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Let's Do

Description: In the nine stories of Let’s Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle with—and more often against—change. “Rebecca Meacham has one of the freshest voices I've encountered in a long time. Blatantly wise, she creates stories that are deliciously subversive, brave and outrageous, reminiscent of a young Alice Ho… more
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Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Meacham, Rebecca
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Homeland Security: Further Action Needed to Promote Successful Use of Special DHS Acquisition Authority

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Homeland Security Act of 2002 authorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a pilot program for the use of acquisition agreements known as "other transactions." Because they are exempt from many of the requirements that apply to government contracts, other transactions can be useful in acquiring cutting-edge technologies from entities that traditionally have declined to do busine… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Patient Safety Program: A Cultural Perspective at Four Medical Facilities

Description: A chapter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) introduced its Patient Safety Program in 1999 in order to discover and fix system flaws that could harm patients. The Program process relies on staff reports of close calls and adverse events. GAO found that achieving success requires a cultural shift from fear of punishment for reporting close calls and adverse events to mutual trust and comfort in reporting the… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Simplified Design Criteria for Very High Temperature Applications in Generation IV Reactors

Description: The goal of this activity is to provide simplified criteria which can be used in rapid feasibility assessments of the structural viability of very high temperature components in conceptual and early preliminary design phases for Generation IV reactors. The current criteria in ASME Code Section III, Subsection NH, hereafter referred to as NH, (and Code Case N-201 for core support structures) are difficult and require a complex deconstruction of finite element analysis results for their implement… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: McGreevy, TE
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Smart Libraries: Best SQE Practices for Libraries with an Emphasis on Scientific Computing

Description: As scientific computing applications grow in complexity, more and more functionality is being packaged in independently developed libraries. Worse, as the computing environments in which these applications run grow in complexity, it gets easier to make mistakes in building, installing and using libraries as well as the applications that depend on them. Unfortunately, SQA standards so far developed focus primarily on applications, not libraries. We show that SQA standards for libraries differ fr… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Miller, M C; Reus, J F; Matzke, R P; Koziol, Q A & Cheng, A P
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act

Description: This report includes information regarding the implementation of the Clean Water Act. Total maximum daily load requirements, funding issues, and stormwater discharges are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees]

Description: Letter from Becky Levy to General-Purpose Political Committees County Executive Committees on June 18, 2005 discussing a semiannual campaign finance report with the Texas Ethics Commission due on July 18, 2005. Includes information regarding electronic filing, exemption from electronic filling, cash on hand, corporate expenditures for administration or solicitation purposes, civil penalty for late filing, filing deadline, filing schedules, website address, questions, and software instructions f… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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How to Find Information in a Library and on the Internet

Description: This guide to finding information in libraries and on the Internet has been prepared for constituents who want to learn more about topics that interest them. It includes background directories, current information, reference books, and websites for government, politics, legislation, and other sources. It lists a number of Internet search engines, which can be used at many public libraries. It also suggests guides on how to search, including one for kids.
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Platt, Suzy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Alliance for Clean Energy Incubators New Mexico Clean Energy Incubator

Description: The National Alliance for Clean Energy Incubators was established by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop an emerging network of business incubators for entrepreneurs specializing in clean energy enterprises. The Alliance provides a broad range of business services to entrepreneurs in specific geographic locales across the U.S. and in diverse clean energy technology areas such as fuel cells, alternative fuels, power generation, and renewables, to name a few. Technology Ven… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Roberts, Suzanne S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermophysical Properties of Heat Resistant Shielding Material

Description: This project was aimed at determining thermal conductivity, specific heat and thermal expansion of a heat resistant shielding material for neutron absorption applications. These data are critical in predicting the structural integrity of the shielding under thermal cycling and mechanical load. The measurements of thermal conductivity and specific heat were conducted in air at five different temperatures (-31 F, 73.4 F, 140 F, 212 F and 302 F). The transient plane source (TPS) method was used in… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Porter, W.D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catalyzed hydrogenation of nitrogen and ethylene on metal (Fe, Pt) single crystal surfaces and effects of coadsorption: A sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy study

Description: High-pressure catalytic reactions and associated processes, such as adsorption have been studied on a molecular level on single crystal surfaces. Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy together with Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD) and Gas Chromatography (GC) were used to investigate the nature of species on catalytic surfaces and to measure the catalytic reaction rates. Special attention has been directed at studying high-pressure reac… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Westerberg, Staffan Per Gustav
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Mercury Continuous Emission Monitor

Description: The Sensor Research & Development Corporation (SRD) has undertaken the development of a Continuous Emissions Monitor (CEM) for mercury based on the technique of Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRD). The project involved building an instrument for the detection of trace levels of mercury in the flue gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. The project has occurred over two phases. The first phase concentrated on the development of the ringdown cavity and the actual detection of mercury. The se… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Carter, Christopher C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ultrasonic Concentration in a Line-Driven Cylindrical Tube

Description: The fractionation of particles from their suspending fluid or noninvasive micromanipulation of particles in suspension has many applications ranging from the recovery of valuable reagents from process flows to the fabrication of microelectromechanical devices. Techniques based on size, density, solubility, or electromagnetic properties exist for fulfilling these needs, but many particles have traits that preclude their use such as small size, neutral buoyancy, or uniform electromagnetic charact… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Goddard, G.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strategies for Detecting Hidden Geothermal Systems by Near-Surface Gas Monitoring

Description: ''Hidden'' geothermal systems are those systems above which hydrothermal surface features (e.g., hot springs, fumaroles, elevated ground temperatures, hydrothermal alteration) are lacking. Emissions of moderate to low solubility gases (e.g., CO2, CH4, He) may be one of the primary near-surface signals from these systems. Detection of anomalous gas emissions related to hidden geothermal systems may therefore be an important tool to discover new geothermal resources. This study investigates the p… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Lewicki, Jennifer L. & Oldenburg, Curtis M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities

Description: The predicted proteins encoded in DNA isolated from environmental microbial community samples reveal habitat-specific metabolic demands.
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Tringe, Susannah Green; von Mering, Christian; Kobayashi, Arthur; Salamov, Asaf A.; Chen, Kevin; Chang, Hwai W. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Port and Harbor Security

Description: Port and Harbor Security is a daunting task to which optics and photonics offers significant solutions. We are pleased to report that the 2005 Defense and Security Symposium (DSS, Orlando, FL) will include reports on active and passive photonic systems operating from both airborne and subsurface platforms. In addition to imaging techniques, there are various photonic applications, such as total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF), which can be used to ''sniff'' for traces of explosives or c… more
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Saito, T.; Guthmuller, H. & DeWeert, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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