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Oral History Interview with Robert O. Andrews, September 20, 2003

Description: Interview with Robert O. Andrews, a businessman and United States Army Air Force veteran from Jean, Texas, regarding his experience in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Andrews discusses enlistment, training, assignments including his overseas assignments in India and Burma, reaction to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar career.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Andrews, Robert O.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert O. Andrews, September 20, 2003

Description: Interview with Robert O. Andrews, businessman and an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Andrews discusses his pre-war education and farming activities in Olney, Texas; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, c. 1941; assignment to Chanute Field, Illinois, c. 1941-42; Officer Candidate School, Miami Beach, Florida, c. 1942; assignment to Perrin Field, Sherman, Texas, c. 1942-44; overseas transport to India; assignment to Warazup, … more
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Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Andrews, Robert O., 1919-
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Oral History Interview with John L. Bates, Jr., September 21, 2003

Description: Interview with attorney and Army veteran John L. Bates Jr. The Interview includes Bates' personal experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, Officer Candidate School, being selected for the Counter Intelligence Corps, British Intelligence School, assignment to Kweiyang, China, the end of the war and his transfer to the War Crimes Section as an Assistant Theater Judge Advocate, his assignment to Hankow to investigate the executions of three of Jimmy Doolittle's pilots and … more
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Date: September 21, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bates, John L., Jr.
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Oral History Interview with Frank Breyer, September 20, 2003

Description: Interview with Army veteran Frank Breyer, including personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, volunteering for the draft, various assignments, his attachment to Merrill's Marauders, medical evacuation to Ledo, combat around Bhamo, Burma, the opening of the Burma Road, transfer to the 612th Artillery and to Kunming, China, for artillery training, teaching artillery tactics to Chinese troops with the Chinese Combat and Training Command, and the resumption of fi… more
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Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Breyer, Frank
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Oral History Interview with Robert Hoe, September 20, 2003

Description: Interview with Robert Hoe, a Navy WWII veteran of the China-Burma-India theater from Le Roy, New York. Hoe discusses growing up, the reaction to Pearl Harbor, attending college, enlisting in the Navy, training and becoming an officer, joining the Navy Scouts and Raiders, deployment to China and assignment to the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, supplying their forces, operations with guerilla fighters against the Japanese occupation, intelligence gathering, his reaction to the atomic bom… more
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Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Hoe, Robert
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AUTOMATION FOR THE SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF PET RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS.

Description: The development of automated systems supporting the production and application of PET radiopharmaceuticals has been an important focus of researchers since the first successes of using carbon-11 (Comar et al., 1979) and fluorine-18 (Reivich et al., 1979) labeled compounds to visualize functional activity of the human brain. These initial successes of imaging the human brain soon led to applications in the human heart (Schelbert et al., 1980), and quickly radiochemists began to see the importanc… more
Date: September 21, 2001
Creator: Alexoff, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The use of microarrays in microbial ecology

Description: Microarrays have proven to be a useful and high-throughput method to provide targeted DNA sequence information for up to many thousands of specific genetic regions in a single test. A microarray consists of multiple DNA oligonucleotide probes that, under high stringency conditions, hybridize only to specific complementary nucleic acid sequences (targets). A fluorescent signal indicates the presence and, in many cases, the abundance of genetic regions of interest. In this chapter we will look at… more
Date: September 15, 2009
Creator: Andersen, G. L.; He, Z.; DeSantis, T. Z.; Brodie, E. L. & Zhou, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Unvented Attic Increases Energy Efficiency and Reduces Duct Losses - Sun Lake at Banning, California

Description: New houses in the Sun Lakes at Banning subdivision are designed by Pulte Homes with technical support from the Building Science Consortium as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Program. These homes save their homeowners money by applying the principles of ''whole-building'' design, which considers the house as a complete system instead of separate components.
Date: September 5, 2001
Creator: Anderson, R. & Wells, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Jacob Bekker, September 28, 1996

Description: Interview with Jacob Bekker, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland. Bekker discusses his upbringing, life for Jews in Warsaw before the war, antisemitism in Warsaw and discrimination, the invasion of Poland, Germans and Poles identifying Jews and singling them out for labor, fleeing to Russia and working there, returning to Poland after the war, and leaving for Israel.
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Date: September 28, 1996
Creator: Anson, Jennifer & Bekker, Jacob
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Oral History Interview with Alvin Dean, September 17, 1990

Description: Interview with Alivin Dean, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Geronimo, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
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Date: September 17, 1990
Creator: Antle, Mike & Dean, Alvin
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Laws relating to fur animals for the season 1925-26.

