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82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 351, Chapter 5 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 351, Chapter 5

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the maximum capacity of a container of wine sold to a retail dealer.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 501, Chapter 121 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 501, Chapter 121

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the disproportionality of certain groups in the juvenile justice, child welfare, health, and mental health systems and the disproportionality of the delivery of certain services in the education system.
Date: May 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Absorber height effects on SWA restrictions and 'Shadow' LER (open access)

Absorber height effects on SWA restrictions and 'Shadow' LER

As extreme-ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) approaches introduction at the 22-nm half-pitch node, several key aspects of absorber height effects remain unexplored. In particular, sidewall angle (SWA) restrictions based on the height of the mask absorber has not yet been clearly defined. In addition, the effects of absorber height on line-edge roughness (LER) from shadowing has not been examined. We make an initial investigation into how tight SWA constraints are and the extent to which shadow LER alters basic LER. Our approach to SWA aims to find SWA restrictions based on 10% of the total CD error budget (10% of CD). Thus, we allot the SWA budget a {+-}0.2nm tolerance for 22nm half-pitch. New with EUVL is the off-axis illumination system. One potential pitfall that must be carefully monitored is the effect of mask absorber height blocking light from reaching, and therefore, correctly detecting, the base edge position of a feature. While mask features can correctly compensate sizing to target at the wafer, the effects of this shadowing on LER have not yet been investigated. Specifically, shadow LER may exacerbate or mitigate the inherent LER on the mask. Shadowing may also cause a difference in the observed LER on the right and …
Date: February 21, 2011
Creator: McClinton, Brittany & Naulleau, Patrick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ACID EVAPORATION OF ULTIMA GOLD TM AB LIQUID SCINTILLATION COCKTAIL RESIDUE (open access)

ACID EVAPORATION OF ULTIMA GOLD TM AB LIQUID SCINTILLATION COCKTAIL RESIDUE

Prior analyses of samples from the F/H Lab solutions showed the presence of diisopropylnapthalene (DIN), a major component of Ultima Gold{trademark} AB liquid scintillation cocktail (LSC). These solutions are processed through H-Canyon Tank 10.5 and ultimately through the 17.8E evaporator. Similar solutions originated in SRNL streams sent to the same H Canyon tanks. This study examined whether the presence of these organics poses a process-significant hazard for the evaporator. Evaporation and calorimetry testing of surrogate samples containing 2000 ppm of Ultima Gold{trademark} AB LSC in 8 M nitric acid have been completed. These experiments showed that although reactions between nitric acid and the organic components do occur, they do not appear to pose a significant hazard for runaway reactions or generation of energetic compounds in canyon evaporators. The amount of off-gas generated was relatively modest and appeared to be well within the venting capacity of the H-Canyon evaporators. A significant fraction of the organic components likely survives the evaporation process primarily as non-volatile components that are not expected to represent any new process concerns during downstream operations such as neutralization. Laboratory Waste solutions containing minor amounts of DIN can be safely received, stored, transferred, and processed through the canyon waste …
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Kyser, E.; Fondeur, F. & Crump, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

Report that 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. Election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan are also discussed.
Date: January 21, 2011
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 Afghanistan, 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.-Afghanistan relationship, in both the short and long term, and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011 (open access)

The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Allen, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Mann, Rick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 117, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 117, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 139, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 139, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 182, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 182, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 294, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 294, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011 (open access)

Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Parker, Kristi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011 (open access)

Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 21, 2011
Creator: Parker, Kristi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amineborane Based Chemical Hydrogen Storage - Final Report (open access)

Amineborane Based Chemical Hydrogen Storage - Final Report

The development of efficient and safe methods for hydrogen storage is a major hurdle that must be overcome to enable the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy carrier. The objectives of this project in the DOE Center of Excellence in Chemical Hydride Storage were both to develop new methods for on-demand, low temperature hydrogen release from chemical hydrides and to design high-conversion off-board methods for chemical hydride regeneration. Because of their reactive protic (N-H) and hydridic (B-H) hydrogens and high hydrogen contents, amineboranes such as ammonia borane, NH3BH3 (AB), 19.6-wt% H2, and ammonia triborane NH3B3H7 (AT), 17.7-wt% H2, were initially identified by the Center as promising, high-capacity chemical hydrogen storage materials with the potential to store and deliver molecular hydrogen through dehydrogenation and hydrolysis reactions. In collaboration with other Center partners, the Penn project focused both on new methods to induce amineborane H2-release and on new strategies for the regeneration the amineborane spent-fuel materials. The Penn approach to improving amineborane H2-release focused on the use of ionic liquids, base additives and metal catalysts to activate AB dehydrogenation and these studies successfully demonstrated that in ionic liquids the AB induction period that had been observed in the solid-state was eliminated …
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Sneddon, Larry G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis and Mitigation of X-Ray Hazard Generated From High Intensity Laser-Target Interactions (open access)

