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Crop Physiology

Description: In this chapter, we review the physiology of switchgrass from seed dormancy till the effects of water and nutrients stress on grown plants. These characteristics are presented and discussed mainly at the canopy and whole-plant level with emphasis on the agro-physiology of the species in view of the possible contribution of crop physiology to agricultural development. Switchgrass is noted for the variable degrees of seed dormancy regulated by endogenous and exogenous factors that determine the s… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Zegada-Lizarazu, Walter; Wullschleger, Stan D; Nair, S. Surendran & Monti, Andrea
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Soybean Oil Derivatives for Fuel and Chemical Feedstocks

Description: Plant based sources of hydrocarbons are being considered as alternatives to petrochemicals because of the need to conserve petroleum resources for reasons of national security and climate change. Changes in fuel formulations to include ethanol from corn sugar and methyl esters from soybean oil are examples of this policy in the United States and elsewhere. Replacements for commodity chemicals are also being considered, as this value stream represents much of the profit for the oil industry and … more
Date: January 2013
Creator: McFarlane, Joanna
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Plant Cell Walls: Basics of Structure, Chemistry, Accessibility and the Influence on Conversion - Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals

Description: This book is focused on the pretreatment of biomass, a necessary step for efficient conversion of the plant cell wall materials to fuels and other products. Pretreatment is required because it is difficult to access, separate, and release the monomeric sugars comprising the biopolymers within the biomass that can be further upgraded to products through chemical processes such as aqueous phase reforming or biological routes such as fermentation of the sugars to ethanol This resistance to degrada… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Davison, Brian H; Davis, Dr. Mark F.; Parks, Jerry M & Donohoe, Bryan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Patent 8,410,952, Method for Forewarning of Critical Condition Changes in Monitoring Civil Structures

Description: Sensor modules including accelerometers are placed on a physical structure and tri-axial accelerometer data is converted to mechanical power (P) data which then processed to provide a forewarning of a critical event concerning the physical structure. The forewarning is based on a number of occurrences of a composite measure of dissimilarity (Ci) exceeding a forewarning threshold over a defined sampling time; and a forewarning signal is provided to a human observer through a visual, audible or t… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Abercrombie, Robert K & Hively, Lee M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Folk Songs of Lamkaang

Description: Collection of the lyrics for Lamkang-language folk songs. It includes statements from various persons involved, biographical information about former village chiefs, tables of Lamkang/English/Manipuri equivalencies, and photos of people and instruments.
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Khullar, Beshot
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Modeling for Integrating Science and Management

Description: Modeling relationships between land-management practices and resulting changes in carbon, nitrogen, albedo, and other factors is complex. Even so, such modeling can be used to integrate scientific knowledge and provide a bridge between scientific understanding and policy. Yet, too often decision makers have a poor understanding of the underlying models and thus may misinterpret the implications. More often, decision makers diminish model results as fictitious, for they do not recognize the vali… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Dale, Virginia H. & Kline, Keith L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2013 Proceedings of the Eight Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop

Description: Today's cyberspace is a powerful, virtual environment enabled by our global digital infrastructure that provides a bright landscape for commerce, science, education, communication, and government. The future of America's prosperity hinges on rebalancing cyberspace to mitigate threats and maximize benefits, ensuring security and privacy in a constantly changing adversarial environment. Recognizing this great need, we requested original paper submissions in four general areas derived from the Fed… more
Date: January 2013
Creator: Sheldon, Frederick T.; Giani, Annarita N.; Krings, Axel & Abercrombie, Robert K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and Implementation of a Scalable Membership Service for Supercomputer Resiliency-Aware Runtime

Description: As HPC systems and applications get bigger and more complex, we are approaching an era in which resiliency and run-time elasticity concerns become paramount. We offer a building block for an alternative resiliency approach in which computations will be able to make progress while components fail, in addition to enabling a dynamic set of nodes throughout a computation lifetime. The core of our solution is a hierarchical scalable membership service providing eventual consistency semantics. An att… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Tock, Yoav; Mandler, Benjamin; Moreira, Jose & Jones, Terry R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Patent 8,389,878, Weigh-in-Motion Scale with Foot Alignment Features

Description: A pad is disclosed for use in a weighing system for weighing a load. The pad includes a weighing platform, load cells, and foot members. Improvements to the pad reduce or substantially eliminate rotation of one or more of the corner foot members. A flexible foot strap disposed between the corner foot members reduces rotation of the respective foot members about vertical axes through the corner foot members and couples the corner foot members such that rotation of one corner foot member results … more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Abercrombie, Robert K; Richardson, Gregory & Scudiere, Matthew B
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, January 19, 2013

Description: Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.
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Date: January 19, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Ozer, Emre Ersin
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Low Temperature Carburization

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Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Heuer, Arthur; Qu, Jun & O’Donnell, Lucas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Volume- and Caesiated-Volume Negative Ion Sources

Description: H- volume sources and especially caesiated H- volume sources are important ion sources for generating high intensity proton beams, which then in turn generate large quantities of other particles. This paper discusses the physics and technology of the volume production and the caesium enhanced (surface) production of H- ions. Starting with Bacal s discovery of the H- volume production, the paper briefly recounts the development of some H- sources, which capitalized on this process to significant… more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Stockli, Martin P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Inter-Vehicle Communication Using Network Simulator

Description: Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) could be an important component of next-generation Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). It provides wireless connectivity among traveling vehicles to exchange real-time road condition and traffic information to support safe driving and traffic management. IVC system can be considered as a special form of mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The MANET and IVC are both hot issues for researches. However, there are few domestic literatures combining the two topics. … more
Date: January 1, 2013
Creator: Lu, Wei
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 2013]

Description: Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from January through June in 2013.
Date: 2013-01/2013-06
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Igor Juric, January 12, 2013

Description: Interview with Igor Juric, an immigrant from Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Juric discusses growing up in Yugoslavia, fleeing to Vela Luka at the start of the Bosnian Wars, returning to Konjic and living in the midst of conflict, fleeing to Germany via Čapljina, moving to the Colony, Texas, and adjusting to life in America.
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Date: January 12, 2013
Creator: McKee, David & Juric, Igor
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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