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Access to Broadband Networks (open access)

Access to Broadband Networks

The purpose of this report is to provide a more concrete discussion of access to wireline broadband networks. To that end, this report provides a discussion of what broadband networks look like; how both consumers and independent applications providers gain access to these networks; and the parameters available to network providers (such as their choices about network architecture, overall bandwidth capacity, bandwidth reserved for their own use, traffic prioritization, the terms and rates for access to their networks and for their retail services) that can affect end users’ and independent applications providers’ access to those networks.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption and Precipitation of Aqueous Zn(II) on Hematite Nano- and Microparticles (open access)

Adsorption and Precipitation of Aqueous Zn(II) on Hematite Nano- and Microparticles

As part of a study of the effect of particle size on reactivity of hematite to aqueous metal ions, the sorption of Zn(II) on hematite nanoparticles and microparticles was examined over a wide range of Zn(II) concentrations using Zn K-edge EXAFS. When reacted with nanoparticles at pH 5.5 and low Zn(II) sorption densities (0.04 {le} {Lambda} < 2.76 imol/m{sup 2}), Zn(II) formed five-coordinated or a mixture of four- and six-coordinated surface complexes with an average Zn-O distance of 2.04({+-}0.02){angstrom}. At pH 5.5 and high Zn(II) sorption densities (2.76 {ge} {Lambda} {le} 3.70 mol/m{sup 2}), formation of surface precipitates is suggested based on the presence of second-shell Zn and multiple scattering features in the Fourier transform (FT) of the EXAFS spectra. EXAFS fitting of these high {Lambda} samples yielded an average first-shell Zn-O distance of 2.10({+-}0.02){angstrom}, with second-shell Zn-Fe and Zn-Zn distances of 3.23({+-}0.03){angstrom} and 3.31({+-}0.03){angstrom}, respectively. Qualitative comparison between the EXAFS spectra of these sorption samples and that of amorphous zinc hydroxide and Zn-bearing hydrotalcite indicates the development of surface precipitates with increasing {Lambda}. EXAFS spectra of Zn(II) sorbed on hematite microparticles under similar experimental conditions showed no evidence for surface precipitates even at the highest Zn surface coverage ({Lambda} …
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Ha, Juyong; /Stanford U., Geo. Environ. Sci.; Farges, Francois; /Stanford U., Geo. Environ. Sci. /Museum Nat. Hist., Paris; Brown, Gordon E., Jr. & /SLAC, SSRL
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption Mechanisms of Trivalent Gold onto Iron Oxy-Hydroxides: From the Molecular Scale to the Model (open access)

Adsorption Mechanisms of Trivalent Gold onto Iron Oxy-Hydroxides: From the Molecular Scale to the Model

Gold is a highly valuable metal that can concentrate in iron-rich exogenetic horizons such as laterites. An improved knowledge of the retention mechanisms of gold onto highly reactive soil components such as iron oxyhydroxides is therefore needed to better understand and predict the geochemical behavior of this element. In this study, we use EXAFS information and titration experiments to provide a realistic thermochemical description of the sorption of trivalent gold onto iron oxy-hydroxides. Analysis of Au L{sub III}-edge XAFS spectra shows that aqueous Au(III) adsorbs from chloride solutions onto goethite surfaces as inner-sphere square-planar complexes (Au(III)(OH,Cl){sub 4}), with dominantly OH ligands at pH > 6 and mixed OH/Cl ligands at lower pH values. In combination with these spectroscopic results, Reverse Monte Carlo simulations were used to constraint the possible sorption sites on the surface of goethite. Based on this structural information, we calculated sorption isotherms of Au(III) on Fe oxy-hydroxides surfaces, using the CD-MUSIC (Charge Distribution--Multi Site Complexation) model. The various Au(III)-sorbed species were identified as a function of pH, and the results of these EXAFS+CD-MUSIC models are compared with titration experiments. The overall good agreement between the predicted and measured structural models shows the potential of this combined approach …
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Cances, Benjamin; Benedetti, Marc; Farges, Francois; Brown, Gordon E., Jr. & /Stanford U., Geo. Environ. Sci. /SLAC, SSRL
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 221, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 221, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR BUILDING 241 702-AZ A TRAIN (open access)

ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR BUILDING 241 702-AZ A TRAIN

This report presents the analyses results for three samples obtained under RPP-PLAN-28509, Sampling and Analysis Plan for Building 241 702-AZ A Train. The sampling and analysis was done in response to problem evaluation request number PER-2004-6139, 702-AZ Filter Rooms Need Radiological Cleanup Efforts.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: JB, DUNCAN; JM, FRYE; CA, COOKE; SW, LI & FJ, BROCKMAN
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chrysolcolla Redefined as Spertiniite (open access)

Chrysolcolla Redefined as Spertiniite

XAFS and {mu}-XAFS spectra were collected at the Cu K-edge for seven chrysocolla samples (Peru, USA, and Congo). The results suggest that the local structure around Cu is similar to that in Cu(OH){sub 2} (spertiniite). Cu-L{sub 3} STXM imaging and spectroscopy confirm that the chrysocolla samples examined here consist of mesoscopic Cu(II)-rich domains surrounded by Si-rich domains (in agreement with results from infra-red spectroscopy). Hence, we suggest that chrysocolla, which is generally considered to be orthorhombic with composition (Cu,Al){sub 2}H{sub 2}Si{sub 2}O{sub 5}(OH){sub 4} {center_dot} nH{sub 2}O, is in actually a mesoscopic assemblage composed dominantly of spertiniite (Cu(OH){sub 2}), water and amorphous silica (SiO{sub 2}).
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Farges, Francois; /Museum Nat. Hist., Paris /Stanford U., Geo. Environ. Sci.; Benzerara, Karim; /Paris U., VI-VII, LMCP; Brown, Gordon E., Jr. & /Stanford U., Geo. Environ. Sci. /SLAC, SSRL
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Crimmins, Blaine
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling of Realistic Real Estimates with Genomics for Assessing Contaminant Attenuation and Long-Term Plume Containment (open access)

Coupling of Realistic Real Estimates with Genomics for Assessing Contaminant Attenuation and Long-Term Plume Containment

Coupling of Realistic Real Estimates with Genomics for Assessing Contaminant Attenuation and Long-Term Plume Containment
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Crawford, Roland L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating an educational consortium to support the recruitment and retention of expertise for the nuclear weapons complex (open access)

Creating an educational consortium to support the recruitment and retention of expertise for the nuclear weapons complex

From FY 02-05 IAC has been a part of the DOE Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative and its predecessor organization Advanced Accelerator Applications. In the IAC program effort has been divided into three parts; Student Research, Accelerator Driven Nuclear Research and Materials Science. Within the three parts specific research and development activities have been undertaken in Student Research, which supported undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, engineering staff, program administration, project infrastructure, visiting and summer faculty appointments, visiting scientists, and support of students and faculty at the University of Michigan, Texas A&M University, University of Texas and UNLV; Accelerator Driven Nuclear Research included the use of electron accelerators to study driven sub-critical nuclear systems (ADS) and to provide practical methods of monitoring and assaying nuclear materials for accountancy in non proliferation applications (Materials Accountability and Control, MA&C); and Materials Science research at IAC supported all AFC national technical areas.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Harmon, Frank, Wells, Douglas, P., Hunt, Alan, Beller, Denis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Mediation of Meta-Stable Supersymmetry Breaking (open access)

Direct Mediation of Meta-Stable Supersymmetry Breaking

The supersymmetric SU(N{sub c}) Yang-Mills theory coupled to NF matter fields in the fundamental representation has meta-stable vacua with broken supersymmetry when N{sub C} < N{sub F} < 3/2 N{sub C}. By gauging the flavor symmetry, this model can be coupled directly to the standard model. We show that it is possible to make a slight deformation to the model so that gaugino masses are generated and the Landau pole problem can be avoided. The deformed model has simple realizations on intersecting branes in string theory, where various features of the meta-stable vacua are encoded geometrically as brane configurations.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Kitano, Ryuichiro; Ooguri, Hirosi & Ookouchi, Yutaka
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovery of Unusual Minerals in Paleolithic Black Pigments from Lascaux (France) and Ekain (Spain) (open access)

Discovery of Unusual Minerals in Paleolithic Black Pigments from Lascaux (France) and Ekain (Spain)

