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Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 225, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 225, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Appropriations for FY2005: VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2005: VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies

This report discusses the Veterans Affairs (VA), Housing and Urban Development(HUD), and Independent Agencies Appropriations for FY2005.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Bordon, Richard & Graney, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boerne Star & Hill Country Recorder (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 92, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

Boerne Star & Hill Country Recorder (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 92, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Watson, Steven G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Border Security: U.S.-Canada Immigration Border Issues (open access)

Border Security: U.S.-Canada Immigration Border Issues

This report discusses the U.S.-Canada Immigration Border Issues related to Border Security.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

Brady Standard-Herald and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Brady, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Stewart, James E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components Using Electromagnetic Model-Based Sensors (open access)

Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components Using Electromagnetic Model-Based Sensors

In this Phase I SBIR, the contractor demonstrated a number of capabilities of model-based sensors such as MWM sensors and MWM-Arrays. The key results include (1) porosity/microstructure characterization for anodes, (2) potential for cathode material characterization, (3) stress measurements in nickel and cobalt, and (4) potential for stress measurements in non-magnetic materials with a ferromagnetic layer. In addition, potential applications for manufacturing quality control of nonconductive layers using interdigitated electrode dielectrometers have been identified. The results indicate that JENTEK's MWM technology can be used to significantly reduce solid oxide fuel cell production and operating costs in a number of ways. Preliminary investigations of solid oxide fuel cell health monitoring and scale-up issues to address industry needs have also been performed.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Zilberstein, Vladimir; Craven, Chris & Goldfine, Neil
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Digital Signal Extraction Techniques (open access)

A Comparison of Digital Signal Extraction Techniques

We compare the performance of two methods of digital filtering to detect a radioactive source moving past a gamma-ray sensor. The first method is the box-car filter, which is a standard method used in the detection of a moving radioactive source. The second method is the matched filter, which takes into account the variation in the number of photons absorbed in a gamma-ray sensor as a source moves past the sensor. We optimize both methods to detect a source moving at 5, 10, 15 and 20 mph, and the receiver-operator characteristics of the two techniques are plotted for comparison. The improvement of the matched filter over the box car filter is 27% at 5 mph and 22% at 10 mph for a 90% probability of detection and an average hours between false alarms equal to 10.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Cunningham, M. & Dowla, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): FY2005 Budget (open access)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): FY2005 Budget

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Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Bourdon, Richard; Foote, Bruce E.; McCarty, Maggie & Boyd, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Establishment of an Industry-Driven Consortium Focused on Improving the Production Performance of Domestic Stripper Wells Quarterly Report (open access)

Establishment of an Industry-Driven Consortium Focused on Improving the Production Performance of Domestic Stripper Wells Quarterly Report

The Pennsylvania State University, under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory will establish, promote, and manage a national industry-driven Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) that will be focused on improving the production performance of domestic petroleum and/or natural gas stripper wells. The consortium creates a partnership with the U.S. petroleum and natural gas industries and trade associations, state funding agencies, academia, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This report serves as the sixteenth quarterly technical progress report for the SWC. Key activities for this reporting period include: (1) exhibit and participate in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Regional Meeting in Charleston West Virginia, (2) finalize the organization of the two fall Technology Transfer meetings and (3) initiate the revision of the SWC By-laws.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Morrison, Joel L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Establishment of an Industry-Driven Consortium Focused on Improving the Production Performance of Domestic Stripper Wells Quarterly Report (open access)

Establishment of an Industry-Driven Consortium Focused on Improving the Production Performance of Domestic Stripper Wells Quarterly Report

The Pennsylvania State University, under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory will establish, promote, and manage a national industry-driven Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) that will be focused on improving the production performance of domestic petroleum and/or natural gas stripper wells. The consortium creates a partnership with the U.S. petroleum and natural gas industries and trade associations, state funding agencies, academia, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. This report serves as the first quarterly technical progress report for the SWC. Key activities for this reporting period include: (1) hosting the SWC spring proposal meeting in Golden Colorado, (2) planning of the upcoming SWC fall technology transfer meetings, and (3) recruiting the SWC base membership.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Morrison, Joel L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Field Emitter Arrays and Displays Produced by Ion Tracking Lithography (open access)

