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Acceptance Test Procedure for New Pumping Instrumentation and Control Skid P (open access)

Acceptance Test Procedure for New Pumping Instrumentation and Control Skid P

This Test Plan provides a test method to dedicate the leak detection relays used on the new Pumping Instrumentation and Control (PIC) skids. The new skids are fabricated on-site. The leak detection system is a safety class system per the Authorization Basis.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Koch, M. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceptance Test Procedure for New Pumping Instrumentation and Control Skid Q (open access)

Acceptance Test Procedure for New Pumping Instrumentation and Control Skid Q

This Test Plan provides a test method to dedicate the leak detection relays used on the new Pumping Instrumentation and Control (PIC) skids. The new skids are fabricated on-site. The leak detection system is a safety class system per the Authorization Basis.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Koch, M. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative in the FY2001 Budget Proposal - A Fact Sheet (open access)

The Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative in the FY2001 Budget Proposal - A Fact Sheet

The fact sheet compares the FY2001 funding request for the Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative to the FY2000 request and the enacted FY2000 appropriation.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 282, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 282, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Assessment of Energy Efficiency Project Financing Alternatives for Brookhaven National Laboratory (open access)

Assessment of Energy Efficiency Project Financing Alternatives for Brookhaven National Laboratory

This document provides findings and recommendations that resulted from an assessment of the Brookhaven National Laboratory by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to assess the site's potential for various alternative financing options as a means to implement energy-efficiency improvements. The assessment looked for life-cycle cost-effective energy-efficiency improvement opportunities, and through a series of staff interviews, evaluated the various methods by which these opportunities may be financed, while considering availability of funds, staff, and available financing options. This report summarizes the findings of the visit and the resulting recommendations.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Hunt, W. D.; Hail, John C. & Sullivan, Gregory P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 91, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 91, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Policies (open access)

Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Policies

This report discusses the Bicycle and Pedestrian Legislation, Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act Of 1991 (ISTEA), Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,and Funding under ISTEA and TEA21.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Lipford, William A. & Harrison, Glennon J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building integrated PV for commercial and institutional structures, a sourcebook for architects (open access)

Building integrated PV for commercial and institutional structures, a sourcebook for architects

This sourcebook on building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is intended for architects and designers interested in learning more about today's sustainable solar buildings. The booklet includes 16 design briefs describing actual structures; they illustrate how electricity-generating BIPV products (such as special roofing systems, vertical-wall systems, skylights, and awnings, all of which contain PV cells, modules, and films) can be integrated successfully into many different kinds of buildings. It also contains basic information about BIPV technologies, an overview of US product development activities and development programs, descriptions of major software design tools, and a bibliography.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Eiffert, P. & Kiss, G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cartesian Methods for the Shallow Water Equations on a Sphere (open access)

Cartesian Methods for the Shallow Water Equations on a Sphere

The shallow water equations in a spherical geometry are solved using a 3-dimensional Cartesian method. Spatial discretization of the 2-dimensional, horizontal differential operators is based on the Cartesian form of the spherical harmonics and an icosahedral (spherical) grid. Computational velocities are expressed in Cartesian coordinates so that a problem with a singularity at the pole is avoided. Solution of auxiliary elliptic equations is also not necessary. A comparison is made between the standard form of the Cartesian equations and a rotational form using a standard set of test problems. Error measures and conservation properties of the method are reported for the test problems.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Drake, J.B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Action Plan: Budgetary Initiatives (open access)

Clean Water Action Plan: Budgetary Initiatives

In October 1997, Vice President Gore directed federal agencies to develop a Clean Water Initiative to improve and strengthen water pollution control efforts. The multiagency plan was released on Feb. 19, 1998, and identifies nearly 100 key actions. Most are existing activities, now labeled as part of the Initiative. The President's FY1999 budget requests $2.2 billion for five departments and agencies to fund implementation of the Plan. While Congress is considering appropriations bills to fund the Plan, federal agencies are beginning or accelerating activities to carry out the actions under the Plan.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed Denial of Service Tools, Trin00, Tribe Flood Network, Tribe Flood Network 2000 and Stacheldraht. (open access)

Distributed Denial of Service Tools, Trin00, Tribe Flood Network, Tribe Flood Network 2000 and Stacheldraht.

