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200-BP-1 Prototype Hanford Barrier Annual Monitoring Report for Fiscal Years 2005 Through 2007 (open access)

200-BP-1 Prototype Hanford Barrier Annual Monitoring Report for Fiscal Years 2005 Through 2007

A prototype Hanford barrier was deployed over the 216-B-57 Crib at the Hanford Site in 1994 to prevent percolation through the underlying waste and to minimize spreading of buried contaminants. This barrier is being monitored to evaluate physical and hydrologic performance at the field scale. This report summarizes data collected during the period FY 2005 through FY 2007. In FY 2007, monitoring of the prototype Hanford barrier focused on barrier stability, vegetative cover, evidence of plant and animal intrusion, and the main components of the water balance, including precipitation, runoff, storage, drainage, and deep percolation. Owing to a hiatus in funding in FY 2005 through 2006, data collected were limited to automated measurements of the water-balance components. For the reporting period (October 2004 through September 2007) precipitation amount and distribution were close to normal. The cumulative amount of water received from October 1994 through September 2007 was 3043.45 mm on the northern half of the barrier, which is the formerly irrigated treatment, and 2370.58 mm on the southern, non-irrigated treatments. Water storage continued to show a cyclic pattern, increasing in the winter and declining in the spring and summer to a lower limit of around 100 mm in response to …
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Ward, Andy L.; Link, Steven O.; Strickland, Christopher E.; Draper, Kathryn E. & Clayton, Ray E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 13th International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis -- AnIntroduction (open access)

The 13th International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis -- AnIntroduction

Over forty years, there have been major efforts to aim at understanding the properties of surfaces, structure, composition, dynamics on the molecular level and at developing the surface science of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. Since most catalysts (heterogeneous, enzyme and homogeneous) are nanoparticles, colloid synthesis methods were developed to produce monodispersed metal nanoparticles in the 1-10 nm range and controlled shapes to use them as new model catalyst systems in two-dimensional thin film form or deposited in mezoporous three-dimensional oxides. Studies of reaction selectivity in multipath reactions (hydrogenation of benzene, cyclohexene and crotonaldehyde) showed that reaction selectivity depends on both nanoparticle size and shape. The oxide-metal nanoparticle interface was found to be an important catalytic site because of the hot electron flow induced by exothermic reactions like carbon monoxide oxidation.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Somorjai, Gabor A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 2008 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 2008

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 2008 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 2008

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 8, 2008
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 2008 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 2008

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 15, 2008
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 2008 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 2008

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 29, 2008 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 37, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 29, 2008

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 29, 2008
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
2007 Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conference - January 21-26 (open access)

2007 Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conference - January 21-26

This Gordon Research Conference seeks to brings together chemists, physicists, materials scientists and biologists to address perhaps the outstanding technical problem of the 21st Century - the efficient, and ultimately economical, storage of energy from carbon-neutral sources. Such an advance would deliver a renewable, environmentally benign energy source for the future. A great technological challenge facing our global future is energy. The generation of energy, the security of its supply, and the environmental consequences of its use are among the world's foremost geopolitical concerns. Fossil fuels - coal, natural gas, and petroleum - supply approximately 90% of the energy consumed today by industrialized nations. An increase in energy supply is vitally needed to bring electric power to the 25% of the world's population that lacks it, to support the industrialization of developing nations, and to sustain economic growth in developed countries. On the geopolitical front, insuring an adequate energy supply is a major security issue for the world, and its importance will grow in proportion to the singular dependence on oil as a primary energy source. Yet, the current approach to energy supply, that of increased fossil fuel exploration coupled with energy conservation, is not scaleable to meet future demands. …
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Nocera, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Community Learning Centers: Background and Funding (open access)

21st Century Community Learning Centers: Background and Funding

This report summarizes the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which contains the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program. The report covers the history of the ESEA as well as what is new in the reauthorization. Moreover, the report includes how grants are selected now, and the new focus of the program which is now exclusively for after-school-hours activities for children.
Date: February 5, 2008
Creator: McCallion, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[4th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance (Master Class)] captions transcript

[4th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance (Master Class)]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 4th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance event in 2008. This video features footage of a masterclass in preparation for the event with youth and instructors teaching dance moves and technique. The video cuts at 29:40.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[4th annual weekend festival of black dance masterclass tape 2 of 2] captions transcript

[4th annual weekend festival of black dance masterclass tape 2 of 2]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a workshop/masterclass being taught during the 4th annual weekend festival of black dance on February 1st, 2008. The footage shows a man in a red tank top leading a dance class of predominantly women on a large brightly lit stage.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: February 23-April 19, 2008 (open access)

Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: February 23-April 19, 2008

Program for an Abilene Philharmonic concert that ran from February 23rd to April 19th during the 58th season. It includes information about the pieces performed, artists and musicians, and advertising from local companies.
Date: February 2008
Creator: Abilene Philharmonic
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abstract - INMM Annual Meeting 1998 Status of Underground Testing Program (open access)

Abstract - INMM Annual Meeting 1998 Status of Underground Testing Program

This report is about the INMM Annual Meeting 1998 Status of Underground Testing Program.
Date: February 5, 2008
Creator: Dr. William J. Boyle, Larry R. Hayes, Alan J. Mitchell
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Design Concept for Future Neutrino Facilities (open access)

Accelerator Design Concept for Future Neutrino Facilities

This document summarizes the findings of the Accelerator Working Group (AWG) of the International Scoping Study (ISS) of a Future Neutrino Factory and Superbeam Facility. The work of the group took place at three plenary meetings along with three workshops, and an oral summary report was presented at the NuFact06 workshop held at UC-Irvine in August, 2006. The goal was to reach consensus on a baseline design for a Neutrino Factory complex. One aspect of this endeavor was to examine critically the advantages and disadvantages of the various Neutrino Factory schemes that have been proposed in recent years.
Date: February 3, 2008
Creator: ISS Accelerator Working Group
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceptance of Gifts by Members and Employees of the House of Representatives Under New Ethics Rules of the 110th Congress (open access)

