Financial Management: National Institutes of Health Research Invention Licenses and Royalties (open access)

Financial Management: National Institutes of Health Research Invention Licenses and Royalties

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues related to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) licensing of inventions developed under intramural research projects, focusing on the: (1) extent of and reasons for the differences between the number of research inventions licensed under cooperative research and development agreements (CRADA) compared to inventions licensed under other intramural research projects; and (2) internal controls that ensure proper accountability for royalty income resulting from these licenses."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Future Years Defense Program: Funding Increase and Planned Savings in Fiscal Year 2000 Program Are at Risk (open access)

Future Years Defense Program: Funding Increase and Planned Savings in Fiscal Year 2000 Program Are at Risk

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) for fiscal year 2000, focusing on the: (1) major changes and adjustments in the 2000 FYDP as compared to the 1999 FYDP; and (2) risks that the 2000 FYDP faces that may prevent it from being implemented as planned."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Military Sales: Efforts to Improve Administration Hampered by Insufficient Information (open access)

Foreign Military Sales: Efforts to Improve Administration Hampered by Insufficient Information

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the foreign military sales program to determine the changes needed to improve the viability of the program, focusing on: (1) whether the foreign military sales program has achieved full recovery of its administrative costs; (2) the Defense Security Cooperation Agency's (DSCA) basis for making administrative account adjustments; and (3) the effectiveness of various foreign military sales reinvention efforts in terms of cost recovery."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-8, Probation Data Survey: 1999 (open access)

Form CJ-8, Probation Data Survey: 1999

Blank probation data survey containing a series of questions related to the probationary population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flow Around a Complex Building: Comparisons Between Experimental and Modeled Results (open access)

Flow Around a Complex Building: Comparisons Between Experimental and Modeled Results

The authors compare the results of computer simulated flow fields around building 170 (B170) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with field measurements. This is the first stage of a larger effort to assess the ability of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to predict atmospheric dispersion scenarios around building complexes. At this stage, the focus is on accurate simulation of the velocity field. Two types of simulations were performed: predictive and post-experiment. The purpose of the predictive runs was primarily to provide initial guidance for the planning of the experiment. By developing an approximate understanding of the major features of the flow field, they were able to more effectively deploy the sensors.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Calhoun, R.J.; Chan, S.; Gouveia, F.; Lee, R.; Leone, J.; Shinn, J. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUBSURFACE EMPLACEMENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (open access)

SUBSURFACE EMPLACEMENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

The objective of this analysis is to identify issues and criteria that apply to the design of the Subsurface Emplacement Transportation System (SET). The SET consists of the track used by the waste package handling equipment, the conductors and related equipment used to supply electrical power to that equipment, and the instrumentation and controls used to monitor and operate those track and power supply systems. Major considerations of this analysis include: (1) Operational life of the SET; (2) Geometric constraints on the track layout; (3) Operating loads on the track; (4) Environmentally induced loads on the track; (5) Power supply (electrification) requirements; and (6) Instrumentation and control requirements. This analysis will provide the basis for development of the system description document (SDD) for the SET. This analysis also defines the interfaces that need to be considered in the design of the SET. These interfaces include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Waste handling building; (2) Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) surface site layout; (3) Waste Emplacement System (WES); (4) Waste Retrieval System (WRS); (5) Ground Control System (GCS); (6) Ex-Container System (XCS); (7) Subsurface Electrical Distribution System (SED); (8) MGR Operations Monitoring and Control System (OMC); (9) Subsurface Facility …
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Wilson, T. & Novotny, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Security Income: Incentive Payments Have Reduced Benefit Overpayments to Prisoners (open access)

Supplemental Security Income: Incentive Payments Have Reduced Benefit Overpayments to Prisoners

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the impact incentive payment legislation for correctional facilities had on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, focusing on: (1) how many correctional facilities signed incentive payment agreements, how many benefit suspensions did SSA make, and what amount of overpayments did SSA identify and prevent at these facilities; (2) how many of the incentive payment agreements represented new reporting commitments that SSA did not have before the authorization of incentive payments, and what were the results at facilities that made these new commitments; and (3) what other benefits has the legislation produced."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Logistics: New 120-mm Tank Training Round Procurement Will Result in Savings (open access)

