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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 257, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 257, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alvin Sun-Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

Alvin Sun-Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 45, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Looby, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 61, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 61, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Dobbs, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detecting exposure to environmental organic toxins in individual cells: towards development of a micro-fabricated device (open access)

Detecting exposure to environmental organic toxins in individual cells: towards development of a micro-fabricated device

A new method is being developed to quickly screen for the human exposure potential to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorines (OCs). The development involves two key elements: identifying suitable signals that represent intracellular changes that are specific to PAH and OC exposure, and constructing a device to guide the biological cell growth so that signals from individual cells are consistent and reproducible. We are completing the identification of suitable signals by using synchrotron radiation-based (SR) Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectromicroscopy in the mid-infrared region (4000-400 cm-1). Distinct changes have been observed in the IR spectra after treatment of human cells in culture medium with PAHs and OCs. The potential use of this method for detecting exposure to PAHs and OCs has been tested and compared to a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay that quantifies increased expression of the CYP1A1 gene in response to exposu re to PAHs or OCs.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Holman, Hoi-Ying N.; Zhang, Miqin; Goth-Goldstein, Regine; Martin, Michael C.; Russell, Marion; McKinney, Wayne R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Turbulence Closure Schemes on Gas/Aerosol Phase Chemistry in Mexico City (open access)

Effect of Turbulence Closure Schemes on Gas/Aerosol Phase Chemistry in Mexico City

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Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Stalker, J. R. & McNair, L. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ignition Analysis of a Porous Energetic Material - II. Ignition at a Closed Heated End (open access)

Ignition Analysis of a Porous Energetic Material - II. Ignition at a Closed Heated End

A continuation of an ignition analysis for porous energetic materials subjected to a constant energy flux is presented. In the first part (I), the analysis was developed for the case of an open-end, semi-infinite material such that gas flow, generated by thermal expansion, flowed out of the porous solid, thereby removing energy from the system. In the present study, the case of a closed end is considered, and thus the thermally-induced gas flow is now directed into the solid. In these studies, an asymptotic perturbation analysis, based on the smallness of the gas-to-solid density ratio and the largeness of the activation energy, is utilized to describe the inert and transition stages leading to thermal runaway. In both cases it is found that the effects of porosity provide a leading-order reduction in the time to ignition relative to that for the nonporous problem, arising from the reduced amount of solid material that must be heated and the difference in thermal conductivities of the solid and gaseous phases. A correction to the leading-order ignition-delay time, however, is provided by the convective flow of gas through the solid, and the sign of this correction is shown to depend on the direction of the …
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Margolis, S. B.; Telengator, A. M. & Williams, F. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Systems for ARM'S SGP and NSA Sites. (open access)

Metadata Systems for ARM'S SGP and NSA Sites.

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Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Doty, Kathy J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 3, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 3, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 3, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 3, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Annual Site Environmental Report for Calendar Year 1997 (open access)

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Annual Site Environmental Report for Calendar Year 1997

The results of the 1997 environmental surveillance and monitoring program for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are presented and discussed. The purpose of this report is to provide the U.S. Department of Energy and the public with information on the level of radioactive and non-radioactive pollutants, if any, that are added to the environment as a result of PPPL's operations. During Calendar Year 1997, PPPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) completed fifteen years of fusion experiments begun in 1982. Over the course of three and half years of deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasma experiments, PPPL set a world record of 10.7 million watts of controlled fusion power, more than 700 tritium shots pulsed into the reactor vessel generating more than 5.6 x 10<sup>20</sup> neutron and 1.6 gigajoules of fusion energy and researchers studied plasma science experimental data, which included "enhanced reverse shear techniques." As TFTR was completing its historic operations, PPPL participated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Columbia University, and the University of Washington (Seattle) in a collaboration effort to design the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). This next device, NSTX, is located in the former TFTR Hot Cell on D site, and it is designed to be a smaller …
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Finley, V.L. and Levine, J.D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 101, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 101, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Horn, Richard A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 24, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999 (open access)

The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 24, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Bulletin: January 10, 1999] (open access)

[Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Bulletin: January 10, 1999]

Church bulletin listing the order of worship for the 7:30 and 11:00 Sunday morning services at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, as well as various notes about upcoming events, congregational news, and other information of relevance to church members.
Date: January 10, 1999
Creator: Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church (Houston, Tex.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
3D Imaging of Porous Media Using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy with Application to Microscale Transport Processes (open access)

3D Imaging of Porous Media Using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy with Application to Microscale Transport Processes

We present advances in the application of laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) to image, reconstruct, and characterize statistically the microgeometry of porous geologic and engineering materials. We discuss technical and practical aspects of this imaging technique, including both its advantages and limitations. Confocal imaging can be used to optically section a material, with sub-micron resolution possible in the lateral and axial planes. The resultant volumetric image data, consisting of fluorescence intensities for typically {approximately}50 million voxels in XYZ space, can be used to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the two-phase medium. We present several examples of this application, including studying pore geometry in sandstone, characterizing brittle failure processes in low-porosity rock deformed under triaxial loading conditions in the laboratory, and analyzing the microstructure of porous ceramic insulations. We then describe approaches to extract statistical microgeometric descriptions from volumetric image data, and present results derived from confocal volumetric data sets. Finally, we develop the use of confocal image data to automatically generate a three-dimensional mesh for numerical pore-scale flow simulations.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Fredrich, J.T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development (open access)

Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed airport funding issues, focusing on: (1) the amount airports are spending on capital development and the sources of those funds; (2) comparing airports' plans for development with current funding levels; and (3) what effect will various proposals to increase or make better use of existing funding have on airports' ability to fulfill their capital development plans."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 284, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 284, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analyzing industrial furnace efficiency using comparative visualization in a virtual reality environment. (open access)

Analyzing industrial furnace efficiency using comparative visualization in a virtual reality environment.

