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Texas Judicial System Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Texas Judicial System Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Texas Judicial System (the Texas Judicial Council and the Office of Court Administration) describing judicial branch operations, reports and developments, summaries and analyses of court activities, and providing a directory of judges and clerks.
Date: December 2004
Creator: Texas Judicial Council
System: The Portal to Texas History
Star of the Republic Museum Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Star of the Republic Museum Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Star of the Republic Museum describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2003-2004.
Date: 2004
Creator: Star of the Republic Museum (Washington, Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 20002-2003 (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 20002-2003

Annual compilation summarizing data regarding graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools, including historical information and longitudinal analyses, with information about data collection and other related information.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Accountability Research.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2000-01, National Center for Education Statistics State and District Dropout Counts and Rates (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2000-01, National Center for Education Statistics State and District Dropout Counts and Rates

Supplementary compilation summarizing data regarding graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools broken down by districts (alphabetically) and by various demographic characteristics.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Accountability Research.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grade-Level Retention in Texas Public Schools: 2002-2003 (open access)

Grade-Level Retention in Texas Public Schools: 2002-2003

Annual report of compiled data regarding student retention in Texas public schools, broken down by grade levels, various demographic criteria, and participation in special programs, as well as information regarding data collection and analysis.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Accountability Research.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Texas, 2000-2040: Executive Summary (open access)

The Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Texas, 2000-2040: Executive Summary

A report describing the burden of obesity on healthcare systems in Texas, including future projections of obesity rates and respective expenses. It attributes $4.3 billion expended to the care of "obesity-associated illnesses" (p. 2) and projects substantial increases in the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related expenses in Texas up to 2040.
Date: 2004
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Skill Standards Board Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Texas Skill Standards Board Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Texas Skill Standards Board describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2004.
Date: 2004
Creator: Texas Skill Standards Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2003 (open access)

Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2003

Annual report compiling information about required groundwater monitoring activities and cases of contamination by state-regulated activities during the YYYY calendar year. Includes tables with the enforcement status of each case of contamination.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Sabine River Compact Administration describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2004.
Date: 2004
Creator: Sabine River Compact Administration
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas School and Appraisal Districts' Property Value Study: Preliminary Report, 2004 (open access)

Texas School and Appraisal Districts' Property Value Study: Preliminary Report, 2004

Preliminary findings of a study conducted by the Texas Comptroller's Office to "determine the total taxable value of all property in each school district" (Government Code Section 403.302), to inform the distribution of state funding for public education.
Date: 2004
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority Annual Report: 2003 (open access)

Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority Annual Report: 2003

Annual report of the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2003.
Date: 2004
Creator: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority
System: The Portal to Texas History
Goode No. 8-1 (USACE 200300147): Final Cultural Resoruces Report (open access)

Goode No. 8-1 (USACE 200300147): Final Cultural Resoruces Report

Report that summarizes the cultural resources survey of the potential area of operation for an access road and pipeline.
Date: 2004~
Creator: Sphere 3 Environmental, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Medicaid in Perspective: Fifth Edition (open access)

Texas Medicaid in Perspective: Fifth Edition

Report providing an overview of the Medicaid program, including background, statistics about its use in Texas, services and programs in the state, and other related information.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Courthouse Cornerstones: 2004 (open access)

Courthouse Cornerstones: 2004

Annual progress report for the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program outlining courthouses of importance and projects that are finished, ongoing, and planned.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final environmental impact statement FHWA-TXEIS-99-05-F State highway 121 From IH 30 to FM 1187 Tarrant County - Texas (open access)

Final environmental impact statement FHWA-TXEIS-99-05-F State highway 121 From IH 30 to FM 1187 Tarrant County - Texas

The Report describe the final analysist of environmental impact of tollway in the North Texas particularly in the Interstate Highway (IH) 30 near downtown Fort Worth in Tarrant County to Farm-to-Market Road .
Date: October 2004
Creator: North Texas Tollway Authority
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laws and Rules Governing Pari-Mutuel Racing in Texas (open access)

Laws and Rules Governing Pari-Mutuel Racing in Texas

Replacement pages documenting current proposals and rules updates for the rulebook governing pari-mutuel racing in Texas.
Date: January 2004
Creator: Texas Racing Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2003 (open access)

Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2003

Annual report of the Texas Racing Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2003
Date: May 26, 2004
Creator: Texas Racing Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Lemon Law Annual Report: 2003 (open access)

Texas Lemon Law Annual Report: 2003

Annual report regarding the Lemon Law in Texas describing the complaint system during fiscal year 2003
Date: September 2004
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Consumer Affairs Section.
System: The Portal to Texas History
COG validation: SINBAD Benchmark Problems (open access)

COG validation: SINBAD Benchmark Problems

We validated COG, a 3D Monte Carlo radiation transport code, against experimental data and MNCP4C simulations from the Shielding Integral Benchmark Archive Database (SINBAD) compiled by RSICC. We modeled three experiments: the Osaka Nickel and Aluminum sphere experiments conducted at the OKTAVIAN facility, and the liquid oxygen experiment conducted at the FNS facility. COG results are in good agreement with experimental data and generally within a few % of MCNP results. There are several possible sources of discrepancy between MCNP and COG results: (1) the cross-section database versions are different, MCNP uses ENDFB VI 1.1 while COG uses ENDFB VIR7, (2) the code implementations are different, and (3) the models may differ slightly. We also limited the use of variance reduction methods when running the COG version of the problems.
Date: February 23, 2004
Creator: Lent, E M; Sale, K E; Buck, R M & Descalle, M
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Novel Extended Phases of Molecular Solids at High Pressures and Temperatures (open access)

