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Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010 (open access)

Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Cooper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 2010
Creator: Palmer, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Efforts to Assess and Promote Resiliency Are Evolving but Program Management Could Be Strengthened (open access)

Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Efforts to Assess and Promote Resiliency Are Evolving but Program Management Could Be Strengthened

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), protecting and ensuring the resiliency (the ability to resist, absorb, recover from, or successfully adapt to adversity or changing conditions) of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) is essential to the nation's security. By law, DHS is to lead and coordinate efforts to protect several thousand CIKR assets deemed vital to the nation's security, public health, and economy. In 2006, DHS created the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) to outline the approach for integrating CIKR and increased its emphasis on resiliency in its 2009 update. GAO was asked to assess the extent to which DHS (1) has incorporated resiliency into the programs it uses to work with asset owners and operators and (2) is positioned to disseminate information it gathers on resiliency practices to asset owners and operators. GAO reviewed DHS documents, such as the NIPP, and interviewed DHS officials and 15 owners and operators of assets selected on the basis of geographic diversity. The results of these interviews are not generalizable but provide insights."
Date: September 23, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crowley Star (Crowley, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010 (open access)

Crowley Star (Crowley, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Crowley, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 2010
Creator: Sorter, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
CRS Issue Statement on the Middle East (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on the Middle East

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Date: February 23, 2010
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.; Zanotti, Jim; Addis, Casey L.; Migdalovitz, Carol; Katzmann, Kenneth; Blanchard, Christopher M. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Legal Status of the FCC’s Media Ownership Rules (open access)

Current Legal Status of the FCC’s Media Ownership Rules

This report discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) media ownership regulations, which place limits on the number of broadcast radio and television outlets one owner can possess in a given market and place cross-ownership restrictions on these outlets and on the cross-ownership of broadcast properties and newspapers.
Date: August 23, 2010
Creator: Ruane, Kathleen A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive (open access)

Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive

This report discusses attempts to resolve the Cyprus problem and reunify the island which have undergone various levels of negotiation for almost 40 years. Prospects for a settlement that would end the political division of Cyprus appear to have reached a stalemate and may now enter a period of retrenchment possibly dominated by harder-line views by both sides and more difficult negotiations.
Date: March 23, 2010
Creator: Morelli, Vincent
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 2010 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: April 23, 2010
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 2010 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: July 23, 2010
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
DART Rail Green Line creates new connections, completes nation's longest light rail construction project (open access)

DART Rail Green Line creates new connections, completes nation's longest light rail construction project

News release about the opening of DART's Green Line and accommodating updates in bus and TRE service.
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Defense Acquisitions: DOD Could Achieve Greater Commonality and Efficiencies among Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: DOD Could Achieve Greater Commonality and Efficiencies among Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For the last several years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has planned to invest billions of dollars in development and procurement of unmanned aircraft systems. In its fiscal year 2011 budget request the department indicated a significant increase in these investments, expecting to need more than $24 billion from 2010 through 2015. DOD recognizes that to leverage its resources more effectively, it must achieve greater commonality among the military services' unmanned aircraft system acquisition programs. This testimony is based primarily on GAO's July 2009 report (GAO-09-520) which examined 10 unmanned aircraft acquisition programs: eight unmanned aircraft systems--Global Hawk, Reaper, Shadow, Predator, Sky Warrior, Fire Scout, Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, and Unmanned Combat Aircraft System-Demonstration; and two payload development programs--Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program, and Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload. The testimony focuses on: 1) the cost, schedule, and performance progress of the 10 programs as of July 2009; 2) the extent to which the military services collaborated and identified commonality among the programs; 3) factors influencing the effectiveness of the collaboration; and, 4) recent DOD investment decisions related to these acquisitions."
Date: March 23, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: How DOD Acquires Weapon Systems and Recent Efforts to Reform the Process (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: How DOD Acquires Weapon Systems and Recent Efforts to Reform the Process

