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High-Sensitivity Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection in Theory and Practice

Description: The number of emitted photons that can be obtained from a fluorophore increases with the incident light intensity and the duration of illumination. However, saturation of the absorption transition and photodestruction place natural limits on the ultimate signal-to-noise ratio that can be obtained. Equations have been derived to describe the fluorescence-to-background-noise ratio in the presence of saturating light intensities and photodestruction. The fluorescence lifetime and the photodestruct… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Mathies, R. A.; Peck, K. & Stryer, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solar heating and domestic hot water system installed at Kansas City, Fire Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Final report

Description: This document is the final report of the solar energy heating and hot water system installed at the Kansas City Fire Station, Number 24, 2309 Hardesty Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The solar system was designed to provide 47 percent of the space heating, 8800 square feet area and 75 percent of the domestic hot water (DHW) load. The solar system consists of 2808 square feet of Solaron, model 2001, air, flat plate collector subsystem, a concrete box storage subsystem which contains 1428 cubic fe… more
Date: July 1980
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Development of a computer program for reactor core thermal hydraulics: finite differencing in a 3-D staggered mesh suitable for irregular boundary applications

Description: A formulation utilizing a finite difference scheme for the direct numerical simulation of time varying two-phase flow problems in three space dimensions with irregular boundary geometry is presented. The formulation of such problems introduces a complicated set of coupled non-linear partial differential equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, energy, appropriate constitutive equations, and equations of state coupling the two phases. Discretization of the partial differential equations… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Sha, W.T.
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Scoping Report on Various Salt Mines in the United States

Description: One of the most important factors in isolating the demonstration waste storage site is an adequate number of shafts to insure proper ventilation. Proper ventilation will require that the air exhausted from the storage area pass directly to the upcast air shaft. Those mines reported by this scoping contract generally conform with the two shafts per mine requirement of MESA. Three of the mines reported on have more than two shafts. Several of the mines can have additional shafts drilled in time t… more
Date: July 1977
Creator: Jacoby, C. H.
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Adaptive Mesh Refinement for 1-Dimensional Gas Dynamics

Description: We consider the solution of the one-dimensional equation of gas-dynamics. Accurate numerical solutions are difficult to obtain on a given spatial mesh because of the existence of physical regions where components of the exact solution are either discontinuous or have large gradient changes. Numerical methods treat these phenomena in a variety of ways. In this paper, the method of adaptive mesh refinement is used. A thorough description of this method for general hyperbolic systems is given else… more
Date: 1982-08~
Creator: Hedstrom, Gerald; Rodrigue, Garry; Berger, Marsha & Oliger, Joseph
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Energy dependence of metallic-encapsulated thermoluminescent dosimeters. Annual report

Description: The gamma-ray energy responses of encapsulated /sup 7/LiF and CaF/sub 2/:Mn thermoluminescent dosimeters were measured and compred to calculated values. This study was performed in order to improve the accuracy of gamma-ray heating measurements made in polyenergetic gamma-ray fields such as Argonne National Laboratory's Zero Power Reactors. Equations used in the development of the TERC/III computer code and code input parameters are specified. A section on TLD precision is also included. Compar… more
Date: June 1980
Creator: Simons, G. G.
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Results of the 1988 Geothermal Gradient Test Drilling Project for the State of Washington

Description: During late summer and early fall of 1988, the Washington Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources (DGER) completed drilling eight shallow geothermal gradient test wells in the southern Washington Cascade Range. This report describes the preliminary results of the 1988 drilling and gradient measuring, and summarizes our current perspectives on distribution and magnitude of the geothermal resource potential in the southern Washington Cascades. 18 refs., 11 figs., … more
Date: May 1989
Creator: Barnett, D. B. & Korosec, M. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theory of chemical kinetics. Progress report, May 1, 1977--January 15, 1978. [Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. , Cambridge]

Description: Recent work on Franck--Condon factors in studies of the dynamics of chemical reactions is related; emphasis was on simple chemical rearrangement reactions. Other work concerned collision-free unimolecular decomposition of large molecules at a given total energy, equations of motion for simple quantum systems that are strongly driven by an external field and are modulated stochastically by a coupling to a bath, and the efficiency of rate processes in irreversible chemical reactions. This report … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Ross, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High beta studies on ISX-B with neutral beam injection

Description: Injection of H/sup 0/ into D/sup +/ plasmas with beam power P/sub b/ of up to 1.7 MW has produced rms betas of approx. 4%, volume-averaged betas of approx. 3%, and central betas of approx. 10% in the ISX-B tokamak. Although theoretical calculations indicate that the observed equilibria may be unstable to ballooning modes, no catastrophic loss of confinement has been observed, and beta continues to increase with injection power. In these beam-dominated high-beta discharges the electron and ion e… more
Date: September 1980
Creator: Sheffield, J.; Bates, S.C. & Bush, C.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial fuel gas demonstration plant program. License agreements for proprietary processes. (Deliverable No. 30)

