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Newsletter issued by the Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas discussing news, events, and other relevant information related to technical and vocational education for adults in Texas.

This report discusses legislative history of the adult education act. It reviews the reported with amendments, senate Rept . No. 1218, supplement senate report no.1218, and debate in senate.

Research and development activities on advanced (alternatives to glass) nuclear waste forms are reported. The emphasis is on two phases of the work to give essential background information on supercalcine development. The first is a report of the data obtained in the study of cesium aluminosilicate for Cs and Ru fixation. Research on the compatibility of the phases formed in the complex oxide system made up of waste and additive cations is reported. The phase stability in a number of proposed formulations was determined. (JSR)

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An interactive program, ALLCAL, has been developed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) to calculate the results of spectrochemical measurements of impurities in production samples. The program generates a working curve from input data of standard samples to calculate the impurity concentrations. ALLCAL permits use by individuals with minimal programming experience/ it is truly interactive in providing periodic means to edit, modify, and change incorrect data that might have been introduced through various human error factors affecting any computer program, without the need to terminate and reinitialize after such editing. The program can be used as a research tool to manipulate data with minimum effort and eliminates repetitive input data from its operation. It also provides the spectroscopist a comparison mode to evaluate the effect of the use or nonuse of a given internal standard. ALLCAL accepts either optical density or percent transmittance data from photographic plates and films. The program is written in BASIC language for a minicomputer with 28,000 octal words of core memory and has been shown to be adaptable to another computer system with slight modifications. (auth)

This report is about the state-of-the-art of the anaerobic fermentation processes for the conversion of cellulosic waste materials to chemicals and fuels.

A post-accident-heat-removal structural effects analysis for the steel liner in the FFTF concrete containment structure is presented. (JWR)

This report is an analysis of cost factors of 1974 coal prices.

All suitable measurements of the energy dependence of (n,2n) cross sections of all isotopes up to mass 238 have been analyzed. The objectives were to display the quality of the measured data for each isotope and to examine the systematic dependence of the (n,2n) cross section upon N, Z, and A. Graphs and tables are presented of the ratio of the asymptotic (n,2n) and nonelastic cross section to the neutron-asymmetry parameter (N--Z)/A. Similar data are presented for the derived nuclear temperature, T, and level-density parameter, $alpha$, as a function of N, Z, and A. This analysis of the results of over 145 experiments on 61 isotopes is essentially a complete review of the current status of (n,2n) cross-section measurements. (auth)

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A new computer program, SOLA-OF, has been written to solve the unsteady, two-dimensional equations of motion for a two-phase mixture. The equations solved are based on the drift-flux approximation and include a phase transition model and a general drift velocity calculation. The SOLA-DF code is used for a study of the blowdown of straight pipes initially filled with water at high temperature and pressure. Computed results are presented that show the relative importance of phase transition rates, pipe friction, drift velocity magnitude, and other model variations. The computed results are also compared with experimental data. 7 references. (auth)

Food and energy shortages in many parts of the world in the past two years raise an immediate need for the evaluation of energy input in food production. The present paper investigates systematically (1) the energy requirement for food production, and (2) the provision of controlled thermonuclear fusion energy for major energy intensive sectors of food manufacturing. Among all the items of energy input to the ''food industry,'' fertilizers, water for irrigation, food processing industries, such as beet sugar refinery and dough making and single cell protein manufacturing, have been chosen for study in detail. A controlled thermonuclear power reactor was used to provide electrical and thermal energy for all these processes. Conceptual design of the application of controlled thermonuclear power, water and air for methanol and ammonia synthesis and single cell protein production is presented. Economic analysis shows that these processes can be competitive. (auth)

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Time-differential perturbed angular correlation techniques were applied to a systematic study of insulating antiferromagnets and rare-earth intermetallic alloys doped with either /sup 111m/Cd or $sup 111$In. The internal magnetic fields and electric field gradients at the radioactive nucleus are deduced from the experimentally measured perturbation factors. The analysis of fluoride, chloride, oxide, and sulfide data shows the systematic variation of the observed supertransferred hyperfine fields with the intervening anion covalency and allows extraction of covalency parameters after the adoption of a simple model. A comparison of the transferred hyperfine field data between fluoride perovskites and the corresponding quadratic layer compounds produces a value for the zero- point spin deviation in magnetically two-dimensional antiferromagnets which is in qualitative agreement with existing theoretical estimates. Paramagnetic shifts due to transferred hyperfine field and field-induced spin-flopping have also been observed. By careful temperature regulation the temperature dependence of the sublattice magnetization can be plotted next to a diamagnetic impurity in RbMnF$sub 3$ and MnF$sub 2$. A shift in the transferred hyperfine field at Cd doped into MnS has been measured under the application of moderate pressures up to 22 kbar. Analysis of the electric field gradients at the In and Sn sites in the …

This report presents the results of a study aimed at assessing the potentially beneficial uses of krypton-85 derived from waste of gases of nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities.

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A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing the Automated Guideway Transit Systems, with both detailed findings and summaries.

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Map of Bexar County, showing the census tracts for the 1970 census.

Map of Bexar County, showing the school districts boundaries and major roads.