Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission (open access)

Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission

Text of laws governing real estate in Texas.
Date: June 1, 2001
Creator: Texas Real Estate Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Guardianship Issues Biennial Report: 2000 (open access)

Texas Guardianship Issues Biennial Report: 2000

Report to the Texas Legislature on guardianship issues including legislative actions, programs, organizations, and judicial actions.
Date: December 1, 2000
Creator: Guardianship Alliance of Texas
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: January 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: January 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: January 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: January 2001 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: January 2001

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: January 1, 2001
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: July 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: July 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: July 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: June 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: June 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: April 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: April 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: August 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: August 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: August 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: December 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: December 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: December 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: February 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: February 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: May 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: May 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: November 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: November 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: September 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: September 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: September 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance of Field Sites for the Study of Chemical Weathering on the Guayana Shield, South America (open access)

Reconnaissance of Field Sites for the Study of Chemical Weathering on the Guayana Shield, South America

Despite the fact that chemical weathering of silicate rocks plays an important role in the draw-down of CO{sub 2} over geologic time scales (Berner and Berner, 1996), the overall controls on the rate of chemical weathering are still not completely understood. Lacking a mechanistic understanding of these controls, it remains difficult to evaluate a hypothesis such as that presented by Raymo and Ruddiman (1992), who suggested that enhanced weathering and CO{sub 2} draw-down resulting from the uplift of the Himalayas contributed to global cooling during the Cenozoic. At an even more fundamental level, the three to four order of magnitude discrepancy between laboratory and field weathering rates is still unresolved (White et al., 1996). There is as yet no comprehensive, mechanistic model for silicate chemical weathering that considers the coupled effects of precipitation, vadose zone flow, and chemical reactions. The absence of robust process models for silicate weathering and the failure to resolve some of these important questions may in fact be related-the controls on the overall rates of weathering cannot be understood without considering the weathering environment as one in which multiple, time-dependent chemical and physical processes are coupled (Malmstrom, 2000). Once chemical weathering is understood at a mechanistic …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Steefell, C. I.; Viani, B. E.; Ramirez, A. & Lee, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Compressed Air Systems;Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) Compressed Air Tip Sheet No.6 (open access)

Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Compressed Air Systems;Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) Compressed Air Tip Sheet No.6

BestPractices Program tip sheet discussing preventive maintenance strategies for compressed air systems.
Date: August 1, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reducing the longitudinal emittance of the 8-GeV beam via the rf manipulation in a booster cycle (open access)

Reducing the longitudinal emittance of the 8-GeV beam via the rf manipulation in a booster cycle

Bunch rotation will cause the longitudinal emittance growth whenever there are far more A rf stations than B rf stations, or vice versa. An alternate method via optimizing the RFSUM curve in a Booster cycle has been investigated using the ESME simulation. Since the rf manipulation at transition crossing can reduce the longitudinal emittance 31% and the momentum spread 17%, eventually, the rms momentum spread of 2.98 MeV and the longitudinal emittance of 0.061 eV {center_dot} sec with 95% of the beam can be achieved at 8-GeV.
Date: August 1, 2005
Creator: Yang, Xi; Lebedev, Valeri A. & Ankenbrandt, Charles M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights into the Dynamic Response of Tunnels in Jointed Rocks (open access)

Insights into the Dynamic Response of Tunnels in Jointed Rocks

Tunnels in jointed rocks can be subjected to severe dynamic loads because of rock bursts, coal bumps, and large earthquakes. A series of 3-dimensional simulations was performed, based on discrete element analysis to gain insights into the parameters that influence the response of such tunnels. The simulations looked at the effect of joint set orientation, the effect of joint spacing, the effect of pulse shape for a given displacement, and the influence of using rigid versus deformable blocks in the analyses. The results of this modeling were also compared to field evidence of dynamic tunnel failures. This comparison reinforced the notion that 3-dimensional discrete element analysis can capture very well the kinematics of structures in jointed rock under dynamic loading.
Date: November 1, 2004
Creator: Heuze, F E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Wind Electric Systems: An Idaho Consumer's Guide (Revised) (open access)

Small Wind Electric Systems: An Idaho Consumer's Guide (Revised)

Small Wind Electric Systems: An Idaho Consumer's Guide provides consumers with information to help them determine whether a small wind electric system can provide all or a portion of the energy they need for their home or business based on their wind resource, energy needs, and their economics. Topics discussed in the guide include how to make a home more energy efficient, how to choose the correct turbine size, the parts of a wind electric system, how to determine whether enough wind resource exists, how to choose the best site for a turbine, how to connect a system to the utility grid, and whether it's possible to become independent of the utility grid using wind energy. In addition, the cover of the guide contains a regional wind resource map and a list of incentives and contacts for more information.
Date: August 1, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance Evaluations of Prototype Houses: Minimum 40% Residential Building Energy Savings Level Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh Liberty Street Project: April 2003--September 2004 (open access)

