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Empowering Minority Communities with Health Information - WSSU

Description: Environmental health focus with training conducted as part of the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation/National Library of Medicine HBCU ACCESS Project at Winston-Salem State University, NC on November 10, 2010.
Date: November 10, 2010
Creator: McMurray, L. and W. Templin-Branner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radioactive Waste Conditioning, Immobilisation, And Encapsulation Processes And Technologies: Overview And Advances (Chapter 7)

Description: The main immobilization technologies that are available commercially and have been demonstrated to be viable are cementation, bituminization, and vitrification. Vitrification is currently the most widely used technology for the treatment of high level radioactive wastes (HLW) throughout the world. Most of the nations that have generated HLW are immobilizing in either alkali borosilicate glass or alkali aluminophosphate glass. The exact compositions of nuclear waste glasses are tailored for easy… more
Date: October 19, 2012
Creator: Jantzen, Carol M.; Lee, William E. & Ojovan, Michael I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metabolic Design and Control for Production in Prokaryotes

Description: Prokaryotic life on earth is manifested by its diversity and omnipresence. These microbes serve as natural sources of a large variety of compounds with the potential to serve the ever growing, medicinal, chemical and transportation needs of the human population. However, commercially viable production of these compounds can be realized only through significant improvement of the native production capacity of natural isolates. The most favorable way to achieve this goal is through the genetic ma… more
Date: November 10, 2010
Creator: Chhabra, Swapnil R. & Keasling, J.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Primary Radiation Damage Formation

Description: The physical processes that give rise to changes in the microstructure, and the physical and mechanical properties of materials exposed to energetic particles are initiated by essentially elastic collisions between atoms in what has been called an atomic displacement cascade. The formation and evolution of this primary radiation damage mechanism are described to provide an overview of how stable defects are formed by displacement cascades, as well as the nature and morphology of the defects the… more
Date: January 1, 2012
Creator: Stoller, Roger E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TOXNET and Beyond: Using the National Library of Medicine's Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal

Description: The National Library of Medicine's Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal provides access to numerous databases that can help you explore environmental chemicals and risks. TOXNET and Beyond: Using NLM's Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal conveys the fundamentals of searching the NLM's TOXNET system of databases in chemistry, toxicology, environmental health, and related fields. In addition to TOXNET, the course will highlight various resources available through the Environmental He… more
Date: October 20, 2010
Creator: Templin-Branner, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HIV-AIDS Information Resources from the NLM - ACIO

Description: As the treatment and management of HIV/AIDS continues to evolve with new scientific breakthroughs, treatment discoveries, and management challenges, it is difficult for people living with HIV/AIDS and those who care for them to keep up with the latest information on HIV/AIDS screening and testing, prevention, treatment, and research. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), of the National Institutes of Health, has a wealth of health information resources freely available on the Internet to addr… more
Date: October 1, 2010
Creator: Templin-Branner, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrogeophysics

Description: Developing a predictive understanding of subsurface flow and transport is complicated by the disparity of scales across which controlling hydrological properties and processes span. Conventional techniques for characterizing hydrogeological properties (such as pumping, slug, and flowmeter tests) typically rely on borehole access to the subsurface. Because their spatial extent is commonly limited to the vicinity near the wellbores, these methods often can not provide sufficient information to de… more
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Hubbard, S. S. & Linde, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laser Interactions in Nanomaterials Synthesis

Description: Laser interactions with materials have unique advantages to explore the rapid synthesis, processing, and in situ characterization of high quality and novel nanoparticles, nanotubes and nanowires. For example, laser vaporization of solids into background gases provides a wide range of processing conditions for the formation of nanomaterials by both catalyst-free and catalyst-assisted growth processes. Laser interactions with the growing nanomaterials provide remote in situ characterization of th… more
Date: January 1, 2010
Creator: Geohegan, David B.; Puretzky, Alexander A.; Rouleau, Christopher M.; Jackson, Jeremy Joseph; Eres, Gyula; Xiao, Kai et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Empowering Minority Communities with Health Information - UDC

Description: Training update with Environmental a health focus. Training conducted as part of the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation/National Library of Medicine - HBCU ACCESS Project at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC on November 2, 2010.
Date: November 2, 2010
Creator: McMurray, L.; Foster, R. & Womble, and R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ion exchange phenomena

