The Budget in Brief, Volume 1, Number 11, December 28 1992 (open access)

The Budget in Brief, Volume 1, Number 11, December 28 1992

Periodic bulletin discussing information related to legislation, state finance, and other topics related to budgeting in Texas agencies. This issue focuses on the Texas Department of Human Services' share of the state budget.
Date: December 28, 1992
Creator: Texas Research League
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heavy Element Isotopic Analysis of UO2 Fuel Irradiated In The VBWR: Report #1 (open access)

Heavy Element Isotopic Analysis of UO2 Fuel Irradiated In The VBWR: Report #1

The primary objective of this program is to obtain improved data on the changes in nuclear characteristics with burnup of uranium oxide fuel in a boiling water reactor.
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Hackney, M. R. & Ruiz, C. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report on the Flotation of Uranium Bearing Minerals From Lake Athabaska Ore, Sample 43-1 (suppl.) (open access)

Progress Report on the Flotation of Uranium Bearing Minerals From Lake Athabaska Ore, Sample 43-1 (suppl.)

Supplement to Progress Report on Flotation of Uranium Bearing Materials From Lake Athabaska Ore, Sample 43-1 that includes information on uranium lost in solution during flotation in an acid circuit.
Date: December 28, 1953
Creator: Breymann, John B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HAPO IB Fission Product Shipping Cask Design Evaluation Report (open access)

HAPO IB Fission Product Shipping Cask Design Evaluation Report

As a result of the interest in fission products for use as heat sources and/or radiation sources, in early 1960. Hanford was authorized to supply a semi-refined cerium-144 rare earth product to Oak Ridge National Laboratories. Facilities were installed for collecting this product and a cask war designed for shipping this product as a stabilized, dry powder. Since that time, numerous improvements have been made in the design of the HAPO I cask as described in Revision O of this document. In addition, the development of strontium-90 as a major product requires increased flexibility in the utilization of these casks.
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Smith, C. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceleration of Deuterons or Alpha Particles in the AGS (open access)

Acceleration of Deuterons or Alpha Particles in the AGS

The magnetic field of the AGS ring can contain particles of magnetic rigidity about 34 Bv/c. This includes not only protons of kinetic energy 33 Bev, but also 32 Bev deuterons, 64 Bev alpha particles, and conceivably heavier nuclei such as 188 Bev carbon nuclei. It will be shown in this paper that such nuclei can be injected and accelerated in the AGS if some rather small modifications are made in the injection and acceleration systems. What physics could be done with such beams? Several types of experiments may be suggested. In the first place, since the deuteron is a rather loosely bound combination of a neutron and a proton, it is likely to break up when it hits a target nucleus (stripping reaction). In a considerable fraction of the collisions the neutron will go straight on with essentially unchanged energy (half the deuteron energy). Therefore, with an internal target bombarded by 30 Bev deuterons one should obtain an intense, rather well collimated and monochromatic beam of 15 Bev neutrons in the forward direction.
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Courant, E. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biennial Report to the 83rd Legislature of Texas: State Office of Risk Management (open access)

Biennial Report to the 83rd Legislature of Texas: State Office of Risk Management

This is the the State Office of Risk Management Biennial Report, as the guidelines for oversight in developing and maintaining effective risk management programs; specialized assistance and training; comprehensive data collection, monitoring, and analysis; and the workers’ compensation program.
Date: December 28, 2012
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Boundary Layer Between a Plasma and a Magnetic Field - I (open access)

The Boundary Layer Between a Plasma and a Magnetic Field - I

"The problem of a steady boundary layer or sheath between a plasma and a magnetic field is considered. A self-consistent transition layer is found which joins a uniform magnetic field at plus infinity with a collisionless field-free plasma region with arbitrary velocity distribution at minus infinity, i.e., a magnetic field profile is found such that the exact particle orbits in this field produce a current which gives rise to this field. An interesting feature of the solution is that, with any nonsingular velocity distribution at minus infinity, the magnetic field the plasma extends to infinity, exponentially attenuated, into the magnetic field region. The scale of length is the Larmor radius. Electric fields arising from charge separation in the case of particles of different mass are ignored."
Date: December 28, 1960
Creator: Grad, Harold, 1923-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Statistics of Rod Warping (open access)

On the Statistics of Rod Warping

Abstract. The probability of exceeding assigned values of displacements or forces in simple rod models assembled from slugs picked at random is discussed, and some estimate for the statistical gain resulting from use of shorter slugs is obtained. The probability that a rod with self-warping will touch the top of the tube appears great enough to justify a recommendation of the use of top ribs.
Date: December 28, 1944
Creator: Martin, A. V. & Young, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tory II-A Aerothermodynamics. Part II (open access)

Tory II-A Aerothermodynamics. Part II

This technical report describes the digital computer codes used for the aerothermodynamic calculations that were involved in evaluating the Tory II-A reactor.
Date: December 28, 1960
Creator: Uthe, P. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bed (open access)

Bed

Patent for a hospital bed. Provide a bed with separate adjustment support for the sick or people with a disability.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Wallace, John. M
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Device. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Device.

