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Electric Utility Regulatory Reform: Issues for the 109th Congress (open access)

Electric Utility Regulatory Reform: Issues for the 109th Congress

This report discusses regulation issues affecting electricity today. Comprehensive electricity legislation may involve several components: Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) reform, PURPA's requirement that utilities purchase power from qualifying facilities (QFs), and reliability.
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Abel, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exotic physics: search for excited and exotic electrons in the e gamma decay channel in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev (open access)

Exotic physics: search for excited and exotic electrons in the e gamma decay channel in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev

We present a search for excited and exotic electrons (e*) decaying to an electron and a photon, both with high transverse momentum. We use 202 pb{sup -1} of data collected in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector. No signal above standard model expectation is seen for associated ee* production. We discuss the e* sensitivity in the parameter space of the excited electron mass M{sub e*} and the compositeness energy scale {Lambda}. In the contact interaction model, we exclude 132 GeV/c{sup 2} < M{sub e*} < 879 GeV/c{sup 2} for {Lambda} = M{sub e*} at 95% confidence level (C.L.). In the gauge-mediated model, we exclude 126 GeV/c{sup 2} < M{sub e*} < 430 GeV/c{sup 2} at 95% C.L. for the phenomenological coupling f/{Lambda} {approx} 10{sup -2} GeV{sup -1}.
Date: February 21, 2005
Creator: Acosta, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY04 LDRD Final Report Protein-Protein Integration Mapping of the Human DNA Damage Response Pathway (open access)

FY04 LDRD Final Report Protein-Protein Integration Mapping of the Human DNA Damage Response Pathway

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Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Albala, J. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2005 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2005 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2005
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2005 (open access)

Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2005

This report identifies the names, committee assignments, dates of service, and (for Representatives) districts of the 228 women Members of Congress.
Date: June 21, 2005
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 246, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 246, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 272, Ed. 1 Monday, February 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 272, Ed. 1 Monday, February 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 296, Ed. 1 Monday, March 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 296, Ed. 1 Monday, March 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 68, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 68, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 120, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 120, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 147, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 147, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 21, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
European Views and Policies Toward the Middle East (open access)

European Views and Policies Toward the Middle East

Managing policy differences on a range of issues emanating from the Middle East poses serious challenges for the United States and its European allies and friends. The most vitriolic dispute has centered on the conflict in Iraq. However, divisions over how best to approach the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, manage Iran and Syria, and combat terrorism also persist. How deep and lasting the clash over Iraq and subsequent Middle East policies will be to transatlantic relations will likely depend on several factors, including whether Washington and European capitals can cooperate more robustly to rebuild Iraq; whether Europeans perceive a renewed U.S. commitment to revive the Middle East peace process; and whether differences over Mideast issues spill over into NATO or impede EU efforts to forge a deeper Union.
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2005-11-21 – Alfredo Arjona, piano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: November 21, 2005
Creator: Arjona, Alfredo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Technical Report: Intensive Quenching Technology for Heat Treating and Forging Industries (open access)

Final Technical Report: Intensive Quenching Technology for Heat Treating and Forging Industries

Intensive quenching (IQ) process is an alternative way of hardening (quenching) steel parts through the use of highly agitated water and then still air. It was developed by IQ Technologies, Inc. (IQT) of Akron, Ohio. While conventional quenching is usually performed in environmentally unfriendly oil or water/polymer solutions, the IQ process uses highly agitated environmentally friendly water or low concentration water/mineral salt solutions. The IQ method is characterized by extremely high cooling rates of steel parts. In contrast to conventional quenching, where parts cool down to the quenchant temperature and usually have tensile or neutral residual surface stresses at the end of quenching. The IQ process is interrupted when the part core is still hot and when there are maximum compressive stresses deep into the parts, thereby providing hard, ductile, better wear resistant parts. The project goal was to advance the patented IQ process from feasibility to commercialization in the heat-treating and forging industries to reduce significantly energy consumption and environmental impact, to increase productivity and to enhance economic competitiveness of these industries as well as Steel, Metal Casting and Mining industries. To introduce successfully the IQ technology in the U.S. metal working industry, the project team has completed the …
Date: December 21, 2005
Creator: Aronov, Michael A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Statutes Governing Hate Crimes (open access)

State Statutes Governing Hate Crimes

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Date: September 21, 2005
Creator: Austin, Charlene A. & Wallace, Paul Starett, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MASSIVE NEUTRINOS IN A GROUNDS-UP APPROACH. (open access)

MASSIVE NEUTRINOS IN A GROUNDS-UP APPROACH.