This report outlines the Department of Defense's (DOD) defense acquisition structure, discusses recent major reports addressing defense acquisition, and considers recent DOD efforts to improve the acquisition of weapon systems. It also includes a description of recent congressional efforts to reform the DOD's acquisition process.
Date: April 23, 2010
Creator: Schwartz, Moshe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense: FY2011 Authorization and Appropriations (open access)

Defense: FY2011 Authorization and Appropriations

The President's FY2011 budget request, released February 1, 2010, included $733.3 billion in new budget authority for national defense. This report discusses and break downs these defense appropriations.
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Towell, Pat
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments (open access)

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments

This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date: July 23, 2010
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstration of Tokamak Ohmic Flux Saving by Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection on NSTX (open access)

Demonstration of Tokamak Ohmic Flux Saving by Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection on NSTX

Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) started discharges in NSTX have attained peak currents up to 300 kA and when these discharges are coupled to induction, it has produced up to 200 kA additional current over inductive-only operation. CHI in NSTX has shown to be energetically quite efficient, producing a plasma current of about 10 A/Joule of capacitor bank energy. In addition, for the first time, the CHI produced toroidal current that couples to induction continues to increase with the energy supplied by the CHI power supply at otherwise similar values of the injector flux, indicating the potential for substantial current generation capability by CHI in NSTX and in future toroidal devices. __________________________________________________
Date: April 23, 2010
Creator: Raman, R.; Mueller, D.; Nelson, B. A.; Jarboe, T. R.; Gerhardt, S.; Kugel, H. W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Education: Improved Dissemination and Timely Product Release Would Enhance the Usefulness of the What Works Clearinghouse (open access)

Department of Education: Improved Dissemination and Timely Product Release Would Enhance the Usefulness of the What Works Clearinghouse

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In connection with the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, GAO was required to study the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal source of evidence about effective education practices. Operating through a 5-year contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the WWC reviews education research and disseminates its findings. GAO examined: (1) the extent to which the WWC review process meets accepted standards for research evaluation and how the WWC has responded to recommendations and criticism, (2) how WWC output and costs have changed over time and how its performance is measured, and (3) how WWC products are disseminated and how useful educators find them to be. To conduct its work, GAO reviewed WWC-related documents, analyzed cost and performance data, surveyed all states and a nationally representative sample of school districts, and interviewed IES officials, WWC contractors, researchers, and others."
Date: July 23, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Design and Development of The EBIS LEBT Solenoid Power Supply (open access)

The Design and Development of The EBIS LEBT Solenoid Power Supply

This power supply was designed and developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as part of a new ion preinjector system called EBIS (Electron Beam Ion Source). It consists of a charging power supply, a capacitor bank, a discharge and recovery circuit and control circuits. The output is fed through cables into a solenoid magnet. The magnet's inductance is 1.9mH. The maximum charging voltage is 1000V. The power supply output is a half sine wave of 13ms duration. The repetition rate is 5Hz. The power supply output can be set to any value between 250A and 1900A in one second in order to accommodate the varying species of ions specified by different machine users.
Date: May 23, 2010
Creator: Tan, Y.; Addessi, J.; Alessi, J.; Lambiase, R.; Liaw, C. J.; Pikin, A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of backlighting sources for a Compton Radiography diagnostic of Inertial Confinement Fusion targets (open access)

Development of backlighting sources for a Compton Radiography diagnostic of Inertial Confinement Fusion targets

An important diagnostic tool for inertial confinement fusion is time-resolved imaging of the dense cold fuel surrounding the hot spot. Here we report on the source and diagnostic development of hard x-ray radiography and on the first radiographs of direct drive implosions obtained at photon energies up to about 100keV, where the Compton effect is the dominant contributor to the shell opacity. The radiographs of direct drive, plastic shell implosions obtained at the OMEGA laser facility have a spatial resolution of {approx}10um and a temporal resolution of {approx}10ps. This novel Compton Radiography is an invaluable diagnostic tool for Inertial Confinement Fusion targets, and will be integrated at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
Date: April 23, 2010
Creator: Tommasini, R
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diboson Production at the Tevatron (open access)

