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83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 (open access)

83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 29

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days.
Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accounting for the Variation of Driver Aggression in the Simulation of Conventional and Advanced Vehicles: Preprint (open access)

Accounting for the Variation of Driver Aggression in the Simulation of Conventional and Advanced Vehicles: Preprint

Hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles offer the potential to reduce both oil imports and greenhouse gases, as well as to offer a financial benefit to the driver. However, assessing these potential benefits is complicated by several factors, including the driving habits of the operator. We focus on driver aggression, i.e., the level of acceleration and velocity characteristic of travel, to (1) assess its variation within large, real-world drive datasets, (2) quantify its effect on both vehicle efficiency and economics for multiple vehicle types, (3) compare these results to those of standard drive cycles commonly used in the industry, and (4) create a representative drive cycle for future analyses where standard drive cycles are lacking.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Neubauer, J. & Wood, E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquiring Impedance Spectra From Diode-Coupled Primary Batteries to Determine Health and State of Charge (open access)

Acquiring Impedance Spectra From Diode-Coupled Primary Batteries to Determine Health and State of Charge

The U.S. Army uses BA5590 Lithium Sulfur Dioxide p
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Morrison, John L.; Christophersen, Jon P. & Morrison, William H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquisition Workforce: Federal Agencies Obtain Training to Meet Requirements, but Have Limited Insight into Costs and Benefits of Training Investment (open access)

Acquisition Workforce: Federal Agencies Obtain Training to Meet Requirements, but Have Limited Insight into Costs and Benefits of Training Investment

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) sets standards and policies for the federal acquisition workforce, and has established certification requirements, including minimal training, for the three main acquisition roles--contracting staff, Contracting Officer's Representatives, and Program/Project Managers--to promote the development of government-wide core acquisition competencies and facilitate mobility across agencies. DOD follows separate certification standards. The Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI), which is responsible for fostering and promoting the training and development of the acquisition workforce, works closely with OFPP and has initiatives underway to improve the collection and management of training information, including cost data and course evaluations; streamline communication of acquisition training guidance; and coordinate efforts to leverage acquisition workforce training resources throughout the government."
Date: March 28, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive Preconditioning Strategies for Integrating Large KineticMechanisms (open access)

Adaptive Preconditioning Strategies for Integrating Large KineticMechanisms

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Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: McNenly, M J; Whitesides, R. A. & Flowers, D. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Agencies and Claims of Unreasonable Delay: Analysis of Court Treatment (open access)

Administrative Agencies and Claims of Unreasonable Delay: Analysis of Court Treatment

This report discusses judicial remedies available for delayed agency actions that are somewhat limited. Generally, a court is restricted to ordering an agency to act by a specific deadline. The following sections outline the timing requirements imposed by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), discuss the available judicial remedies when actions are found to be unreasonably delayed, and provide an examination of cases where courts have been asked to compel agency action. Finally, the report concludes with a discussion of legislative tools that Congress can use to try to set agency priorities.
Date: March 21, 2013
Creator: Shedd, Daniel T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Combustion (open access)

Advanced Combustion

Topics covered in this presentation include: the continued importance of coal; related materials challenges; combining oxy-combustion & A-USC steam; and casting large superalloy turbine components.
Date: March 5, 2013
Creator: Holcomb, Gordon R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Combustion (open access)

Advanced Combustion

The activity reported in this presentation is to provide the mechanical and physical property information needed to allow rational design, development and/or choice of alloys, manufacturing approaches, and environmental exposure and component life models to enable oxy-fuel combustion boilers to operate at Ultra-Supercritical (up to 650{degrees}C & between 22-30 MPa) and/or Advanced Ultra-Supercritical conditions (760{degrees}C & 35 MPa).
Date: March 11, 2013
Creator: Holcomb, Gordon R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Fuels Campaign Cladding & Coatings Meeting Summary (open access)

Advanced Fuels Campaign Cladding & Coatings Meeting Summary

The Fuel Cycle Research and Development (FCRD) Advanced Fuels Campaign (AFC) organized a Cladding and Coatings operational meeting February 12-13, 2013, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), national laboratories, industry, and universities attended the two-day meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss advanced cladding and cladding coating research and development (R&D); review experimental testing capabilities for assessing accident tolerant fuels; and review industry/university plans and experience in light water reactor (LWR) cladding and coating R&D.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility: Addressing advanced nuclear materials research (open access)

Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility: Addressing advanced nuclear materials research

The Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility (ATR NSUF), based at the Idaho National Laboratory in the United States, is supporting Department of Energy and industry research efforts to ensure the properties of materials in light water reactors are well understood. The ATR NSUF is providing this support through three main efforts: establishing unique infrastructure necessary to conduct research on highly radioactive materials, conducting research in conjunction with industry partners on life extension relevant topics, and providing training courses to encourage more U.S. researchers to understand and address LWR materials issues. In 2010 and 2011, several advanced instruments with capability focused on resolving nuclear material performance issues through analysis on the micro (10-6 m) to atomic (10-10 m) scales were installed primarily at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. These instruments included a local electrode atom probe (LEAP), a field-emission gun scanning transmission electron microscope (FEG-STEM), a focused ion beam (FIB) system, a Raman spectrometer, and an nanoindentor/atomic force microscope. Ongoing capability enhancements intended to support industry efforts include completion of two shielded, irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) test loops, the first of which will come online in early calendar year 2013, a …
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Jackson, John; Allen, Todd; Marshall, Frances & Cole, Jim
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation (open access)

Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation

The objective of the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy�s (DOEs) Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation (AVTE) project was to provide test and evaluation services for advanced technology vehicles, to establish a performance baseline, to determine vehicle reliability, and to evaluate vehicle operating costs in fleet operations. Vehicles tested include light and medium-duty vehicles in conventional, hybrid, and all-electric configurations using conventional and alternative fuels, including hydrogen in internal combustion engines. Vehicles were tested on closed tracks and chassis dynamometers, as well as operated on public roads, in fleet operations, and over prescribed routes. All testing was controlled by procedures developed specifically to support such testing. Testing and evaluations were conducted in the following phases: � Development of test procedures, which established testing procedures; � Baseline performance testing, which established a performance baseline; � Accelerated reliability testing, which determined vehicle reliability; � Fleet testing, used to evaluate vehicle economics in fleet operation, and � End of test performance evaluation. Test results are reported by two means and posted by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to their website: quarterly progress reports, used to document work in progress; and final test reports. This final report documents work conducted for the entirety of the …
Date: March 31, 2013
Creator: Garetson, Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Energy Development in Indian Country (Fact Sheet) (open access)

Advancing Energy Development in Indian Country (Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet provides information on the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (DOE-IE) initiative to provide technical expertise to support the development of next-generation energy projects in Indian Country.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerodynamic drag reduction of class 8 heavy vehicles: a full-scale wind tunnel study (open access)

Aerodynamic drag reduction of class 8 heavy vehicles: a full-scale wind tunnel study

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Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Ortega, J.; Salari, K.; Brown, A. & Schoon, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerosol Optical Depth Value-Added Product Report (open access)

Aerosol Optical Depth Value-Added Product Report

This document describes the process applied to retrieve aerosol optical depth (AOD) from multifilter rotating shadowband radiometers (MFRSR) and normal incidence multifilter radiometers (NIMFR) operated at the ARM Climate Research Facility’s ground-based facilities.
Date: March 17, 2013
Creator: Koontz, A; Hodges, G; Barnard, J; Flynn, C & Michalsky, J
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: March 19, 2013
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AFM and NanoSIMS analyses of Vaccinia virions (open access)

AFM and NanoSIMS analyses of Vaccinia virions

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Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Weber, P K; Gates, S D; Malkin, A J; Condit, R C & Moussatche, N
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Agenda: The Dallas Way, March 5, 2013] (open access)

[Agenda: The Dallas Way, March 5, 2013]

Meeting agenda for the March 5th meeting of the Dallas Way, listing topics of discussion and a treasury report.
Date: March 5, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Fees: Major Changes Needed to Align Fee Revenues with Program Costs (open access)

Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Fees: Major Changes Needed to Align Fee Revenues with Program Costs

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO's analysis of the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) fee and cost data revealed a more than $325 million gap between fee revenues and total program costs in fiscal year 2011, or 38 percent of AQI program costs. The program, which is co-administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), has a gap for several reasons: 1) APHIS's authority does not permit it to charge all persons seeking entry to the United States (e.g., pedestrians) and does not permit it to charge the costs of those inspections to others; 2) APHIS has chosen not to charge some classes of passengers, citing administrative fee collection difficulties; 3) CBP does not charge a portion of all primary inspections to agriculture functions, as required by CBP guidance; 4) APHIS does not consider all imputed costs (that is, costs incurred by other agencies on behalf of the AQI program) when setting fees; and 5) the allowable rates for overtime services are misaligned with the personnel costs of performing those services. APHIS is considering fees …
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion (open access)

Air Activation Following an Atmospheric Explosion

In addition to thermal radiation and fission products, nuclear explosions result in a very high flux of unfissioned neutrons. Within an atmospheric nuclear explosion, these neutrons can activate the various elemental components of natural air, potentially adding to the radioactive signature of the event as a whole. The goal of this work is to make an order-of-magnitude estimate of the total amount of air activation products that can result from an atmospheric nuclear explosion.
Date: March 13, 2013
Creator: Lowrey, Justin D.; McIntyre, Justin I.; Prichard, Andrew W. & Gesh, Christopher J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Alabama River from Edmund Pettus Bridge]

A photograph of the Alabama River from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The shadow of the bridge's arch is visible on the water with is a greenish brown color. Trees border both sides of the river and an open area with a building is on the left side. In the distance is another bridge that appears to be for trains.
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alaska: Alaska's Clean Energy Resources and Economy (Brochure) (open access)

Alaska: Alaska's Clean Energy Resources and Economy (Brochure)

This document highlights the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's investments and impacts in the state of Alaska.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2013 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 2013
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2013 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2013 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 21, 2013
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History