Defense Logistics: New 120-mm Tank Training Round Procurement Will Result in Savings

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Army's 1999 multiyear contracts for the procurement of 120-mm tank training rounds, focusing on: (1) whether the Army's actions in 1999 resulted in savings on the purchase of 120-mm tank training rounds; (2) the effect the Army's decision to no longer direct that propellant be purchased from the Radford Army Ammunition Plant had on plant overhead and employment; and (3) the potential effect the decision would have on Radford's wartime replenishment mission."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Online modeling of the Fermilab accelerators (open access)

Online modeling of the Fermilab accelerators

Access through the Fermilab control system to beam physics models of the Fermilab accelerators has been implemented. The models run on Unix workstations, communicating with legacy VMS-based controls consoles via a relational database and TCP/IP.The client side (VMS) and the server side (Unix) are both implemented in object-oriented C++. The models allow scientists and operators in the control room to do beam physics calculations. Settings of real devices as input to the model are supported, and readings from beam diagnostics may be compared with model predictions.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: E. McCrory, O. Krivosheev, L. Michelotti and J-F. Ostiguy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buoyancy and Dissolution of the Floating Crust Layer in Tank 241-SY-101 During Transfer and Back-Dilution (open access)

Buoyancy and Dissolution of the Floating Crust Layer in Tank 241-SY-101 During Transfer and Back-Dilution

To remediate gas retention in the floating crust layer and the potential for buoyant displacement gas releases from below the crust, waste will be transferred out of Hanford Tank 241-SY-101 (SY-101) in the fall of 1999 and back-diluted with water in several steps of about 100,000 gallons each. To evaluate the effects of back-dilution on the crust a static buoyancy model is derived that predicts crust and liquid surface elevations as a function of mixing efficiency and volume of water added during transfer and back-dilution. Experimental results are presented that demonstrate the basic physics involved and verify the operation of the models. A dissolution model is also developed to evaluate the effects of dissolution of solids on crust flotation. The model includes dissolution of solids suspended in the slurry as well as in the crust layers. The inventory and location of insoluble solids after dissolution of the soluble fraction are also tracked. The buoyancy model is applied to predict the crust behavior for the first back-dilution step in SY-101. Specific concerns addressed include conditions that could cause the crust to sink and back-dilution requirements that keep the base of the crust well above the mixer pump inlet.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Stewart, C. W.; Sukamto, J. H.; Cuta, J. M. & Rassat, S. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pulsed Power Driven Fusion Energy (open access)

Pulsed Power Driven Fusion Energy

Pulsed power is a robust and inexpensive technology for obtaining high powers. Considerable progress has been made on developing light ion beams as a means of transporting this power to inertial fusion capsules. However, further progress is hampered by the lack of an adequate ion source. Alternatively, z-pinches can efficiently convert pulsed power into thermal radiation, which can be used to drive an inertial fusion capsule. However, a z-pinch driven fusion explosion will destroy a portion of the transmission line that delivers the electrical power to the z-pinch. They investigate several options for providing standoff for z-pinch driven fusion. Recyclable Transmission Lines (RTLs) appear to be the most promising approach.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: SLUTZ,STEPHEN A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supersymmetry searches at the Tevatron in Run I and Run II (open access)

Supersymmetry searches at the Tevatron in Run I and Run II

The authors review the searches for supersymmetric particles achieved by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the p{bar p} Tevatron collider at FNAL, at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV and with a total integrated luminosity of 110 pb{sup {minus}1}, per experiment. The prospects for the forthcoming run at {radical}s = 2 TeV and an integrated luminosity reaching ultimately at least 20 fb{sup {minus}1}, are also discussed.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Savoy-Navarro, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of a new liquid cell for shock experiments (open access)

