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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coverage of Contagious Diseases
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), provides broad nondiscrimination protection for individuals with disabilities in employment public services, public accommodations and services operated by private entities, transportation, and telecommunication. This report briefly discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act's statutory provisions relating to contagious diseases and relevant judicial interpretations.
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Americans with Disabilities Act and Emergency Preparedness and Response
The Americans with Disabilities Act provides broad nondiscrimination protection for individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, and public accommodations and serves operated by private entities. Although the ADA does not include provisions specifically discussing its application to disasters, its nondiscrimination provisions are applicable to emergency preparedness and responses to disasters. In order to further the ADA's goals, President Bush issued an Executive Order on July 22nd, 2004, relating to emergency preparedness for individuals with disabilities and establishing the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities. The Department of Homeland Security issued its Nationwide Plan Review Phase 2 Report, which includes a discussion of people with disabilities and emergency planning and readiness. The National Council on Disability has also issued a recommendation on emergency preparation and disaster relief relating to individuals with disabilities. The post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 added the position of Disability Coordinator to FEMA.
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Supreme Court Decisions
This report is on The Americans with Disabilities Act: Supreme Court Decisions.
Date:
October 14, 2008
Creator:
Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Amorphous and nanocrystalline phase formation in highly-driven Al-based binary alloys
Remarkable advances have been made since rapid solidification was first introduced to the field of materials science and technology. New types of materials such as amorphous alloys and nanostructure materials have been developed as a result of rapid solidification techniques. While these advances are, in many respects, ground breaking, much remains to be discerned concerning the fundamental relationships that exist between a liquid and a rapidly solidified solid. The scope of the current dissertation involves an extensive set of experimental, analytical, and computational studies designed to increase the overall understanding of morphological selection, phase competition, and structural hierarchy that occurs under far-from equilibrium conditions. High pressure gas atomization and Cu-block melt-spinning are the two different rapid solidification techniques applied in this study. The research is mainly focused on Al-Si and Al-Sm alloy systems. Silicon and samarium produce different, yet favorable, systems for exploration when alloyed with aluminum under far-from equilibrium conditions. One of the main differences comes from the positions of their respective T{sub 0} curves, which makes Al-Si a good candidate for solubility extension while the plunging T{sub 0} line in Al-Sm promotes glass formation. The rapidly solidified gas-atomized Al-Si powders within a composition range of 15 to 50 …
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Kalay, Yunus Eren
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis and Measurement of Bubble Dynamics and Associated Flow Field in Subcooled Nucleate Boiling Flows
In recent years, subooled nucleate boiling (SNB) has attrcted expanding research interest owing to the emergence of axial offset anomaly (AOA) or crud-induced power shigt (CIPS) in many operating US PWRs, which is an unexpected deviation in the core axial power distribution from the predicted power curves. Research indicates that the formation of the crud, which directly leads to AOA phenomena, results from the presence of the subcooled nucleate boiling, and is especially realted to bubble motion occurring in the core region.
Date:
October 1, 2008
Creator:
Jones, Barclay G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of main steam isolation valve leakage in design basis accidents using MELCOR 1.8.6 and RADTRAD.
Analyses were performed using MELCOR and RADTRAD to investigate main steam isolation valve (MSIV) leakage behavior under design basis accident (DBA) loss-of-coolant (LOCA) conditions that are presumed to have led to a significant core melt accident. Dose to the control room, site boundary and LPZ are examined using both approaches described in current regulatory guidelines as well as analyses based on best estimate source term and system response. At issue is the current practice of using containment airborne aerosol concentrations as a surrogate for the in-vessel aerosol concentration that exists in the near vicinity of the MSIVs. This study finds current practice using the AST-based containment aerosol concentrations for assessing MSIV leakage is non-conservative and conceptually in error. A methodology is proposed that scales the containment aerosol concentration to the expected vessel concentration in order to preserve the simplified use of the AST in assessing containment performance under assumed DBA conditions. This correction is required during the first two hours of the accident while the gap and early in-vessel source terms are present. It is general practice to assume that at {approx}2hrs, recovery actions to reflood the core will have been successful and that further core damage can be avoided. …
Date:
October 1, 2008
Creator:
Salay, Michael (United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.); Kalinich, Donald A.; Gauntt, Randall O. & Radel, Tracy E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Non-Enzymatically Glycated Peptides: Neutral-Loss Triggered MS3 Versus Multi-Stage Activation Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Non-enzymatic glycation of tissue proteins has important implications in the development of complications of diabetes mellitus. While electron transfer dissociation (ETD) has been shown to outperform collision-induced dissociation (CID) in sequencing glycated peptides by tandem mass spectrometry, ETD instrumentation is not yet available in all laboratories. In this study, we evaluated different advanced CID techniques (i.e., neutral-loss triggered MS3 and multi-stage activation) during LC-MSn analyses of Amadori-modified peptides enriched from human serum glycated in vitro. During neutral-loss triggered MS3 experiments, MS3 scans triggered by neutral-losses of 3 H2O or 3 H2O + HCHO produced similar results in terms of glycated peptide identifications. However, neutral losses of 3 H2O resulted in significantly more glycated peptide identifications during multi-stage activation experiments. Overall, the multi-stage activation approach produced more glycated peptide identifications, while the neutral-loss triggered MS3 approach resulted in much higher specificity. Both techniques offer a viable alternative to ETD for identifying glycated peptides when that method is unavailable.
