Newsletter of Lee College discussing news, events, and other updates.

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.

Annual report of the Texas Youth Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1993.

Monthly newsletter of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, discussing topics related to managing volunteers in TXMHMR facilities.

Newsletter of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Conservation Passport program, discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to park visitors.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1993, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Annual report compiling information about required groundwater monitoring activities and cases of contamination by state-regulated activities during the YYYY calendar year. Includes tables with the enforcement status of each case of contamination.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in rural areas of Texas during 1993, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

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Newsletter of the Texas General Services Commission discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to business travel for state employees.

The work of the five staff members is presented individually in turn. (1) Nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics and its implication for phenomena involving nucleon structure, nuclear structure, and relativistic heavy-ion collisions. (2) Symmetries and the connection of the quark-gluon description of nucleons and nuclei with the nucleon-meson degrees of freedom-parity nonconservation, time reversal invariance, chiral symmetry and charge symmetry, QCD sum rules. (3) The relation between nuclear physics and quantum chromodynamics-physics of color transparency, fundamental symmetries, physics of confinement and hadronic form factors, EMC effect. (4) Chirally invariant chromo-dielectric soliton model, many-nucleon system in models of QCD, flux tube dynamics, {anti p}-p to {anti {Lambda}}-{Lambda} and {anti {Lambda}}-{Sigma} collisions, isotopic effects in atomic parity nonconservation, quantum molecular dynamics. (5) Numerical work related to lattice QCD simulations, and analytical work related to model studies of hadronic phenomenology and the development and understanding of new methods.

Small-scale test data for the Westinghouse AP-600 Passive Containment Cooling System (PCCS) have been used to validate the COMMIX computer code. To evaluate the performance of the PCCS, two transient liquid-film tracking models have been developed and implemented in the CO code. A set of heat transfer models and a mass transfer model based on heat and mass transfer analogy were used for the analysis of the AP-600 PCCS. It was found that the flow of the air stream in the annulus is a highly turbulent forced convection and that the flow of the air/steam mixture in the containment vessel is a mixed convection. Accordingly, a turbulent-forced-convection heat transfer model is used on the outside of the steel containment vessel wall and a mixed-convection heat transfer model is used on the inside of the steel containment vessel wall. The results from the CO calculations are compared with the experimental data from Westinghouse PCCS small-scale tests for average wall heat flux, evaporation rate, containment vessel pressure, and vessel wall temperature and heat flux distributions; agreement is good. The CO calculations also provide detailed distributions of velocity, temperature, and steam and air concentrations.

High-resolution neutron transmission and differential elastic scattering measurements have been made on samples of nitrogen from 0.5 eV to 10 MeV at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA). For the transmission measurement several different detectors were used at various flight path lengths, with high-purity nitrogen gas samples. The data have been corrected for the dead time of the time digitizer and for several small backgrounds. For the scattering measurements six detectors were placed at various angles inside an evacuated scattering chamber at 200 meters from the neutron producing target. The sample was silicon nitride held in a thin graphite container. Scattering from carbon and silicon samples was also measured to correct for these materials and calibrate the relative efficiencies of the scattering detectors. The data have been corrected for dead time and for a constant background. A preliminary analysis has been completed to obtain parameters of the resonances up to 4.8 MeV.

It has been known since about 1980 that fusion of heavy ions is greatly enhanced below the Coulomb barrier compared with normal barrier-penetration expectations. The excitation function for fusion of {sup 64}Ni + {sup 100}Mo measured in collaboration with a group at Washington University shows the effect clearly. The barrier energy is about 142 MeV; the lowest point is at about 90% of the barrier energy. The dotted curve is the prediction of a one-dimensional-barrier-penetration calculation of a type that reproduces the fusion of light projectiles very well. Several theoretical approaches have been successful in explaining the enhancement seen in much of the excitation-function data, but it cannot be said that a full understanding of the physics is in hand even after more than a decade of hard work. In fact, the reasonable success of several rather different models shows that the underlying phenomena are not well understood. Other types of data might be helpful in distinguishing among the many different theoretical approaches. An important kind of information not measured in most of the experiments is the dependence on {ell}, the angular momentum of the fusing system. We obtained such information on the cross sections, {sigma}{ell}, as a function of …

