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The Effect of Scale on the Mechanical Properties of Jointed Rock Masses (open access)

The Effect of Scale on the Mechanical Properties of Jointed Rock Masses

These notes were prepared for presentation at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Hard Target Research and Analysis Center (HTRAC), at the occasion of a short course held on June 14-15, 2004. The material is intended for analysts who must evaluate the geo-mechanical characteristics of sites of interest, in order to provide appropriate input to calculations of ground shock effects on underground facilities in rock masses. These analysts are associated with the Interagency Geotechnical Assessment Team (IGAT). Because geological discontinuities introduce scale effects on the mechanical properties of rock formations, these large-scale properties cannot be estimated on the basis of tests on small cores.
Date: May 24, 2004
Creator: Heuze, Francois E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Condition of the Banking Industry (open access)

The Condition of the Banking Industry

This report provides information about The Condition of the Banking Industry. Smaller banks are less able to garner cheaper funds for lending from wholesale markets and are less able to mitigate their credit and interest rate risks.
Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: Eubanks, Walter W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance Law: A Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court Ruling in McConnell v. FEC (open access)

Campaign Finance Law: A Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court Ruling in McConnell v. FEC

This report consists of campaign finance law with a legal analysis of the supreme court ruling in McConnell v. FEC.
Date: February 24, 2004
Creator: Whitaker, L. Paige
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons Learned on X-ray Optics Fabrication: Work completed as part of the "Advancing the Technology R&D of Tabletop Mesoscale Nondestructive Characterization" LDRD (open access)

Lessons Learned on X-ray Optics Fabrication: Work completed as part of the "Advancing the Technology R&D of Tabletop Mesoscale Nondestructive Characterization" LDRD

A Wolter X-ray optic was the central component of the microscope envisioned to fulfill the imaging requirements of the Characterization SI. After encountering many difficulties and delays, an optic was finally produced that, unfortunately, only partially met its specifications. With the SI halted, and efforts underway to reformulate a LDRD program to support fabrication of X-ray optics, it is useful to examine the previous effort and compile a list of lessons learned during the research.
Date: November 24, 2004
Creator: Pivovaroff, M J; Nederbragt, W W & Martz, H E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Plasma Parameters Between QH and ELMing Phases of the Same Discharges (open access)

Comparison of Plasma Parameters Between QH and ELMing Phases of the Same Discharges

H-mode confinement is observed for many energy confinement times without edge localized modes (ELMs) in QH (quiescent high-confinement)-mode discharges in DIII-D. To find critical differences between ELMing and QH modes we compared electron temperature (T{sub e}), density (n{sub e}), and ion temperature (T{sub i}), in the pedestal and scrape-off layer (SOL) for a group of discharges. We also compared the electron pressures P{sub ped}, and maximum pressure gradients P{sub e,ped,max grad} because of their importance in confinement and stability. Experimental results show that the core line averaged density, median T{sub e} (pedestal), SOL T{sub e}, and T{sub e} pedestal width, and SOL T{sub i} are nearly the same in QH mode as that during ELMs. The n{sub e} (average pedestal), n{sub e} pedestal width, P{sub ped}, and P{sub e,ped,max grad} are similar to corresponding values in QH mode and at various times between ELMs. However, the pedestal T{sub i} is 1.6 times higher in QH mode than during ELMing.
Date: May 24, 2004
Creator: Lasnier, C.; West, W.; Burrell, K.; deGrassie, J.; Doyle, E. & Osborne, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved as Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than as Treaties (open access)

Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved as Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than as Treaties

Trade agreements such asthe NAFTA and the GATT Uruguay Round agreements have been approved by majority vote of each House of Congress rather than by twothirds vote of the Senate — that is, they have been treated as congressional-executive agreements rather than astreaties. The congressional-executive agreement has been the vehicle for implementingCongress' long-standing policy ofseeking trade benefitsfor the United States through reciprocal trade negotiations. In a succession of statutes, Congress has authorized the President to negotiate and enter into tariff and nontariff barrier (NTB) agreements for limited periods, while mandating that NTB and free trade area agreements negotiated under this authority could enter into force for the United States only if approved by both Houses in a bill enacted into public law and other statutory conditions were met.
Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee System: Jurisdiction and Referral Reform Options (open access)

House Committee System: Jurisdiction and Referral Reform Options

This report provides an overview of the jurisdiction and referral reform options on the house committee system.
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Schneider, Judy & Runduquist, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NAFEMS Finite Element Benchmarks for MDG Code Verification (open access)

