Bimonthly newsletter of the Texas Department of State Health Services about topics related to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. WIC is a nutritional program that provides education and counselling, nutritious foods, and help accessing health care to low-income women, infants, and children.

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.

Newsletter focusing on pecan disease and pest control in Texas, including prevention, identification, treatment, and educational opportunities.

Monthly report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1993, 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 1993, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1992.

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

Periodic newsletter discussing information related to legislation, state finance, and other topics related to Texas government. This issue focuses on intrastate trucking regulation, disadvantaged business enterprises, commodity restrictions, rate reforms, safety changes, commercial zone expansion, and more.

Newsletter of the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority discussing news and updates related to the organization's meetings and activities, changes to regulations, and other relevant information.

Monthly graphic bulletin issued by the U.S. Army regarding preventative maintenance policies and procedures to keep weapons and other military supplies in good repair.

Bimonthly magazine containing news and information that pertains to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. "The magazine's goals are to help organizations function professionally as EMS providers, to educate individuals so they can perform lifesaving prehospital skills under stressful conditions, and to help the public get into the EMS system when they need it" (p. 4).

Quarterly newsletter of the Edwards Underground Water District discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to water in southern Texas.

Bimonthly newsletter of the Texas Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to 9-1-1 services and other emergency communication within Texas.

Candidate heat exchanger materials tested in the Low Mass Flow train at the Coal-Fired Flow Facility (CFFF) at Tullahoma, TN. were analyzed to evaluate their corrosion performance. Tube specimens obtained at each foot of the 14-ft-long Unbend tubes were analyzed for corrosion-scale morphologies, scale thicknesses, and internal penetration depths. Results developed on 1500- and 2000- h exposed specimens were correlated with exposure temperature. In addition, deposit materials collected at several locations in the CFFF were analyzed in detail to characterize the chemical and physical properties of the deposits and their influence on corrosion performance of tube materials.

A brief summary of the activities of the traveler, information derived, and impressions gained while participating in the Japanese Science and Technology Agency's Forum for Multi-Disciplinary Research is given. A visit to the construction site of SPring 8, the new Japanese synchrotron radiation facility, also is described.

The successful operation of an optoelectronic analog link for transfer of particle detector signals in high radiation area requires a detailed radiation damage study. We present at this conference the study of Ti: LiNbO[sub 3] optical modulators with gamma-rays and neutrons.

The upgrade of the Omega laser at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (UR/LLE) will result in a need for large targets filled with D[sub 2] or Dt and maintained at cryogenic temperatures. This mandates a cryogenic target delivery system capable of filling, layering, characterizing and delivering cryogenic targets to the Omega Upgrade target chamber. The program goal is to design, construct, and test the entire target delivery system by June 1996. When completed (including an operational demonstration), the system will be shipped to Rochester for reassembly and commissioning in time for the Omega Upgrade cryogenic campaign, scheduled to start in 1998. General Atomics has been assigned the task of developing the conceptual design for the cryogenic target delivery system. Design and fabrication activities will be closely coordinated with the University of Rochester, Lawrence Livermore National laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), drawing upon their knowledge base in fuel layering and cryogenic characterization. The development of a target delivery system for Omega could also benefit experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the other ICF Laboratories in that the same technologies could be applied to NOVA, the National Ignition Facility or the future Laboratory Microfusion Facility.

Preliminary results from D0 are presented on properties of the W[sup [plus minus]] and Z[sup 0] electroweak gauge bosons, using final states containing electrons and muons. In particular, preliminary measurements of the W[sup [plus minus]] and Z[sup 0] production cross sections with decay into final states containing electrons are shown and a status report on the determination of M[sub w]/M[sub z] is given.

Results from a fully nonlinear three dimensional toroidal electrostatic gyrokinetic simulation of the ion temperature gradient instability are presented. The model has fully gyro-averaged ion dynamics, including trapped particles, and adiabatic electrons. Simulations of large tokamak plasma volumes are made possible due to recent advances in [delta]f methods and massively parallel computing. Linearly, a coherent ballooning eigenmode is observed, where the mode is radially elongated. In the turbulent steady-state, the spectrum peaks around k[theta] [rho][sub s] [approximately] 0.1 with the ballooning structure reduced, but still prevalent.

