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Trends in household energy conservation attitudes and behaviors in the northwest: 1983-1987 (open access)

Trends in household energy conservation attitudes and behaviors in the northwest: 1983-1987

The objective of this report is to present the results of a 1987 telephone survey on attitudes and behaviors toward energy conservation and to compare them with the results of similar surveys in 1983 and 1985. The surveys were conducted in the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) service area: Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Western Montana. Data collected during the surveys were analyzed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory to assist the BPA in its energy conservation program planning, design, and marketing.
Date: June 1, 1988
Creator: Schultz, R. W. & Bailey, B. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incinerator ash dissolution model for the system: Plutonium, nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid (open access)

Incinerator ash dissolution model for the system: Plutonium, nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid

This research accomplished two goals. The first was to develop a computer program to simulate a cascade dissolver system. This program would be used to predict the bulk rate of dissolution in incinerator ash. The other goal was to verify the model in a single-stage dissolver system using Dy/sub 2/O/sub 3/. PuO/sub 2/ (and all of the species in the incinerator ash) was assumed to exist as spherical particles. A model was used to calculate the bulk rate of plutonium oxide dissolution using fluoride as a catalyst. Once the bulk rate of PuO/sub 2/ dissolution and the dissolution rate of all soluble species were calculated, mass and energy balances were written. A computer program simulating the cascade dissolver system was then developed. Tests were conducted on a single-stage dissolver. A simulated incinerator ash mixture was made and added to the dissolver. CaF/sub 2/ was added to the mixture as a catalyst. A 9M HNO/sub 3/ solution was pumped into the dissolver system. Samples of the dissolver effluent were analyzed for dissolved and F concentrations. The computer program proved satisfactory in predicting the F concentrations in the dissolver effluent. The experimental sparge air flow rate was predicted to within 5.5%. The …
Date: June 1, 1988
Creator: Brown, E V
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of station blackout accidents at nuclear power plants: Technical findings related to unresolved safety issue A-44: Final report (open access)

Evaluation of station blackout accidents at nuclear power plants: Technical findings related to unresolved safety issue A-44: Final report

''Station Blackout,'' which is the complete loss of alternating current (AC) electrical power in a nuclear power plant, has been designated as Unresolved Safety Issue A-44. Because many safety systems required for reactor core decay heat removal and containment heat removal depend on AC power, the consequences of a station blackout could be severe. This report documents the findings of technical studies performed as part of the program to resolve this issue. The important factors analyzed include: the fequency of loss of offsite power; the probability that emergency or onsite AC power supplies would be unavailable; the capability and reliability of decay heat removal systems independent of AC power; and the likelihood that offsite power would be restored before systems that cannot operate for extended periods without AC power fail, thus resulting in core damage. This report also addresses effects of different designs, locations, and operational features on the estimated frequency of core damage resulting from station blackout events.
Date: June 1, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling of Integrated Environmental Control Systems for Coal-Fired Power Plants Quarterly Report: April-June 1988 (open access)

Modeling of Integrated Environmental Control Systems for Coal-Fired Power Plants Quarterly Report: April-June 1988

This is the third quarterly report of DOE Contract No. DE-AC22- 87PC79864, entitled Modeling of Integrated Environmental Control Systems for Coal-Fired Power Plants.'' This report summarizes accomplishments during the period April 1, 1988 to June 30, 1988. Our efforts during the last quarter focused on, (1) completion of a sulfuric acid plant model (used in conjunction with by-product recovery processes for SO{sub 2}/NO{sub x} removal) and, (2) an update the NOXSO process model. Other accomplishments involved revision and expansion of the enthalpy data algorithms used for process energy balances. The sections below present the details of these developments. References are included at the end of each section.
Date: June 1, 1988
Creator: Rubin, E. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of optimum electrolyte composition for molten carbonate fuel cells (open access)

Determination of optimum electrolyte composition for molten carbonate fuel cells

The objective of this study is to determine the optimum electrolyte composition for molten carbonate fuel cells. To accomplish this, the contractor will provide: (1) Comprehensive reports of on-going efforts to optimize carbonate composition. (2) A list of characteristics affected by electrolyte composition variations (e.g. ionic conductivity, vapor pressure, melting range, gas solubility, exchange current densities on NiO, corrosion and cathode dissolution effects). (3) Assessment of the overall effects that these characteristics have on state-of-the-art cell voltage and lifetime.
Date: June 1, 1988
Creator: Yuh, C. Y. & Pigeaud, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Applicant Information (open access)

