Survey report documenting the findings in the waters of Dickinson Bayou Tidal from November 27 to November 29, 1984.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1986, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in rural areas of Texas during 1986, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Monthly report detailing all Texas automobile, pickup, and motorcycle theft data, broken down into tabular lists according to various criteria.

Periodic newsletter discussing information related to legislation, state finance, and other topics related to Texas government. This issue focuses on fiscal priorities, including information on key economic assumptions, biennial revenue, 1984 per capita amounts for state governments, and more.

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.

Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.

Report documenting compiled information about range of length, participation, participant spending, preferred species, and other data for 56 fishing tournaments that occurred in six regions along the Texas coast in 1983.

Proceedings of Public Hearing on Vocational Education held April 25, 1986 in Austin, Texas that focused on problems with vocational education and ways to fix those problems.

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The objective of this project is to identify, prepare, test, characterize, and evaluate a practical, homogeneous catalyst for a water-gas shift process. The project effort is divided into the following five tasks: (1) Update SRI's recent review of the literature on the catalysis of the water-gas shift reaction (WGSR) to include references after 1982 and those in the patent literature. Based on this review, SRI will choose ten candidate systems to be evaluated as to their abilities to catalyze the WGSR using syngas derived from gasified coal. (2) Develop a test plan designed to effectively evaluate both the catalysts and, to some extent, reactor configuration for WGSR catalysis. (3) Perform a series of experiments to identify the most effective and economical of the ten candidate catalysts and then further evaluate the reaction kinetics of at least one selected catalyst system to develop sufficient data to provide the basis for the work in Task 4. (4) Develop a mathematical model of the final candidate system that uses rate expressions to describe the catalytic process. (5) Perform a techno-economical evaluation of the catalyst in terms of a proposed plant design based on the reaction model, current costs, and standard chemical engineering practice …

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.

Newsletter of the Texas Bureau of Disease Control and Epidemiology discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to health in Texas.

Possible nonperturbative continuum regularization schemes for quantum field theory are discussed which are based upon the Langevin equation of Parisi and Wu. Breit, Gupta and Zaks made the first proposal for new gauge invariant nonperturbative regularization. The scheme is based on smearing in the ''fifth-time'' of the Langevin equation. An analysis of their stochastic regularization scheme for the case of scalar electrodynamics with the standard covariant gauge fixing is given. Their scheme is shown to preserve the masslessness of the photon and the tensor structure of the photon vacuum polarization at the one-loop level. Although stochastic regularization is viable in one-loop electrodynamics, two difficulties arise which, in general, ruins the scheme. One problem is that the superficial quadratic divergences force a bottomless action for the noise. Another difficulty is that stochastic regularization by fifth-time smearing is incompatible with Zwanziger's gauge fixing, which is the only known nonperturbaive covariant gauge fixing for nonabelian gauge theories. Finally, a successful covariant derivative scheme is discussed which avoids the difficulties encountered with the earlier stochastic regularization by fifth-time smearing. For QCD the regularized formulation is manifestly Lorentz invariant, gauge invariant, ghost free and finite to all orders. A vanishing gluon mass is explicitly verified …

Technical Standard 105-3.05, Safety Circuits, does not require the Septifoil Supply Header Pressure Very Low safety circuit for current charges. This document develops a new requirement for this circuit based on the burnout heat flux of a control rod under natural convective cooling. Specifically, the Septifoil Supply Header Pressure Very Low safety circuit will be required whenever the calculated control rod operating heat flux exceeds 155,000 pcu/ft{sup 2}-hr.

The objective of this project is to identify, prepare, test, characterize, and evaluate a practical, homogeneous catalyst for a water-gas shift process. The project effort is divided into the following five tasks: (1) Update SRI`s recent review of the literature on the catalysis of the water-gas shift reaction (WGSR) to include references after 1982 and those in the patent literature. Based on this review, SRI will choose ten candidate systems to be evaluated as to their abilities to catalyze the WGSR using syngas derived from gasified coal. (2) Develop a test plan designed to effectively evaluate both the catalysts and, to some extent, reactor configuration for WGSR catalysis. (3) Perform a series of experiments to identify the most effective and economical of the ten candidate catalysts and then further evaluate the reaction kinetics of at least one selected catalyst system to develop sufficient data to provide the basis for the work in Task 4. (4) Develop a mathematical model of the final candidate system that uses rate expressions to describe the catalytic process. (5) Perform a techno-economical evaluation of the catalyst in terms of a proposed plant design based on the reaction model, current costs, and standard chemical engineering practice …

The objective of this proposed work is to demonstrate the operational and economic feasibility of using high-temperature ceramic filters for particulate control in a variety of coal gasification power generating systems.

A series of critical experiments was conducted with mixed plutonium-uranium nitrate solutions having Pu:(Pu+U) ratios >0.5. Three geometries and four conditions of reflection were examined. The plutonium concentrations ranged from 170 to 350 g/L. The value of k-effective for each experiment was calculated using the KENO-IV code and 27-group cross sections derived from the Evaluated Nuclear Data File B--version IV (ENDF/B-IV). The mean value for the set of 26 experiments was 1.003, with a minimum value of 0.987 and a maximum of 1.022. The spread in the distribution of calculated k-effectives is believed to be the result of uncertainties in analytical chemistry measurements. No correlation between condition of reflection and calculated k-effective was found. An allowable multiplication factor to be used in the evaluation of reprocessing equipment at conditions that have been investigated was calculated to be 0.945.

UNC Nuclear Industries (UNC) has initiated a plan for the manufacture of zirconium alloy pressure tubes required for the future operation of N-Reactor. As part of this plan, UNC is establishing a program to qualify and develop a manufacturing process capable of fabricating these pressure tubes to the requirements of UNC specification HWS 6502, REV 4, Amendment 1. The objective of the task described in this test plan is to support the UNC program by performing physical/chemical testing on prototype tubes sections produced or procured during FY-1986, 1987 and 1988 and to test samples from production runs after 1988 as may be required. The types of tests included in this pressure tube testing task will be as follows: (1) Tensile tests; (2) Burst testing; (3) Tests to evaluate fracture properties; (4) Corrosion tests; (5) Spectrographic analysis of chemical composition; (6) Metallographic evaluation of grain size and oxide layer thickness.

Newsletter of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission discussing information about the Commission as well as news, events, and other relevant information.

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.

Weekly report of the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service on broiler chick numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics across six consecutive weeks, from the week ending March 22 to the week ending April 26, during 1985 and 1986 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.