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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 236, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 236, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Analysis of Hazardous Biological Materials by MALDI Mass Spectrometry (open access)

Analysis of Hazardous Biological Materials by MALDI Mass Spectrometry

Analysis of Hazardous Biological Materials by MALDI Mass Spectrometry
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Wahl, Karen L.; Jarman, Kristin H.; Valentine, Nancy B.; Kingsley, Mark T.; Petersen, Catherine E.; Wunschel, Sharon C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AQUEOUS BIPHASE EXTRACTION FOR PROCESSING OF FINE COAL (open access)

AQUEOUS BIPHASE EXTRACTION FOR PROCESSING OF FINE COAL

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Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Osseo-Asare, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ba{sub 1{minus}x}Sr{sub x}TiO{sub 3} thin film sputter-growth processes and electrical property relationships for high frequency devices (open access)

Ba{sub 1{minus}x}Sr{sub x}TiO{sub 3} thin film sputter-growth processes and electrical property relationships for high frequency devices

Precise control of Ba{sub 1{minus}x}Sr{sub x}Ti0{sub 3} (BST) film composition is critical for the production of high-quality BST thin films. Specifically, it is known that nonstoichiometry greatly affects the electrical properties of BST film capacitors. The authors are investigating the composition-microstructure-electrical property relationships of polycrystalline BST films produced by magnetron sputter-deposition using a single target with a Ba/Sr ratio of 50/50 and a (Ba+Sr)/Ti ratio of 1.0. It was determined that the (Ba+Sr)/Ti ratios of these BST films could be adjusted from 0.73 to 0.98 by changing the total (Ar+O{sub 2}) process pressure, while the O{sub 2}/Ar ratio did not strongly affect the metal ion composition. The crystalline quality as well as the measured dielectric constant, dielectric tunability, and electrical breakdown voltage of BST films have been found to be strongly dependent on the composition of the BST films, especially the (Ba+Sr)/Ti ratio. The authors discuss the impact of BST film composition control, through film deposition and process parameters, on the electrical properties of BST capacitors for high frequency devices.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Im, J.; Auciello, O.; Streiffer, S. K.; Baumann, P. K.; Eastman, J. A.; Kaufman, D. Y. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 102, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 102, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Keasling, Edna & Fierro, Jennifer
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calderon cokemaking process/demonstration project (open access)

Calderon cokemaking process/demonstration project

This project deals with the demonstration of a coking process using proprietary technology of Calderon, with the following objectives geared to facilitate commercialization: (1) making coke of such quality as to be suitable for use in hard-driving, large blast furnaces; (2) providing proof that such a process is continuous and environmentally closed to prevent emissions; (3) demonstrating that high-coking-pressure (non-traditional) coal blends which cannot be safely charged into conventional by-product coke ovens can be used in the Calderon process; (4) conducting a blast furnace test to demonstrate the compatibility of the coke produced; and (5) demonstrating that coke can be produced economically, at a level competitive with coke imports. The activities of the past quarter continued to be focused on the following: Drafting of Contracts among the Stakeholders of the Team, Completion and Delivery of Proposal for Phase 2 Permitting and Environmental Work Engineering Progress Preparation of Final Report for Phase 1 DCAA Audit Funding for Phase 2.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Calderon, Albert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 106th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Act Issues in the 106th Congress

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Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collectivity of the ''Three-Phonon'' Region in {sup 100}Ru (open access)

Collectivity of the ''Three-Phonon'' Region in {sup 100}Ru

We have studied the quadrupole degree of freedom in a typical vibrational nucleus, {sup 100}Ru. From inelastic neutron scattering at the Van de Graaff accelerator of the University of Kentucky, lifetimes of states in {sup 100}Ru were determined. Absolute transition rates or limits thereon were extracted and compared to the theoretical description of this nucleus.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Genilloud, L.; Brown, T.B.; Corminboeuf, G & Garrett, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Grade Item (CGI) Dedication for Leak Detection Relays (open access)

Commercial Grade Item (CGI) Dedication for Leak Detection Relays

This Test Plan provides a test method to dedicate the leak detection relays used on the new Pumping and Instrumentation Control (PIC) skids. The new skids are fabricated on-site. The leak detection system is a safety class system per the Authorization Basis.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Koch, M. R. & Johns, B. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DART Adds Service for New Year's Eve, New Year's Day (open access)

