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1-D Van der Waals Foams Heated by Ion Beam Energy Deposition (open access)

1-D Van der Waals Foams Heated by Ion Beam Energy Deposition

One dimensional simulations of various initial average density aluminum foams (modeled as slabs of solid metal separated by low density regions) heated by volumetric energy deposition are conducted with a Lagrangian hydrodynamics code using a van der Waals equation of state (EOS). The resulting behavior is studied to facilitate the design of future warm dense matter (WDM) experiments at LBNL. In the simulations the energy deposition ranges from 10 to 30 kJ/g and from 0.075 to 4.0 ns total pulse length, resulting in temperatures from approximately 1 to 4 eV. We study peak pressures and temperatures in the foams, expansion velocity, and the phase evolution. Five relevant time scales in the problem are identified. Additionally, we present a method for characterizing the level of inhomogeneity in a foam target as it is heated and the time it takes for a foam to homogenize.
Date: March 19, 2010
Creator: Zylstra, A; Barnard, J J & More, R M
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2009 Argonne National Laboratory Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report (open access)

2009 Argonne National Laboratory Annual Illness and Injury Surveillance Report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) commitment to assuring the health and safety of its workers includes the conduct of epidemiologic surveillance activities that provide an early warning system for health problems among workers. The Illness and Injury Surveillance Program monitors illnesses and health conditions that result in an absence of workdays, occupational injuries and illnesses, and disabilities and deaths among current workers.
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2010 Oil Spill: MMS/BOEMRE and NEPA (open access)

The 2010 Oil Spill: MMS/BOEMRE and NEPA

This report reviews the environmental procedures required following the explosion of an oil well on a tract leased by BP from the federal government.
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Locomotive Technology: Quarterly Technical Status Report 28 (open access)

21st Century Locomotive Technology: Quarterly Technical Status Report 28

Thermal testing of a subscale locomotive sodium battery module was initiated.to validate thermal models. The hybrid trip optimizer problem was formulated. As outcomes of this project, GE has proceeded to commercialize trip optimizer technology, and has initiated work on a state-of-the-art battery manufacturing plant for high energy density, sodium-based batteries.
Date: February 19, 2010
Creator: Salasoo, Lembit & Chandra, Ramu
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving Energy Savings with Highly-Controlled Lighting in an Open-Plan Office (open access)

Achieving Energy Savings with Highly-Controlled Lighting in an Open-Plan Office

An installation in a Federal building tested the effectiveness of a highly-controlled, workstation-specific lighting retrofit. The study took place in an open-office area with 86 cubicles and low levels of daylight. Each cubicle was illuminated by a direct/indirectpendant luminaire with three 32 watt lamps, two dimmable DALI ballasts, and an occupancy sensor. A centralized control system programmed all three lamps to turn on and off according to occupancy on a workstation-by-workstation basis. Field measurements taken over the course of several monthsdemonstrated 40% lighting energy savings compared to a baseline without advanced controls that conforms to GSA's current retrofit standard. A photometric analysis found that the installation provided higher desktop light levels than the baseline, while an occupant survey found that occupants in general preferred the lighting system to thebaseline.Simple payback is fairly high; projects that can achieve lower installation costs and/or higher energy savings and those in which greenhouse gas reduction and occupant satisfaction are significant priorities provide the ideal setting for workstation-specific lighting retrofits.
Date: April 19, 2010
Creator: Rubinstein, Francis & Enscoe, Abby
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: February 19, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the current political state of Iran, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Iran relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: November 19, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the current political state of Iran, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Iran relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: October 19, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues (open access)

Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues

The United States provides assistance to 47 African countries, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has 23 missions in Africa. In recent years, U.S. assistance to Africa saw a major increase, especially in health-related programs. This report provides an overview of U.S. aid to Africa, including the strategic objectives that shape U.S. aid to Africa, information about specific aid programs and initiatives, and the Obama Administration's FY2011 foreign aid budget request.
Date: May 19, 2010
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Export Programs: Background and Issues (open access)

Agricultural Export Programs: Background and Issues

This report considers U.S. agricultural imports and predicts that FY2010 will be the second highest on record at 77.5 billion. The report also discusses the farm bill of 2008 in relation to this information. Moreover, the report provides data on the U.S. agricultural exports.
Date: April 19, 2010
Creator: Ho, Melissa D. & Hanrahan, Charles E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Inspection Methods for Single Shell Tanks (open access)

Alternative Inspection Methods for Single Shell Tanks

This document was prepared to provide evaluations and recommendations regarding nondestructive evaluation methods that might be used to determine cracks and bowing in the ceiling of waste storage tanks on the Hanford site. The goal was to determine cracks as small as 1/16 in. wide in the ceiling, and bowing as small as 0.25 in. This report describes digital video camera methods that can be used to detect a crack in the ceiling of the dome, and methods for determining the surface topography of the ceiling in the waste storage tanks to detect localized movements in the surface. A literature search, combined with laboratory testing, comprised this study.
Date: January 19, 2010
Creator: Peters, Timothy J.; Alzheimer, James M. & Hurley, David E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 54, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 54, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 74, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 74, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 117, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 117, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 183, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 183, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 249, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 249, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 270, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 19, 2010 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 270, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 19, 2010

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 19, 2010
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Annual report of groundwater monitoring at Centralia, Kansas, in 2009. (open access)

Annual report of groundwater monitoring at Centralia, Kansas, in 2009.

In September 2005, periodic sampling of groundwater was initiated by the Commodity Credit Corporation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CCC/USDA) in the vicinity of a grain storage facility formerly operated by the CCC/USDA at Centralia, Kansas. The sampling at Centralia is being performed on behalf of the CCC/USDA by Argonne National Laboratory, in accord with a monitoring program approved by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). The objective is to monitor levels of carbon tetrachloride contamination identified in the groundwater at Centralia (Argonne 2003, 2004, 2005a). Under the KDHE-approved monitoring plan (Argonne 2005b), the groundwater was sampled twice yearly from September 2005 until September 2007 for analyses for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as well as measurement of selected geochemical parameters to aid in the evaluation of possible natural contaminant degradation (reductive dechlorination) processes in the subsurface environment. The results from the two-year sampling program demonstrated the presence of carbon tetrachloride contamination at levels exceeding the KDHE Tier 2 risk-based screening level (RBSL) of 5 {micro}g/L for this compound in a localized groundwater plume that has shown little movement. The relative concentrations of chloroform, the primary degradation product of carbon tetrachloride, suggested that some degree of reductive dechlorination …
Date: October 19, 2010
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anomalies of Nuclear Criticality, Revision 6 (open access)

Anomalies of Nuclear Criticality, Revision 6

This report is revision 6 of the Anomalies of Nuclear Criticality. This report is required reading for the training of criticality professionals in many organizations both nationally and internationally. This report describes many different classes of nuclear criticality anomalies that are different than expected.
Date: February 19, 2010
Creator: Clayton, E. D.; Prichard, Andrew W.; Durst, Bonita E.; Erickson, David & Puigh, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 19, 2010
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
ARM Climate Research Facility Instrumentation Status and Information March 2010 (open access)

ARM Climate Research Facility Instrumentation Status and Information March 2010

The purpose of this report is to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility instrumentation status. The report is divided into the following five sections: (1) new instrumentation in the process of being acquired and deployed, (2) field campaigns, (3) existing instrumentation and progress on improvements or upgrades, (4) proposed future instrumentation, and (5) Small Business Innovation Research instrument development.
Date: April 19, 2010
Creator: Voyles, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library