Simulation studies have shown that highly insulating windows with moderate solar transmittances (R values greater than 6 hr-ft[sup 2]--F/Btu and shading coefficients greater than 0.5) can outperform insulated walls on any orientation, even in a northern US climate. Such superwindows achieve this feat by admitting more useful solar heat gains during the heating season than energy lost through conduction, convection and infrared radiation. Testing of first generation superwindows in three new homes in northern Montana during the winter of 1989--1990, reported in an earlier study, indicated that the glazed areas of superwindows can in fact outperform insulated walls on obstructed off-south orientations. However, this same study also showed that further improvements in the thermal performance of window edges and frames are necessary if the entire window is to outperform an insulated wall. As a result, second generation superwindows with improved frame, edge, and glazing features were installed in these houses during the summer and fall of 1990 and these windows were monitored during the winter of 1990--1991. Results from this monitoring effort, discussed in this paper, showed that while small performance improvements may have been made with these second generation superwindows, the frame and edge still limited performance.

We have formulated a general theoretical approach for analyzing two-dimensional structures of high-n Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAE) in large aspect-ratio, finite-[beta] tokamaks. Here, n is the toroidal wave number and [beta] is the ratio between plasma and magnetic pressures. The present approach generalizes the standard ballooning-mode formalism and is capable of treating eigenmodes with extended global radial structures as well as finite coupling between discrete and continuous spectra. Employing the well-known (s,[alpha]) model equilibrium and assuming a linear equilibrium profile, we have applied the present approach and calculated the corresponding resonant continuum damping rate of TAE modes. Here, s and [alpha] denote, respectively, the strengths of magnetic shear and pressure gradients. In particular, it is found that there exists a critical [alpha][sub c](s), such that, as [alpha] [yields] [alpha][sub c], the continuum damping rate is significantly enhanced and, thus, could suppress the potential TAE instability.

This report is a compilation of the data obtained from the MTF measurements made of the superconducting low-[beta] quadrupole magnets and spools used in the low-[beta] inserts at B0 and D0 in the Tevatron. The measurements were done at 4.6K. Very high gradients are required in these quadrupoles to achieve a value of the amplitude function [beta], of 0.25m at the interaction point. The transfer function, viz. the gradient for a given current in the coils has a nominal value of 0.2913 T/cm/kA in the two shell quadrupoles and 0.5825 T/cm/kA in the one shell quadrupole built from segmented 5-in-1 conductor. As a comparison the transfer constants in the superconducting lattice quads in the Tevatron have a transfer constant of [approx]0.173T/cm/kA. This improvement in performance is the result of the R D effort, at Fermilab, that preceeded the construction of these magnets. In those cases where the data are not presented in the same way as they are reported by MTF, the author explains the method by which the data have been reduced to produce the numbers in this report. Not all the available data are reproduced in this report. They are stored in one or more data bases and …

This User's Guide and Reference provides information and instructions on the use of the Multiphase Subsurface Transport Simulator (MSTS) code and the associated MSTS Graphical Input. The MSTS code is used to simulate water flow, air flow, heat transfer, and dilute species mass transport in variably saturated geologic media for one, two, or three dimensions using an integrated finite-difference numerical scheme. Any or all of these processes may be simulated in a fully coupled manner. MSTS is a two-phase, two-component code with secondary processes that include binary diffusion and vapor pressure lowering. The geologic media may be homogeneous or heterogeneous, isotropic or anisotropic, and unfractured or highly fractured. A problem geometry may be described by either Cartesian or cylindrical coordinates. MSTS is written in FORTRAN 77, following the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards, and is machine-independent with the exception of some time and date calls required for quality control (provisions are made in the code for relatively easy adoption to a number of machines for these calls).

Gas-phase isothermal chromatogaphy is a method by which volatile compounds of different chemical elements can be separated according to their volatilities. The technique, coupled with theoretical modeling of the processes occurring in the chromatogaphy column, provides accurate determination of thermodynamic properties (e.g., adsorption enthalpies) for compounds of elements, such as the transactinides, which can only be produced on an atom-at-a-time basis. In addition, the chemical selectivity of the isothermal chromatogaphy technique provides the decontamination from interfering activities necessary for the determination of the nuclear decay properties of isotopes of the transactinide elements. Volatility measurements were performed on chloride species of Rf and its group 4 homologs, Zr and Hf, as well as Ha and its group 5 homologs, Nb and Ta. Adsorption enthalpies were calculated for all species using a Monte Carlo code simulation based on a microscopic model for gas thermochromatography in open columns with laminar flow of the carrier gas. Preliminary results are presented for Zr- and Nb-bromides.