Design of a new liquid cell for shock experiments

Controlled impact methodology has been used on a powdergun to obtain dynamic behavior properties of Tributyl Phosphate (TBP). A novel test methodology is used to provide extremely accurate equation of state data of the liquid. A thin aluminum plate used for confining the liquid also serves as a diagnostic to provide reshock states and subsequent release adiabats from the reshocked state. Polar polymer, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) gauges and velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR) provided redundant and precise data of temporal resolution to five nanoseconds and shock velocity measurements of better than 1%. The design and test methodologies are presented in this paper.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Reinhart, W. D. & Chhabildas, L. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Isotopic Tracing of Particulate Matter from a Compression Ignition Engine Fueled with Ethanol-in-Diesel Blends (open access)

Isotopic Tracing of Particulate Matter from a Compression Ignition Engine Fueled with Ethanol-in-Diesel Blends

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) was used to investigate the relative contribution to diesel engine particulate matter (PM) from the ethanol and diesel fractions of blended fuels. Four test fuels along with a diesel fuel baseline were investigated. The test fuels were comprised of {sup 14}C depleted diesel fuel mixed with contemporary grain ethanol (>400 the {sup 14}C concentration of diesel). An emulsifier (Span 85) or cosolvent (butyl alcohol) was used to facilitate mixing. The experimental test engine was a 1993 Cummins B5.9 diesel rated at 175 hp at 2500 rpm. Test fuels were run at steady-state conditions of 1600 rpm and 210 ft-lbs, and PM samples were collected on quartz filters following dilution of engine exhaust in a mini-dilution tunnel. AMS analysis of the filter samples showed that the ethanol contributed less to PM relative to its fraction in the fuel blend. For the emulsified blends, 6.4% and 10.3% contributions to PM were observed for 11.5% and 23.0% ethanol fuels, respectively. For the cosolvent blends, even lower contributions were observed (3.8% and 6.3% contributions to PM for 12.5% and 25.0% ethanol fuels, respectively).
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Cheng, Adelbert S.; Dibble, Robert W. & Buchholz, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buoyancy and Dissolution of the Floating Crust Layer in Tank 241-SY-101 During Transfer and Back-Dilution (open access)

Buoyancy and Dissolution of the Floating Crust Layer in Tank 241-SY-101 During Transfer and Back-Dilution

Effects of Back Dilution on Buoyancy of the SY-101 Crust Layer
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Stewart, Charles W.; Rassat, Scot D.; Sukamto, Johanes H. & Cuta, Judith M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Resolution Imaging using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (open access)

Low-Resolution Imaging using Optically Stimulated Luminescence

This report outlines the development of a low-resolution imaging reader based on Optically Stimulated Luminescence. Application for the reader is arms control and treaty verification.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Miller, Steven D.; Burghard, Brion J.; Skorpik, James R.; Traub, Richard J. & Schwartz, Leslie J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-7, Parole Data Survey: 1999 (open access)

Form CJ-7, Parole Data Survey: 1999

Blank parole data survey containing a series of questions related to the parole population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis and Summary of Historical Dry Well Gamma Logs for S Tank Farm 200 West (open access)

Analysis and Summary of Historical Dry Well Gamma Logs for S Tank Farm 200 West

Gross gamma ray logs, recorded from January 1975 through mid-year 1994 as part of the Single-Shell Tank Farm Dry Well Surveillance Program, have been reanalyzed for the S tank farm to locate the presence of mobile radionuclides in the subsurface.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Myers, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the disposal of wastes containing NORM in nonhazardous waste landfills (open access)

Assessing the disposal of wastes containing NORM in nonhazardous waste landfills

In the past few years, many states have established specific regulations for the management of petroleum industry wastes containing naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) above specified thresholds. These regulations have limited the number of disposal options available for NORM-containing wastes, thereby increasing the related waste management costs. In view of the increasing economic burden associated with NORM management, industry and regulators are interested in identifying cost-effective disposal alternatives that still provide adequate protection of human health and the environment. One such alternative being considered is the disposal of NORM-containing wastes in landfills permitted to accept only nonhazardous wastes. The disposal of petroleum industry wastes containing radium-226 and lead-210 above regulated levels in nonhazardous landfills was modeled to evaluate the potential radiological doses and associated health risks to workers and the general public. A variety of scenarios were considered to evaluate the effects associated with the operational phase (i.e., during landfill operations) and future use of the landfill property. Doses were calculated for the maximally exposed receptor for each scenario. This paper presents the results of that study and some conclusions and recommendations drawn from it.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Smith, K. P.; Blunt, D. L.; Williams, G. P.; Arnish, J. J.; Pfingston, M. R. & Herbert, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Absolute CH radical concentrations in rich low-pressure methane-oxygen-argon flames via cavity ringdown spectroscopy of the A transition (open access)