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Applicant Information

Information on the applicants to the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science for the 1988 fall semester.
Date: June 9, 1988
Creator: Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memo from Rogers Redding to Alfred Hurley, June 22, 1988] (open access)

[Memo from Rogers Redding to Alfred Hurley, June 22, 1988]

Memo from Rogers Redding to Alfred Hurley, on June 22, 1988, informing him of the university's cooperation with the Texas Prefreshmen Engineering Preparation program, in regards to Hurley's hope to bring minority students into the Academy.
Date: June 22, 1988
Creator: Redding, Rogers W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Policy Statement on Human Sexuality (open access)

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Policy Statement on Human Sexuality

The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science's policy statement on human sexuality, including policies on programming and sex education by Academy staff, dating, the health center, and pregnancies.
Date: June 24, 1988
Creator: Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physics Division Annual Review: April 1, 1987-March 31, 1988 (open access)

Physics Division Annual Review: April 1, 1987-March 31, 1988

Annual report of activities of the Argonne National Laboratory Physics Division, including ATLAS research, medium-energy nuclear physics and weak interactions, theoretical nuclear physics, and atomic and various molecular physics research.
Date: June 1988
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Physics Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paying the Bill: Manufacturing and America's Trade Deficit (open access)

Paying the Bill: Manufacturing and America's Trade Deficit

This special report analyzes the causes of the deterioration in America’s trade performance and examines the importance of U.S. manufacturing in helping the nation improve its position in international trade. The report was requested by Senator John Heinz as part of an assessment of technology, innovation and U.S. trade requested by the Senate Committee on Finance; the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; and the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. A final report will be published in 1989.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Quality of Medical Care: Information for Consumers (open access)

The Quality of Medical Care: Information for Consumers

Changes in how physicians and hospitals are paid have made individual consumers, health insurers, employers, and medical providers more sensitive to the cost implications of their decisions. At the same time, these policy changes have elevated the importance of having consumers be informed about the quality of medical providers. Purchasers of medical care (individual consumers, employers, health insurers) need to know about any differences in quality so that they can weigh quality along with cost in making decisions.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grassroots Development: The African Development Foundation (open access)

Grassroots Development: The African Development Foundation

This is OTA’S third report on U.S. foreign aid and African agriculture and the most comprehensive look at a single program. It complements a larger, more general work in press on enhancing agriculture in Africa and its already-published companion report on the Sahel Development Program. The House Foreign Affairs Committee, its Subcommittee on Africa, and the House Select Committee on Hunger requested this study. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on African Affairs, endorsed their request.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How effective is AIDS education? (open access)

How effective is AIDS education?

This paper summarizes what is known about the effectiveness of AIDS education programs and programs in other health-related areas. Also documented are AIDS education programs currently being funded by selected Federal agencies. What is known and not known about the effectiveness of past education can guide the design of future AIDS education and the research agendas of Federal agencies.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercializing high-temperature superconductivity (open access)

Commercializing high-temperature superconductivity

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS), research laboratories around the world have pushed the temperature limits steadily upward, opening the way to commercial applications with potentially revolutionary impacts. The scientific race is becoming a commercial race, one featuring U.S. and Japanese companies, and one that the United States could lose. Indeed, American firms may already be falling behind in commercializing the technology of superconductivity.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educating scientists and engineers: grade school to grad school (open access)

Educating scientists and engineers: grade school to grad school

This report examines how and why students are drawn toward or deterred from pursuing a career in science or engineering. Schools, families, peers, informal education efforts-such as museums, science centers, special programs, and television— all play a role. The subtitle of this report—Grade School to Grad School—emphasizes that many factors and institutions must be understood as all one system.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Materials by Design (open access)

Advanced Materials by Design

This assessment responds to a joint request from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to analyze the military and commercial opportunities presented by new structural materials technologies, and to outline the Federal policy objectives that are consistent with those opportunities.
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Certified copy: Deposition of Ronald Woodroof] (open access)

[Certified copy: Deposition of Ronald Woodroof]

Certified copy of the deposition of Ronald Woodroof.
Date: June 16, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter: Texas Human Rights Foundation to the Dallas Gay Alliance] (open access)

[Letter: Texas Human Rights Foundation to the Dallas Gay Alliance]

Letter from the Texas Human Rights Foundation to the Dallas Gay Alliance supporting the class action lawsuit against Parkland Hospital.
Date: June 16, 1988
Creator: Texas Human Rights Foundation
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1988
Creator: Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1988 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 9, 1988
Creator: Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1988 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 2, 1988
Creator: Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1988 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 30, 1988
Creator: Tooley, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1988 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 23, 1988
Creator: Tooley, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1988
Creator: Tooley, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History