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Defense Critical Infrastructure: Developing Training Standards and an Awareness of Existing Expertise Would Help DOD Assure the Availability of Critical Infrastructure

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on a global network of DOD and non-DOD infrastructure so critical that its unavailability could have a debilitating effect on DOD's ability to project, support, and sustain its forces and operations worldwide. DOD established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) to assure the availability of mission-critical infrastructure. GAO was asked to evaluate t… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technical Report - Final report

Description: This project was a collaborative effort between Dr Teresa Burns and Dr John Larese to study the physisorption of polar molecules on ionic substrates. The work will be completed at both Coastal Carolina University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The goals of the research are: 1) to provide detailed thermodynamic information about dipolar molecules adsorbed on ionic substrates, critical to accurately modeling the systems of interest using a spin-1 Ising model; 2) to study the structure of the… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Burns, Teresa
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Target design optimization for an electron accelerator driven subcritical facility with circular and square beam profiles.

Description: A subcritical facility driven by an electron accelerator is planned at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT) in Ukraine for medical isotope production, materials research, training, and education. The conceptual design of the facility is being pursued through collaborations between ANL and KIPT. As part of the design effort, the high-fidelity analyses of various target options are performed with formulations to reflect the realistic configuration and the three dimensional geome… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Gohar, M. Y. A; Sofu, T.; Zhong, Z.; Belch, H.; Naberezhnev, D. & Division, Nuclear Engineering
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CP Violation in Hadronic Penguins at BABAR

Description: The authors present preliminary measurements of time-dependent CP-violation parameters in the decay B{sup 0} {yields} {omega}K{sub S}{sup 0}, B{sup 0} {yields} {eta}{prime}K{sup 0}, B{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0}, B{sup 0} {yields} {phi}K{sub S}{sup 0}{pi}{sup 0}, and B{sup 0} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -}K{sub S}{sup 0}, which includes the resonant final states {phi}K{sub S}{sup 0} and f{sub 0}(980)K{sub S}{sup 0}. The data sample corresponds to the full BABAR dataset of 467 x 10{sup… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Hirschauer, J. & Collaboration, for the BABAR
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Closed Crawl Space Performance: Proof of Concept in the Production Builder Marketplace

Description: This overview is intended to be a very concise, limited summary of the key project activities discussed in the detailed report that follows. Due to the large scope of this project, the detailed report is broken into three individually titled sections. Each section repeats key background information, with the goal that the sections will eventually stand alone as complete reports on the major activities of the project. The information presented herein comes from ongoing research, so please note t… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Malkin-Weber, Melissa; Dastur, Cyrus; Mauceri, Maria & Hannas, Benjamin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report: Technical Support for Innovative Energy Systems the U.S. Chemical Industry -- Innovative Energy Systems Pilot Project - Chemicals Project Integrator

Description: The University of Illinois at Chicago Energy Resources Center (UIC/ERC) was originally selected to carry out the role of project integrator for a planned solicitation calling for proposals for innovative concepts for energy efficient systems in the chemical industry. The selection was made as a result of a DOE Announcement of Funding Opportunity issued by the DOE Golden Field Office. The U.S. DOE, due to funding constraints, decided to change the role of project integrator into one of technical… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Investigator, John Cuttica - Principal & Engineer, Dr Steffen Mueller - Lead
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On the Jarzynski relation for dissipative quantumdynamics

Description: In this note, we will discuss how to compactly express the Jarzynski identity for an open quantum system with dissipative dynamics. In quantum dynamics we must avoid explicitly measuring the work directly, which is tantamount to continuously monitoring the state of the system, and instead measure the heat ?ow from the environment. These measurements can be concisely represented with Hermitian map superoperators, which provide a convenient and compact representations of correlation functions and… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Crooks, Gavin E
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SALTSTONE AND RADIONUCLIDE INTERACTIONS: RADIONUCLIDE SORPTION AND DESORPTION, AND SALTSTONE REDUCTION CAPACITY

Description: The overall objective of this study was to measure a number of key input parameters quantifying geochemical processes in the subsurface environment of the Savannah River Site's (SRS's) Saltstone Facility. For the first time, sorption (K{sub d}) values of numerous radionuclides were measured with Saltstone and Vault 2 concrete. Particular attention was directed at understanding how Tc adsorbs and desorbs from these cementitious materials with the intent to demonstrate that desorption occurs at a… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Kaplan, D; Kimberly Roberts, K; Steven Serkiz, S & Matthew Siegfried, M
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ARM Mobile Facility Surface Meteorology Handbook - October 2008

