This paper presents a proposal for modifying the current employee annual evaluation process in SCAD. It purports to simplify that process, primarily by breaking up the resultant document into a set of more or less independent components. It claims to reduce the overall time and effort required from each actor.

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This interim report summarizes the efforts to date to develop an ultrasonic technique for detecting and sizing potting voids between a high explosive material and a metallic baclung. This report presents the results for two tasks. The first task was to establish that ultrasonic energy penetrates LX-17. Then once the acoustic properties of LX-17 were measured, a demonstration experiment substantiated that voids could be detected and imaged.

We describe an application of probabilistic modeling to the problem of recognizing radio galaxies with a bent-double morphology. The type of galaxies in question contain distinctive signatures of geometric shape and flux density that can be used to be build a probabilistic model that is then used to score potential galaxy configurations. The experimental results suggest that even relatively simple probabilistic models can be useful in identifying galaxies of interest in an automatic manner.

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Epitaxial, conductive-oxide buffer layers having bilayer configurations have been deposited on biaxially textured nickel substrates (RABiTS) by rf and dc-sputter techniques. The conductive bilayer structures comprise the layer sequences of SrRuO{sub 3}/LaNiO{sub 3}/Ni and SrRuO{sub 3}/Cu/Ni. Systematic property characterizations of the buffer layers showed excellent electrical and structural properties. High-quality epitaxial YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7-{delta}} (YBCO) films grown by pulsed-laser deposition on these structures exhibited critical current densities (J{sub c}) as high as 1.3 x 10{sup 6} A/cm{sup 2} at 77 K in self-field.

Light-duty chassis dynamometer driving cycle tests were conducted on a Mercedes A170 diesel vehicle with various sulfur-level fuels and exhaust emission control systems. Triplicate runs of a modified light-duty federal test procedure (FTP), US06 cycle, and SCO3 cycle were conducted with each exhaust configuration and fuel. Ultra-low sulfur (3-ppm) diesel fuel was doped to 30- and 150-ppm sulfur so that all other fuel properties remained the same. The fuels used in these experiments met the specifications of the fuels from the DECSE (Diesel Emission Control Sulfur Effects) program. Although the Mercedes A170 vehicle is not available in the US, its emissions in the as tested condition fell within the U.S. Tier 1 full useful life standards with the OEM catalysts installed. Tests with the OEM catalysts removed showed that the OEM catalysts reduced PM emissions from the engine-out condition by 30-40% but had negligible effects on NOx emissions. Fuel sulfur level had very little effect on th e OEM catalyst performance. A prototype catalyzed diesel particulate filter (CDPF) mounted in an underfloor configuration reduced particulate matter emissions by more than 90% compared to the factory emissions control system. The results show that the CDPF did not promote any significant amounts …

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A study of siting considerations for possible future accelerators at Fermilab is underway. Each candidate presents important challenges in environment, safety, and health (ES&H) that are reviewed generically in this paper. Some of these considerations are similar to those that have been encountered and solved during the construction and operation of other accelerator facilities. Others have not been encountered previously on the same scale. The novel issues will require particular attention coincident with project design efforts to assure their timely cost-effective resolution. It is concluded that with adequate planning, the issues can be addressed in a manner that merits the support of the Laboratory, the US Department of Energy (DOE), and the public.

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The transverse polarization observed in the inclusive production of {Lambda} hyperons in the high energy collisions of unpolarized hadrons is tackled by considering a new set of spin and {kappa}{perpendicular} dependent quark fragmentation functions. Simple phenomenological expressions for these new ''polarizing fragmentation functions'' are obtained by a fit of the data on {Lambda}'s and {bar {Lambda}}'s produced in p - N processes.

The photoionization spectrum of helium near the double-ionization threshold shows structure which indicated a transition towards quantum chaos.

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We study the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark into a non-collinear (k{perpendicular} {ne} 0) spinless hadron and the fragmentation of an unpolarized quark into a non collinear transversely polarized spin 1/2 baryon. These nonperturbative properties are described by spin and k{perpendicular} dependent fragmentation functions and are revealed in the observation of single spin asymmetries. Recent data on the production of pions in polarized semi-inclusive DIS and long known data on A polarization in unpolarized p-N processes are considered: these new fragmentation functions can describe the experimental results and the single spin effects in the quark fragmentation turn out to be surprisingly large.

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