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Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0271 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0271

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 health care providers administering vaccinations in hospitals under the federal Medicare program are immune from liability for injuries caused by the vaccine (RQ-0227-GA)
Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: First Quarter, 2004 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: First Quarter, 2004

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: September 17, 2004
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 17, 2004 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: Fowler, Whitney
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Education Matters: Earnings by Educational Attainment Over Three Decades (open access)

Education Matters: Earnings by Educational Attainment Over Three Decades

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Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: Levine, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Fuels and MTBE: Side-by-Side Comparison of H.R. 6 and S. 2095 (open access)

Renewable Fuels and MTBE: Side-by-Side Comparison of H.R. 6 and S. 2095

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Date: March 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sport Utility Vehicles, Mini-Vans, and Light Trucks: An Overview of Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards (open access)

Sport Utility Vehicles, Mini-Vans, and Light Trucks: An Overview of Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards

Most sport utility vehicles, mini-vans, and pickups are classified as “light trucks” and thus are regulated less stringently than passenger cars under two major laws — the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for fuel economy standards, and the Clean Air Act for emissions standards. This report discusses the discrepancy between emissions and fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks, how that discrepancy is changing, and legislative activity related to these issues.
Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Non-Electrostatic Surface Complexation Approach to Modeling Radionuclide Migration at the Nevada Test Site: I. Iron Oxides and Calcite (open access)

A Non-Electrostatic Surface Complexation Approach to Modeling Radionuclide Migration at the Nevada Test Site: I. Iron Oxides and Calcite

Reliable quantitative prediction of contaminant transport in subsurface environments is critical to evaluating the risks associated with radionuclide migration. As part of the Underground Test Area (UGTA) project, radionuclide transport away from various underground nuclear tests conducted in the saturated zone at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) is being examined. In the near-field environment, reactive transport simulations must account for changes in water chemistry and mineralogy as a function of time and their effect on radionuclide migration. Unlike the K{sub d} approach, surface complexation (SC) reactions, in conjunction with ion exchange and precipitation, can be used to describe radionuclide reactive transport as a function of changing environmental conditions. They provide a more robust basis for describing radionuclide retardation in geochemically dynamic environments. The interaction between several radionuclides considered relevant to the UGTA project and iron oxides and calcite are examined in this report. The interaction between these same radionuclides and aluminosilicate minerals is examined in a companion report (Zavarin and Bruton, 2004). Selection criteria for radionuclides were based on abundance, half-life, toxicity to human and environmental health, and potential mobility at NTS (Tompson et al., 1999). Both iron oxide and calcite minerals are known to be present at NTS in …
Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: Zavarin, M & Bruton, C J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comment on ''Sensitivity Analysis and Determination of Streambed Leakance and Aquifer Hydraulic Properties'' by Xunhong Chen and Xi Chen, Journal of Hydrology, 2003, v.284, 270-284 (open access)

Comment on ''Sensitivity Analysis and Determination of Streambed Leakance and Aquifer Hydraulic Properties'' by Xunhong Chen and Xi Chen, Journal of Hydrology, 2003, v.284, 270-284

Recently, studies of the Platte River watershed have gained significant attention from federal and Nebraska, USA, state agencies due to the importance of groundwater/surface-water interactions under drought conditions. Using archive data from a 1983 pumping test, Chen and Chen (2003) interpret the hydraulic properties of the alluvium and a streambed of the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska, and compare their data with results of other studies performed over the past several years. Three important inconsistencies of this article will be highlighted here: (1) misuse of the analytical model of Hunt (1999), (2) departure of their results from previously published data, and (3) unsatisfactory explanation of these anomalous results.
Date: May 17, 2004
Creator: Kollet, S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electromagnetic Imaging of CO2 Sequestration at an Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Site (open access)

Electromagnetic Imaging of CO2 Sequestration at an Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Site

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Date: February 17, 2004
Creator: Kirkendall, B. & Roberts, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NADS - Nuclear And Atomic Data System (open access)

