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Appropriations for FY2003: Energy and Water Development (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Energy and Water Development

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water.
Date: March 26, 2002
Creator: Behrens, Carl E. & Humphries, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture.
Date: March 22, 2002
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Archaeological Survey Near Roanoke, Texas (open access)

An Archaeological Survey Near Roanoke, Texas

An archaeological survey report of a site near Roanoke, Texas, performed to determine whether any historic resources were located on the proposed construction sites.
Date: March 24, 2002
Creator: Todd, Jesse & Skinner, S. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 14, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2002 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 21, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 2002 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 28, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Area 6 Decontamination Pond Corrective Action Unit 92 Post-Closure Inspection Annual Report For the Period January 2001-December 2001 (open access)

Area 6 Decontamination Pond Corrective Action Unit 92 Post-Closure Inspection Annual Report For the Period January 2001-December 2001

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Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Richardson, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

The United States recognized the independence of all the former Soviet republics by the end of 1991, including the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The United States has fostered these states' ties with the West in part to end the dependence of these states on Russia for trade, security, and other relations. The FREEDOM Support Act of 1992 provides authorization for assistance to the Eurasian states for humanitarian needs, democratization, and other purposes. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the Administration appealed for a national security waiver of the prohibition on aid to Azerbaijan, in consideration of Azerbaijan's assistance to the international coalition to combat terrorism. Azerbaijani and Georgian troops participate in stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Armenian personnel serve in Iraq.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Nichol, Jim & Kim, Julie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Corps of Engineers: Civil Works Reform Issues for the 107th Congress (open access)

Army Corps of Engineers: Civil Works Reform Issues for the 107th Congress

This report presents the issues considered by the 107th Congress related to the civil works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The Corps plans, constructs, and operates water resources facilities primarily for flood control, navigation, and environmental purposes.
Date: March 27, 2002
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Art Gallery: Resurgence: Masters of the Craft of Clay, Fiber, Wood, and Glass] captions transcript

[Art Gallery: Resurgence: Masters of the Craft of Clay, Fiber, Wood, and Glass]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Art Gallery event in 2001. This video features the artwork of four artists including Earline Green, Henry Leonard, Sammie Nicely, and Senoj for the Resurgence: Masters of the Craft of Clay, Fiber, Wood, and Glass art exhibition at the James E. Kemp Gallery.
Date: March 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 8 - Tom Brumley overdubbing] captions transcript

[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 8 - Tom Brumley overdubbing]

This video documents a recording session with steel guitarist Tom Brumley.
Date: March 21, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
ASIC Wafer Test System for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker Front-End Chip (open access)

ASIC Wafer Test System for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker Front-End Chip

An ASIC wafer test system has been developed to provide comprehensive production screening of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker front-end chip (ABCD3T). The ABCD3T[1] features a 128-channel analog front-end, a digital pipeline, and communication circuitry, clocked at 40 MHz, which is the bunch crossing frequency at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The tester measures values and tolerance ranges of all critical IC parameters, including DC parameters, electronic noise, time resolution, clock levels and clock timing. The tester is controlled by an FPGA (ORCA3T) programmed to issue the input commands to the IC and to interpret the output data. This allows the high-speed wafer-level IC testing necessary to meet the production schedule. To characterize signal amplitudes and phase margins, the tester utilizes pin-driver, delay, and DAC chips, which control the amplitudes and delays of signals sent to the IC under test. Output signals from the IC under test go through window comparator chips to measure their levels. A probe card has been designed specifically to reduce pick-up noise that can affect the measurements. The system can operate at frequencies up to 100 MHz to study the speed limits of the digital circuitry before and after radiation damage. Testing requirements and design solutions …
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Anghinolfi, F.; Bialas, W.; Busek, N.; Ciocio, A.; Cosgrove, D.; Fadeyev, V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing mixtures risks for cleanup and stewardship. (open access)