Description: Ion exchange phenomena involve the population of readily exchangeable ions, the subset of adsorbed solutes that balance the intrinsic surface charge and can be readily replaced by major background electrolyte ions (Sposito, 2008). These phenomena have occupied a central place in soil chemistry research since Way (1850) first showed that potassium uptake by soils resulted in the release of an equal quantity of moles of charge of calcium and magnesium. Ion exchange phenomena are now routinely mod… more
Date: May 1, 2011
Creator: Bourg, I.C. & Sposito, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geologic carbon sequestration as a global strategy to mitigate CO2 emissions: Sustainability and environmental risk

Description: Fossil fuels are abundant, inexpensive to produce, and are easily converted to usable energy by combustion as demonstrated by mankind's dependence on fossil fuels for over 80% of its primary energy supply (13). This reliance on fossil fuels comes with the cost of carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) emissions that exceed the rate at which CO{sub 2} can be absorbed by terrestrial and oceanic systems worldwide resulting in increases in atmospheric CO{sub 2} concentration as recorded by direct measurements … more
Date: April 1, 2011
Creator: Oldenburg, C.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Understanding enzyme catalysis using computer simulation

Description: Enzymes catalyze biochemical reactions with remarkable specificity and efficiency, usually under physiological conditions. Computer simulation is a powerful tool for understanding enzyme catalytic mechanisms, particularly in cases where standard experimental techniques may be of limited utility. Here, we present an overview of the application of computer simulation techniques to understanding enzyme catalytic mechanisms. Examples using quantum chemical methods, as well as combined quantum mecha… more
Date: January 1, 2010
Creator: Parks, Jerry M; Imhof, Petra & Smith, Jeremy C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waters, Seas and Wine: Science for Successful Climate Adaptation

Description: is a growing demand for adaptation science as a vehicle for delivering critical knowledge to public and private organizations that are attempting to adapt to the changing climate. This expansion of adaptation science is occurring, however, in the absence of a robust understanding of how that science can or should contribute to successful adaptation. For the adaptation science enterprise to be successful, it must provide knowledge that has value to adaptation actors. Accomplishing this objective… more
Date: January 1, 2012
Creator: Preston, Benjamin L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ground vibration

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Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Montag, C. & Rossbach, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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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U.S. Patent 8,304,670, Portable Weighing System with Alignment Features

Description: A system for weighing a load is disclosed. The weighing system includes a pad having at least one transducer for weighing a load disposed on the pad. In some embodiments the pad has a plurality of foot members and the weighing system may include a plate that disposed underneath the pad for receiving the plurality of foot members and for aligning the foot members when the weighing system is installed. The weighing system may include a spacer disposed adjacent the pad and in some embodiments, a s… more
Date: January 1, 2012
Creator: Abercrombie, Robert K; Richardson, Gregory; Scudiere, Matthew B & Sheldon, Frederick T
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TOXNET and Beyond - Using the NLMs Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal-February

Description: The purpose of this training is to familiarize participants with reliable online environmental health and toxicology information, from the National Library of Medicine and other reliable sources. Skills and knowledge acquired in this training class will enable participants to access, utilize, and refer others to environmental health and toxicology information.
Date: February 24, 2010
Creator: Templin-Branner, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Motif Tool Assessment Platform (MTAP) for Sequence-Based Transcription Factor Binding Site Prediction Tools.

Description: Predicting transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) from sequence is one of the most challenging problems in computational biology. The development of (semi-)automated computer-assisted prediction methods are needed to find TFBS over an entire genome, which is a first step in reconstructing mechanisms that controls gene activity. Bioinformatics journals continue to publish diverse methods for predicting TFBS on a monthly basis. To help practitioners in deciding which method to use to predict f… more
Date: January 2010
Creator: Quest, Daniel J. & Ali, Hesham
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Role of Disturbance in Dry Tropical Forest Landscapes

Description: Disturbance can be defined as 'any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment'. This definition requires that the spatial and temporal scales of the system and disturbance be determined. Disturbances are typically characterized by their size, spatial distribution, frequency or return time, predictability, and magnitude (which includes both intensity and severity). These … more
Date: January 1, 2011
Creator: Dale, Virginia H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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