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Oral History Interview with Ivan Arteaga, October 27, 2009

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Interview with Ivan Arteaga, Mexican national and immigrant to Princeton, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Arteaga's personal experiences of childhood and education in Mexico City. Arteaga also talks about his family's decision to immigrate to Provo, Utah, his first impressions of the U.S., marriage, deciding to relocate to Texas, opinions regarding anti-immigrant feelings prevalent in American culture and regarding the U.S. immigration bureaucracy, as well as his feelings about his two children's U.S. citizenship.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Dunbar, Paul & Arteaga, Ivan
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 210, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 210, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Probabilistic Risk Based Decision Support for Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities in Sensitive Ecosystems (open access)

Probabilistic Risk Based Decision Support for Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities in Sensitive Ecosystems

This report describes work performed during the initial period of the project “Probabilistic Risk Based Decision Support for Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities in Sensitive Ecosystems.” The specific region that is within the scope of this study is the Fayetteville Shale Play. This is an unconventional, tight formation, natural gas play that currently has approximately 1.5 million acres under lease, primarily to Southwestern Energy Incorporated and Chesapeake Energy Incorporated. The currently active play encompasses a region from approximately Fort Smith, AR east to Little Rock, AR approximately 50 miles wide (from North to South). The initial estimates for this field put it almost on par with the Barnett Shale play in Texas. It is anticipated that thousands of wells will be drilled during the next several years; this will entail installation of massive support infrastructure of roads and pipelines, as well as drilling fluid disposal pits and infrastructure to handle millions of gallons of fracturing fluids. This project focuses on gas production in Arkansas as the test bed for application of proactive risk management decision support system for natural gas exploration and production. The activities covered in this report include meetings with representative stakeholders, development of initial content …
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Thoma, Greg; Veil, John; Limp, Fred; Cothren, Jackson; Gorham, Bruce; Williamson, Malcolm et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Safety Communications and Spectrum Resources: Policy Issues for Congress (open access)

Public Safety Communications and Spectrum Resources: Policy Issues for Congress

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Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recovery Act: Preliminary Observations on the Implementation of Broadband Programs (open access)

Recovery Act: Preliminary Observations on the Implementation of Broadband Programs

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Access to broadband service is seen as vital to economic, social, and educational development, yet many areas of the country lack access to, or their residents do not use, broadband. To expand broadband deployment and adoption, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) provided $7.2 billion to the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for grants or loans to a variety of program applicants. The agencies must award all funds by September 30, 2010. This testimony provides preliminary information on the challenges NTIA and RUS face; the steps taken to address challenges; and the remaining risks in (1) evaluating applications and awarding funds and (2) overseeing funded projects. This statement is based on related ongoing work that GAO expects to complete in November. To conduct this work, GAO is reviewing relevant laws and program documents and interviewing agency officials and industry stakeholders. While this testimony does not include recommendations, GAO expects to make recommendations in its November report."
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 95, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 95, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Shance, Brenda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Scalable Performance Measurement and Analysis (open access)

Scalable Performance Measurement and Analysis

Concurrency levels in large-scale, distributed-memory supercomputers are rising exponentially. Modern machines may contain 100,000 or more microprocessor cores, and the largest of these, IBM's Blue Gene/L, contains over 200,000 cores. Future systems are expected to support millions of concurrent tasks. In this dissertation, we focus on efficient techniques for measuring and analyzing the performance of applications running on very large parallel machines. Tuning the performance of large-scale applications can be a subtle and time-consuming task because application developers must measure and interpret data from many independent processes. While the volume of the raw data scales linearly with the number of tasks in the running system, the number of tasks is growing exponentially, and data for even small systems quickly becomes unmanageable. Transporting performance data from so many processes over a network can perturb application performance and make measurements inaccurate, and storing such data would require a prohibitive amount of space. Moreover, even if it were stored, analyzing the data would be extremely time-consuming. In this dissertation, we present novel methods for reducing performance data volume. The first draws on multi-scale wavelet techniques from signal processing to compress systemwide, time-varying load-balance data. The second uses statistical sampling to select a small …
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Gamblin, T
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulated Waste for Leaching and Filtration Studies--Laboratory Preparation Procedure (open access)

Simulated Waste for Leaching and Filtration Studies--Laboratory Preparation Procedure

This report discusses the simulant preparation procedure for producing multi-component simulants for leaching and filtration studies, including development and comparison activities in accordance with the test plan( ) prepared and approved in response to the Test Specification 24590-WTP-TSP-RT-06-006, Rev 0 (Smith 2006). A fundamental premise is that this approach would allow blending of the different components to simulate a wide variety of feeds to be treated in the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP). For example, a given feed from the planned feed vector could be selected, and the appropriate components would then be blended to achieve a representation of that particular feed. Using the blending of component simulants allows the representation of a much broader spectrum of potential feeds to the Pretreatment Engineering Platform (PEP).
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Smith, Harry D.; Russell, Renee L. & Peterson, Reid A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Student Recital: 2009-10-27 - TF Brass Ensemble

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Brass recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: TF Brass Ensemble
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 293, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 293, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Rodriguez, Tatiana
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tanzania: Background and Current Conditions (open access)

Tanzania: Background and Current Conditions

This report discusses the current political climate in Tanzania, an important U.S. ally in Africa. The report also provides some general background information.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0743 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0743

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Texas State Technical College (TSTC) can legally enter into a student loan program with a private lender, whereby TSTC and the private lender share the risk of students defaulting on the loans (RQ-0803-GA)
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ultrasonic Characterization of Cast Austenitic Stainless Steel Microstructure: Discrimination between Equiaxed- and Columnar-Grain Material – An Interim Study (open access)