Assessing mixtures risks for cleanup and stewardship.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for addressing contamination from past research, production, and disposal activities at over 100 sites and facilities across the country. Use of emerging science to assess risks for these facilities is the key to defining appropriate solutions. Safely managing contamination is a priority to protect workers in the near term, and sustained protection is a priority for local communities over the long term. The Department conducts its environmental management program with input from a number of groups who have expressed concern about the safety of DOE sites over time and the possible conversion of some lands to other uses. In general, past facility activities and disposal operations have contaminated about 10% of the total collective area of DOE sites while surrounding lands have served as buffer zones. Portions of several sites have been released for other uses, such as wildlife preserves. Soil, surface water, and groundwater have been contaminated in most instances, and on-site waste disposal is targeted for many sites. Wastes and contamination that will remain in the environment are at the heart of ongoing future use and long-term management deliberations. For this reason, oversight groups and local citizens are scrutinizing the …
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: MacDonell, M. M. & Hertzberg, R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of the Impacts of Green Mountain Power Corporation's Wind Power Facility on Breeding and Migrating Birds in Searsburg, Vermont: July 1996--July 1998 (open access)

Assessment of the Impacts of Green Mountain Power Corporation's Wind Power Facility on Breeding and Migrating Birds in Searsburg, Vermont: July 1996--July 1998

A 6-megawatt, 11 turbine wind power development was constructed by Green Mountain Power Corporation in Searsburg, southern Vermont, in 1996. To determine whether birds were impacted, a series of modified BA (Before, After) studies was conducted before construction (1993-1996), during (1996), and after (1997) construction on the project site. The studies were designed to monitor changes in breeding bird community (species composition and abundance) on the site, examine the behavior and numbers of songbirds migrating at night over the site and hawks migrating over the site in daylight, and search for carcasses of birds that might have collided with the turbines.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Kerlinger, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS: THE ROLE OF COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS (open access)

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS: THE ROLE OF COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS

This report describes the technical progress made on the Pittsburgh Air Quality Study (PAQS) during the period of August 2001 through January of 2002. The major activity during this project period was the continuation of the ambient monitoring effort. Work also progressed on organizing the upcoming source characterization effort, and there was continued development of several three-dimensional air quality models. The first PAQS data analysis workshop for the project was held at Carnegie Mellon in December 2001. Two new instruments were added to site during this project period: a single particle mass spectrometer and an in situ VOC instrument. The single particle mass spectrometer has been deployed since the middle of September and has collected more than 150 days of data. The VOC instrument was only deployed during the intensive sampling period. Several instruments experienced operational issues during this project period. The overall data recovery rate for the project has been high.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Robinson, Allen L.; Pandis, Spyros N. & Davidson, Cliff I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomic resolution 3D electron diffraction microscopy (open access)

Atomic resolution 3D electron diffraction microscopy

Electron lens aberration is the major barrier limiting the resolution of electron microscopy. Here we describe a novel form of electron microscopy to overcome electron lens aberration. By combining coherent electron diffraction with the oversampling phasing method, we show that the 3D structure of a 2 x 2 x 2 unit cell nano-crystal (framework of LTA [Al12Si12O48]8) can be ab initio determined at the resolution of 1 Angstrom from a series of simulated noisy diffraction pattern projections with rotation angles ranging from -70 degrees to +70 degrees in 5 degrees increments along a single rotation axis. This form of microscopy (which we call 3D electron diffraction microscopy) does not require any reference waves, and can image the 3D structure of nanocrystals, as well as non-crystalline biological and materials science samples, with the resolution limited only by the quality of sample diffraction.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Miao, Jianwei; Ohsuna, Tetsu; Terasaki, Osamu & O'Keefe, Michael A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attenuation of P-Waves by Wave-Induced Fluid Flow (open access)

