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SPEAKEASY has continued to evolve and grow in power. The current production versions, referred to as SPEAKEASY-3, contain many features that have not been formally documented. The needed documentation for the most important of these features is provided in this report. Individual new words that are now available are explained and illustrated in accompanying sample runs. Because of the growing use of the language in interactive situations, emphasis is placed on explaining facilities oriented to such usage. The power of a library-directed programing language is discussed, and the concept of the SPEAKEASY system is introduced. This report is a supplement to previously available documentation.

We wish to measure the EMI efficiency at hadron momenta higher than the 3 GeV used at the Beavatron. We propose to use the 30 M{sup 3} bubble chamber as the momentum and spatial analyzer of charged hadrons both of the incident beam and those final state hadrons of interactions that occur within the chamber. We would use the EMI modules as mounted on the bubble chamber vacuum tank to measure the efficiency of the EMI absorbers (coils and zinc) over a wide range of momenta. A hadron signature would be either the lack of a proportional chamber (pc) encoding within the '96% muon-circle' or a multiple PC encoding. We shall attempt to identify {pi}-{mu} decays in the chamber to use as a source of muons. Such a test would give us experience in spatially reconstructing tracks within the chamber and in projecting their trajectories out to the EMI detector modules. The early portion of this test could utilize whatever hadron beam the NAL bubble chamber group would be using at the time. We would make a copy of an adequate number of the original frames and compare the film quality with the original ones to test whether the EMI …

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During the quarter covered by this progress report (December 15, 1971 to March 15, 1972), the effects of variations in arterial pressure and heart rate on cardiac ouiput, efficiency as measured at the heart diaphragm, maximum air chamber pressure, average input power to the heart diaphragm, maximum blood chamber pressure and volumetric efficiency have been determined at various atrial pressures for a 7 cm base Kwan-Gett artificial heart made of smooth Silastic and equipped with Silastic flap inflow and Silastic tricuspid outflow valves. One animal experiment has been completed in which the in vitro measurements made on the artificial heart were verified in vivo. A second animal experiment in which the output power of the artificial heart will be determined over a long period of time is now in progress. Preliminary consideration has been given to the establishment of a nuclear powered artificial heart system in vitro test program. A preliminary design of an artificial heart to be driven by a nuclear engine has been drawn. (auth)

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The purpose of this research was to provide the artificial heart design information necessary for the proper development of an implantable nuclear power supply for the artificial heart. A Kwan-Gett hemispherical artificial heant made of silicone rubber was attached to a mock circulation instrumented with pressure, volume and fiow transducers and measurements made of power input to the artificial heant at various locations, source of power losses and efficiencies of the artificial heart under a variety of pumping conditions, volumetric efficiency, pressure required to move the diaphragm of the artificial heat, required motion of the heant diaphragm and pumping characteristics of the antificial heant. The in vitro measurements have been verified by in vivo experiments in calves. The preliminary design of a pumping chamber for the nuclear powered heart has been completed. (auth)

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This report outlines Congressmen's privilege from arrest, and privilege of speech or debate, and describes the history and use of these concepts.

This report was created to identify and organize materials on major budget reform in congressional organization and procedure.

This report outlines the Keogh Act, which created retirement plans for workers who were self-employed.

This bibliography was created to identify the Federal health programs that were likely to come under review during the 1st or 2nd session of the 93rd Congress.

This report addresses medicare and medicaid provisions of H.R. 1, including a comparrison of major provisions passed by the house with those adopted by the senate committee on finance.

This report addresses United States Trade and Trade Balances with the World, The European Common Market and Ten Major Trading Partners form 1967 through 1971.

This report addresses American participation in Vietnam with an addendum.

This report provides an overview and appraisal of the terms "liberalism" and "conservatism" within the context of political philosophy during the 18th-20th centuries in the United States and Europe.

Only two of the fecal specimens collected inflight during the Apollo 15 mission were returned for analysis. Difficulty in obtaining reasonably accurate radiation dose estimates based on the cosmogenic radionuclide content of the specimens was encountered due to the limited sampling. The concentrations of {sup 22}Na, {sup 40}K, {sup 51}Cr, {sup 59}Fe, and {sup 137}Cs are reported. The concentrations of 24 major, minor, and trace elements in these two specimens were determined. Most concentrations are typical of those observed previously. Major exceptions are extremely low values for selenium and extraordinarily high values for rare earth elements. The net {sup 210}Po activities in the Apollo 11 and 12 Solar Wind Composition foils and in the Apollo 8 and 12 spacecraft reflective coatings due to lunar exposure have been determined. Equilibrium concentrations of 0.082 {+-} 0.012 disintegrations cm{sup -2} sec{sup -1} of {sup 222}Rn in the lunar atmosphere and 0.0238 {+-} 0.0035 disintegrations cm{sup -2} sec{sup -1} of {sup 210}Po on the lunar surface have been calculated for Oceanus Procellarum. A summary of a paper entitled, "Radon-222 Activity at Oceanus Procellarum," and the text of a manuscript entitled, "Radon-222 in the Lunar Atmosphere," are included as appendices.

This is the final report for the work performed on Aerojet Nuclear Systems Comany Purchase Order N-900104, "Creep of AISI 347 Stainless Steel in Gaseous Hydrogen."

This report provides a comparison of the provisions of President Nixon's General Revenue Sharing Bill (S. 680 & H.R. 4187) and Congressman Mill's Intergovernmental Fiscal Coordination bill (H.R. 11950).

This report discusses legislative proposals and bills passed in the 92nd Congress related to private pension plan reform.

This report provides a listing of bills passed in the 92nd Congress related to environmental policy and conservation with a brief description of the main purpose of the bill.

This report discusses passed and proposed legislation in the 92nd Congress related to fish and wildlife regulation and funding of the Fish and Wildlife Department.