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Trace Element Anomalies In The Igneous Wall Rocks Of Hydrothermal Veins In The Searchlight District, Nevada, Zuhair Al-Shaieb

Masters Theses

"Two hundred and fifty vein and wall rock samples were collected from Chief of the Hill and the Duplex Mines of Searchlight District, Nevada. The samples were collected along lines approximately normal to the veins. They were analyzed for lead, copper, zinc, silver, gold, arsenic, selenium, and molybdenum using neutron actication analysis and atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc show well-developed anomalies in the wall rocks. In most cases, the concentration of these elements decreases gradually with increasing distance from the vein and reaches background values at a distance of 40-120 feet from the vein. Molybdenum and …

Radiative Lifetime Of The B¹Σ⁺ And B³Σ⁺ States Of Carbon Monoxide, John Robert Rogers

Doctoral Dissertations

"The radiative lifetimes of the B¹Σ⁺ and b³Σ⁺ excited states of carbon monoxide were measured at six different pressures: 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 microns of Hg. The lifetimes were obtained by observation of the radiative decay of the (0,0), (0,1), (0,2), and (1,1) bands of the Angstrom system and the radiative decay of the (0,1), (0,2), (0,3), and (0,4) bands of the Third Positive system. No pressure dependence of the lifetimes was observed for either system. The average lifetime of the v' = 0 vibrational level of the B¹Σ⁺ state was found to be 24.4 x 10⁻⁹ …

Das Problem Der Mononitrierung Von Durol, S. B. Hanna, E. Hunziker, T. Saito, H. Zollinger

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

In contrast to many previous investigations, reaction conditions were found under which the nitration of durene (nitrating ratio of 1:1) gives predominantly, and in high yield, mononitrodurene rather than the usually formed dinitrodurene (plus unreacted durene). The method consists in nitrating by nitronium phosphorohexafluoride in nitromethane as solvent in presence of two equivalents of water. With mixed acid (HNO₃ + H₂SO₄) in nitromethane and in acetonitrile durene forms also monoand no dinitrodurene; but under most conditions by‐products are formed. Some of the by‐products were identified. Some preliminary mechanistic results are reported: An addition complex of …

Rotational Excitation Of Polar Molecules By Electrons, Marvin H. Mittleman, Jerry Peacher, Balazs F. Rozsnyai

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Rotational excitation of polar molecules is calculated in the approximation that the electron transit time is short compared with rotational periods with the result of an E^-1 behavior of the cross section. Diffusion cross sections are calculated for Δl=0,1,2. Significant corrections to the Born approximation are obtained for large dipole moments. The range (in energy) of applicability of the result is discussed in terms of the energy dependence of the corrections, and a novel energy dependence of these corrections is encountered and explained.

Measurement Of Positron Annihilation Line Shapes With A Ge(Li) Detector, H. (Henry) P. Hotz, J. M. Mathiesen, J. P. Hurley

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We observed that the annihilation radiation photopeak in a Ge(Li) detector is considerably broader than that of a γ ray of the same energy. It seems reasonable to assume that the increased width is the result of the Doppler broadening of the annihilation photopeak, i.e., the longitudinal Doppler shift of the radiations is measured, while the transverse shift is measured in the usual angular-correlation experiments. By using a computer stripping program to remove the distortion produced by the finite energy resolution of our detector, we obtain momentum distributions in agreement with those which have been published. Only one detector is …

Longitudinal Optical Phonon-Plasmon Coupling In Cds, Robert John Bell, Thomas J. Mcmahon, Donald G. Rathbun

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The longitudinal optical phonon-plasmon interaction theory of Varga is shown to be applicable to Gadoped CdS through the region of the first reflectivity minumum (2.5 to about 30 μ). The theoretical reflectivity vs wavelength for several concentrations of Ga-doped CdS are compared with experiment. The agreement between theory and experiment is particularly good for high dopant concentrations. A plot of the wavelength at minimum reflectivity vs impurity concentrations shows that the Varga theory does well in explaining the data. When phonon damping is introduced into the Varga dielectric function, the reflectivity over the whole region of resonance is more realistic. …

Studies On 4-Hydroxycoumarin Anticoagulants Part I: The Reversible Removal Of Carbon 2 Of 3-Substituted-4-Hydroxycoumarins Part Ii: The Synthesis And Urinary Excretion Rates Of The Enantiomers Of Warfarin-4-14c And Marcumar-2-14c, Lloyd Allen Goding