Field Emitter Arrays and Displays Produced by Ion Tracking Lithography

When ions of sufficient electronic energy loss traverse a dielectric film or foil, they alter the chemical bonding along their nominally straight path within the material. A suitable etchant can quickly dissolve these so-called latent tracks leaving holes of small diameter ({approx}10nm) but long length - several microns. Continuing the etching process gradually increases the diameter reproducibly and uniformly. The trackable medium can be applied as a uniform film onto large substrates. The small, monodisperse holes produced by this track etching can be used in conjunction with additional thin film processing to create functional structures attached to the substrate. For example, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Candescent Technologies Corporation (CTC) co-developed a process to make arrays of gated field emitters ({approx}100nm diameter electron guns) for CTC's ThinCRT{trademark} displays, which have been fabricated to diagonal dimensions > 13. Additional technological applications of ion tracking lithography will be briefly covered.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Felter, T. E.; Musket, R. G. & Bernhardt, A. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest floor bulk density and depth at Savannah River - Draft Final Report. (open access)

Forest floor bulk density and depth at Savannah River - Draft Final Report.

Knowing the amount of biomass across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line. Fire managers rarely have the time or funding available to sample fuels operationally and often depend upon mean values for critical variables whose variation is often associated with simple stand characteristics such as age, forest type, time since last burn, stocking, or site, and other easily measured variables. This report outlines a study to collect and analyze litter and duff bulk density samples for developing a simple predictive tool to estimate forest floor fuel loading based on simple stand characteristics.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Maier, Brian; Ottmar, Roger & Wright, Clint
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Henry Luckey, December 28, 2004] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Henry Luckey, December 28, 2004]

Funeral program for Mr. Henry Luckey, born August 7, 1915 and died December 23, 2004. The funeral was held Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at Calvary Baptist Church, officiated by Pastor Kevin Nelson. Funeral arrangements were made through Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Introduction to the Federal Budget Process (open access)

Introduction to the Federal Budget Process

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Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to the Federal Budget Process (open access)

Introduction to the Federal Budget Process

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Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Keith, Robert & Schick, Allen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron Phosphate Glasses: An Alternative for Vitrifying Certain Nuclear Wastes (open access)

Iron Phosphate Glasses: An Alternative for Vitrifying Certain Nuclear Wastes

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) has funded research on iron phosphate glasses at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) for the period from September 15, 1996 to September 30, 2004 (DE-FG07-96ER45618). The final report for the initial period from September 15, 1996 to September 14, 2000 (project number 55110) has been submitted previously and can be found at www.osti.gov/em52/final{_}reports/55110.pdf. This final report mainly describes the research conducted during the period from September 15, 2000 to September 30, 2004 (project number 73976)
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Day, Delbert E.; Ray, Chandra S. & Kim, Cheol-Woon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron Phosphate Glasses: An Alternative for Vitrifying Certain Nuclear Wastes (open access)

Iron Phosphate Glasses: An Alternative for Vitrifying Certain Nuclear Wastes

Vitrification of nuclear waste in a glass is currently the preferred process for waste disposal. DOE currently approves only borosilicate (BS) type glasses for such purposes. However, many nuclear wastes, presently awaiting disposal, have complex and diverse chemical compositions, and often contain components that are poorly soluble or chemically incompatible in BS glasses. Such problematic wastes can be pre-processed and/or diluted to compensate for their incompatibility with a BS glass matrix, but both of these solutions increases the wasteform volume and the overall cost for vitrification. Direct vitrification using alternative glasses that utilize the major components already present in the waste is preferable, since it avoids pre-treating or diluting the waste, and, thus, minimizes the wasteform volume and overall cost.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Day, Delbert E.; Ray, Chandra S. & Kim, Cheol-Woon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 241, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 111, No. 241, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 91, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 91, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Broaddus, Matthew B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Science and Technology Policy: Issues for the 108th Congress, 2nd Session (open access)

Science and Technology Policy: Issues for the 108th Congress, 2nd Session

This report summarizes the results of the debates from the 2nd hearing for the 108th Congress. It discusses federal funding, science and technology policy issues, the development of new technologies, and the role of the government in the pharmaceutical industry.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (open access)

The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Semiweekly newspaper from Sealy, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Griffin, Joanie & Horecka, Bobby
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History