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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 261, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 261, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 241, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 16, 2005 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 241, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 16, 2005

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Portable Monitor for Tritium in Air (open access)

Portable Monitor for Tritium in Air

In the handling of tritium associated with heavy water moderator, there is a possibility that some of it, in the form of tritiated hydrogen or water vapor, may become airborne. An instrument is needed which will quantitatively measure tritium in air in order to protect personnel from the radiation hazard associated with tritium. This paper describes a portable air sampler developed to monitor concentrations of tritium in air between 4 x 10-5 and 1600 x 10-5 microcurie per cubic centimeter.
Date: January 16, 2003
Creator: Anthony, J.D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools (open access)

Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools

Optical Metrology tools, especially for short wavelength (EUV and X-Ray), must cover a wide range of spatial frequencies from the very low, which affects figure, to the important mid-spatial frequencies and the high spatial frequency range, which produces undesirable flair. A major difficulty in using surface profilometers arises due to the unknown Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of the instruments. Therefore, accurate calibration of profilometers, the understanding of their MTF limitations, and cross calibration between tools represents a considerable challenge for quantitative optical metrology. In previous work the instrumental MTF of a surface profiler was precisely measured using reference test surfaces based on binary pseudo-random (BPR) gratings. Here, they present results of fabricating and using two-dimensional (2D) BPR arrays that allow for a direct 2D calibration of the instrumental MTF. BPR sequences are widely used in engineering and communication applications such as Global Position System, and wireless communication protocol. The ideal BPR pattern has a flat 'white noise' response over the entire range of spatial frequencies of interest. The BPR array used here is based on the Uniformly Redundant Array prescription initially used for x-ray and gamma ray astronomy applications. The URA's superior imaging capability originates from the fact that its …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Barber, Samuel K.; Soldate, Paul; Anderson, Erik; Cambie, Rosanna; McKinney, Wayne R.; Takacs, Peter Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools (open access)

Development of pseudo-random binary gratings and arrays for calibration of surface profile metrology tools

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Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Barber, Samuel K.; Soldate, Paul; Anderson, Erik; Cambie, Rosanna; McKinney, Wayne R.; Takacs, Peter Z. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Flowsheet Generation for the Treatment and Disposal of Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Sodium Bearing Waste (open access)

Baseline Flowsheet Generation for the Treatment and Disposal of Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Sodium Bearing Waste

The High-Level Waste (HLW) Program at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) must implement technologies and processes to treat and qualify radioactive wastes located at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) for permanent disposal. This paper describes the approach and accomplishments to date for completing development of a baseline vitrification treatment flowsheet for sodium-bearing waste (SBW), including development of a relational database used to manage the associated process assumptions. A process baseline has been developed that includes process requirements, basis and assumptions, process flow diagrams, a process description, and a mass balance. In the absence of actual process or experimental results, mass and energy balance data for certain process steps are based on assumptions. Identification, documentation, validation, and overall management of the flowsheet assumptions are critical to ensuring an integrated, focused program. The INEEL HLW Program initially used a roadmapping methodology, developed through the INEEL Environmental Management Integration Program, to identify, document, and assess the uncertainty and risk associated with the SBW flowsheet process assumptions. However, the mass balance assumptions, process configuration and requirements should be accessible to all program participants. This need resulted in the creation of a relational database that provides formal documentation and …
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Barnes, C. M.; Lauerhass, L.; Olson, A. L.; Taylor, D. D.; Valentine, J. H. & Lockie, K. A. (DOE- ID)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ENHANCED PRACTICAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC CO2 MITIGATION (open access)

ENHANCED PRACTICAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC CO2 MITIGATION

This is the first quarterly report of the project Enhanced Practical Photosynthetic CO{sub 2} Mitigation. The official project start date, 10/02/2000, was delayed until 10/31/2000 due to an intellectual property dispute that was resolved. However, the delay forced a subsequent delay in subcontracting with Montana State University, which then delayed obtaining a sampling permit from Yellowstone National Park. However, even with these delays, the project moved forward with some success. Accomplishments for this quarter include: Culturing of thermophilic organisms from Yellowstone; Testing of mesophilic organisms in extreme CO{sub 2} conditions; Construction of a second test bed for additional testing; Purchase of a total carbon analyzer dedicated to the project; Construction of a lighting container for Oak Ridge National Laboratory optical fiber testing; Modified lighting of existing test box to provide more uniform distribution; Testing of growth surface adhesion and properties; Experimentation on water-jet harvesting techniques; and Literature review underway regarding uses of biomass after harvesting. Plans for next quarter's work and an update on the project's web page are included in the conclusions.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bayless, David J.; Vis, Dr. Morgan; Kremer, Dr. Gregory; Prudich, Dr. Michael; Cooksey, Dr. Keith & Muhs, Dr. Jeff
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Restrictions on U.S. Military Operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, and Kosovo: Funding and Non-Funding Approaches (open access)

