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This investigation pertains to the composition and general condition of the thermally activated trigger mechanism of Pressure Relief Devices [PRD's], safety devices used on compressed natural gas cylinders commonly used to store fuel on transit buses. These trigger mechanisms provide the essential function of...

This report describes a framework constructed to assist in understanding the long run impacts of regulations proposed by the US Coast Guard on domestic marine ports. The port impacts considered pertain to cost, time and reliability. These three factors have a direct bearing on...

As an experienced health insurance agent in the New York area who specializes in Medicare related products and services, I wrote this book to be a source of information on Medicare. During my career I noticed that people aging into Medicare had limited access...

This report presents previously unpublished analyses of trace elements in drill core samples from Kilauea Iki lava lake and from 1959 eruption that fed the lava lake. The two types of data presented were obtained by instrumental neuron-activation analysis and evergy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis.Author:...

Laboratory6One of NIST's Measurement and Standards Laboratories, the Electronics and ElectricalEngineering Laboratory (EEEL) conducts research, provides measurement services, and helps set standards in support of: the fundamental and practical physicalstandards and measurement services for electrical quantities; the fundamentalelectronic technologies of semiconductors, magnetics, and superconductors;information...

Connected Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) safety applications heavily rely on the BSM, which is one of the messages defined in the Society of Automotive standard J2735, Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Message Set Dictionary, November 2009. The BSM is broadcast from vehicles over the...

U. S. Railroad operations are undergoing rapid changes involving the introduction of new technologies such as positive train control (PTC), energy management systems (EMS), and electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes in the locomotive cab. To help ensure these and other new technologies are optimally...

This summary report highlights EPA's most recent evaluation of the status and trends in our nation's air quality.Author: U S Environmental Protection AgencyISBN-10: 1499123760ISBN-13: 9781499123760Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2014Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d

This research, conducted from October 2008 to February 2010, assesses the potential safety benefits provided by the safety improvements at private highway-rail grade crossings in North Carolina along the Charlotte to Raleigh portion of the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor (SEHSR). The North Carolina Department...

This report presents the results of a cognitive task analysis (CTA) that examined the cognitive and collaborative demands placed on conductors, as well as the knowledge and skills that experienced conductors have developed that enable them to operate trains safely and efficiently. A secondary...

Blue flag protection in the railroad industry provides safety to workers from the inadvertent movement of equipment on which they are working. Current Federal regulations provide minimum specifications for the devices that can be used as blue flags, allowing many devices to be used...

This report describes research conducted to examine the application of sandwich structure technology to provide protection against the threat of an indenter striking the side or shell of a tank car in the event of an accident. This research was conducted in two phases...

Author: Soji OjeniyiISBN-10: 1499086687ISBN-13: 9781499086683Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.Author: A. C. BradleyISBN-10: 1498103472ISBN-13: 9781498103473Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.03d

Sgt. Oakwood, Mrs. Oakwood, Mandy, and Eric are a family in the Marine Corps. It is a very special day when the children learn that they will soon move to North Carolina. Join Mandy and Eric as they find out what Camp Lejeune, North...

In 2012, the number of international tourist arrivals worldwide was projected to reach a new high of 1 billion arrivals, a 48% increase from 674 million arrivals in 2000. International travel also is increasing among U.S. residents. In 2009, U.S. residents made approximately 61...

In recent years, we have seen increasing emphasis on the importance of ensuring that children with disabilities have the same opportunities as other children to receive an education and education-related benefits, such as school meals.Author: U. S. Department of Agriculture Food andISBN-10: 1497596629ISBN-13: 9781497596627Publisher:...

How We Arrived At Crypto Currency And How To Get A Piece Of The Action This well written, easy to read book, charts mankind's use of various currencies as a means of trading for goods and services. Before Gold, it was handmade crafts and...

Tongass National Forest (NF) is in Southeast Alaska, a region rich in natural and cultural resources, which is currently undergoing significant economic change. This study examines how the existing assets of the Tongass NF's transportation system can be better used to generate economic development...

The United States Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is designed to provide for the safe and efficient flow of air traffic from origin to destination. The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that traffic levels will continue increasing over the foreseeable future. It is important to...

This document catalogs the symbols presented with the various interfaces used by Federal Aviation Administration Airway Facilities specialists. It includes a high-level overview of each system and the symbols and coding conventions used. These data were collected through analysis of software specifications, computer-based instruction...

This report hypothesizes that the United States has reached a critical juncture in terms of national mobility trends and underlying socio-demographic conditions and travel behavior that will result in more moderate rates of annual vehicle miles of travel (VMT) growth in the future. However,...

This report draws upon eight State case studies to identify processes, experiences, and results of transit participation in statewide planning with a focus on non-urbanized or rural areas. Transit at the Table III is intended as a resource for organizations directly or indirectly involved...

The United States possesses an effective and efficient surface transportation infrastructure that promotes both the well-being of its citizens as well as important economic and national security goals. The level of security afforded this infrastructure is relatively low compared to the security enhancements recently...

The responses of species and ecosystems to future climate changes will present challenges for conservation and natural resource managers attempting to maintain both species populations and essential habitat. This report describes projected future changes in climate and vegetation for three study areas surrounding the...

One of the greatest challenges for conserving grassland, prairie scrub, and shrub-steppe ecosystems is maintaining prairie dog populations across the landscape. Of the four species of prairie dogs found in the United States, the Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) is listed under the Endangered...

Milltown Reservoir is a National Priorities List Superfund site in the upper Clark Fork basin of western Montana where sediments enriched in trace elements from historical mining and ore processing have been deposited since the completion of Milltown Dam in 1908. Milltown Dam was...

