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Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Site Environmental Report for Calendar Years 2005-2006 (open access)

Annual Site Environmental Report for Calendar Years 2005-2006

Contained in the following report are data for radioactivity in the environment collected and analyzed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Princeton Environmental, Analytical, and Radiological Laboratory (PEARL). The PEARL is located on-site and is certified for analyzing radiological and non-radiological parameters through the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Laboratory Certification Program, Certification Number 12471. Non-radiological surface and ground water samples are analyzed by NJDEP certified subcontractor laboratories - QC, Inc. and Accutest Laboratory. To the best of our knowledge, these data, as contained in the "Annual Site Environmental Report for 2005 and 2006," are documented and certified to be correct.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Finley, Virginia L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

This report discusses the history and political background of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia since breaking away from the former Soviet Union at the end of 1991. It looks at key issues for the 112th Congress including economies, energy, regional politics, local crime, and terrorism.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing out-of-band flare effects at the wafer level for EUV lithography (open access)

Assessing out-of-band flare effects at the wafer level for EUV lithography

To accurately estimate the flare contribution from the out-of-band (OOB), the integration of a DUV source into the SEMATECH Berkeley 0.3-NA Micro-field Exposure tool is proposed, enabling precisely controlled exposures along with the EUV patterning of resists in vacuum. First measurements evaluating the impact of bandwidth selected exposures with a table-top set-up and subsequent EUV patterning show significant impact on line-edge roughness and process performance. We outline a simulation-based method for computing the effective flare from resist sensitive wavelengths as a function of mask pattern types and sizes. This simulation method is benchmarked against measured OOB flare measurements and the results obtained are in agreement.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: George, Simi; Naulleau, Patrick; Kemp, Charles; Denham, Paul & Rekawa, Senajith
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beam Distribution Modification By Alfven Modes (open access)

Beam Distribution Modification By Alfven Modes

Modification of a deuterium beam distribution in the presence of low amplitude Toroidal Alfven (TAE) eigenmodes and Reversed Shear Alfven (RSAE) eigenmodes in a toroidal magnetic confinement device is examined. Comparison with experimental data shows that multiple low amplitude modes can account for significant modification of high energy beam particle distributions. It is found that there is a stochastic threshold for beam transport, and that the experimental amplitudes are only slightly above this threshold. The modes produce a substantial central flattening of the beam distribution.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: White, R. B.; Gorelenkov, N.; Heidbrink, W. W. & Van Zeeland, M. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Energy for Transport and Electricity: Large scale utilization under low CO2 concentration scenarios (open access)

Biomass Energy for Transport and Electricity: Large scale utilization under low CO2 concentration scenarios

This paper examines the potential role of large scale, dedicated commercial biomass energy systems under global climate policies designed to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of CO2 at 400ppm and 450ppm. We use an integrated assessment model of energy and agriculture systems to show that, given a climate policy in which terrestrial carbon is appropriately valued equally with carbon emitted from the energy system, biomass energy has the potential to be a major component of achieving these low concentration targets. The costs of processing and transporting biomass energy at much larger scales than current experience are also incorporated into the modeling. From the scenario results, 120-160 EJ/year of biomass energy is produced by midcentury and 200-250 EJ/year by the end of this century. In the first half of the century, much of this biomass is from agricultural and forest residues, but after 2050 dedicated cellulosic biomass crops become the dominant source. A key finding of this paper is the role that carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies coupled with commercial biomass energy can play in meeting stringent emissions targets. Despite the higher technology costs of CCS, the resulting negative emissions used in combination with biomass are a very important tool in …
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Luckow, Patrick; Wise, Marshall A.; Dooley, James J. & Kim, Son H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bragg Experimental SensorNet Testbed (BEST) (open access)

Bragg Experimental SensorNet Testbed (BEST)

The principal causative objectives of BEST were to consolidate the 9-1-1 and emergency response services into an Integrated Incident Management Center (I2MC) and to establish an 'Interoperability framework' based on SensorNet protocols to allow additional components to be added to the I2MC over time.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Gorman, Bryan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case for Including Transactions in OpenMP (open access)

A Case for Including Transactions in OpenMP

Transactional Memory (TM) has received significant attention recently as a mechanism to reduce the complexity of shared memory programming. We explore the potential of TM to improve OpenMP applications. We combine a software TM (STM) system to support transactions with an OpenMP implementation to start thread teams and provide task and loop-level parallelization. We apply this system to two application scenarios that reflect realistic TM use cases. Our results with this system demonstrate that even with the relatively high overheads of STM, transactions can outperform OpenMP critical sections by 10%. Overall, our study demonstrates that extending OpenMP to include transactions would ease programming effort while allowing improved performance.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Wong, M.; Bihari, B. L.; de Supinski, B. R.; Wu, P.; Michael, M.; Liu, Y. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Current Structure and Alternatives (open access)

Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Current Structure and Alternatives

This report describes the current select committees on intelligence; characteristics and a model for a possible joint committee; recent actions by Congress; and obstacles affecting legislative oversight in the field.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRS Issue Statement on Agricultural Trade and Development (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on Agricultural Trade and Development

This report discusses about the agricultural exports that are imported both U.S. farmers and to the U.S. economy. It further discusses about expanding market opportunities for U.S. farm products through bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations that has been a long-standing aim of U.S. trade policy.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances (open access)

Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances

The first half of this report looks at the background of U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba over the last 40 years. The second half of this report looks at several initiatives from the 111th Congress that would ease U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances (open access)

Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances

This report covers the contentious travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba from the 1960s to the present time. It includes background on the restrictions, enforcement of restrictions, and arguments for or against maintaining travel restrictions. It also provides background on relevant legislative initiatives during the 106th through the 111th Congresses.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Demonstration of a High Efficiency, Rapid Heating, Low NOx Alternative to Conventional Heating of Round Steel Shapes, Steel Substrate (Strip) and Coil Box Transfer Bars (open access)

Development and Demonstration of a High Efficiency, Rapid Heating, Low NOx Alternative to Conventional Heating of Round Steel Shapes, Steel Substrate (Strip) and Coil Box Transfer Bars

Direct Flame Impingement involves the use of an array of very high-velocity flame jets impinging on a work piece to rapidly heat the work piece. The predominant mode of heat transfer is convection. Because of the locally high rate of heat transfer at the surface of the work piece, the refractory walls and exhaust gases of a DFI furnace are significantly cooler than in conventional radiant heating furnaces, resulting in high thermal efficiency and low NOx emissions. A DFI furnace is composed of a successive arrangement of heating modules through or by which the work piece is conveyed, and can be configured for square, round, flat, and curved metal shapes (e.g., billets, tubes, flat bars, and coiled bars) in single- or multi-stranded applications.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Kurek, Harry & Wagner, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Abraham model correlations for solvation characteristics of secondary and branched alcohols (open access)

Development of Abraham model correlations for solvation characteristics of secondary and branched alcohols

This article discusses the development of Abraham model correlations for solvation characteristics of secondary and branched alcohols.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Sprunger, Laura M.; Achi, Sai S.; Pointer, Racheal; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of correlations for describing solute transfer into acyclic alcohol solvents based on the Abraham model and fragment-specific equation coefficients (open access)

Development of correlations for describing solute transfer into acyclic alcohol solvents based on the Abraham model and fragment-specific equation coefficients

This article discusses the development of correlations for describing solute transfer into acyclic alcohol solvents based on the Abraham model and fragment-specific equation coefficients.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Sprunger, Laura M.; Achi, Sai S.; Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Recovery and Jobs: CRS Experts (open access)

Economic Recovery and Jobs: CRS Experts

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Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email from Pennington Ingley to Al Daniels about dues] (open access)

[Email from Pennington Ingley to Al Daniels about dues]

Email from Pennington Ingley to Al Daniels on January 25, 2010, discussing membership dues.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Preparedness: State Efforts to Plan for Medical Surge Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources (open access)

Emergency Preparedness: State Efforts to Plan for Medical Surge Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Potential terrorist attacks and the possibility of naturally occurring disease outbreaks have raised concerns about the "surge capacity" of the nation's health care systems to respond to mass casualty events. The statement GAO is issuing today summarizes a June 2008 report, Emergency Preparedness: States Are Planning for Medical Surge, but Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scare Medical Resources (GAO-08-668). In that report, GAO was asked to examine the assistance the federal government had provided to help states prepare for medical surge and what states had done to prepare for medical surge. To do this GAO reviewed documents from the 50 states and federal agencies and interviewed officials from a judgmental sample of 20 states and from federal agencies, as well as emergency preparedness experts."
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equations for the Transfer of Neutral Molecules and Ionic Species from Water to Organic phases (open access)

Equations for the Transfer of Neutral Molecules and Ionic Species from Water to Organic phases

Article on equations for the transfer of neutral molecules and ionic species from water to organic phases.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, January 25, 2010 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Monday, January 25, 2010

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Pittman, Jerry & Wray, Kelly
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 15, January 25, 2010, Pages 3847-3980 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 15, January 25, 2010, Pages 3847-3980

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force (open access)

Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force

The increased presence of foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs and in the scientific workforce has been and continues to be of concern to some in the scientific community. Enrollment of U.S. citizens in graduate science and engineering programs has not kept pace with that of foreign students in those programs. In addition to the number of foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs, a significant number of university faculty in the scientific disciplines are foreign, and foreign doctorates are employed in large numbers by industry. This report explains this issue in detail, as well as probable causes of said incongruity.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Matthews, Christine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Expenditures (open access)

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Expenditures

This report reviews the legislative history of the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) and legal challenges to it, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alternative funding mechanisms, and describes the commercial context of current dredging activity.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Frittelli, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Amplitude (delta)-Scutis in the Large Magellanic Cloud (open access)

High Amplitude (delta)-Scutis in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The authors present 2323 High-Amplitude {delta}-Scutis (HADS) candidates discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the SuperMACHO survey (Rest et al. 2005). Frequency analyses of these candidates reveal that several are multimode pulsators, including 119 whose largest amplitude of pulsation is in the fundamental (F) mode and 19 whose largest amplitude of pulsation is in the first overtone (FO) mode. Using Fourier decomposition of the HADS light curves, they find that the period-luminosity (PL) relation defined by the FO pulsators does not show a clear separation from the PL-relation defined by the F pulsators. This differs from other instability strip pulsators such as type c RR Lyrae. They also present evidence for a larger amplitude, subluminous population of HADS similar to that observed in Fornax (Poretti et al. 2008).
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Garg, A.; Cook, K. H.; Nikolaev, S.; Huber, M. E.; Rest, A.; Becker, A. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library