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81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 719, Chapter 606 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 719, Chapter 606

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to polling places for certain elections.
Date: 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2555, Chapter 1137 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2555, Chapter 1137

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain property acquired to provide low-income housing or used for charitable purposes.
Date: 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3918, Chapter 995 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3918, Chapter 995

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to testing liquefied petroleum gas systems in certain school facilities.
Date: 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 28, Chapter 718 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 28, Chapter 718

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the use of a computer for an unauthorized purpose; providing a civil penalty.
Date: 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ab-initio calculations of the hydrogen-uranium system. Part I: Surface phenomena, absorption, transport and trapping (open access)

Ab-initio calculations of the hydrogen-uranium system. Part I: Surface phenomena, absorption, transport and trapping

Density functional theory was applied to the initial steps of uranium hydriding: surface phenomena, absorption, bulk transport and trapping. H adsorbs exothermically to the (0 0 1) surface, yet H absorption into the bulk is endothermic, with off-center octahedral absorption having the lowest absorption energy of 0.39 eV, relative to molecular H{sub 2}. H absorption in interstitial sites causes a local softening of the bulk modulus. Diffusion of H in unstrained {alpha}-U has a barrier of 0.6 eV. The energy of H absorption adjacent to the chemical impurities C, S, Si was lowered by an amount proportional to the size of the impurity atom, and the resulting lattice strain Si > S > C. Thus, impurities may promote hydriding by providing surfaces or prestrained zones for H uptake.
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Taylor, Christopher D & Lillard, R Scott
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Ordinances: 2009] (open access)

[Abilene City Ordinances: 2009]

Ledger containing ordinances passed by the city of Abilene, Texas from January 2009 to December 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Resolutions: 2009] (open access)

[Abilene City Resolutions: 2009]

Ledger containing resolutions passed by the city of Abilene, Texas from January 2009 to December 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge]

Photograph of Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge wearing a police office uniform. His jacket has a police patch on the right shoulder, his name tag pinned on the right side of his chest, and a police badge pinned on the left.
Date: [2009..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accelerating the disposition of transuranic waste from LANL - 9495 (open access)

Accelerating the disposition of transuranic waste from LANL - 9495

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was established during World War II with a single mission -- to design and build an atomic bomb. In the 65 years since, nuclear weapons physics, design and engineering have been the Laboratory's primary and sustaining mission. Experimental and process operations -- and associated cleanout and upgrade activities -- have generated a significant inventory of transuranic (TRU) waste that is stored at LANL's Technical Area 54, Material Disposal Area G (MDA G). When the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) opened its doors in 1999, LANL's TRU inventory totaled about 10,200 m{sup 3}, with a plutonium 239-equivalent curie (PE Ci) content of approximately 250,000 curies. By December 2008, a total of about 2,300 m3 (61,000 PE Ci) had been shipped to WIPP from LANL. This has resulted in a net reduction of about 1,000 m{sup 3} of TRU inventory over that time frame. This paper presents progress in dispositioning legacy and newly-generated transuranic waste (TRU) from ongoing missions at the LANL. The plans for, and lessons learned, in dispositioning several hundred high-activity TRU waste drums are reviewed. This waste population was one of the highest risks at LANL. Technical challenges in disposition of the high-activity drums …
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Shepard, Mark D; Stiger, Susan G; Blankenhorn, James A; Rael, George J & Moody, David C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue account sign up] (open access)

[ActBlue account sign up]

ActBlue account sign up for Allen J. Daniels.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue contact page and TSDC conference registration page] (open access)

[ActBlue contact page and TSDC conference registration page]

ActBlue contact page that includes general questions, credit card questions, directory updates, and press inquiries. Email correspondence between Karl-Thomas Musselman to Dan Graney and Al Daniels on February 12, 2009 discussing ActBlue checks. Photocopies of ActBlue Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus conference registration page.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue Contribution Details] (open access)

[ActBlue Contribution Details]

The report lists contribution details, refund details, and contact information of donors with ActBlue.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue Contribution Details] (open access)

[ActBlue Contribution Details]

The report lists contribution details and fee details by ActBlue.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue Contribution Details] (open access)

[ActBlue Contribution Details]

The report lists contribution details, fee details, and contact information of donors with ActBlue.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue Contribution Details] (open access)

[ActBlue Contribution Details]

The report lists contribution details and fee details by ActBlue.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue donor receipt identification lists] (open access)