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Zhang, Qibin; Petyuk, Vladislav A.; Schepmoes, Athena A.; Orton, Daniel J.; Monroe, Matthew E.; Yang, Feng et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Tax Exclusion for Canceled Mortgage Debt Income
The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, P.L. 110-142, signed into law on December 20,2007, temporarily excludes qualified COD income. Thus, the act allows taxpayers who do not qualify for the existing exceptions to exclude COD income. The provision is effective for debt discharged before January 1, 2010. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, P.L. 110-343, extends the exclusion of COD income to debt discharged before January 1, 2013.
Date:
October 8, 2008
Creator:
Keightley, Mark P. & Lunder, Erika
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Tax Treatment of Capital Losses
Several reasons have been advanced for increasing the net capital loss limit against ordinary income: as a part of an economic stimulus plan, as a means of restoring confidence in the stock market, and to restore the value of the loss limitations to its 1978 level. Capital loss limits are imposed because individuals from reducing their taxes by legalizing losses while holding assets with gains until death when taxes are avoided completely.
Date:
October 20, 2008
Creator:
Hungerford, Thomas L. & Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
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Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the Confederacy, while Southerners vilified Northern prison policies to show the depths to which Yankees had sunk to attain victory. Over the years the postwar Northern portrayal of Andersonville as fiendishly designed to kill prisoners in mass quantities has largely been dismissed. The Lost Cause characterization of Union prison policies as criminally negligent and inhumane, however, has shown remarkable durability. Northern officials have been portrayed as turning their military prisons into concentration camps where Southern prisoners were poorly fed, clothed, and sheltered, resulting in inexcusably high numbers of deaths. Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to “whitewash” Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable …
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Gillispie, James M.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Angular Dependence of Jet Quenching Indicates Its Strong Enhancement Near the QCD Phase Transition
We study dependence of jet quenching on matter density, using 'tomography' of the fireball provided by RHIC data on azimuthal anisotropy v{sub 2} of high p{sub t} hadron yield at different centralities. Slicing the fireball into shells with constant (entropy) density, we derive a 'layer-wise geometrical limit' v{sub 2}{sup max} which is indeed above the data v{sub 2} < v{sub x}{sup max}. Interestingly, the limit is reached only if quenching is dominated by shells with the entropy density exactly in the near-T{sub c} region. We show two models that simultaneously describe the high p{sub t} v{sub 2} and R{sub AA} data and conclude that such a description can be achieved only if the jet quenching is few times stronger in the near-T{sub c} region relative to QGP at T > T{sub c}. One possible reason for that may be recent indications that the near-T{sub c} region is a magnetic plasma of relatively light color-magnetic monopoles.
Date:
October 22, 2008
Creator:
Liao, Jinfeng & Shuryak, Edward
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Site Environmental Report, 2007(ASER)
This report provides information about environmental programs during the calendar year (CY) of 2007 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, California. Activities that span the calendar year, i.e., stormwater monitoring covering the winter season of 2007/2008 (October 2007 through May 2008), are also included. Production of an annual site environmental report (ASER) is a requirement established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for all management and operating (M&O) contractors throughout the DOE complex. SLAC is a federally-funded research and development center with Stanford University as the M&O contractor. Under Executive Order (EO) 13423 and DOE Order 450.1, 'Environmental Protection Program', SLAC effectively implemented and integrated the key elements of an Environmental Management System (EMS) to achieve the site's integrated safety and environmental management system goals. For normal daily activities, SLAC managers and supervisors are responsible for ensuring that policies and procedures are understood and followed so that: (1) Worker safety and health are protected; (2) The environment is protected; and (3) Compliance is ensured. Throughout 2007, SLAC focused on development and implementation of SLAC management systems to ensure continual improvement. These systems provided a structured framework for SLAC to implement 'greening of the government' initiatives …
Date:
October 7, 2008
Creator:
Sabba, D
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annuities and the Securities and Exchange Commission Proposed Rule 151A
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released a proposed rule that would effectively reclassify equity indexed annuities as a security product in addition to being an insurance product. This report presents the different types of annuities, explains the taxation of annuities, and disentangles the federal and state roles in the regulation of annuities. It outlines the proposed SEC rule and its current status.
