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Texas P.R.I.D.E Crisis Counseling Program, Number 2, May 29, 2012
This document provides information on the Texas P.R.I.D.E Crisis Counseling Program.
Date:
May 29, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
U.S.-China Diplomacy Over Chinese Legal Advocate Chen Guangcheng
The case of blind Chinese legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from illegal house arrest in China's Shandong Province on April 20, 2012, and made his way to Beijing, the United States Embassy, and, ultimately, the United States, has generated strong congressional interest. This report begins by examining implications of the Chen case for the place of human rights in U.S.-China relations. It then discusses why Beijing may have been willing to negotiate with the United States at all over the fate of a Chinese citizen inside China. The report highlights the remaining issues in the case, details the understandings reached between the two governments, and then provides background on Chen Guangcheng and a list of his family and other associates in China who may be at risk. The report includes a map showing Chen's home district and Beijing, the city to which he escaped. It also includes a timeline of developments in the case from April 20, 2012, until May 19, 2012, based upon information available at the time of publication.
Date:
May 29, 2012
Creator:
Lawrence, Susan V. & Lum, Thomas
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Japan Economic Relations: Significance, Prospects, and Policy Options
This report discusses issues regarding U.S.-Japan economic relations, since the economic condition of each nation can affect the world economy and a U.S.-Japan bilateral economic relationship could influence economic conditions in other countries. U.S. and Japanese leaders have several options on how to manage their relationship, including stronger reliance on the World Trade Organization; special bilateral negotiating frameworks and agreements; or a free trade agreement.
Date:
May 29, 2012
Creator:
Cooper, William H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The U.S. Postal Service's Use of Contractors to Deliver Mail: Background and Recent Developments
Currently, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is collectively bargaining with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA). One issue that may or may not be settled is the Postal Service's use of non-USPS employees (i.e., contractors) to deliver mail. If the parties cannot come to a satisfactory arrangement, Congress may be approached to consider the matter.
Date:
May 29, 2012
Creator:
Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adding a MOAB Geometry Interface to SHARP Structural Mechanics
The authors briefly summarize the development of, and test experience with, an initial data interface between the structural mechanics code Diablo and the SHARP reactor simulation system data hub MOAB. That interface has been exercised both to write MOAB databases from Diablo, and then also to use such a database to read in part of a simulation definition for a subsequent Diablo execution. All enhancements are integrated into the central Diablo source repository. The SHARP software system for advanced simulation of nuclear reactors and power plant systems is sponsored by DOE's Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program. SHARP has been architected as a federation of single-physics simulation tools to permit flexibility in programming langugages and leveraging of past and on-going investments. Solution of multi-physics problems will be coordinated by, and data passed through, a central 'hub'. SHARP's hub implementation is utilizing MOAB: a Mesh-Oriented datABase. This same data hub approach is also intended to enable multi-resolution simulations, e.g, lower-dimension plant-scale simulations can be informed by high-fidelity 3D models of particular critical components.
Date:
May 28, 2012
Creator:
Ferencz, R M & Hodge, N E
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Illinois Wind Workers Group
The Illinois Wind Working Group (IWWG) was founded in 2006 with about 15 members. It has grown to over 200 members today representing all aspects of the wind industry across the State of Illinois. In 2008, the IWWG developed a strategic plan to give direction to the group and its activities. The strategic plan identifies ways to address critical market barriers to the further penetration of wind. The key to addressing these market barriers is public education and outreach. Since Illinois has a restructured electricity market, utilities no longer have a strong control over the addition of new capacity within the state. Instead, market acceptance depends on willing landowners to lease land and willing county officials to site wind farms. Many times these groups are uninformed about the benefits of wind energy and unfamiliar with the process. Therefore, many of the project objectives focus on conferences, forum, databases and research that will allow these stakeholders to make well-educated decisions.
Date:
May 28, 2012
Creator:
Loomis, David G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multiscale Simulation of Thermo-mechanical Processes in Irradiated Fission-reactor Materials
This report contains a summary of progress made on the subtask area on phase field model development for microstructure evolution in irradiated materials, which was a part of the Computational Materials Science Network (CMSN) project entitled: Multiscale Simulation of Thermo-mechanical Processes in Irradiated Fission-reactor Materials. The model problem chosen has been that of void nucleation and growth under irradiation conditions in single component systems.
Date:
May 28, 2012
Creator:
El-Azab, Anter
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Phase Transition in BCx system under High-Pressure and High-Temperature: Synthesis of Cubic Dense BC3 Nanostructured Phase
None
Date:
May 26, 2012
Creator:
Zinin, P. V.; Ming, L. C.; Ishii, H. A.; Jia, R.; Acosta, T. & Hellebrand, E.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Addressing Medicare Hospital Readmissions
This report highlights the issue of one-fifth of medicare patients in 2005 being readmitted to a hospital within thirty days time. These readmissions put a strain on the budget, the majority of which it is estimated may be avoidable. The report notes that Medicare as a program is working on moving around those difficulties, without reducing the quality of care.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Tilson, Sibyl
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Metal-Hydrides-Based Thermal Battery
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses an advanced metal-hydrides-based thermal battery as part of the "A New Generation of High Density Thermal Battery Based on Advanced Metal Hydrides" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
University of Utah
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Thermal Energy Storage
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses advanced thermal energy storage as part of the "Novel Tuning of Critical Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
NAVITASMAX
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Thermo-Adsorptive Battery
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses an advanced thermo-adsorptive battery as part of the "New Generation of the Advanced Thermo-Adsorptive Battery Climate Control System" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alternatives to Critical Materials in Magnets
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 14 projects that are a part of the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Better Enzymes for Carbon Capture
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of carbonic anhydrases enzymes as part of the "Low-Cost Biological Catalyst to Enable Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Codexis, Inc.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Carbon-Based Magnets
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of magnet for power generators and motors as part of the "Discovery & Design of Novel Permanent Magnets using Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Capture Technology
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 15 projects that are a part of the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cerium-Based Magnets
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses magnets made of cerium as part of the "Novel High Energy Permanent Magnet Without Critical Elements" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Ames Laboratory
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chemically Accelerated Carbon Mineralization
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses turning carbon dioxide exhaust into a solid as part of the "Chemical and Biological Catalytic Enhancement of Weathering of Silicate Minerals as Novel Carbon Capture and Storage" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Columbia University
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
CO2 Capture and Regeneration at Low Temperatures
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of non-water-based carbon dioxide solvents as part of the"Novel Non-Aqueous CO2 Solvents and Capture Process with Substantially Reduced Energy Penalties" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Research Triangle Institute
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
CO2 Capture Using Electrical Energy
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a process to separate and store carbon dioxide as part of the"Electrochemically Mediated Separation for Carbon Capture and Mitigation" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
CO2 Capture with Liquid-to-Solid Absorbents
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of liquid absorbents as part of the "CO2 Capture Process Using Phase-Changing Absorbents" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
General Electric Global Research
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Composite Membranes for CO2 Capture
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of composite filter membranes as part of the "High Performance Metal Organic Frameworks/Polymer Composite Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Capture" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new system architecture for a solar-electric conversion tower as part of the "High-Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Abengoa Solar, Inc.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cryogenic Carbon Capture
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a process for carbon capture through desublimation as part of the "Cryogenic Carbon Capture" project.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Sustainable Energy Solutions
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library