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Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies (open access)

Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies

This report provides information about the Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies. This list of about 150 congressional liaison offices is intended to help congressional offices in placing telephone calls.
Date: February 2, 2004
Creator: Watkins, Zina L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (“Byrd Amendment”) (open access)

The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (“Byrd Amendment”)

This report provides information about The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act.CDSOA commonly known as Byrd amendment is a U.S law providing for the distribution of import duties collected as a result of antidumping.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J. & Jones, Vivian C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuing Resolutions: FY2007 Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices (open access)

Continuing Resolutions: FY2007 Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices

Most of the operations of federal departments and agencies are funded each year through the enactment of several regular appropriations acts. Since these bills are annual, expiring at the end of the fiscal year, regular bills for the subsequent fiscal year must be enacted by October 1st. Final action on some of the regular appropriations bills, however, are typically delayed beyond the deadline. When this occurs, the affected departments and agencies are generally funded under temporary continuing appropriations acts or resolutions until the final funding decisions become law. On January 31st, 2007, the House adopted a fourth continuing resolution, which would extend funding for the nine the outstanding fiscal year 2007 regular bills through the end of fiscal year 2007.
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Streeter, Sandy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controversies over Redefining “Fill Material” Under the Clean Water Act (open access)

Controversies over Redefining “Fill Material” Under the Clean Water Act

This report discusses the revived rule, focusing on how it would change which material and types of activities are regulated under Section 404 and the significance of these issues, especially for the mining industry.
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies (open access)

The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies

The rapid development of wind power that the United States has experienced over the last several years has been coupled with a growing concern that wind development will require substantial additions to the nation's transmission infrastructure. Transmission is particularly important for wind power due to the locational dependence of wind resources, the relatively low capacity factor of wind plants, and the mismatch between the short lead time to build a new wind project and the longer lead time often needed to plan, permit, and construct transmission. It is clear that institutional issues related to transmission planning, siting, and cost allocation will pose major obstacles to accelerated wind power deployment, but also of concern is the potential cost of this infrastructure build out. Simply put, how much extra cost will society bear to deliver wind power to load centers? Without an answer to this question, there can be no consensus on whether or not the cost of developing transmission for wind will be a major barrier to further wind deployment, or whether the institutional barriers to transmission expansion are likely to be of more immediate concern. In this report, we review a sample of 40 detailed transmission studies that have included …
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Mills, Andrew D.; Wiser, Ryan & Porter, Kevin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Ensembles of Decision Trees Through Sampling (open access)

Creating Ensembles of Decision Trees Through Sampling

Recent work in classification indicates that significant improvements in accuracy can be obtained by growing an ensemble of classifiers and having them vote for the most popular class. This paper focuses on ensembles of decision trees that are created with a randomized procedure based on sampling. Randomization can be introduced by using random samples of the training data (as in bagging or arcing) and running a conventional tree-building algorithm, or by randomizing the induction algorithm itself. The objective of this paper is to describe our first experiences with a novel randomized tree induction method that uses a subset of samples at a node to determine the split. Our empirical results show that ensembles generated using this approach yield results that are competitive in accuracy and superior in computational cost.
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Kamath, C & Cantu-Paz, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 (open access)

The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Cuero, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Rea, Glenn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001 (open access)

Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 108, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2007 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), Modular CSSX Unit (CSSX), and Waste Transfer Line System of Salt Processing Program (U) (open access)

Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), Modular CSSX Unit (CSSX), and Waste Transfer Line System of Salt Processing Program (U)

All of the waste streams from ARP, MCU, and SWPF processes will be sent to DWPF for vitrification. The impact these new waste streams will have on DWPF's ability to meet its canister production goal and its ability to support the Salt Processing Program (ARP, MCU, and SWPF) throughput needed to be evaluated. DWPF Engineering and Operations requested OBU Systems Engineering to evaluate DWPF operations and determine how the process could be optimized. The ultimate goal will be to evaluate all of the Liquid Radioactive Waste (LRW) System by developing process modules to cover all facilities/projects which are relevant to the LRW Program and to link the modules together to: (1) study the interfaces issues, (2) identify bottlenecks, and (3) determine the most cost effective way to eliminate them. The results from the evaluation can be used to assist DWPF in identifying improvement opportunities, to assist CBU in LRW strategic planning/tank space management, and to determine the project completion date for the Salt Processing Program.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Chang, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Department of Homeland Security’s Risk Assessment Methodology: Evolution, Issues, and Options for Congress (open access)

The Department of Homeland Security’s Risk Assessment Methodology: Evolution, Issues, and Options for Congress

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Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Masse, Todd; O'Neil, Siobhan & Rollins, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud (open access)

Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its previous report on the Navy's in-transit inventory management system, focusing on: (1) determining what happened to the 34 shipments the Navy could not account for; (2) confirming that the Navy actually had receipt information for the 45 shipments that it could not account for in the previous report; and (3) Navy initiatives that address some of the specific control issues associated with in-transit inventory."
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a high intensity 48Ca ion beam for the heavy element program (open access)

