Letter to NAACP leaders regarding voter registration drives. Letter encourages each chapter to set up registration sites and use their knowledge of their communities to get as many people registered as possible.

Biographical sketch of Eleanor Brown including details about her service with the WASP, personal life, career, family, interests, and community involvement. In the last paragraph, Brown states that "the time has come to hire an Executive Director to assist us."

Biographical sketch of Eleanor Brown including details about her service with the WASP, personal life, career, family, interests, and community involvement.

In this research project we have tightly integrate the use of level of detail with PC cluster-based rendering systems.

Interview with Gary Anderson, a veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard from Wausau, Wisconsin. The transcript includes a list of questions about Anderson's time as a medic in the late 1970s in Baltimore and Houston, where he was part of the 389th Transportation Battalion, as well as his opinions on Desert Storm and September 11th.

Interview with Gary Anderson, a veteran of the U.S. Army National Guard from Wausau, Wisconsin. It includes a list of questions about Anderson's time as a medic in the late 1970s in Baltimore and Houston, where he was part of the 389th Transportation Battalion, as well as his opinions on Desert Storm and September 11th.

Lists the nominees for various board and committee positions as well as bylaws regarding nominations

Quarterly membership update for October, 2003. Includes updates on goals and campaign efforts.

This report summarizes the research of the Principal Investigator, his postdoctoral research associates, and his students during the period of the award. The majority of the work concerns the behavior of hadrons containing strange, charm, bottom and top quarks, with a particular focus on the extraction of Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa matrix elements from experiments performed on such systems.

The present report resumes the research activities of the Plasma Spectroscopy/Diagnostics Group at Johns Hopkins University performed on the NSTX tokamak at PPPL during the period 1999-2009. During this period we have designed and implemented XUV based diagnostics for a large number of tasks: study of impurity content and particle transport, MHD activity, time-resolved electron temperature measeurements, ELM research, etc. Both line emission and continuum were used in the XUV range. New technics and novel methods have been devised within the framework of the present research. Graduate and post-graduate students have been involved at all times in addition to the senior research personnel. Several tens of papers have been published and lectures have been given based on the obtained results at conferences and various research institutions (lists of these activities were attached both in each proposal and in the annual reports submitted to our supervisors at OFES).

Letter to NAACP members discussing the social conditions that need to be addressed as well as outlining some goals to help continue ongoing social activism.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

A new technique for removal of elemental mercury from emissions of coal-fired utilities was investigated. The key idea is to selectively photo ionize the mercury atoms. A strong electric field gradient then drags them to the negative plate where they can be collected and removed.

This research grant supported the creation and initial development of a new kind of chemical detector; one that can detect species at part per trillion levels because it does not rely on the direct measurement of a species presence; rather, it uses an indirect measurement of the effect of the trace species on the condensation nucleation of a supersaturated vapor. Since this nucleation process is extremely sensitive to the concentrations of certain types of impurities, this nucleation-based detection can be made more sensitive than any current spectroscopic detector.

This proposed research addresses one of the long outstanding fundamental problems in materials science, the mechanisms of deformation in amorphous metals. Due to the lack of long-range translational order, details of structural defects and their behaviors in metallic glasses have not been accessible in experiments. In addition, the small dimensions of the amorphous alloys made early by rapid quenching impose severe limit on many standard mechanical and microscopy testing. As a result, the microscopic mechanism of deformation in the amorphous materials has not been established. The recent success in synthesis of bulk metallic glass overcomes the difficulty in standard testing; but the barrier for understanding the defect process and microscopic mechanisms of deformation still remains. Amorphous metals deform in a unique way by shear banding. As a result, there is no work hardening, little macroscopic plasticity, and catastrophic failure. To retain and improve the inherent high strength, large elastic strain, and high toughness in amorphous metals, a variety of synthesis activities are currently underway including making metallic glass matrix composites. These new explorations call for a quantitative understanding of deformation mechanisms in both the monolithic metallic glasses as well as their composites. The knowledge is expected to give insight and …

This report describes results on six years of research on how bacteria store nickel and then mobilize it into the active center of enzymes.

The technical report outlines the results of nine years of research on how ions cross the inner envelope membrane of chloroplasts. The ions include protons, nitrite, calcium and ferrous iron. Bicarbonate transport was also studied.

Letter regarding the separation of the armed services and veterans affairs dinner from the national convention.

This report describes the main features of the results obtained in the course of this project. A new approach to the systematic development of closure relations for the averaged equations of disperse multiphase flow is outlined. The focus of the project is on spatially non-uniform systems and several aspects in which such systems differ from uniform ones are described. Then, the procedure used in deriving the closure relations is given and some explicit results shown. The report also contains a list of publications supported by this grant and a list of the persons involved in the work.

We have successfully completed a proof-of-concept, one-year grant on a three-year proposal from the former NABIR program. Using a state-of-the-art 300-kV, atomic resolution, Field Emission Gun Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), we have successfully identified three categories of mineral hosts for uranium in contaminated soils from the Oak Ridge FRC: (1) iron oxides: (2) mixed manganese-iron oxides; and (3) uranium phosphates.

Photograph of five unknown individuals seated at a table together. All of the individuals appear to be wearing white shirts. A couple of beverages can be seen on the table in front of them. A television, a fireplace, a door, and a window are visible behind them.

Photograph of four unknown individuals at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The group consists of three women and two men who are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The three individuals on the right are holding two framed dining awards.

Photograph of four unknown individuals at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The group consists of three women and two men who are standing side-by-side and smiling at the camera. The three individuals on the right are holding two framed dining awards.

Photograph of two men standing at a podium, at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference was likely held by the National Association of College and University Food Services. One man stands behind the podium and the other stands beside it while the both of them look downward at the podium. A sign on the podium reads, "Omni Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore." The back of an individual's head can be seen in the bottom lefthand corner of the image.