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The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Annual Hanford Seismic Report for Fiscal Year 2009 (open access)

Annual Hanford Seismic Report for Fiscal Year 2009

The Hanford Seismic Assessment Program (HSAP) provides an uninterrupted collection of high-quality raw and processed seismic data from the Hanford Seismic Network for the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors. The HSAP is responsible for locating and identifying sources of seismic activity and monitoring changes in the historical pattern of seismic activity at the Hanford Site. The data are compiled, archived, and published for use by the Hanford Site for waste management, natural phenomena hazards assessments, and engineering design and construction. In addition, the HSAP works with the Hanford Site Emergency Services Organization to provide assistance in the event of a significant earthquake on the Hanford Site. The Hanford Seismic Network and the Eastern Washington Regional Network consist of 44 individual sensor sites and 15 radio relay sites maintained by the Hanford Seismic Assessment Team. During FY 2009, the Hanford Seismic Network recorded nearly 3000 triggers on the seismometer system, which included over 1700 seismic events in the southeast Washington area and an additional 370 regional and teleseismic events. There were 1648 events determined to be local earthquakes relevant to the Hanford Site. Nearly all of these earthquakes were detected in the vicinity of Wooded Island, located about eight …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Rohay, Alan C.; Sweeney, Mark D.; Hartshorn, Donald C.; Clayton, Ray E. & Devary, Joseph L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Archer City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Lewis, Shelley
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 156, No. 87, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 156, No. 87, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Semi-weekly newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Wright, Cyndi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 331, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 331, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Clements, Clifford E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Clipping: The Grammy-Nominated College Jazz Band]

Clipping from The Epoch Times reviewing the Lab 2009 album by One O'Clock Lab Band. Shows album artwork.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music. Division of Jazz Studies.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Mann, Rick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Cooper, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Palmer, Roger
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corner rounding in EUV photoresist: tuning through molecular weight, PAG size, and development time (open access)

Corner rounding in EUV photoresist: tuning through molecular weight, PAG size, and development time

In this paper, the corner rounding bias of a commercially available extreme ultraviolet photoresist is monitored as molecular weight, photoacid generator (PAG) size, and development time are varied. These experiments show that PAG size influences corner biasing while molecular weight and development time do not. Large PAGs are shown to exhibit less corner biasing, and in some cases, lower corner rounding, than small PAGs. In addition, heavier resist polymers are shown to exhibit less corner rounding than lighter ones.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Anderson, Christopher; Daggett, Joe & Naulleau, Patrick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daylight metrics and energy savings (open access)

Daylight metrics and energy savings

The drive towards sustainable, low-energy buildings has increased the need for simple, yet accurate methods to evaluate whether a daylit building meets minimum standards for energy and human comfort performance. Current metrics do not account for the temporal and spatial aspects of daylight, nor of occupants comfort or interventions. This paper reviews the historical basis of current compliance methods for achieving daylit buildings, proposes a technical basis for development of better metrics, and provides two case study examples to stimulate dialogue on how metrics can be applied in a practical, real-world context.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Mardaljevic, John; Heschong, Lisa & Lee, Eleanor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstrating a Market-Based Approach to the Reclamation of Mined Lands in West Virginia (open access)

Demonstrating a Market-Based Approach to the Reclamation of Mined Lands in West Virginia

This project demonstrated that developing environmental credits on private land—including abandoned mined lands—is dependent on a number of factors, some of them beyond the control of the project team. In this project, acid mine drainage (AMD) was successfully remediated through the construction of a passive AMD treatment system. Extensive water quality sampling both before and after the installation of the passive AMD treatment system showed that the system achieved removal efficiencies and pollutant loading reductions for acidity, iron, aluminum and manganese that were consistent with systems of similar size and design. The success of the passive AMD treatment system should have resulted in water credits if the project had not been terminated. Developing carbon sequestration credits, however, was much more complex and was not achieved in this project. The primary challenge that the project team encountered in meeting the full project objectives was the unsuccessful attempt to have the landowner sign a conservation easement for his property. This would have allowed the project team to clear and reforest the site, monitor the progress of the newly planted trees, and eventually realize carbon sequestration credits once the forest was mature. The delays caused by the lack of a conservation easement, as …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Goodrich-Mahoney, John & Donnelly, Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DESCRIPTION OF THE SOFTWARE AND INTEGRATING PLATFORM (open access)

