Texas Travel Log, June 2007 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, June 2007

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: June 2007
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Lemon Law Annual Report: 2000 (open access)

Texas Lemon Law Annual Report: 2000

Annual report regarding the Lemon Law in Texas describing complaint process, complaint fileds, complaints closed during fiscal year 2000
Date: June 2001
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Consumer Affairs Section.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2002 (open access)

Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2002

Annual report of the Texas Racing Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2002
Date: June 17, 2002
Creator: Texas Racing Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction Contract General Provisions (open access)

Construction Contract General Provisions

This document outlines Texas laws and regulations related to contracting for airport construction.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Texas. Division of Aviation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Renewable Energy and Your Electric Utility (open access)

Renewable Energy and Your Electric Utility

Bulletin describing Texans' desire to move towards renewable energy and the possibilities that energy offers.
Date: June 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. State Energy Conservation Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rural Renewable Applications (open access)

Rural Renewable Applications

Bulletin describing agricultural producers' usage of renewable energies in Texas.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Texas. State Energy Conservation Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, June 2005 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, June 2005

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, June 2004 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, June 2004

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highways, Volume 55, Number 6, June 2008 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 55, Number 6, June 2008

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, June 2002 (open access)

Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, June 2002

Monthly newsletter of the general manage at the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to water in southern Texas.
Date: June 2002
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highways, Volume 56, Number 6, June 2009 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 56, Number 6, June 2009

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state.
Date: June 2009
Creator: Texas. Travel Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highways, Volume 54, Number 6, June 2007 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 54, Number 6, June 2007

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state.
Date: June 2007
Creator: Texas. Travel Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
White-tailed Deer (open access)

White-tailed Deer

Pamphlet describing the White-tailed Deer including physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and other information, with a shaded map to show where it can be found in Texas.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marbled Salamander (open access)

Marbled Salamander

Pamphlet describing the Marbled Salamander including physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and other information, with a shaded map to show where it can be found in Texas.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
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
Stress Testing and Shoring Up Bank Capital (open access)

Stress Testing and Shoring Up Bank Capital

June report of the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel describing their activities and findings regarding the stress testing of banks by federal banking regulators to examine the ability of banks to continue operations in a weaker than expected economic environment.
Date: June 9, 2009
Creator: United States. Congressional Oversight Panel.
Object Type: Report
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
Paradyn a parallel nonlinear, explicit, three-dimensional finite-element code for solid and structural mechanics user manual (open access)

Paradyn a parallel nonlinear, explicit, three-dimensional finite-element code for solid and structural mechanics user manual

ParaDyn is a parallel version of the DYNA3D computer program, a three-dimensional explicit finite-element program for analyzing the dynamic response of solids and structures. The ParaDyn program has been used as a production tool for over three years for analyzing problems which range in size from a few tens of thousands of elements to between one-million and ten-million elements. ParaDyn runs on parallel computers provided by the Department of Energy Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) and the Department of Defense High Performance Computing and Modernization Program. Preprocessing and post-processing software utilities and tools are designed to facilitate the generation of partitioned domains for processors on a massively parallel computer and the visualization of both resultant data and boundary data generated in a parallel simulation. This manual provides a brief overview of the parallel implementation; describes techniques for running the ParaDyn program, tools and utilities; and provides examples of parallel simulations.
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Hoover, C G; DeGroot, A J & Sherwood, R J
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Predicting Human Thermal Comfort in Automobiles

The objects of this report are to: (1) increase national energy security by reducing fuel use for vehicle climate control systems; (2) show/demonstrate technology that can reduce the fuel used by LD vehicles' ancillary systems; and (3) develop tools to evaluate the effectiveness of energy-efficient systems including--comfort, cost, practicality, ease-of-use, and reliability.
Date: June 1, 2005
Creator: Rugh, J.; Bharathan, D. & Chaney, L.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of Ultra Low Outgassing Rates for NLC UHV Vacuum Chambers (open access)

