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9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 1

Recording of the sixith public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on December 8, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. The Commission heard testimony from four panels of witnesses on domestic intelligence collection, protecting privacy while preventing terrorism, and the use of immigration laws to combat terrorism. This section includes the opening statement by Chairman Kean in addition to the first panel on intelligence collection within the United States.
Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 2 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 2

Recording of the sixith public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on December 8, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. The Commission heard testimony from four panels of witnesses on domestic intelligence collection, protecting privacy while preventing terrorism, and the use of immigration laws to combat terrorism.This section includes the panel on protecting privacy, preventing terrorism with testimony from Judith A. Miller, Stewart A. Baker, and Marc Rotenberg.
Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 3 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 3

Recording of the sixith public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on December 8, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. The Commission heard testimony from four panels of witnesses on domestic intelligence collection, protecting privacy while preventing terrorism, and the use of immigration laws to combat terrorism. This section includes that panel on preventive detention: use of immigration laws and enemy combatant designations to combat terrorism, with testimony from Jan Ting, Khaled Medhat About El Fadl, and David Martin.
Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 4 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #6, December 8, 2003, Part 4

Recording of the sixith public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on December 8, 2003 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. The Commission heard testimony from four panels of witnesses on domestic intelligence collection, protecting privacy while preventing terrorism, and the use of immigration laws to combat terrorism. This section includes the final panel on government organizations and domestic intelligence with testimony from William P. Barr, John J. Hamre, and John MacGaffin.
Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 14.6 Arcsecond Quasar Lens Split by a Massive Dark Matter Halo (open access)

A 14.6 Arcsecond Quasar Lens Split by a Massive Dark Matter Halo

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to study the distribution of dark matter in the universe. The cold dark matter model of structure formation predicts the existence of quasars gravitationally lensed by concentrations of dark matter so massive that the quasar images would be split by over 7 inches. However, numerous searches for large-separation lensed quasars have been unsuccessful; all of the roughly 70 lensed quasars known to date, such as Q0957+561, have smaller splittings, and can be explained in terms of galaxy scale concentrations of baryonic matter that have undergone dissipative collapse. Here they report the discovery of the first large-separation lensed quasar, SDSS J1004+4112, with a maximum separation of 14.62 inches; at this separation, the lensing object must be dominated by dark matter. While gravitationally lensed galaxies of even large separation are known, large-separation quasars are more useful cosmological probes because of the simplicity of the resulting lens systems. The discovery in their current quasar sample is fully consistent with the theoretical expectations based on the cold dark matter model.
Date: December 4, 2003
Creator: Inada, N.; Oguri, M.; Pindor, B.; Hennawi, J.; Chiu, K.; Zheng, W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[11th Annual Christmas Kwanzaa, Part 1 of 2] captions transcript

[11th Annual Christmas Kwanzaa, Part 1 of 2]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 11th Annual Christmas Kwanzaa Concert event in 2004. This video features musical performances by youth choirs and bands in the Dallas area celebrating the holiday season of Christmas and Kwanzaa live on stage. This video is Part 1 of 2 of the event.
Date: December 13, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 5, 2003
Creator: Pound, Jaylynn Christian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 2003 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 2003

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: December 12, 2003
Creator: Pound, Jaylynn Christian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
2003 Environmental Monitoring Report for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory Pittsburgh Site (open access)

2003 Environmental Monitoring Report for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory Pittsburgh Site

The 2003 results for the Bettis-Pittsburgh radiological and nonradiological environmental monitoring programs are presented. The results demonstrate that the existing procedures ensured that releases to the environment during 2003 were in accordance with applicable Federal, State, County, and local regulations. Evaluation of the environmental data indicates that current operations at the Site continue to have no adverse effect on human health and the quality of the environment. A conservative assessment of radiation exposure to the general public as a result of Site operations demonstrates that the dose received by any member of the public was well below the most restrictive dose limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the U.S. Department of Energy. A risk assessment of potentially exposed populations to chemical residues in the environment at the Site demonstrates that any potential risk posed by these residues in much less than the risks encountered in normal everyday life.
Date: December 31, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study. (open access)

2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.

The Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (White Book), which is published annually by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), establishes one of the planning bases for supplying electricity to customers. The White Book contains projections of regional and Federal system load and resource capabilities, along with relevant definitions and explanations. The White Book also contains information obtained from formalized resource planning reports and data submittals including those from individual utilities, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (Council), and the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee (PNUCC). The White Book is not an operational planning guide, nor is it used for determining BPA revenues, although the database that generates the data for the White Book analysis contributes to the development of BPA's inventory and ratemaking processes. Operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) is based on a set of criteria different from that used for resource planning decisions. Operational planning is dependent upon real-time or near-term knowledge of system conditions that include expectations of river flows and runoff, market opportunities, availability of reservoir storage, energy exchanges, and other factors affecting the dynamics of operating a power system. In this loads and resources study, resource availability is compared to an expected …
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix, Volume 1 Energy Analysis. (open access)

2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix, Volume 1 Energy Analysis.