Congressional Restrictions on U.S. Military Operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, and Kosovo: Funding and Non-Funding Approaches

This report discusses the political context and congressional consideration of various funding and other restrictive legislative language applying to military operations in Indochina between 1970 and 1973.It briefly mentions similar congressional actions applying to U.S. military operations in Somalia in 1993 and Kosovo in 1999.
Date: January 16, 2007
Creator: Belasco, Amy; Cunnigham, Lynn J.; Fischer, Hannah & Niksch, Larry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AMR for low Mach number reacting flow (open access)

AMR for low Mach number reacting flow

We present a summary of recent progress on the development and application of adaptive mesh refinement algorithms for low Mach number reacting flows. Our approach uses a form of the low Mach number equations based on a general equation of state that discretely conserves both mass and energy. The discretization methodology is based on a robust projection formulation that accommodates large density contrasts. The algorithm supports modeling of multicomponent systems and incorporates an operator-split treatment of stiff reaction terms. The basic computational approach is embedded in an adaptive projection framework that uses structured hierarchical grids with subcycling in time that preserves the discrete conservation properties of the underlying single-grid algorithm. We present numerical examples illustrating the application of the methodology to turbulent premixed combustion and nuclear flames in type Ia supernovae.
Date: January 16, 2004
Creator: Bell, John B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rice Thresher, Vol. 91, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2004 (open access)

The Rice Thresher, Vol. 91, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 2004

A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2004
Creator: Berenson, Mark
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
ESTABLISHING FINAL END STATE FOR A RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION REACTOR; COLLABORATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS, REGULATORS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (open access)

ESTABLISHING FINAL END STATE FOR A RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION REACTOR; COLLABORATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS, REGULATORS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a 310-square-mile United States Department of Energy nuclear facility located along the Savannah River (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina. Nuclear weapons material production began in the early 1950s, utilizing five production reactors. In the early 1990s all SRS production reactor operations were terminated. The first reactor closure end state declaration was recently institutionalized in a Comprehensive Environmental Response and Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) Early Action Record of Decision. The decision for the final closure of the 318,000 square foot 105-P Reactor was determined to be in situ decommissioning (ISD). ISD is an acceptable and cost effective alternative to off-site disposal for the reactor building, which will allow for consolidation of remedial action wastes generated from other cleanup activities within the P Area. ISD is considered protective by the regulators, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), public and stakeholders as waste materials are stabilized/immobilized, and radioactivity is allowed to naturally decay, thus preventing future exposure to the environment. Stakeholder buy-in was critical in the upfront planning in order to achieve this monumental final decision. Numerous public meetings and workshops were held in …
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bergren, C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S. (open access)

Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S.

This report looks at the separate roles and missions and distinct identities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies. This report also addresses congressional oversight of the law enforcement intelligence relationship that is spread among a number of House and Senate committees, each of which has only partial jurisdiction.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Intelligence Community and 9/11: Congressional Hearings and the Status of the Investigation (open access)

The Intelligence Community and 9/11: Congressional Hearings and the Status of the Investigation

This report discusses congressional investigations and hearings held by the congressional intelligence committees Joint Inquiry following the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. The Inquiry criticized intelligence agencies' use of information collection, processing, and maintenance and their coordination and communication with other agencies.
Date: January 16, 2003
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Security Agency: Issues for Congress (open access)

The National Security Agency: Issues for Congress

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Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Intelligence and Policymaking: The Iraq Experience (open access)

U.S. Intelligence and Policymaking: The Iraq Experience

This report explores in broad terms the relationship between the production of intelligence and the making of policy as reflected in the period prior to the war against Iraq in March 2003 and the implications for Congress.
Date: January 16, 2004
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Bishop, January 16, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Fred Bishop, January 16, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Bishop. Bishop studied at Syracuse University beginning in 1935 but entered the labor force in 1937 due to financial hardship. In 1940 he joined the New York Army National Guard and was mobilized to Salinas, California, with the 27th Infantry Division, 108th Infantry Regiment. After becoming a staff sergeant, he decided to transfer to the Army Air Corps, where he attended school to become a second lieutenant and bombardier. In October 1942 he was assigned as an AT-11 instructor with the Army Air Forces in California, under strict orders to destroy his Sperry bombsight gyroscopes if needed, rather than surrender it to the enemy. In 1943, having trained 1,000 men, he began navigation school before joining a B-25 training outfit as a bombardier navigator and nose gunner. After the war, he was discharged into the reserves and was called to active duty in Korea with a B-29 crew before retiring as a captain.
Date: January 16, 2008
Creator: Bishop, Fred
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Fred Bishop, January 16, 2008 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred Bishop, January 16, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Bishop. Bishop studied at Syracuse University beginning in 1935 but entered the labor force in 1937 due to financial hardship. In 1940 he joined the New York Army National Guard and was mobilized to Salinas, California, with the 27th Infantry Division, 108th Infantry Regiment. After becoming a staff sergeant, he decided to transfer to the Army Air Corps, where he attended school to become a second lieutenant and bombardier. In October 1942 he was assigned as an AT-11 instructor with the Army Air Forces in California, under strict orders to destroy his Sperry bombsight gyroscopes if needed, rather than surrender it to the enemy. In 1943, having trained 1,000 men, he began navigation school before joining a B-25 training outfit as a bombardier navigator and nose gunner. After the war, he was discharged into the reserves and was called to active duty in Korea with a B-29 crew before retiring as a captain.
Date: January 16, 2008
Creator: Bishop, Fred
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanford Site Environmental Surveillance Master Sampling Schedule (open access)