Measurement of Ultra Low Outgassing Rates for NLC UHV Vacuum Chambers

Ultra low outgassing rates would be highly advantageous in accelerators and storage rings, such as the Next Linear Collider (NLC), where an outgassing rate of <10{sup -12} Torr liter/sec/cm{sup 2} could eliminate the need for costly distributed pumping. Measuring such low outgassing rates at room temperature has many difficulties. However, by inspection of Fick's law, it can be seen that thermal desorption is proportional to outgassing rate. It is commonly observed that the outgas rate doubles approximately every 15 C for temperatures under 100 C. By measuring outgassing rate versus temperature and time and extrapolating back to room temperature we can measure outgassing rates that would otherwise be difficult to make. To produce a reliable measurement also requires the total surface area under study to be approximately an order of magnitude greater than the area of the measurement chamber walls. To accomplish this, 27 plates of 5083 aluminum were placed in the measurement chamber. This technique will be the basis for future investigation of outgassing rates of other sample plates fabricated with different machining and cleaning techniques.
Date: June 12, 2001
Creator: Kishiyama, K.; Shen, S.; Behne, D.; Corlett, J. N.; Atkinson, D.; Kennedy, K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative x-ray backlighter intensity comparison of ti and ti/sc combination foils driven in double-sided and single-sided laser configuration (open access)

Relative x-ray backlighter intensity comparison of ti and ti/sc combination foils driven in double-sided and single-sided laser configuration

Use of multiple backlighter foils and/or double-sided laser interaction geometry with backlit imaging can result in improved backlighter efficiency. An experimental comparison of backlighter intensity for Ti foils and Ti/Sc combination foils in both the one-sided and double-sided laser-interaction configuration is presented. Spectrally-integrated framing camera images show intensity contributions of front and rear backlighter surfaces for both foil types. Analysis of time-resolved x-ray spectra collected from foil targets show the relative contribution of Ti and Sc 2-1 He-like resonance lines to the total backlighter intensity.
Date: June 5, 2000
Creator: Bullock, A. B.; Landen, O. L. & Bradley, D. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulating Electron Cloud Effects in Heavy-Ion Beams (open access)

Simulating Electron Cloud Effects in Heavy-Ion Beams

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Date: June 4, 2004
Creator: Cohen, R; Friedman, A; Lund, S; Molvik, A; Azevedo, T; Vay, J et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What is a Shock Wave to an Explosive Molecule? (open access)

What is a Shock Wave to an Explosive Molecule?

An explosive molecule is a metastable chemical species that reacts exothermically given the correct stimulus. Impacting an explosive with a shock wave is a ''wake-up call'' or ''trigger'' which compresses and heats the molecule. The energy deposited by the shock wave must be distributed to the vibrational modes of the explosive molecule before chemical reaction can occur. If the shock pressure and temperature are high enough and last long enough, exothermic chemical decomposition can lead to the formation of a detonation wave. For gaseous, liquid, and perfect single crystal solid explosives, after an induction time, chemical reaction begins at or near the rear boundary of the charge. This induction time can be calculated by high pressure, high temperature transition state theory. A ''superdetonation'' wave travels through the preshocked explosive until it overtakes the initial shock wave and then slows to the steady state Chapman-Jouguet (C-J) velocity. In heterogeneous solid explosives, initiation of reaction occurs at ''hot spots'' created by shock compression. If there is a sufficient number of large and hot enough ''hot spots,'' these ignition sites grow creating a pressure pulse that overtakes the leading shock front causing detonation. Since the chemical energy is released well behind the leading …
Date: June 12, 2001
Creator: Tarver, Craig M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fs Laser Fabrication of Photonic Structures in Glass: the Role of Glass Composition (open access)

Fs Laser Fabrication of Photonic Structures in Glass: the Role of Glass Composition

The use of fs lasers to directly write photonic structures inside a glass has great potential as a fabrication method for three-dimensional all-optical integrated components. The ability to use this technique with different glass compositions--specifically tailored for a specific photonics application--is critical to its successful exploitation. Consequently, it is important to understand how glass composition effects waveguide fabrication with fs laser pulses and how different glasses are structurally modified after exposure to fs laser pulses. We have used confocal laser spectroscopy to monitor the changes in glass structure that are associated with waveguide fabrication. Using a low power continuous wave (cw) Ar laser as excitation source we have measured both Raman and fluorescence spectra of the modified regions. Raman spectroscopy provides us with information on the network structure, whereas fluorescence measurements reveal the presence of optically active point defects in the glass. In this paper we review our work on fs-laser fabrication and characterization of photonic structures in glass and discuss the effect of glass composition on processing parameters and structural modification.
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Krol, D M; Chan, J W; Huser, T R; Risbud, S H & Hayden, J S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library