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Guinea: Background and Relations with the United States (open access)

Guinea: Background and Relations with the United States

This report discusses the current political conditions in Guinea, as well as the considerable changes to Guinea's political landscape that have taken place over the past two years. The report also discusses U.S. interests and associated policy challenges in Guinea, centering around democratization, counternarcotics issues, regional stability, and socioeconomic development, among other issues.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Arieff, Alexis & Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special Order Speeches and Other Forms of Non-Legislative Debate in the House (open access)

Special Order Speeches and Other Forms of Non-Legislative Debate in the House

This report briefly discusses non-legislative debate in the House of Representatives, specifically special order speeches, one-minute speeches, and morning hour debate. The purpose of these practices is to permit Members to address the House for specified durations and at specified times of their own choosing, outside the consideration of legislative business.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Palmer, Betsy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of House Bills (open access)

Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of House Bills

This report briefly discusses the processes of sponsoring, cosponsoring, and gaining cosponsors for bills in the House of Representatives.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Palmer, Betsy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy's Water Demand: Trends, Vulnerabilities, and Management (open access)

Energy's Water Demand: Trends, Vulnerabilities, and Management

The nation's energy choices embody many tradeoffs. Water use is one of those tradeoffs. The energy choices before Congress represent vastly different demands on domestic freshwater. The energy sector's water consumption is projected to rise 50% from 2005 to 2030. This rising water demand derives from both an increase in the amount of energy demanded and shifts to more water-intense energy sources and technologies. This report discusses this issue as well as related issues that may arise for the 112th Congress.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Estimates: How Useful to Congress? (open access)

Intelligence Estimates: How Useful to Congress?

National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) are often of considerable interest to many Members of Congress. NIEs address issues of major national security importance which may require congressional action. However, NIEs have occasionally proved unreliable because they were based on insufficient evidence or contained faulty analysis. This report explores this issue and discusses the NIE process and its relevance to congressional policymaking.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introducing a House Bill or Resolution (open access)

Introducing a House Bill or Resolution

This report briefly discusses the procedure for introducing a bill or resolution in the House of Representatives.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Palmer, Betsy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Venezuela: Issues in the 111th Congress (open access)

Venezuela: Issues in the 111th Congress

This report discusses U.S.-Venezuela relations, including an historical overview. It also discusses the current political conditions in Venezuela, and certain Venezuela-related concerns the 111th Congress faces, such as Venezuela's human rights situation and its deepening relations with Iran.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's 2009 Nuclear Test: Containment, Monitoring, Implications (open access)

North Korea's 2009 Nuclear Test: Containment, Monitoring, Implications

This report discusses the implications of North Korea's May 25, 2009, underground nuclear test, related issues such as the the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), containment of radioactive materials, and other concerns for Congress, such as improving nuclear monitoring capability.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions (open access)

The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions

The United States and Russia signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty - known as New START - on April 8, 2010. This treaty is designed to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START), which expired, after 15 years of implementation, on December 5, 2009. This report provides an overview of New START, including a comparison to the original START Treaty, the belief of the Obama Administration and outside analysts that New START will enhance U.S. national security, and the criticisms of those who say that New START (and, indeed, the entire issue of U.S.-Russian arms control) is a distraction from more important items on the nonproliferation agenda.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 512, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 512, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 513, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 513, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011 (open access)

Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 24, 2011
Creator: Judson, Mary Henkel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 510, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 510, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement (open access)

Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement

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Date: November 24, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Comparison of the X-Ray Emission and Absorption of Cerium Oxide (open access)

Direct Comparison of the X-Ray Emission and Absorption of Cerium Oxide

Bremstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (BIS). The XES spectra were collected using a Specs electron gun for the excitation and the XES 350 grating monochromator and channel plate system from Scienta as the photon detection. Spectra were collected in 'normal mode,' where the electron gun kinetic energy (KE) and the energy position of the center of the channel plate were both fixed and the energy distribution in the photon (hv) spectrum was derived from the intensities distributed across the channel plate detector in the energy dispersal direction. The polycrystalline Ce sample was oxidized by exposure to air at ambient pressures. After introduction to the ultra-high vacuum system, the oxidized sample was bombarded with Ar, to clean the topmost surface region and stabilize the surface and near surface regions. Although CeO{sub 2} would be the thermodynamically preferred composition in an oxygen rich environment, the combination of a vacuum environment and ion etching may have driven the near surface region into a Ce{sub 2}O{sub 3} stoichiometry. XES data collection occurred with the sample at or near room temperature. The base pressure of the system was 3 x 10{sup -10} torr, but the pressure changed depending the energy and current of the electron gun. For …
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Tobin, J G; Yu, S W; Chung, B W; Waddill, G D & Denlinger, J D
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Efficiency Design Options for Residential Water Heaters: Economic Impacts on Consumers (open access)

Energy Efficiency Design Options for Residential Water Heaters: Economic Impacts on Consumers

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently completed a rulemaking process in which it amended the existing energy efficiency standards for residential water heaters. A key factor in DOE?s consideration of new standards is the economic impacts on consumers. Determining such impacts requires a comparison of the additional first cost of energy efficiency design options with the savings in operating costs. This paper describes the method used to conduct the life-cycle cost (LCC) and payback period analysis for gas and electric storage water heaters. It presents the estimated change in LCC associated with more energy-efficient equipment, including heat pump electric water heaters and condensing gas water heaters, for a representative sample of U.S. homes. The study included a detailed accounting of installation costs for the considered design options, with a focus on approaches for accommodating the larger dimensions of more efficient water heaters. For heat pump water heaters, the study also considered airflow requirements, venting issues, and the impact of these products on the indoor environment. The results indicate that efficiency improvement relative to the baseline design reduces the LCC in the majority of homes for both gas and electric storage water heaters, and heat pump electric water heaters and …
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Lekov, Alex; Franco, Victor; Meyers, Steve; Thompson, Lisa & Letschert, Virginie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Niño family on UNT Library Mall]

Photograph of the Niño family (left to right: Ana Niño, Clarissa Villadiego, and Jose Niño) standing in front of "The Sustaining Arch" sculpture (Jonathan Snow, 2008) on the UNT Library Mall. Ana and Jose are siblings and Clarissa is their mother. The Hurley Administration Building is visible in the distance.
Date: November 24, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics (open access)

Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the leading scientific computing facility for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, providing high-performance computing (HPC) resources to more than 3,000 researchers working on about 400 projects. NERSC provides large-scale computing resources and, crucially, the support and expertise needed for scientists to make effective use of them. In November 2009, NERSC, DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), and DOE's Office of High Energy Physics (HEP) held a workshop to characterize the HPC resources needed at NERSC to support HEP research through the next three to five years. The effort is part of NERSC's legacy of anticipating users needs and deploying resources to meet those demands. The workshop revealed several key points, in addition to achieving its goal of collecting and characterizing computing requirements. The chief findings: (1) Science teams need access to a significant increase in computational resources to meet their research goals; (2) Research teams need to be able to read, write, transfer, store online, archive, analyze, and share huge volumes of data; (3) Science teams need guidance and support to implement their codes on future architectures; and (4) Projects need predictable, rapid turnaround of their computational …
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: Gerber, Richard A. & Wasserman, Harvey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 509, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 509, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 236, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 236, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 509, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 509, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: November 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History