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Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: Legal Liability and Data Confidentiality

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), focusing on the impact of proposed Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) modifications on the: (1) confidentiality of information about the program; and (2) possible legal liability of members of the Network arising from their peer review activities."
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Determining the Taxable Portion of Federal Pension Distributions

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) what reasons, if any, exist for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to report the taxable portion of annuity benefits for newly retired federal employees on the Form CSA 1099R (Statement of Annuity Paid); and (2) the feasibility of OPM's doing so."
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Nuclear Regulation: Better Oversight Needed to Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Decommission Nuclear Power Plants

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential cost to decommission nuclear power plants and the implications of competition within the electricity industry, focusing on whether: (1) there is adequate assurance that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) licensees are accumulating sufficient funds for decommissioning; and (2) NRC is adequately addressing the effects of elect… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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ISCR annual report FY 1998

Description: Advances in scientific computing research have never been more vital to the core missions of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory than they are today. These advances are evolving so rapidly, and over such a broad front of computational science, that to remain on the leading edge, the Laboratory must collaborate with many academic centers of excellence. In FY 1998, ISCR dramatically expanded its interactions with academia through collaborations, visiting faculty, guests and a seminar series. T… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Alchorn, A & Fitzgerald, J M
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Aqueous biphasic systems for metal separations : a microcalorimetric analysis of polymer/salt interactions.

Description: Certain radionuclide ions (e.g., TcO{sub 4}{sup 16}) exhibit unusually strong Affinities toward the polymer-rich phase in aqueous biphase systems generated by combinations of salt solutions with polymers such as poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and poly(propylene glycol) (PPG). Thus, aqueous polymer phases could potentially be used to selectively extract these ions during pretreatment of radioactive tank wastes at Hanford. To help develop a fundamental understanding of the interactions between vario… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Chaiko, D. J.; Hatton, T. A. & Zaslavsky, B.
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Scale up issues involved with the ceramic waste form : ceramic-container interactions and ceramic cracking quantification.

Description: Argonne National Laboratory is developing a process for the conditioning of spent nuclear fuel to prepare the material for final disposal. Two waste streams will result from the treatment process, a stainless steel based form and a ceramic based form. The ceramic waste form will be enclosed in a stainless steel container. In order to assess the performance of the ceramic waste form in a repository two factors must be examined, the surface area increases caused by waste form cracking and any cer… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Bateman, K. J.; DiSanto, T.; Goff, K. M.; Johnson, S. G.; O'Holleran, T. & Riley, W. P., Jr.
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Summary of experimental electroweak physics.

Description: Progress continues on many fronts of experimental testing of electroweak symmetry breaking. Updates were presented on LEP, SLC, Brookhaven g-2 ring, Tevatron Collider, HERA, CESR and Tevatron neutrino experiments. Perhaps most exciting is the Higgs search at LEP2, complementing the indirect constraints. However, the standard model with one Higgs doublet remains viable.
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Nodulman, L.
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Status of the new muon (g - 2) experiment.

Description: The new muon (g - 2) experiment is now fully operational The goal of the experiment is to obtain a relative error on (g - 2) of {+-}O.35 ppm to measure the electroweak contribution for the first time, and to observe, or place stringent limits on physics beyond the standard model which can contribute to (g - 2). A brief status report is presented.
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Carey, R. M.; Earle, W.; Efstathiadis, E.; Hare, M. F.; Collaboration, MUON (g - 2); Nodulman, L. et al.
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Toward a fourth-generation light source.

Description: Historically, x-ray research has been propelled by the existence of urgent and compelling scientific questions and the push of powerful and exquisite source technology. These two factors have gone hand in hand since Rontgen discovered x-rays. Here we review the progress being made with existing third-generation synchrotron-radiation light sources and the prospects for a fourth-generation light source with dramatically improved laser-like beam characteristics. The central technology for high-bri… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Moncton, D. E.
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Portable data acquisition system

Description: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed a Portable Data Acquisition (DAQ) System that is basically a laboratory-scale of Program Logic Control (PLC). This DAQ system can obtain signals from numerous sensors (e.g., pH, level, pressure, flow meters), open and close valves, and turn on and off pumps. The data can then be saved on a spreadsheet or displayed as a graph/indicator in real-time on a computer screen. The whole DAQ system was designed to be portable so that it could s… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Bowers, J & Rogers, H
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Russia: Primakov’s Economic Policy Dilemma and U.S. Interests

Description: This report focuses on two divergent scenarios faced by Russia in the wake of its financial crisis of August 1998. Prime Minister Yevgenii Primakov expected either a vicious cycle of decline and possible collapse in government or an economic management scenario following outlines of an agreed action program that makes imperative fundamental changes in the Russian financial system. The success or failure of Russia in dealing with this crisis may have more effect on the pursuit of peace and prosp… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Hardt, John P.
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Ultrafast dynamics of electrons at interfaces

Description: Electronic states of a thin layer of material on a surface possess unique physical and chemical properties. Some of these properties arise from the reduced dimensionality of the thin layer with respect to the bulk or the properties of the electric field where two materials of differing dielectric constants meet at an interface. Other properties are related to the nature of the surface chemical bond. Here, the properties of excess electrons in thin layers of Xenon, Krypton, and alkali metals are… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: McNeill, Jason D.
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The Clean Water Action Plan: Background and Early Implementation

