"Mad Cow Disease" or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scientific and Regulatory Issues (open access)

"Mad Cow Disease" or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scientific and Regulatory Issues

This report discusses the regulatory issues regarding cattle disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and a rare, fatal human illness, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Date: July 9, 1997
Creator: Johnson, Judith A. & Vogt, Donna U.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons (open access)

Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons

This report summarizes the types of military tribunals that have functioned from the Revolutionary War to the present time, explaining the legislative enactments that have guided these tribunals and the judicial decisions that have reviewed their constitutionality.
Date: July 9, 2004
Creator: Fisher, Louis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Michael M. Silva to the BRAC - July 9, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Michael M. Silva to the BRAC - July 9, 2005]

Letter from Michael M. Silva to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) which contains newspaper clippings from the Fairbanks Daily News Miner regarding Eielson Air Force Base. Silva argues in favor of closing bases if doing so is in the country's best interest, as opposed to private economic interests.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: Silva, Michael M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charleston Region Testimony BRAC Commission Hearing (open access)

Charleston Region Testimony BRAC Commission Hearing

State Input - Charleston Region, South Carolina Testimony presentation BRAC commission Hearing June 28, 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina. Input is on several bases throughout the region to include Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southern division, DFAS Charleston, Naval Weapons-Charleston,
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Military in North Carolina (open access)

The Military in North Carolina

State Input - The military in North Carolina, Supporting Our Nation's Defense. Base Realignment and Closure Commission, Charlotte Regional Hearing, June 28, 2005.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arlington County Proposals to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (open access)

Arlington County Proposals to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission

State Input - Arlington County Proposal to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, July 7, 2005. Document contains alternative suggestions, military value analysis, COBRA analysis & a CD.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
McChord Air Force Base, Base Visit Report (open access)

McChord Air Force Base, Base Visit Report

Base Visit Report - BRAC Commission base visit report for McChord AFB, Washington, 25 May 2005. Base visited by the Honorable Philip Coyle and the Honorable James H. Bilbray, Carol Schmidt, and Ken Small.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Report for Fort Monmouth New Jersey (open access)

Base Visit Report for Fort Monmouth New Jersey

Base Visit Report - Base visit report for Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 26 June 2005. Visit was conducted by Chairman Anthony J. Principi, the Honorable Lloyd Newton, R. Gary Dinsick, Wesley E. Hood, and Elizabeth C. Bieri.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
State input, Regional hearing Portland Oregon for Idaho (open access)

State input, Regional hearing Portland Oregon for Idaho

State Input - Statements made by State and Federal representatives from the state of Idaho regarding military facilities in the state during the regional hearings in Portland Oregon 17 June 2005. Document also inclueds a CD.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input Army Fort Monmouth (open access)

Base Input Army Fort Monmouth

Base Visit Input - Base input, Army, Forth Monmouth New Jersey, 2nd visit. CD also included in document.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Union Response, Naval support Activity Philadelphia (open access)

Union Response, Naval support Activity Philadelphia

Community Input - Response of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 3 to BRAC 2005.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testimony & Statements Regional hearing St. Louis, MO (open access)

Testimony & Statements Regional hearing St. Louis, MO

Testimony and Statements - Statements made by representatives of different military sites in various states in the regional hearing of St. Louis MO.
Date: July 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 28, Pages 6463-6834, July 09, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 28, Pages 6463-6834, July 09, 2004

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: July 9, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 28, Pages 5981-6132, July 9, 2010 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 28, Pages 5981-6132, July 9, 2010

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: July 9, 2010
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 28, Pages 5079-5268, July 9, 1999 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 28, Pages 5079-5268, July 9, 1999

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: July 9, 1999
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters.

Patent for improvements to cistern covers, combining a cast iron, charcoal filled filter and specially shaped cast perforated iron lid with handles for removing the cover and for changing the charcoal.
Date: July 9, 1874
Creator: Stacey, Ephraim Douglass
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Trucks. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Trucks.

Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: July 9, 1872
Creator: Onley, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale. (open access)

Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.

Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Preservative. (open access)

Wood-Preservative.

Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Gallinowsky, Hugo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet (open access)

Kitchen-Cabinet

Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Skipper, James Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Tufting Mattresses. (open access)

Machine for Tufting Mattresses.

Patent for a machine for tufting mattresses "whereby the tufts or washers are periodically fed to and affixed upon the feed-wheels between which the mattresses is intermittently advanced and compressed, said tufts being placed upon the mattress by the periodical fractional revolution of the feed-wheels and secured by stitching the entire transverse series of tufts by the automatic action of a series of needles, and a lower corresponding series of knotter-heads and devices co-operating therewith" (lines 11-21).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Stephenson, Edwin N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Eyeglasses. (open access)

Improvement in Eyeglasses.

Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date: July 9, 1878
Creator: Hawkes, Albert K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor (open access)

Mechanical Motor

Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction, which is adapted for driving various classes of light machinery, and more especially for use in connection with fans, such as are commonly used for creating currents of air in bar-rooms, dining-rooms, and the like" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History