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Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-66 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-66

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Health and Safety Code, section 572.0025(f)(1) requirement that a physician conduct an "in-person examination" of a prospective patient of an inpatient mental health facility means that only a physician may conduct the examination (RQ-0003-GA)
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-93 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-93

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a local option stock law election, in which a single ballot proposition combined proposals from a petition to restrain cattle with a petition to restrain horses and other animals, was valid (RQ-0027-GA)
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-94 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-94

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county attorney who is not subject to the Professional Prosecutors Act may maintain more than one private civil practice office (RQ-0033-GA)
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-118 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-118

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether records management and preservation fees collected under section 118.011(b)(2), Local Government Code, may be used to pay salaries in the county clerk's office (RQ-0055-GA)
Date: October 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
China and “Falun Gong” (open access)

China and “Falun Gong”

This report provides information about "Falun Gong" also known as " Falun Dafa" that combines an exercise regimen with meditation and moral guidelines.
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Lum, Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the President in Budget Development (open access)

The Role of the President in Budget Development

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Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pension Reform: The Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act of 2003 (open access)

Pension Reform: The Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act of 2003

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Date: May 28, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003 (open access)

Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003

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Date: November 28, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Independent Component Analysis to Separate Signals in Climate Data (open access)

Using Independent Component Analysis to Separate Signals in Climate Data

Global temperature series have contributions from different sources, such as volcanic eruptions and El Nino Southern Oscillation variations. We investigate independent component analysis as a technique to separate unrelated sources present in such series. We first use artificial data, with known independent components, to study the conditions under which ICA can separate the individual sources. We then illustrate the method with climate data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Date: January 28, 2003
Creator: Fodor, I K & Kamath, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thick Liquid-Walled Spheromak Magnetic Fusion Power Plant (open access)

Thick Liquid-Walled Spheromak Magnetic Fusion Power Plant

We assume a spheromak configuration can be made and sustained by a steady plasma gun current, which injects particles, current and magnetic field, i.e., helicity injection. The magnetic configuration is evaluated with an axisymmetric free-boundary equilibrium code, where the current profile is tailored to support an average beta of 10%. An injection current of 100 kA (125 MW of gun power) sustains the toroidal current of 40 MA. The flux linking the gun is 1/1000th of the flux in the spheromak. The geometry allows a flow of liquid, either molten salt (flibe-Li{sub 2}BeF{sub 4} or flinabe-LiNaBeF{sub 4}) or liquid metal, such as SnLi, which protects most of the walls and structures from neutron damage. The free surface between the liquid and the burning plasma is heated by bremsstrahlung and optical radiation and neutrons from the plasma. The temperature of the free surface of the liquid is calculated and then the evaporation rate is estimated. The impurity concentration in the burning plasma is estimated and limited to a 20% reduction in the fusion power ({approx}0.8% fluorine impurity). The divertor power density of 620 MW/m{sup 2} is handled by high-speed (100 m/s) liquid jets. Calculations show that the tritium breeding is adequate …
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Moir, R W; Bulmer, R H; Fowler, T K; Rognlien, T D & Youssef, M Z
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dividend Tax Relief: Effects on Economic Recovery, Long-Term Growth, and the Stock Market (open access)

Dividend Tax Relief: Effects on Economic Recovery, Long-Term Growth, and the Stock Market

This report provides information aobut the Effects on Economic Recovery, Long-Term Growth, and the Stock Market on Dividend Tax Relief.
Date: March 28, 2003
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committee Reports: Required Contents (open access)

Senate Committee Reports: Required Contents

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Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geochemistry of Samples from Borehole C3177(299-E24-21) (open access)

Geochemistry of Samples from Borehole C3177(299-E24-21)

This report contains the results of geochemical and physical property analyses of twelve samples from the Immobilized Low-Activity Waste (ILAW) borehole #2. The borehole is in the middle of the 200 East Area, at the northeast corner of the ILAW disposal site.
Date: May 28, 2003
Creator: Horton, Duane G.; Schaef, Herbert T.; Serne, R. Jeffrey; Brown, Christopher F.; Valenta, Michelle M.; Vickerman, Tanya S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Call for nominations for the NSD Board Election] (open access)

[Call for nominations for the NSD Board Election]

Call for nominations for the 2003-2004 Board of Directors for the National Stonewall Democrats. The forms detail the information and guidelines for nominations, dates and deadlines.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 2003 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 2003

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanford Site Annual Treatability Studies Report, Calendar Year 2002 (open access)

Hanford Site Annual Treatability Studies Report, Calendar Year 2002

This report provides information required to be reported annually by the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 173-303-071 (3)(r)(ii)(F) and (3)(s)(ix) on the treatability studies conducted on the Hanford Site in 2002. These studies were conducted as required by WAC 173-303-071, “Excluded Categories of Waste,” sections (3)(r) and (s). Unless otherwise noted, the waste samples were provided by and the treatability studies were performed for the U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office, P.O. Box 550, Richland, Washington 99352. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identification number for these studies is WA7890008967.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Grohs, Eugene L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Office of Management and Budget in Budget Development (open access)

The Role of the Office of Management and Budget in Budget Development

This report discusses the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which assists the President in carrying out his budgetary duties. Its primary function is to oversee the development and implementation of the federal budget.
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of orientation on the in vitro fracture toughness ofdentin: The role of toughening mechanisms (open access)

