We used split-beam hydroacoustics to monitor kokanee Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi abundance in Dworshak Reservoir from 1995 to 1996 in order to quantify the impacts of water releases from Dworshak Dam. The kokanee population was at a record high level of 1.9 million age-1 and age-2 fish (350 fish/ha) during June 1995. Large discharges of water during July and August of 1995 did not result in major losses of kokanee. Mid-winter flooding in February. March, and April of 1996: however, caused entrainment losses of 90% of all kokanee in the reservoir. The population declined to 140,000 kokanee. High flows during spring runoff used another 50% of the kokanee to be lost, further reducing the population to 71,000 fish (13 fish/ha). Entrainment losses were partially explainable by the distribution of kokanee in the reservoir. During winter, all age-classes of kokanee congregated near the dam making them susceptible to high releases of water. Kokanee appeared to be less susceptible to entrainment during summer and early fall because most kokanee were in other parts of the reservoir: adults were in the upper reservoir staging to spawn, fry were in the upper reservoir having emerged from tributary streams, and juvenile kokanee were spread throughout the …

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the sufficiency and effectiveness of financial controls over expansion activities at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to following up on Stephen F. Austin State University's (University) progress in correcting weaknesses in high-risk areas identified in a previous audit.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the actual rates negotiated and paid by the Texas Youth Commission for the provision of residential placements per Rider 15 in the General Appropriations Act.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to evaluating the effectiveness of management processes and control systems within the Charitable Bingo Division of the Texas Lottery Commission.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the recommendations of "An Audit Report on Management Controls at Sam Houston State University" were implemented, partially implemented, or not implemented.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining if expenditures for home and community-based services at the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services are properly controlled, if the appropriate agencies are using their resources economically and efficiently, and if the appropriate agencies are complying with laws and regulations.

The following major pieces of work were completed under the sponsorship of this grant: (1) singular perturbation theory for dynamical systems; (2) homoclinic orbits and chaotic dynamics in second-harmonic generating, optically pumped, passive optical cavities; (3) chaotic dynamics in short ring-laser cavities; (4) homoclinic orbits in moderately-long ring-laser cavities; (5) finite-dimensional attractor in ring-laser cavities; (6) turbulent dynamics in long ring-laser cavities; (7) bifurcations in a model for a free-boundary problem for the heat equation; (8) weakly nonlinear dynamics of interface propagation; (9) slowly periodically forced planar Hamiltonian systems; and (10) soliton spectrum of the solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation. A brief summary of the research is given for each project.

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Requirements of matched contests under the Contest and gift Giveaway Act, Business and Commerce Code chapter 40 (RQ-1161)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Government Code section 466.155(a)(4)(C) probihits the Texas Lottery Commission from conducting promotional activities for the state lottery at events where alcoholic beverages are sold for on-premises consumption (RQ-1062)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Retirement overages for public safety dispatchers employed by the City of Denton.(RQ-956).

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether a county commissioners court may lease vacant space in the county courthouse to a title company and related questions(RQ-1073).

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs may enforce a standard operating procedure against persons outside the Department if the Standard was not adopted in accordance with Government Code chapter 2001, and related question (RQ-1119)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether article 5221f,V.T.C.S. precludes a home-rule city from regulating unoccupied or unsafe mobile homes and manufactured homes(RQ-1123).

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether a district judge may simultaneously serve as a trustee of an independent school district(RQ-1130).

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether chapter 143 of the Local Government Code authorizes a municipal civil service commission to hold a police department entrance examination for the same eligibility list at different locations or on different dates (RQ-1128)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Jackson County County-Wide Drainage District has stole authority to provide for the control, storage, preservation, and distribution of storm and flood waters and to reclaim and drain district lands within the City of Edna's corporate limits (RQ-1116)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an elected official of a county who is a member of the salary grievance committee may vote on his own salary grievance (RQ-1107)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the criminal-district attorney's spouse may serve as the prosecutor's victim-assistance coordinator and the local law-enforcement agency's crime-victim liaison (RQ-1139)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Randall County may buy back sick leave from an employee without violating article III, section 53 of the Texas Constitution (RQ-1150)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an employee of a regional planning commission may simultaneously serve as an elected member of a port commission (RQ-1164)

Letter opinion issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a constable is required to attend all sessions of a justice court (RQ-1169)

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