This fact sheet for distribution at the flash and flow test of HGP-A, July 22, 1976 contains a temperature-depth plot, a brief chronology, and a budget summary. (MHR)

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether sheriff should bid for city or school district at tax foreclosure sale of realty.

Two approaches for calculating soil structure interaction (SSI) are compared: finite element and lumped mass. Results indicate that the calculations with the lumped mass method are generally conservative compared to those obtained by the finite element method. They also suggest that a closer agreement between the two sets of calculations is possible, depending on the use of frequency-dependent soil springs and dashpots in the lumped mass calculations. There is a total lack of suitable guidelines for implementing the lumped mass method of calculating SSI, which leads to the conclusion that the finite element method is generally superior for calculative purposes.

Lithium fluoride as received from the vendor in boule form is 38 x 38 x 13 mm thick. This block is cleaved to wafers of the desired thickness, x-ray-evaluated for ''d'' spacing and greatest intensity, bent to the required radius, and then acid-etched to remove foreign material. The diffraction and dispersion characteristics of a wafer are analyzed using well-collimated tungsten x rays that strike the crystal and are diffracted onto no-screen x-ray film. If the crystal is satisfactory, it is mounted in a spectrogoniometer and rotated through an x-ray beam while a detector is set at the optimized angle for the diffracted x rays. The average intensity across the length of the crystal is recorded by multichannel scaling. Any imperfections appear as peaks or dips compared to the average intensity. The crystal next goes to a 10-channel, filter-fluorescer x-ray unit that compares zero-order intensity to diffracted K..cap alpha.. and K..beta.. intensity. Counts for 100-s intervals are taken in groups of three and averaged. Correction factors for instrument geometry, air, pinhole diameter at zero order, K..cap alpha..-K..beta.., barometric pressure, temperature, etc., are added to the efficiency calculations to obtain the crystal efficiency (epsilon) vs keV data. The crystal is mounted in …

Error field multipoles due to systematic errors in the current distribution are computed and compared with the error field multipoles due to random errors in the current distribution. The systematic field error multipoles are found to vary rapidly across the aperture, and in some cases may be the dominant error multipoles.

This report is on in a series which discusses, in a simplified fashion, on current federal law regulating the conduct of campaigns for federal elective offices.

This report on the Summary of Federal Campaign Financing Laws.

This report explains how federal laws regulate the political activities of corporations and labor unions.

Optimal linear interpolation between discrete observations in R/sup 2/ depends on the random function model assumed to generate the two-dimensional field. Sensitivity of the optimal solution to errors in specification of the model are studied. An illustration using second-order stationary models with a misspecified autocorrelation function is examined in detail. We also explore, by examples, the sensitivity procedure when more distant data points are omitted from the calculations. We have found that the optimal linear estimator is grossly insensitive to misspecifications of the autocorrelation function. However, if the misspecified autocorrelation function is used in the calculation of the squared interpolation error--then such error calculations may be grossly misleading.

Convex-curved crystals of lithium fluoride demonstrate good dispersion and efficiency when used in reflection for x-ray spectral analysis. The crystals are stable and reasonably unaffected by harsh environments. In addition, they are mechanically strong, easily cleavable or machinable, and plastically deformable with heat. In the present study, flat crystal wafers were left either clear as cleaved or were subjected to surface treatment by sandblasting or lapping. Some wafers were then bent in a press mold to obtain convex-curved crystals of differing radii. The diffraction efficiency data presented show how surface treatment affects the efficiency of these various crystals when used as x-ray diffracting agents.

Recently it has been proposed that heavy ion beams could be accelerated with sufficient power and focus to generate shock heating and create hot plasmas in targets of various materials. This preliminary study addresses two aspects of this process: first, the energy deposition by the primary beam, and second, the problem of energy deposition by secondary nuclear reaction particles. For the purpose of discussion it is assumed that beams of 600 MeV/amu uranium (143 GeV total) are focussed on various targets of thickness 1-10 mm. The energy deposition within such targets by the primary and secondary particles is studied.

Budget adopted by the City Council for San Antonio, Texas describing revenue estimates, appropriations, and other financial information for the fiscal year 1976-77.