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Strontium Isotopes in Pore Water as an Indicator of Water Flux at the Proposed High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository, Yucca Mountain, Nevada (open access)

Strontium Isotopes in Pore Water as an Indicator of Water Flux at the Proposed High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository, Yucca Mountain, Nevada

The proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, would be constructed in the high-silica rhyolite (Tptp) member of the Miocene-age Topopah Spring Tuff, a mostly welded ash-flow tuff in the {approx}500-m-thick unsaturated zone. Strontium isotope compositions have been measured in pore water centrifuged from preserved core samples and in leachates of pore-water salts from dried core samples, both from boreholes in the Tptp. Strontium isotope ratios ({sup 87}Sr/{sup 86}Sr) vary systematically with depth in the surface-based boreholes. Ratios in pore water near the surface (0.7114 to 0.7124) reflect the range of ratios in soil carbonate (0.7112 to 0.7125) collected near the boreholes, but ratios in the Tptp (0.7122 to 0.7127) at depths of 150 to 370 m have a narrower range and are more radiogenic due to interaction with the volcanic rocks (primarily non-welded tuffs) above the Tptp. An advection-reaction model relates the rate of strontium dissolution from the rocks with flow velocity. The model results agree with the low transport velocity ({approx}2 cm per year) calculated from carbon-14 data by I.C. Yang (2002, App. Geochem., v. 17, no. 6, p. 807-817). Strontium isotope ratios in pore water from Tptp samples from horizontal boreholes collared in tunnels at …
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Marshall, B. & Futa, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0152 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0152

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a county clerk may charge fee for posting an Open Meetings Act notice (RQ-0099-GA)
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0153 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0153

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Fannin County Commissioners Court may retain counsel to advise it on legal matters without the consent of the county attorney (RQ-0106-GA)
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Wisch, Rene & Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Theoretical treatment of double photoionization of helium using a B-spline implementation of exterior complex scaling (open access)

Theoretical treatment of double photoionization of helium using a B-spline implementation of exterior complex scaling

Calculations of absolute triple differential and single differential cross sections for helium double photoionization are performed using an implementation of exterior complex scaling in B-splines. Results for cross sections, well-converged in partial waves, are presented and compared with both experiment and earlier theoretical calculations. These calculations establish the practicality and effectiveness of the complex B-spline approach to calculations of double ionization of atomic and molecular systems.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: McCurdy, C. William; Horner, Daniel A.; Rescigno, Thomas N. & Martin, Fernando
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Alexander, Nancy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 (open access)

Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004

Weekly newspaper published in Duncanville, Texas that includes local Cedar Hill, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Gooch, Robin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 08, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 08, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
VISION Model : description of model used to estimate the impact of highway vehicle technologies and fuels on energy use and carbon emissions to 2050. (open access)

VISION Model : description of model used to estimate the impact of highway vehicle technologies and fuels on energy use and carbon emissions to 2050.

The VISION model has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to provide estimates of the potential energy use, oil use, and carbon emission impacts to 2050 of advanced light- and heavy-duty highway vehicle technologies and alternative fuels. DOE supports research of advanced transportation technologies (including fuels) and is frequently asked to provide estimates of the potential impacts of successful market penetration of these technologies, sometimes on a relatively quick-turnaround basis. VISION is a spreadsheet model in Microsoft Excel that can be used to respond rapidly to quick-turnaround requests, as well as for longer-term analyses. It uses vehicle survival and age-dependent usage characteristics to project total light and heavy vehicle stock, total vehicle miles of travel (VMT), and total energy use by technology and fuel type by year, given market penetration and vehicle energy efficiency assumptions developed exogenously. Total carbon emissions for on-highway vehicles by year are also estimated because life-cycle carbon coefficients for various fuels are included in VISION. VISION is not a substitute for the transportation component of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). NEMS incorporates a consumer choice model to project market penetration of advanced vehicles and alternative fuels. The projections …
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Singh, M.; Vyas, A. & Steiner, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Environmental Monitoring Plan (open access)

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Environmental Monitoring Plan

