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Final Report: Lake Mead Monitoring Program, James E. Deacon

Publications (WR)

The Lake Mead Monitoring Program has continued to develop information on the limnological condition of Lake Mead. We have significantly increased our analytical capabilities this year by developing a cooperative project with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and continuing our cooperative program with E.P.A. We also were able to derive significant benefit from the reviews of the Pollution Abatement Project written by Clair Sawyer and Charles Goldman. Partially as a result of these reviews we have had the opportunity to interpret and more fully explain the significance of our work to a wider public audience than would otherwise have been …

The Prairie Naturalist Vol. 9, Nos. 3 And 4. September-December, 1977

The Prairie Naturalist

UPLAND NESTING OF AMERICAN BITTERNS, MARSH HAWKS, AND SHORT-EARED OWLS ▪ H. F. Duebbert and J. T. Lokemoen

ROADSIDE NESTING BY PRAIRIE GROUSE IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ▪ W. D. Svedarsky

BOHEMIAN WAXWING POPULATIONS AND WINTER ECOLOGY IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ E. L. Bakke

AGEING ARCHAEOLOGICAL BISON BY DENTAL ANNULI ▪ J. C. Pigage and M. G. McKenna

COMPARISON OF COYOTE AND COYOTE X DOG HYBRID FOOD HABITS IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA ▪ B.R. Mahan

NOTES

Abnormal Mid-May Occurrence of White-fronted Geese in Sheridan County, North Dakota ▪ D.P. Kibbe and J. A. Roppe

Common Grackle Preys on Spotted Sandpiper Chick ▪ …

Water Conservation In Industrial Filtration Operations, Jim L. Turpin

Technical Reports

The washing of a solute from filter cakes was investigated for both saturated and unsaturated washing conditions. Systems used in this experimental study were 0.065 NaCl solution as the filtrate in an aluminum hydrate filter cake and 0.1 Normal HCL solution as the filtrate in a column packed with glass beads. The filtrate concentration as a function of the flow rate of wash water and of the volume of effluent from the packed bed was measured. The amounts of filtrate removed from the bed during saturated washing, and washing employing repetitive steps of saturation followed by evacuation were compared. Also, …

Independence Theories And Generalized Zero-One Laws, Lawrence Stout

Lawrence N. Stout

In this paper an abstract characterization of the properties of independent events is given with examples from topology, probability, and Baire structures. Using this notion of independence, proofs of the Hewitt-Savage and Kolmogorov zero-one laws are given which include the probabilistic case and the topological cases considered by Oxtoby, Christensen, and K. P. S. and M. Bhaskara Rao.

Twin Buttes Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Twin Buttes Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden Co.

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24000

102°07'30" to 102°15'

41°07'30" to 41°30'

Qsa, Ql, Qg, Ogallala Outcrop, Ogallala Volcanic Ash, Pre-Ogallala (Brule) Outcrop, Pre-Ogallala (Brule) White Horizons, QF=Pleist Fossil, BF=Brule Fossil, F-Ogallala Fossil

August 28, 1977

Lisco Se Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden And Cheyenne Counties, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Lisco SE Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden and Cheyenne Counties

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

102°30' to 102°37'30"

41°15' to 41°22'30"

Ql = Loess

Qsa = Sand

Volcanic ash

Completed August 27, 1977

Biostratigraphy Of The Type Weberg Member, Snowshoe Formation, Grant County, Oregon, David G. Taylor

Dissertations and Theses

Thirty three species of ammonites are recorded from the composite type section of the Weberg Member of the Snowshoe Formation in the Suplee area, Grant County, Oregon. Holcophylloceras burkei, Euhoploceras westi, E. tubereulosum and Strigoceras taylori are described as new, while four new species belonging to the genera Sonninia [?], Bradfordia, Pseudotoites and Witchellia are not formally named. Three ammonite zonules characterize the ammonite sequence of the type Weberg composite section. The sequence correlates with parts of the standard lower and middle Bajocian (Jurassic) of northwestern Europe. In addition, four associations (paleo-communities) of benthic mega invertebrates, the Gervillia, Protocardia, Isocyprina …

The Use Of Nuclear Reactions And Sims For Quantitative Depth Profiling Of Hydrogen In Amorphous Silicon, David D. Allred, G. J. Clark, C. W. White, B. R. Appleton, C. W. Magee, D. E. Carlson

Faculty Publications

Depth profiles for hydrogen in amorphous silicon have been determined by the use of resonant nuclear reactions [1H(15N,αγ)12C and 1H(19F,αγ)16O] and by secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS). Independent calibration procedures were used for the two techniques. Measurements were made on the same amorphous silicon film to provide a direct comparison of the two hydrogen analysis techniques. The hydrogen concentration in the bulk of the film was determined to be about 9 at % H. The SIMS results agree with the resonant nuclear reaction results to within 10%, which demonstrates that quantitative hydrogen depth profiles can be obtained by SIMS analysis …