DART Adds Service for New Year's Eve, New Year's Day

News release about modified DART service schedules during the winter holidays.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Defense Transportation: Preliminary Personal Property Pilot Results Are Inconclusive (open access)

Defense Transportation: Preliminary Personal Property Pilot Results Are Inconclusive

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the progress of the Department of Defense's (DOD) and Military Traffic Management Command's (MTMC) pilot program for the shipment of personal property, focusing on: (1) preliminary pilot results; (2) DOD's assessment of the industry proposal; and (3) MTMC's plan for assessing the pilot's results."
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Device physics of thin-film polycrystalline cells and modules: Phase 1 annual report: February 1998--January 1999 (open access)

Device physics of thin-film polycrystalline cells and modules: Phase 1 annual report: February 1998--January 1999

This report describes work done by Colorado State University (CSU) during Phase 1 of this subcontract. CSU researchers continued to make basic measurements on CI(G)S and CdTe solar cells fabricated at different labs, to quantitatively deduce the loss mechanisms in these cells, and to make appropriate comparisons that illuminate where progress is being made. Cells evaluated included the new record CIGS cell, CIS cells made with and without CdS, and those made by electrodeposition and electroless growth from solution. Work on the role of impurities focused on sodium in CIS. Cells with varying amounts of sodium added during CIS deposition were fabricated at NREL using four types of substrates. The best performance was achieved with 10{sup {minus}2}--10{sup {minus}1} at% sodium, and the relative merits of proposed mechanisms for the sodium effect were compared. Researchers also worked on the construction and testing of a fine-focused laser-beam apparatus to measure local variations in polycrystalline cell performance. A 1{micro}m spot was achieved, spatial reproducibility in one and two dimensions is less than 1 {micro}m, and photocurrent is reliably measured when the 1{micro}m spot is reduced as low as 1-sun in intensity. In elevated-temperature stress tests, typical CdTe cells held at 100 C under …
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Sites, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disorder-driven nonequilibrium melting studied by electron diffraction, brillouis scattering, and molecular dynamics (open access)

Disorder-driven nonequilibrium melting studied by electron diffraction, brillouis scattering, and molecular dynamics

In the present paper, a brief overview of the electron diffraction, Brillouin scattering and molecular dynamics studies of radiation-induced amorphization of ordered intermetallic compounds is presented. In these studies, measured changes in the velocity of surface acoustic phonons, lattice constant, and the Bragg-Williams long-range order parameter induced by irradiation were compared with the results of computer simulations of defect-induced amorphization. The results indicate that progressive chemical disordering of the superlattice structure during irradiation is accompanied by an expansion of the lattice and a large change in sound velocity corresponding to a {approximately} 50% decrease in the average shear modulus. The onset of amorphization occurs when the average shear modulus of the crystalline compound becomes equal to that of the amorphous phase. This elastic softening criterion for the onset of amorphization and the dependence of the average shear modulus on the long-range-order parameter are in excellent agreement with molecular dynamics simulations. Both the experimental observations and computer simulations confirm the predictions of the generalized Lindemann melting criterion which stipulates that thermodynamic melting of a defective crystal occurs when the sum of the dynamic and static mean-square atomic displacements reaches a critical value identical to that for melting of the defect-free crystal. …
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Okamoto, P. R.; Lam, N. Q. & Grimsditch, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed System Intruder Tools, Trinoo and Tribe Flood Network (open access)

Distributed System Intruder Tools, Trinoo and Tribe Flood Network

Trinoo and Tribe Flood Network (TFN) are new forms of denial of Service (DOS) attacks. attacks are designed to bring down a computer or network by overloading it with a large amount of network traffic using TCP, UDP, or ICMP. In the past, these attacks came from a single location and were easy to detect. Trinoo and TFN are distributed system intruder tools. These tools launch DoS attacks from multiple computer systems at a target system simultaneously. This makes the assault hard to detect and almost impossible to track to the original attacker. Because these attacks can be launched from hundreds of computers under the command of a single attacker, they are far more dangerous than any DoS attack launched from a single location. These distributed tools have only been seen on Solaris and Linux machines, but there is no reason why they could not be modified for UNIX machines. The target system can also be of any type because the attack is based on the TCP/IP architecture, not a flaw in any particular operating system (OS). CIAC considers the risks presented by these DoS tools to be high.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Criscuolo, P.J. & Rathbun, T
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: Assets DOD Contributes to Reducing the Illegal Drug Supply Have Declined (open access)