We examine neutrino oscillations in a two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) in which the second doublet couples only to the third generation right-handed up-fermions, i.e., to t{sub R} and N{sub 3} which is the heaviest right-handed Majorana neutrino. The inherently large tan {beta} of this model can naturally account for the large top-quark mass and, based on a quark-lepton similarity ansatz, when embedded into a seesaw mechanism it can also account for the observed neutrino masses and mixing angles giving a very small {theta}{sub 13}: -0.96{sup 0} {approx}< {theta}{sub 13} {approx}< 1.36{sup 0} at 99% CL, and a very restrictive prediction for the atmospheric mixing angle: 42.9{sup 0} {approx}< {theta}{sub atm} {approx}< 45.2{sup 0} at 99% CL. The large value of tan {beta} also sets the mass scale of the heaviest right-handed Majorana neutrino N{sub 3} and triggers successful leptogenesis.
Date: July 21, 2005
Creator: BAR-SHALOM, S.; ATWOOD, D. & SONI, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"SEESAWING" AWAY THE HEIRARCHY PROBLEM. (open access)

"SEESAWING" AWAY THE HEIRARCHY PROBLEM.

We describe a model for the scalar sector where all interactions occur either at an ultra-high scale A{sub U} {approx} 10{sup 16}-10{sup 19} GeV or at an intermediate scale {Lambda}{sub I} = 10{sup 9}-10{sup 11} GeV. The interaction of physics on these two scales results in an SU(2) Higgs condensate at the electroweak (EW) scale, {Lambda}{sub EW}, through a seesaw-like Higgs mechanism, {Lambda}{sub EW} {approx} {Lambda}{sub 1}{sup 2}/{Lambda}{sub U}, while the breaking of the SM SU(2) x U(1) gauge symmetry occurs at the intermediate scale {Lambda}{sub I}. The EW scale is, therefore, not fundamental but is naturally generated in terms of ultra-high energy phenomena and so the hierarchy problem is alleviated. We show that our ''seesaw-Higgs'' model predicts the existence of sub-eV neutrino masses which are generated through a ''two-step'' seesaw mechanism in terms of the same two ultra-high scales: m{sub {nu}} {approx} {Lambda}{sub I}{sup 4}/{Lambda}{sub U}{sup 3} {approx} {Lambda}{sub EW}{sup 2}/{Lambda}{sub U}. We also show that our seesaw Higgs model can be naturally embedded, in theories with tiny extra dimensions of size R {approx} {Lambda}{sub U}{sup -1} {approx} 10{sup -16} fm, where the seesaw induced EW scale arises from a violation of a symmetry at a distant brane if …
Date: July 21, 2005
Creator: BAR-SHALOM, S.; ATWOOD, D. & SONI, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effective Error Bounds in Euler-Maclaurin-Based QuadratureSchemes (open access)

Effective Error Bounds in Euler-Maclaurin-Based QuadratureSchemes

We analyze the behavior of Euler-Maclaurin-basedintegrationschemes with the intention of deriving accurate andeconomicestimations of the error term.
Date: June 21, 2005
Creator: Bailey, David H. & Borwein, Jonathan M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: Legislative Proposals in the 109th Congress (open access)

Energy Policy: Legislative Proposals in the 109th Congress

While introduction of energy legislation in the 109th Congress is pending, it remains unclear what its course may be. Some believe that the results of the fall 2004 election have heightened prospects for opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development, and the Republican leadership has indicated that ANWR is to be included in the budget resolution that will come before Congress. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici has indicated that the committee will mark up a comprehensive bill in February. However, Senator Domenici also expressed openness to considering individual bills; he and others are interested in legislation to establish a long-term leasing plan for natural gas resources.
Date: January 21, 2005
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L. & Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HIF VNL Progress Report to DOE, April 22, 2005 (open access)

HIF VNL Progress Report to DOE, April 22, 2005

We have made progress in learning to use the code Hydra to do detailed modeling of targets for Accelerator Driven High Energy Density Physics. Hydra is a state-of-the-art 3D, radiative transfer hydrodynamics modeling code developed at LLNL. In particular, we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of a 23 MeV, 1 mm radius Neon beam striking a 48 micron thick Aluminum foil at 10% solid density, and observed the heating of the foil by the beam. The Bragg peak was chosen to fall near the center of the foil, and as expected, rarefaction waves propagated symmetrically inward (at a speed of order the sound speed), as the heated material flowed outward and cooled. Foams allow relatively high temperatures to be attained over longer timescales, and the foils behaved, at least qualitatively, as predicted by previous analysis. Design of a number of configurations, ion species, and material compositions will be carried out using this code. Further, calculations by our collaborators at Tech-X corporation have compared results from the SRIM code (a code for understanding detailed energy deposition and scattering of ions in a cold solid) with cold dEdX curves published by Northcliffe and Schilling in 1970. The latter publication was used for …
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Barnard, J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions (open access)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions

This report will examine the detailed statutory structure provided by FISA and related provisions of E.O. 12333. In addition, it will discuss the decisions of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library