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Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues (open access)

Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues

This report reviews several issues relating to alternative fuels and vehicles, mainly to combat dependence on petroleum imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report discusses the advantages and drawbacks of various alternative fuels and vehicles, as well as related legislation.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 255, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 255, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Archiving Web Browser Plug-ins (open access)

Archiving Web Browser Plug-ins

This report explores issues related to the archiving of Web Browser Plug-ins.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Bang, Sverre
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program (open access)

Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program

The report discusses the issues regarding the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135), which contains provisions to arm pilots of passenger aircraft and gives deputized pilots the authority to use force, including lethal force, to defend the flight deck against criminal and terrorist threats. The report includes the legislative Background, implementation issues, equipment, training, operational procedures and costs.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: Summary and Comparison with Previous Law (open access)

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: Summary and Comparison with Previous Law

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was enacted on March 27, 2002 as P.L. 107-155. It passed the House on February 14, 2002, as H.R. 2356 (Shays- Meehan), by a 240-189 vote. Its companion measure, on which it was largely based, had initially been passed by the Senate in 2001 as S. 27 (McCain-Feingold). On March 20, 2002, however, the Senate approved the House-passed H.R. 2356 by a 60- 40 vote, thus avoiding a conference to reconcile differences between S. 27 and H.R. 2356. The two primary features of P.L. 107-155 are restrictions on party soft money and issue advocacy.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E. & Whitaker, L. Paige
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Cartwright, Brian & Morgan, Clay
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
“Boutique Fuels” and Reformulated Gasoline: Harmonization of Fuel Standards (open access)

“Boutique Fuels” and Reformulated Gasoline: Harmonization of Fuel Standards

This report discusses how gasoline composition is regulated,explains various federal and state gasoline standards,presents some of the key issues with federal RFG program and some of the problems associated with the boutique fuels issue and the potential effects of harmonization.Finally discusses the bills in the 108th Congress related to boutique fuels,RFG and harmonization.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterization of Uranium Solids Precipitated with Aluminosilicates (open access)

Characterization of Uranium Solids Precipitated with Aluminosilicates

At the Savannah River Site (SRS), the High-Level Waste (HLW) Tank Farms store and process high-level liquid radioactive wastes from the Canyons and recycle water from the Defense Waste Processing Facility. The waste is concentrated using evaporators to minimize the volume of space required for HLW storage. Recently, the 2H Evaporator was shutdown due to the crystallization of sodium aluminosilicate (NAS) solids (such as cancrinite and sodalite) that contained close to 10 weight percent of elementally-enriched uranium (U). Prior to extensive cleaning,the evaporator deposits resided on the evaporator walls and other exposed internal surfaces within the evaporator pot. Our goal is to support the basis for the continued safe operation of SRS evaporators and to gain more information that could be used to help mitigate U accumulation during evaporator operation. To learn more about the interaction between U(VI) and NAS in HLW salt solutions, we performed several fundamental studies to examine the mechanisms of U accumulation with NAS in highly caustic solutions. This larger group of studies focused on the following processes: co-precipitation/structural incorporation, sorption, and precipitation (with or without NAS), which will be reviewed in this presentation. We will present and discuss local atomic structural characterization data about U …
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Duff, M. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress

This report discusses the conference report on the energy bill which came to the house and senate floor for action the week of November 17, that contains several clean air act provisions. It also points out the most recent developments on clean air act issues.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Airplay] (open access)

[Clipping: Airplay]

Newspaper clipping from the San Diego Union-Tribune discussing the debut of a new play about five fictional women in the final WASP class, and also focuses on Vivian Eddy and Joyce Secciani who were in the program during World War II.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Hebert, James
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 'Sky Girls'] (open access)

[Clipping: 'Sky Girls']

Newspaper clipping discussing Joyce Secciani, a Women Airforce Service Pilot, and her story. It also discusses gender discrimination within the WASP program.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commuter Rail: Information and Guidance Could Help Facilitate Commuter and Freight Rail Access Negotiations (open access)

Commuter Rail: Information and Guidance Could Help Facilitate Commuter and Freight Rail Access Negotiations

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Commuter and freight rail services have the potential to play increasingly important roles in the nation's economy and transportation system as demand for these services increases. Because the cost of building new infrastructure can be costprohibitive, commuter rail agencies typically seek to use existing infrastructure--which is primarily owned by private freight railroads. Consequently, commuter rail agencies must negotiate to purchase, lease, or pay to access the existing infrastructure from freight railroads. GAO was asked to examine (1) the challenges commuter rail agencies and freight railroads face when negotiating and sharing rights-of-way, (2) the actions that help facilitate mutually beneficial arrangements between commuter rail agencies and freight railroads, and (3) the role the federal government plays in negotiations between commuter rail agencies and freight railroads."
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
D2 and CD4 Purity Effects on CD Ablators (open access)