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

The hydrolytic removal and subsequent reinsertion of carbon 2 of a series of 3-substituted-4-hydroxycoumarins has been accomplished. The removal of carbon 2 presents an effective synthetic route to o-hydroxyketones with complex side chains. o-Hydroxyketones when condensed with alkyl carbonates gave good yields of 4-hydroxycoumarins. When this was carried out with ethyl carbonate-carbonyl-¹⁴C a radio label was inserted in position 2. It was shown that this decarboxylation-carboxylation cycle did not involve racemization of an optically active α-carbon on a side chain in position 3. This method was used to prepare the enantiomers of Marcumar-2-¹⁴C(3-α-ethyl-benzyl-4-hydroxycoumarin). The enantiomers of …

A Theoretical Model For Gas Separation In A Glow Discharge: Cataphoresis, Fredrick H. Shair, Donald S. Remer

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

A theoretical model for transient and steady-state cataphoresis is developed starting with the macroscopic equations of continuity. After a brief breakdown period, the impurity ions are assumed to be closely coupled with their neutral counterparts. The basic assumptions in the model are that after breakdown, the level of ionization of the impurity, and the axial electric field remain constant; it is demonstrated that under these conditions a system involving rapid ionization-recombination reactions is equivalent to a system in which no reaction occurs, but in which the "effective'' ion mobility is a product of the true ion mobility and the fraction …

Theoretical Analysis Of The Vibrations And Rotations Of The B¹[Sigma][Mu] State Of The Hydrogen Molecule, Sandra Zink Moody

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

Theoretical calculations of the rotational-vibrational constants of the B¹Σ⁺_u state of H₂ were made using the Dunham analysis and by fitting equations to energy eigenvalues. The potential energy function for the nuclei used in the calculations was computed by W. Kolos and L. Wolniewicz using the variational technique. The power series used in the Dunham analysis made use of Stirling's central difference interpolation polynomial. The equilibrium separation R_e found from the Born-Oppenheimer potential is 2. 42916₅ atomic units, differing from the Kolos-Wolniewicz value of 2.4288. Adiabatic corrections were taken into account through a …

Expectation Values Of Simple Correlated Helium-Atom Wavefunctions, Thomas P. Tsien, Russell T. Pack

Faculty Publications

In this Note we present the results of a calculation of the expectation values of a number of one- and two electron properties of the ground-state helium atom using two very simple correlated wavefunctions.

New Solutions Of The Einstein-Maxwell Equations From Old, B. Kent Harrison

Faculty Publications

Methods are discussed with which one may derive theorems which allow one to generate new solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations from old ones. The old solutions used to generate new ones must admit at least one nonnull Killing vector and may be required to satisfy other conditions, depending on the theorem derived. Examples of derivable theorems are shown; these theorems are used in turn to show how generation of new solutions is accomplished. Examples of the latter are shown, such as generation of Brill or electrified NUT space from the Schwarzschild solution, generation of a new twisted Melvin universe from …

Geology Of The Southern San Mateo Mountains, Socorro And Sierra Counties, New Mexico, Steven Eugene Farkas

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The San Mateo Mountains of south-central New Mexico consist of a series of uplifted blocks of Tertiary volcanic rocks which cover an area approximately 45 miles long by 20 miles wide. Faulted blocks of older, Paleozoic and Precambrian, rocks and post-volcanic intrusives are found along the eastern and southern borders of the range. Only late Paleozoic, Pennsylvanian and Permian sediments occur in the mapped area. More than 7,000 feet of Tertiary volcanic rocks unconformably overlies all older rocks, divided into the Lower Volcanic and Datil Groups. The lower Volcanic Group is composed of a series of deeply altered andesites, tuffaceous …

Stratigraphy And Structure Of The Northwestern Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, Klyne Headley

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The northwestern Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico are part of a large regional cuesta that slopes gently northeast. The crest of the northern escarpment rises abruptly to more than 2,200 feet above Pinon Valley.

The rugged west-facing escarpment has been carved in an uplifted fault block composed entirely of Permian sedimentary rocks having an aggregate thickness of about 1,700 feet. Dark-red to buff siltstone, gray dolomite, and white to gray gypsum compose the Yeso Formation. Conformably overlying these rocks is the dark-brown limestone and dolomite sequence of the San Andres Formation. The Glorieta Sandstone which usually occurs between these …

Biological Studies Of Selected Reaches And Tributaries Of The Colorado River, Nelson Thomas, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration

Publications (WR)

This report fulfills the request of the Colorado River Basin Project, Denver, Colorado, to determine the effects of municipal and industrial wastes on the aquatic life in selected waters of the Colorado River Basin. These studies were conducted with the assistance of personnel from the Colorado River Basin Project.

