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3-D Seismic Experimentation and Advanced Processing/Inversion Development for Investigations of the Shallow Subsurface

Description: Under ER63662, 3-D Seismic Experimentation and Advanced Processing/Inversion Development for Investigations of the Shallow Subsurface, we have completed a number of subprojects associated with the Hill Air Force Base (HAFB) high resolution 3-D reflection/tomography dataset.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Levander, Alan R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2004 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.

Description: The Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (White Book), which is published annually by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), establishes one of the planning bases for supplying electricity to customers. The White Book contains projections of regional and Federal system load and resource capabilities, along with relevant definitions and explanations. The White Book also contains information obtained from formalized resource planning reports and data submittals including those from ind… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accelerator/Experiment operations - FY 2004

Description: This Technical Memorandum (TM) summarizes the accelerator and experiment operations for FY 2004. It is one of a series of annual publications intended to gather information in one place. In this case, the information concerns the FY 2004 Run II at the Tevatron Collider, the MiniBooNE neutrino experiment, and SY 120 activities.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Bromberg, C.; Conrad, J.; Denisov, D.; Holmes, S.; Louis, W.; Meyer, A. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acoustic Detecting and Locating Gas Pipe Line Infringement: Final Contract Report

Description: The extensive network of high-pressure natural gas transmission pipelines covering the United States provides an important infrastructure for our energy independence. Early detection of pipeline leaks and infringements by construction equipment, resulting in corrosion fractures, presents an important aspect of our national security policy. The National Energy Technology Laboratory Strategic Center for Natural Gas (SCVG) is and has been funding research on various applicable techniques. The WVU … more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Loth, John L.; Morris, Gary J.; Palmer, George M.; Guiler, Richard & Browning, Patrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ACRF Data Collection and Processing Infrastructure

Description: We present a description of the data flow from measurement to long-term archive. We also discuss data communications infrastructure. The data handling processes presented include collection, transfer, ingest, quality control, creation of Value-Added Products (VAP), and data archiving.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Macduff, M. & Egan, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced exterior sensor project : final report, September 2004.

Description: This report (1) summarizes the overall design of the Advanced Exterior Sensor (AES) system to include detailed descriptions of system components, (2) describes the work accomplished throughout FY04 to evaluate the current health of the original prototype and to return it to operation, (3) describes the status of the AES and the AES project as of September 2004, and (4) details activities planned to complete modernization of the system to include development and testing of the second-generation … more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Ashby, M. Rodema
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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APPSPACK 4.0 : asynchronous parallel pattern search for derivative-free optimization.

Description: APPSPACK is software for solving unconstrained and bound constrained optimization problems. It implements an asynchronous parallel pattern search method that has been specifically designed for problems characterized by expensive function evaluations. Using APPSPACK to solve optimization problems has several advantages: No derivative information is needed; the procedure for evaluating the objective function can be executed via a separate program or script; the code can be run in serial or parall… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Gray, Genetha Anne & Kolda, Tamara Gibson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Aqueous Thermodynamics and Complexation Reactions of Anionic Silica and Uranium Species to High Concentration

Description: The objective of this research project is to develop the necessary thermodynamic data, including aqueous phase stability constants and Pitzer ion-interaction parameters, to predict the changes in the aqueous phase chemistry that occur when high ionic strength, highly basic tank wastes enter the vadose zone.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Choppin, Gregory R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Arsenic in water treatment.

Description: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is collaborating with the Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF) and WERC (A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development) in a program for the development and testing of innovative technologies that have the potential to substantially reduce the costs associated with arsenic removal from drinking water. Sandia National Laboratories will administer contracts placed with AwwaRF and WERC to carry out bench scale studies and economic analyses/outr… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Siegel, Malcolm Dean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Aerosol Source-Receptor Relationships: The Role of Coal-Fired Power Plants

Description: This report describes the technical progress made on the Pittsburgh Air Quality Study (PAQS) during the period of March 2004 through August 2004. Significant progress was made this project period on the analysis of ambient data, source apportionment, and deterministic modeling activities. Results highlighted in this report include evaluation of the performance of PMCAMx+ for an air pollution episode in the Eastern US, an emission profile for a coke production facility, ultrafine particle compos… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Robinson, Allen L.; Pandis, Spyros N. & Davidson, Cliff I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Avian Fact Sheet

Description: OAK-B135 After conducting four national research meetings, producing a document guiding research: Metrics and Methods for Determining or Monitoring Potential Impacts on Birds at Existing and Proposed Wind Energy Sites, 1999, and another paper, Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian Collision Mortality in the United States, 2001, the subcommittee recognized a need to summarize in a short fact sheet what is known about avian-wi… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Group, NWCC Wildlife Work
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Booster 6-GeV study

Description: Since a wider aperture has been obtained along the Booster beam line, this opens the opportunity for Booster running a higher intensity beam than ever before. Sooner or later, the available RF accelerating voltage will become a new limit for the beam intensity. Either by increasing the RFSUM or by reducing the accelerating rate can achieve the similar goal. The motivation for the 6-GeV study is to gain the relative accelerating voltage via a slower acceleration.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Yang, Xi; Ankenbrandt, Charles M.; Pellico, William A.; Lackey, James; Padilla, Rene; /Fermilab et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bounding Estimate for the 'Hot' Channel Temperature and Preliminary Calculation of Mixing in the Lower Plenum for the NGNP Point Design Using CFD

