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The 109th TXSSAR State Convention was held March 12-14, 2004 at the Crowne Plaza Suites in Dallas (open access)

The 109th TXSSAR State Convention was held March 12-14, 2004 at the Crowne Plaza Suites in Dallas

Document about the McKinney chapter of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
133Ba as a gamma-ray surrogate source for 1kg HEU and 10g 239Pu and 252Cf as a Neutron Surrogate for Pu (open access)

133Ba as a gamma-ray surrogate source for 1kg HEU and 10g 239Pu and 252Cf as a Neutron Surrogate for Pu

Monte Carlo was performed for the purpose of relating gamma-ray signal strength from 1kg of HEU and 10g of {sup 239}Pu (as described in the ASTM standards) to the radiation emitted from an amount of {sup 133}Ba. A determination was made on the amount of {sup 133}Ba that could act as a surrogate for the specified amounts of HEU and Pu. {sup 133}Ba is not the ideal source to use as a surrogate for HEU because of its higher energies. {sup 133}Ba was chosen as the surrogate since it has a half-life of 10.54 years, rather then the more ideal surrogate of {sup 57}Co which has a half-life of 271 days. A similar Monte Carlo was performed for the purpose of relating neutron signal strength from 200g of Pu (as described in the ASTM standards) to the radiation emitted from an amount of shielded {sup 252}Cf. A determination was made on the amount of {sup 252}Cf necessary to act as a surrogate for the 200g of Pu. An ASTM standard source is a metallic sphere, cube, or right cylinder of SNM having maximum self-attenuation of its emitted radiation. For plutonium, the source should be at least 93% {sup 239}Pu, less …
Date: March 2004
Creator: Pohl, Bertram A. & Archer, Daniel E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
adron Beam Emittance Growth Due to Electron Beam Parameter Jitter in Linac-Ring Electron-Ion Colliders (open access)

adron Beam Emittance Growth Due to Electron Beam Parameter Jitter in Linac-Ring Electron-Ion Colliders

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Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Montag, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Compressor Engine Controls to Enhance Operation, Reliability and Integrity: Final Report (open access)

Advanced Compressor Engine Controls to Enhance Operation, Reliability and Integrity: Final Report

This document is the final report for the ''Advanced Compressor Engine Controls to Enhance Operation, Reliability, and Integrity'' project. SwRI conducted this project for DOE in conjunction with Cooper Compression, under DOE contract number DE-FC26-03NT41859. This report addresses an investigation of engine controls for integral compressor engines and the development of control strategies that implement closed-loop NOX emissions feedback.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Bourn, Gary D.; Gingrich, Jess W. & Smith, Jack A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced technology development program for lithium-ion batteries : thermal abuse performance of 18650 Li-ion cells. (open access)

Advanced technology development program for lithium-ion batteries : thermal abuse performance of 18650 Li-ion cells.

Li-ion cells are being developed for high-power applications in hybrid electric vehicles currently being designed for the FreedomCAR (Freedom Cooperative Automotive Research) program. These cells offer superior performance in terms of power and energy density over current cell chemistries. Cells using this chemistry are the basis of battery systems for both gasoline and fuel cell based hybrids. However, the safety of these cells needs to be understood and improved for eventual widespread commercial application in hybrid electric vehicles. The thermal behavior of commercial and prototype cells has been measured under varying conditions of cell composition, age and state-of-charge (SOC). The thermal runaway behavior of full cells has been measured along with the thermal properties of the cell components. We have also measured gas generation and gas composition over the temperature range corresponding to the thermal runaway regime. These studies have allowed characterization of cell thermal abuse tolerance and an understanding of the mechanisms that result in cell thermal runaway.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Crafts, Chris C.; Doughty, Daniel Harvey; McBreen, James. (Bookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY) & Roth, Emanuel Peter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice - Covered Waters (open access)

Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice - Covered Waters

"The objective of this project is to identify programs and research and development projects that improve the ability of responders to deal with accidental oil spills in fresh or salt-water marine environments where there is ice."
Date: March 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeronautics Star, March/April 2004, Special Ethics Supplement (open access)

Aeronautics Star, March/April 2004, Special Ethics Supplement

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of the General Dynamics Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeronautics Star, Volume 5, Number 2, March/April 2004 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Volume 5, Number 2, March/April 2004