Description: The ARM Mobile Facility Surface Meteorology station (AMF MET) uses mainly conventional in situ sensors to obtain 1-minute statistics of surface wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, and rain-rate. Additional sensors may be added to or removed from the base set of sensors depending upon the deployment location, climate regime or programmatic needs. Additionally, sensor types may change depending upon the climate regime of the deployment. These chang… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Ritsche, M. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FINAL REPORT: An Integrated Inter-temporal Analysis of Land Use Change in Forestry and Agriculture: An Assessment of the Influence of Technological Change on Carbon Sequestration and Land Use.

Description: This project built a global land use model to examine the implications of land based carbon sequestration on land uses. The model also can be used to assess the costs of different land-based actions to reduce carbon emissions.
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Sohngen, Brent
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dynamic Quantum Clustering: A Tool for Unsupervised Exploration of Structures in Data

Description: A given set of data-points in some feature space may be associated with a Schroedinger equation whose potential is determined by the data. This is known to lead to good clustering solutions. Here we extend this approach into a full-fledged dynamical scheme using a time-dependent Schroedinger equation with a small diffusion component. Moreover, we approximate this Hamiltonian formalism by a truncated calculation within a set of Gaussian wave functions (coherent states) centered around the origin… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Weinstein, Marvin; /SLAC; Horn, David & U., /Tel Aviv
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Israeli-Arab Negotiations: Background, Conflicts, and U.S. Policy

Description: This report discusses issues related to peace in the Middle East, including post-Gulf War negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon; U.S. interest in these and continuing negotiations and peacetalks between Middle Eastern countries; and the role of the U.S., the U.N., the European Union, and Russia in Middle Eastern relations.
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spectrophotometric and Calorimetric Studies of U(VI) Complexation with Sulfate at 25-70oC

Description: Sulfate, one of the inorganic constituents in the groundwater of nuclear waste repository, could affect the migration of radioactive materials by forming complexes. Spectrophotometric and microcalorimetric titrations were performed to identify the U(VI)/sulfate complexes and determine the equilibrium constants and enthalpy of complexation at 25-70 C. Results show that U(VI) forms moderately strong complexes with sulfate, i.e., UO{sub 2}SO{sub 4}(aq) and UO{sub 2}(SO{sub 4}){sub 2}{sup 2-}, in t… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Tian, Guoxin & Rao, Linfeng
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistics for the Relative Detectability of Chemicals in Weak Gaseous Plumes in LWIR Hyperspectral Imagery

Description: The detection and identification of weak gaseous plumes using thermal imaging data is complicated by many factors. These include variability due to atmosphere, ground and plume temperature, and background clutter. This paper presents an analysis of one formulation of the physics-based model that describes the at-sensor observed radiance. The motivating question for the analyses performed in this paper is as follows. Given a set of backgrounds, is there a way to predict the background over which… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Metoyer, Candace N.; Walsh, Stephen J.; Tardiff, Mark F. & Chilton, Lawrence
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wind Power Price Trends in the United States: Struggling to Remain Competitive in the Face of Strong Growth

Description: The amount of wind power capacity being installed globally is surging, with the United States the world leader in terms of annual market share for three years running (2005-2007). The rapidly growing market for wind has been a double-edged sword, however, as the resulting supply-demand imbalance in wind turbines, along with the rising cost of materials and weakness in the U.S. dollar, has put upward pressure on wind turbine costs, and ultimately, wind power prices. Two mitigating factors--reduc… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Bolinger, Mark A. & Wiser, Ryan
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recent Acquisitions of U.S. Meat Companies

Description: This report examines issues regarding the recent acquisitions of U.S. meat companies. In July 2007, JBS — a Brazilian company regarded as the world’s largest meat processor — purchased the U.S. beef processor Swift & Co., then the third-largest U.S. beef processing company. In February and March 2008, JBS signed agreements to acquire the fourth- and fifth-largest U.S. beef packers, National Beef Packing Company and the Smithfield Beef Group, respectively. These planned acquisitions have undergo… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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