Present Compilation Research Articles

Nuclear data sheets for A = 98

The 1960 version of the Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 98 has been revised on the basis of experimental data received prior to June 1973. Information from approximately 80 papers and communications has been included in the present compilation.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 97

The 1960 version of the Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 97 has been revised on the basis of experimental data received prior to May 1973. Information from approximately 140 papers and communications has been included in the present compilation.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 141

Nuclear structure data for A = 141 isobars are compiled, and adopted level properties and decay schemes are presented. All data available through May 1973 have been considered for the present compilation. The first section consistst of drawings summarizing essentially all of the available reaction and radioactivity data. These are followed by “Summary Sheets” giving adopted level properties, including bases for J π assignments and normalization factors used in constructing decay schemes, and adopted gamma-ray properties. The third section, “Data Sheets,” lists all data used in obtaining the adopted values.

Bibliographies in Brief

110 BOOK REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN BRIEF DRAMATIC CRmCISM INDEX, eds. Paul F. Breed and Florence M. Sniderman. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1972. 1022 pp., $20.00. This index is, according to its subtitle, "a bibliography of commentaries on playwrights from Ibsen to the Avant-Garde." Its nearly 12,000 entries span some 300-odd modern dramatists from Lionel Abel to Stefan Zweig. Its compilers have attempted to catalogue the English-language books, chapters, and articles relating to each playwright and his works, but the results are often disappointingly spotty and unreliably random. A bibliography of Ibsen (to take the one name mentioned specifically in the subtitle) that omits Brandes, Fjelde's Twentieth-Century Views volume, Koht's Life, Lucas's Ibsen and Strindberg, Northam, Tennant, Weigand, Valency's The Flower and the Castle, Brian Downs's Ibsen, the Intellectual Background, Chesterton, Francis Bull, and even the Ibsen Yearbook can hardly be called all-inclusive. It might easily be called somethil}g worse. BRITAIN'S THEATRICAL PERIODICALS 1720-1967, ed. Carl J. Stratman, CSV New York: The New York Public Library, 1972. 160 +xxiv pp., $11.00. A major revision of the original edition of this bibliography published in 1962, the present compilation indexes 1,235 English periodicals from Richard Steele's The Theatre in 1720 to the Oxford Playhouse Company's Act One, Scene 2 in 1967. Of particular interest to scholars of modern drama and theatre are the nearly 600 titles listed in the present century. The late Professor Stratman's bibliographical work has always been painstaking, his entries are descriptive, and library locations are included for most of the titles catalogued in this eminently useful reference work. LISE-LONE MARKER University of Toronto ...

American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, 1961-72

Since World War II, J. Thomas Shaw recently remarked, Slavic field has developed from something barely existing to a field accepted on an academic par with far more traditional disciplines in many important American institutions. During the past decade the growth of American and Canadian studies in Slavic and East European languages and literatures has been tremendous. Aside from the establishment of Slavic departments and graduate programs at many universities, this development is reflected, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in the growth of professional organizations, journals, and research activity. On the other hand, the rapid expansion of the field has created problems in communication, in information retrieval, and more recently in the employment of new Ph.D.'s. It is perhaps time to assess the achievements of the past decade and in light of them to re-examine the directions and goals of existing and developing programs. The present compilation makes accessible some information vital for such an assessment. The appended list is a composite of language and literature titles included in Jesse J. Dossick's nine annual lists published in the Slavic Review 1964-72,2 in the eleven annual lists published to date in the Modern Language Journal 1963-73, and in the monthly entries in Dissertation Abstracts International (prior to July 1969, Dissertation Abstracts) over a period of twelve and a half years (January 1961-July 1973). It incorporates corrections and additions received from fifty-six institutions, including thirty-five of the approximately thirty-seven Ph.D.-granting Slavic departments (seventy-two institutions had been sent questionnaires). The list should prove useful to graduate advisers, thesis directors, and students in the selection of research topics, especially when used in conjunction with an updated list of dissertations in progress.4 Chairmen and recruiting committees of departments interested in locating individuals with specific research specialties may also find the list to be of help. Finally, arranged by calendar year the list graphically illustrates the fourfold increase in dissertations accepted over the past twelve years. Jesse J. Dossick's pioneering bibliography' listed 163 dissertations in language, literature, and drama up through 1959, while Howard I. Aron-

Nuclear data for A = 96 isobars

Nuclear Data for the A = 96 isobars have been revised on the basis of experimental data received prior to August 1972. Information from approximately 130 papers and communications has been included in the present compilation.

Introduction to Urban Issues II

This is the sequel to Urban Issues I, the special issue which was edited by this Department and published in Management Science, Vol. 16, No. 12 (August 1970). Like its predecessor the present collection has been pointed toward delineating new possibilities for management science approaches to urban problems. Also like its predecessor, the present compilation is drawn from a variety of sources which include papers presented at scientific-professional society meetings, papers selected from the normal flow of mss. into this department and papers obtained by special invitation.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 129

The literature pertaining to nuclei in the A = 129 mass chain has been examined and the experimental data summarized in the present compilation. A minimum of numerical data is included. Few definitive spin and parity assignments could be made. Decay data for 129Ba indicate the existence of two isomers with nearly equal half-lives. Using unpublished results, the compilers propose these to consist of the g.s., J π = 1/2 +, and a level at 0.2771 MeV, J π = (11/2 −). Efforts have been made to indicte apparent discrepancies in the data. The present compilation might serve as a basis for choosing definitive experiments to augment our knowledge of nuclei in this mass chain.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 95

The 1960 version of the Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 95 has been revised on the basis of experimental data received prior to May 1972. Information from approximately 175 papers and communications has been included in the present compilation. The data have been examined and utilized to construct level and decay schemes. Inconsistencies in the data are indicated either by direct comparison or in footnotes. Reported normalizations for the decay of 95Y differ considerably. For the stable nucleus 95Mo, approximately 60 levels are known; however, firm spin assignments can be made for only a few of these, mainly below 1.5 MeV. A similar situation exists in other nuclei in this mass chain. The present compilation might serve as a basis for choosing definitive experiments which would augment our knowledge in this mass chain.