One type of attack on computer systems is know as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. A DoS attack is designed to prevent legitimate users from using a system. Traditional Denial of Service attacks are done by exploiting a buffer overflow, exhausting system resources, or exploiting a system bug that results in a system that is no longer functional. In the summer of 1999, a new breed of attack has been developed called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Several educational and high capacity commercial sites have been affected by these DDoS attacks. A DDoS attack uses multiple machines operating in concert to attack a network or site. There is very little that can be done if you are the target of a DDoS. The nature of these attacks cause so much extra network traffic that it is difficult for legitimate traffic to reach your site while blocking the forged attacking packets. The intent of this paper is to help sites not be involved in a DDoS attack. The first tools developed to perpetrate the DDoS attack were Trin00 and Tribe Flood Network (TFN). They spawned the next generation of tools called Tribe Flood Network 2000 (TFN2K) and Stacheldraht (German …
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Criscuolo, P. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen (open access)

Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen

Since the invention of quantum mechanics, even the simplest example of collisional breakup in a system of charged particles, e{sup {minus}} + H {r_arrow} H{sup +} + e{sup {minus}} + e{sup {minus}}, has stood as one of the last unsolved fundamental problems in atomic physics. A complete solution requires calculating the energies and directions for a final state in which three charged particles are moving apart. Advances in the formal description of three-body breakup have yet to lead to a viable computational method. Traditional approaches, based on two-body formalisms, have been unable to produce differential cross sections for the three-body final state. Now, by using a mathematical transformation of the Schrodinger equation that makes the final state tractable, a complete solution has finally been achieved, Under this transformation, the scattering wave function can be calculated without imposing explicit scattering boundary conditions. This approach has produced the first triple differential cross sections that agree on an absolute scale with experiment as well as the first ab initio calculations of the single differential cross section.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Baertschy, Mark D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
EMS IMPLEMENTATION COSTS AT A DOE NATIONAL LABORATORY (open access)

EMS IMPLEMENTATION COSTS AT A DOE NATIONAL LABORATORY

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Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: BRIGGS,S.L.K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EUV Engineering Test Stand (open access)

EUV Engineering Test Stand

The Engineering Test Stand (ETS) is an EUV laboratory lithography tool. The purpose of the ETS is to demonstrate EUV full-field imaging and provide data required to support production-tool development. The ETS is configured to separate the imaging system and stages from the illumination system. Environmental conditions can be controlled independently in the two modules to maximize EUV throughput and environmental control. A source of 13.4 nm radiation is provided by a laser plasma source in which a YAG laser beam is focused onto a xenon-cluster target. A condenser system, comprised of multilayer-coated mirrors and grazing-incidence mirrors, collects the EUV radiation and directs it onto a-reflecting reticle. A four-mirror, ring-field optical system, having a numerical aperture of 0.1, projects a 4x-reduction image onto the wafer plane. This design corresponds to a resolution of 70nm at a k{sub 1} of 0.52. The ETS is designed to produce full-field images in step: and-scan mode using vacuum-compatible, one-dimension-long-travel magnetically levitated stages for both reticle and wafer. Reticle protection is incorporated into the ETS design. This paper provides a system overview of the ETS design and specifications.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Tichenor, D. A.; Kubiak, G. D.; Replogle, W. C.; Klebanoff, L. E.; Wronosky, J. B.; Hale, L. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Statistical Methodologies Used in U. S. Army Ordnance and Explosive Work (open access)

Evaluation of Statistical Methodologies Used in U. S. Army Ordnance and Explosive Work

Oak Ridge National Laboratory was tasked by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center (Huntsville, AL) to evaluate the mathematical basis of existing software tools used to assist the Army with the characterization of sites potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO). These software tools are collectively known as SiteStats/GridStats. The first purpose of the software is to guide sampling of underground anomalies to estimate a site's UXO density. The second purpose is to delineate areas of homogeneous UXO density that can be used in the formulation of response actions. It was found that SiteStats/GridStats does adequately guide the sampling so that the UXO density estimator for a sector is unbiased. However, the software's techniques for delineation of homogeneous areas perform less well than visual inspection, which is frequently used to override the software in the overall sectorization methodology. The main problems with the software lie in the criteria used to detect nonhomogeneity and those used to recommend the number of homogeneous subareas. SiteStats/GridStats is not a decision-making tool in the classical sense. Although it does provide information to decision makers, it does not require a decision based on that information. SiteStats/GridStats provides information that is supplemented by visual inspections, land-use …
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Ostrouchov, G
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Final progress report, Construction of a genome-wide highly characterized clone resource for genome sequencing (open access)

Final progress report, Construction of a genome-wide highly characterized clone resource for genome sequencing

