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Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 2008 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 7, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 2008 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 2008 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 21, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2008 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Workshop on Excellence Empowered by a Diverse Academic Workforce: Achieving Racial & Ethnic Equity in Chemistry (open access)

Workshop on Excellence Empowered by a Diverse Academic Workforce: Achieving Racial & Ethnic Equity in Chemistry

The purpose of the Workshop 'Excellence Empowered by a Diverse Academic Workforce: Achieving Racial & Ethnic Equity in Chemistry' was to promote the development of a cadre of academic leaders who create, implement and promote programs and strategies for increasing the number of racial and ethnic minorities to equitable proportions on the faculties of departments throughout the academic chemistry community. An important objective of the workshop was to assist in creating an informed and committed community of chemistry leaders who will create, implement and promote programs and strategies to advance racial and ethnic equity in both the faculty and the student body with the goal of increasing the number of U.S. citizen underrepresented minorities (URM) participating in academic chemistry at all levels, with particular focus on the pipeline to chemistry faculty. This objective was met by (1) presentations of detailed data describing current levels of racial and ethnic minorities on the faculties of chemistry departments; (2) frank discussion of the obstacles to and benefits of racial/ethnic diversity in the chemistry professoriate; (3) summary of possible effective interventions and actions; and (4) promotion of the dissemination and adoption of initiatives designed to achieve racial/ethnic equity. Federal programs over the past thirty …
Date: February 13, 2008
Creator: Ali, Hassan. B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewal aging and linear response (open access)

Renewal aging and linear response

Paper discussing the linear response to an external perturbation of a renewal process, in an aging condition that, with no perturbation, would yield super-diffusion.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Ascolani, Gianluca; Bologna, Mauro & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Knowledge, Knowability and the Search for Objective Randomness to a New Vision of Complexity (open access)

From Knowledge, Knowability and the Search for Objective Randomness to a New Vision of Complexity

Paper discussing knowledge, knowability, and the search for objective randomness to a new vision of complexity.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Giuntoli, Martina; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 6, February 2008 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 6, February 2008

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: February 2008
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2008 (open access)

The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2008

Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society containing information about the organization, membership, and field of aquaculture and ecosystem management.
Date: February 2008
Creator: American Fisheries Society. Texas Chapter.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
ESpotlite (open access)

ESpotlite

This document focuses attention on emissions trading and greenhouse gases by providing internet links to governmental sites affiliated with emissions trading, government agencies, and other miscellaneous sites.
Date: February 2008
Creator: American Reference Center United States Embassy Wellington
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Testing of the Berkeley Darfur Stove (open access)

Development and Testing of the Berkeley Darfur Stove

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Date: February 29, 2008
Creator: Amrose, Susan; Amrose, Susan; Kisch, G. Theodore; Kirubi, Charles; Woo, Jesse & Gadgil, Ashok
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 (open access)

The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11

this report provides information about the Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11.
Date: February 8, 2008
Creator: Amy, Belsaco
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A search for W+- H ---> muon-neutrino b anti-b production at the Tevatron (open access)

A search for W+- H ---> muon-neutrino b anti-b production at the Tevatron

All known experimental results on fundamental particles and their interactions can be described to great accuracy by a theory called the Standard Model. In the Standard Model of particle physics, the masses of particles are explained through the Higgs mechanism. The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle not discovered yet, and its observation or exclusion is an important test of the Standard Model. While the Standard Model predicts that a Higgs boson should exist, it does not exactly predict its mass. Direct searches have excluded a Higgs with m{sub H} < 114.4 GeV at 95% confidence level, while indirect measurements indicate that the mass should be less than 144 GeV. This analysis looks for W{sup {+-}}H {yields} {mu}{nu}{sub {mu}}b{bar b} in 1 fb{sup -1} of data collected with the D0 detector in p{bar p} collisions with {radical}s = 1.96 TeV. The analysis strategy relies on the tracking, calorimetry and muon reconstruction of the D0 experiment. The signature is a muon, missing transverse energy (E{sub T}) to account for the neutrino and two b-jets. The Higgs mass is reconstructed using the invariant mass of the two jets. Backgrounds are W{sup {+-}}b{bar b}, W{sup {+-}} c{bar c}, W{sup {+-}} + …
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Anastasoaie, Carmen Miruna & U., /Nijmegen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Letter Report - Analysis of Ultrasonic Data on Piping Cracks at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Before and After Applying a Mechanical Stress Improvement Process, JCN-N6319, Task 2 (open access)

