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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. [104], No. [232], Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. [104], No. [232], Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Apolipoprotein A-1's C-terminal domain contains a lipid sensitive conformational trigger (open access)

Apolipoprotein A-1's C-terminal domain contains a lipid sensitive conformational trigger

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Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Oda, Michael N.; Forte, Trudy M.; Ryan, Robert O. & Voss, John C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assembly Manual for the Berkeley Lab Cosmic Ray Detector (open access)

Assembly Manual for the Berkeley Lab Cosmic Ray Detector

The Berkeley Lab Cosmic Ray Detector consists of 3 main components that must be prepared separately before they can be assembled. These components are the scintillator, circuit board, and casing. They are described in the main sections of this report, which may be completed in any order. Preparing the scintillator paddles involves several steps--cutting the scintillator material to the appropriate size and shape, preparing and attaching Lucite cookies (optional), polishing the edges, gluing the end to the photomultiplier tube (optional), and wrapping the scintillator. Since the detector has 2 paddles, each of the sections needs to be repeated for the other paddle.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Collier, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Reactivity Margins and Loading Curves for PWR Burnup Credit Cask Designs (open access)

Assessment of Reactivity Margins and Loading Curves for PWR Burnup Credit Cask Designs

This report presents studies to assess reactivity margins and loading curves for pressurized water reactor (PWR) burnup-credit criticality safety evaluations. The studies are based on a generic high-density 32-assembly cask and systematically vary individual calculational (depletion and criticality) assumptions to demonstrate the impact on the predicted effective neutron multiplication factor, k{sub eff}, and burnup-credit loading curves. The purpose of this report is to provide a greater understanding of the importance of input parameter variations and quantify the impact of calculational assumptions on the outcome of a burnup-credit evaluation. This study should provide guidance to regulators and industry on the technical areas where improved information will most enhance the estimation of accurate subcritical margins. Based on these studies, areas where future work may provide the most benefit are identified. The report also includes an evaluation of the degree of burnup credit needed for high-density casks to transport the current spent nuclear fuel inventory. By comparing PWR discharge data to actinide-only based loading curves and determining the number of assemblies that meet the loading criteria, this evaluation finds that additional negative reactivity (through either increased credit for fuel burnup or cask design/utilization modifications) is necessary to accommodate the majority of current spent …
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Wagner, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 101, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 101, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Cartwright, Brian & Collins, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
BTeV - A dedicated B experiment at the Tevatron (open access)

BTeV - A dedicated B experiment at the Tevatron

BTeV is a dedicated b-physics experiment that is expected to begin operation at the Fermilab Tevatron in 2008. BTeV is designed to take full advantage of the large production cross section of b particles (including B{sub S}) in high energy hadron collisions. A quick description of the BTeV spectrometer is given in this paper. Two unique aspects of BTeV, the pixel-based trigger and the high quality lead tungstate electromagnetic calorimeter, are described in slightly greater detail.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Christian, David C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charitable Choice: House-Passed Version of H.R. 7 Compared with Existing Charitable Choice Laws (open access)

Charitable Choice: House-Passed Version of H.R. 7 Compared with Existing Charitable Choice Laws

This report provides a side-by-side comparison of two versions of the Charitable Choice Act of 2001 with three existing charitable choice laws.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Burke, Vee
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress

Clean air issues were discussed at length in the 107th Congress, but legislation was not enacted, leaving the same issues for possible consideration in the 108th. With new leadership in the Senate, the prospects for such legislation and its content are likely to change. Further, the Senate committee of jurisdiction (Environment and Public Works) will almost certainly focus first on consideration of highway and transit funding (the authorization for which, known as TEA21, expires at the end of FY 2003). Thus, although there is some interest in considering broad changes to the Clean Air Act, the more immediate prospect is for targeted proposals that might be attached to re-authorization of TEA21.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation (open access)

Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation

The nation’s health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, processes and organizations across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (e.g. electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is distributed). Computers and communications, themselves critical infrastructures, are increasingly tying these infrastructures together. This report aims to address the concern that this reliance on computers and computer networks raises the vulnerability of the nation’s critical infrastructures to “cyber” attacks.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Moteff, John D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 245, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 245, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
DART to the Texas-LSU game on the Cotton Bowl Flyer (open access)

DART to the Texas-LSU game on the Cotton Bowl Flyer

News release about DART's "Cotton Bowl Flyer" bus service to the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daylight Saving Time (open access)

Daylight Saving Time

This report provides a brief history of the issues surroundings DST, an outline of the legislative that created and modified it, and a list of references to more discussions.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Yacker, Heidi G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daylight Saving Time (open access)