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Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix, Volume 2 Capacity Analysis. (open access)

2003 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix, Volume 2 Capacity Analysis.

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Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation and Implementation Issues (open access)

21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation and Implementation Issues

The 21st CCLC program was originally authorized as Part I of Title X, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended. This program was reauthorized as part of the reauthorization of the ESEA by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, P.L. 107-110, and was signed into law on January 8, 2002. This report discusses implementation of the reauthorized 21st CCLC program, and the recent evaluation of the program and its implications.
Date: December 16, 2003
Creator: McCallion, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The acceleration and storage of radioactive ions for a neutrino factory (open access)

The acceleration and storage of radioactive ions for a neutrino factory

The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated to a Lorentz gamma of 150 for {sup 6}He and 60 for {sup 18}Ne. The neutrino source itself consists of a storage ring for this energy range, with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). Such a decay ring does not exist at CERN today, nor does a high-intensity proton source for the production of the radioactive ions. Nevertheless, the existing CERN accelerator infrastructure could be used as this would still represent an important saving for a beta-beam facility. This paper outlines the first study, while some of the more speculative ideas will need further investigations.
Date: December 23, 2003
Creator: al., B. Autin et
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-650G) (open access)

Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-650G)

Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-04-650G, Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act, June 2004. The Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA) requires that agencies implement and maintain financial management systems that substantially comply with federal financial management system requirements. These requirements are described in detail in the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) guidance and in the Federal Financial Management System Requirements series issued by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP). JFMIP intends for its requirements series to promote understanding of key financial management systems concepts and requirements, to provide a framework for establishing integrated financial management systems that support program and financial managers, and to describe specific requirements of financial management systems."
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Active Cathodes for Super-High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Through Space Charge Effects Quarterly Report: July-September 2003 (open access)

Active Cathodes for Super-High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Through Space Charge Effects Quarterly Report: July-September 2003

This report summarizes the work done during the fourth quarter of the project. Effort was directed in two areas, namely, continued further development of the model on the role of connectivity on ionic conductivity of porous bodies, including the role of grain boundaries and space charge, and its relationship to cathode polarization; and fabrication of samaria-doped ceria porous (SDC). The work on the model development involves calculation of the effect of space charge on transport through porous bodies. Three specific cases have been examined: (1) Space charge resistivity greater than the grain resistivity, (2) Space charge resistivity equal to the grain resistivity, and (3) Space charge resistivity lower than the grain resistivity. The model accounts for transport through three regions: the bulk of the grain, the space charge region, and the structural part of the grain boundary. The effect of neck size has been explicitly incorporated. In future work, the effective resistivity will be incorporated into the effective cathode polarization resistance. The results will then be compared with experiments.
Date: December 12, 2003
Creator: Virkar, Anil V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive and mobile ground sensor array. (open access)

Adaptive and mobile ground sensor array.

The goal of this LDRD was to demonstrate the use of robotic vehicles for deploying and autonomously reconfiguring seismic and acoustic sensor arrays with high (centimeter) accuracy to obtain enhancement of our capability to locate and characterize remote targets. The capability to accurately place sensors and then retrieve and reconfigure them allows sensors to be placed in phased arrays in an initial monitoring configuration and then to be reconfigured in an array tuned to the specific frequencies and directions of the selected target. This report reviews the findings and accomplishments achieved during this three-year project. This project successfully demonstrated autonomous deployment and retrieval of a payload package with an accuracy of a few centimeters using differential global positioning system (GPS) signals. It developed an autonomous, multisensor, temporally aligned, radio-frequency communication and signal processing capability, and an array optimization algorithm, which was implemented on a digital signal processor (DSP). Additionally, the project converted the existing single-threaded, monolithic robotic vehicle control code into a multi-threaded, modular control architecture that enhances the reuse of control code in future projects.
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: Holzrichter, Michael Warren; O'Rourke, William T.; Zenner, Jennifer & Maish, Alexander B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive awareness for personal and small group decision making. (open access)

Adaptive awareness for personal and small group decision making.

