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Advanced Battery Technology for Electric Two-Wheelers in the People's Republic of China. (open access)

Advanced Battery Technology for Electric Two-Wheelers in the People's Republic of China.

This report focuses on lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology applications for two- and possibly three-wheeled vehicles. The author of this report visited the People's Republic of China (PRC or China) to assess the status of Li-ion battery technology there and to analyze Chinese policies, regulations, and incentives for using this technology and for using two- and three-wheeled vehicles. Another objective was to determine if the Li-ion batteries produced in China were available for benchmarking in the United States. The United States continues to lead the world in Li-ion technology research and development (R&D). Its strong R&D program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal agencies, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Department of Defense. In Asia, too, developed countries like China, Korea, and Japan are commercializing and producing this technology. In China, more than 120 companies are involved in producing Li-ion batteries. There are more than 139 manufacturers of electric bicycles (also referred to as E-bicycles, electric bikes or E-bikes, and electric two-wheelers or ETWs in this report) and several hundred suppliers. Most E-bikes use lead acid batteries, but there is a push toward using Li-ion battery technology for two- and …
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Patil, P. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension: Farm Bill Issues (open access)

Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension: Farm Bill Issues

This report discusses the farm bill (P.L. 110-234) that will authorize and direct the implementation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) major programs across the spectrum of its mission areas through FY2012. The enacted bill reorganizes the Department's research, extension, and economics mission area, which currently comprises four agencies that separately administer intramural and extramural programs supporting agricultural research and development (R&D).
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Ho, Melissa D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 270, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 270, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 203, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 203, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart of Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart of Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 160, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 160, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coast Guard Deepwater Acquisition Programs: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Deepwater Acquisition Programs: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress

This report discusses the coast guard Acquisition reform Act of 2009 and the Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 that contains provisions that would reform Coast Guard acquisition, including Deep water acquisition programs.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Mann, Rick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
CONSTRUCTION METHOD STUDY FOR INSTALLATION OF A LARGE RISER IN A SINGLE SHELL TANK (open access)

CONSTRUCTION METHOD STUDY FOR INSTALLATION OF A LARGE RISER IN A SINGLE SHELL TANK

This study evaluates and identifies a construction method for cutting a hole in a single-shell tank dome. This study also identifies and evaluates vendors for performing the cut.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Pickett, W. & Adkisson, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Defense Base Act (DBA): The Federally Mandated Workers’ Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors (open access)

The Defense Base Act (DBA): The Federally Mandated Workers’ Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors

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Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Grasso, Valerie Bailey; Webel, Baird & Szymendera, Scott
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection of Actinides via Nuclear Isomer De-Excitation (open access)

Detection of Actinides via Nuclear Isomer De-Excitation

This dissertation discusses a data collection experiment within the Actinide Isomer Identification project (AID). The AID project is the investigation of an active interrogation technique that utilizes nuclear isomer production, with the goal of assisting in the interdiction of illicit nuclear materials. In an attempt to find and characterize isomers belonging to 235U and its fission fragments, a 232Th target was bombarded with a monoenergetic 6Li ion beam, operating at 45 MeV.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Francy, Christopher J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the three key institutions of the European Union (EU), and the only EU institution whose members are directly elected. This report discusses the construction and history of the EP, its role in functions of the EU as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

This report discusses the construction and history of the European Parliament (EP), its role in functions of the European Union as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Pittman, Jerry & Wray, Kelly
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
External and Internal Guest Binding of a Highly Charged Supramolecular Host in Water: Deconvoluting the Very Different Thermodynamics (open access)

External and Internal Guest Binding of a Highly Charged Supramolecular Host in Water: Deconvoluting the Very Different Thermodynamics

