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Campaign Financing

Description: This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competi… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carbon Coated (Carbonous) Catalyst in Ebullated Bed Reactor for Production of Oxygenated Chemicals From Syngas/CO2: Final Report, 2000-2002

Description: This report summarizes the work completed under DOE's Support of Advanced Fuel Research program, Contract No. DE-FG26-99FT40681. The contract period was October 2000 through September 2002. This R&D program investigated the modification of the mechanical strength of catalyst extrudates using Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc. (HTI) carbon-coated catalyst technology so that the ebullated bed technology can be utilized to produce valuable oxygenated chemicals from syngas/CO{sub 2} efficiently and… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Zhou, Peizheng
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HYSPEC : A CRYSTAL TIME OF FLIGHT HYBRID SPECTROMETER FOR THE SPALLATION NEUTRON SOURCE.

Description: This document lays out a proposal by the Instrument Development Team (IDT) composed of scientists from leading Universities and National Laboratories to design and build a conceptually new high-flux inelastic neutron spectrometer at the pulsed Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge. This instrument is intended to supply users of the SNS and scientific community, of which the IDT is an integral part, with a platform for ground-breaking investigations of the low-energy atomic-scale dynamica… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: SHAPIRO,S.M. & ZALIZNYAK,I.A.
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Military Readiness: Civil Reserve Air Fleet Can Respond as Planned, but Incentives May Need Revamping

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In the event of a national emergency, the Department of Defense (DOD) can use commercial aircraft drawn from the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to augment its own airlift capabilities. The Civil Reserve Air Fleet is a fleet of aircraft owned by U.S. commercial air carriers but committed voluntarily to DOD for use during emergencies. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many air carriers experienced fina… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Nonproliferation Issues

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Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On-Line Texture Diagnostics for Coated Conductor Manufacture. Final Report

Description: This Phase I project was undertaken to assess the feasibility of implementing a particular diagnostic method for characterizing the crystallographic texture of high temperature superconductor (HTS) coated conductors on-line during their reel-to-reel continuous manufacture. Key factors in this technique were the use of an area detector to greatly reduce scan time, an x-ray mirror to enhance incident beam brightness, and an automation scheme for diffractometer control, tape motion control, and ca… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: White, M. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physics Survey Overview

Description: An overview of a series of assignments of the branches of physics carried out by the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council. It identifies further theories in physics and makes recommendations on preventive priorities. The Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) has conducted a new decadal survey of physics entitled ''Physics in a New Era''. The survey includes assessments of the main branches of physics as well as certain selected emerging areas. The various elements of t… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Power Systems Development Facility Gasification Test Run TC10

Description: This report discusses Test Campaign TC10 of the Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR) Transport Gasifier train with a Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Siemens Westinghouse) particle filter system at the Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) located in Wilsonville, Alabama. The Transport Gasifier is an advanced circulating fluidized-bed gasifier designed to operate as either a combustor or a gasifier in air- or oxygen-blown mode of operation using a particulate control device (PCD). The Tr… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Southern Company Services
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly Technical Progress Report

Description: This report presents the progress made during the first quarter of phase 2 for the project entitled ''Development and Validation of Thermal Neutron Scattering Laws from Applications and Safety Implications in Generation IV Reactor Designs.'' (B204) THIS IS NOT A FINAL REPORT
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Hawari, Ayman I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social implications of the Human Genome Project: Policy roundtable series and journals. Final progress report, March 15, 2001 - March 15, 2002

Description: This report reflects the activities of the Harvard Health Caucus at Harvard Medical School that were supported, in part, by the Department of Energy. The following policy roundtables and panels were held: Spring 2001 Policy Roundtable Series: The social implications of the Human Genome Project; Spring 2002 Policy Roundtable Series: Managing globalization to improve health; 13 February 2002 Keynote Address: The globalization of health; 25 February 2002 Healthier or Wealthier: Which comes first i… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Seiguer, Erica
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: December 2002

Description: Monthly report written by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association's (TDNA's) office manager, Darla Thompson, to Phil Berkebile providing a summary of revenues and account balances, programs, meetings, and other activities in the office during the previous month.
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Thompson, Darla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Telemarketing: Dealing With Unwanted Telemarketing Calls