Technical Letter Report - Analysis of Ultrasonic Data on Piping Cracks at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Before and After Applying a Mechanical Stress Improvement Process, JCN-N6319, Task 2

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is assisting the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in developing a position on the management of primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) in piping systems previously analyzed for leak-before-break (LBB). Part of this work involves determining whether inspections alone are sufficient or if inspections plus mitigation techniques are needed. The work described in this report addresses the reliability of ultrasonic phased-array (PA) examinations for inspection of cracks that have been subjected to the mitigation method of mechanical stress improvement process (MSIP). It is believed that stresses imparted during MSIP may make ultrasonic crack responses in piping welds more difficult to detect and accurately characterize. To explore this issue, data were acquired, both before and after applying MSIP, and analyzed from cracked areas in piping at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania. This work was performed under NRC Project JCN-N6319, PWSCC in Leak-Before-Break Systems.
Date: February 26, 2008
Creator: Anderson, Michael T.; Cumblidge, Stephen E. & Crawford, Susan L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
\Dz - \Dzb Mixing Analyses at \babar (open access)

\Dz - \Dzb Mixing Analyses at \babar

The authors summarize results of analyses of D meson mixing parameters performed by the BABAR collaboration.
Date: February 4, 2008
Creator: Andreassen, Rolf & Collaboration, for the BaBar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY 2007 Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors Final Report (open access)

FY 2007 Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors Final Report

Miniature spherical retroreflectors, less than 8 millimeters in diameter, are currently being developed to enhance remote optical detection of nuclear proliferation activities. These retroreflecting spheres resemble small, sand-colored marbles that have the unique optical property of providing a strong reflection directly back to the source (i.e., retroreflecting) when illuminated with a laser. The addition of specific coatings, sensitive to specific chemicals or radioactive decay in the environment, can be applied to the surface of these retroreflectors to provide remote detection of nuclear proliferation activities. The presence of radioactive decay (e.g., alpha, gamma, neutron) or specific chemicals in the environment (e.g., TBP, acids) will change the optical properties of the spheres in a predictable fashion, thus indicating the presence or absence of the target materials. One possible scenario might employ an airborne infrared laser system (e.g., quantum-cascade lasers) to illuminate a section of ground littered with these retroreflective spheres. Depending on the coating and the presence of a specific chemical or radioisotope in the environment, the return signal would be modified in some predictable fashion because of fluorescence, frequency shifting, intensity attenuation/enhancement, or change in polarization. Research conducted in FY 2007 focused on developing novel optical fabrication processes and exploiting the …
Date: February 20, 2008
Creator: Anheier, Norman C.; Bernacki, Bruce E. & Krishnaswami, Kannan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cleanup Verification Package for the118-F-2 Burial Ground (open access)

Cleanup Verification Package for the118-F-2 Burial Ground

This cleanup verification package documents completion of remedial action, sampling activities, and compliance with cleanup criteria for the 118-F-2 Burial Ground. This burial ground, formerly called Solid Waste Burial Ground No. 1, was the original solid waste disposal site for the 100-F Area. Eight trenches contained miscellaneous solid waste from the 105-F Reactor and one trench contained solid waste from the biology facilities.
Date: February 21, 2008
Creator: Anselm, J. M. Capron and K. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Results of the Excreta Bioassay Quality Control Program For April 1, 2006 Through March 31, 2007 (open access)

Results of the Excreta Bioassay Quality Control Program For April 1, 2006 Through March 31, 2007

A total of 66 urine samples, 6 blank fecal and 6 spiked artificial fecal samples were submitted during the report period (April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007) to General Engineering Laboratories, South Carolina by the Hanford Internal Dosimetry Program (IDP) to check the accuracy, precision, and detection levels of their analyses. Urine analyses for tritium, Sr, 238Pu, 239Pu, 241Am, 243Am 235U, 238U, elemental uranium and fecal analyses for 241Am, 238Pu and 239Pu were tested this year. The number of QC urine samples submitted during the report period represented 1.7% of the total samples submitted. In addition to the samples provided by IDP, GEL was also required to conduct their own QC program, and submit the results of analyses to IDP. About 36% of the analyses processed by GEL during the second year of this contract were quality control samples. GEL tested the performance of 16 radioisotopes, all of which met or exceeded the specifications in the Statement of Work. IDP concluded that GEL was performing well for all analyses tested, and concerns identified earlier were satisfactorily resolved.
Date: February 19, 2008
Creator: Antonio, Cheryl L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Prospect of using Three-Dimensional Earth Models To Improve Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Ground Motion Hazard Assessment (open access)

