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Inmate Monthly Report: March 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: March 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upflow Calcite Contractor Study (open access)

Upflow Calcite Contractor Study

This document reports "four experiments [that] were conducted in four phases to determine design criteria for reverse osmosis permeate stabilization. The first three phases of experiments involved varying one of three design parameters (calcite particle size, calcite purity, and EBCT) and holding for these parameters to validate the design criteria values developed using the results of the first three experiments." (p. 3).
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Panhandle Water News, April 2012 (open access)

Panhandle Water News, April 2012

Quarterly newsletter of the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to water in Texas.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Advocate, Volume 17, Issue 2, April-June 2012 (open access)

The Advocate, Volume 17, Issue 2, April-June 2012

Quarterly update providing information on environmental regulations for small businesses and local governments in Texas.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Small Business and Environmental Assistance Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
What Parents Want to Know About Newborn Screening, From Their Baby's Health Care Professional (open access)

What Parents Want to Know About Newborn Screening, From Their Baby's Health Care Professional

This pamphlet is guide a to understanding the different types of disorders associated with newborns and a list of things parents want to know about newborn screening.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instream Flow-Habitat Relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin (open access)

Instream Flow-Habitat Relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin

This report discusses the instream flow-habitat relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin, including analysis to develop predictive relationships in a habitat model.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Youth education on rainwater harvesting and agricultural irrigation training for small acreage landowners (open access)

Youth education on rainwater harvesting and agricultural irrigation training for small acreage landowners

This report promotes water conservation through educational programs by targeting youth and small acreage landowners to change their water-use habits
Date: April 2012
Creator: Porter, Dana & Clayton, Brent
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Employment After Retirement (open access)

Employment After Retirement

This document contains information for of Teacher Retirement System of Texas members who are not yet retired, already retired, and disability retired.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral Rabies Vaccination Program (ORVP) (open access)

Oral Rabies Vaccination Program (ORVP)

This pamphlet provides answers for commonly asked questions about the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lead Safe, Cleaning Tips (open access)

Lead Safe, Cleaning Tips

This pamphlet provides individuals with helpful information about cleaning their homes.
Date: April 6, 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winning, April/May 2012 (open access)

Winning, April/May 2012

Pamphlet containing information about Texas Lottery winners, scratch-off prizes, new games, and more.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report (open access)

Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report

This report describes a study showing that the Soil Compactor Analyzer(SCA) enables excellent precision precision of total statistics of test method Tex-113-E.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen & Taylor, Ross
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour (open access)

Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour

This report describes a project to develop a global approach that would reduce the level of uncertainty associated with unknown foundations.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Briaud, Jean-Louis; Medina-Cetina, Zenon; Hurlebaus, Stefan; Everett, Mark; Tucker, Stacey; Yousefpour, Negin et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older (open access)

Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older

"This report studies a series of negative binomial regression models to understand how urban form may affect the incidence of total and killed-or-severely-injured (KSI) crashes involving older drivers and pedestrians."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Dumbaugh, Eric; Zhang, Yi & Li, Wenhao
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Research and recommendations for a statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance program (open access)

Research and recommendations for a statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance program

"This report evaluated Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) current sign retroreflectivity maintenance practices, assessed their effectiveness, and recommended statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance practices that could be easily and effectively implemented to ensure that TxDOT would be in compliance with the new Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) language related to minimum sign retroreflectivity."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Carlson, Paul J.; Higgins, Laura L. & Re, Jonathan M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative (open access)

The TCEQ Border Initiative

This document describes how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to increase cooperation and exchange knowledge, experience, and technology related to the environment. The TCEQ mission is to maximize the efforts to improve the environment of the U.S. Mexico border region.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compilation of Results of Aquifer Tests in Texas (open access)

Compilation of Results of Aquifer Tests in Texas

"The mission of the Texas Water Development Board's (TWDB) Groundwater Resources Division is to collect, interpret, and provide accurate, objective information on the groundwater resources of Texas. In support of this mission, the TWDB has undertaken a long-term process of mapping and characterizing the aquifers of Texas."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Wuerch, David Robert & Christian, Brent
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance measures for metropolitan planning organizations (open access)

Performance measures for metropolitan planning organizations

"The aim of this project is to consolidate available knowledge and provide guidance to transportation agencies, specifically MPOs, to help them incorporate performance measurement relating to transportation planning and operations. This research includes a survey of agency practices and agency needs, development of guidance on effective performance measurement and allied issues of strategic planning, goal setting, and data collection."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Moore, Devin; Ramni, Tara; Norboge, Nicolas & Turnbull, Katherine
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of warrants for installation of dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections (open access)

Development of warrants for installation of dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections

"Right-turn lanes provide space for the deceleration and storage of right-turn vehicle, and separate turning vehicles from through movements. Dual right-turn lanes are increasingly used at urban intersections primarily for two reason: (1) to accommodate high right-turn demands and avoid turn-pocket overflows, and/or (2) to prevent right-turn vehicles that exit from a nearby upstream freeway off-ramp (on the left of the roadway) from abruptly changing too many lanes toward the right-turn lane at intersection."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Chen, Xiaoming & Li, Da
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laboratory evaluation of friction loss and compactability of asphalt mixtures (open access)

Laboratory evaluation of friction loss and compactability of asphalt mixtures

"This study aimed to develop prediction models for friction loss and laboratory compaction of asphalt mixtures. In addition, the study evaluated the effect of compaction level and compaction method of skid resistance and the internal structure of asphalt mixtures."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Kassem, Emad Abdel-Rahman; Masad, Eyad; Awed, Ahmed & Little, Dallas
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting damage in concrete due to expansive aggregates : modeling to enable sustainable material design (open access)

Predicting damage in concrete due to expansive aggregates : modeling to enable sustainable material design

"A poroelastic model is developed that can predict stress and strain distributions and, thus, ostensibly damage likelihood in concrete under freezing conditions caused by aggregates with undesirable combinations of geometry and constitutive properties.Sensitivity of the stress distributions to the aggregate and matrix constitutive parameters are assessed to allow improved concrete design."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Grasley, Zachary Charles & Rahman, Syeda
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011 (open access)

Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011

The report contains the Texas state expenditures by county for fiscal year 2011.
Date: April 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 90, Number 5, April 2012 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 90, Number 5, April 2012

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 70, Number 3, April 2012 (open access)

Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 70, Number 3, April 2012

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History