Antibody Formation by Transplanted Bone Marrow, Spleen, Lymph Node and Thymus Cells in Irradiated Recipients (open access)

Antibody Formation by Transplanted Bone Marrow, Spleen, Lymph Node and Thymus Cells in Irradiated Recipients

The role of the marrow as a site for antibody formation has been considered for many years. In 1912 Ludke reported the appearance of antibody in cultures of marrow cells obtained from previously immunized rabbits. Specific agglutinins for killed typhoid bacilli and lysins for ox red cells and sheep red cells were detected in the culture media 2 to 5 days later. However, the cultured cells failed to produce antibody when these antigens were added to the media. Similar findings by Reiter, Przygode, and Schilf appeared in the early literature with regard to the appearance of antibodies to various antigens in tissue cultures of bone marrow from immunized animals, along with failure to elicit antibody formation by addition of antigen to the culture resulted from the addition of excess amounts of antigen, so that if antibody synthesis occurred, the excess antigen combined with antibody and significant amounts of free antibody could not be detected in the culture media. Thorbecke and Keuning observed an increase in antibody in culture fluids when bone marrow fragments from rabbits immunized to paratyphoid B vaccine were cultured in roller tubes.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Stoner, Richard D. & Bond, Victor P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bodies of Revolution for Minimum Drag at High Supersonic Airspeeds (open access)

Bodies of Revolution for Minimum Drag at High Supersonic Airspeeds

From Summary: "Approximate shapes of nonlifting bodies having minimum pressure foredrag at high supersonic airspeeds are calculated.With the aid of Newton's law of resistance, the investigation is carried out for various combinations of the conditions of given body length, base diameter, surface area, and volume. In general it is found that when body length is fixed, the body has a blunt nose; whereas, when the length is not fixed, the body has a sharp nose."
Date: February 25, 1952
Creator: Eggers, A. J., Jr.; Dennis, David H. & Resnikoff, Meyer M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bromine Exchange in Graphite-Bromine Lamellar Compounds (open access)

Bromine Exchange in Graphite-Bromine Lamellar Compounds

A kinetic study of the exchange of normal and radioactive bromine in graphite-bromine lamellar compounds has been made at temperatures of 30° to 50°C. Natural and synthetic graphite powders were investigated. Two alternative mechanisms for the exchange, volume diffusion and surface exchange, were considered. The data were in better agreement with the diffusion mechanism. Diffusion coefficients of 10 -9 to 10 -8 cm2/sec and an activation energy of 11 to 14 kcal/mole were calculated for the natural graphite powders. The diffusion coefficients increased with increasing bromine content. Reversibly absorbed bromine exchanged more rapidly than irreversibly absorbed bromine.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Aronson, Seymour
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calcium Oxalate Carrier Precipitation of Pu (open access)

Calcium Oxalate Carrier Precipitation of Pu

This technical report describes a plant-scale procedure for concentrating plutonium and americium in slag and crucible (metal reduction residues) and other recovery solutions by a calcium oxalate carrier precipitation Conclusions from exploratory laboratory tests on the variables affecting the efficiency are included.
Date: February 25, 1954
Creator: Maraman, W. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculations for Some Pile Shapes of Which the Boundaries are Partly Spherical (open access)

Calculations for Some Pile Shapes of Which the Boundaries are Partly Spherical

Some methods for calculating the k requirements of various shaped piles are indicated, with particular reference to the shape of the tank in the homogeneous plant.
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Young, G.; Murray, F. H. & Castle, H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative flight performance with an NACA Roots supercharger and a turbocentrifugal supercharger (open access)

Comparative flight performance with an NACA Roots supercharger and a turbocentrifugal supercharger

This report presents the comparative flight results of a roots supercharger and a turbocentrifugal supercharger. The tests were conducted using a modified DH-4M2 airplane. The rate of climb and the high speed in level flight of the airplane were obtained for each supercharger from sea level to the ceiling. The unsupercharged performance with each supercharger mounted in place was also determined. The results of these tests show that the ceiling and rate of climb obtained were nearly the same for each supercharger, but that the high speed obtained with the turbocentrifugal was better than that obtained with the roots. The high-speed performance at 21,000 feet was 122 and 142 miles per hour for the roots and turbocentrifugal, respectively.
Date: February 25, 1930
Creator: Schey, Oscar W. & Young, Alfred W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptual Design for 75 MWe Mixed Spectrum Superheating Reactor Power Plant (open access)