Synthesis of Novel Extended Phases of Molecular Solids at High Pressures and Temperatures

This study is for in-situ investigation of chemical bonding and molecular structure of low z-elements and simple molecular solids at high pressures and temperatures using 3rd-generation synchrotron x-ray diffraction. To understand the contribution of the empty d-electron orbital of Mg in relation to the formation of molecular solids like MgO, which is one of the important Earth lower mantle materials and MgB{sub 2}, which has recently been the focus of intense superconducting material research, we have performed double-sided laser heating experiments using a diamond anvil cell (DAC). Understanding the structural stability and the formation of the above Mg-compounds requires studying Mg itself as well as the relevant compounds. BL10XU at the Spring-8 was used to study phase stability and make accurate equation of state (EOS) determinations of Mg coupled with external heating and the double-sided laser heating technique. Monochromatic x-ray at 30 keV (0.4135 {angstrom}) was focused to about 40 {micro}m at the sample and the diffracted x-ray were recorded using a high-resolution image plate (3000 x 3000 pixels with a 0.1 mm resolution per pixel). EOS parameters for hcp and bcc Mg were determined by fitting to a Birch-Murnaghan equation. An isothermal compression of Mg at 300 K up …
Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Yoo, C; Evans, W & Cynn, H
System: The UNT Digital Library
EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS. (open access)

EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS.

Effective contaminated land management requires a number of decisions addressing a suite of technical, economic, and social concerns. These concerns include human health risks, ecological risks, economic costs, technical feasibility of proposed remedial actions, and the value society places on clean-up and re-use of formerly contaminated lands. Decision making, in the face of uncertainty and multiple and often conflicting objectives, is a vital and challenging role in environmental management that affects a significant economic activity. Although each environmental remediation problem is unique and requires a site-specific analysis, many of the key decisions are similar in structure. This has led many to attempt to develop standard approaches. As part of the standardization process, attempts have been made to codify specialist expertise into decision support tools. This activity is intended to facilitate reproducible and transparent decision making. The process of codifying procedures has also been found to be a useful activity for establishing and rationalizing management processes. This study will have two primary objectives. The first is to develop taxonomy for Decision Support Tools (DST) to provide a framework for understanding the different tools and what they are designed to address in the context of environmental remediation problems. The taxonomy will have …
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: SULLIVAN, T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Qualitative Risk Assessment for Contaminant Leakage From Coal Seams During Underground Coal Gasification and CO2 Injection (open access)

Rapid Qualitative Risk Assessment for Contaminant Leakage From Coal Seams During Underground Coal Gasification and CO2 Injection

One of the major risks associated with underground coal gasification is contamination of local aquifers with a variety of toxic compounds. It is likely that the rate, volume, extent, and concentrations of contaminant plumes will depend on the local permeability field near the point of gasification. This field depends heavily on the geological history of stratigraphic deposition and the specifics of stratigraphic succession. Some coals are thick and isolated, whereas others are thinner and more regionally expressed. Some coals are overlain by impermeable units, such as marine or lacustrine shales, whereas others are overlain by permeable zones associated with deltaic or fluvial successions. Rapid stratigraphic characterization of the succession provides first order information as to the general risk of contaminant escape, which provides a means of ranking coal contaminant risks by their depositional context. This risk categorization could also be used for ranking the relative risk of CO{sub 2} escape from injected coal seams. Further work is needed to verify accuracy and provide some quantification of risks.
Date: July 2, 2004
Creator: Friedmann, S J
System: The UNT Digital Library
ESTIMATES FOR RELEASE OF RADIONUCLIDES FROM POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED CONCRETE AT THE HADDAM NECK NUCLEAR PLANT. (open access)

ESTIMATES FOR RELEASE OF RADIONUCLIDES FROM POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED CONCRETE AT THE HADDAM NECK NUCLEAR PLANT.

Decommissioning of the Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant operated by Connecticut Yankee is in progress. Figure 1 shows a schematic of the Containment Building and Spent Fuel Pool (SFP) Building. Consideration is being given to leaving some subsurface concrete from the Containment, Spent Fuel and certain other buildings in place following NRC license termination. Characterization data of most of these structures show small amounts of residual contamination. The In-Core Sump area of the Containment Building has shown elevated levels of tritium, Co-60, Fe-55, and Eu-152 and lesser quantities of other radionuclides due to neutron activation of the concrete in this area. This analysis is provided to determine levels of residual contamination that will not cause releases to the groundwater in excess of the acceptable dose limits. The objective is to calculate a conservative relationship between the radionuclide concentration of subsurface concrete and the maximum groundwater concentration (pCi/L) for the concrete that may remain following license termination at Connecticut Yankee.
Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: SULLIVAN, T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formulation of the Linear Response Theory in Relativistic LAPW Method. Calculation of Forces in Alpha-Pu (open access)

Formulation of the Linear Response Theory in Relativistic LAPW Method. Calculation of Forces in Alpha-Pu

Linear-response (LR) theory in combination with the first-principles band structure codes allows to calculate phonons in an efficient way. In this report a formalism which enables us to apply LR theory within an all-electron framework utilizing the relativistic full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave (RFLAPW) method is presented. As first part, the equations for the calculations of the atomic forces are given and they are used for the calculation of forces in {alpha}-Pu. As a second step, a complete set of formulaes for the dynamic matrices calculation is presented.
Date: January 8, 2004
Creator: Kutepov, A L
System: The UNT Digital Library