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State of the Federal Web Report (open access)

State of the Federal Web Report

The report highlights the size and scope of federal websites, how agencies are managing them, and opportunities for improvement.
Date: 2011
Creator: .gov Reform Task Force
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells (open access)

Cost-Effective Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (project title "Direct Wafer Enabling Terawatt Photovoltaics") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: 1366 Technologies, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: Deepwater Program: The Technology and Economics of Deepwater Production Projects] (open access)

[Project Summary: Deepwater Program: The Technology and Economics of Deepwater Production Projects]

Report summary describing the work completed at ABS Group, Inc. for 'Deepwater Program: The Technology and Economics of Deepwater Production Projects'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: May 2004
Creator: ABS Group, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Membrane Dehumidifier (open access)

Membrane Dehumidifier

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses air conditioning with more energy efficient dehumidifying as part of the "High-Efficiency, On-Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates" project.
Date: February 15, 2012
Creator: ADMA Products
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: EcoSpatial Information Database (ESID)] (open access)

[Project Summary: EcoSpatial Information Database (ESID)]

Summary describing the work completed at AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. for the EcoSpatial Information Database (ESID). It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: May 2014
Creator: AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeological Survey Within the Proposed McDermott Development Site (open access)

Archaeological Survey Within the Proposed McDermott Development Site

Archaeological survey results for proposed 33 acre McDermott Development Site in Collin County, Texas.
Date: January 26, 2006
Creator: AR Consultants
System: The Portal to Texas History
RadHeat V1 User's Manual (open access)

RadHeat V1 User's Manual

RadHeat is a one dimensional finite difference heat transfer code that can determine the transient temperature evolution of layered targets in pulsed penetrating radiation environments. It makes use of energy dependent opacity and stopping data to model the volumetric deposition of any number of photon or ion spectra each incident at arbitrary angles. Convective and radiative boundary conditions are handled as well as the ability to impose any initial temperature profile. The heat diffusion equation is formulated implicitly to eliminate timestep dependent stability issues. Simulations are, therefore, able to achieve high fidelity during times of thermal activity and greater speed elsewhere. The prototypical physical situation simulated by RadHeat is illustrated. RadHeat was originally written to study the temperature response of tungsten-armored target-facing walls to the pulsed photon and ion radiation emanating from fusion microexplosions in future IFE power plants. RadHeat's implementation is quite general, though, and the code can be applied to a very broad range of problems. Anything from the heating of the Earth's crust on a warm summer day to the temperature rise in a mirror after a laser pulse could potentially be modeled. This manual was written to help new users learn how to run the code …
Date: January 3, 2005
Creator: Abbott, R P
System: The UNT Digital Library
MAXIMUM HUMIDITY INDICATOR (open access)

MAXIMUM HUMIDITY INDICATOR

Moisture-sensitive systems to measure and indicate the maximum level of humidity exposure are discussed. A chemical indicator utilizing deliquescent salts and water-soluble dyes provides an irreversible color change at discrete levels of relative humidity. To provide indication of the time at which the exposure occurs, a circuit employing a resistive-type sensor was developed. A small, commercially available sensor is used in a portable probe to detect humidity leaks into controlled areas.
Date: October 1, 1974
Creator: Abel, W B
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power (open access)

Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new system architecture for a solar-electric conversion tower as part of the "High-Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Abengoa Solar, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science Requirements and Conceptual Design for a Polarized Medium Energy Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab (open access)

Science Requirements and Conceptual Design for a Polarized Medium Energy Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab

Researchers have envisioned an electron-ion collider with ion species up to heavy ions, high polarization of electrons and light ions, and a well-matched center-of-mass energy range as an ideal gluon microscope to explore new frontiers of nuclear science. In its most recent Long Range Plan, the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) of the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation endorsed such a collider in the form of a 'half-recommendation.' As a response to this science need, Jefferson Lab and its user community have been engaged in feasibility studies of a medium energy polarized electron-ion collider (MEIC), cost-effectively utilizing Jefferson Lab's already existing Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). In close collaboration, this community of nuclear physicists and accelerator scientists has rigorously explored the science case and design concept for this envisioned grand instrument of science. An electron-ion collider embodies the vision of reaching the next frontier in Quantum Chromodynamics - understanding the behavior of hadrons as complex bound states of quarks and gluons. Whereas the 12 GeV Upgrade of CEBAF will map the valence-quark components of the nucleon and nuclear wave functions in detail, an electron-ion collider will determine the largely unknown role sea quarks play and …
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Abeyratne, S.; Ahmed, S.; Barber, D.; Bisognano, J.; Bogacz, A.; Castilla, A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polycube Oxidation and Factors Affecting the Concentrations of Gaseous Products (open access)

Polycube Oxidation and Factors Affecting the Concentrations of Gaseous Products

The degraded polycube samples were tested in air and argon/oxygen atmospheres to determine the effect of size increase on the flammable gases concentrations. Within the size range tested, the flammable gas generation rate increases with increasing size but the extrapolation of the data to actual processing polycube size yielded flammable gas species concentration in the off-gas stream below the lower flammable limit of all the major gas species identified. Extreme surface area increase with a powder sample showed no significant effect on the flammable gas generation rate. The polycube went through the thermal stabilization process by undergoing both pyrolysis and oxidation generating at the end a plutonium oxide powder that showed unmeasurable weight change at 1273 K.
Date: April 4, 2000
Creator: Abrefah, John; MacFarlan, Paul J. & Sell, Rachel L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: Oil and Gas Infrastructure in the Mid-Atlantic] (open access)

