Search for Pair Production of First Or Second Generation Leptoquarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC (open access)
Building 419 Closure Report - May 2013 (open access)

Building 419 Closure Report - May 2013

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: Abri, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compact, Inexpensive, Safe, and Rapidly Refuelable Hydrogen Storage in Cryogenic Pressure Vessels (open access)

Compact, Inexpensive, Safe, and Rapidly Refuelable Hydrogen Storage in Cryogenic Pressure Vessels

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Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Aceves, S. M.; Petitpas, G.; Espinosa-Loza, F.; Matthews, M. J. & Ledesma-Orozco, E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY REPORT OPERABLE UNIT-1 LANDFILL TRENCHES, MIAMISBURG CLOSURE PROJECT (open access)

INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY REPORT OPERABLE UNIT-1 LANDFILL TRENCHES, MIAMISBURG CLOSURE PROJECT

INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY REPORT FOR THE OPERABLE UNIT-1 LANDFILL TRENCHES, MIAMISBURG CLOSURE PROJECT, MIAMISBURG, OHIO DCN: 0468-SR-03-0
Date: July 21, 2010
Creator: Adams, W.C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Design Methods And Algorithms For High Energy-Efficient And Low-cost Distillation Processes (open access)

New Design Methods And Algorithms For High Energy-Efficient And Low-cost Distillation Processes

This project sought and successfully answered two big challenges facing the creation of low-energy, cost-effective, zeotropic multi-component distillation processes: first, identification of an efficient search space that includes all the useful distillation configurations and no undesired configurations; second, development of an algorithm to search the space efficiently and generate an array of low-energy options for industrial multi-component mixtures. Such mixtures are found in large-scale chemical and petroleum plants. Commercialization of our results was addressed by building a user interface allowing practical application of our methods for industrial problems by anyone with basic knowledge of distillation for a given problem. We also provided our algorithm to a major U.S. Chemical Company for use by the practitioners. The successful execution of this program has provided methods and algorithms at the disposal of process engineers to readily generate low-energy solutions for a large class of multicomponent distillation problems in a typical chemical and petrochemical plant. In a petrochemical complex, the distillation trains within crude oil processing, hydrotreating units containing alkylation, isomerization, reformer, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and NGL (natural gas liquids) processing units can benefit from our results. Effluents from naphtha crackers and ethane-propane crackers typically contain mixtures of methane, ethylene, ethane, propylene, …
Date: November 21, 2013
Creator: Agrawal, Rakesh
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Purdue Solar Energy Utilization Laboratory (open access)

Purdue Solar Energy Utilization Laboratory

The objective of this project is to establish and set-up a laboratory that will facilitate research and development of new low-cost and high-efficiency solar energy utilization technologies at Purdue University. The outcome will help spur the creation of solar energy start-up companies and eventually a solar energy industry in Indiana that can help fulfill the growing national demand for solar energy.
Date: January 21, 2014
Creator: Agrawal, Rakesh
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recommendations for a Static Cosmic Ray Shield for Enriched Germanium Detectors (open access)

Recommendations for a Static Cosmic Ray Shield for Enriched Germanium Detectors

This document provides a detailed study of cost and materials that could be used to shield the detector material of the international Tonne-scale germanium neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment from hadronic particles from cosmic ray showers at the Earth's surface. This work was motivated by the need for a shield that minimizes activation of the enriched germanium during storage; in particular, when the detector material is being worked on at the detector manufacturer's facility. This work considers two options for shielding the detector material from cosmic ray particles. One option is to use a pre-existing structure already located near the detector manufacturer, such as Canberra Industries in Meriden, Connecticut. The other option is to build a shield onsite at a detector manufacturer's site. This paper presents a cost and efficiency analysis of such construction.
Date: September 21, 2011
Creator: Aguayo Navarrete, Estanislao; Orrell, John L.; Ankney, Austin S. & Berguson, Timothy J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 112th Congress (open access)

International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 112th Congress

Report concerning a variety of issues faced by the 112th Congress. Topics include trade negotiations with South Korea, Panama, Colombia, and China, export controls and sanctions, and international financial institutions.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Background and Analysis (open access)

Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Background and Analysis

This report discusses commercial ties between the United States and the 27-member European Union. While ties between the U.S. and EU are substantial, growing, and mutually beneficial, differences in regulatory approaches limit an even more integrated marketplace from developing. To deal with this situation, a variety of government-to-government efforts have been created to dismantle existing regulatory barriers and to prevent new ones from emerging.
Date: January 21, 2010
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Radiocarbon, Stable Isotopes and DNA in Teeth to Facilitate Identification of Unknown Decedents (open access)

Analysis of Radiocarbon, Stable Isotopes and DNA in Teeth to Facilitate Identification of Unknown Decedents

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Date: August 21, 2012
Creator: Alkass, K.; Saitoh, H.; Buchholz, B. A.; Holmlund, G.; Senn, D. R.; Spalding, K. L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rugby hohlraum campaign on the National Ignition Facility: status and comparison with modeling (open access)

Rugby hohlraum campaign on the National Ignition Facility: status and comparison with modeling