The Prospect of using Three-Dimensional Earth Models To Improve Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Ground Motion Hazard Assessment

The last ten years have brought rapid growth in the development and use of three-dimensional (3D) seismic models of earth structure at crustal, regional and global scales. In order to explore the potential for 3D seismic models to contribute to important societal applications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosted a 'Workshop on Multi-Resolution 3D Earth Models to Predict Key Observables in Seismic Monitoring and Related Fields' on June 6 and 7, 2007 in Berkeley, California. The workshop brought together academic, government and industry leaders in the research programs developing 3D seismic models and methods for the nuclear explosion monitoring and seismic ground motion hazard communities. The workshop was designed to assess the current state of work in 3D seismology and to discuss a path forward for determining if and how 3D earth models and techniques can be used to achieve measurable increases in our capabilities for monitoring underground nuclear explosions and characterizing seismic ground motion hazards. This paper highlights some of the presentations, issues, and discussions at the workshop and proposes a path by which to begin quantifying the potential contribution of progressively refined 3D seismic models in critical applied arenas.
Date: February 11, 2008
Creator: Antoun, T.; Harris, D.; Lay, T.; Myers, S. C.; Pasyanos, M. E.; Richards, P. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Interactions with Selected Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (open access)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Interactions with Selected Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

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Date: February 13, 2008
Creator: Apling, Richard N. & Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physics with a High Intensity Proton Source at Fermilab: Project X Golden Book (open access)

Physics with a High Intensity Proton Source at Fermilab: Project X Golden Book

Within the next ten years the Standard Model will likely have to be modified to encompass a wide range of newly discovered phenomena, new elementary particles, new symmetries, and new dynamics. These phenomena will be revealed through experiment with high energy particle accelerators, mainly the LHC. This will represent a revolution in our understanding of nature, and will either bring us closer to an understanding of all phenomena, through existing ideas such as supersymmetry to superstrings, or will cause us to scramble to find new ideas and a new sense of direction. We are thus entering a dramatic and important time in the quest to understand the fundamental laws of nature and their role in shaping the universe. The energy scales now probed by the Tevatron, of order hundreds of GeV, will soon be subsumed by the LHC and extended up to a few TeV. We expect the unknown structure of the mysterious symmetry breaking of the Standard Model to be revealed. We will then learn the answer to a question that has a fundamental bearing upon our own existence: 'What is the origin of mass?' All modern theories of 'electroweak symmetry breaking' involve many new particles, mainly to provide …
Date: February 3, 2008
Creator: Appel, Jeffrey; Asner, David; Bigi, Ikaros; Bryman, Douglas; Buras, Andrzej; Carosi, Roberto et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives (open access)

Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives

Article on aging and rejuvenation with fractional derivatives.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Aquino, Gerardo; Bologna, Mauro; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United Kingdom: Issues for the United States (open access)

The United Kingdom: Issues for the United States

This report assesses the current state of U.S.-UK relations. It examines the pressures confronting London as it attempts to balance its interests between the United States and the EU, and the prospects for the future of the U.S.-UK partnership, especially in the unfolding Brown era. It also describes UK views on political, security, and economic issues of particular importance to the United States, and their implications for U.S. policy that may be of interest in the second session of the 110th Congress.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the structure of complex networks at different resolution levels (open access)

Analysis of the structure of complex networks at different resolution levels

Modular structure is ubiquitous in real-world complex networks, and its detection is important because it gives insights in the structure-functionality relationship. The standard approach is based on the optimization of a quality function, modularity, which is a relative quality measure for a partition of a network into modules. Recently some authors have pointed out that the optimization of modularity has a fundamental drawback: the existence of a resolution limit beyond which no modular structure can be detected even though these modules might have own entity. The reason is that several topological descriptions of the network coexist at different scales, which is, in general, a fingerprint of complex systems. Here we propose a method that allows for multiple resolution screening of the modular structure. The method has been validated using synthetic networks, discovering the predefined structures at all scales. Its application to two real social networks allows to find the exact splits reported in the literature, as well as the substructure beyond the actual split.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Arenas, A.; Fernandez, A. & Gomez, S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library