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Strategic planning for automation within an information services department

Description: Today there is a growing trend within organizations for departments to become ''islands of mechanization.'' Departments compete for machine and personnel resources in order to develop individualistic, automated systems which frequently overlap in data content. To avoid this trend and prevent development of future ''islands,'' organizations must emphasize management of in-house information systems to improve the economy of operations, meet organizational objectives more effectively, and control … more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Cooper, Patricia P. & Hall, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study

Description: This article aims to examine the link between low-level arsenic exposure and cognitive functioning, and the potential role of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP A35991G, rs10748835) of the AS3MT gene in modifying this link.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Hall, James R.; Gong, Gordon & O'Bryant, Sid E.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Molecular Markers of Neuropsychological Functioning and Alzheimer's Disease

Description: Article examines molecular markers of neuropsychological functioning among elders with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD) and determine the predictive ability of combined molecular markers and select neuropsychological tests in detecting disease presence. This work provides the foundation for the generation of a point‐of‐care device that can be used to screen for AD.
Date: March 1, 2015
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Balldin, Valerie Hobson; Hall, James R. & O'Bryant, Sid E.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: Article describes study examining the positive and negative predictive values of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood test if implemented in primary care.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Brine disposal

Description: Two issues pervade all of geothermal fluids utilization--the resource and the economics of producing and utilizing it and the effluent and the economics of disposing of it in an environmentally acceptable manner. Clearly, the resource must be available; its availability, however, will not be attractive unless the effluents can be disposed of economically. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the accumulated evidence concerning disposal alternatives from the standpoint of technology, econom… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Brown and Root, Inc. report, Appendix A

Description: Bown & Root will define the requirements for commercial electric-power generation, using U.S. Gulf Coast geopressured geothermal fluids as fuel. These commercialization requirements shall then be translated into the data and technology requirements which are either available or which a pilot plant and laboratory (test bed) facility will need to provide. From these considerations will evolve a recommendation with respect to the necessity for a pilot plant and laboratory facility and, if necessit… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary and recommendations

Description: The broad scope of the studies reported here requires a summary and an appraisal of results. Some of the results appear not to be in agreement with one another while the full consequences of other results appear not to fully impact the total picture. Some results tend to point to conclustions at variance with yet other conclusions. Hence, the following is as much a comparison and contrast and an appraisal as a summary.
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technology maturity and technology development

Description: All of the work reported in the preceding chapters was performed in order to assess the technical, economic, and energetic feasibility of proceeding with more detailed studies of the geopressured geothermal resource. The preliminary conceptual design and costing activities represented the prime activity for component by component review of the maturity of the technology available for resource utilization facilities. The economics and energetics studies focussed attentions on the areas of major … more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ground water survey of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

Description: The purpose of this investigation is to determine the availability of ground-water resources of the Gulf Coast Region, Texas, with particular reference to the sources of water suitable for the development of geothermal energy utilization for generation of electric power. For this purpose the availability of water resources is important for heat rejection. The expected characteristics of the geopressured geothermal resource (lower temperatures) will result in low cycle efficiencies and hence lar… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Net Energetics Analysis

Description: Econimic analysis, next to technical analysis, has traditionally constituted the major decision-making tool of the capitalist economic system. As lon as capitalism survives, this will remain to be the case. However, during the current period of increasing scarcity and cost of energy -- a period accompanied by higher than normal inflation rates -- a proposed project may appear attractive and economic when, in fact, its demands on energy resources are extraordinarily high. Such a conclusion could… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Analysis

Description: The purpose of this chapter is to present an economic evaluation of electric power production from geopressured geothermal resources in Texas. An effort has been made to obtain the most realistic data concerning the investment and production costs of a geothermal power generation system, sited on a model geopressured geothermal resource.
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial utilization of geopressured geothermal energy

Description: Discussion of the industrial utilization of geopressured geothermal energy is currently limited by the limited knowledge of the resource's distribution. However, the resource assessment activity in the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, has identified a number of fairway or potential resource zones. These zones are located in Kenedy County; in and about Corpus Christi and Nueces Bays in Nueces, San Patricio, and Aransas Counties; in the coastal zones of Matagorda Cou… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dow Chemical USA Report - Appendix B

Description: The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce economical electric power only if the water is at least 375 F or a means of conversion more efficient than flashing is found. The design and costing of a double-flash 25-megawatt plant using water at 325 F gave a capital cost of $678/kwh, a fuel cost of 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine energy from the … more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Overview

Description: Development of the geothermal resource, like the development of any other resource, depends upon the responses to a number of key issues. Those key issues, in capsule form, are: Resource extent and producibility; Maturity of the associated technology of production and utilization; Economics and energetics of production and utilization; Environmental acceptability; and The marketplace and potential market penetration. Discussion of these key issues is important at all stages of a development pro… more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary conceptual design of commercial geopressured geothermal fuel plants

Description: Previous feasibility studies Bechtel (1975), TRW (1975) for electric power generation utilizing geothermal resources have tended to focus primarily on the power plant and have neglected the fuel production and effluent disposal facilities. The Dow Chemical USA study (1974) for the Governor's Energy Advisory Council, State of Texas, placed equal emphasis on the power plant and the fuel plant. The study reported in Chapter II and in what follows in this chapter, also places equal emphasis on the … more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef, Erdos; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Conceptual Design of Commercial Geopressured Geothermal Electricity Generation Plants

Description: The geopressured geothermal resource is an unproven, poorly characterized resource. For this reason, detailed designs of utilization facilities are neither desired nor justifiable at this time. However, an overall preliminary design study, the purpose of which is to establish a baseline for technical, net energetic, and economic assessment, is justified. Clearly, if overwhelming technical, net energetic, or economic problems can be identified during the basic planning phase for a project, then … more
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Underhill, Gary K.; Carlson, Ronald A.; Clendinning, William A.; Erdos, Jozsef, Erdos; Gault, John; Hall, James W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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