[Project Summary: Oil and Gas Infrastructure in the Mid-Atlantic]

Summary describing the work completed at Acadian Consulting Group for the Oil and Gas Infrastructure in the Mid-Atlantic. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: July 2014
Creator: Acadian Consulting Group
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Wind Power Development in the Town of Hull, MA, Appendix 2: LaCapra Financial Study (open access)

An Analysis of Wind Power Development in the Town of Hull, MA, Appendix 2: LaCapra Financial Study

The financial analysis and summary results presented in this document represent a first cut at an economic assessment of the proposed Hull Offshore Wind Project. Wind turbine price increases have outpaced the materials and labor price pressures faced by nonrenewable power plant developers due to increased demands on a limited pool of turbine manufacturers and offshore installation companies. Moreover, given the size of the proposed offshore facility, it may be difficult to contract with turbine manufacturers and/or foundation companies given the size and scope of competing worldwide demand. The results described in this report assume that such conditions will not significantly impact the prices that will have to be received from the output of the project; rather, the project size may require as a prerequisite that Hull be able to piggyback on other offshore efforts. The financial estimates provided here necessarily feature a range due to uncertainty in a number of project assumptions as well as overall uncertainty in offshore wind costs. Nevertheless, taken together, the analysis provides a ballpark revenue requirement of approximately $157/MWh for the municipal financing option, with higher estimates possible assuming escalation in costs to levels higher than assumed here.
Date: June 30, 2013
Creator: Adams, Christopher
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops (open access)

Engineering Enzymes in Energy Crops

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about a new program to engineer plants to produce enzymes that will reduce costs in the production of biofuel (project title "Conditionally Activated Enzymes Expressed in Cellulosic Energy Crops") including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet is the first open solicitation, announcing funding opportunities for involvement in the project.
Date: May 11, 2012
Creator: Agrivdia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Program and Administrative Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation (open access)

Review of Program and Administrative Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation

Report on the activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation from 1977-1978 for Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, from the United States General Accounting Office.
Date: December 15, 1977
Creator: Ahart, Gregory J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Merlot Design (open access)

Merlot Design

We describe Merlot, a system for delivery of digital imagery over high speed networks. We describe various use cases, the client/server interaction, and the image and network codecs. We also describe some possible applications using Merlot and future work.
Date: June 10, 2003
Creator: Ahern, S D
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alamo Area Council of Governments, Housing for the Region - A Three Year Study Design (open access)

Alamo Area Council of Governments, Housing for the Region - A Three Year Study Design

This report develops a study design in order to investigate and analyze factors such as employment, income, education, and health, which contribute to current housing conditions. The study will also attempt to point out methods whereby member governments can begin to deal effectively with the housing situation from three viewpoints: rehabilitation, maintenance and the halt of obsolescence, and the provision of an adequate supply of new housing.
Date: September 1969
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alamo Area Council of Governments Regional Development Alternative Growth Patterns (open access)

Alamo Area Council of Governments Regional Development Alternative Growth Patterns

The purpose of this report is to provide information and guidance for the many public and private decisions which will determine the future form of the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) region.
Date: November 1969
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Economic and Demographic Characteristics of the Alamo Area Council of Governments Area: An Overview (open access)

Economic and Demographic Characteristics of the Alamo Area Council of Governments Area: An Overview

This report is designed to provide basic information about an initial analysis of the major economic and demographic characteristics of the eight counties included within the Alamo Area Council of Governments. The uses of this information include primarily the development of a comprehensive Social Planning Program for the area designed to meet the social service needs of the entire metropolitan area.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Prospectus for Transportation Planning in the San Antonio Urbanized Area, 1976-1980 (open access)

A Prospectus for Transportation Planning in the San Antonio Urbanized Area, 1976-1980

This prospectus outlines a program under which transportation planning activities will be accomplished.
Date: 1974
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Alcoholism Plan 1978 (open access)

Regional Alcoholism Plan 1978

A regional plan that provides for the orderly development of a coordinated comprehensive network of alcoholism prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programs.
Date: March 1978
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Goals: A Preliminary Statement (open access)

Regional Goals: A Preliminary Statement

Preliminary statement highlighting the plans and goals for each program and facility involved in the planning program of the Alamo Area Council of Governments.
Date: 1970
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Socioeconomic Data for the AACOG Region, 1975 (open access)

Socioeconomic Data for the AACOG Region, 1975

These tables (originally compiled for the "AACOG District Overall Economic Development Program 1975") summarize the socioeconomic data for the region. Much of the data is based on the 1970 U.S. Census and later federal government reports. Other data has been obtained from State offices while the remainder was obtained from sources in the region - including AACOG. These tables should prove useful in the analysis of problems and evaluation of solutions dealing with the socioeconomic structure of the 12-county region.
Date: June 1975
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History
Socioeconomic Data for the AACOG Region, 1979 (open access)

Socioeconomic Data for the AACOG Region, 1979

These tables which update data contained in Appendix B, "AACOG District Overall Economic Development Program 1976" summarize socioeconomic data for the region. Much of the data is based on the 1970 U.S. Census and later federal government reports. Other data has been obtained from State offices while the remainder was obtained from sources in the region - including AACOG. These tables should prove useful in the analysis of problems and evaluation of solutions dealing with the socioeconomic structure of the 12-county region.
Date: August 1979
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
System: The Portal to Texas History