2001 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry. Final progress report [agenda and attendee list] (open access)

2001 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry. Final progress report [agenda and attendee list]

The Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry was held at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 22-27, 2001. The conference had 133 participants. The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field, coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, and included US and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. Emphasis was place on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field. There was a conscious effort to stimulate lively discussion about the key issues in the field today. Time for formal presentations was limited in the interest of group discussions; poster sessions were held.
Date: July 27, 2001
Creator: Burns, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Census: Redesigned Approach Holds Promise, but Census Bureau Needs to Annually Develop and Provide a Comprehensive Project Plan to Monitor Costs (open access)

2010 Census: Redesigned Approach Holds Promise, but Census Bureau Needs to Annually Develop and Provide a Comprehensive Project Plan to Monitor Costs

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) estimates that the 2010 Census will cost over $11.3 billion, making it the most expensive in our history. The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate appropriation bills propose to reduce the Bureau's fiscal year 2007 budget request, raising questions about the Bureau's design of the 2010 Census and associated costs. Based on issued GAO work, this testimony addresses the extent to which the Bureau has (1) made progress redesigning its approach, including nonresponse follow-up, a key cost driver; and (2) developed a comprehensive project plan for the 2010 Census, as well as timely, detailed cost data for effective oversight and cost control."
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2mrad horizontal crossing angle IR layout for a TeV ILC (open access)

The 2mrad horizontal crossing angle IR layout for a TeV ILC

The current status of the 2mrad crossing angle layout for the ILC is reviewed. The scheme developed in the UK and France is described and the performance discussed for a TeV machine. Secondly, the scheme developed at SLAC and BNL is then studied and modified for a TeV machine. We find that both schemes can handle the higher energy beam with modifications, and share many common features.
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: Appleby, R.; Angal-Kalinin, D.; /Daresbury; Bambade, P.; Mouton, B.; /Orsay, LAL et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aboveground Oil Storage Tanks: Observations on EPA's Economic Analyses of Amendments to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule (open access)

Aboveground Oil Storage Tanks: Observations on EPA's Economic Analyses of Amendments to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Oil in aboveground tanks can leak into soil and nearby water, threatening human health and wildlife. To prevent certain oil spills, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in 1973. EPA estimated that, in 2005, about 571,000 facilities were regulated under this rule. When finalizing amendments to the rule in 2002 and 2006 to both strengthen the rule and reduce industry burden, EPA analyzed the amendments' potential impacts and concluded that the amendments were economically justified. As requested, GAO assessed the reasonableness of EPA's economic analyses of the 2002 and 2006 SPCC amendments, using Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines for federal agencies in determining regulatory impacts, among other criteria, and discussed EPA's analyses with EPA officials."
Date: July 27, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceptance test plan for fourth generation Hanford corrosion monitoring system (open access)

Acceptance test plan for fourth generation Hanford corrosion monitoring system

This Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) will document the satisfactory operation of the corrosion probe cabinets destined for installation on tanks 241-AN-102 and 241-AN-107. This ATP will be performed by the manufacturer on each cabinet prior to delivery to the site. The objective of this procedure is to demonstrate and document the acceptance of the corrosion monitoring cabinets to be installed on tanks 241-AN-102 and 241-AN-107. One cabinet will be installed on each tank. Each cabinet will contain corrosion monitoring hardware to be connected to existing corrosion probes already installed in each tank. The test will consist of a continuity test of the cabinet wiring from the end of cable to be connected to corrosion probe, through the appropriate intrinsic safety barriers and out to the 15 pin D-shell connectors to be connected to the corrosion monitoring instrument. Additional testing will be performed using a constant current and voltage source provided by the corrosion monitoring hardware manufacturer to verify proper operation of corrosion monitoring instrumentation (input a known signal and see if the instrumentation records the proper value).
Date: July 27, 2000
Creator: Norman, E. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report considers the transition in government meant to stabilize Afghanistan. Moreover, the report discusses the new constitution and the benefits of it, such as women participating in politics. The report also discusses the NATO led troops in the region.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa (open access)