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics (Firm)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Age, Volume 25, Number 3, March 2004 (open access)

The Age, Volume 25, Number 3, March 2004

Monthly publication containing information related to Chambers County, Texas, including current events of the Chambers County Historical Commission, the Wallisville Heritage Park, and the Chambers County historical and genealogical societies; reprinted newspaper articles about county events and citizens; and historical news and records.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Wallisville Heritage Park (Organization)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Problems, Responses, and Issues for Congress (open access)

AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Problems, Responses, and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the issue of children that have been left as orphans due to AIDS taking their parents lives. Moreover, the report details that between 2001 and 2003 the number of children orphaned from AIDS increased by 3.5 million. The rate of orphaned children is only expected to increase in the future if massive spending is not issued to curb the problem.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Salaam, Tiaji
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 299, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 299, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 2004 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Looby, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analysis of Hanford Tank 241-AZ-102 Glass (open access)

Analysis of Hanford Tank 241-AZ-102 Glass

A proof-of-technology demonstration for the River Protection Project (RPP) Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) was performed by SRS. As part of this demonstration, samples from a low-activity AZ-102 glass waste form were characterized. The sample handling, preparation, and analyses were performed according to standard United States of America Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) protocol to facilitate use of these results for regulatory applications.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Ferrara, D
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 2004 (open access)

Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 2004

Program for the 109th annual meeting of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, held from March 12 through the 14, 2004 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, in Dallas, Texas, including a list of sessions for the meeting and related information about the organization and conference. The meeting was called to order by the President Richard Robinett, in the Winsor Ballroom 1 of the Hotel.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2003 (open access)

An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2003

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the statewide turnover rate for full-time classified employees, which is used to monitor total employee loss to the State. Retention strategies are provided to monitor and curb excessive turnover, which can affect an organization's ability to meet its mission.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appropriations for FY2004: Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2004: Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies

This report provides appropriations of Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies for FY2004
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Peterman, David Randall & Frittelli, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASCI Grid Services summary report. (open access)

ASCI Grid Services summary report.

The ASCI Grid Services (initially called Distributed Resource Management) project was started under DisCom{sup 2} when distant and distributed computing was identified as a technology critical to the success of the ASCI Program. The goals of the Grid Services project has and continues to be to provide easy, consistent access to all the ASCI hardware and software resources across the nuclear weapons complex using computational grid technologies, increase the usability of ASCI hardware and software resources by providing interfaces for resource monitoring, job submission, job monitoring, and job control, and enable the effective use of high-end computing capability through complex-wide resource scheduling and brokering. In order to increase acceptance of the new technology, the goal included providing these services in both the unclassified as well as the classified user's environment. This paper summarizes the many accomplishments and lessons learned over approximately five years of the ASCI Grid Services Project. It also provides suggestions on how to renew/restart the effort for grid services capability when the situation is right for that need.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Hiebert-Dodd, Kathie L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASSESSMENT OF LOW COST NOVEL SORBENTS FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT MERCURY CONTROL (open access)

ASSESSMENT OF LOW COST NOVEL SORBENTS FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT MERCURY CONTROL

The injection of sorbents upstream of a particulate control device is one of the most promising methods for controlling mercury emissions from coal-fired utility boilers with electrostatic precipitators and fabric filters. Studies carried out at the bench-, pilot-, and full-scale have shown that a wide variety of factors may influence sorbent mercury removal effectiveness. These factors include mercury species, flue gas composition, process conditions, existing pollution control equipment design, and sorbent characteristics. The objective of the program is to obtain the necessary information to assess the viability of lower cost alternatives to commercially available activated carbon for mercury control in coal-fired utilities. Prior to injection testing, a number of sorbents were tested in a slipstream fixed-bed device both in the laboratory and at two field sites. Based upon the performance of the sorbents in a fixed-bed device and the estimated cost of mercury control using each sorbent, seventeen sorbents were chosen for screening in a slipstream injection system at a site burning a Western bituminous coal/petcoke blend, five were chosen for screening at a site burning a subbituminous Powder River Basin (PRB) coal, and nineteen sorbents were evaluated at a third site burning a PRB coal. Sorbents evaluated during the …
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Sjostrom, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASSESSMENT OF RADIONUCLIDE RELEASE FROM CONTAMINATED CONCRETE AT THE YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION. (open access)

ASSESSMENT OF RADIONUCLIDE RELEASE FROM CONTAMINATED CONCRETE AT THE YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION.