Grain boundary diffusion coefficients of {sup 57}Co and {sup 59}Co in polycrys. NiO, NiO bicrystal, and polycrys. Fe{sub 3}O{sub 4} were determined at various oxygen pressures at 750 C. For NiO, the low oxygen pressure region (<10{sup {minus}10} MPa) displayed constant grain boundary diffusion coefficients as the oxygen pressure decreased, indicating an extrinsic region in which the impurity-induced defects dominated the intrinsic defects. At greater oxygen pressures, the intrinsic defects (Ni vacancies) dominated the extrinsic defects, causing the diffusion to increase with pressure. For Fe{sub 3}O{sub 4}, at low oxygen pressures (<10{sup {minus}16} MPa), the grain boundary diffusion coefficient increased when the pressure decreased, owing to interstitial type diffusion; at >10{sup {minus}15} MPa, the diffusion increased with pressure, owing to vacancy type diffusion. D{sub gb} of Co ions in Fe{sub 3}O{sub 4} is proportional to pO{sub 2}{sup {minus}2/3} in the low pressure region and to pO{sub 2}{sup 2/3} in the high pressure region, indicating similar mechanisms in the grain boundary diffusion and volume diffusion. Ratio of D{sub gb}/D was about 10{sup 3}.

Molecular interactions and molecular distributions are at the heart of the supercritical behavior of fluid mixtures. The distributions, i.e. structure, can be obtained through any of the three routes: (1) scattering experiments, (2) Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics simulation, and (3) integral equations that govern the relation between the molecular interactions u(r) and the probability distributions g{sub ij}(r). Most integral equations are based on the Ornstein-Zernike relation connecting the total correlation to the direct correlation. The OZ relation requires a {open_quotes}closure{close_quotes} equation to be solvable. Thus the Percus-Yevick, hypernetted chain, and mean spherical approximations have been proposed. The authors outline the numerical methods of solution for these integral equations, including the Picard, Labik-Gillan, and Baxter methods. Solution of these equations yields the solvent-solute, solvent-solvent, and solute-solute pair correlation functions (pcf`s). Interestingly, these pcf`s exhibit characteristical signatures for supercritical mixtures that are classified as {open_quotes}attractive{close_quotes} or {open_quotes}repulsive{close_quotes} in nature. Close to the critical locus, the pcf shows enhanced first neighbor peaks with concomitant long-range build-ups (sic attractive behavior) or reduced first peaks plus long-range depletion (sic repulsive behavior) of neighbors. For ternary mixtures with entrainers, there are synergistic effects between solvent and cosolvent, or solute and cosolute. These are also detectable …

We describe the mechanical design of a medical-imaging monochromator for the Multiple Energy Computed Tomography (MECT) project at the X17B superconducting beamline of the NSLS. The monochromator consists of two independent two-crystal Laue-Laue units in tandem, with the option of using a Laue-Bragg/Bragg-Laue configuration. It provides two collinear exit beams of different energies that can be alternatively selected by a shutter. The heart of the design is a mechanically driven spindle with a double gimbal mechanism used for precise angular positioning of each of the four crystals about two orthogonal axes of rotation. An angular precision of 0.041 arcsec is achieved by using a linear motion of 0.1 {mu}m on a lever arm of 50 cm. The main features of the system include a fixed-exit beam having a 15 mm vertical offset, watercooled first crystals in both units, a 12 cm beam width, a 3 mm maximum beam height, an energy range of {approximately} 25--50 and 75--100 keV, a 2.5 s beam-switching time, and high vacuum compatibility.

Objectives of this project is to produce LaCrO{sub 3} for the interconnect in solid oxide fuel cells. The project is divided into three areas: reproducible powder synthesis, sintering of LaCrO{sub 3}-based powders, and co-sintering of LaCrO{sub 3}-based powders with cathode and electrolyte materials. The project has been in place for 3 months; construction is underway for the spray pyrolysis system and studies initiated on the organometallic precursor.

The combined analysis/test effort described in this paper compares predictions with measured data from a step-relaxation test in the absence of significant wind-driven aerodynamic loading. The process described here is intended to illustrate a method for validation of time domain codes for structural analysis of wind turbine structures. Preliminary analyses were performed to investigate the transient dynamic response that the rotating Sandia 34 m Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) would undergo when one of the two blades was excited by step-relaxation. The calculations served two purposes. The first was for pretest planning to evaluate the relative importance of the various forces that would be acting on the structure during the test and to determine if the applied force in the step-relaxation would be sufficient to produce an excitation that was distinguishable from that produced by the aerodynamic loads. The second was to provide predictions that could subsequently be compared to the data from the test. The test was carried out specifically to help in the validation of the time-domain structural dynamics code, VAWT-SDS, which predicts the dynamic response of VAWTs subject to transient events. Post-test comparisons with the data were performed and showed a qualitative agreement between pretest predictions and …