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Patent Law and Its Application to the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Examination of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984 ("The Hatch-Waxman Act")
None
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H. & Thomas, John R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pretest Round Robin Analysis of 1:4-Scale Prestressed Concrete Containment Vessel Model
The purpose of the program is to investigate the response of representative scale models of nuclear containment to pressure loading beyond the design basis accident and to compare analytical predictions to measured behavior. This objective is accomplished by conducting static, pneumatic overpressurization tests of scale models at ambient temperature. This research program consists of testing two scale models: a steel containment vessel (SCV) model (tested in 1996) and a prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) model, which is the subject of this paper.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Hessheimer, Michael F.; Luk, Vincent K.; Klamerus, Eric W.; Shibata, S.; Mitsugi, S. & Costello, J. F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 354, Ed. 1 Monday, December 18, 2000
Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future: Interlaboratory Working Group on Energy-Efficient and Clean-Energy Technologies
This study estimates the potential for public policies and R and D programs to foster clean energy technology solutions to the energy and environmental challenges facing the nation. These challenges include global climate change, air pollution, oil dependence, and inefficiencies in the production and use of energy. The study uses a scenario-based approach to examine alternative portfolios of public policies and technologies. Although the report makes no policy recommendations, it does present policies that could lead to impressive advances in the development and deployment of clean energy technologies without significant net economic impacts.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
The Interlaboratory Working Group on Energy-Efficient and Clean-Energy Technologies
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Signal Propagation in Collisional Plasma with Negative Ions
The transport of charged species in collisional currentless plasmas is traditionally thought of as a diffusion-like process. In this paper, it is demonstrated that, in contrast to two-component plasma, containing electrons and positive ions, the transport of additional ions in multi-species plasmas is not governed by diffusion, rather described by nonlinear convection. As a particular example, plasmas with the presence of negative ions have been studied. The velocity of a small perturbation of negative ions was found analytically and validated by numerical simulation. As a result of nonlinear convection, initially smooth ion density profiles break and form strongly inhomogeneous shock-like fronts. These fronts are different from collisionless shocks and shocks in fully ionized plasma. The structure of the fronts has been found analytically and numerically.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Kaganovich, I.; Berezhnoi, S.V. & Shin, C.B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Status Report on Phase Identification in Hanford Tank Sludges
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to vitrify Hanford's underground storage tank wastes. The vitrified wastes will be divided into low-activity and high-level fractions. There is an effort to reduce the quantity of high-activity wastes by removing nonradioactive components because of the high costs involved in treating high-level waste. Pretreatment options, such as caustic leaching, to selectively remove nonradioactive components are being investigated. The effectiveness of these proposed processes for removing nonradioactive components depends on the chemical phases in the tank sludges. This review summarizes the chemical phases identified to date in Hanford tank sludges.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Rapko, Brian M. & Lumetta, Gregg J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Status Report on Phase Identification in Hanford Tank Sludges
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to vitrify Hanford's underground storage tank wastes. The vitrified wastes will be divided into low-activity and high-level fractions. There is an effort to reduce the quantity of high-activity wastes by removing nonradioactive components because of the high costs involved in treating high-level waste. Pretreatment options, such as caustic leaching, to selectively remove nonradioactive components are being investigated. The effectiveness of these proposed processes for removing nonradioactive components depends on the chemical phases in the tank sludges. This review summarizes the chemical phases identified to date in Hanford tank sludges.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Rapko, Brian M. & Lumetta, Gregg J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Status Report on Phase Identification in Hanford Tank Sludges
The US Department of Energy plans to vitrify Hanford's tank wastes. The vitrified wastes will be divided into low-activity and high-level fractions. There is an effort to reduce the quantity of high-activity wastes by removing nonradioactive components because of the high costs involved in treating high-level waste. Pretreatment options, such as caustic leaching, to selectively remove nonradioactive components are being investigated. The effectiveness of these proposed processes for removing nonradioactive components depends on the chemical phases in the tank sludges. This review summarizes the chemical phases identified to date in Hanford tank sludges.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Rapko, B. M. & Lumetta, G. J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tank Waste Remediation Systems (TWRS) Configuration Management Implementation Plan