Many situations call for the use of sensors monitoring physiological and environmental data. In order to use the large amounts of sensor data to affect decision making, we are coupling heterogeneous sensors with small, light-weight processors, other powerful computers, wireless communications, and embedded intelligent software. The result is an adaptive awareness and warning tool, which provides both situation awareness and personal awareness to individuals and teams. Central to this tool is a sensor-independent architecture, which combines both software agents and a reusable core software framework that manages the available hardware resources and provides services to the agents. Agents can recognize cues from the data, warn humans about situations, and act as decision-making aids. Within the agents, self-organizing maps (SOMs) are used to process physiological data in order to provide personal awareness. We have employed a novel clustering algorithm to train the SOM to discern individual body states and activities. This awareness tool has broad applicability to emergency teams, military squads, military medics, individual exercise and fitness monitoring, health monitoring for sick and elderly persons, and environmental monitoring in public places. This report discusses our hardware decisions, software framework, and a pilot awareness tool, which has been developed at Sandia National …
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: Perano, Kenneth J.; Tucker, Steve; Pancerella, Carmen M.; Doser, Adele Beatrice; Berry, Nina M. & Kyker, Ronald D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption of Pb(II) and Eu(III) by Oxide Minerals in the Presence of Natural and Synthetic Hydroxamate Siderophores (open access)

Adsorption of Pb(II) and Eu(III) by Oxide Minerals in the Presence of Natural and Synthetic Hydroxamate Siderophores

OAK-B135 Results of laboratory experiments on the removal of europium and lead from the mineral, goethite, by hydroxamate siderophores are presented.
Date: December 18, 2003
Creator: Sposito, G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced digital detectors for neutron imaging. (open access)

Advanced digital detectors for neutron imaging.

Neutron interrogation provides unique information valuable for Nonproliferation & Materials Control and other important applications including medicine, airport security, protein crystallography, and corrosion detection. Neutrons probe deep inside massive objects to detect small defects and chemical composition, even through high atomic number materials such as lead. However, current detectors are bulky gas-filled tubes or scintillator/PM tubes, which severely limit many applications. Therefore this project was undertaken to develop new semiconductor radiation detection materials to develop the first direct digital imaging detectors for neutrons. The approach relied on new discovery and characterization of new solid-state sensor materials which convert neutrons directly to electronic signals via reactions BlO(n,a)Li7 and Li6(n,a)T.
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: Doty, F. Patrick
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Flue Gas Conditioning as a Retrofit Upgrade to Enhance Pm Collection From Coal-Fired Electric Utility Boilers: Final Technical Report (open access)

Advanced Flue Gas Conditioning as a Retrofit Upgrade to Enhance Pm Collection From Coal-Fired Electric Utility Boilers: Final Technical Report

ADA Environmental Solutions (ADA-ES) has successfully completed a research and development program granted by the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to develop a family of non-toxic flue gas conditioning agents to provide utilities and industries with a cost-effective means of complying with environmental regulations on particulate emissions and opacity. An extensive laboratory screening of potential additives was completed followed by full-scale trials at four utility power plants. The developed cohesivity additives have been demonstrated on a 175 MW utility boiler that exhibited poor collection of unburned carbon in the electrostatic precipitator. With cohesivity conditioning, opacity spiking caused by rapping reentrainment was reduced and total particulate emissions were reduced by more than 30%. Ammonia conditioning was also successful in reducing reentrainment on the same unit. Conditioned fly ash from the process is expected to be suitable for dry or wet disposal and for concrete admixture.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Bustard, C. Jean
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeronautics Star, Special Edition, December 2003 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Special Edition, December 2003

Special issue of a bimonthly newsletter published for employees of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Division containing a month-by-month overview of activities during calendar year 2003.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agent Extensions for Peer-to-Peer Networks. (open access)

Agent Extensions for Peer-to-Peer Networks.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have seen tremendous growth in development and usage in recent times. This attention has brought many developments as well as new challenges to these networks. We will show that agent extensions to P2P networks offer solutions to many problems faced by P2P networks. In this research, an attempt is made to bring together JXTA P2P infrastructure and Jinni, a Prolog based agent engine to form an agent based P2P network. On top of the JXTA, we define simple Java API providing P2P services for agent programming constructs. Jinni is deployed on this JXTA network using an automated code update mechanism. Experiments are conducted on this Jinni/JXTA platform to implement a simple agent communication and data exchange protocol.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Valiveti, Kalyan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Airfare and Catering Costs in Support of Panelists Attendance at Panel (open access)

Airfare and Catering Costs in Support of Panelists Attendance at Panel

Panelist attendance at the National Science Foundation Plasma Panel.
Date: December 22, 2003
Creator: McKnight, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library