Effect of orientation on the in vitro fracture toughness ofdentin: The role of toughening mechanisms

A micro-mechanistic understanding of bone fracture thatencompasses how cracks interact with the underlying microstructure anddefines their local failure mode is lacking, despite extensive research nthe response of bone to a variety of factors like aging, loading, and/ordisease.
Date: January 28, 2003
Creator: Nalla, R. K.; Kinney, J. H. & Ritchie, R. O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Semiannual Progress Report for Stimul-Responsive Polymers with Enhanced Efficiency in Reservoir Recovery Processes (open access)

Semiannual Progress Report for Stimul-Responsive Polymers with Enhanced Efficiency in Reservoir Recovery Processes

Acrylamide-based hydrophobically modified (HM) polybetaines containing N-butylphenylacrylamide (BPAM) and varying amounts of either sulfobetaine (3-(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanedimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonate, AMPDAPS) or carboxybetaine (4-(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropyldimethylammonio) butanoate, AMPDAB) comonomers were synthesized via micellar copolymerization. The terpolymers were characterized via {sup 13}C NMR and UV spectroscopies, classical and dynamic light scattering, and potentiometric titration. The response of aqueous polymer solutions to various external stimuli, including changes in solution pH, electrolyte concentration, and the addition of small molecule surfactants, was investigated using surface tension and rheological measurements. Low charge density terpolymers were found to show greater viscosity enhancement upon the addition of surfactant compared to the high charge density terpolymers. The addition of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) produced the largest maximum in solution viscosity, while N-dodecyl-N,N,N-trimethylammonium bromide (DTAB), N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethylammonio-1-propanesulfonate (SB3-12), and Triton X-100 tended to show reduced viscosity enhancement. In most cases, the high charge density carboxybetaine terpolymer exhibited diminished solution viscosities upon surfactant addition. In our last report, we discussed solution thermodynamic theory that described changes in polymer coil conformation as a function of solution temperature and polymer molecular weight. These polymers contained no ionic charges. In this report, we expand polymer solution theory to account for the electrostatic interactions present in solutions of charged polymers. Polymers with …
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: McCormick, Charles & Hester, Roger
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center and World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, Fiscal Year 2002 Annual Report (open access)

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center and World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, Fiscal Year 2002 Annual Report

The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), which includes the World Data Center (WDC) for Atmospheric Trace Gases, is the primary global change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). More than just an archive of data sets and publications, CDIAC has, since its inception in 1982, enhanced the value of its holdings through intensive quality assurance, documentation, and integration. Whereas many traditional data centers are discipline-based (for example, meteorology or oceanography), CDIAC's scope includes potentially anything and everything that would be of value to users concerned with the greenhouse effect and global climate change, including atmospheric concentrations and atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) and other radiatively active gases; the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the oceans in the biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases; long-term climate trends; the effects of elevated CO{sub 2} on vegetation; and the vulnerability of coastal areas to rising sea levels.
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Cushman, R.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolution of the Sensor Fish Device for Measuring Physical Conditions in Severe Hydraulic Environments (open access)

Evolution of the Sensor Fish Device for Measuring Physical Conditions in Severe Hydraulic Environments

To assist in deriving biological specifications for design of turbine rehabilitation measures, new ''fish-friendly'' turbines, and spillway designs and operations, scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed and tested an autonomous multi-sensor device called a Sensor Fish that can acquire pressure and tri-axial linear acceleration data during passage through severe hydraulic conditions. The purpose of the Sensor Fish is to characterize physical conditions fish experience during passage through hydro turbines, spill stilling basins, high-discharge outfalls, and other dam passage routes. The Sensor Fish was developed with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Hydropower Turbine System program. Field tests of the Sensor Fish at Rock Island, McNary, The Dalles, Bonneville, and Wanapum dams on the Columbia River and the Prosser Irrigation District on the Yakima River have shown that the device can withstand the severe environments of turbine, spill, and fish bypass passage and provide useful environmental data that can ultimately aid in the design and operation of new and existing turbines, spill, and dam fish bypass facilities.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Carlson, Thomas J. & Duncan, Joanne P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Work Plan For: Meteorological Monitoring and Data Analysis (open access)

Technical Work Plan For: Meteorological Monitoring and Data Analysis

The meteorological monitoring and analysis program has three overall objectives. First, the program will acquire qualified meteorological data from monitoring activities in the Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) network, including appropriate controls on measuring and test equipment. All work will be completed in accordance with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Repository Development (ORD) administrative procedures and Bechtel SAIC Co., LLC (BSC) line procedures. The continuously operating monitoring program includes measuring and test equipment calibrations, operational checks, preventive and corrective maintenance, and data collection. Second, the program will process the raw monitoring data collected in the field and submit technically reviewed, traceable data to the Technical Data Management System (TDMS) and the Records Processing Center. Third, reports containing analyses or calculations could be created to provide information to data requesters.
Date: March 28, 2003
Creator: Bastian, C. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 2003 (open access)

The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Weekly newspaper from Wylie, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 28, 2003
Creator: Engbrock, Chad B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Ken Kalthoff] captions transcript

[News Clip: Ken Kalthoff]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 28, 2003
Creator: NBC 5 (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library