The Tank Waste Configuration Management (TWRS) Configuration Management Implementation Plan descibes the execution of the configuration management (CM) that the contractor uses to manage and integrate its programmatic and functional operations to perform work.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
WEIR, W.R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Disease Prevention News, Volume 60, Number 26, December 2000
Newsletter of the Texas Department of Health discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas. This issue contains the annual index for 2000.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable-Speed Generation Subsystem Using the Doubly-Fed Generator; Period of Performance February 9, 1994 - April 30, 1999
Over the past decade, fixed-speed, utility-scale wind turbines have technically advanced to a point where they can economically complete against nuclear and fossil-fuel-based power plants in geographical areas with a sufficient wind resource. The objective of this subcontract was to compare various electrical topologies allowing variable-speed turbine operation, identify the most suitable for a 275-kW (or larger) utility-scale wind turbine, and then design, build, lab test, and field test this variable-speed generation subsystem based on the previously identified optimum approach. Preliminary tests of the controls for a doubly fed variable-speed generation system rated at 750 kW were performed on a wind turbine. A 275-kW VSGS was thoroughly tested in the laboratory and on a wind turbine. Using field-oriented control, excellent dynamic behavior of the drive train was demonstrated, acoustic tests revealed an 11 dB reduction in turbine noise in low-wind, low-RPM operation compared to fixed-speed operation. The overall efficiency of the electrical system suffered from inadequate efficiency of the power converter at low power. Consequently, a different converter topology has been proposed that will satisfy both efficiency and power quality requirements for future use. This report provides information on all aspects of the project, including events that were unanticipated at …
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Weigand, C. H.; Lauw, H. K. & Marckx, D. A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Benefits: Veterans Have Mixed Views on a Lump Sum Disability Payment Option
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Currently, veterans who are disabled while serving their country are compensated for average reduction in earning capacity. Monthly compensation is based on the severity of a veteran's disability. After an initial rating for compensation has been determined, veterans who believe their condition has worsened may file a claim with the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) to reevaluate their disability rating. These repeat claims outnumbered initial disability applications by nearly three to one in fiscal year 1999, dominating VA's workload. To help reduce the volume of repeat claims, the Veterans' Claims Adjudication Commission asked Congress to consider paying less severely disabled veterans compensation in a lump sum. GAO surveyed veterans who are now being compensated on their reaction to a lump sum option. Veterans had mixed views. Many veterans and military personnel could see advantages and disadvantages to this new option. They also suggested some strategies that they believed could minimize the financial risks a lump sum payment option might introduce."
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
VisIt: a component based parallel visualization package
We are currently developing a component based, parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for visualizing and analyzing data on two- and three-dimensional (20, 30) meshes. The tool consists of three primary components: a graphical user interface (GUI), a viewer, and a parallel compute engine. The components are designed to be operated in a distributed fashion with the GUI and viewer typically running on a high performance visualization server and the compute engine running on a large parallel platform. The viewer and compute engine are both based on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), an open source object oriented data manipulation and visualization library. The compute engine will make use of parallel extensions to VTK, based on MPI, developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with the originators of P K . The compute engine will make use of meta-data so that it only operates on the portions of the data necessary to generate the image. The meta-data can either be created as the post-processing data is generated or as a pre-processing step to using VisIt. VisIt will be integrated with the VIEWS' Tera-Scale Browser, which will provide a high performance visual data browsing capability based on multi-resolution techniques.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
Ahern, S; Bonnell, K; Brugger, E; Childs, H; Meredith, J & Whitlock, B
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, December 18, 2000
Student newspaper from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas that includes local and school news along with advertising.