Description: October 1997, Vice President Gore directed federal agencies to develop a Clean Water Initiative to improve and strengthen water pollution control efforts. The multi-agency plan was released on Feb. 19, 1998, and identifies more than 100 key actions. Most are existing activities, now labeled as part of the Initiative. The President's FY1999 budget requested $2.2 billion for five departments and agencies ($568 million more than in FY1998) to fund implementation. By October 1998, Congress passed b… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
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Soft x-ray spectroscopy measurements of plasma conditions at early times in ICF experiments on OMEGA. Semi-annual report, November 1, 1998--April 30, 1999

Description: Since arrival of FY-99 funding in December, the authors have been preparing for the first series of experiments under this grant on the OMEGA laser facility, which just took place (for one day) on April 27, 1999. The campaign was successful and results will be included in the next progress report following analyses. For the first time, they fielded their Ten Inch Manipulator (TIM-) mounted flat-field, grazing-incidence extreme-ultraviolet (euv) spectrograph with a four-channel gated-stripline m… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Griem, H. R. & Elton, R. C.
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Isolating the thermal degree of freedom in nuclear multifragmentation.

Description: Multifragmentation studies induced by GeV light-ion beams permit investigation of the influence of intrinsic thermal properties of hot nuclear matter, with minimal interference from the compression/decompression cycle and rotational instabilities. We summarize recent results obtained with {sup 3}He, proton and pion beams up to 15 GeV/c and present the initial results from a recent experiment with 8 GeV/c antiproton and pion beams. The results are compared with INC simulations coupled to EES and… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Back, B.; Beaulieu, L.; Breuer, H.; Gushue, S.; Hsi, W.-C.; Korteling, R. G. et al.
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Denitration of High Nitrate Salts Using Reductants

Description: This report describes work conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), in conjunction with Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), to remove nitrates in simulated low-activity waste (LAW). The major objective of this work was to provide data for identifying and demonstrating a technically viable and cost-effective approach to condition LAW for immobilization (grout).
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Smith, HD; Jones, EO; Schmidt, AJ; Zacher, AH; Brown, MD; Elmore, MR et al.
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Radiative width of the a {subscript 2} meson

Description: We present data on coherent production of the ({pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup -}) system by 600 GeV/c pion beam in the reaction {pi}{sup -} + A {yields} A + ({pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup -}) for the C, Cu and Pb targets. The Primakoff formalism was used for extracting the radiative width of the a{sub 2} meson. We obtain a preliminary value {Gamma}(a{sub 2}{sup -} {yields} {pi}{sup -}{gamma}) = 225 {+-} 25(stat) {+-} 45(syst) keV.
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: al., V.P. Kubarovsky et
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Neutrino-induced radiation at muon colliders

Description: Intense highly collimated neutrino beams are created from muon decays at high-energy muon colliders causing significant radiation problems even at very large distances from the collider ring. A newly developed weighted neutrino interaction generator permits detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the interactions of neutrinos (and of their progeny) to be performed using the MARS code. Dose distributions in a human tissue-equivalent phantom (TEP) are calculated when irradiated with neutrino beams (1… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Ginneken, N.V. Mokhov and A. Van
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W {right arrow} {tau}{nu} and Gamma{sub W} studies at the Tevatron collider

Description: The most recent results on the studies of the W properties, namely of the process W{yields}{tau}{nu} and of the {Gamma}{sub W} measurements performed in {anti p}p collisions at {radical}s=1800 GeV, are reported. The data are from the two experiments operating at the Tevatron Collider, CDF and DO.
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Rimondi, F.
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Influence of Rapid Thermal Ramp Rate on Phase Transformation of Titanium Silicides

Description: ULSI technology requires low resistance, stable silicides formed on small geometry lines. Titanium disilicide (TiSiz), which is the most widely used silicide for ULSI applications, exists in two crystallographic phases: the high resistance, metastable C49 phase and the low resistance, stable C54 phase. The major issue with TiSiz is the increasing thermal budget required to transform the C49 phase into the low resistance C54 phase as linewiths decrease below 0.25 pm. Annealing above 900"C to obt… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Bailey, Glenn; Hu, Yao, Zhi; Smith, Paul Martin; Tay, Sing Pin; Thakur, Randhir & Yang, Jiting
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W, Z + jets at Tevatron

Description: We report the production jet cross-sections and properties in W and Z events using data from collisions with {radical}s = 1800 GeV at Fermilab Tevatron. Observed distributions in general agree with predictions of leading order QCD matrix element calculations with added gluon radiations and simulated parton fragmentations; however, some limitations of LO QCD predictions are also observed. The cross-section ratio of W + {>=} 1 jet events to inclusive W events is reported and compared with next-to… more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Chang, Paoti
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Implementing Management Systems-Based Assessments

Description: A management system approach for evaluating environment, safety, health, and quality is in use at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. As a multi-program national laboratory, SNL has many diverse operations including research, engineering development and applications, production, and central services supporting all activities … more
Date: May 3, 1999
Creator: Campisi, John A. & Reese, Robert T.
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