Performance Evaluations of Prototype Houses: Minimum 40% Residential Building Energy Savings Level Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh Liberty Street Project: April 2003--September 2004

Habitat for Humanity International (HfHI) is a nonprofit organization that engages volunteers and would-be homebuyers in programs that emphasize sweat-equity and self-help. Habitat is among the top-ten housing producers in the United States. In collaboration with the HfHI Department of Construction & Environmental Resources, Steven Winter Associates, Inc., (SWA) began working with the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh (HfHGN) affiliate in Newburgh, New York, in April 2003. Since October 1999, HfHGN has acquired and renovated abandoned houses for an average cost of $45,000 per home. The affiliate serves area families living in overcrowded, substandard housing and spending 50% to 80% of their income on housing. In August 2003, HfHGN began their first new construction project, six row houses located on Liberty Street in Newburgh.
Date: June 1, 2005
Creator: Guilbert, R. & Magee, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward understanding environmental effects in SDSS clusters (open access)

Toward understanding environmental effects in SDSS clusters

We find clusters and superclusters of galaxies using the Data Release 1 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We determine the luminosity function of clusters and find that clusters in a high-density environment have a luminosity a factor of {approx}5 higher than in a low-density environment. We also study clusters and superclusters in numerical simulations. Simulated clusters in a high-density environment are also more massive than those in a low-density environment. Comparison of the density distribution at various epochs in simulations shows that in large low-density regions (voids) dynamical evolution is very slow and stops at an early epoch. In contrast, in large regions of higher density (superclusters) dynamical evolution starts early and continues until the present; here particles cluster early, and by merging of smaller groups very rich systems of galaxies form.
Date: November 1, 2004
Creator: Einasto, Jaan; Tago, E.; Einasto, M.; Saar, E.; Suhhonenko, I.; Heinamaki, P. et al.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Weak lensing bispectrum (open access)

The Weak lensing bispectrum

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point function of the cosmic shear, the three-point function, the bispectrum, also contains very useful cosmological information. Here, we compute three corrections to the bispectrum which are nominally of the same order as the leading term. We show that the corrections are small, so they can be ignored when analyzing present surveys. However, they will eventually have to be included for accurate parameter estimates from future surveys.
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Dodelson, Scott & Zhang, Pengjie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis and Comparison of Test Results from the Small Wind Research Turbine Test Project: Preprint (open access)

Analysis and Comparison of Test Results from the Small Wind Research Turbine Test Project: Preprint

Most small wind turbines furl (yaw or tilt out of the wind) as a means of limiting power and rotor speeds in high winds. The Small Wind Research Turbine (SWRT) testing project was initiated in 2003 with the goal of better characterizing both small wind turbine loads (including thrust) and dynamic behavior, specifically as they relate to furling. The main purpose of the testing was to produce high-quality data sets for model development and validation and to help the wind industry further their understanding of small wind turbine behavior. Testing was conducted on a modified Bergey Excel 10-kW wind turbine. A special shaft sensor was designed to measure shaft loads including thrust, torque, and shaft bending. Analysis of 10-minute mean data showed a strong correlation between furling and center of thrust location, as calculated from the shaft-bending and thrust measurements. Data were collected for three different turbine configurations that included a change in the lateral furling offset and the blades. An analysis of inflow conditions indicated that organized atmospheric turbulence had some impact on furling.
Date: November 1, 2004
Creator: Corbus, D. & Prascher, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.8-TeV (open access)

Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.8-TeV

We present the first measurement of the A{sub 2} and A{sub 3} angular coefficients of the W boson produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We study W {yields} ev{sub e} and W {yields} {mu}{nu}{sub {mu}} candidate events produced in association with at least one jet at CDF, during Run Ia and Run Ib of the Tevatron at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV. The corresponding integrated luminosity was 110 pb{sup -1}. The jet balances the transverse momentum of the W and introduces QCD effects in W boson production. The extraction of the angular coefficients is achieved through the direct measurement of the azimuthal angle of the charged lepton in the Collins-Soper rest-frame of the W boson. The angular coefficients are measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the W boson. The electron, muon, and combined results are in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction, up to order {alpha}{sub s}{sup 2} in QCD.
Date: April 1, 2005
Creator: Acosta, D.; Affolder, Anthony A.; Albrow, M. G.; Ambrose, D.; Amidei, D.; Anikeev, K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library