Absolute CH radical concentrations in rich low-pressure methane-oxygen-argon flames via cavity ringdown spectroscopy of the A transition

We measure cavity ringdown spectra of the A{sup 2}{Delta}-X{sup 2}II transition of the methylidyne (CH) radical in a series of rich low-pressure methane-oxygen-argon flames and demonstrate that the technique is sensitive, quantitative, and straightforward in its implementation and interpretation. As a line-of-sight technique, it complements imaging techniques, such as planar laser-induced fluorescence. Our results generally agree with chemical kinetic models for methane oxidation that have appeared in the literature, but suggest some refinements are necessary. Additional examination of the CH + O{sub 2} reaction rate as a function of temperature is advised. Our results are consistent with those of Derzy et al. using the C{sup 2}{Sigma}{sup +}-X{sup 2}II transition for stoichiometric, low-pressure flames which include nitrogen. Our results for rich flames, as with earlier experiments for singlet methylene, suggest that flame chemical kinetic models need to be adjusted to account for flame chemistry for stoichiometries richer than {phi} = 1.5.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: John W. Thomas, Jr & McIlroy, Andrew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-ray interferometry development at the Advanced Photon Source. (open access)

X-ray interferometry development at the Advanced Photon Source.

In this paper, we report initial test results of a four-bounce Bragg reflection X-ray interferometer at 7.46 keV and, for the first time to our knowledge, at the higher energy of 14.91 keV where the spectral acceptance is much smaller.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Fezzaa, K. & Lee, W. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buildings for the 21st Century Newsletter: Fall 1999, Vol. 2, No. 1 (open access)

Buildings for the 21st Century Newsletter: Fall 1999, Vol. 2, No. 1

This edition contains more information about new efforts and programs in DOE's Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS), and highlights the evolution of a new approach to making buildings more energy-efficient, comfortable, and affordable.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A simple way of characterizing x-ray downwards-deflecting mirror-bender assemblies using the long trace profiler (open access)

A simple way of characterizing x-ray downwards-deflecting mirror-bender assemblies using the long trace profiler

A simple device composed of a modular double-pentaprism system that enables the long trace profiler (LTP) to measure mirrors in nonconventional ways, i.e., in the vertical-downward and sideways positions, has been devised and implemented in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) long trace profiler (LTP II). The systems is very useful in calibrating mirror-bender assemblies. This paper describes the system and gives results of measurements performed with it on a mirror used at the APS.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Assoufid, L. & Her, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure Effects Analysis of National Ignition Facility Capacitor Module Events (open access)

Pressure Effects Analysis of National Ignition Facility Capacitor Module Events

Capacitors and power conditioning systems required for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have experienced several catastrophic failures during prototype demonstration. These events generally resulted in explosion, generating a dramatic fireball and energetic shrapnel, and thus may present a threat to the walls of the capacitor bay that houses the capacitor modules. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the ability of the capacitor bay walls to withstand the overpressure generated by the aforementioned events. Two calculations are described in this paper. The first one was used to estimate the energy release during a fireball event and the second one was used to estimate the pressure in a capacitor module during a capacitor explosion event. Both results were then used to estimate the subsequent overpressure in the capacitor bay where these events occurred. The analysis showed that the expected capacitor bay overpressure was less than the pressure tolerance of the walls. To understand the risk of the above events in NIF, capacitor module failure probabilities were also calculated. This paper concludes with estimates of the probability of single module failure and multi-module failures based on the number of catastrophic failures in the prototype demonstration facility.
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: Brereton, S; Ma, C; Newton, M; Pastrnak, J; Price, D & Prokosch, D
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library