D2 and CD4 Purity Effects on CD Ablators

The question of how the isotopic purity of the feed gases D{sub 2} and CD{sub 4} used to make CD ablators at GA effects the extinction coefficient in the region of wavenumber 2900 cm{sup -1} ({lambda} = 3.45 {micro}m) is addressed below. The answer is at best incomplete; this is only an interim evaluation. What is clear is that using ultra-pure D{sub 2} is required to lower the ''CH'' impurity peak at 2900 cm{sup -1}. Perhaps using ultra-pure CD{sub 4} also helps, though the evidence for this is mixed. A closer look at the results raises other questions, however, and these are discussed below. Though solving these questions is unlikely to reduce the extinction coefficient in the region of 2900 cm{sup -1} below about 10 cm{sup -1}, this work will lead to a better understanding of the deposition of CH/CD GDP, and that is certainly worthwhile.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Cook, R C & Nikroo, A
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOWNHOLE VIBRATION MONITORING & CONTROL SYSTEM (open access)

DOWNHOLE VIBRATION MONITORING & CONTROL SYSTEM

The objective of this program is to develop a system to both monitor the vibration of a bottomhole assembly, and to adjust the properties of an active damper in response to these measured vibrations. Phase I of this program entails modeling and design of the necessary subsystems and design, manufacture and test of a full laboratory prototype. The project continues to advance, but is behind the revised (14-month) schedule. Tasks 1-3 (Modeling, Specification and Design) are all essentially complete. The test bench for the Test and Evaluation (Tasks 4 & 5) has been designed and constructed. The design of the full-scale laboratory prototype and associated test equipment is complete and the components are out for manufacture. Barring any unforeseen difficulties, laboratory testing should be complete by the end of March, as currently scheduled. We anticipate the expenses through March to be approximately equal to those budgeted for Phase I.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Cobern, Martin E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and theoretical evaluation of density sensitive N VII, Ar XIV and Fe XXII line ratios (open access)

Experimental and theoretical evaluation of density sensitive N VII, Ar XIV and Fe XXII line ratios

The line ratios of the 2p-3d transitions in the B-like spectra Ar XIV and Fe XXII have been measured using the electron beam ion traps at Livermore. Radiative-collisional model calculations show these line ratios to be sensitive to the electron density in the ranges ne = 10{sup 10} to 10{sup 12} cm{sup -3} and ne = 10{sup 13} to 10{sup 15} cm{sup -3}, respectively. In our experiment, the electron beam density of about 10{sup 11} cm{sup -3} was varied by about a factor of 5. Our data show a density effect for the line doublet in Ar XIV, and good agreement with theory is found. The relative intensity of the Fe XXII doublet shows good agreement with our predicted low density limit. The N VI K-shell spectrum was used to infer the actual electron density in the overlap region of ion cloud and electron beam, and systematic measurements and calculations of this spectrum are presented as well. The Ar XIV and Fe XXII spectra promise to be reliable density diagnostics for stellar coronae, complementing the K-shell diagnostics of helium-like ions.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Chen, H; Beiersdorfer, P; Heeter, L A; Liedahl, D A; Naranjo-Rivera, K L; Trabert, E et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004 (open access)

Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Dell City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Lynch, Mary Louise
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydropower Licenses and Relicensing Conditions: Current Issues and Legislative Activity (open access)

Hydropower Licenses and Relicensing Conditions: Current Issues and Legislative Activity

This report provides an overview of the current issues and legislative activity of the hydro power licenses and re-licensing conditions.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Powers, Kyna
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
M-theory and E10: Billiards, Branes, and Imaginary Roots (open access)

M-theory and E10: Billiards, Branes, and Imaginary Roots

Eleven dimensional supergravity compactified on $T^10$ admits classical solutions describing what is known as billiard cosmology - a dynamics expressible as an abstract (billiard) ball moving in the 10-dimensional root space of the infinite dimensional Lie algebra E10, occasionally bouncing off walls in that space. Unlike finite dimensional Lie algebras, E10 has negative and zero norm roots, in addition to the positive norm roots. The walls above are related to physical fluxes that, in turn, are related to positive norm roots (called real roots) of E10. We propose that zero and negative norm roots, called imaginary roots, are related to physical branes. Adding 'matter' to the billiard cosmology corresponds to adding potential terms associated to imaginary roots. The, as yet, mysterious relation between E10 and M-theory on $T^10$ can now be expanded as follows: real roots correspond to fluxes or instantons, and imaginary roots correspond to particles and branes (in the cases we checked). Interactions between fluxes and branes and between branes and branes are classified according to the inner product of the corresponding roots (again in the cases we checked). We conclude with a discussion of an effective Hamiltonian description that captures some features of M-theory on $T^10.$
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Brown, Jeffrey; Ganor, Ori J. & Helfgott, Craig
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Message, Volume 39, Number 10, January 2004 (open access)

The Message, Volume 39, Number 10, January 2004

Newsletter of Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston, including news and events, upcoming services, member announcements, editorials, and other information of interest to congregants.
Date: January 9, 2004
Creator: Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History