NADS - Nuclear And Atomic Data System

We have developed NADS (Nuclear and Atomic Data System), a web-based graphical interface for viewing pointwise and grouped cross-sections and distributions. Our implementation is a client / server model. The client is a Java applet that displays the graphical interface, which has interactive 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D plots and tables. The server, which can serve and perform computations the data, has been implemented in Python using the FUDGE package developed by Bret Beck at LLNL. Computational capabilities include algebraic manipulation of nuclear evaluated data in databases such as LLNL's ENDL-99, ENDF/B-V and ENDF/B-VI as well as user data. Processed data used in LLNL's transport codes are accessible as well. NADS is available from http://nuclear.llnl.gov/
Date: September 17, 2004
Creator: McKinley, M S; Beck, B & McNabb, D
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Racial Profiling: Issues and Federal Legislative Proposals and Options (open access)

Racial Profiling: Issues and Federal Legislative Proposals and Options

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Date: February 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flame Inhibition by Phosphorus-Containing Compounds over a Range of Equivalence Ratios (open access)

Flame Inhibition by Phosphorus-Containing Compounds over a Range of Equivalence Ratios

There is much interest in the combustion mechanism of organophosphorus compounds (OPCs) due to their role as potential halon replacements in fire suppression. A continuing investigation of the inhibition activity of organophosphorus compounds under a range of equivalence ratios was performed experimentally and computationally, as measured by the burning velocity. Updates to a previous mechanism were made by the addition and modification of reactions in the mechanism for a more complete description of the recombination reactions. In this work, the laminar flame speed is measured experimentally and calculated numerically for a premixed propane/air flame, under a range of equivalence ratios, undoped and doped with dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP). A detailed investigation of the catalytic cycles involved in the recombination of key flame radicals is made for two equivalence ratios, lean and rich. From this, the importance of different catalytic cycles involved in the lean versus rich case is discussed. Although the importance of certain cycles is different under different stoichiometries, the OPCs are similarly effective across the range, demonstrating the robustness of OPCs as flame suppressants. In addition, it is shown that the phosphorus compounds are most active in the high temperature region of the flame. This may, in part, explain …
Date: March 17, 2004
Creator: Jayaweera, T M; Melius, C F; Pitz, W J; Westbrook, C K; Korobeinichev, O P; Shvartsberg, V M et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Actions in 2003 (open access)

Congressional Budget Actions in 2003

This report provides information about the Congressional Budget Actions in 2003. During 2003 congress considered various budgetary measures. most measures pertained to 2004 and beyond.
Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
REGIONAL-SCALE WIND FIELD CLASSIFICATION EMPLOYING CLUSTER ANALYSIS (open access)

REGIONAL-SCALE WIND FIELD CLASSIFICATION EMPLOYING CLUSTER ANALYSIS

The classification of time-varying multivariate regional-scale wind fields at a specific location can assist event planning as well as consequence and risk analysis. Further, wind field classification involves data transformation and inference techniques that effectively characterize stochastic wind field variation. Such a classification scheme is potentially useful for addressing overall atmospheric transport uncertainty and meteorological parameter sensitivity issues. Different methods to classify wind fields over a location include the principal component analysis of wind data (e.g., Hardy and Walton, 1978) and the use of cluster analysis for wind data (e.g., Green et al., 1992; Kaufmann and Weber, 1996). The goal of this study is to use a clustering method to classify the winds of a gridded data set, i.e, from meteorological simulations generated by a forecast model.
Date: June 17, 2004
Creator: Glascoe, L G; Glaser, R E; Chin, H S & Loosmore, G A
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A White Paper Prepared for the OpenMP Architectural Review Board on DMPL: An OpenMP DLL Debugging Interface (open access)

A White Paper Prepared for the OpenMP Architectural Review Board on DMPL: An OpenMP DLL Debugging Interface

OpenMP is a widely adopted standard for threading directives across compiler implementations. The standard is very successful since it provides application writers with a simple, portable programming model for introducing shared memory parallelism into their codes. However, the standards do not address key issues for supporting that programming model in development tools such as debuggers. In this paper, we present DMPL, an OpenMP debugger interface that can be implemented as a dynamically loaded library. DMPL is currently being considered by the OpenMP Tools Committee as a mechanism to bridge the development tool gap in the OpenMP standard.
Date: March 17, 2004
Creator: Cownie, James; DelSignore, John, Jr.; de Supinski, Bronis R. & Warren, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Authorization of Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Investments (open access)