Development of a high intensity 48Ca ion beam for the heavy element program

A high intensity {sup 48}Ca ion beam has been developed at the 88 Inch Cyclotron for the synthesis of {sup 283}112 using the reaction {sup 238}U({sup 48}Ca, 3n). An ion beam intensity of {approx} 700 pnA was delivered on target, resulting in a total dose of 2 x 10{sup 18} ions over a six day period. Since {sup 48}Ca is a very expensive and rare isotope minimal consumption is essential. Therefore a new oven [1] and special tantalum liner [2] have been developed for the AECR-U ion source during the last year to improve the metal ion beam efficiency. Both the LBL ECR and the AECR-U ion sources are built with radial access. Six radial slots between the sextupole magnet bars provide additional pumping and easy access to the plasma chamber for ovens and feedthroughs. Two types of radial ovens have been used at LBNL in the past, operating at temperatures up to 2100 C.
Date: February 2, 2002
Creator: Wutte, Daniela; Leitner, Mattheus & Lyneis, Claude
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of an Experimental Database and Theories for Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes of Geochemical Significance at Supercritical Temperatures and Pressures (open access)

Development of an Experimental Database and Theories for Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes of Geochemical Significance at Supercritical Temperatures and Pressures

The reactions that cause transformations in organic compounds in the Earth’s crust remain mysterious despite decades of research into how fossil fuel resources form. A major reason for this persistent mysteriousness is the failure of many researchers to realize the intimate involvement of water in those transformations. Our goal was to overcome this staggering ignorance by developing the means to calculate the consequences of reactions involving organic compounds and water. We pursued this research from 1989 through 2006, and this report focuses on progress between 2002 and 2006. There were two major obstacles that we overcame in the course of this research. On the one hand, we developed new theoretical equations that allow researchers to make these calculations. On the other hand, we critiqued available data and provided sound means to make estimates in the absence of experimental data for hundreds of organic compounds dissolved in water. Finally, we merged these two lines of research into an interactive web site that allows users to do the calculations with the equations and data. We call the web site ORCHYD for: “ORganic Compounds HYDration properties database,” but it is far more than a database since it allows users to make extremely accurate …
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Shock, Everett L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL TEST PACKAGES (open access)

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL TEST PACKAGES

The purpose of this document is to provide a brief introduction to digital radiography (DR), and a description of the DR configuration that was used to radiographically image the Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Test Packages before and after function tests that have been conducted. Also included are (1) Attachment 1, a comprehensive index that describes at which phase of the certification process that digital radiographic images were acquired, (2) digital radiographic images of each of the six packages at various stages of the certification process, and (3) Attachment 2, imaging instructions, that specify the setup procedures and detailed parameters of the DR imaging methodology that were used.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: HOWARD, BOYD
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovery of a 66 mas Ultracool Binary with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (open access)

Discovery of a 66 mas Ultracool Binary with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

We present the discovery of 2MASS J21321145+1341584AB as a closely separated (0.066'') very low-mass field dwarf binary resolved in the near-infrared by the Keck II Telescope using laser guide star adaptive optics. Physical association is deduced from the angular proximity of the components and constraints on their common proper motion. We have obtained a near-infrared spectrum of the binary and find that it is best described by an L5{+-}0.5 primary and an L7.5{+-}0.5 secondary. Model-dependent masses predict that the two components straddle the hydrogen burning limit threshold with the primary likely stellar and the secondary likely substellar. The properties of this sytem - close projected separation (1.8{+-}0.3AU) and near unity mass ratio - are consistent with previous results for very low-mass field binaries. The relatively short estimated orbital period of this system ({approx}7-12 yr) makes it a good target for dynamical mass measurements. Interestingly, the system's angular separation is the tightest yet for any very low-mass binary published from a ground-based telescope and is the tightest binary discovered with laser guide star adaptive optics to date.
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Siegler, N; Close, L; Burgasser, A; Cruz, K; Marois, C; Macintosh, B et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion about traditional trays

Recording of Swamy Tholung Ksen describing traditional trays.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2004-02-02 – Deb Scott, trombone transcript

Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2004-02-02 – Deb Scott, trombone

Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: February 2, 2004
Creator: Scott, Deb
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2009-02-02 - Yoonjoon Yang, soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Yang, Yoonjoo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches (open access)

Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches

Over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and marijuana production has roughly doubled and coca production tripled. Street prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability. Despite apparent national political resolve to deal with the drug problem, inherent contradictions regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy and other national policy goals and concerns. The mix of competing domestic and international pressures and priorities has produced an ongoing series of disputes within and between the legislative and executive branches concerning U.S. international drug policy. One contentious issue has been the Congressionally-mandated certification process, an instrument designed to induce specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize or pay more attention to the fight against narcotics businesses.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 2006 (open access)

The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earthquakes: Risk, Monitoring, Notification, and Research (open access)

Earthquakes: Risk, Monitoring, Notification, and Research

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Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: Folger, Peter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001 (open access)

The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 2001

Biweekly student newspaper from Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Johnson, Teddy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History