Daylight Saving Time

Currently, in most parts of the United States, timepieces are moved forward one hour in the spring and back one hour in the fall to provide an extended daylight period during the summer months. This is known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). Much debate and many changes led to this present practice. This report provides a brief history of the issues surrounding DST, an outline of the legislation that created and modified it, and a list of references to more discussions.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Yacker, Heidi G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The development of a compact positron tomograph for prostate imaging (open access)

The development of a compact positron tomograph for prostate imaging

We give design details and expected image results of a compact positron tomograph designed for prostate imaging that centers a patient between a pair of external curved detector banks (ellipse: 45 cm minor, 70 cm major axis). The bottom bank is fixed below the patient bed, and the top bank moves upward for patient access and downward for maximum sensitivity. Each bank is composed of two rows (axially) of 20 CTI PET Systems HR+ block detectors, forming two arcs that can be tilted to minimize attenuation. Compared to a conventional PET system, our camera uses about one-quarter the number of detectors and has almost two times higher solid angle coverage for a central point source, because the detectors are close to the patient. The detectors are read out by modified CTI HRRT data acquisition electronics. The individual detectors are angled in the plane to point towards the prostate to minimize reso
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Huber, Jennifer S.; Qi, Jinyi; Derenzo, Stephen E.; Moses, William W.; Huesman, Ronald H. & Budinger, Thomas F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of PFP Furnace Systems for Thermal Stabilization of Washed High Chloride Plutonium Oxide Items (open access)

Evaluation of PFP Furnace Systems for Thermal Stabilization of Washed High Chloride Plutonium Oxide Items

High chloride content plutonium (HCP) oxides are impure plutonium oxide scrap which contains NaCl, KCl, MgCl2 and/or CaCl2 salts at potentially high concentrations and must be stabilized at 950 C per the DOE Standard, DOE-STD-3013-2000. The chlorides pose challenges to stabilization because volatile chloride salts and decomposition products can corrode furnace heating elements and downstream ventilation components. A high-temperature furnace (same make and model as used at the RMC at Plutonium Finishing Plant) and the associated offgas system were set up at PNNL to identify system vulnerabilities and to investigate alternative materials and operating conditions that would mitigate any corrosion and plugging of furnace and offgas components. The key areas of interest for this testing were the furnace heating elements, the offgas line located inside the furnace, the offgas line between the furnace and the filter/knockout pot, the filter/knockout pot, the sample boat, and corrosion coupons to evaluate alternative materials of construction. The evaluation was conducted by charging the furnace with CeO2 that had been impregnated with a mixture of chloride salts (selected to represent the expected residual chloride salt level in washed high chloride items) and heated in the furnace in accordance with the temperature ramp rates and hold …
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Fischer, Christopher M.; Elmore, Monte R.; Schmidt, Andrew J.; Gerber, Mark A.; Muzatko, Danielle S.; Gano, Susan R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA (open access)

Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA

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Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Yacker, Heidi G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holiday Schedule for DART Services Christmas, New Year's (open access)

Holiday Schedule for DART Services Christmas, New Year's

News release concerning DART's reduced service schedule for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horario de Servicios de DART en Navidad y Año Nuevo (open access)

Horario de Servicios de DART en Navidad y Año Nuevo

News release concerning DART's reduced service schedule for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
K-Means Re-Clustering-Algorithmic Options with Quantifiable Performance Comparisons (open access)

K-Means Re-Clustering-Algorithmic Options with Quantifiable Performance Comparisons

This paper presents various architectural options for implementing a K-Means Re-Clustering algorithm suitable for unsupervised segmentation of hyperspectral images. Performance metrics are developed based upon quantitative comparisons of convergence rates and segmentation quality. A methodology for making these comparisons is developed and used to establish K values that produce the best segmentations with minimal processing requirements. Convergence rates depend on the initial choice of cluster centers. Consequently, this same methodology may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of different initialization techniques.
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Meyer, A W; Paglieroni, D & Asteneh, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons Learned From Electricity Restructuring: Transition to Competitive Markets Underway, but Full Benefits Will Take Time and Effort to Achieve (open access)

Lessons Learned From Electricity Restructuring: Transition to Competitive Markets Underway, but Full Benefits Will Take Time and Effort to Achieve

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The electricity industry in the United States is undergoing major change, the outcomes of which will affect every consumer. The industry is restructuring from one where electricity prices are set by regulation to one in which competitive markets set the price. GAO was asked to report on the extent to which federal and state actions, to date, have achieved the goal of restructuring. GAO discusses lessons learned from efforts to date."
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NATO Enlargement (open access)

NATO Enlargement

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Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Gallis, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library