We describe an interactive toolkit used to perform comparative analysis of two or more data sets arising from numerical simulations. Several techniques have been incorporated into this toolkit, including (1) successive visualization of individual data sets, (2) data comparison techniques such as computation and visualization of the differences between data sets, and (3) image comparison methods such as scalar field height profiles plotted in a common coordinate system. We describe each technique in detail and show example usage in an industrial application aimed at designing an efficient, low-NOX burner for industrial furnaces. Critical insights are obtained by interactively adjusted color maps, data culling, and data manipulation. New paradigms for scaling small values in the data comparison technique are described. The display device used for this application was the CAVE virtual reality theater, and we describe the user interface to the visualization toolkit and the benefits of immersive 3D visualization for comparative analysis.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Freitag, L. & Urness, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Architectural Surety Applications for Building Response to Dynamic Loads (open access)

Architectural Surety Applications for Building Response to Dynamic Loads

This paper provides a summary introduction to the emerging area of Architectural Surety{trademark} applications for buildings and infrastructures that are subjected to dynamic loads from blast and naturally occurring events. This technology area has been under investigation to assist with the definition of risks associated with dynamic loads and to provide guidance for determining the required upgrading and retrofitting techniques suggested for reducing building and infrastructure vulnerabilities to such dynamic forces. This unique approach involves the application of risk management techniques for solving problems of the as-built environment through the application of security, safety, and reliability principles developed in the nuclear weapons programs of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and through the protective structures programs of the German Ministry of Defense (MOD). The changing responsibilities of engineering design professionals are addressed in light of the increased public awareness of structural and facility systems' vulnerabilities to malevolent, normal, and abnormal environment conditions. Brief discussions are also presented on (1) the need to understand how dynamic pressures are affected by the structural failures they cause, (2) the need to determine cladding effects on columns, walls, and slabs, and (3) the need to establish effective standoff distance for perimeter barriers. A …
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Matalucci, R.V. & Mayrhofer, C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argonne National Laboratory - West's approach to filter characterization. (open access)

Argonne National Laboratory - West's approach to filter characterization.

Like other DOE facilities, ANL-W uses a variety of nuclear grade, industrial grade, or furnace-type particulate filters to control airborne radioactivity and hazardous contaminants in radiological containment structures or processes. As designed, these filters entrain and ultimately concentrate contaminants in the media. Toxic metal contaminants include cadmium, chromium, lead; and mercury present in sufficient concentrations to exhibit the hazardous waste characteristic of toxicity as defined in 40 CFR 261.24. Radionuclide contaminants deposited in the media may at times accumulate in sufficient quantity to classify the filter as transuranic or remote-handled waste. Upon their removal from the ventilation system, these particulate filters become wastes, which must be characterized to determine their hazardous and radioactive classifications. A well defined filter characterization process is essential for the proper/consistent waste characterization and minimization and for maintaining personnel radiological exposures as-low-as-reasonably-achievable (ALARA) (1,2). ANL-W has developed an approach to filter sampling and characterization to meet these needs. The ANL-W filter sampling and characterization process is designed to ensure representative sampling and/or process knowledge is utilized in characterizing the filters. The data obtained through sampling and/or process knowledge is used to show compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (3) and Treatment/Storage/Disposal Facility Waste Acceptance …
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Miller, T. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 88, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 88, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Dobbs, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calorimetric Studies of the Energetics of Order-Disorder in the System Mg(1-x)Fe(x)Ca(CO(3))(2) (open access)

Calorimetric Studies of the Energetics of Order-Disorder in the System Mg(1-x)Fe(x)Ca(CO(3))(2)

Calorimetric studies by Chai and Navrotsky (1996) on dolomite-ankerite energetic have been extended by including two additional types of samples: a very disordered stoichiometric MgCa(CO{sub 3}){sub 2} prepared from low temperature aqueous solution and three largely ordered natural samples of intermediate iron content. Combining these data with previous work, three distinct trends of energetic can be seen: those for samples with nearly complete order, nearly complete disorder, and intermediate order. From these trends, the enthalpy of complete disordering is estimated to be 33 {+-} 6 kJ/mol for MgCa(CO{sub 3}){sub 2} and 18 {+-} 5 kJ/mol for FeCa(CO{sub 3}){sub 2}.
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Brady, P.; Dooley, D.; Navrotsky, A. & Reeder, R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization Report on Sand, Slag, and Crucible Residues and on Fluoride Residues (open access)

Characterization Report on Sand, Slag, and Crucible Residues and on Fluoride Residues

This paper reports on the chemical characterization of the sand, slag, and crucible (SS and C) residues and the fluoride residues that may be shipped from the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) to Savannah River Site (SRS).
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: Murray, A.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library