Analyses of archaeological materials aim to rediscover the know-how of Prehistoric people by determining the nature of the painting matter, its preparation mode, and the geographic origin of its raw materials. This study deals with identification of manganese oxides in black pigments by micro-XANES (X-ray absorption near-edge structure) based on previous TEM (transmission electron microscopy) studies. Complex mixtures of the manganese oxides studied are present in some of mankind's oldest known paintings, namely those from the caves of Lascaux (Dordogne, France) and Ekain (Basque country, Spain). Scarce manganese oxide minerals, including groutite, hausmannite, and manganite, were found for the first time in Paleolithic art at these archaeological sites. Because there are no known deposits of such minerals in these areas, more distant origins and trade routes are inferred. The closest known Mn-rich geological province for Lascaux is the central Pyrenees, which is {approx} 250 km from the Dordogne area.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Chalmin, E.; Farges, F.; Vignaud, C.; Susini, J.; Menu, M. & Brown, G. E., Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrochromic Windows: Advanced Processing Technology (open access)

Electrochromic Windows: Advanced Processing Technology

This project addresses the development of advanced fabrication capabilities for energy saving electrochromic (EC) windows. SAGE EC windows consist of an inorganic stack of thin films deposited onto a glass substrate. The window tint can be reversibly changed by the application of a low power dc voltage. This property can be used to modulate the amount of light and heat entering buildings (or vehicles) through the glazings. By judicious management of this so-called solar heat gain, it is possible to derive significant energy savings due to reductions in heating lighting, and air conditioning (HVAC). Several areas of SAGE’s production were targeted during this project to allow significant improvements to processing throughput, yield and overall quality of the processing, in an effort to reduce the cost and thereby improve the market penetration. First, the overall thin film process was optimized to allow a more robust set of operating points to be used, thereby maximizing the yield due to the thin film deposition themselves. Other significant efforts aimed at improving yield were relating to implementing new procedures and processes for the manufacturing process, to improve the quality of the substrate preparation, and the quality of the IGU fabrication. Furthermore, methods for reworking …
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Sage Electrochromics, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EXAFS Signatures of Structural Zn at Trace Levels in Layered Minerals (open access)

EXAFS Signatures of Structural Zn at Trace Levels in Layered Minerals

Many in situ XAFS studies have shown that zinc incorporated in layered minerals is a major form of zinc in Zn-contaminated soils. Quantitative information on the local structural environment(s) and ordering of Zn in these minerals is required to better understand its behavior in soils. In this study, EXAFS spectroscopy was used to assess the structural environment of zinc incorporated at trace levels (40 ppm to 4,000 ppm) within the octahedral sheets of various natural and synthetic layered minerals. Results indicate that EXAFS data analyzed using ab initio FEFF calculations (FEFF 8.10) can unambiguously distinguish between zinc incorporation within the octahedral sheet of dioctahedral versus trioctahedral layered minerals and can determine the distribution (random or ordered) of zinc cations within the octahedral sheets of these minerals.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Juillot, Farid; Morin, Guillaume; Hazemann, Jean-Louis; Proux, Olivier; Belin, Stephanie; Briois, Valerie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress (open access)

FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress

This report analyzes each of the areas that has changed as a result of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions and Court decisions. The various positions in the debate also are summarized.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Johnnie Son Sutton, December 13, 2006] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Johnnie Son Sutton, December 13, 2006]

Funeral program for Eld. Johnnie Son Sutton, born March 12, 1911 and died December 8, 2006. The funeral was held December 13, 2006 at Denver Heights COGIC, officiated by Elder J. D. Pope. Funeral arrangements were made through Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Goldthwaite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Bridges, Steven W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 532, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 532, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 533, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 533, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 534, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 534, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Availability Electronics Standards (open access)

High Availability Electronics Standards

Availability modeling of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) predicts unacceptably low uptime with current electronics systems designs. High Availability (HA) analysis is being used as a guideline for all major machine systems including sources, utilities, cryogenics, magnets, power supplies, instrumentation and controls. R&D teams are seeking to achieve total machine high availability with nominal impact on system cost. The focus of this paper is the investigation of commercial standard HA architectures and packaging for Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation. Application of HA design principles to power systems and detector instrumentation are also discussed.
Date: December 13, 2006
Creator: Larsen, R.S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library