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Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 224, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 224, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004 (open access)

The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Looby, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barriers to Corporate Fraud: How They Work, Why They Fail (open access)

Barriers to Corporate Fraud: How They Work, Why They Fail

The report focuses on the internal controls on American corporations (including corporate governance, business ethics, managerial structure and compensation, internal counsel, and whistleblowers), as well as external controls (government regulation, external auditors and accountants, and the judicial process). A recurring theme is the limited efficacy of many safeguards and watchdogs in cases of "control fraud," where fraud is directed or abetted by top management, and where unethical or abusive practices may become the organizational norm. Another broad question raised by the report is whether the post-Enron scandals were a one-time event, made possible by the stock market bubble of the 1990s and several other unique historical developments which together constituted a "perfect storm," or whether fraud is a cyclical phenomenon associated with the end of long bull markets.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Charge exchange produced K-shell x-ray emission from Ar16+ in a tokamak plasma with neutral beam injection (open access)

Charge exchange produced K-shell x-ray emission from Ar16+ in a tokamak plasma with neutral beam injection

High-resolution spectroscopy of hot tokamak plasma seeded with argon ions and interacting with an energetic, short-pulse neutral hydrogen beam was used to obtain the first high-resolution K-shell x-ray spectrum formed solely by charge exchange. The observed K-shell emission of Ar{sup 16+} is dominated by the intercombination and forbidden lines, providing clear signatures of charge exchange. Results from an ab initio atomic cascade model provide excellent agreement, validating a semiclassical approach for calculating charge exchange cross sections.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Beiersdorfer, P; Bitter, M; Marion, M & Olson, R E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Community Climate System Model: CCSM3 (open access)

The Community Climate System Model: CCSM3

A new version of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) has been developed and released to the climate community. CCSM3 is a coupled climate model with components representing the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land surface connected by a flux coupler. CCSM3 is designed to produce realistic simulations over a wide range of spatial resolutions, enabling inexpensive simulations lasting several millennia or detailed studies of continental-scale climate change. This paper will show results from the configuration used for climate-change simulations with a T85 grid for atmosphere and land and a 1-degree grid for ocean and sea-ice. The new system incorporates several significant improvements in the scientific formulation. The enhancements in the model physics are designed to reduce or eliminate several systematic biases in the mean climate produced by previous editions of CCSM. These include new treatments of cloud processes, aerosol radiative forcing, land-atmosphere fluxes, ocean mixed-layer processes, and sea-ice dynamics. There are significant improvements in the sea-ice thickness, polar radiation budgets, equatorial sea-surface temperatures, ocean currents, cloud radiative effects, and ENSO teleconnections. CCSM3 can produce stable climate simulations of millenial duration without ad hoc adjustments to the fluxes exchanged among the component models. Nonetheless, there are still systematic biases in …
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Collins, W. D.; Blackmon, M.; Bitz, C.; Bonan, G.; Bretherton, C. S.; Carton, J. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF AMBIENT FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5) DATA OBTAINED FROM URBAN AND RURAL MONITORING SITES ALONG THE UPPER OHIO RIVER VALLEY (open access)

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF AMBIENT FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5) DATA OBTAINED FROM URBAN AND RURAL MONITORING SITES ALONG THE UPPER OHIO RIVER VALLEY

Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. (ATS), with Desert Research Institute (DRI) and Ohio University as subcontractors, was contracted by the NETL in September 1998 to manage the Upper Ohio River Valley Project (UORVP), which included the establishment and operation of four ambient air monitoring sites located in the Upper Ohio River Valley (UORV). Two urban and two rural monitoring sites were included in the UORVP. The four sites selected for the UOVRP were collocated at existing local or state air quality monitoring stations. The goal of the UORVP was to characterize the nature and composition of PM{sub 2.5} and its precursor gases. In the process, the objectives of the UORVP were to examine the ambient air concentrations of PM{sub 2.5} as compared with the promulgated PM{sub 2.5} standards, the geographical, seasonal and temporal variations of ambient air concentrations of PM{sub 2.5}, the primary chemical constituents of PM{sub 2.5}, and the correlations between ambient air concentrations of PM{sub 2.5} and its precursor gases, other gaseous pollutants and meteorological parameters. A variety of meteorological and pollutant measurement devices, including several different PM{sub 2.5} samplers that provided either real-time or integrated concentration data, were deployed at the monitoring sites. The frequency of integrated sampling …
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Khosah, Robinson P.; Shimshock, John P. & Penland, Jerry L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Actions in 2004 (open access)