[ActBlue donor receipt identification lists]

Receipt identification list for Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus donors with addresses.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue donor receipt list] (open access)

[ActBlue donor receipt list]

Receipt identification list for Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus donors with addresses and other contact information.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue donor receipt list] (open access)

[ActBlue donor receipt list]

Receipt identification list for Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus donors with addresses and other contact information.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue donor receipt list] (open access)

[ActBlue donor receipt list]

Receipt identification list for Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus donors with addresses and other contact information.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[ActBlue Invoice] (open access)

[ActBlue Invoice]

An invoice from Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus to ActBlue of $385.00 on February 13, 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive anisotropic meshing for steady convection-dominated problems (open access)

Adaptive anisotropic meshing for steady convection-dominated problems

Obtaining accurate solutions for convection–diffusion equations is challenging due to the presence of layers when convection dominates the diffusion. To solve this problem, we design an adaptive meshing algorithm which optimizes the alignment of anisotropic meshes with the numerical solution. Three main ingredients are used. First, the streamline upwind Petrov–Galerkin method is used to produce a stabilized solution. Second, an adapted metric tensor is computed from the approximate solution. Third, optimized anisotropic meshes are generated from the computed metric tensor by an anisotropic centroidal Voronoi tessellation algorithm. Our algorithm is tested on a variety of two-dimensional examples and the results shows that the algorithm is robust in detecting layers and efficient in avoiding non-physical oscillations in the numerical approximation.
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Nguyen, Hoa; Gunzburger, Max; Ju, Lili & Burkardt, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive management: a paradigm for remediation of public facilities (open access)

Adaptive management: a paradigm for remediation of public facilities

Public facility restoration planning traditionally focused on response to natural disasters and hazardous materials accidental releases. These plans now need to integrate response to terrorist actions. Therefore, plans must address a wide range of potential vulnerabilities. Similar types of broad remediation planning are needed for restoration of waste and hazardous material handling areas and facilities. There are strong similarities in damage results and remediation activities between unintentional and terrorist actions; however, the uncertainties associated with terrorist actions result in a re-evaluation of approaches to planning. Restoration of public facilities following a release of a hazardous material is inherently far more complex than in confined industrial settings and has many unique technical, economic, social, and political challenges. Therefore, they arguably involve a superset of drivers, concerns and public agencies compared to other restoration efforts. This superset of conditions increases complexity of interactions, reduces our knowledge of the initial conditions, and even condenses the timeline for restoration response. Therefore, evaluations of alternative restoration management approaches developed for responding to terrorist actions provide useful knowledge for large, complex waste management projects. Whereas present planning documents have substantial linearity in their organization, the 'adaptive management' paradigm provides a constructive parallel operations paradigm for restoration …
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Janecky, David R; Whicker, Jeffrey J & Doerr, Ted B
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken Newsletter, Fall 2008 (open access)

Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken Newsletter, Fall 2008

Newsletter regarding population control and conservation efforts of the Attwater's Prairie Chicken.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advanced Fuel Cycle Economic Analysis of Symbiotic Light-Water Reactor and Fast Burner Reactor Systems (open access)

Advanced Fuel Cycle Economic Analysis of Symbiotic Light-Water Reactor and Fast Burner Reactor Systems

The Advanced Fuel Cycle Economic Analysis of Symbiotic Light-Water Reactor and Fast Burner Reactor Systems, prepared to support the U.S. Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) systems analysis, provides a technology-oriented baseline system cost comparison between the open fuel cycle and closed fuel cycle systems. The intent is to understand their overall cost trends, cost sensitivities, and trade-offs. This analysis also improves the AFCI Program’s understanding of the cost drivers that will determine nuclear power’s cost competitiveness vis-a-vis other baseload generation systems. The common reactor-related costs consist of capital, operating, and decontamination and decommissioning costs. Fuel cycle costs include front-end (pre-irradiation) and back-end (post-iradiation) costs, as well as costs specifically associated with fuel recycling. This analysis reveals that there are large cost uncertainties associated with all the fuel cycle strategies, and that overall systems (reactor plus fuel cycle) using a closed fuel cycle are about 10% more expensive in terms of electricity generation cost than open cycle systems. The study concludes that further U.S. and joint international-based design studies are needed to reduce the cost uncertainties with respect to fast reactor, fuel separation and fabrication, and waste disposition. The results of this work can help provide insight to the cost-related factors …
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Shropshire, D. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library