Acceptance of Gifts by Members and Employees of the House of Representatives Under New Ethics Rules of the 110th Congress

This report discusses the new rules the 110th Congress adopted for the House of Representatives in regard to the receipt of gifts from lobbyists, foreign agents, and most of their private clients. There were also new rules placed on travel paid by outside private sources. These rules are designed to provide further transparency in the House.
Date: February 15, 2008
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieve Continuous Injection of Solid Fuels into Advanced Combustion System Pressures (open access)

Achieve Continuous Injection of Solid Fuels into Advanced Combustion System Pressures

This report is a descriptive journey of the Achieve Continuous Injection of Solid Fuels into Advanced Combustion System Pressures.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Aldred, Derek L. & Saunders, Timothy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acoustic Telemetry Studies of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Survival at the Lower Columbia Projects in 2006 (open access)

Acoustic Telemetry Studies of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Survival at the Lower Columbia Projects in 2006

The Portland District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to conduct three studies using acoustic telemetry to estimate detection probabilities and survival of juvenile Chinook salmon at three hydropower projects on the lower Columbia River. The primary goals were to estimate detection and survival probabilities based on sampling with JSATS equipment, assess the feasibility of using JSATS for survival studies, and estimate sample sizes needed to obtain a desired level of precision in future studies. The 2006 JSATS arrays usually performed as well or better than radio telemetry arrays in the JDA and TDA tailwaters, and underperformed radio arrays in the BON tailwater, particularly in spring. Most of the probabilities of detection on at least one of all arrays in a tailwater exceeded 80% for each method, which was sufficient to provide confidence in survival estimates. The probability of detection on one of three arrays includes survival and detection probabilities because fish may die or pass all three arrays undetected but alive.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Ploskey, Gene R.; Weiland, Mark A.; Hughes, James S.; Zimmerman, Shon A.; Durham, Robin E.; Fischer, Eric S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquisition of Crosswell Seismic Monitoring Data (open access)

Acquisition of Crosswell Seismic Monitoring Data

Crosswell seismic acquisition provides an ideal geometry for monitoring travel time changes in the subsurface. Analysis of delay time in terms of a characteristic frequency allows us to estimate optimal acquisition parameters (frequency and distance). We have deployed standard data acquisition equipment for continuous monitoring of crosswell travel time in two separate field experiments, with well spacing of 3 and 30 m. The acquisition hardware used for the field experiments is described, along with environmental effects (such as temperature) that influence the measurements. Two field experiments are described that correlate changes in travel time (and therefore velocity) with changes in barometric pressure. The results from the two field sites show a pressure sensitivity for velocity of 10{sup -6}/Pa to 10{sup -8}/Pa.
Date: February 15, 2008
Creator: Daley, T. M.; Niu, F.; Silver, P. G. & Majer, E. L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools (open access)

Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools

Most energy benchmarking tools provide static feedback on how one building compares to a larger set of loosely similar buildings, without providing information at the end-use level or on what can be done to reduce consumption, cost, or emissions. In this article--Part 1 of a two-part series--we describe an 'action-oriented benchmarking' approach, which extends whole-building energy benchmarking to include analysis of system and component energy use metrics and features. Action-oriented benchmarking thereby allows users to generate more meaningful metrics and to identify, screen and prioritize potential efficiency improvements. This opportunity assessment process can then be used to inform and optimize a full-scale audit or commissioning process. We introduce a new web-based action-oriented benchmarking system and associated software tool-EnergyIQ. The benchmarking methods, visualizations, and user interface design are informed by an end-user needs assessment survey and best-practice guidelines from ASHRAE.
Date: February 13, 2008
Creator: Commission, California Energy; Mathew, Paul; Mills, Evan; Mathew, Paul; Piette, Mary Ann; Bourassa, Norman et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Using the CEUS Database to Benchmark Commercial Buildings in California (open access)

Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Using the CEUS Database to Benchmark Commercial Buildings in California

The 2006 Commercial End Use Survey (CEUS) database developed by the California Energy Commission is a far richer source of energy end-use data for non-residential buildings than has previously been available and opens the possibility of creating new and more powerful energy benchmarking processes and tools. In this article--Part 2 of a two-part series--we describe the methodology and selected results from an action-oriented benchmarking approach using the new CEUS database. This approach goes beyond whole-building energy benchmarking to more advanced end-use and component-level benchmarking that enables users to identify and prioritize specific energy efficiency opportunities - an improvement on benchmarking tools typically in use today.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Mathew, Paul; Mills, Evan; Bourassa, Norman & Brook, Martha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Active Military Sonar and Marine Mammals: Events and References (open access)

Active Military Sonar and Marine Mammals: Events and References

This report summarizes legal and political events related to active sonar and marine mammals since 1994. The report discusses the deployment of active sonar by the U.S. Navy and its potential impacts on marine mammals has been an ongoing issue of intense debate; regulatory, legislative, and judicial activity; and international concern.
Date: February 11, 2008
Creator: Buck, Eugene H. & Calvert, Kori
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Actor and actress hold hands]

Actor and actress hold hands at a performance of Ellis Island.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Smith, David L., III
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Actor and actress stand together]

Actor and actress stand together at a performance of Ellis Island.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Smith, David L., III
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Actor dancing]

Actor dancing at a performance of Ellis Island.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Smith, David L., III
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library