Description: Describes the federal laws and regulations regarding fur animals and the fur trade in North America.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Ashbrook, F. G. (Frank Getz), 1892- & Earnshaw, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How to Build a Farm Pond.

Description: Describes the steps necessary to build a pond on farmland, including surveying land, testing the soil, building a spillway, and maintaining the pond.
Date: September 1949
Creator: Atkinson, Walter S., 1905-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sericea in conservation farming.

Description: Describes the use of sericea as a means of ground cover and as a way to prevent soil erosion.
Date: September 1951
Creator: Bailey, R. Y. (Richmond Young), b. 1893
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Management's LNG Truck Fleet

Description: The Alternative Motor Fuel Act of 1988 requires the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate and evaluate alternative fuels usage in the United States. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is conducting the Alternative Fuel Truck Evaluation Project to compare alternative fuel and diesel fuel trucks. Information for the comparison comes from data collected on the operational, maintenance, performance, and emissions characteristics of alternative fuel trucks being used in vehicle fleets and… more
Date: September 2, 1999
Creator: Battelle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wheat production in the eastern United States.

Description: Describes different types of winter and spring wheat, discusses methods and practices that contribute to success, and diseases and insects that threaten the wheat crop.
Date: September 1951
Creator: Bayles, B. B. (Burton Bernard), 1900- & Taylor, J. W. (John Walter), 1890-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The production of cucumbers in greenhouses.

Description: Lists the best ways to grow cucumbers in a greenhouse environment, and discusses insect and disease enemies of the cucumber.
Date: September 1938
Creator: Beattie, James H. (James Herbert), b. 1882
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Value of Renewable Energy as a Hedge Against Fuel Price Risk: Analytic Contributions from Economic and Finance Theory

Description: For better or worse, natural gas has become the fuel of choice for new power plants being built across the United States. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), natural gas-fired units account for nearly 90% of the total generating capacity added in the U.S. between 1999 and 2005 (EIA 2006b), bringing the nationwide market share of gas-fired generation to 19%. Looking ahead over the next decade, the EIA expects this trend to continue, increasing the market share of gas-fired … more
Date: September 15, 2008
Creator: Bolinger, Mark A. & Wiser, Ryan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conserving soil and moisture in orchards and vineyards.

Description: Describes methods of conservation farming for fruit orchards and vineyards.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Bregger, John T. (John Taylor), 1896- & Brown, Grover F., 1905-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technologies Recently Available for Licensing - 1999

Description: An NREL Technology Transfer fact sheet describing four technologies that are available for licensing: steel weld weakness detection, cadmium telluride solar cell enhancement, HOMER model for choosing optimal electrical systems for remote areas, and inner-flame matrix burner.
Date: September 7, 1999
Creator: Brown, H. & Touryan, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Why Some Wood Surfaces Hold Paint Longer Than Others.

Description: Describes the different factors to consider when selecting wood to be painted.
Date: September 1930
Creator: Browne, F. L. (Frederick Lincoln), 1895-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese

Description: U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an … more
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Date: September 15, 2020
Creator: Burlage, Georgianne
Partner: UNT Press
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Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories: Recommended Practice, Issue 1

Description: This document is a technical Recommendation to use as the basis for providing audit and certification of the trustworthiness of digital repositories. It provides a detailed specification of criteria by which digital repositories shall be audited. The OAIS Reference Model contained a roadmap which included the need for a certification standard. The initial work was to be carried out outside CCSDS and then brought back into CCSDS to take into the standard. In 2003, Research Libraries Group (RLG) … more
Date: September 2011
Creator: CCSDS Secretariat, Space Communications and Navigation Office, 7L70
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Nicotine dust for control of truck-crop insects.

Description: Describes the damages that insects can cause to farm crops, and how nicotine dust can control the insects.
Date: September 1922
Creator: Campbell, Roy Elliott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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