Conceptual Design for 75 MWe Mixed Spectrum Superheating Reactor Power Plant

"This report presents the conceptual design of a 75 MWe prototype Mixed Spectrum Superheater power plant. The scope of the work has emphasized primarily the design, performance, and cost information on the nuclear portion of the plant. The research and development programs required to insure plant feasibility are also present."--Intro.
Date: February 25, 1962
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Correlation by Means of the Transonic Similarity Rules of the Experimentally Determined Characteristics of 22 Rectangular Wings of Symmetrical Profile (open access)

A Correlation by Means of the Transonic Similarity Rules of the Experimentally Determined Characteristics of 22 Rectangular Wings of Symmetrical Profile

From Summary: "The transonic similarity rules have been applied to the correlation of experimental data for a series of 22 rectangular wings having symmetrical NACA 63A-series sections, aspect ratios from 1/2 to 6, and thicknesses from 2 to 10 percent. The data were obtained by use of the transonic bump technique over a Mach number range from 0.40 to 1.10, corresponding to a Reynolds number range from 1.25 to 2.05 million. The results show that it is possible to correlate experimental data throughout the subsonic, transonic, and moderate supersonic regimes by using the transonic similarity parameters in forms which are consistent with the Prandtl-Glauert rule of linearized theory."
Date: February 25, 1952
Creator: McDevitt, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion Tests on Tantalum, Hastelloy C and Duriron in 234-5 Project Solutions (open access)

Corrosion Tests on Tantalum, Hastelloy C and Duriron in 234-5 Project Solutions

Introduction: "Room temperature and elevated temperature, static immersion and vapor suspicion, corrosion tests were conducted with Duriron, Hastelloy C, and tantalum in hydriotic acid and 234-5 project process supernatant solution (synthetic environments. The data relevant to these tests are contained herein."
Date: February 25, 1949
Creator: Work, J. B. & Koenig, W. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal Structure of a Sodium Cobalt Molybdate (open access)

Crystal Structure of a Sodium Cobalt Molybdate

The cobalt and molybdenum positions had been derived from a three-dimensional Patterson function based on complete data out to λ-1 sin θMo≈ 1. From the separation of the separation of the Mo atoms it was thought that the structure contained free, unlinked MoO4 -2 ions, and this, together with the observed density and analyses for Co and Mo, suggested that the composition was probably Co2(MoO4)3. The paucity of structural information on complex oxide systems and the interesting properties, both structural and physical, of such systems prompted the present, detailed refinement of the structure. The result is more complicated and more interesting than had been anticipated: from the analysis of the X-ray data the compound is found to be NaCo2.31(MoO4)3, and this composition is consistent with chemical analyses. The structure shows several interesting features, including the partial occupancy of cobalt atoms in two independent CoO6 octahedral sites. In one arrangement of CoO6 octahedra there is the not too common face sharing to form infinite columns; in the other arrangement a zig-zag sheet, as far as we know differing from anything thus far reported, is formed by the sharing of edges and corners.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Ibers, James A. & Smith, G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detailed Procedure for K Reactors Rear ace Decontamination by Chemical Flush or the Rear Crossheaders, Pigtails and Nozzles as Authorized by the Production Test Authorization IP-239-N. (open access)

Detailed Procedure for K Reactors Rear ace Decontamination by Chemical Flush or the Rear Crossheaders, Pigtails and Nozzles as Authorized by the Production Test Authorization IP-239-N.