Date:
December 18, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 358, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["God Don't Like Ugly" live play, tape 1 of 2]
Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a performance of "God Don't Like Ugly" written by Carlton Hamilton and starring actresses Angela Bofill and Dottie Peoples. The footage shows the production being held on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. The play centers around the story of a woman who has just lost her mother to cancer and becomes involved with an abusive boyfriend.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Hamilton, Carlton
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
["God Don't Like Ugly" live play, tape 2 of 2]
Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a performance of "God Don't Like Ugly" written by Carlton Hamilton and starring actresses Angela Bofill and Dottie Peoples. The footage shows the production being held on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. The play centers around the story of a woman who has just lost her mother to cancer and becomes involved with an abusive boyfriend.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Hamilton, Carlton
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
["God Don't Like Ugly" live play, tape 3]
Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a performance of "God Don't Like Ugly" written by Carlton Hamilton and starring actresses Angela Bofill and Dottie Peoples. The footage shows the production being held on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. The play centers around the story of a woman who has just lost her mother to cancer and becomes involved with an abusive boyfriend.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Hamilton, Carlton
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Implementation of ANSI 13.36 - Radiation Safety Training for Workers
''Radiation Safety Training for Workers'' (ANSI 13.36) specifies a process for developing and implementing radiation safety training using performance-based concepts. In general, radiation safety training includes radiological safety policies, fundamental radiological controls, and the technical functions of specific facilities. Actual training, however, can vary significantly from one site to another, depending on the requirements and potential risks associated with the specific work involved. Performance-based training focuses on the instruction and practices required to develop job-related knowledge, skills, and abilities, rather than on simply prescribing training content and objectives. The Health Physics Society Standards Committee (HPSSC) working group recommended performance-based training, as opposed to a broad training program with prescribed performance objectives, for two main reasons: (1) the wide range of radiological workers to be trained and (2) the concern that a prescriptive program (i.e., 40 hours of training) could be misapplied. In addition, the working group preferred that the scope and depth of training be based on specific hazards and the magnitude of risk posed by those hazards. The group also proposed that passing scores be based on specified goals and the characteristics of test questions used. For instance, where passing scores are established (e.g., multiple-choice exams), they should be …
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Trinosky, P.A. & Wells, L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000
Semimonthly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes area information on topics such as history, entertainment, reviews, and recipes along with advertising.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ordering schemes for sparse matrices using modern programming paradigms
The Conjugate Gradient (CG) algorithm is perhaps the best-known iterative technique to solve sparse linear systems that are symmetric and positive definite. In previous work, we investigated the effects of various ordering and partitioning strategies on the performance of CG using different programming paradigms and architectures. This paper makes several extensions to our prior research. First, we present a hybrid(MPI+OpenMP) implementation of the CG algorithm on the IBM SP and show that the hybrid paradigm increases programming complexity with little performance gains compared to a pure MPI implementation. For ill-conditioned linear systems, it is often necessary to use a preconditioning technique. We present MPI results for ILU(0) preconditioned CG (PCG) using the BlockSolve95 library, and show that the initial ordering of the input matrix dramatically affect PCG's performance. Finally, a multithreaded version of the PCG is developed on the Cray (Tera) MTA. Unlike the message-passing version, this implementation did not require the complexities of special orderings or graph dependency analysis. However, only limited scalability was achieved due to the lack of available thread level parallelism.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Oliker, Leonid; Li, Xiaoye; Husbands, Parry & Biswas, Rupak
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pawhuska Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 93, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000
Semiweekly newspaper from Pawhuska, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Gann, Sherry
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 329, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 18, 2000
Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Project Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD) Facility Operations Manual
The mission of the Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Project Cold Vacuum Drying Facility (CVDF) is to achieve the earliest possible removal of free water from Multi-Canister Overpacks (MCOs). The MCOs contain metallic uranium SNF that have been removed from the 100K Area fuel storage water basins (i.e., the K East and K West Basins) at the US. Department of Energy Hanford Site in Southeastern Washington state. Removal of free water is necessary to halt water-induced corrosion of exposed uranium surfaces and to allow the MCOs and their SNF payloads to be safely transported to the Hanford Site 200 East Area and stored within the SNF Project Canister Storage Building (CSB). The CVDF is located within a few hundred yards of the basins, southwest of the 165KW Power Control Building and the 105KW Reactor Building. The site area required for the facility and vehicle circulation is approximately 2 acres. Access and egress is provided by the main entrance to the 100K inner area using existing roadways. The CVDF will remove free. water from the MCOs to reduce the potential for continued fuel-water corrosion reactions. The cold vacuum drying process involves the draining of bulk water from the MCO and subsequent vacuum …
Date:
November 18, 2000
Creator:
Irwin, J. J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library