AIDS in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa ("Africa" hereafter) has been more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. Experts attribute the severity of Africa's AIDS epidemic to the region's poverty, women's relative lack of empowerment, high rates of male worker migration, and other factors. Health systems there are ill-equipped; AIDS' severe social and economic consequences are depriving Africa of skilled workers and teachers, and reducing life expectancy by decades in some countries. This report explains the AIDS crisis and surrounding issues in detail, as well as U.S. and international efforts to provide general and economic aid. Relevant U.S. legislation is also outlined.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa (open access)

AIDS in Africa

This report discusses the AIDS issues in Africa and the Bush administration call to double U.S. international funding for AIDS.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa (open access)

AIDS in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has been far more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 24.5 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 11% of the world's population but more than 64% of the worldwide total of infected people. This report discusses this issue in detail, including the cause of the African AIDS epidemic, the social and economic consequences, response and treatment, and U.S. policy.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Force Economic Impact report for Pope AFB (open access)

Air Force Economic Impact report for Pope AFB

DISREGARD HEADER AND FOOTER RESTRICTION – Economic Impact report graphs for Pope Air Force Base of proposed BRAC 05 Action.
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Pollution: Air Quality, Visibility, and the Potential Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants on Great Basin National Park, Nevada (open access)

Air Pollution: Air Quality, Visibility, and the Potential Impacts of Coal-Fired Power Plants on Great Basin National Park, Nevada

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Great Basin National Park encompasses over 77,000 acres of White Pine County in east-central Nevada and is home to diverse geologic, topographic, and wildlife resources--including ancient bristlecone pines, the world's longest living tree species. The park was created to preserve a representative segment of the Great Basin Region and receives about 80,000 visitors annually. The park features numerous scenic areas with views of the surrounding landscape, which includes both deserts and mountains. The National Park Service (NPS), within the Department of the Interior, is responsible for managing the park, and the park's management plan lists both air quality and visibility as outstanding resources. This plan identifies threats to air quality and visibility--including air pollution from the possible development of coal-fired power plants in the region--and states that even slight increases in air pollution could cause major decreases in visibility. In 2004 and 2006, two companies each initiated the process to build new coal-fired power plants about 55 miles northwest of Great Basin National Park, near the city of Ely, Nevada. While the development of these new power plants would provide jobs, needed electric power, and other benefits, they …
Date: July 27, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALE3D Rolling Simulations (open access)

ALE3D Rolling Simulations

Hot rolling is a problem involving large deformations during the process of turning an ingot into a thin sheet. As a result of the large deformations inherent in the process, significant amounts of energy are put into the ingot mechanically, most of which results in heat generation. Therefore, in order to predict the results of rolling both the mechanical and the thermal factors must accurately represent the real conditions. The factors which must be properly tuned include interface friction, mass scaling to decrease computation times, heat transfer at the interface, convective heat transfer from the ingot, and convective heat transfer from the roll. Since these parameters are generally not measurable the correct values must be derived by tuning the parameters so that solutions match some other measurable result. The interface friction will be tuned using an ALE3D input deck which has been set up to output the torque applied to the roll during the pass. The friction coefficient will be adjusted so that the computed torque matches the measured value. The various heat transfer coefficients are dependent on each other, and are tuned based on measured roll surface temperatures, ingot exit temperatures, and the energy input through the mechanical deformation …
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Riordan, T
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
d-alpha correlation functions and collective motion in Xe+Au collisions at E/A=50 MeV (open access)

d-alpha correlation functions and collective motion in Xe+Au collisions at E/A=50 MeV

The interplay of the effects of geometry and collective motion on d-{alpha} correlation functions is investigated for central Xe+Au collisions at E/A=50 MeV. The data cannot be explained with out collective motion, which could be partly along the beam axis. A semi-quantitative description of the data can be obtained using a Monte -Carlo model, where thermal emission is superimposed on collective motion. Both the emission volume and the competition between the thermal and collective motion influence significantly the shape of the correlation function, motivating new strategies for extending intensity interferometry studies to massive particles.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Verde, G.; Danielewicz, P.; Lynch, W.; Chan, C.; Gelbke, C.; Kwong, L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Approach to Nuclear Data Representation (open access)