The purpose of this procedure is to present a detailed, chronological presentation of the preliminary decontamination and post decontamination steps necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Production Test Authorization IP-239-N. The procedure attempts to present the required operation in sufficient detail to successfully accomplish the intent of the test. Certain procedures involve operations of a standard nature and have not been elaborated upon to any great extent, as it is expected that the reactor operations and radiation monitoring personnel will implement these instructions according to standard operating procedures.
Date: February 25, 1959
Creator: Crossman, W.A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of Fission Product Gamma Doses (open access)

The Determination of Fission Product Gamma Doses

In this paper arbitrary limits of the general fission source gamma problem are set. Then, by assuming cooling of at least one day, it is shown that only twelve different fission product gamma sources need ever be considered.
Date: February 25, 1957
Creator: Ruehle, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of fuel density and heating value on ram-jet airplane range (open access)

Effect of fuel density and heating value on ram-jet airplane range

An analytical investigation of the effects of fuel density and heating value on the cruising range of a ram-jet airplane was made. Results indicate that with present-day knowledge of chemical fuels, neither very high nor very low fuel densities have any advantages for long-range flight. Of the fuels investigated, the borohydrides and metallic boron have the greatest range potential. Aluminum and aluminum hydrocarbon slurries were inferior to pure hydrocarbon fuel and boron-hydrocarbon slurries were superior on a range basis. It was concluded that the practical difficulties associated with the use of liquid hydrogen fuel cannot be justified on a range basis.
Date: February 25, 1952
Creator: Henneberry, Hugh M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of fuel-orifice diameter on performance of heptane-oxygen rocket-engines (open access)

Effect of fuel-orifice diameter on performance of heptane-oxygen rocket-engines

A study of the effect of fuel-orifice diameter on the performance of heptane-oxygen rocket engines with single-element injectors. Five engines with a range of thrust were tested with parallel-sheet, triplet, and parallel-jet injectors. Decreasing the fuel-orifice diameter was found to increase the performance for a fixed chamber length. Results regarding injector performance and a comparison of experimental and analytical results are provided.
Date: February 25, 1958
Creator: Priem, Richard J. & Hersch, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electric Currents, Membranes, and Biological Sources of Electromotive Force (open access)

Electric Currents, Membranes, and Biological Sources of Electromotive Force

The analysis of closed circuit systems in which spontaneous steady-state electric currents appear can be carried out with the use of the function [function not transcribed]. The analysis indicates that any open circuit system of the form. Phase 1, barrier 1, phase 2, ......, phase b, barrier b, phase 1' is a chemical source of electromotive force when the phase 1 and 1' are identical, when the system contains two or more barriers whose sets of ionic transport members are different, and when the system is composed of two or more phases whose chemical properties are different. A general expression for the electromotive force of model systems composed of homogeneous phases and biological membranes in linear array can be written as [expression not transcribed] in which the indicated summations are to be performed for all barriers and for all ions to which each barrier is permeable.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Nims, Leslie F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elevated-Temperature Combined Stress-Rupture Plus Fatigue Strength of Waspaloy Having Different Aging Treatments and/or Molybdenum Contents (open access)

Elevated-Temperature Combined Stress-Rupture Plus Fatigue Strength of Waspaloy Having Different Aging Treatments and/or Molybdenum Contents

Report presenting an investigation to determine if the combined stress-rupture plus fatigue strengths of three groups of Waspaloy with different aging treatments and/or molybdenum contents could be correlated with their stress-rupture ductilities and notch-rupture strengths. Waspaloy is of interest as a gas turbine-bucket alloy because it has low strategic material content and relatively good stress-rupture properties. Results regarding metallurgical evaluation of the failed specimens are also provided.
Date: February 25, 1958
Creator: Hoffman, C. A. & Hornak, M. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equilibrium Operating Performance of Axial-Flow Turbojet Engines by Means of Idealized Analysis (open access)

Equilibrium Operating Performance of Axial-Flow Turbojet Engines by Means of Idealized Analysis

"A method of predicting equilibrium operating performance of turbojet engines has been developed, with the assumption of simple model processes for the components. Results of the analysis are plotted in terms of dimensionless parameters comprising critical engine dimensions and over-all operating variables. This investigation was made of an engine in which the ratio of axial inlet-air velocity to compressor-tip velocity is constant, which approximates turbojet engines with axial-flow compressors" (p. 673).
Date: February 25, 1949
Creator: Sanders, John C. & Chapin, Edward C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eta Temperature Effect (open access)

