Collection of folklore stories and personal anecdotes that relate to travel in Texas, grouped into broad topics that include historic and modern modes of transportation. Index starts on page 281.

This document includes supporting material for an article titled, "Enthalpy of solvation correlations for gaseous solutes dissolved in water and in 1-octanol based on the Abraham model," published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

Devices become increasingly vulnerable to soft errors as their feature sizes shrink. Previously, soft errors primarily caused problems for space and high-atmospheric computing applications. Modern architectures now use features so small at sufficiently low voltages that soft errors are becoming significant even at terrestrial altitudes. The soft error vulnerability of iterative linear algebra methods, which many scientific applications use, is a critical aspect of the overall application vulnerability. These methods are often considered invulnerable to many soft errors because they converge from an imprecise solution to a precise one. However, we show that iterative methods can be vulnerable to soft errors, with a high rate of silent data corruptions. We quantify this vulnerability, with algorithms generating up to 8.5% erroneous results when subjected to a single bit-flip. Further, we show that detecting soft errors in an iterative method depends on its detailed convergence properties and requires more complex mechanisms than simply checking the residual. Finally, we explore inexpensive techniques to tolerate soft errors in these methods.

A Wetlands Mitigation Bank was established at SRS in 1997 as a compensatory alternative for unavoidable wetland losses. Prior to restoration activities, 16 sites included in the project were surveyed for the SRS Site Use system to serve as a protective covenant. Pre-restoration monitoring ended in Fall 2000, and post restoration monitoring began in the Winter/Spring of 2001. The total interior harvest in the 16 bays after harvesting the trees was 19.6 ha. The margins in the opencanopy, pine savanna margin treatments were thinned. Margins containing areas with immature forested stands (bay 5184 and portions of bay 5011) were thinned using a mechanical shredder in November 2001. Over 126 hectares were included in the study areas (interior + margin). Planting of two tree species and the transplanting of wetland grass species was successful. From field surveys, it was estimated that approximately 2700 Nyssa sylvatica and 1900 Taxodium distichum seedlings were planted in the eight forested bays resulting in an average planting density of ≈ 490 stems ha-1. One hundred seedlings of each species per bay (where available) were marked to evaluate survivability and growth. Wetland grass species were transplanted from donor sites on SRS to plots that ranged in size …

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This second report in a series of three reviews possible safeguards approaches for the new transuranic (TRU) fuel fabrication processes to be deployed at AFCF – specifically, the ceramic TRU (MOX) fuel fabrication line and the metallic (pyroprocessing) line. The most common TRU fuel has been fuel composed of mixed plutonium and uranium dioxide, referred to as “MOX”. However, under the Advanced Fuel Cycle projects custom-made fuels with higher contents of neptunium, americium, and curium may also be produced to evaluate if these “minor actinides” can be effectively burned and transmuted through irradiation in the ABR. A third and final report in this series will evaluate and review the advanced safeguards approach options for the ABR. In reviewing and developing the advanced safeguards approach for the new TRU fuel fabrication processes envisioned for AFCF, the existing international (IAEA) safeguards approach at the Plutonium Fuel Production Facility (PFPF) and the conceptual approach planned for the new J-MOX facility in Japan have been considered as a starting point of reference. The pyro-metallurgical reprocessing and fuel fabrication process at EBR-II near Idaho Falls also provided insight for safeguarding the additional metallic pyroprocessing fuel fabrication line planned for AFCF.

The ability of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) to directly and efficiently convert the chemical energy in hydrocarbon fuels to electricity places the technology in a unique and exciting position to play a significant role in the clean energy revolution. In order to make SOFC technology cost competitive with existing technologies, the operating temperatures have been decreased to the range where costly ceramic components may be substituted with inexpensive metal components within the cell and stack design. However, a number of issues have arisen due to this decrease in temperature: decreased electrolyte ionic conductivity, cathode reaction rate limitations, and a decrease in anode contaminant tolerance. While the decrease in electrolyte ionic conductivities has been countered by decreasing the electrolyte thickness, the electrode limitations have remained a more difficult problem. Nanostructuring SOFC electrodes addresses the major electrode issues. The infiltration method used in this dissertation to produce nanostructure SOFC electrodes creates a connected network of nanoparticles; since the method allows for the incorporation of the nanoparticles after electrode backbone formation, previously incompatible advanced electrocatalysts can be infiltrated providing electronic conductivity and electrocatalysis within well-formed electrolyte backbones. Furthermore, the method is used to significantly enhance the conventional electrode design by adding secondary …

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Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.

Photograph taken at the annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert held at the Bruton Theatre by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.