Drug Control: Assets DOD Contributes to Reducing the Illegal Drug Supply Have Declined

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the assets the Department of Defense (DOD) has contributed to reducing the illegal drug supply, focusing on: (1) DOD's plan for supporting U.S. counterdrug efforts and how DOD measures its effectiveness; (2) changes in the level of DOD support for counterdrug activities from fiscal year (FY) 1992 through FY 1999 and the reasons for the changes; and (3) obstacles DOD faces in providing counterdrug assistance to foreign governments."
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email: Huge victory in Vermont - State Supreme Court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal benefits] (open access)

[Email: Huge victory in Vermont - State Supreme Court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal benefits]

An email containing documents from the Human Rights Campaign press release announcing the Vermont Supreme Court ruling same-sex couples granting equal benefits and protections as opposite-sex couples.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email: Vermont decision could pave way for equality] (open access)

[Email: Vermont decision could pave way for equality]

Two documents containing an email with a press release from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The documents announced the Vermont Supreme Court's decision to grant the same benefits of opposite-sex couples to same-sex couples and it also includes a summary on how the LGBT movement will benefit from this ruling.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email: Vermont Supreme Court marriage ruling] (open access)

[Email: Vermont Supreme Court marriage ruling]

An email with a press release about the Vermont Supreme Court ruling same-sex couples to receive equal benefits and protections as opposite-sex couples.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email: Vt. Court Backs Gay-Couple Benefits] (open access)

[Email: Vt. Court Backs Gay-Couple Benefits]

An email with a press release announcing the Vermont Supreme Court ruling equal benefits and protection on same-sex couples in the state of Vermont. Questions are raised on how same-sex marriages would be implement in Legislative form.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environment and the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Seattle: Issues and Concerns (open access)

Environment and the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Seattle: Issues and Concerns

This meeting of the decision making body of the WTO was expected to make decisions that would lead to another round of negotiations on a wide variety of trade rules and related issues. Although the United States continues to assert the necessity of pursuing the twin goals of free trade and environmental protection and to argue that these need not be in conflict, controversy remains over how the multilateral trading system should address the specifics of environmental issues.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Geologic Data Package for 2001 Immobilized Low-Activity Waste Performance Assessment (open access)

Geologic Data Package for 2001 Immobilized Low-Activity Waste Performance Assessment

This database is a compilation of existing geologic data from both the existing and new immobilized low-activity waste disposal sites for use in the 2001 Performance Assessment. Data were compiled from both surface and subsurface geologic sources. Large-scale surface geologic maps, previously published, cover the entire 200-East Area and the disposal sites. Subsurface information consists of drilling and geophysical logs from nearby boreholes and stored sediment samples. Numerous published geological reports are available that describe the subsurface geology of the area. Site-specific subsurface data are summarized in tables and profiles in this document. Uncertainty in data is mainly restricted to borehole information. Variations in sampling and drilling techniques present some correlation uncertainties across the sites. A greater degree of uncertainty exists on the new site because of restricted borehole coverage. There is some uncertainty to the location and orientation of elastic dikes across the sites.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: Reidel, S. P. & Horton, D. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geotechnical Issues in Total System Performance Assessments of Yucca Mountain (open access)

Geotechnical Issues in Total System Performance Assessments of Yucca Mountain

A Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA) of Yucca Mountain consists of integrated sub-models and analyses of natural and engineered systems. Examples of subsystem models include unsaturated-zone flow and transport, seepage into drifts, coupled thermal hydrologic processes, transport through the engineered barrier system, and saturated-zone flow and transport. The TSPA evaluates the interaction of important processes among these subsystems, and it determines the impact of these processes on the overall performance measures (e.g., dose rate to humans). This paper summarizes the evaluation, abstraction, and combination of these subsystem models in a TSPA calculation, and it provides background on the individual TSPA subsystem components that are most directly impacted by geotechnical issues. The potential impact that geologic features, events, and processes have on the overall performance is presented, and an evaluation of the sensitivity of TSPA calculations to these issues is also provided.
Date: December 21, 1999
Creator: HO,CLIFFORD K.; HOUSEWORTH,JIM & WILSON,MICHAEL L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library