Oshkosh Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Oshkosh Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden County

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24000

102°15' to 102°22'30"

41°22'30" to 41°30'

Ogalalla Outcrop, Pre-Ogallala Outcrop, Brule-Whitney

August 5, 1977

Lisco Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden And Cheyenne Counties, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Lisco Quadrangle, Nebraska—Garden and Cheyenne Counties

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

102°30' to 102°37'30"

41°22'30" to 41°30'

Quarternary sand and gravel (Broadwater)

Ogallala Outcrop

Volcanic ash

Ogallala fossil

Completed August 5, 1977

An Electrochemical Investigation Of The Effects Of Antiaromaticity And Determination Of The Increased Antiaromatic Destabilization Of Cyclobutenedione Upon Reduction, Reuben D. Rieke, C. Kenneth White, Lee D. Rhyne, Mark S. Gordon, John F. W. Mcomie, Niegel P. Hacker

Mark S. Gordon

Electrochemical studies were carried out on a series of cyclic 1,2-diones under nonaqueous conditions. From thereduction potentials and Hucke! molecular orbital calculations, the increase in antiaromatic destabilization of cyclobutenedione upon reduction is estimated to be at least 14 kcal/mol. The EPR spectrum of the radical anion of naphtho[b ]cyclobutadienoquinone is presented. Also, INDO calculations were carried out on several of the diones and the results are consistent with the experimental observations.

Properties Of Ll-Regular Languages, David A. Poplawski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Software Science Analysis Of The Writing Of A Technical Paper, M. H. Halstead

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Erratum: Excitation Of The N=2 State Of Atomic Hydrogen By Electron Impact In The Distorted-Wave Approximation (Physical Review A (1977) 16, 2), Ralph V. Calhoun, Don H. Madison, W. Neil Shelton

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Beef Cattle Feedlot Runoff And Control In Eastern Nebraska, L. P. Schram, Lynn R. Shuyler

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

This study was initiated to determine operational characteristics of runoff control facility components for beef cattle feedlots.

A runoff control facility was designed and constructed for a 3,000 head capacity feedlot in eastern Nebraska. Components of the runoff control facility included debris basins inside the pen and outside the pen, a holding pond, and a disposal system.

Results indicated that design volumes for the debris basins and holding ponds were effective in controlling runoff from the lots caused by snowmelt and rainfall for climatic conditions within eastern Nebraska. Characteristics of runoff transported solids from this large lot compared favorably with …

19th Annual Conference On Analytical Chemistry

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Program and abstracts from the 19th annual meeting of the Conference on Analytical Chemistry, co-sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the Rocky Mountain Chromatography Discussion Group. Held in Denver, Colorado, August 1-3, 1977.

Coumbe Bluff Quadrangle, Garden County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 22'30" — 41° 30'

102° 22'30" — 102° 30'

Scale 1:24,000

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

High Spin-Low Spin Crossover And Antiferromagnetic Interactions In Tris(1-Pyrrolidinecarbodithioato)Iron(Iii) And The 4-Morpholine (Fem) And Dibutyl Analogs, Effect Of Recrystallization Solvent, And Crystal Structure Of Fem·Nitrobenzene, Edward J. Cukauskas, Bascom Sine Deaver, Ekkehard Sinn

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

High sensitivity magnetic susceptibility determinations, especially in the range 1.2-4.2 K on pure and dilute tris(pyrrolidinecarbodithioato)iron(III) (FeP) in its high spin form, show that a maximum at about 2 K is caused by antiferromagnetic interactions. The analogous chromium(III) complex does not exhibit significant antiferromagnetism compared to that of the iron complex, and it is likely that the upper e electrons possessed by the iron and not by the chromium are responsible for the bulk of the antiferromagnetism. As the iron atoms are about 9 Å apart in discrete molecules, the antiferromagnetic interactions presumably occur between unpaired spins delocalized on to …

Analysis Of Chert By Particle Induced X-Ray Emission, Jeanette E. Gibeson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Method Of Variational Secular Equation For The Ground State Of Helium Atom, Mih-Seh Kong

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Shear Waves In Glacial Till, Craig Woerpel

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Preparation And Study Of Some Bridged Tropones, Sultan T. Abu-Orabi

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Population Dynamics And Species Diversity Of Ichthyo-Parasitofauna Of The Buffalo National River, Raj V. Kilambi, David A. Becker

Technical Reports

The Buffalo River originates in the Ozark plateau in Newton County, Arkansas. This magnificent Ozarkian wilderness river is about 238 km long and flows north-eastward to its confluence with the White River. The Buffalo River drains 3,465 km² and has some 30 named tributaries. In its upper reaches, huge multicolored cliffs extend nearly 213 m above the river as it flows through mountainous countryside which reaches an elevation of 732 m. Within its watershed may be found 700 species of plant life, a habitat for 250 species of birds, and a variety of game animals. In its aquatic habitat …