Analysis and Mitigation of X-Ray Hazard Generated From High Intensity Laser-Target Interactions

Interaction of a high intensity laser with matter may generate an ionizing radiation hazard. Very limited studies have been made, however, on the laser-induced radiation protection issue. This work reviews available literature on the physics and characteristics of laser-induced X-ray hazards. Important aspects include the laser-to-electron energy conversion efficiency, electron angular distribution, electron energy spectrum and effective temperature, and bremsstrahlung production of X-rays in the target. The possible X-ray dose rates for several femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser systems used at SLAC, including the short pulse laser system for the Matter in Extreme Conditions Instrument (peak power 4 TW and peak intensity 2.4 x 10{sup 18} W/cm{sup 2}) were analysed. A graded approach to mitigate the laser-induced X-ray hazard with a combination of engineered and administrative controls is also proposed.
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Qiu, R.; Liu, J. C.; Prinz, A. A.; Rokni, S. H.; Woods, M. & Xia, Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ancient nature of alternative splicing and functions of introns (open access)

Ancient nature of alternative splicing and functions of introns

Using four genomes: Chamydomonas reinhardtii, Agaricus bisporus, Aspergillus carbonarius, and Sporotricum thermophile with EST coverage of 2.9x, 8.9x, 29.5x, and 46.3x respectively, we identified 11 alternative splicing (AS) types that were dominated by intron retention (RI; biased toward short introns) and found 15, 35, 52, and 63percent AS of multiexon genes respectively. Genes with AS were more ancient, and number of AS correlated with number of exons, expression level, and maximum intron length of the gene. Introns with tendency to be retained had either stop codons or length of 3n+1 or 3n+2 presumably triggering nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), but introns retained in major isoforms (0.2-6percent of all introns) were biased toward 3n length and stop codon free. Stopless introns were biased toward phase 0, but 3n introns favored phase 1 that introduced more flexible and hydrophilic amino acids on both ends of introns which would be less disruptive to protein structure. We proposed a model in which minor RI intron could evolve into major RI that could facilitate intron loss through exonization.
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Zhou, Kemin; Salamov, Asaf; Kuo, Alan; Aerts, Andrea & Grigoriev, Igor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of Groundwater Monitoring at Everest, Kansas, in 2010. (open access)

Annual Report of Groundwater Monitoring at Everest, Kansas, in 2010.

The Commodity Credit Corporation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CCC/USDA) began its environmental investigations at Everest, Kansas, in 2000. The work at Everest is implemented on behalf of the CCC/USDA by Argonne National Laboratory, under the oversight of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). The results of the environmental investigations have been reported in detail (Argonne 2001, 2003, 2006a,b). The lateral extent of the carbon tetrachloride in groundwater over the years of investigation has been interpreted as shown in Figure 1.1 (2001-2002 data), Figure 1.2 (2006 data), Figure 1.3 (2008 data), and Figure 1.4 (2009 data). The pattern of groundwater flow and inferred contaminant migration has consistently been to the north-northwest from the former CCC/USDA facility toward the Nigh property, and then west-southwest from the Nigh property (e.g., Figure 1.5 [2008 data] and Figure 1.6 [2009 data]). Both the monitoring data for carbon tetrachloride and the low groundwater flow rates estimated for the Everest aquifer unit (Argonne 2003, 2006a,b, 2008) indicate slow contaminant migration. On the basis of the accumulated findings, in March 2009 the CCC/USDA developed a plan for annual monitoring of the groundwater and surface water. This current monitoring plan (Appendix A in the report …
Date: March 21, 2011
Creator: Lafreniere, L. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 2011
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History