Congressional Budget Actions in 2004

During the second session of the 108th Congress, the House and Senate considered many different budgetary measures. Most of them pertained to FY2005 (referred to as the “budget year”) and beyond. In addition, some made adjustments to the budget for FY2004 (referred to as the “current year”). This report describes House and Senate action on major budgetary legislation within the framework of the congressional budget process and other procedural requirements.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Investigations of the Immobilization of Radionuclides in the Alteration Products of Spent Nuclear Fuel (open access)

Direct Investigations of the Immobilization of Radionuclides in the Alteration Products of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Safe disposal of the nation's nuclear waste in a geological repository involves unique scientific and engineering challenges owing to the very long-lived radioactivity of the waste. The repository must retain a variety of radionuclides that have vastly different chemical characters for several thousand years. Most of the radioactivity that will be housed in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain will be associated with spent nuclear fuel, much of which is derived from commercial reactors. DOE is custodian of approximately 8000 tons of spent nuclear fuel that is also intended for eventual disposal in a geological repository. Unlike the spent fuel from commercial reactors, the DOE fuel is diverse in composition with more than 250 varieties. Safe disposal of spent fuel requires a detailed knowledge of its long-term behavior under repository conditions, as well as the fate of radionuclides released from the spent fuel as waste containers are breached.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Burns, Peter C.; Finch, Robert J. & Wronkiewicz, David J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 109th Congress (open access)

Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 109th Congress

This report provides key issues for the 109th Congress regarding Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade. Among the 109th Congress' first orders of business will be dealing with the policy priorities - both domestic and foreign, as well as issues of business including U.S. foreign and security policy, global issues, defense policy, and more.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Vaughn, Bruce & Veillette, Connie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act: Reference Guide (open access)

FY2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act: Reference Guide

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Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Germany's Role in Fighting Terrorism: Implications for U.S. Policy (open access)

Germany's Role in Fighting Terrorism: Implications for U.S. Policy

This report provides implications for U.S. policy regarding Germany's role in fighting Terrorism.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Miko, Francis T. & Froehlich, Christian
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influenza Vaccine Shortages and Implications (open access)

Influenza Vaccine Shortages and Implications

This report concerns the shortage of flu vaccine in the fall of 2004 renewed discussion of the fragility of the nation's system for providing this potentially life-saving product. Some have expressed concern that this situation bodes ill for national preparedness for an influenza pandemic or a large-scale bioterrorism event. This report will describe the current system of flu vaccine production and delivery, the causes of supply problems, and options for improvement.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Lister, Sarah A. & Williams, Erin D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project BioShield (open access)

Project BioShield

None
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Gottron, Frank
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 90, Ed. 1 Monday, December 27, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soil Sampling and Analysis Plan for the McGee Ranch-Riverlands and North Slope Units of the Hanford Reach National Monument (open access)

Soil Sampling and Analysis Plan for the McGee Ranch-Riverlands and North Slope Units of the Hanford Reach National Monument

This document describes soil sampling that will be performed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Surface Environmental Surveillance Project on two units of the Hanford Reach National Monument: the McGee Ranch-Riverlands Unit (Riverlands Unit) and the North Slope made up of the Saddle Mountain Unit and the Wahluke Slope Unit. This sampling fulfills a U.S. Department of Energy requirement to evaluate the potential for residual radioactive contamination on this land and determine compliance with the requirements of DOE Order 5400.5 prior to radiological release of the property.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Fritz, Brad G. & Dirkes, Roger L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Medical Care Appropriations and Funding Process (open access)

Veterans' Medical Care Appropriations and Funding Process

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides benefits to veterans who meet certain eligibility rules. Benefits to veterans range from disability compensation and pensions to hospital and medical care. VA provides these benefits to veterans through three major operating units: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and the National Cemetery Administration (NCA). VHA is primarily a direct service provider of primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services to veterans through an integrated health care system. Veterans are enrolled in priority groups that determine payments for service and nonservice-connected medical conditions. In FY2004, Congress appropriated $28.4 billion for VHA to be spent through an account structure composed of four new accounts: medical services, medical administration, medical facilities, and medical and prosthetic research.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Panangala, Sidath Viranga
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of Crime Compensation and Assistance: Background and Funding (open access)