Applications Of Modified Wittig Reaction To Butatriene Synthesis, John Pearson

Dissertations and Theses

The preparation of allenes by the condensation of an acyl chloride with a phosphonium ylid and subsequent elimination of an acid salt and a phosphonium oxide has been established by Bestmann and Hartung. It was felt that this process could be expanded to include the synthesis of butatrienes. Butatrienes are stabilized by aromatic substituents while aromatic substituents decrease the nucleophilicity and reactivity of the phosphonium ylids to be used in the synthesis of the butatrienes. The ylids employed were carbomethoxyphenylmethylenetriphenyl phosphorane, and a new compound, carbethoxyphenylmethylenetriphenyl phosphorane, both of which failed to form alkylated condensation products. Both ylids were prepared …

Modified Phase Representation And Effects Of Inelasticity In N/D Calculation Of P-Wave Pion-Pion Scattering, Barbara N. Hale, Arnold Tubis

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

An N/D formalism based on a modified phase representation is used to study the effects of inelasticity on the ρ-wave pion-pion amplitude. The effects of high-energy inelasticity are introduced in terms of the assumed behavior of the high-energy phase (not phase shift) of the partial-wave amplitude. Using a ρ-exchange input force with the experimental ρ mass and a ρ width of about 100 MeV, and the assumption that the average phase is (1/2)π, for total c.m. energies greater than about 8M_π, we find that there is no appreciable reduction in the width of the calculated ρ-wave resonance. We …

Basic Statement On Migratory Bird Treaty, E. M. Bosak

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

My portion of the program is the basic statement on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act regulations. Basically, laws are designed to control the actions of human beings. J. Edgar Hoover recently stated, "Man cannot live in our complex society today without a system of laws. The social system is doomed unless the laws are enforced, and the enforcement officer is ineffective unless his efforts to maintain the peace and protect life and property are supported by the government and the people." Therefore, it behooves each one of us to be aware of those laws that affect us in our everyday …

4th Bird Control Seminar -- Introductory Comments, William B. Jackson

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

My travels the last few years have permitted me to see some aspects of bird management practices in both Asia and Europe. I must confess that had I not seen the Tori gates of Japan or the cathedral spires in Europe, I might well have thought I was in Ohio. Scarecrows were often seen. Fields were adorned with glittering strips of metal or blowing streamers of paper. In Scotland, red balloons flew over a turnip field. The sound of acetylene exploders sometimes fractured the tranquil countryside. While I saw many essentially useless devices for keeping birds out of man's agricultural …

Birds, Encephalitis, And Ectoparasites, Margaret A. Parsons

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Encephalitis or "inflammation of the brain" is a general term applied to a disorder which may have many causes. Usually this disorder is caused by a virus but it may also be produced by other types of micro-organisms. Encephalitis may also occur after an initial infection with mumps, measles and other childhood diseases, or following a vaccination, or as a result of a non-infectious process such as poisoning. Since encephalitis affects the brain, which in turn controls all body functions, encephalitis from any cause can show symptoms of general illness throughout the body such as headache, nausea and vomiting, fever, …

Orchard Bird Control With Decoy Traps, Bill Shake

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

crops. With one method, we tried to see if we could reduce redwinged blackbird damage to corn. We put up the larger traps-25 x 50 or 50 x 100 feet-near corn fields that were being heavily hit or next to marshes where birds are roosting. Although we captured thousands of birds and destroyed them, we were working with such large numbers of birds that we found it was actually like pouring sand effect at all in reducing damage to corn. Also it's not an efficient method in this type of a situation; it takes a lot of time to tend …

Response Prediction For The Oso-G Satellite Solar Neutron Instrument By Matrix Methods., John Coalmer Conklin

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

Properties of the University of New Mexico’s solar neutron instrument for use on the NASA 0S0-C satellite were investigated. A sensor model was developed by use of two computer codes. First, the total efficiency of the converters was calculated by a simulation code with a resulting total efficiency at 100 Mev of approximately two per cent of which four-fifths was carbon recoil contribution.

