The National Center for Photovoltaics sponsored the 16th Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells and Modules: Materials and Processes held August 6-9, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. The workshop addressed the fundamental properties of PV-Si, new solar cell designs, and advanced solar cell processing techniques. It provided a forum for an informal exchange of technical and scientific information between international researchers in the photovoltaic and relevant non-photovoltaic fields. The Workshop Theme was: "Getting more (Watts) for Less ($i)". A combination of oral presentations by invited speakers, poster sessions, and discussion sessions reviewed recent advances in crystal growth, new cell structures, new processes and process characterization techniques, and cell fabrication approaches suitable for future manufacturing demands. The special sessions included: Feedstock Issues: Si Refining and Purification; Metal-impurity Engineering; Thin Film Si; and Diagnostic Techniques.

The purpose of this report is to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility instrumentation status. The report is divided into four sections: (1) new instrumentation in the process of being acquired and deployed, (2) existing instrumentation and progress on improvements or upgrades, (3) proposed future instrumentation, and (4) Small Business Innovation Research instrument development. New information is highlighted in blue text.

This report details the experimental plan and design as of the preliminary design review for the Advanced Test Reactor Graphite Creep-1 graphite compressive creep capsule. The capsule will contain five graphite grades that will be irradiated in the Advanced Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory to determine the irradiation induced creep constants. Seven other grades of graphite will be irradiated to determine irradiated physical properties. The capsule will have an irradiation temperature of 900 C and a peak irradiation dose of 5.8 x 10{sup 21} n/cm{sup 2} [E > 0.1 MeV], or 4.2 displacements per atom.

This report addresses the analytical evaluation of surface roughness length at a large DOE site.

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This Report is about the environmental protection program at Argonne National Laboratory site environmental report for the calendar year 2005. It also discusses about the status of Argonne Environmental protection activities with respect to compliance with the various laws and regulations.

This report discusses the internal and external security concerns of the South Caucasus states and U.S. interests and policy toward the region. The countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are generally considered as comprising the South Caucasus region, which borders Russia, Turkey, and Iran.

Generating set search (GSS) is a family of direct search methods that encompasses generalized pattern search and related methods. We describe an algorithm for asynchronous linearly-constrained GSS, which has some complexities that make it different from both the asynchronous bound-constrained case as well as the synchronous linearly-constrained case. The algorithm has been implemented in the APPSPACK software framework and we present results from an extensive numerical study using CUTEr test problems. We discuss the results, both positive and negative, and conclude that GSS is a reliable method for solving small-to-medium sized linearly-constrained optimization problems without derivatives.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) and the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) ensuring that community mental health mental retardation centers are spending state funds as intended by the Legislature.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas Tech University System (System) has construction project management controls that are sufficient to ensure that state laws and System requirements are met in the award of contracts and that projects are completed on time and within budget.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the University of Texas at Austin (University) has construction project management controls that are sufficient to ensure that state laws and University requirements are met in the award of contracts and that projects are completed on time and within budget.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the assessment controls over contract management and procedures on payments for purchasing contracts at the Texas Education Agency (Agency).

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to reviewing institutional budgets to determine whether indirect cost recovery funds are properly budgeted to ensure compliance with Texas Education Code, Chapter 145, and surveying general academic universities to identify dollar amounts expended from indirect cost recovery monies and the purposes for which these monies were spent for fiscal years 2002 through 2005.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether purchases are necessary and reasonable and made in accordance with state laws and regulations and Texas Lottery Commission (Agency) rules, policies, and procedures; whether the Agency manages selected contracts to ensure that the contracts are monitored and the terms of these contracts are enforced; and determining the status of findings and recommendations related to Agency contracts reported by the State Auditor's Office in a previous audit.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether Texas Southern University has endowment fund investment and annual distribution policies that are consistent with modern endowment management principles as embodied in the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act; whether the University is in compliance with its endowment management policies; has adequate procedures to monitor and report endowment performance against stated objectives; and has controls that provide reasonable assurance of substantial compliance with donor restrictions.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether Texas Woman's University has endowment fund investment and annual distribution policies that are consistent with modern endowment management principles as embodied in the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act; whether the University is in compliance with its endowment management policies; has adequate procedures to monitor and report endowment performance against stated objectives; and has controls that provide reasonable assurance of substantial compliance with donor restrictions.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Department of Licensing and Regulation is collecting and expending funds as the Legislature intended; performing regulatory functions that protect Texans from unqualified or noncompliant license holders; and managing its licensing software application to ensure data accuracy, security, completeness, and reliability.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas Building and Procurement Commission (Commission) administers the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program in compliance with statutory requirements, including requirements for certification of HUBs, assistance to HUBs, and assistance to state agencies; determining the accuracy and completeness of the semi-annual report on contracts awarded to HUBs; and determining whether the Commission has taken steps to make statewide procurements accessible to HUBs.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the State Office of Administrative Hearings (Office) produces accurate billing statements in accordance with client agencies' contracts or agreements, and complies with its rules of practice and procedures in the Texas Administrative Code and its Administrative Law Judge Code of Conduct to ensure that cases are initiated, processed, and scheduled objectively and within standards.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the University of Houston System (System) has endowment fund investment and annual distribution policies that are consistent with modern endowment management principles as embodied in the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act; whether it is in compliance with its endowment management policies; whether it has adequate procedures to monitor and report endowment performance against stated objectives; and whether it has controls that provide reasonable assurance of substantial compliance with donor restrictions.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the University of North Texas (University) has endowment fund investment and annual distribution policies that are consistent with modern endowment management principles as embodied in the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act; whether it is in compliance with its endowment management policies; whether it has adequate procedures to monitor and report endowment performance against stated objectives; and whether it has controls that provide reasonable assurance of substantial compliance with donor restrictions.

The Tevatron collider at Fermilab provides a very rich environment for the study of b-hadrons. One of the most important analyses within the B physics program of the CDF experiment is B{sub s}{sup 0} mixing. Since the time this school was held, several improvements in the B{sub s}{sup 0} mixing analysis have made possible the measurement of the B{sub s}{sup 0} oscillation frequency, result that has been presented at the FPCP 2006 Conference.

BEopt is a computer program designed to find optimal building designs along the path to ZNE. A user selects from predefined options in various categories to specify options to be considered in the optimization. Energy savings are calculated relative to a reference. The reference can be either a user-defined base-case building or a climate-specific Building America Benchmark building automatically generated by BEopt. The user can also review and modify detailed information on all available options in a linked options library spreadsheet. BEopt calls the DOE2 and TRNSYS simulation engines and uses a sequential search technique to automate the process of identifying optimal building designs along the path to ZNE. BEopt finds these optimal and near-optimal designs based on discrete building options reflecting realistic construction options. BEopt handles special situations with positive or negative interactions between options in different categories. The BEopt software includes a results browser that allows the user to navigate among different design points and retrieve detailed results regarding energy end-use and option costs in different categories. Multiple cases, based on a selected parameter such as climate, can be included in a BEopt project file for comparative purposes.

Monthly publication documenting statistics related to economic information in the Mexico-Texas border areas including types of border crossings, employment, customs revenues, and other related data.