Victims of Crime Compensation and Assistance: Background and Funding

This report discusses the Crime Victims Fund (CVF or "Fund"), which was established in the U.S. Treasury in 19841 by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)2 to provide a dedicated source of funds for state victim compensation and assistance programs.
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Wolfe, M. Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Will Russian Scientists Go Rogue? A Survey on the Threat and the Impact of Western Assistance (open access)

Will Russian Scientists Go Rogue? A Survey on the Threat and the Impact of Western Assistance

The collapse of the Soviet Union sparked fears throughout the world that rogue nations and terrorist organizations would gain access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). One specific concern has been 'WMD brain drain.' Russians with knowledge about nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons could now depart to any country of their choice, including rogue nations seeking to produce WMD. Meanwhile, Russian science fell into a protracted crisis, with plummeting salaries, little funding for research, and few new recruits to science. These developments increased both the incentives and the opportunities for scientists to sell their knowledge to governments and terrorist organizations with hostile intentions toward the United States. Recognizing the threat of WMD brain drain from Russia, the United States, and other governments implemented a host of programs designed to reduce the risk. Despite, or perhaps partly because of, massive assistance from the West to prevent scientists with WMD knowledge from emigrating, the threat of Russian WMD brain drain has recently faded from view. Yet we have seen no evidence that these programs are effective and little systematic assessment of the current threat of WMD migration. Our data from an unprecedented survey of 602 Russian physicists, biologists, and chemists suggest that …
Date: December 27, 2004
Creator: Ball, D Y & Gerber, T P
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomistic Processes of Catalyst Degradation (open access)

Atomistic Processes of Catalyst Degradation

The purpose of this cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between Sasol North America, Inc., and the oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was to improve the stability of alumina-based industrial catalysts through the combination of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at ORNL and innovative sample preparation techniques at Sasol. Outstanding progress has been made in task 1, 'Atomistic processes of La stabilization'. STEM investigations provided structural information with single-atom precision, showing the lattice location of La dopant atoms, thus enabling first-principles calculations of binding energies, which were performed in collaboration with Vanderbilt University. The stabilization mechanism turns out to be entirely due to a particularly strong binding energy of the La tom to the {gamma}-alumina surface. The large size of the La atom precludes incorporation of La into the bulk alumina and also strains the surface, thus preventing any clustering of La atoms. Thus highly disperse distribution is achieved and confirmed by STEM images. la also affects relative stability of the exposed surfaces of {gamma}-alumina, making the 100 surface more stable for the doped case, unlike the 110 surface for pure {gamma}-alumina. From the first-principles calculations, they can estimate the increase in transition temperature for the 3% loading of …
Date: November 27, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 358, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 27, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 358, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 27, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 27, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beyond Linear Sequence Comparisons: The use of genome-levelcharacters for phylogenetic reconstruction (open access)

Beyond Linear Sequence Comparisons: The use of genome-levelcharacters for phylogenetic reconstruction

Although the phylogenetic relationships of many organisms have been convincingly resolved by the comparisons of nucleotide or amino acid sequences, others have remained equivocal despite great effort. Now that large-scale genome sequencing projects are sampling many lineages, it is becoming feasible to compare large data sets of genome-level features and to develop this as a tool for phylogenetic reconstruction that has advantages over conventional sequence comparisons. Although it is unlikely that these will address a large number of evolutionary branch points across the broad tree of life due to the infeasibility of such sampling, they have great potential for convincingly resolving many critical, contested relationships for which no other data seems promising. However, it is important that we recognize potential pitfalls, establish reasonable standards for acceptance, and employ rigorous methodology to guard against a return to earlier days of scenario-driven evolutionary reconstructions.
Date: November 27, 2004
Creator: Boore, Jeffrey L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond Tavary, April 25, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond Tavary, April 25, 2002

Interview with Raymond Tavary, a flight engineer in the Marine Corps during WWII. He answers questions about his job in the military and what life was like during the war.
Date: November 27, 2004
Creator: Sheldon, Jessica & Tavary, Raymond
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History