Alternative Approach to Nuclear Data Representation

This paper considers an approach for representing nuclear data that is qualitatively different from the approach currently adopted by the nuclear science community. Specifically, they examine a representation in which complicated data is described through collections of distinct and self contained simple data structures. This structure-based representation is compared with the ENDF and ENDL formats, which can be roughly characterized as dictionary-based representations. A pilot data representation for replacing the format currently used at LLNL is presented. Examples are given as is a discussion of promises and shortcomings associated with moving from traditional dictionary-based formats to a structure-rich or class-like representation.
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: Pruet, J.; Brown, D.; Beck, B. & McNabb, D. P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of carbon chemistry in numerical simulations of vortex flame interaction (open access)

Analysis of carbon chemistry in numerical simulations of vortex flame interaction

In this paper we discuss the application of a new diagnostic tool for analysis of flame simulations. This methodology is based on following specific chemical elements, e.g., carbon or nitrogen, as they move through the system. From this perspective an ''atom'' is a component of a molecule that is being transported through the simulation domain by advection and diffusion. Reactions cause the atom to shift from one species to another with the subsequent transport of the atom determined by the movement of the new species.
Date: July 27, 2003
Creator: Bell, John B.; Day, Marcus S.; Grcar, Joseph F. & Lijewski, Michael J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysisi Benchmark of the Single Heater Test (open access)

Analysisi Benchmark of the Single Heater Test

The Single Heater Test (SHT) is the first of three in-situ thermal tests included in the site characterization program for the potential nuclear waste monitored geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. The heating phase of the SHT started in August 1996 and was concluded in May 1997 after 9 months of heating. Cooling continued until January 1998, at which time post-test characterization of the test block commenced. Numerous thermal, hydrological, mechanical, and chemical sensors monitored the coupled processes in the unsaturated fractured rock mass around the heater (CRWMS M&O 1999). The objective of this calculation is to benchmark a numerical simulation of the rock mass thermal behavior against the extensive data set that is available from the thermal test. The scope is limited to three-dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations of the computational domain of the Single Heater Test and surrounding rock mass. This calculation supports the waste package thermal design methodology, and is developed by Waste Package Department (WPD) under Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) procedure AP-3.12Q, Revision 0, ICN 3, BSCN 1, Calculations.
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Wade, H. M.; Marr, H. & Anderson, M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Marine Corp Logistics Base Barstow  California (open access)

Base Input - Marine Corp Logistics Base Barstow California

Document consisting of Presentation and background information regarding MCLB
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Naval Base Ventura County (open access)

Base Input - Naval Base Ventura County

narrative Descriptive of Electronic Warfare Facilities at NAVAIR Point Mugu, CA Prepared at the requests of BRAC Commission staff Les Farrington and David Epstein
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Naval Surface Warhead Center Indian Head MD (open access)

Base Input - Naval Surface Warhead Center Indian Head MD

Base Input - Presenations Indian Head Division Naval Surface Warfare Center; BRAC 2005 Recommendations for IHD; 2004/2005 Indian Head Base Guide
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Navy Weapons Station Seal Beach (open access)

Base Input - Navy Weapons Station Seal Beach

Base Input - Documents provided to BRAC Commission that consist of: recommendations and Justifications NWS Seal Beach, CA,;NSWC PHD BRAC Clarification and COBRA Issues forwarded to NSWC dtd 14 July 2005; NWS Seal Beach - Container Repair
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Dyess Air Force Base (open access)

Base Visit Trip Report - Dyess Air Force Base

Base Visit Trip Report to Dyess Air Force Base on 27 June 2005
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Eglin Air Force Base Florida (open access)

Base Visit Trip Report - Eglin Air Force Base Florida

Base Visit Trip Report to Eglin Air Force Base by the BRAC Commission Analysts
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Fort Sam Houston (open access)

Base Visit Trip Report - Fort Sam Houston

Base Visit Report of the BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Sam Houston, Texas dated 11 July 2005
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Trip Report - Umatilla Chemical Depot (open access)

Base Visit Trip Report - Umatilla Chemical Depot

Report of Visit to Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon by Commissioners Coyle and Bilbray
Date: July 27, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library