Attenuation of P-Waves by Wave-Induced Fluid Flow

Analytical expressions for three P-wave attenuation mechanisms in rocks are given and numerically-compared. The mechanisms are: (1) Biot loss, in which flow occurs at the scale of the wavelength between the peaks and troughs of a P wave; (2) squirt loss, in which flow occurs at the grain scale between microcracks the grains and the adjacent pores; and (3) mesoscopic loss, in which flow occurs at intermediate scales between the various lithological bodies that are present in an averaging volume of earth material. Each mechanism is of importance over different frequency bands. Typically, Biot loss is only important at the highest of ultrasonic frequencies (> 1 MHz), squirt-loss (when it occurs) is important in the range of 10 kHz to 1 MHz, while mesoscale loss dominates at the lower frequencies (<10 kHz) employed in seismology.
Date: March 29, 2002
Creator: Pride, S R & Berryman, J G
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audit Report on State Owned Multi-Categorical Teaching Hospital Account (open access)

An Audit Report on State Owned Multi-Categorical Teaching Hospital Account

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to financial statements submitted by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (Medical Branch) to the Department of Health for reimbursement from the State Owned Multi-Categorical Teaching Hospital Account (Account).
Date: March 2002
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Texas Education Agency's Monitoring of School Districts (open access)

An Audit Report on the Texas Education Agency's Monitoring of School Districts

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to evaluating the Texas Education Agency's (Agency) monitoring process, including an examination of the monitoring functions for discretionary grants, accountability evaluations, financial monitoring, and special education.
Date: March 2002
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on University Contract Administration (open access)

An Audit Report on University Contract Administration

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether institutions' procurement processes ensure that the best contractors are selected fairly and objectively; whether the methods institutions use to establish contract payments ensure that the State pays a fair and reasonable price for the goods and services; whether institutions' contract provisions and regulations hold contractors accountable for delivery of quality services and prevent the inappropriate or inefficient use of public funds; and whether institutions establish contractor oversight to ensure that contractors consistently provide quality goods and services and that public funds are spent efficiently and effectively.
Date: March 2002
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Dairying: Production, Volume 25, Number 1, March 2002 (open access)

Balanced Dairying: Production, Volume 25, Number 1, March 2002

Newsletter of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service discussing topics related to raising dairy cows, dairy production, and managing dairy operations.
Date: March 2002
Creator: Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrier Foil Heating Simulations Using LASNEX (open access)

Barrier Foil Heating Simulations Using LASNEX

It is necessary to place a barrier foil in front of the X-ray converter target to prevent the backstreaming ions. This research note presents the simulations of foil heating using the latest EOS tables. LASNEX simulations are carried out using both DARHT-II and ETA-II beam parameters. Results for all the foils studied here, using the DARHT-II beam parameters, show that the integrated line density along the axis at the end of the 4th pulse remains essentially unchanged even if the foils are heated by beams with relatively small beam spot sizes. The temperature can reach up to 3000 C on graphite foil but can only reach several hundred degree Celsius on Mylar foil. Simulations also show that ETA-II beam can create a ''burn-through'' hole on all the foils except graphite and diamond foils, which may require pre-heat. The threshold beam spot size required for hole formation will be compared with LASNEX simulation for the purpose of code verification.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Ho, D. D.-M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers in developing and using simulation-based decision-support software (open access)

Barriers in developing and using simulation-based decision-support software

The need for proper consideration of energy-related performance aspects during building design has been identified since the energy crises of the 1970s. However, energy performance is still considered in a very small fraction of building projects, mainly because proper consideration is very expensive. It requires the use of computational software tools, which are not easy to learn and are time-consuming to use. Several attempts have been made to facilitate the use of energy simulation tools, but none has brought a significant increase in the consideration of energy performance. Energy related performance criteria are still considered only in a small fraction of buildings and, in most cases, after most of the building design is complete. This paper is focused on the main barriers in properly considering energy-related performance aspects in building decisions, which range from sociopolitical, to technical. The paper includes consideration of issues related to the general interest of the building industry in energy performance and environmental impact, current practice trends, modeling capabilities and performance of tools, compatibility of computational models and availability of data. Finally, a strategy for government-industry collaboration towards removing the barriers is presented, along with the main issues that need to be resolved towards potential implementation.
Date: March 11, 2002
Creator: Papamichael, Konstantinos & Pal, Vineeta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library