DESCRIPTION OF THE SOFTWARE AND INTEGRATING PLATFORM

The Cementitious Barriers Partnership (CBP) Project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration supported by the United States Department of Energy (US DOE) Office of Waste Processing. The objective of the CBP project is to develop a set of tools to improve understanding and prediction of the long-term structural, hydraulic, and chemical performance of cementitious barriers used in nuclear applications. A multi-disciplinary partnership of federal, academic, private sector, and international expertise has been formed to accomplish the project objective. In addition to the US DOE, the CBP partners are the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Vanderbilt University (VU)/Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), and SIMCO Technologies, Inc. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing support under a Memorandum of Understanding. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is providing research under an Interagency Agreement. Neither the NRC nor NIST are signatories to the CRADA. The periods of cementitious performance being evaluated are >100 years for operating facilities and > 1000 years for waste management. The set of simulation tools and data developed under this project will be used to evaluate and predict the behavior of cementitious barriers used in near surface engineered …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Flach, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Implementation of Energized Fracture Treatment in Tight Gas Sands (open access)

Design and Implementation of Energized Fracture Treatment in Tight Gas Sands

Hydraulic fracturing is essential for producing gas and oil at an economic rate from low permeability sands. Most fracturing treatments use water and polymers with a gelling agent as a fracturing fluid. The water is held in the small pore spaces by capillary pressure and is not recovered when drawdown pressures are low. The un-recovered water leaves a water saturated zone around the fracture face that stops the flow of gas into the fracture. This is a particularly acute problem in low permeability formations where capillary pressures are high. Depletion (lower reservoir pressures) causes a limitation on the drawdown pressure that can be applied. A hydraulic fracturing process can be energized by the addition of a compressible, sometimes soluble, gas phase into the treatment fluid. When the well is produced, the energized fluid expands and gas comes out of solution. Energizing the fluid creates high gas saturation in the invaded zone, thereby facilitating gas flowback. A new compositional hydraulic fracturing model has been created (EFRAC). This is the first model to include changes in composition, temperature, and phase behavior of the fluid inside the fracture. An equation of state is used to evaluate the phase behavior of the fluid. These …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Sharma, Mukul & Friehauf, Kyle
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS SOLVENT EXTRACTION PROCESSES FOR COAL DERIVED CARBON PRODUCTS (open access)

DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS SOLVENT EXTRACTION PROCESSES FOR COAL DERIVED CARBON PRODUCTS

This NETL sponsored effort seeks to develop continuous technologies for the production of carbon products, which may be thought of as the heavier products currently produced from refining of crude petroleum and coal tars obtained from metallurgical grade coke ovens. This effort took binder grade pitch, produced from liquefaction of West Virginia bituminous grade coal, all the way to commercial demonstration in a state of the art arc furnace. Other products, such as crude oil, anode grade coke and metallurgical grade coke were demonstrated successfully at the bench scale. The technology developed herein diverged from the previous state of the art in direct liquefaction (also referred to as the Bergius process), in two major respects. First, direct liquefaction was accomplished with less than a percent of hydrogen per unit mass of product, or about 3 pound per barrel or less. By contrast, other variants of the Bergius process require the use of 15 pounds or more of hydrogen per barrel, resulting in an inherent materials cost. Second, the conventional Bergius process requires high pressure, in the range of 1500 psig to 3000 psig. The WVU process variant has been carried out at pressures below 400 psig, a significant difference. Thanks …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Kennel, Elliot; Chen, Chong; Dadyburjor, Dady; Heavner, Mark; Katakdaunde, Manoj; Magean, Liviu et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Economic Investigation of Community-Scale Versus Building Scale Net-Zero Energy (open access)

Economic Investigation of Community-Scale Versus Building Scale Net-Zero Energy

The study presented in this report examines issues concerning whether achieving net-zero energy performance at the community scale provides economic and potentially overall efficiency advantages over strategies focused on individual buildings.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Fernandez, Nicholas; Katipamula, Srinivas; Brambley, Michael R. & Reddy, T. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy Conservation Projects to Benefit the Railroad Industry (open access)