Date:
October 22, 2008
Creator:
Webel, Baird
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for real-time acoustic imaging of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
We have successfully designed, built and tested an experimental apparatus which is capable of providing the first real-time ultrasound images of Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in optically opaque fluids confined to large aspect ratio experimental cells. The apparatus employs a modified version of a commercially available ultrasound camera to capture images (30 frames per second) of flow patterns in a fluid undergoing Rayleigh Bénard convection. The apparatus was validated by observing convection rolls in 5cSt polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer fluid. Our first objective, after having built the apparatus, was to use it to study the sequence of transitions from diffusive to time--dependent heat transport in liquid mercury. The aim was to provide important information on pattern formation in the largely unexplored regime of very low Prandtl number fluids. Based on the theoretical stability diagram for liquid mercury, we anticipated that straight rolls should be stable over a range of Rayleigh numbers, between 1708 and approximately 1900. Though some of our power spectral densities were suggestive of the existence of weak convection, we have been unable to unambiguously visualize stable convection rolls above the theoretical onset of convection in liquid mercury. Currently, we are seeking ways to increase the sensitivity of our apparatus, such …
Date:
October 28, 2008
Creator:
Kuehn, Kerry, K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Application of Remedy Standards A and B
This guidance document provides an overview of Remedy Standards A and B.
Date:
October 2008
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Remediation Division.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Applications of a single-molecule detection in early disease diagnosis and enzymatic reaction study
Various single-molecule techniques were utilized for ultra-sensitive early diagnosis of viral DNA and antigen and basic mechanism study of enzymatic reactions. DNA of human papilloma virus (HPV) served as the screening target in a flow system. Alexa Fluor 532 (AF532) labeled single-stranded DNA probes were hybridized to the target HPV-16 DNA in solution. The individual hybridized molecules were imaged with an intensified charge-coupled device (ICCD) in two ways. In the single-color mode, target molecules were detected via fluorescence from hybridized probes only. This system could detect HPV-16 DNA in the presence of human genomic DNA down to 0.7 copy/cell and had a linear dynamic range of over 6 orders of magnitude. In the dual-color mode, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) was employed to achieve zero false-positive count. We also showed that DNA extracts from Pap test specimens did not interfere with the system. A surface-based method was used to improve the throughput of the flow system. HPV-16 DNA was hybridized to probes on a glass surface and detected with a total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscope. In the single-probe mode, the whole genome and target DNA were fluorescently labeled before hybridization, and the detection limit is similar to the flow …
Date:
October 15, 2008
Creator:
Li, Jiangwei
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Approximating conductive ellipsoid inductive responses using static quadrupole moments
Smith and Morrison (2006) developed an approximation for the inductive response of conducting magnetic (permeable) spheroids (e.g., steel spheroids) based on the inductive response of conducting magnetic spheres of related dimensions. Spheroids are axially symmetric objects with elliptical cross-sections along the axis of symmetry and circular cross sections perpendicular to the axis of symmetry. Spheroids are useful as an approximation to the shapes of unexploded ordnance (UXO) for approximating their responses. Ellipsoids are more general objects with three orthogonal principal axes, with elliptical cross sections along planes normal to the axes. Ellipsoids reduce to spheroids in the limiting case of ellipsoids with cross-sections that are in fact circles along planes normal to one axis. Parametrizing the inductive response of unknown objects in terms of the response of an ellipsoid is useful as it allows fitting responses of objects with no axis of symmetry, in addition to fitting the responses of axially symmetric objects. It is thus more appropriate for fitting the responses of metal scrap to be distinguished electromagnetically from unexploded ordnance. Here the method of Smith and Morrison (2006) is generalized to the case of conductive magnetic ellipsoids, and a simplified form used to parametrize the inductive response of …
Date:
October 1, 2008
Creator:
Smith, J. Torquil
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 9, 2008
Creator:
Phillips, Barbara
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 16, 2008
Creator:
Phillips, Barbara
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 23, 2008
Creator:
Phillips, Barbara
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Holliday, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 30, 2008
Creator:
Phillips, Barbara
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 2, 2008
Creator:
Lewis, Shelley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 9, 2008
Creator:
Lewis, Shelley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 2008
Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 16, 2008
Creator:
Lewis, Shelley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History