Diboson Production at the Tevatron

Here we summarize the recent measurements of the diboson production cross sections and limits on trilinear gauge boson couplings using 1-5 fb{sup -1} of Tevatron data collected by the CDF and D0 detectors. These results are the most precise to date from a hadron collider.
Date: July 23, 2010
Creator: Sekaric, Jadranka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dispersion relations for 1D high-gain FELs (open access)

Dispersion relations for 1D high-gain FELs

We present analytical results for the one-dimensional dispersion relation for high-gain FELs. Using kappa-n distributions, we obtain analytical relations between the dispersion relations for various order kappa distributions. Since an exact solution exists for the kappa-1 (Lorentzian) distribution, this provides some insight into the number of modes on the way to the Gaussian distribution.
Date: August 23, 2010
Creator: Webb, S. D. & Litvinenko, V. N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dispute Settlement Under the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement: An Overview (open access)

Dispute Settlement Under the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement: An Overview

This report discusses the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) and the two types of formal dispute settlement it contains: 1) State-State and 2) investor-State. The report also discusses how the PTPA differs from earlier U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dissemination of Climate Model Output to the Public and Commercial Sector (open access)

Dissemination of Climate Model Output to the Public and Commercial Sector

Climate is defined by the Glossary of Meteorology as the mean of atmospheric variables over a period of time ranging from as short as a few months to multiple years and longer. Although the term climate is often used to refer to long-term weather statistics, the broader definition of climate is the time evolution of a system consisting of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. Physical, chemical, and biological processes are involved in interactions among the components of the climate system. Vegetation, soil moisture, and glaciers are part of the climate system in addition to the usually considered temperature and precipitation (Pielke, 2008). Climate change refers to any systematic change in the long-term statistics of climate elements (such as temperature, pressure, or winds) sustained over several decades or longer. Climate change can be initiated by external forces, such as cyclical variations in the Earth's solar orbit that are thought to have caused glacial and interglacial periods within the last 2 million years (Milankovitch, 1941). However, a linear response to astronomical forcing does not explain many other observed glacial and interglacial cycles (Petit et al., 1999). It is now understood that climate is influenced by the interaction of solar radiation with …
Date: September 23, 2010
Creator: Robert Stockwell, PhD
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distillation Column Flooding Predictor (open access)

Distillation Column Flooding Predictor

The Flooding Predictor™ is a patented advanced control technology proven in research at the Separations Research Program, University of Texas at Austin, to increase distillation column throughput by over 6%, while also increasing energy efficiency by 10%. The research was conducted under a U. S. Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement awarded to George Dzyacky of 2ndpoint, LLC. The Flooding Predictor™ works by detecting the incipient flood point and controlling the column closer to its actual hydraulic limit than historical practices have allowed. Further, the technology uses existing column instrumentation, meaning no additional refining infrastructure is required. Refiners often push distillation columns to maximize throughput, improve separation, or simply to achieve day-to-day optimization. Attempting to achieve such operating objectives is a tricky undertaking that can result in flooding. Operators and advanced control strategies alike rely on the conventional use of delta-pressure instrumentation to approximate the column’s approach to flood. But column delta-pressure is more an inference of the column’s approach to flood than it is an actual measurement of it. As a consequence, delta pressure limits are established conservatively in order to operate in a regime where the column is never expected to flood. As a result, there is much “left …
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Dzyacky, George E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2010-06-23 – Benjamin Eric Shaffer, trumpet transcript

Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2010-06-23 – Benjamin Eric Shaffer, trumpet

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: June 23, 2010
Creator: Shaffer, Benjamin Eric
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2010-11-23 – Woong Hee Lee, organ transcript

Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2010-11-23 – Woong Hee Lee, organ

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Main Auditorium in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Lee, Woong Hee
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library