At TIGR, the human Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) end sequencing and trimming were with an overall sequencing success rate of 65%. CalTech human BAC libraries A, B, C and D as well as Roswell Park Cancer Institute's library RPCI-11 were used. To date, we have generated >300,000 end sequences from >186,000 human BAC clones with an average read length {approx}460 bp for a total of 141 Mb covering {approx}4.7% of the genome. Over sixty percent of the clones have BAC end sequences (BESs) from both ends representing over five-fold coverage of the genome by the paired-end clones. The average phred Q20 length is {approx}400 bp. This high accuracy makes our BESs match the human finished sequences with an average identity of 99% and a match length of 450 bp, and a frequency of one match per 12.8 kb contig sequence. Our sample tracking has ensured a clone tracking accuracy of >90%, which gives researchers a high confidence in (1) retrieving the right clone from the BA C libraries based on the sequence matches; and (2) building a minimum tiling path of sequence-ready clones across the genome and genome assembly scaffolds.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Nierman, William C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The generation of hexahedral meshes for assembly geometries: A survey (open access)

The generation of hexahedral meshes for assembly geometries: A survey

The finite element method is being used today to model component assemblies in a wide variety of application areas, including structural mechanics, fluid simulations, and others. Generating hexahedral meshes for these assemblies usually requires the use of geometry decomposition, with different meshing algorithms applied to different regions. While the primary motivation for this approach remains the lack of an automatic, reliable all-hexahedral meshing algorithm, requirements in mesh quality and mesh configuration for typical analyses are also factors. For these reasons, this approach is also sometimes required when producing other types of unstructured meshes. This paper will review progress to date in automating many parts of the hex meshing process, which has halved the time to produce all-hex meshes for large assemblies. Particular issues which have been exposed due to this progress will also be discussed, along with their applicability to the general unstructured meshing problem.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: TAUTGES,TIMOTHY J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Line of Sight: A process for transferring science from the laboratory to the market place (open access)

Line of Sight: A process for transferring science from the laboratory to the market place

Commercialization and transfer of technology from laboratories in academia, government, and industry has only met a fraction of its potential and is currently an art not a science. The line of sight approach developed and in use at Sandia National Laboratories, is used to better understand commercialization and transfer of technology. The line of sight process integrates technology description, the dual process model of innovation and the product introduction model. The model, that the line of sight is based OR is presented and the application of the model to both disruptive and sustaining technologies is illustrated. Work to date suggests that the differences between disruptive and sustaining technologies are critical to quantifying the level of risk and choosing the commercialization path. The applicability of the line of sight to both disruptive and sustaining technologies is key to the success of the model and approach.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Linton, Jonathan; Walsh, Steven; Lombana, Cesar A.; Hunter, Willard, B. & Romig Jr., Alton D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Longhorn Express (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000 (open access)

The Longhorn Express (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 2000

Student newspaper of Harper Independent School District in Harper, Texas that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Harper Independent School District Journalism Class
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Methane Hydrates: Energy Prospect or Natural Hazard? (open access)

Methane Hydrates: Energy Prospect or Natural Hazard?

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Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Mielke, James E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Milling and blending of ceramic powders for the plutonium immobilization program (open access)

Milling and blending of ceramic powders for the plutonium immobilization program

The goal of the Plutonium Immobilization Program is the immobilization of surplus weapons usable plutonium in a ceramic form. The ceramic will then be encapsulated in high level waste glass using the can-in-can configuration. In the ceramic line of the immobilization plant, surplus plutonium oxide of less than 100 micron particle size will be received for immobilization. The plutonium oxide must be sized reduced and intimately blended with uranium oxide and the other ceramic forming materials containing neutron poisons to allow for complete interaction during sintering. Once properly blended, the formulation will be pressed into the desired ceramic form and then sintered to produce the targeted mineral phases. The equipment of choice for the size reduction of the actinides and the blending with the precursor materials is the Union Process attritor mill. The attritor mill is best described as a stirred ball mill and consists of a stationary tank filled with grinding media that is agitated by a shaft with stirring arms. The rotational shaft stirs the media at high-speed causing shearing and impact forces on the material resulting in size reduction and dispersion. Speeds over 1000 rpm can be reached by the stirring shaft. The high-speed of the attritor …
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Herman, D. T. & Biehl, W. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nature, strength, and consequences of indirect adsorbate interactions on metals (open access)

Nature, strength, and consequences of indirect adsorbate interactions on metals

Atoms and molecules adsorbed on metals affect each other even over considerable distances. In a tour-de-force of density-functional methods, the authors establish the nature and strength of such indirect interactions, and explain for what adsorbate systems they can critically affect important materials properties. These perceptions are verified in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of epitaxial growth, and help rationalize a cascade of recent experimental reports on anomalously low diffusion prefactors. The authors focus their study on two metal systems: Al/Al(111) and Cu/Cu(111).
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Bogicevic, Alexander; Ovesson, S.; Hyldgaard, P.; Lundqvist, B. I. & Jennison, Dwight R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library