Eta Temperature Effect

The temperature coefficient of eta has been measured with the thermal column of the Argonne pile using uranium foils of different isotopic ratios. The temperature change was effected by filtering neutrons through silver. The measured fractional change per degree centigrade is [formula].
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Bragdon, E. W.; Hughes, D. & Marshall, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight calibration of angle-of-attack and sideslip detectors on the fuselage of a 35 degree swept-wing fighter airplane (open access)

Flight calibration of angle-of-attack and sideslip detectors on the fuselage of a 35 degree swept-wing fighter airplane

Report presenting measurements of the position errors of angle-of-attack and sideslip detectors located on the fuselage of a 35 degree swept-wing fighter airplane over a range of Mach numbers and at lift coefficients up to the buffet boundary. Results regarding the angle of attack and sideslip are provided.
Date: February 25, 1952
Creator: McFadden, Norman M.; Bray, Richard S. & Rathert, George A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fluorimetric Assay of α-Chymotrypsin (open access)

Fluorimetric Assay of α-Chymotrypsin

The enzymolysis by α-chymotrypsin of the substrates, N-acetyl-L-tryptophane ethyl ester and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester, was followed by means of fluorescence whose intensity increased fourfold and threefold per mole respectively as substrate was transformed into amino acid. The assay by fluorescence was several orders of magnitude more sensitive than the assay by differential absorption spectra of these substances and was in agreement with it in those concentration regions where both methods overlap. To maintain linearity between concentration and fluorescence intensity, the concentration of substrate should be no greater than 10-4 M/1. In such solutions the rate of esterolysis could be followed with the enzyme at 10-11 M/1.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Bielski, Benon H. J. & Freed, Simon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foam Suppression of Radioactive Iodine and Particulates (open access)

Foam Suppression of Radioactive Iodine and Particulates

" A reliable, efficient and economical method is needed to remove radioactive halogens such as iodine and bromine and particulates from air in many atomic energy installations. One method we have developed which is particularly suited to reactor containment vessels or other large confined areas is foam containment. In this method an ether lauryl sulfate foam containing an iodine reactant is generated, rapidly filling the entire containment volume. This provides a tremendous surface area to which the encapsulated gases and particles can diffuse and be removed."
Date: February 25, 1964
Creator: Yoder, Robert E.; Fontana, Mario H. & Silverman, Leslie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Generation in Irradiated Uranium (open access)

Heat Generation in Irradiated Uranium

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing the heat generation of irradiated uranium. Methods of heat production in uranium are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 25, 1952
Creator: Untermyer, Samuel & Weills, J. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Energy Fission and Spallation of Uranium (open access)

High Energy Fission and Spallation of Uranium

From introduction: "This report is an attempt to examine, semiquantitavely, the way the competition between neutron emission and fission varies for heavy nuclei as a function of nuclear type and excitation energy. Many of the ideas herein are the results of discussions with R. H. Goeckermann and W. Heckrotte of the University of California Radiation Laboratory."
Date: February 25, 1954
Creator: Batzel, Roger Elwood
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of the Brookhaven Biology Department Mouse Colony No. 1 (Swiss-Bridge-Bagg-O'Grady-Walter Reed Strain) With Endemic Occult Cerebral Encephalitozoönosis and Colony No. 2 (open access)

The History of the Brookhaven Biology Department Mouse Colony No. 1 (Swiss-Bridge-Bagg-O'Grady-Walter Reed Strain) With Endemic Occult Cerebral Encephalitozoönosis and Colony No. 2

Innes, Zemen, Frenkel, Borner and Wright (1962) described an outbreak of encephalitozoönosis of the central nervous system in mice, a summary of which is given below for an understanding of why this appendix may be of interest. When the paper was presented for publication, the editors of the journal decided to omit the history of our mouse colony. In our opinion, to understand (a) how this infection may have arisen and (b) may have spread, and still exist in some colonies, it is of prime importance to know the history of this strain of mice used by us (and others). It also has lessons on the establishment and maintenance of so-called "disease-free" or "specific pathogen-free"* colonies of laboratory animals in general. Information on the history of the mice has been culled from Col. H. Yager, VC, Director of the Division of Veterinary Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research, Washington, D. C., and from Drs, Clara Lynch and John B. Nelson, Rockefeller Institute, New York.
Date: February 25, 1963
Creator: Innes, J. R. M. & Borner, G
System: The UNT Digital Library