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Date: October 21, 2013
Creator: Amendt, P; Callahan, D A; Hinkel, D; Lasinski, B; Meeker, D; Michel, P et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Averages of B-Hadron, C-Hadron, and Tau-Lepton Properties as of Early 2012 (open access)

Averages of B-Hadron, C-Hadron, and Tau-Lepton Properties as of Early 2012

This report talks about Averages of B-Hadron, C-Hadron, and Tau-Lepton Properties as of Early 2012
Date: December 21, 2012
Creator: Amhis, Y.; /LPHE, Lausanne; Banerjee, Sw.; U., /Victoria; Bernhard, R.; U., /Freiburg et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of inventory data derived fuel characteristics and fire behavior under various environmental conditions. (open access)

Analysis of inventory data derived fuel characteristics and fire behavior under various environmental conditions.

This is a Power Point slide presentation.
Date: February 21, 2013
Creator: Andreu, Anne; Crolley, William & Paresol, Bernard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parity Doubling and the S Parameter Below the Conformal Window (open access)

Parity Doubling and the S Parameter Below the Conformal Window

We describe a lattice simulation of the masses and decay constants of the lowest-lying vector and axial resonances, and the electroweak S parameter, in an SU(3) gauge theory with N{sub f} = 2 and 6 fermions in the fundamental representation. The spectrum becomes more parity doubled and the S parameter per electroweak doublet decreases when N{sub f} is increased from 2 to 6, motivating study of these trends as N{sub f} is increased further, toward the critical value for transition from confinement to infrared conformality.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Appelquist, T; Babich, R; Brower, R C; Cheng, M; Clark, M A; Cohen, S D et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Union: Current Challenges and Future Prospects (open access)

The European Union: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

This report provides a brief history of the European Union (EU) and the major challenges currently confronting the EU as an institution. It also discusses the potential implications both for the EU itself and for U.S.-EU relations.
Date: June 21, 2016
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Union: Questions and Answers (open access)

The European Union: Questions and Answers

This report serves as a primer on the European Union and provides a brief description of U.S.-EU relations that may be of interest in the 114th Congress.
Date: February 21, 2017
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism (open access)

U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

This report examines the evolution of counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and the European Union (EU), particularly since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It includes a discussion of U.S.-EU cooperation progress and ongoing challenges, as well as perspectives and issues for Congress.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

Report that discusses the construction and history of the European Parliament (EP), its role in functions of the EU as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response (open access)

The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response

This report discusses the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and United States policy, strategic and humanitarian response. LRA is an armed group that originated in northern Uganda 24 years ago but has operated since 2006 in the remote border areas between the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan. Led by Joseph Kony, its numbers are tiny, but its actions, which include massacres, mass abductions, sexual assault, and looting, have caused significant human suffering and instability.
Date: November 21, 2011
Creator: Arieff, Alexis & Ploch, Lauren
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bimetallic Lithium Borohydrides Toward Reversible Hydrogen Storage (open access)

Bimetallic Lithium Borohydrides Toward Reversible Hydrogen Storage

Borohydrides such as LiBH{sub 4} have been studied as candidates for hydrogen storage because of their high hydrogen contents (18.4 wt% for LiBH{sub 4}). Limited success has been made in reducing the dehydrogenation temperature by adding reactants such as metals, metal oxides and metal halides. However, full rehydrogenation has not been realized because of multi-step decomposition processes and the stable intermediate species produced. It is suggested that adding second cation in LiBH{sub 4} may reduce the binding energy of B-H. The second cation may also provide the pathway for full rehydrogenation. In this work, several bimetallic borohydrides were synthesized using wet chemistry, high pressure reactive ball milling and sintering processes. The investigation found that the thermodynamic stability was reduced, but the full rehydrogenation is still a challenge. Although our experiments show the partial reversibility of the bimetallic borohydrides, it was not sustainable during dehydriding-rehydriding cycles because of the accumulation of hydrogen inert species.
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Au, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Primer on WIC: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (open access)

A Primer on WIC: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children

The report reviews the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the services and products they provide to women and their infants or children. The report discusses what requirements must be met for WIC and who is eligible to sign up for aid.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Aussenberg, Randy Alison & Kortrey, Julia E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Wind Superconducting Corrector Magnets for the SUPERKEKB IR (open access)

Direct Wind Superconducting Corrector Magnets for the SUPERKEKB IR

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Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: B., Parker; Anerella, M.; Escallier, J.; Ghosh, A.; Jain, A.; Marone, A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water conservation savings quantification study (open access)

Water conservation savings quantification study

This report discusses a series of research tasks regarding approaches to quantifying conservation savings.
Date: February 21, 2012
Creator: BBC Research & Consulting
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prescription Drug Abuse (open access)

Prescription Drug Abuse

This report examines prescription drug abuse in the United States. An estimated 6.8 million individuals currently abuse prescription drugs in the United States. Unlike policy on street drugs, federal policy on prescription drug abuse is complicated by the need to maintain access to prescription controlled substances (PCS) for legitimate medical use. The federal government has several roles in reducing prescription drug abuse.
Date: May 21, 2014
Creator: Bagalman, Erin; Sacco, Lisa N.; Thaul, Susan & Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library