Description: This report provides summaries of the federal laws and regulations particular to telemarketing, the establishment of a national do-not-call registry, and the options that are available to consumers to limit the calls that they receive from telemarketers and to report questionable telemarketing practices to local or federal authorities. The report also lists sources of additional information with addresses, phone numbers, and Internet sites (if available).
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Riehl, James R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ULTRA LOW NOx INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR NOx EMISSION CONTROL FROM COAL-FIRED BOILERS

Description: ALSTOM Power Inc.'s Power Plant Laboratories, working in concert with ALSTOM Power's Performance Projects Group, has teamed with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL) to conduct a comprehensive study to develop/evaluate low-cost, efficient NOx control technologies for retrofit to pulverized coal fired utility boilers. The objective of this project was to develop retrofit NOx control technology to achieve less than 0.15 lb/MMBtu NOx (for bituminous coal… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Richards, Galen H.; Maney, Charles Q.; Borio, Richard W. & Lewis, Robert D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Gene Targeting & Nonhomologous End-joining. Final Report

Description: Overall, we identified a number of new proteins that participate in nonhomologous end-joining and also in telomere addition to the ends of broken chromosomes. We showed that NHEJ is severely reduced in cells expressing both yeast mating-type genes and then went on to identify the NEJ1 gene that was under this control. We showed the epistasis relations among a set of mutations that impair telomere addition and we showed that there are in fact two pathways to repair broken chromosomes in the abse… more
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: Haber, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defining the Effectiveness of UV Lamps Installed in Circulating Air Ductwork

Description: Germicidal ultraviolet (UVGI) lamps have a long history of use for inactivating microbial aerosols. Most reports have focused on the control of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB), in the occupied spaces of medical facilities. Ventilation duct use of UVGI has been increasing. In-duct applications are generally more concerned with controlling environmental organisms than with controlling infections agents. This document reports the results of a project to investigate the ability of UV… more
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: VanOsdell, Douglas & Foarde, Karin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Advanced Technologies to Reduce Design, Fabrication and Construction Costs for Future Nuclear Power Plants

Description: OAK-B135 This report presents a summation of the third and final year of a three-year investigation into methods and technologies for substantially reducing the capital costs and total schedule for future nuclear plants. In addition, this is the final technical report for the three-year period of studies.
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: DE&S, Camillo A. DiNunzio Framatome ANP; NCSU, Dr. Abhinav Gupta Assistant Professor; Laboratories, Dr. Michael Golay Professor MIT Dr. Vincent Luk Sandia National; Systems, Rich Turk Westinghouse Electric Company Nuclear; Charles Morrow, Sandia National Laboratories & Geum-Taek Jin, Korea Power Engineering Company Inc.
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IMPERMEABLE THIN Al2O3 OVERLAY FOR TBC PROTECTION FROM SULFATE AND VANADATE ATTACK IN GAS TURBINES

Description: In order to improve the hot corrosion resistance of conventional YSZ TBC system, the Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} overlay coating has been successfully produced on the surface of YSZ by the Sol-gel route. The YSZ substrates were coated with boehmite sol by dip coating process, dried to form a gel film and calcined at 1200 C to form {alpha}-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} overlay. The microstructures of TBC and Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} overlay were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that micro-p… more
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: Mao, Scott X.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Die Materials for Critical Applications and Increased Production Rates

Description: Die materials for aluminum die-casting need to be resistant to heat checking, and have good resistance to washout and to soldering in a fast flow of molten aluminum. To resist heat checking, die materials should have a low coefficient of thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, high hot yield strength, good temper softening resistance, high creep strength, and adequate ductility. To resist the washout and soldering, die materials should have high hot hardness, good temper resistance, low s… more
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: Schwam, David; Wallace, John & Birceanu, Sebastian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modeling and Simulation of Microelectrode-Retina Interactions

Description: The goal of the retinal prosthesis project is the development of an implantable microelectrode array that can be used to supply visually-driven electrical input to cells in the retina, bypassing nonfunctional rod and cone cells, thereby restoring vision to blind individuals. This goal will be achieved through the study of the fundamentals of electrical engineering, vision research, and biomedical engineering with the aim of acquiring the knowledge needed to engineer a high-density microelectrod… more
Date: November 30, 2002
Creator: Beckerman, M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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