The Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Balanced Development in the City of Oak Point, Texas (open access)

The Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Balanced Development in the City of Oak Point, Texas

This report examines the economy in Oak Point (Texas).
Date: December 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
DART's Sales Tax Revenues: A Review and Outlook (open access)

DART's Sales Tax Revenues: A Review and Outlook

This report discusses the DART systems' sales tax revenues. In addition to the fare box, DART's operations are funded through a one percent sales tax levied by member cities on all retail transactions as permitted by state law. During the 1990s, DART's sales tax receipts grew at a healthy clip. But between 2001 and 2003, taxable sales in the DART service area declined. By contrast, for many non-DART suburban cities, taxable sales continued to expand during the 2001-2003 period. This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, looks at three possible explanations for these trends.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
DFW International Airport's Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises Program: Economic and Fiscal Impacts (open access)

DFW International Airport's Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises Program: Economic and Fiscal Impacts

This paper discusses economic activities associated with the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport. DFW International Airport is one of the largest generators of economic activity in the Metroplex with operations creating more than $14 billion in economic activity and supporting 269,000 jobs in the region. This analysis, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, focuses on the economic activity generated through the Airport's commitment to ensuring its suppliers reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the DFW Metroplex.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Clower, Terry L. & Weinstein, Bernard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demographic Trends and Educational Attainment in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area: A Shifting Composition Amid Growth (open access)

Demographic Trends and Educational Attainment in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area: A Shifting Composition Amid Growth

This report discusses the changing demographics and growth shifts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Date: April 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Armed Forces Exchange Service Realignment on Dallas County and the City of Dallas (open access)

The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Armed Forces Exchange Service Realignment on Dallas County and the City of Dallas

This report discusses economic issues with areas of the United States Armed Forces.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Clower, Terry L. & Weinstein, Bernard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of the Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine (open access)

The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of the Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine

This report discusses the economic and fiscal impacts of Baylor Regional Medical Center Grapevine. This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, outlines the regional economic and fiscal impacts from Baylor-Grapevine's construction spending and ongoing operations. Estimates of the economic impacts are calculated using the DFW model of the IMPLAN impact modeling system developed by the Minnesota IMPLAN Group. This model, which is well-regarded by academic and professional researchers, provides reasonable and conservative estimates of direct, indirect, and induced impacts.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Services to Dallas' Homeless: A Key to Downtown Revitalization (open access)

Improving Services to Dallas' Homeless: A Key to Downtown Revitalization

Homelessness has significant economic as well as social consequences for the City of Dallas. While offering compassion to the homeless, this report also acknowledges that the overwhelming presence of homeless persons on the streets of downtown has negative economic impacts on individual businesses, the prospects for redevelopment, and the city's finances. This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, discusses theses aspects.
Date: April 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Market Assessment for Southern Dallas with Emphasis on Key Target Industries (open access)

Labor Market Assessment for Southern Dallas with Emphasis on Key Target Industries

This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, examines selected characteristics of the labor force available to firms located in the southern area of the City of Dallas, Texas. The report also compares occupational hiring patterns for a specified group of industries selected as targets of opportunity for recruitment and economic development efforts of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce along with matching labor force availability. In assessing labor force availability and characteristics, we have relied on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor at the zip code level.
Date: September 2004
Creator: Clower, Terry L. & Weinstein, Bernard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Overview of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area's Long-Term Water and Transportation Needs (open access)

An Overview of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area's Long-Term Water and Transportation Needs

This report gives an overview of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's long-term water and transportation needs. Recognizing the importance of a reliable long-term water supply, the Dallas/Fort Worth region has invested heavily in reservoirs and transmission facilities over the past 50 years. Indeed, the dramatic population and employment growth enjoyed by the Metroplex over the past several decades would not have occurred absent an abundant and reliable supply of fresh water for residential and commercial uses. Despite the foresightedness of the region's leaders, according to the Texas Water Development Board the region may soon find itself facing a water deficit. This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, examines the implications of the DFW area's long-term water and transportation needs.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Hide Secrets from Operating System: Architecture Level Support for Dynamic Address Trace Obfuscation (open access)

How to Hide Secrets from Operating System: Architecture Level Support for Dynamic Address Trace Obfuscation

This technical report addresses how to hide secrets from an operating system. The authors provide a detailed design for the VM blackbox and some microarchitecture level simulation derived performance data. They also describe a compiler directed prefetch scheme that uses both instruction and data prefetches to obfuscate the address traces on the address bus between on-chip L2 cache and memory.
Date: 2004
Creator: Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan & Tyagi, Akhilesh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grid Computing and an Optical Fiber Network: How They Can Bolster the Texas Economy (open access)

Grid Computing and an Optical Fiber Network: How They Can Bolster the Texas Economy

This report, by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research, examines the investment in hard infrastructure that will be required to keep Texas a vibrant and expanding part of the global economy-most especially a grid computing network connected by fiber optic cable.
Date: April 2004
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L. & Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003 (open access)

The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003

Report on the Texas Register, a weekly publication by the Office of the Secretary of State. This report discusses a partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Office of the Secretary of State to insure permanent storage and public access to the non-current electronic files of the Texas Register.
Date: 2004
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
MARCdocs: The MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Database (open access)

MARCdocs: The MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Database

Report on the MARC 21 bibliographic format database.
Date: October 28, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E. & Thomale, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services January 1 through June 30, 2003 (open access)

Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services January 1 through June 30, 2003

This report discusses the Z39.50 interoperability testbed and provides an interim report of the Z-Interop Project covering the period of January 1, 2003 through June 30, 2003. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on this project since the interim report on January 1, 2004. Given the date of approval for the extension, this report primarily reflects activities during the latter half of June 2004.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library