Yankee Atomic Energy Company (YAEC) is considering allowing portions of existing structures at the Yankee Nuclear Power Station (YNPS) to remain on site at the time of license termination. Accordingly, release of residual radioactive contaminants (i.e., H-3, C-14, Co-60, Ni-63, Sr-90, and Cs-137) from remaining subsurface concrete structures (Darman, 2004) and dose due to that release must be evaluated. Analyses were performed using DUST-MS to assess the rate of release for each radionuclide from the concrete, based upon an assumed concentration of 1 pCi/g and a concrete density of 2.5 g/cm{sup 3}. Using the same assumptions that were applied to the soil DCGL calculation (and where appropriate, the same input parameters), RESRAD was used to calculate the dose from water pathways. Values for selected RESRAD input parameters were chosen to match the release rate calculated by DUST-MS. The results indicated that Cs-137 yielded the highest dose.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: SULLIVAN, T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The atomic structure of the cleaved Si(111)-(2x1) surface refined by dynamical LEED (open access)

The atomic structure of the cleaved Si(111)-(2x1) surface refined by dynamical LEED

New or modified models have been proposed for the much-studied Si(111)-(2x1) surface structure, including: a reverse-tilted p-bonded chain model (by Zitzlsperger et al); a three-bond scission model (by Haneman et al); and a p-bonded chain model with enhanced vibrations (present work). These models are compared here to the generally accepted modified p-bonded chain model (by Himpsel et al, 1984), by analyzing low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) I-V curves measured earlier. Using the efficient automated tensor LEED technique, the models can be refined to a much greater degree than with earlier methods of LEED analysis. This study distinctly favors the earlier modified p-bonded chain model, but with strongly enhanced vibrations. To compare models that have different numbers of adjustable free parameters a Hamilton ratio test is used: it can distinguish between improvement due to a better model and improvement due only to more parameters.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Xu, Geng; Deng, Bingcheng; Yu, Zhaoxian; Tong, S.Y.; Van Hove, M.A.; Jona, F. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audit Report on the Child Support Program at the Office of the Attorney General (open access)

An Audit Report on the Child Support Program at the Office of the Attorney General

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Office of the Attorney General is administering the Child Support Program so that child support payments are disbursed to custodial parents in a timely manner.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Soil and Water Conservation Board (open access)

An Audit Report on the Soil and Water Conservation Board

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board maintains and reports reliable financial and program data, safeguards its assets and uses them efficiently, makes progress toward its goals and objectives, and complies with applicable laws and regulations.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Teacher Retirement System's Implementation of TRS-ActiveCare, the Health Care Plan for Active School District Employees (open access)

An Audit Report on the Teacher Retirement System's Implementation of TRS-ActiveCare, the Health Care Plan for Active School District Employees

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Teacher Retirement System (System) implemented the TRS-ActiveCare program as the Legislature intended and in a manner that adequately protects program resources.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automated video screening for unattended background monitoring in dynamic environments. (open access)

Automated video screening for unattended background monitoring in dynamic environments.

This report addresses the development of automated video-screening technology to assist security forces in protecting our homeland against terrorist threats. A threat of specific interest to this project is the covert placement and subsequent remote detonation of bombs (e.g., briefcase bombs) inside crowded public facilities. Different from existing video motion detection systems, the video-screening technology described in this report is capable of detecting changes in the static background of an otherwise, dynamic environment - environments where motion and human activities are persistent. Our goal was to quickly detect changes in the background - even under conditions when the background is visible to the camera less than 5% of the time. Instead of subtracting the background to detect movement or changes in a scene, we subtracted the dynamic scene variations to produce an estimate of the static background. Subsequent comparisons of static background estimates are used to detect changes in the background. Detected changes can be used to alert security forces of the presence and location of potential threats. The results of this research are summarized in two MS Power-point presentations included with this report.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Carlson, Jeffrey J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library