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Status of Biomedical Research and Related Technology for Tropical Diseases

Description: A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) examining the "status of biomedical research and technologies for controlling tropical diseases" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (Foreward).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Technology Transfer to China

Description: A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines the opportunities for the transfer of various energy technologies to China" and also "reviews the motivations for U.S. companies and other institutions for transferring technology and the vehicles for doing so" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reform of Medicare physician payment policies: impact on magnetic resonance imaging technology

Description: This report provides a brief description of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), current research, safety and patient acceptance of the imaging technology. It discusses the current use of MRI, the medical evidence, current clinical applications and diffusion of MRI.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Iezzoni, Lisa I.; Grad, Oren & Moskowitz, Mark A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

Description: This report tries to anticipate the kinds of effects on the quality of personal health care services that would result from each of several alternative ways of paying for physician's services to Medicare patients.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Hammons, Glenn T.; Brook, Robert H. & Newhouse, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

Description: This report discusses laboratory testing in light of physician payment methods under Medicare. The report focuses primarily on laboratory testing in the outpatient setting, assuming the impatient laboratory testing is covered by the DRG-based Prospective Payment System rates of Medicare.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Myers, Lois P.; Eisenberg, John M. & Pauly, Mark V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy and angular distributions of radiation power from bending magnet and wiggler sources at a 6-GeV ring

Description: In order to design radiation ports and beam line components, it is essential to understand the distribution of power from a radiation source as a function of both the photon energy and the solid angle of emission. In this preliminary note, we assemble all the formula involved for the case of a bending magnet and a wiggler. Typical distributions are presented for the case of 6-Gev radiation.
Date: September 25, 1985
Creator: Shenoy, G. K. & Viccaro, P. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physics Division Annual Review for 1 April 1984 - 31 March 1985

Description: Report of the activities of the physics division at Argonne including the successful completion of Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory. Physics Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Extraction and Recovery of Plutonium and Americium from Nitric Acid Waste Solutions by the TRUEX Process : Continuing Development Studies

Description: This report summarizes the work done to date on the application of the TRUEX solvent extraction process for removing and separately recovering plutonium and americium from a nitric acid waste solution containing these elements, uranium, and a complement of inert metal ions. This simulated waste stream is typical of a raffinate from a tributyl phosphate (TBP)-based solvent extraction process for removing uranium and plutonium from dissolved plutonium-containing metallurgical scrap. The TRUEX pro… more
Date: September 1985
Creator: Leonard, R. A.; Vandegrift, G. F.; Kalina, D. G.; Fischer, D. F.; Bane, R. W.; Burris, L. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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General Theory for Dynamic Instability of the SSME LOX Posts

Description: A general theory of fluid-elastic instability for a tube array in crossflow is presented for application to the space shuttle main engine liquid oxygen (SSME LOX) posts. Various techniques to obtain the motion-dependent fluid-force coefficients are discussed and the general instability characteristics are summarized. The theory is also used to evaluate the results of other mathematical models for crossflow-induced instability.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Chen, Shoei-Sheng
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fluid Excitation Forces Acting on a Tube Array

Description: Fluid forces are important in the assessment of vibration of the Space Shuttle Main Engine liquid oxygen posts. This report summarizes the available data on fluid excitation forces acting on tube arrays in turbulent crossflow, and test results for an array of tubes subject to turbulent flow. The fluctuating drag and lift forces are measured as a function of Reynolds number, incoming flow conditions, and tube location in an array.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Chen, Shoei-Sheng & Jendrzejczyk, J. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Volcanic loading: The dust veil index

Description: Dust ejected into the high atmosphere during explosive volcanic eruptions has been considered as a possible cause for climatic change. Dust veils created by volcanic eruptions can reduce the amount of light reaching the Earth`s surface and can cause reductions in surface temperatures. These climatic effects can be seen for several years following some eruptions and the magnitude and duration of the effects depend largely on the density or amount of tephra (i.e. dust) ejected, the latitude of in… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Lamb, H.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Post-test thermomechanical calculations and preliminary data analysis for the Spent Fuel Test: Climax

Description: The Spent Fuel Test - Climax (SFT-C) was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of retrievable deep geologic storage of commercially generated, spent nuclear-reactor fuel assemblies. Thermomechanical response of the SFT-C was calculated before the test began using the finite-element structural analysis code ADINA and its companion heat transfer code ADINAT. While we found that the level of agreement between measured and calculated rock displacements was quite good, we needed to revise certain as… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Butkovich, T.R. & Patrick, W.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FY 1985 status report on feasibility assessment of copper-base waste package container materials in a tuff repository

Description: This report discusses progress made during the first year of a two-year study on the feasibility of using copper or a copper-base alloy as a container material for a waste package in a potential repository in tuff rock at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada. The expected corrosion and oxidation performances of oxygen-free copper, aluminum bronze, and 70% copper-30% nickel are presented; a test plan for determining whether copper or one of the alloys can meet the containment requirements is outlin… more
Date: September 30, 1985
Creator: McCright, R.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrothermal interaction of solid wafers of Topopah Spring Tuff with J-13 water and distilled water at 90, 150, and 250{sup 0}C, using Dickson-type, gold-bag rocking autoclaves

Description: The Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations Project has conducted experiments to study the hydrothermal interaction of rock and water representative of a potential high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The results of these experiments help define the near-field repository environment during and shortly after the thermal period that results from the emplacement of nuclear waste. When considered in conjunction with results contained in companion reports, these results can be … more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Knauss, K. G.; Beiriger, W. J.; Peifer, D. W. & Piwinskii, A. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrosion processes of austenitic stainless steels and copper-based materials in gamma-irradiated aqueous environments

Description: The US Department of Energy is evaluating a site located at Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nevada, as a potential high-level nuclear waste repository. The rock at the proposed repository horizon (above the water table) is densely welded, devitrified tuff, and the fluid environment in the repository is expected to be primarily air-steam. A more severe environment would be present in the unlikely case of intrusion of vadose groundwater into the repository site. For this repository location, austen… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Glass, R.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress in evaluation of radionuclide geochemical information developed by DOE high-level nuclear waste repository site projects: report for January-March 1985. Volume 2

Description: Geochemical information relevant to the retention of radionuclides by the Hanford Site (in basalt) and the Yucca Mountain site (in tuff), candidate high-level nuclear waste geologic repositories being developed by US Department of Energy (DOE) projects, is being evaluated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Our evaluation of the sorption of technetium by basalt/groundwater systems was essentially completed this quarter and the results summariz… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Kelmers, A. D.; Seeley, F. G.; Arnold, W. D.; Blencoe, J. G.; Meyer, R. E.; Jacobs, G. K. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The clustered interaction region option for the SSC

Description: This report contains discussions on the following topics: advantages of clustering IR`s for conventional facilities; theoretical consideration of optics issues; chromatic properties of test lattices; lattice designs including utility insertions; background and test beam calculations; and beam-beam effects.
Date: September 30, 1985
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regulatory, Land Ownership, and Water Availability Factors for a Magma Well: Long Valley Caldera and Coso Hot Springs, California

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy is currently engaged in a program to demonstrate the engineering feasibility of extracting thermal energy from high-level molten magma bodies. The program is being carried out under the direction of Sandia National Laboratories where a number of individual projects support the overall program. The existing program elements include (1) high-temperature materials compatibility testing; (2) studies of properties of melts of various compositions; and (3) the investigat… more
Date: September 1, 1985
Creator: Blackett, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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