This proposal is submitted in response to Request for Proposal No. 438468, dated 27 May 1969, from the Power Procurement Section of the NASA Lewis Research Center, to design, fabricate and test Primary NaK Loop (PNL) valves for use in ground testing of the SNAP-8 Power Conversion System.

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This report covers the role in which computers play in western civilization.

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This report addresses the Work Incentive (WIN) program

This report discusses The Causes of Urban Violence: Selected Articles.

This report is a study of Cultural Aims of Student Disorders.

This report details the struggle between the North and South provinces of Sudan. It includes the sources of the conflict and its political context.

This study will attempt to review and place into perspective the principal arguments voiced by both the music publishers and the record producers in their respective testimony before Subcommittee No. 3 of the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the 89th and 90th congress.

Newsletter of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, providing updates regarding the activities of the agency, as well as other related topics.

Newsletter of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research outlining statistics and research related to business in Texas.

A test arrangement and procedure has been devised for a miniaturized gap test in which the donor is essentially a length of hypodermic needle tubing loaded with an exploslve. The particular size used in the work reported hereln had an explosive column charge diameter of 33 mils. The procedure was used to determine gap sensitivities of several explosives including tetryl, RDX, PETN, HMX, and PBXN-5. Several of the explosives were tested of more than one particle size and loaded at more than one density. Within the group of explosives tested, both particle size and loading density had more affect upon sensitivity, as measured in these tests, than did composition. The coarser materials were found to be both less sensitive and more variable than the fine explosives. The fine explosives were found to become less sensitive as the loading density increased. This trend was apparently reversed for the one coarse explosive (RDX, Class a) for which data was obtained. The test arrangement and procedure is a promising tool for the acquisition of data for the design of fuzes of minimum dimensions.

The mechanical cycling test was required to verify the integrity of the welded joints and the thin wall tube bends in the primary loop manifold assembly of a four pack thermo electric module and to help establish structural and mechanical requirements of any possible redesign. The test section was subjected to more severe loading conditions than will be experienced during actual operating conditions. The test was a mechanical simulation of the differential thermal expansion which occurs due to the approximately 600{degrees} F temperature differential in the subassembly. The actual load exerted on the test section represented this deflection. The effects on the joints and tube material were observed. The test was conducted on a test segment of manifold designed to duplicate two of the flexible elbows; the transition joints between the elbows and the tubular module inner clad; and the welded joints of the elbows to the primary loop header. The assembled test segment and hold-down bracket are shown. The bracket was mounted to the base of the Universal Test Machine. Dial indicators measured the relative displacement between the line of applied load (through the vertical axis of the primary loop header) and the attachment point at the holddown bracket. …

The {eta}'(958) meson has been studied in the reaction K{sup -}p {yields} {Lambda}{eta}', with K{sup -} beam momenta ranging from 1.70 to 2.65 Gev/c. The Dalitz plots of {eta}' decay into {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}{eta} and {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}{gamma} have been examined, and from them we have determined that the most likely quantum numbers of the {eta}' are I{sup G}J{sup P} = 0{sup +}0{sup -}, although J{sup P} = 2{sup -} cannot be completely ruled out. They have also shown that the decay into {pi}{sup +}{sup -}{gamma} is mediated by the decay {eta}' {yields} {rho}{sup o}{gamma}. An examination of the production process has yielded further evidence for the J{sup P} = 0{sup -} assignment and suggested that the process takes place via K*(891) exchange in the t channel. Branching fractions and cross sections have been determined, and finally a search for a negatively charged {eta}' in the deuterium reaction K{sup -}d {yields} p{Lambda}{eta}' has confirmed the I = 0 assignment for the {eta}'.

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Magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.

From Introduction: "This volume contains data on the microwave spectra of 94 polyatomic molecules capable of exhibiting internal rotation, based upon a search of the literature up to July, 1962, but including some information of later dates."

Report containing material from several Oak Ridge National Laboratory groups regarding nuclear safety.

Report describing a contract to study laminar flow in narrow channels as a possible alternative to turbulent flow in wider channels for minimizing the losses in efficiency due to concentration polarization in the reverse osmosis process for desalination of sea water. A laboratory study and a practical study were both undertaken.

Report describing and comparing the effects of atomic explosions on a variety of family shelters. The structures, test conditions, and instrumentation are described.