Description: The power density in the core of the block next generation nuclear power plant (NGNP) will not be uniform due to geometry, core layout and fuel pin design. Recent calculations performed to optimize the core design indicate that the maximum radial variation will be 1.25 times the average. This significant radial variation in the local power density will create a variation in the temperature of the helium coolant as it cools the core. The coolant channel with the highest outlet temperature is ref… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Johnson, Richard W. & Schultz, R. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bunching for shorter damping rings for the ILC

Description: A variant rearrangement of the bunch trains for the ILC that enables much shorter damping rings is presented. In a particular example the {approx}2280 bunches are regrouped into {approx}450 subtrains of five adjacent bunches. These subtrains are extracted from the damping rings at {approx}2.2 {micro}s intervals, obtaining the 1ms macrobunch length of the baseline TESLA collider scenario. If the baseline damping rf frequency is 325 MHz and the kicker rise and fall times are {approx}20 ns, a ring… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Neuffer, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculating efficiencies and their uncertainties

Description: The commonly used methods for the calculation of the statistical uncertainties in cut efficiencies (''Poisson'' and ''binomial'' errors) are both defective, as is seen in extreme cases. A method for the calculation of uncertainties based upon Bayes' Theorem is presented; this method has no problem with extreme cases. A program for the calculation of such uncertainties is also available.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Paterno, Marc
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carboranyl Nucleosides & Oligonucleotides for Neutron Capture Therapy Final Report

Description: This proposal enabled us to synthesize and develop boron-rich nucleosides and oligonucleotide analogues for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and the treatment of various malignancies. First, we determined the relationship between structure, cellular accumulation and tissue distribution of 5-o-carboranyl-2'-deoxyuridine (D-CDU) and its derivatives D-ribo-CU and 5-o-carboranyluracil (CU), to potentially target brain and other solid tumors for neutron capture therapy. Synthesized carborane con… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Schinazi, Raymond F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH TRUCON)

Description: The CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON) document describes the inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CH-TRU waste within the transportation parameters specified by the Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (CH-TRAMPAC). The CH-TRAMPAC defines the allowable payload for the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (TRUPACT-II) and HalfPACT packagings. This document is a catalog of TRUPACT-II and HalfPACT authorized contents and a description of the metho… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of a new class of surface micromachined pumps.

Description: This is the latest in a series of LDRD's that we have been conducting with Florida State University/Florida A&M University (FSU/FAMU) under the campus executive program. This research builds on the earlier projects; ''Development of Highly Integrated Magnetically and Electrostatically Actuated Micropumps'' (SAND2003-4674) and ''Development of Magnetically and Electrostatically Driven Surface Micromachined Pumps'' (SAND2002-0704P). In this year's LDRD we designed 2nd generation of surface mi… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Galambos, Paul C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDITIONS OF NATURAL GAS STORAGE RESERVOIRS AND DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF REMEDIAL TECHNIQUES FOR DAMAGE MECHANISMS FOUND THEREIN

Description: The underground gas storage (UGS) industry uses over 400 reservoirs and 17,000 wells to store and withdrawal gas. As such, it is a significant contributor to gas supply in the United States. It has been demonstrated that many UGS wells show a loss of deliverability each year due to numerous damage mechanisms. Previous studies estimate that up to one hundred million dollars are spent each year to recover or replace a deliverability loss of approximately 3.2 Bscf/D per year in the storage industr… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Frantz, J. H., Jr.; Brown, K. G.; Sawyer, W. K.; Zyglowicz, P. A.; Halleck, P. M. & Spivey, J. P.
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Characterization of U(VI) Sorption-Desoprtion Processes and Model Upscaling

Description: In order to apply predictive reactive transport models to the Hanford site, detailed knowledge of the speciation of contaminants is required. Important speciation parameters include: (1) oxidation state; (2) the local molecular structure surrounding contaminant elements; (3) the type and binding of a contaminant ion sorption complex (if adsorbed); (4) the type(s) of phase within which a contaminant is structurally incorporated [e.g., present in a three-dimensional precipitate(s)]; (5) the phase… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Ball, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Children in Poverty: Profile, Trends, and Issues

Description: This report documents the trends of economic well-being of children, giving data on child poverty and the employment rate of their mothers.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Burke, Vee; Gabe, Tom & Falk, Gene
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate change effects on international stability : a white paper.

Description: This white paper represents a summary of work intended to lay the foundation for development of a climatological/agent model of climate-induced conflict. The paper combines several loosely-coupled efforts and is the final report for a four-month late-start Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project funded by the Advanced Concepts Group (ACG). The project involved contributions by many participants having diverse areas of expertise, with the common goal of learning how to tie to… more
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Murphy, Kathryn; Taylor, Mark A.; Fujii, Joy; Malczynski, Leonard A.; McNamara, Laura A.; Reinert, Rhonda K. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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