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 450.1, Environmental Protection Program, requires each DOE site to conduct environmental monitoring. Environmental monitoring at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is conducted in order to: (a) Verify and support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws, regulations, permits, and orders; (b) Establish baselines and characterize trends in the physical, chemical, and biological condition of effluent and environmental media; (c) Identify potential environmental problems and evaluate the need for remedial actions or measures to mitigate the problem; (d) Detect, characterize, and report unplanned releases; (e) Evaluate the effectiveness of effluent treatment and control, and pollution abatement programs; and (f) Determine compliance with commitments made in environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, safety analysis reports, or other official DOE documents. This Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMP) has been written to contain the rationale and design criteria for the monitoring program, extent and frequency of monitoring and measurements, procedures for laboratory analyses, quality assurance (QA) requirements, program implementation procedures, and direction for the preparation and disposition of reports. Changes to the environmental monitoring program may be necessary to allow the use of advanced technology and new data collection techniques. This EMP will document any proposed changes …
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wynnewood Gazette (Wynnewood, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 (open access)

The Wynnewood Gazette (Wynnewood, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Wynnewood, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 263, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 263, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Looby, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Edge preserving smoothing and segmentation of 4-D images via transversely isotropic scale-space processing and fingerprint analysis (open access)

Edge preserving smoothing and segmentation of 4-D images via transversely isotropic scale-space processing and fingerprint analysis

Enhancements are described for an approach that unifies edge preserving smoothing with segmentation of time sequences of volumetric images, based on differential edge detection at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Potential applications of these 4-D methods include segmentation of respiratory gated positron emission tomography (PET) transmission images to improve accuracy of attenuation correction for imaging heart and lung lesions, and segmentation of dynamic cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images to facilitate unbiased estimation of time-activity curves and kinetic parameters for left ventricular volumes of interest. Improved segmentation of lung surfaces in simulated respiratory gated cardiac PET transmission images is achieved with a 4-D edge detection operator composed of edge preserving 1-D operators applied in various spatial and temporal directions. Smoothing along the axis of a 1-D operator is driven by structure separation seen in the scale-space fingerprint, rather than by image contrast. Spurious noise structures are reduced with use of small-scale isotropic smoothing in directions transverse to the 1-D operator axis. Analytic expressions are obtained for directional derivatives of the smoothed, edge preserved image, and the expressions are used to compose a 4-D operator that detects edges as zero-crossings in the second derivative in the direction of the …
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Reutter, Bryan W.; Algazi, V. Ralph; Gullberg, Grant T. & Huesman, Ronald H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Robert Mullen, January 19, 2004 transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Mullen, January 19, 2004

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Mullen. Mullen joined the Army Air Forces in January of 1943. He served as a nose gunner aboard a B-17 with the 2nd Bomb Group, 429th Bomb Squadron, 15th Air Force. He deployed to Italy in June of 1944, and completed 35 missions, including one over marshalling yards in Salzburg, Austria. Mullen received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Mullen, Robert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance of the Keck Observatory Adaptive Optics System (open access)

Performance of the Keck Observatory Adaptive Optics System

In this paper, the adaptive optics (AO) system at the W.M. Keck Observatory is characterized. The authors calculate the error budget of the Keck AO system operating in natural guide star mode with a near infrared imaging camera. By modeling the control loops and recording residual centroids, the measurement noise and band-width errors are obtained. The error budget is consistent with the images obtained. Results of sky performance tests are presented: the AO system is shown to deliver images with average Strehl ratios of up to 0.37 at 1.58 {micro}m using a bright guide star and 0.19 for a magnitude 12 star.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: van Dam, M. A.; Mignant, D. L. & Macintosh, B. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 111, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 111, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A study of surface film formation on LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 cathodes u sing attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (open access)

A study of surface film formation on LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 cathodes u sing attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy

The surface films formed on commercial LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 cathodes (ATD Gen2) charged from 3.75V to 4.2V vs. Li/Li+ in EC:DEC - 1M LiPF6 were analyzed using ex-situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) with the attenuated total reflection (ATR) technique. A surface layer of Li2CO3 is present on the virgin cathode, probably from reaction of the active material with air during the cathode preparation procedure. The Li2CO3 layer disappeared even after soaking in the electrolyte, indicating that the layer dissolved into the electrolyte possibly even before potential cycling of the electrode. IR features only from the binder (PVdF) and a trace of polyamide from the Al current collector were observed on the surfaces of cathodes charged to below 4.2 V, i.e., no surface species from electrolyte oxidation. Some new IR features were, however, found on the cathode charged to 4.2 V and higher. An electrolyte oxidation product was observed that appeared to contain dicarbonyl anhydride and (poly)ester functionalities. The reaction appears to be an indirect electrochemical oxidation with overcharging (removal of > 0.6 Li ions) destabilizing oxygen in the oxide lattice resulting in oxygen transfer to the solvent molecules.
Date: January 19, 2004
Creator: Song, S.-W.; Zhuang, G.V. & Ross Jr., P.N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library