Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The Petascale Simulation Initiative began as an LDRD project in the middle of Fiscal Year 2004. The goal of the project was to develop techniques to allow large-scale scientific simulation applications to better exploit the massive parallelism that will come with computers running at petaflops per second. One of the major products of this work was the design and prototype implementation of a programming model and a runtime system that lets applications extend data-parallel applications to use task parallelism. By adopting task parallelism, applications can use processing resources more flexibly, exploit multiple forms of parallelism, and support more sophisticated multiscale and multiphysics models. Our programming model was originally called the Symponents Architecture but is now known as Cooperative Parallelism, and the runtime software that supports it is called Coop. (However, we sometimes refer to the programming model as Coop for brevity.) We have documented the programming model and runtime system in a submitted conference paper [1]. This report focuses on the specific accomplishments of the Cooperative Parallelism project (as we now call it) under Tech Base funding in FY2007. Development and implementation of the model under LDRD funding alone proceeded to the point of demonstrating a large-scale materials modeling application …

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Between 2001 and 2004, an average of more than 1.5 million people annually filed for personal bankruptcy protection. In April 2005, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (Reform Act) was enacted, in part, to address certain factors viewed as contributing to an escalation in bankruptcy filings. Described as representing the most comprehensive set of reforms in more than 25 years, the Reform Act, among other things, requires those filers with the ability to pay some of their debts from future earnings to enter into repayment plans under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code instead of liquidating their assets under Chapter 7 and granting the debtor a discharge from eligible debts. Individuals usually file for bankruptcy under one of two chapters of the Bankruptcy Code. Under Chapter 13, filers submit a repayment plan to the court agreeing to pay part or all of their debts over time, usually 3 to 5 years. Under Chapter 7, the filer's eligible assets are reduced to cash and distributed to creditors in accordance with distribution priorities and procedures set out in the Bankruptcy Code. A large majority of cases filed under …

The North Aleutian Basin Planning Area of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is a large geographic area with significant ecological and natural resources. The Basin includes most of the southeastern part of the Bering Sea continental shelf including all of Bristol Bay. The area supports important habitat for a wide variety of species and globally significant habitat for birds and marine mammals including federally listed species. Villages and communities of the Alaska Peninsula and other areas bordering or near the Basin rely on its natural resources (especially commercial and subsistence fishing) for much of their sustenance and livelihood. The offshore area of the North Aleutian Basin is considered to have important hydrocarbon reserves, especially natural gas. In 2006, the MMS released a draft proposed program, Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 2007-2012 and an accompanying draft programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS). The draft proposed program identified two lease sales proposed in the North Aleutian Basin in 2010 and 2012, subject to restrictions. The area proposed for leasing in the Basin was restricted to the Sale 92 Area in the southwestern portion. Additional EISs will be needed to evaluate the potential effects of specific lease actions, exploration activities, and …

Photograph of a UNT College of Engineering professor standing at the base of a very large tree at a point in the Greenbelt Corridor. He was leading a small group of students for research concerning environmental and biological engineering.

Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.

Photograph of fireworks going off at Eagle Point on the UNT campus at a gathering for Homecoming. There are red and white bursts and several people on the ground nearby.

Response form from Donnis Bagget to the TDNA Board of Directors, on October 26, 2007. The response form is in regards to the nomination of a treasurer to break the tie between Patrick Birminham or Darrell Coleman. Nominations are to be returned Monday, October 29, 2007 as the nomination committee must move onto other elections.

A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.

Photograph of Talons members standing in a line on the field near the Homecoming Bonfire pyre. They are in the dark and are holding out their torches, which are on fire.

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly magazine edition of the daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) degree.

Uranium (U) is an important risk-driving contaminant at the Hanford Site. Over 200,000 kg have been released to the vadose zone over the course of site operations, and a number of vadose zone and groundwater plumes containing the uranyl cation [UO22+, U(VI)] have been identified. U is recognized to be of moderate-to-high mobility, conditions dependent. The site is currently making decisions on several of these plumes with long-lasting implications, and others are soon to come. Uranium is one of nature’s most intriguing and chemically complex elements. The fate and transport of U(VI) has been studied over the long lifetime of the Hanford Site by various contractors, along with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its collaborators. Significant research has more recently been contributed by the national scientific community with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science through its Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD). This report represents a first attempt to integrate these findings into a cohesive view of the subsurface geochemistry of U at the Hanford Site. The objective is to inform all interested Hanford parties about the in-ground inventory of U and its geochemical behavior. This report also comments on the prospects for the …

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Many recent Social Security reform proposals to improve program solvency include elements that would reduce benefits currently scheduled for future recipients. To date, debate has focused primarily on the potential impact on retirees, with less attention to the effects on other Social Security recipients, such as disabled workers and dependents. As these beneficiaries may have fewer alternative sources of income than traditional retirees, there has been interest in considering various options to protect the benefits of disabled workers and certain dependents. This report examines (1) how certain elements of Social Security reform proposals could affect disability and dependent benefits, (2) options for protecting these benefits and how they might affect disabled workers and dependents, and (3) how protecting benefits could affect the Social Security program. To conduct this study, GAO used a microsimulation model to simulate benefits under various reform scenarios. GAO also interviewed experts and reviewed various reform plans, current literature, and GAO's past work."

Photograph of flag runners at the pre-homecoming and bonfire Spirit March. They are both holding their flags closed and behind them is a wagon and Boomer the Cannon. The street is also visible behind them.

Assess the steady-state flammability level at normal and off-normal ventilation conditions. The methodology of flammability analysis for Hanford tank waste is developed. The hydrogen generation rate model was applied to calculate the gas generation rate for 177 tanks. Flammability concentrations and the time to reach 25% and 100% of the lower flammability limit, and the minimum ventilation rate to keep from 100 of the LFL are calculated for 177 tanks at various scenarios.

Photograph of a student in a papier-mâché eagle mask. It is likely modeled after Scrappy, the UNT eagle mascot. His glasses are visible through the eye-holes and the UNT Homecoming bonfire is reflected in them.

Photograph of a student in a papier-mâché eagle mask at the UNT Homecoming bonfire. It is likely modeled after Scrappy, the UNT eagle mascot. His glasses are visible through the eye-holes and he is also wearing a white towel as a cape over his "MEAN GREEN" UNT shirt.

Photograph of a UNT student standing and gathering samples from a tree in the Greenbelt Corridor. He was there on a research trip for environmental and biological engineering and collected water, plant, and organic materials.

Photograph of a UNT student leaning over on the bank of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. He was gathering moss in the Greenbelt Corridor on a research trip for environmental and biological engineering. They also collected water and other organic materials.

Photograph of a UNT student taking samples of plant material from the trunk of a large tree. They were in the Greenbelt Corridor on a research trip for environmental and biological engineering collecting water and other organic materials.

Photograph of a UNT student standing and holding onto a tree in the Greenbelt Corridor. He was there on a research trip for environmental and biological engineering and collected water, plant, and organic materials.

Photograph of a UNT student standing and hugging a tree in the Greenbelt Corridor. He was there on a research trip for environmental and biological engineering and collected water, plant, and organic materials.