During 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Gunnison County, initiated a study to estimate the potential for postwildfire debris flows to occur in the drainage basins occupied by Carbonate, Slate, Raspberry, and Milton Creeks near Marble, Colorado. Currently (2010), these drainage basins...

The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, uses Lake Eucha and Spavinaw Lake in the Eucha-Spavinaw Basin in northwestern Arkansas and northeastern Oklahoma for public water supply (fig. 1). Construction of Spavinaw Dam (U.S. Geological Survey lake-level station at Spavinaw Lake, station identifier 07191300, fig. 1)...

Current global and domestic mineral resources of beryllium (Be) for industrial uses are dominated by ores produced from deposits of the volcanogenic Be type. Beryllium deposits of this type can form where hydrothermal fluids interact with fluorine and lithophile-element (uranium, thorium, rubidium, lithium, beryllium,...

Nickel-cobalt (Ni-Co) laterite deposits are supergene enrichments of Ni Co that form from intense chemical and mechanical weathering of ultramafic parent rocks. These regolith deposits typically form within 26 degrees of the equator, although there are a few exceptions. They form in active continental...

The U.S. Geological Survey well profiler was used to describe arsenic-related water quality with well depth and identify zones yielding water with high arsenic concentrations in two production wells in central and western Oklahoma that yield water from the Permian-aged Garber-Wellington and Rush Springs...

The groundwater resources of about 400 square miles of the East Mountain area of Bernlillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, and Torrance Counties in central New Mexico were evaluated by using groundwater levels and water-quality analyses, and updated geological mapping.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorISBN-10:...

Nutrients and freshwater delivered by the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers drive algal production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, which eventually results in the widespread occurrence of hypoxic bottom waters along the Louisiana and Texas coast. Researchers have demonstrated a relation between the extent...

The Capital City Plume (CCP) Site is characterized by shallow groundwater contamination beneath a widespread area of downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The primary contaminant is perchloroethylene (PCE), but other volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as trichloroethylene (TCE), and inorganic compounds, such as chromium, have been...

An Amended Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered June 7, 1954, authorized diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and provided for releases of water from three New York City reservoirs-Pepacton, Cannonsville, and Neversink-to the upper Delaware River. The...

The Middle Eocene Claiborne Group was assessed using established U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment methodology for undiscovered conventional hydrocarbon resources as part of the 2007 USGS assessment of Paleogene-Neogene strata of the United States part of the Gulf of Mexico Basin including onshore and...

This report presents the results of zircon uranium-lead geochronologic analysis of 24 rock samples collected and analyzed in support of the "Bedrock Geologic Map of Vermont" by Ratcliff and others. The samples in this study were collected from mapped exposures identified while conducting either...

The Khanneshin carbonatite is a deeply dissected igneous complex of Quaternary age that rises approximately 700 meters (m) above the Neogene sedimentary rocks of the Registan Desert, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The complex consists almost exclusively of carbonate-rich intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, crudely circular...

A Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered June 7, 1954, established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases...

This report provides the supporting data and describes the data sources, methodologies, and assumptions used in the assessment of existing and potential water resources of the Highlands of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (referred to herein as the "Highlands"). Included in this report are Highlands groundwater...

Wastewater-treatment-plant effluents are a demonstrated source of pharmaceuticals to the environment. During 2004-09, a study was conducted to identify pharmaceuticals compounds in effluents from WWTPs, stream water, and reservoirs.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorISBN-10: 1497456088ISBN-13: 9781497456082Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2014Pages: 50Format:...

This report presents the data used to assess geomorphic adjustment of streams over time and to changing land-use conditions. Thirty-seven U.S. Geological Survey streamgages were selected within the Piedmont physiographic region of Georgia. Width, depth, stage, and discharge data from these streams were analyzed...

This report presents and evaluates 64 major-element analysis of previously unanalyzed Kilauea Iki drill core, plus three samples from 1959 to 1960 eruptions of Kilauea, obtained by X-ray flurorescene analysis during the period 1992 to 1995.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorISBN-10: 1497455960ISBN-13: 9781497455962Publisher:...

The U.S. Geological Survey has been working cooperatively with the Albany Water, Gas, and Light Commission to monitor groundwater quality and availability since 1977.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorISBN-10: 1497455138ISBN-13: 9781497455139Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2014Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w...

The laboratory for analysis of low-ionic-strength water at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Center in Troy, N.Y., analyzes samples collected by USGS projects throughout the Northeast. The laboratory's quality-assurance program is based on internal and interlaboratory quality-assurance samples and quality-control procedures that...

Mortalities of young-of-the-year (YOY) smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) recently have occurred in the Susque-hanna River due to Flavobacterium columnare, a bacterium that typically infects stressed fish. Stress factors include but are not limited to elevated water temperature and low dis-solved oxygen during times critical...

The purpose of this study was to receive customer feed-back and to understand data and information requirements for The National Map (U.S. Geological Survey, 2009). This report provides results and findings from interviews and surveysand will guide policy and operations decisions about data and...

The Laboratory for analysis of low-iconic-strength water at the U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Center in Troy, N.Y., analyzes samples collected by USGS projects throughout the Northeast.Author: U. S. Department of the InteriorISBN-10: 1497454956ISBN-13: 9781497454958Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2014Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize:...

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, estimated the amount of water demand, consumptive use, withdrawal, and return flow for each U.S. Census block in New Hampshire for the years 2005 (current) and 2020. Estimates of domestic,...