NAFEMS Finite Element Benchmarks for MDG Code Verification

NAFEMS was originally founded at the United Kingdom's National Engineering Laboratory as the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards. It was subsequently privatized as the not-for-profit organization NAFEMS, Ltd., but retains its mission ''To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology''. That mission has been pursued in part by sponsoring a series of studies that published benchmarked deemed suitable to assess the basic accuracy of engineering simulation tools. The early studies focused on FEA for linear solid and structural mechanics and then extended to nonlinear solid mechanics, eventually including contact. These benchmarks are complemented by educational materials concerning analysis technologies and approaches. More recently NAFEMS is expanding to consider thermal-fluid problems. Further information is available at www.nafems.org. Essentially all major commercial firms selling FEA for solid mechanics are members of NAFEMS and it seemed clear that Methods Development Group should leverage from this information resource, too. In 2002, W Program ASCI funding purchased a three-year membership in NAFEMS. In the summer of 2003 the first author hosted a summer graduate student to begin modeling some of the benchmark problems. We concentrated on NIKE3D, as the benchmarks are most typically problems most naturally run …
Date: February 24, 2004
Creator: Greer, R & Ferencz, R M
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Guy Kerr, October 24, 2004] (open access)

[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Guy Kerr, October 24, 2004]

Letter from Philip A. Berkebile, Executive Vice President of TDNA, to Guy Kerr, Senior Vice President / Law and Government Secretary at Belo Corp, on October 24, 2004. The letter is in regards to Guy being selected by the nomination committee to be a candidates to serve a three-year term on the TDNA board of directors.
Date: October 24, 2004
Creator: Berkebile, Philip A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 2004 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 24, 2004
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate and Omnibus Energy Legislation (open access)

Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate and Omnibus Energy Legislation

This report discusses a variety of issues pertaining to energy policy. It includes information about most recent developments, background and analysis broken down into major categories, and relevant legislation.
Date: November 24, 2004
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Title IX, Sex Discrimination, and Intercollegiate Athletics: A Legal Overview (open access)

Title IX, Sex Discrimination, and Intercollegiate Athletics: A Legal Overview

This report provides an overview of Title IX in general and of the intercollegiate athletics regulations in particular. It includes a summary of the report issued by the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics and the Department of Education's (ED's) response with a discussion of recent legal challenges to the regulations and to the three-part test.
Date: May 24, 2004
Creator: Feder, Jody
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Choice: Current Legislation (open access)

School Choice: Current Legislation

This report provides an overview of current local, state, and federal policies and programs that support school choice and identifies and summarizes recent federal school choice legislation.
Date: November 24, 2004
Creator: Smole, David P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil and Water Conservation Issues (open access)

Soil and Water Conservation Issues

This report discusses soil and water conservation, which were prominent farm policy topics in the 108th Congress as the Administration implemented provisions in the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171). This farm bill increased spending and expanded the scope of the conservation effort by reauthorizing and amending most existing conservation programs and enacting new ones through FY2007.
Date: November 24, 2004
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Doug Toney, October 24, 2004] (open access)

[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Doug Toney, October 24, 2004]

Letter from Philip A. Berkebile, Executive Vice President at TDNA, to Doug Toney, Publisher at Herald-Zeitung, on October 24, 2004. The letter is in regards to Toney being selected by the nomination committee to be a candidate to serve a full three-year term on the TDNA board of directors.
Date: October 24, 2004
Creator: Berkebile, Philip A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Darrell Coleman, October 24, 2004] (open access)

[Letter from Philip A. Berkebile to Darrell Coleman, October 24, 2004]

Letter from Philip A. Berkebile, Executive Vice President at TDNA, to Darrell Coleman, President and Publisher at the Wichita Falls Times Record News, on October 24, 2004. The letter is in regards to Berkebile congratulating Coleman on being selected by the nomination committee to be a candidate and serve on the TDNA board of directors. cc'd on the letter are Donnis Bagget and Wesley R. Turner.
Date: October 24, 2004
Creator: Berkebile, Philip A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Members sitting in bleachers on court]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association sitting on the bleachers at the edge of the court. They are wearing salmon "Summer 2004" DIVA shirts and other players are visible past them.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kid at tournament]

Photograph of a kid at one of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association games. She is sitting on the bleachers at the edge of the court and other guests and members of DIVA are visible behind her.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Team practicing before game]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association lining up with their team to practice serving. The players are all wearing purple shirts and behind them are other members that are wearing green shirts and bleachers where they are sitting.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[DIVA members with papers]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association during a tournament. The three that the camera is focused on are wearing purple and are at the edge of the bleachers beside the volleyball court. The one standing is handing the other two slips of paper. Behind them other members are sitting in the stands.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man in hat at tournament]

Photograph of a man wearing a children's hat at one of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association games. He is sitting on a blanket beside the bleachers with other members of his team.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[DIVA members in stands]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association during a tournament. The two that the camera is focused on are sitting on the bleachers beside the volleyball court. Behind them other players are gathered together and some are standing on the court.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Team against wall mats]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association leaning against the mats along the wall. The players are all wearing samon-colored DIVA shirts.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Members standing on court]

Photograph of members of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association standing on the edge of the court. One is wearing a green "Summer 2004" DIVA shirt and other championship event shirts. Other people are visible behind them.
Date: July 24, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library