Patent for a cost-effective device that can remove and exterminate parasites from cotton as it's being harvested without damaging the cotton itself, including illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Reeder, Leonard F. & Jackson, Walter B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Bed. (open access)

Automobile-Bed.

Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: John S. Turner
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilated Body-Garment. (open access)

Ventilated Body-Garment.

Patent for new ventilated body-garments "known as union-oversuits or "unionalls"" (lines 15-16) which improves the shoulder coverings and open armpit areas, allowing the passage of air but covering the area from rain.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Threading Apparatus For Pipes. (open access)

Threading Apparatus For Pipes.

Patent for improvements of the threading apparatus for pipes through a simple attachment to automobiles wheels. Illustrated figures with descriptions are presented to easily show the ways in which the device attaches and is used.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Adkins, Otto O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Signal (open access)

Railroad Signal

Patent for automatic railroad signals that emit sound and lights.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Harrell, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture Polish (open access)

Furniture Polish

Patent for a furniture polish, in liquid compound form, for use in cleaning and polishing furniture, vehicles, woodwork, and other similarly coated or enameled surfaces.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: James, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 45, Number 52, December 28, 1985 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 45, Number 52, December 28, 1985

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas. This issue includes the annual index for 1985.
Date: December 28, 1985
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 52, Pages 8511-8670, December 28, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 52, Pages 8511-8670, December 28, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 28, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970: Summary and Analysis of Provisions Affecting Committees and Committee Staff of the House of Representatives (open access)

The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970: Summary and Analysis of Provisions Affecting Committees and Committee Staff of the House of Representatives

This report describes and analyzes the innovations in committee and floor procedures of the House of Representatives and in other areas of direct and indirect interest to House committees and their staff.
Date: December 28, 1970
Creator: Kravitz, Walter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Constitutional Newsman's Privilege (open access)

A Constitutional Newsman's Privilege

This report outlines the constitutional privilege of journalists to refuse questioning by a grand jury in a court of law.
Date: December 28, 1970
Creator: Killian, Johnny H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 51, Number 26, December 28, 1991 (open access)

Texas Preventable Disease News, Volume 51, Number 26, December 28, 1991

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas. This issue includes the {{{annual/mid-year}}} index for YYYY.
Date: December 28, 1991
Creator: Texas. Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of Methods for End Capping PWR Fuel Elements (open access)

Development of Methods for End Capping PWR Fuel Elements

The following report discusses the development of methods for sealing the ends of metallic-cored fuel rods.
Date: December 28, 1955
Creator: Vagi, J. J. & Martin, D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homogeneous Reactor Preliminary Process Design Report (open access)

Homogeneous Reactor Preliminary Process Design Report

"The following report is meant to serve a two fold purpose. First, it is the quarterly report of the homogeneous reactor project for the Technical Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Secondly, it is a description and general feasibility discussion of a 200-1000 K.W. pilot model, homogeneous reactor."
Date: December 28, 1949
Creator: Graham, C. B.; Secoy, C. H.; Spiewak, Irving; Taylor, E. H.; Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006; Winters, C. E. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freezing Point Diagram and Liquid-Liquid Solubilities of the System Uranium Hexafluoride-Hydrogen Fluoride (open access)

Freezing Point Diagram and Liquid-Liquid Solubilities of the System Uranium Hexafluoride-Hydrogen Fluoride

Abstract: "The complete freezing point diagram for the system uranium hexafluoride-hydrogen fluoride has been determined. In addition, liquid-liquid solubilities of these compounds have been measured up to the consolute temperature of 101 C. A miscibility gap starts at 61.2 C. over the compositions range 10 to 80 mole per cent uranium hexafluoride. The lowest melting point of this binary system under its own pressure, i.e. the eutectic, is -85 C."
Date: December 28, 1952
Creator: Rutledge, Gene P.; Jarry, Roger L. & Davis, W., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library