Ultrasonic Characterization of Cast Austenitic Stainless Steel Microstructure: Discrimination between Equiaxed- and Columnar-Grain Material – An Interim Study

Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and inspection of cast austenitic stainless steel (CASS) components used in the nuclear power industry is neither as effective nor reliable as is needed due to detrimental effects upon the interrogating ultrasonic beam and interference from ultrasonic backscatter. The root cause is the coarse-grain microstructure inherent to this class of materials. Some ultrasonic techniques perform better for particular microstructural classifications and this has led to the hypothesis that an ultrasonic inspection can be optimized for a particular microstructural class, if a technique exists to reliably classify the microstructure for feedback to the inspection. This document summarizes scoping experiments of in-situ ultrasonic methods for classification and/or characterization of the material microstructures in CASS components from the outside surface of a pipe. The focus of this study was to evaluate ultrasonic methods and provide an interim report that documents results and technical progress. An initial set of experiments were performed to test the hypothesis that in-service characterization of cast austenitic stainless steel (CASS) is feasible, and that, if reliably performed, such data would provide real-time feedback to optimize in-service inspections in the field. With this objective in mind, measurements for the experiment were restricted to techniques that should …
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Ramuhalli, Pradeep; Good, Morris S.; Diaz, Aaron A.; Anderson, Michael T.; Watson, Bruce E.; Peters, Timothy J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (open access)

The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Nelson, Heather
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Zimbabwe: The Power Sharing Agreement and Implications for U.S. Policy (open access)

Zimbabwe: The Power Sharing Agreement and Implications for U.S. Policy

This report provides an overview of Zimbabwe's March 2008 elections. The report discusses the power-sharing agreement, the transitional government, cholera outbreak, international reactions, and U.S. policy on Zimbabwe.
Date: October 27, 2009
Creator: Ploch, Lauren
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 318, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 318, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cryogenic Field Measurement of Pr2Fe14B Undulator and Performance Enhancement Options at the NSLS-II (open access)

Cryogenic Field Measurement of Pr2Fe14B Undulator and Performance Enhancement Options at the NSLS-II

Short period (14.5mm) hybrid undulator arrays composed of Praseodymium Iron Boron (Pr{sub 2}Fe{sub 14}B) magnets (CR53, NEOMAX, Inc.) and vanadium permendur poles have been fabricated at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Unlike Neodymium Iron Boron (Nd{sub 2}Fe{sub 14}B) magnets which exhibit spin reorientation at temperatures below 150K, PrFeB arrays monotonically increase performance with lower operating temperature. It opens up the posibility for use in operating a cryo-permanent magnet undulator (CPMU) in the range of 40K to 60K where very efficient cryocoolers are available. Magnetic flux density profiles were measured at various temperature ranges from room temperature down to liquid helium (LHe) using the Vertical Testing Facility (VTF) at the National Snchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II). Temperature variations of phase error have been characterized. In addition, we examined the use of textured Dysprosium (Dy) poles to replace permendur poles to obtain further improvement in performance.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Tanabe, T.; Chubar, O.; Harder, David A.; Lehecka, Michael; Rank, James; Rakowsky, George et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Porosity and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Binary Mixtures (open access)

Determining the Porosity and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Binary Mixtures

Gravels and coarse sands make up significant portions of some environmentally important sediments, while the hydraulic properties of the sediments are typically obtained in the laboratory using only the fine fraction (e.g., <2 mm or 4.75 mm). Researchers have found that the content of gravel has significant impacts on the hydraulic properties of the bulk soils. Laboratory experiments were conducted to measure the porosity and the saturated hydraulic conductivity of binary mixtures with different fractions of coarse and fine components. We proposed a mixing-coefficient model to estimate the porosity and a power-averaging method to determine the effective particle diameter and further to predict the saturated hydraulic conductivity of binary mixtures. The proposed methods could well estimate the porosity and saturated hydraulic conductivity of the binary mixtures for the full range of gravel contents and was successfully applied to two data sets in the literature.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Zhang, Z. F.; Ward, Anderson L. & Keller, Jason M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Pittman, Jerry & Wray, Kelly
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
["One Diva, Twenty One Dudes" artist interviews, tape 2 of 2] captions transcript

["One Diva, Twenty One Dudes" artist interviews, tape 2 of 2]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the "One Diva, Twenty One Dudes" fine art extravaganza held on September 27th, 2009. The footage shows interviews with two artists covering where they are from and their excitement to be at the event. The tape cuts to black at the 4:07 minute mark.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 77, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009 (open access)

The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 77, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009

Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 78, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 78, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 2009

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Reddell, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Responsivity of Diamond X-ray Photodiodes Calibrated at NSLS (open access)

Responsivity of Diamond X-ray Photodiodes Calibrated at NSLS

Single crystal, high purity synthetic diamond is used as photoabsorption and carrier transport medium in x-ray photodiodes. While the thermal / mechanical robustness and high x-ray transmission of diamond make such devices attractive for synchrotron instrumentation, state-of-the-art quality material and electrical interfaces further make such detectors feasible. The present work develops methodology for attaining calculable responsivity (photocurrent yield) over a wide range of photon energies (0.2 to 28 keV) to within 5% accuracy. These methods achieve linear response for up to 0.2 W absorbed x-ray power and response time as low as 1 ns. Details of contact formation / robustness and bias configuration are explored.
Date: September 27, 2009
Creator: Keister,J.W.; Smedley, J.; Muller, E. M. & Bohon, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library