Energy Conservation Projects to Benefit the Railroad Industry

The Energy Conservation Projects to benefit the railroad industry using the Norfolk Southern Company as a model for the railroad industry has five unique tasks which are in areas of importance within the rail industry, and specifically in the area of energy conservation. The NIU Engineering and Technology research team looked at five significant areas in which research and development work can provide unique solutions to the railroad industry in energy the conservation. (1) Alternate Fuels - An examination of various blends of bio-based diesel fuels for the railroad industry, using Norfolk Southern as a model for the industry. The team determined that bio-diesel fuel is a suitable alternative to using straight diesel fuel, however, the cost and availability across the country varies to a great extent. (2) Utilization of fuel cells for locomotive power systems - While the application of the fuel cell has been successfully demonstrated in the passenger car, this is a very advanced topic for the railroad industry. There are many safety and power issues that the research team examined. (3) Thermal and emission reduction for current large scale diesel engines - The current locomotive system generates large amount of heat through engine cooling and heat …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Mirman, Clifford & Vohra, Promod
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epitaxial Growth of GaN-based LEDs on Simple Sacrificial Substrates (open access)

Epitaxial Growth of GaN-based LEDs on Simple Sacrificial Substrates

The objective of this project is to produce alternative substrate technologies for GaN-based LEDs by developing an ALD interlayer of Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} on sacrificial substrates such as ZnO and Si. A sacrificial substrate is used for device growth that can easily be removed using a wet chemical etchant leaving only the thin GaN epi-layer. After substrate removal, the GaN LED chip can then be mounted in several different ways to a metal heat sink/reflector and light extraction techniques can then be applied to the chip and compared for performance. Success in this work will lead to high efficiency LED devices with a simple low cost fabrication method and high product yield as stated by DOE goals for its solid state lighting portfolio.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Ferguson, Ian & Summers, Chris
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EVALUATION OF THE TEMPORARY TENT COVER TRUSS SYSTEM AP PRIMARY VENT SYSTEM (open access)

EVALUATION OF THE TEMPORARY TENT COVER TRUSS SYSTEM AP PRIMARY VENT SYSTEM

The purpose of this calculation is to evaluate a temporary ten cover truss system. This system will be used to provide weather protection to the workers during replacement of the filter for the Primary Ventilation System in AP Tank Farm. The truss system has been fabricated utilizing tubes and couplers, which are normally used for scaffoldings.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: MA, HAQ
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Budget: Current and Upcoming Issues (open access)

The Federal Budget: Current and Upcoming Issues

This report examines changes to the Federal Budget for Fiscal Years 2008-2010. The report considers the factors that have an effect on various budgetary functions and decisions. The report specifically focuses on the effect of the 2007-2008 financial recession on the budget, but also considers more long-term fiscal issues such as health care for retiring Baby-Boomers.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew & Levit, Mindy R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 110, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 110, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Hogan, Vickie Lee
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Geochemical Analyses of Surface and Shallow Gas Flux and Composition Over a Proposed Carbon Sequestration Site in Eastern Kentucky (open access)

Geochemical Analyses of Surface and Shallow Gas Flux and Composition Over a Proposed Carbon Sequestration Site in Eastern Kentucky

Using soil gas chemistry to detect leakage from underground reservoirs (i.e. microseepage) requires that the natural range of soil gas flux and chemistry be fully characterized. To meet this need, soil gas flux (CO{sub 2}, CH{sub 4}) and the bulk (CO{sub 2}, CH{sub 4}) and isotopic chemistry ({delta}{sup 13}C-CO2) of shallow soil gases (<1 m, 3.3 ft) were measured at 25 locations distributed among two active oil and gas fields, an active strip mine, and a relatively undisturbed research forest in eastern Kentucky. The measurements apportion the biologic, atmospheric, and geologic influences on soil gas composition under varying degrees of human surface disturbance. The measurements also highlight potential challenges in using soil gas chemistry as a monitoring tool where the surface cover consists of reclaimed mine land or is underlain by shallow coals. For example, enrichment of ({delta}{sup 13}C-CO2) and high CH{sub 4} concentrations in soils have been historically used as indicators of microseepage, but in the reclaimed mine lands similar soil chemistry characteristics likely result from dissolution of carbonate cement in siliciclastic clasts having {delta}{sup 13}C values close to 0{per_thousand} and degassing of coal fragments. The gases accumulate in the reclaimed mine land soils because intense compaction reduces soil …
Date: December 31, 2009
Creator: Parris, Thomas; Solis, Michael & Takacs, Kathryn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library