Proposed Authorization of Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Investments

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Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
San Francisco Estuary Striped Bass Migration History Determined by Electron-microprobe Analysis of Otolith Sr/Ca Ratio (open access)

San Francisco Estuary Striped Bass Migration History Determined by Electron-microprobe Analysis of Otolith Sr/Ca Ratio

Habitat use has been shown to be an important factor in the bioaccumulation of contaminants in striped bass. This study examines migration in striped bass as part of a larger study investigating bioaccumulation and maternal transfer of xenobiotics to progeny in the San Francisco Estuary system. Habitat use, residence time and spawning migration over the life of females (n = 23) was studied. Female striped bass were collected between Knights Landing and Colusa on the Sacramento River during the spawning runs of 1999 and 2001. Otoliths were removed, processed and aged via otolith microstructure. Subsequently, otoliths were analyzed for strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) ratio using an electron-microprobe to measure salinity exposure and to distinguish freshwater, estuary, and marine habitat use. Salinity exposure during the last year before capture was examined more closely for comparison of habitat use by the maternal parent to contaminant burden transferred to progeny. Results were selectively confirmed by ion microprobe analyses for habitat use. The Sr/Ca data demonstrate a wide range of migratory patterns. Age of initial ocean entry differs among individuals before returning to freshwater, presumably to spawn. Some fish reside in freshwater year-round, while others return to more saline habitats and make periodic migrations to freshwater. …
Date: September 17, 2004
Creator: Ostrach, D J; Phillis, C C; Weber, P K; Ingram, B L & Zinkl, J G
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cantilever-Based Force Spectroscopy for Chemical and Biological Detection (open access)

Cantilever-Based Force Spectroscopy for Chemical and Biological Detection

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Date: May 17, 2004
Creator: Sulchek, Todd; Noy, Alex; Ratto, Tim; Langry, Kevin; Colvin, Michael & Denardo, Sally
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[2004 Texas Democratic Party State Convention] (open access)

[2004 Texas Democratic Party State Convention]

Schedule listing the dates and times of events planned for the 2004 Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Houston, Texas. Map of downtown and the Metro trolleys service hours throughout downtown.
Date: [2004-06-17..2004-06-19]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Pamphlet: Fighting for Democracy Texas Democratic Party] (open access)

[Pamphlet: Fighting for Democracy Texas Democratic Party]

An event pamphlet to promote and inform "Fellow Democrats" about the workshops, purpose, and advertisements of the 2004 Texas Democratic Party State Convention.
Date: [2004-06-17..2004-06-19]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Reservation confirmation for hotel room for Al Daniels] (open access)

[Reservation confirmation for hotel room for Al Daniels]

Reservation confirmation for Al Daniel's stay at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas.
Date: [2004-06-17..2004-06-19]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elect Anthony Pace for SD8 National Delegate (open access)

Elect Anthony Pace for SD8 National Delegate

A campaign flyer encouraging people to elect Anthony Pace for SD8 National Delegate with a list of his political activities and background.
Date: June 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detonation in TATB Hemispheres (open access)

Detonation in TATB Hemispheres

Streak camera breakout and Fabry-Perot interferometer data have been taken on the outer surface of 1.80 g/cm{sup 3} TATB hemispherical boosters initiated by slapper detonators at three temperatures. The slapper causes breakout to occur at 54{sup o} at ambient temperatures and 42{sup o} at -54 C, where the axis of rotation is 0{sup o}. The Fabry velocities may be associated with pressures, and these decrease for large timing delays in breakout seen at the colder temperatures. At room temperature, the Fabry pressures appear constant at all angles. Both fresh and decade-old explosive are tested and no difference is seen. The problem has been modeled with reactive flow. Adjustment of the JWL for temperature makes little difference, but cooling to -54 C decreases the rate constant by 1/6th. The problem was run both at constant density and with density differences using two different codes. The ambient code results show that a density difference is probably there but it cannot be quantified.
Date: March 17, 2004
Creator: Druce, B.; Souers, P. C.; Chow, C.; Roeske, F.; Vitello, P. & Hrousis, C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library