Characteristics Of The Mineral And Metal Content Of Suspended Sediment, New River Basin, Tennessee, Richard H. Ketelle

Masters Theses

Large volume (80 liter) water samples were collected from five sites on four streams in the New River Basin of Tennessee for study of the suspended sediment. Parameters selected for investigation were:

(1) Sediment size distribution

(2) Mineral composition of the sediment

(3) Metal content of the sediment

(4) Extractable Fe-Mn Oxide content of the sediment

(5) Association of heavy metals with Fe-Mn oxides

Sediment was separated by gravity settling and continuous flow centrifugation. Size separations showed that most of the sediment was in the 2-5μm size range and 0.2-2μm particles were second most abundant in most samples regardless of …

High Pressure Liquid Chromatographic Methods For The Separations Of Derivatized Alpha-Keto Acids And Thiamine Phosphate Esters, Bruce Clark Hemming

Theses and Dissertations

Improved methods have been developed for separation of a-keto acid derivatives and for thiamine and its phosphate esters. Linear gradient reverse phase chromatography using ion-pair formation provides baseline resolution for a seven-component homologous series of a-keto acid dinitrophenylhydrazones having increasing carbon chain lengths. Branched-chain keto acids can also be separated. Aldehyde derivatives were examined as possible interfering compounds. Peak identification in biological material was confirmed for pyruvate by an enzymic peak shift technique. Monitoring near 365 nm permits low nanogram detection. Preliminary studies of keto acids in biological material illustrate the method's applicability. The same system with slight changes separates …

Comparison Of Point Estimators Of Normal Percentiles, Danny D. Dyer, Onas L. Hensley, Jerome P. Keating

Mathematics Technical Papers

There are available several point estimators of the percentiles of a normal distribution with both mean and variance unknown. Consequently, it would seam appropriate to make a comparison among the estimators through sums "closeness to the true value" criteria. Along these lines, the concept of Pitman-closeness efficiency is introduced. Essentially, when comparing two estimators, the Pitman-closeness efficiency gives "odds" in favor of one of the estimators being closer to the true value than is the other in a given situation. Through the use of Pitman-closeness efficiency, this paper compares (a) the maximum likelihood estimator, (b) the minimum variance unbissed estimator, …

Development And Application Of Computer Assisted Instruction For Mini-Computers, Thomas A. Burne

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of An Interlobate Boundary In The Wisconsinan Drift Of Kalamazoo County And Adjacent Areas In Southwestern Michigan, Norman A. Lovan

Masters Theses

A detailed investigation of selected textural and mineralogical aspects of tills in southwestern Michigan is used to define an interlobe boundary relationship between the Wisconsinan ice of the Lake Michigan and Saginaw lobes. Bedrock underlying the study area contributed little to the bulk composition of the tils investigated. However, morainal development in the study area shows strong correlation with bedrock topography.

In a discussion of the deglaciation of Michigan and the study area, a history of morainal development is reviewed and attention is focused on the reentrant district located in Kalamazoo and neighboring counties. Attempts to delineate tills of the …

A Photochemical Study Of S-Triazolo[4,3-B] Pyridazine And 3-Diazo-4-Oxo-3,4-Dihydroquinoline, John Timothy Carlock

Theses and Dissertations

When subjected to ultraviolet radiation in the presence of an alkene, s-triazolo[4,3-b]pyridazine (STP) undergoes an unusual 3 + 2 photocycloaddition wherein the alkene adds to the 1 and 8 positions of STP with concommitant N4-N5 bond cleavage yielding 5,6-disubstituted-6,7-dihydro-7-methylene (and 7-cyanomethyl)-5H-pyrrolo[1,2-b]-s-triazoles. Amides and esters of indole-3-carboxylic acid have been synthesized by a novel reaction employing the ultraviolet irradiation of 3-diazo-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinoline (QDA) in the presence of amines or alcohols respectively. QDA, when irradiated, is postulated to undergo an internal Wolff Rearrangement to Indole-3-ketene which can add any amine or alcohol to form the corresponding amide or ester in modest to good …

Real-Time Computer Optimized Scanning Potential Coulometry For Multi-Component Trace Analysis, Norman W. Petty

Theses and Dissertations

The instrumentation and methodology for real-time computer controlled scanning potential coulometry for multi-component trace analysis is described. The sensitivity limit was determined to be 10^-8 F for electrochemically reversible constituents. The sensitivity limit could be extended if measures were taken to compensate for the periodic signal found on the electrolysis current. Non-linear least squares curve fitting methods accurately resolved iron-platinum and silver-iron interferences to give accurate determinations for iron and silver. The resolving capability of this method was tested using theoretically generated scanning potential coulograms. The computer resolved sample constituents with a 1 to 100 concentration ratio and a formal …