffusion theory result is executed for the thermal flux distribution in a 7.5" graphite-uranium lattice cell using the integral equation formulation of transport theory.
Date: August 24, 1953
Creator: Stuart, G. W., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical engineering problems associated with construction of the Shiva Laser Fusion Facility (open access)

Optical engineering problems associated with construction of the Shiva Laser Fusion Facility

The Shiva laser system is part of a new 20 terawatt laser facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The system contains more than $5,000,000 worth of optics. This paper discusses the various optical components, typical component quantities and specification, and the problem of laser damage to components.
Date: August 24, 1977
Creator: Godwin, R. O.; Bliss, E. S.; Glaze, J. A.; O'Neal, W. C.; Patton, H. G.; Summers, M. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 45, Number 34, August 24, 1985 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 45, Number 34, August 24, 1985

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.
Date: August 24, 1985
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measurement of Electron Impact Collisional Excitation Cross Sections of Ni to Ga-Like Gold (open access)

Measurement of Electron Impact Collisional Excitation Cross Sections of Ni to Ga-Like Gold

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Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: May, M.; Beiersdorfer, P.; Jordan, N.; Scofield, J.; Reed, K.; Hansen, S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physics and Applications of NIS Junctions (open access)

Physics and Applications of NIS Junctions

This paper reviews the physics and applications of Normal-Insulator-Superconductor (NIS) tunnel junctions. The current-voltage properties of NIS junctions are diode-like with a strong temperature dependence. Hence, these structures can be used as sensitive thermometers at temperatures well below the energy gap, {Delta}, of the superconducting electrode. For junction voltages comparable to {Delta}/q, current flow removes energy from the normal electrode. This property has been exploited to build refrigerators capable of cooling thin-film circuits from 0.3 K to 0.1 K. Calorimeters and bolometers for the detection of X-rays and millimeter-wave radiation, respectively, have successfully been built from NIS junctions. NIS junctions have also been used to probe the superconducting state. Finally, recent ideas for the use of NIS junctions as simple circuit elements are described.
Date: August 24, 2001
Creator: Ullom, J N
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
End stoppering in mirror machines (open access)

End stoppering in mirror machines

Like toroidal confinement, confinement by a potential barrier offers the possibility of unlimited Q if the barrier is good enough. For a barrier height PHI, approximately tau approximately equal to tau/sub collision/ exp PHI/T/sub i/. These notes review previous ideas about how to establish a potential barrier at the ends of a mirror machine and we also discuss a different possibility using mirror confinement itself to establish a barrier utilizing the positive ambipolar potential characteristic of mirror machines. One example consists of three mirrors in tandem, the two at the ends having a much smaller volume. Then mirror confinement in the end cells would be used to establish ambipolar barriers that stopper up the ends of the central, large mirror cell. An example is discussed in which, by approximate calculation, it appears that ignition might occur in a center cell 10 to 20 meters long and the overall Q is 5 or more, including the power required to sustain the end cells by neutral injection.
Date: August 24, 1976
Creator: Fowler, T. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LLNL PuPS Weld Qualification Plan (open access)

LLNL PuPS Weld Qualification Plan

This plan ensures the quality of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) DOE 3013 Standard Plutonium Packaging System (PuPS) can welds meet the requirements stipulated in the DOE Standard 3013-00 ''Stabilization, Packaging, and Storage of Plutonium-Bearing Materials'' (Reference 1) and G-ESR-G-00035, Revision 1 dated July 26, 2000, ''Savannah River Site Stabilization and Packaging Requirements for Plutonium Bearing Materials for Storage.'' (Reference 2) This plan also meets the requirements for a weld qualification plan as stipulated in the G-ESR-G-00035. The Outer Can weld must meet ASME VIII & IX. The Outer Can welds will be evaluated initially and during production. The initial evaluation will be done by performing the following: ASME IX welding procedure qualification, ASME IX operator qualification, and a 25 can Dummy Outer Can (DOC) verification run. During production, product cans and DOCs will be evaluated. Product cans will be evaluated by a combination of visual examination of the weld faces and the use of helium leak checking. The DOCs will be examined by visual examination, leak check, radiographic examination and metallographic examination. Appendix 2 summarizes the requirements of each of these evaluations. The Inner Can weld must meet the leak tightness requirements of DOE 3013. The Inner Can …
Date: August 24, 2001
Creator: Dodson, K E & Riley, D
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion Temperature Measurements in SSPX (open access)

Ion Temperature Measurements in SSPX

The Ion Doppler Spectrometer instrument on the Sustained Spheromak Physics experiment is described, along with background about it's operation. Results are presented from recent experimental runs, and the data is compared to the results of simple statistical models of heat exchange in two species gasses.
Date: August 24, 2001
Creator: Auerbach, D W; Hill, D N & McLean, H S
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radsensor: Optical Dielectric-Modulation Sensing of Ionizing Radiation for Diagnostics for Weapons Physics Ignition Experiments (open access)

Radsensor: Optical Dielectric-Modulation Sensing of Ionizing Radiation for Diagnostics for Weapons Physics Ignition Experiments

The objective of this program is to investigate and develop a novel class of high speed single transient ionizing radiation detector technologies that will enable critical diagnostics for the Stockpile Stewardship Management Program (such as ignition and other experiments) that is currently lacking. The goal is to achieve temporal resolution in the {approx}100 fs to 1 ps range, provide adequate fidelity to accurately measure DT burn histories, and extrapolate these to probable impact on nuclear weapon phenomena. This detector concept will be capable of femtosecond temporal response, good sensitivity (single x-ray photons), and can be fabricated into imaging arrays.
Date: August 24, 2000
Creator: Lowry, M; Lee, H; Larson, M; Delgado, G & Thielen, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library