Description: The proprietary processes included within the Industrial Fuel Gas Demonstration Plant are listed. Draft license agreements covering the use of these processes, with the exception of the Westfield Process (Conoco), have been included at the end of this document. Except for the Claus Process (Amoco) all draft license agreements will be executed directly between MLGW and the licensor. All the draft license agreements provided have been prepared by the licensors after preliminary discussions. Prese… more
Date: unknown
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Enthalpy measurement of coal-derived liquids. Combined quarterly technical progress reports, April-June 1979 and July-September 1979. [Effect of association]

Description: Enthalpy measurements on a coal-derived naphtha and middle distillate, both produced by the SRC-II process, were made using flow calorimetry. The accuracy of the measurements, as reported by Omid, was within +- 1% of the measured enthalpy differences, ..delta..H. Experimental data for the naphtha were obtained over a pressure range of 100-300 psia and temperatures from 148/sup 0/ to 456/sup 0/F. The middle distillate enthalpy measurements were made in the pressure and temperature ranges of 130 … more
Date: 1979~
Creator: Kidnay, A. J. & Yesavage, V. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pumping behavior of sputter ion pumps

Description: The ultrahigh vacuum requirements of ISABELLE is obtained by distributed pumping stations. Each pumping station consists of 1000 l/s titanium sublimation pump for active gases (N/sub 2/, H/sub 2/, O/sub 2/, CO, etc.), and a 20 l/s sputter ion pump for inert gases (methane, noble gases like He, etc.). The combination of the alarming production rate of methane from titanium sublimation pumps (TSP) and the decreasing pumping speed of sputter ion pumps (SIP) in the ultrahigh vacuum region (UHV) lea… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Chou, T S & McCafferty, D
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Low strain diameter expansion of internally pressurized Zircaloy-4 tubing at high temperatures

Description: Tests of closed-end, internally pressurized, Zircaloy-4 tubing specimens were utilized to develop low strain creep characteristics as a function of time at temperatures in the range of 1475/sup 0/F to 2000/sup 0/F (802/sup 0/C to 1093/sup 0/C) and hoop stresses in the range of 250 to 2500 psi for use in loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) analyses. The strain rate above the start of the alpha to beta phase transformation region, approximately 1490/sup 0/F (810/sup 0/C), was found to be sensitive to… more
Date: March 1978
Creator: White, L.S. & Busby, C.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neutron diffraction study of magnetic order in the ternary superconductor ErMo/sub 6/Se/sub 8/

Description: Synthesis of new classes of ternary superconducting materials has led to compounds which also show a strong tendency toward magnetic order when one of the constituent elements is a rare earth. Powder neutron diffraction data on superconducting (T/sub s/ approximately 6 K) samples of ErMo/sub 6/Se/sub 8/ taken in the temperature range 0.05 to 2.0 K show that magnetic Bragg peaks develop at T/sub M/ = 1.1 K, in agreement with specific heat studies. However, it is not possible to index these new r… more
Date: 1977~
Creator: Lynn, J. W.; Moncton, D. E.; Shirane, G.; Thomlinson, W.; Eckert, J. & Shelton, R. N.
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Energy-consumption modelling

Description: A highly sophisticated and accurate approach is described to compute on an hourly or daily basis the energy consumption for space heating by individual buildings, urban sectors, and whole cities. The need for models and specifically weather-sensitive models, composite models, and space-heating models are discussed. Development of the Colorado State University Model, based on heat-transfer equations and on a heuristic, adaptive, self-organizing computation learning approach, is described. Result… more
Date: April 1980
Creator: Reiter, Elmar R.
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Annual Report on Wildlife Activities, 1985 Fiscal Year, Action Item 40.1, Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.

Description: The report presents a brief synopsis and discussion of wildlife activities undertaken by Bonneville Power Administration. The objectives of the program were wildlife protection, mitigation, and enhancement planning; and implementation of actions to protect, mitigate, and enhance wildlife affected by development and operation of hydroelectric facilities in the Columbia River Basin. (ACR)
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration. Division of Fish and Wildlife.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Concept of a (1-. cap alpha. ) performance confidence interval

Description: A multi-input, single-output system is assumed to be represented by some model. The distribution functions of the input and the output variables are considered to be at least obtainable through experimental data. Associated with the computer response of the model corresponding to given inputs, a conditional pseudoresponse set is generated. This response can be constructed by means of the model by using the simulated pseudorandom input variates from a neighborhood defined by a preassigned probab… more
Date: 1980~
Creator: Leong, H. H.; Johnson, G. R. & Bechtel, T. N.
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Nuclear fuel cycle facility accident analysis handbook

Description: The Accident Analysis Handbook (AAH) covers four generic facilities: fuel manufacturing, fuel reprocessing, waste storage/solidification, and spent fuel storage; and six accident types: fire, explosion, tornado, criticality, spill, and equipment failure. These are the accident types considered to make major contributions to the radiological risk from accidents in nuclear fuel cycle facility operations. The AAH will enable the user to calculate source term releases from accident scenarios manual… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Ayer, J. E.; Clark, A. T.; Loysen, P.; Ballinger, M. Y.; Mishima, J.; Owczarski, P. C. et al.
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