Hanford Site Environmental Surveillance Master Sampling Schedule

Environmental surveillance of the Hanford Site and surrounding areas is conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Sampling is conducted to evaluate levels of radioactive and nonradioactive pollutants in the Hanford environs. The document contains the CY 2002 schedules for the routine collection of samples for the Surface Environmental Surveillance Project (SESP) and Drinking Water Monitoring Project.
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Bisping, Lynn E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incorporating the Technology Roadmap Uncertainties into the Project Risk Assessment (open access)

Incorporating the Technology Roadmap Uncertainties into the Project Risk Assessment

This paper describes two methods, Technology Roadmapping and Project Risk Assessment, which were used to identify and manage the technical risks relating to the treatment of sodium bearing waste at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The waste treatment technology under consideration was Direct Vitrification. The primary objective of the Technology Roadmap is to identify technical data uncertainties for the technologies involved and to prioritize the testing or development studies to fill the data gaps. Similarly, project management's objective for a multi-million dollar construction project includes managing all the key risks in accordance to DOE O 413.3 - ''Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets.'' In the early stages, the Project Risk Assessment is based upon a qualitative analysis for each risk's probability and consequence. In order to clearly prioritize the work to resolve the technical issues identified in the Technology Roadmap, the issues must be cross- referenced to the project's Risk Assessment. This will enable the project to get the best value for the cost to mitigate the risks.
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Bonnema, B. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Soluble Organics in Produced Water (open access)

Characterization of Soluble Organics in Produced Water

Soluble organics in produced water and refinery effluents represent treatment problems for the petroleum industry. Neither the chemistry involved in the production of soluble organics nor the impact of these chemicals on total effluent toxicity is well understood. The U.S. Department of Energy provides funding for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to support a collaborative project with Shell, Chevron, Phillips, and Statoil entitled ''Petroleum and Environmental Research Forum project (PERF 9844: Manage Water-Soluble Organics in Produced Water''). The goal of this project, which involves characterization and evaluation of these water-soluble compounds, is aimed at reducing the future production of such contaminants. To determine the effect that various drilling conditions might have on water-soluble organics (WSO) content in produced water, a simulated brine water containing the principal inorganic components normally found in Gulf of Mexico (GOM) brine sources was prepared. The GOM simulant was then contacted with as-received crude oil from a deep well site to study the effects of water cut, produced-water pH, salinity, pressure, temperature, and crude oil sources on the type and content of the WSO in produced water. The identities of individual semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) were determined in all as-received crude and actual produced water samples …
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Bostick, D.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Bragg, January 16, 2009 transcript

Oral History Interview with Paul Bragg, January 16, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Bragg. Bragg joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 and trained as a spotter pilot for the field artillery. He also completed radio mechanic school. He was sent to England and joined the 482nd Bomb Group. He served with a ground radar unit called Mickey and Minnie, directing planes to their targets for bombing. He provides some details of his work with the unit. In July of 1944 he traveled to Belgium and then Germany. He was discharged in October of 1945.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bragg, Paul
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Bragg, January 16, 2009 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Bragg, January 16, 2009

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Bragg. Bragg joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 and trained as a spotter pilot for the field artillery. He also completed radio mechanic school. He was sent to England and joined the 482nd Bomb Group. He served with a ground radar unit called Mickey and Minnie, directing planes to their targets for bombing. He provides some details of his work with the unit. In July of 1944 he traveled to Belgium and then Germany. He was discharged in October of 1945.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bragg, Paul
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nano-crystal growth in cordierite glass ceramics studied with X-ray scattering (open access)

Nano-crystal growth in cordierite glass ceramics studied with X-ray scattering

The development of monodisperse crystalline particles in cordierite glass doped with Cr3+ after a two-step heat treatment is elucidated by a combination of time-resolved small and wide angle x-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) experiments with electron microscopy. The effects of bulk and surface crystallization can clearly be distinguished, and the crystallization kinetics of the bulk phase is characterized. The internal pressure due to structural differences between the crystalline and amorphous phase is measured but the physical cause of this pressure can not unambiguously be attributed. The combined measurements comprise a nearly full characterization of the crystallization processes and the resulting sample morphology.
Date: January 16, 2009
Creator: Bras, Wim; Clark, Simon M.; Greaves, G. N.; Kunz, Martin; van Beek, W. & Radmilovic, V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library