NMR, UV-vis and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) measurements probe different aspects of competing host-guest equilibria as simple alkylammonium guest molecules interact with both the exterior (ion-association) and interior (encapsulation) of the [Ga{sub 4}L{sub 6}]{sup 12-} supramolecular assembly in water. Data obtained by each independent technique measure different components of the host-guest equilibria and only when analyzed together does a complete picture of the solution thermodynamics emerge. Striking differences between the internal and external guest binding are found. External binding is enthalpy driven and mainly due to attractive interactions between the guests and the exterior surface of the assembly while encapsulation is entropy driven as a result of desolvation and release of solvent molecules from the host cavity.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Sgarlata, Carmelo; Mugridge, Jeffrey; Pluth, Michael; Tiedemann,, Bryan; Zito, Valeria; Arena, Giuseppe et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Markets Regulation: Financial Crisis Highlights Need to Improve Oversight of Leverage at Financial Institutions and across System (open access)

Financial Markets Regulation: Financial Crisis Highlights Need to Improve Oversight of Leverage at Financial Institutions and across System

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act directed GAO to study the role of leverage in the current financial crisis and federal oversight of leverage. GAO's objectives were to review (1) how leveraging and deleveraging by financial institutions may have contributed to the crisis, (2) regulations adopted by federal financial regulators to limit leverage and how regulators oversee compliance with the regulations, and (3) any limitations the current crisis has revealed in regulatory approaches used to restrict leverage and regulatory proposals to address them. To meet these objectives, GAO built on its existing body of work, reviewed relevant laws and regulations and academic and other studies, and interviewed regulators and market participants."
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 106, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 106, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 292, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 292, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 293, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 293, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 294, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 294, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Health Insurance: Enrollment, Benefits, Funding, and Other Characteristics of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools (open access)

Health Insurance: Enrollment, Benefits, Funding, and Other Characteristics of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A growing number of states--35 as of June 2009--have created high-risk health insurance pools (HRPs) primarily to provide coverage to individuals whose health status limits their access to coverage in the private individual health insurance market. HRPs--typically state-run nonprofit associations--often contract with a private health insurance carrier to administer the pool and offer a range of health plan options to such individuals, who are commonly referred to as medically uninsurable. Plan options vary within pools and from state to state, and like the private individual market, HRPs typically impose waiting periods for coverage of preexisting conditions to discourage medically uninsurable individuals from foregoing health insurance until they require care. Because of the higher health care costs typically incurred by medically uninsurable individuals, all pools operate at a loss. Premiums for HRP health plans are higher than for plans offered to healthy individuals in the private health insurance market; however, these premiums are capped to limit enrollees' costs and are thus insufficient to cover the costs of enrollee health care claims. As a result, all HRPs supplement their revenues through various funding mechanisms, such as assessments on health insurance …
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homosexuals and the U.S. Military: Current Issues (open access)

Homosexuals and the U.S. Military: Current Issues

This report examines the "don't ask, don't tell," policy in the U.S. military. "Don't ask, don't tell," holds that the presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion which are the essence of military capability. Service members are not to be asked about nor allowed to discuss their homosexuality.
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Burrelli, David F. & Feder, Jody
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of WRF Physics and Measurement Uncertainty on California Wintertime Model Wet Bias (open access)

Impacts of WRF Physics and Measurement Uncertainty on California Wintertime Model Wet Bias

The Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) model version 3.0.1 is used to explore California wintertime model wet bias. In this study, two wintertime storms are selected from each of four major types of large-scale conditions; Pineapple Express, El Nino, La Nina, and synoptic cyclones. We test the impacts of several model configurations on precipitation bias through comparison with three sets of gridded surface observations; one from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and two variations from the University of Washington (without and with long-term trend adjustment; UW1 and UW2, respectively). To simplify validation, California is divided into 4 regions (Coast, Central Valley, Mountains, and Southern California). Simulations are driven by North American Regional Reanalysis data to minimize large-scale forcing error. Control simulations are conducted with 12-km grid spacing (low resolution) but additional experiments are performed at 2-km (high) resolution to evaluate the robustness of microphysics and cumulus parameterizations to resolution changes. We find that the choice of validation dataset has a significant impact on the model wet bias, and the forecast skill of model precipitation depends strongly on geographic location and storm type. Simulations with right physics options agree better with UW1 observations. In 12-km resolution simulations, the Lin microphysics …
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Chin, H S; Caldwell, P M & Bader, D C
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library