Second, geometry properties of the instrument were provided by a Monte Carlo program, with maximum geometry efficiency equaling about fourteen per cent. These were combined to give a total response profile for the instrument which was expressed …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No. 3. September, 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: A VOICE FOR CONSERVATION ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1968 ▪ Robert N. Randall

SOME ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS ▪ Laurence R. Jahn

SOME PLANTS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA ▪ O. A. Stevens

MORTALITY OF MIGRATORY BIRDS AT GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA FOLLOWING A MOSQUITO CONTROL OPERATION IN MAY, 1969 ▪ Robert W. Seabloom, Lewis W. Oring and James R. Reilly

NESTING OF THE UPLAND PLOVER ON THE MISSOURI COTEAU ▪ K. F. Higgins, H. F. Duebbert and R. B. Oetting

NOTE

Albino sparrows discovered at Hazen, North Dakota ▪ Larry L. Kruckenberg and …

Analysis Of Time Usage In Bell System Business Offices, William (Bill) H. Williams, Hwei Chen

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Critical Assessment Of The Polarized-Orbital Method In Atomic Scattering, Marvin H. Mittleman, Jerry Peacher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The method of polarized orbitals used in calculating electron-atom scattering amplitudes has two obvious flaws: the wave function is discontinuous, and the method is not variationally based. These are corrected in a somewhat arbitrary manner, and it is found that the results then depend upon a parameter of the theory sufficiently strongly that there are serious doubts about the predictive nature of the theory.

Numerical Analysis For The Consumer, D. Dodson, J. Ewing, P. Miller, W. Nylin, E. Petarik, S. Prues

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Three-Quasiparticle Intruder State In Te125 And The Magnetic Moment Of Sb125, N. J. Stone, Richard B. Frankel, D. A. Shirley

Physics

The levels of Te¹²⁵ have been studied using Sb¹²⁵ nuclei, polarized at T=0.014°K in an iron lattice, and Ge(Li) detectors. The magnetic moment of Sb¹²⁵ was determined as (2.59±0.03) μ_N. Levels (spins) were assigned at 35.9(3/2+), 145.4(11/2-), 322.2(9/2-), 443.7(probably 3/2+), 462.5(5/2+), 525.4(probably 9/2-), 636.1(7/2+), 642.3(7/2+), 671.6(5/2+) (energies in keV). The even-parity levels could be identified with levels calculated by Kisslinger and Sorensen. Using their wave functions, we calculated E2/M1 mixing ratios and branching ratios, finding quite good agreement. The odd-parity states are of special interest. The 11/2-145.4-keV state and 9/2-525.4-keV state …

Formally Real Fields, Gail L. Carns

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the set of orders on a formally real field using category and sheaf theory as tools. We topologize the set of orders in a way similar to that used in the prime spectrum of algebraic geometry and define a presheaf of groups using the notion of inverse limits. We then find necessary and sufficient conditions that these presheaves be sheaves. Next we notice that if F ⊆ Fⁱ respectively, fields, θ and θⁱ are the set of orders on F and Fⁱ respectively, and Γ and Γⁱ are …

Technical Assistance And Supervision Of Commercial Fisheries Statistics And Marketing In Puerto Rico: Annual Report To The Department Of Agriculture Commonwealth Of Puerto Rico., Charles W. Caillouet, Ramon J. Garcia, James B. Higman

RSMAS Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Determination Of Stability Constants At 25c For The Interaction In Aqueous Solution Of Serine With Co (Ii), Ni (Ii), Cd (Ii), Zn (Ii), And Cu (Ii) Ions, Liak Hwe Ma

Theses and Dissertations

Values of thermodynamic stability constants at 25°C for the complexes of serine with the metal ions. Co^2+, Ni^2+, Cd^2+, Zn^2+, and Cu^2+ were obtained from pH titration data. All measurements were made in aqueous solution, and data were obtained at three different ionic strengths for each metal ion studied. It was assumed that the activity of the zwitterion is unity. The effect of metal ion hydrolysis upon the log K values was taken into account for the calculations. For all the metal ions studied, stability constants for MA^+, MA_2, and MA_3^- were reported with the exception of copper (II) which …

A Study Of Reaction Parameters In The Hydrogenation Of Acetic Acid By Rhenium Heptoxide Catalyst, Victor L. Mylroie

Theses and Dissertations

Rhenium oxides as well as other rhenium compounds are known to display a broad spectrum of catalytic activity,^25 being resistant to attack by acids under nonoxidizing conditions, and showing a remarkable ability to resist poisoning which is a serious limiting factor in many commonly used catalysts. Rhenium catalysts are cheaper than the platinum metals with the exception of palladium. One of the most remarkable properties of the rhenium catalyst is the ability to catalyze the hydrogenation of carboxylic acids and amides to the corresponding alcohols and amines respectively. The carboxyl group (-COOH) is notoriously difficult to reduce catalytically and most …