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Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) report on its efforts to adopt management best practices for software development and acquisition, focusing on whether: (1) it satisfied the Senate Committee on Armed Service's directive; and (2) the information included was accurate and complete."

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Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the status of the Department of Labor's (DOL) efforts to improve the H-2A agricultural guestworker program services."

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The objective of this project is to facilitate the ligand development process for f-block metal ions, i.e., the actinides and lanthanides, by developing an accurate set of criteria for the design of ligand architectures. To achieve this objective we first combine theory and experiment to understand the nature of fundamental interactions in selected metal-ligand systems. These design criteria provide a basis for proposing improved Ligand architectures. We then incorporate this understanding within the framework of a molecular mechanics force field to allow the rapid calculation of geometries and energies for ligands and their metal complexes. This computational model provides a method for quickly screening proposed architectures to identify the best candidates for subsequent synthesis and testing.

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The calibration facilities will be dynamic and will change to meet the needs of experiments. Small sources, such as the Manson Source should be available to everyone at any time. Carrying out experiments at Omega is providing ample opportunity for practice in pre-shot preparation. Hopefully, the needs that are demonstrated in these experiments will assure the development of (or keep in service) facilities at each of the laboratories that will be essential for in-house preparation for experiments at NIF.

The phase stability of C-22 alloy (UNS No. N06022) gas tungsten arc welds was studied by aging samples at 427, 482, 538, 593, 649, 704, and 760 C for times up to 40,000 hours. The tensile properties and the Charpy impact toughness of these samples were measured in the as-welded condition as well as after aging. The corrosion resistance was measured using standard immersion tests in acidic ferric sulfate (ASTM G 28 A) and 2.5% hydrochloric acid solutions at the boiling point. The microstructures of weld samples were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). One weld sample (aged 40,000 hours at 427 C) was examined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The structure of the unaged welds was dendritic with tetrahedrally close-packed (TCP) phase particles in the interdendritic regions. Long-range order was seen in the weld aged at 427 C for 40,000 hours and was assumed to also occur in other welds aged below approximately 600 C. At temperatures above about 600 C, TCP phase nucleation and growth of existing particles occurred. This precipitation occurred near the original particles presumably in regions of the highest molybdenum (Mo) segregation. Lower temperatures had little or no effect on the morphology of TCP phases. …

''Condensed History'' algorithms are Monte Carlo models for electron transport problems, They describe the aggregate effect of multiple collisions that occur when an electron travels a path length s{sub 0}. This path length is the distance each Monte Carlo electron travels between Condensed History steps. Conventional Condensed History schemes employ a splitting routine over the range 0 {le} s {le} s{sub 0}. For example, the Random Hinge method splits each path length step into two substeps; one with length {xi}s{sub 0} and one with length (1-{xi})s{sub 0}, where {xi} is a random number from 0 < {xi} < 1. Here we develop a new Condensed History algorithm to improve the accuracy of electron transport simulations by preserving the mean position and the variance in the mean of electrons that have traveled a path length s and are traveling with the direction cosine {mu}. These means and variances are obtained from the zeroth-, first-, and second-order spatial moments of the Boltzmann transport equation. Hence, our method is a Monte Carlo application of the ''Method of Moments''.

This report summarizes results obtained on the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of zeolites. DOE funding supported the development of techniques of material preparation as well as experimental strategies and methods for measuring solubilities, hydration states, and rates of zeolite dissolution, precipitation, and nucleation. The hydrothermal experiments provided temperature-dependent solubility products, hydration states, and a set of standard free energies of formation for end-member Na-, K-, and Ca-clinoptilolite, mordenite, and analcime. Flow-through experimental methods were used to measure the rates of Na-clinoptilolite and analcime dissolution and precipitation as a function of reaction affinity to 250C. Finally, the experimental system was modified so that the clinoptilolite-to-analcime transformation was monitored, and its rates and mechanisms were evaluated.

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A numerical methodology to incorporate anisotropic elasticity into three-dimensional dislocation dynamics codes has been developed, employing theorems derived by Lothe (1967), Brown (1967), Indenbom and Orlov (1968) and Asaro and Barnett (1976). The formalism is based on the stress field solution for a straight dislocation segment of arbitrqq orientation in 3-dimensional space. The general solution is given in a complicated closed integral form. To reduce the computation complexity, look-up tables are used to avoid heavy computations for the evaluation of the angular stress factor ({Sigma}{sub ij}) and its first derivative term ({Sigma}{sub ij}). The computation methodology and error analysis are discussed in comparison with known closed form solutions for isotropic elasticity. For the case of Mo single crystals, it is shown that the difference between anisotropic and isotropic elastic stress fields can be as high as 15% close to the dislocation line, and decreases significantly far away from it. This suggests that short-range interactions should be evaluated based on anisotropic elasticity, while long-range interaction can be approximated using isotropic elasticity.