The Continuing Education of the Surgeon.

This small book is a compilation of presentations and discussions at the 12th annual meeting of the Allen O. Whipple Surgical Society held in Albany, NY, April 18 and 19, 1969. Nine contributors presented ten papers; they represented schools of medicine, industry, and government. They discussed the responsibilities of postgraduate programs, professional societies, and American boards, hospitals, and the government in the continuing education of the surgeon. Questions were raised as to implementation of such programs, how to monitor them, and how they would affect the individual surgeon and the profession. Although the surgeon was the focal point of discussion, the recommendations could be applied to any medical specialty. Many of the ideas are thought-provoking but remain unsolved. The book is easily read in a short period, and it is recommended reading for those involved and interested in the subject of advanced and continuing education in the medical sciences.

Immunologic Incompetence, edited by Benjamin M. Kagan, M.D., and E. Richard Stiehm, M.D. Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1971, 396 pp., $22.00

Prospective readers of this book should be informed at the outset that it is not a textbook and it is not, by and large, about immunologic incompetence. Rather it is a compilation of presentations given at a conference in 1970 by established investigators, most of them pediatricians, on that aspect of immunology about which they were particularly knowledgeable. Moreover, the book's contents encompass much more than its title implies, in that many disease states not generally ascribed to incompetence are included, and fortunately for those who seek a genuine understanding of immunology and diseases involving immune mechanisms, there is as much discussion of the basic physiology of immunity as of illness.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 125

The Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 125, last compiled in 1960, have been updated and adopted decay schemes, level properties, and gamma-ray properties are presented. The present compilation includes all pertinent nuclear structure data available through February 1972. The data from a later reference on 125Te have been added in proof but are not used in obtaining the adopted values. The information is presented in the form of level schemes showing essentially all of the adopted level and decay properties, followed by the compiled data (Data Sheets) and adopted values (Summary Sheets) for each nucleus in the A-chain. For those nuclei on which there are very little data ( 125Cd, 125In, 125Cs, 125Ba, 125La) all information is given on the Summary Sheet only.

C14 dating of Survey material performed in 1971

The systematic mapping of the Quatemary deposits by the Survey (S. Funder, M. Kelly, D. Laursen, L. Simonarson, N. W. Ten Brink and the present compiler) has produced a need for a regular dating of shell and driftwood material connected to Holocene shore-lines. It is hoped to erect a framework of dated shorelines from Greenland coastal areas, which can be used for reference and for control in establishing the age of other Holocene events.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 107

All literature containing nuclear structure data pertaining to the mass chain A = 107 has been reviewed and evaluated. The main data have been summarized and used to construct level and decay schemes. Overall, the data only allow few definitive spin and parity assignments to be made. Inconsistencies in the data are noted either by direct comparison or in footnotes. The present compilation might serve as a basis for choosing definitive experiments that would augment our knowledge of nuclei in this mass chain. Data received prior to November 1971 have been included.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 121

The literature has been surveyed for data pertaining to nuclei in the mass chain A = 121. Well over 200 papers and communications were considered, and information for approximately 100 has been included. The cutoff date was the end of February 1971. The data for this mass chain are rather fragmentary. Few spin assignments are firm. The half-life of the 8-keV isomer in 121Sn is still very much in doubt. The characteristics of the levels in 121Sb are not yet well defined, but the enhanced E2 component of the 66-keV transition between the 0.57308 (1/2 +) and 0.50754 (3/2 +) levels may imply a large deformation. There seems to be building a cumulation of evidence throughout the mass region A ≈ 100–140 indicating the presence of such a deformation at about 500–1000 keV of excitation. The present compilation might serve as a basis for choosing definitive experiments that would augment our knowledge of nuclei in this mass chain.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 201

The Nuclear Data Sheets for A=201 were last compiled in 1962. Although the volume ofdata accumulated since the previous compilation in relatively small, the new data are generally of very high quality and serve to establish many level energies and decay properties with high precision, particularly in 201Tl. The occurrence of isomerism in 201Hg, 201TI, 201Bi, 201Po, and 201Rn has been established, in addition to the previously well-known 201mPb. Adopted level properties and decay schemes presented in the present compilation are based on data received through February 1971.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 202

Nuclear structure data from reaction and radioactivity studies on A = 202 nuclei arecompiled, and adopted level properties and decay schemes are presented. The internal-conversion and lifetime data are compared with theoretical predictions to deduce gamma-ray multipolarities and level spins and parities. The level of our knowledge about the structure of these nuclei is found to have changed relatively little since the previous (1962) compilation. The present compilation includes all data available through February 1971.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 110

The 1960 version of the Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 110 has now been revised on the basis of experimental data received before January 1971. Data received during January have been added in proof. Over 200 papers were considered and the data from 160 were actually used in constructing the adopted level schemes. The A = 110 chain consists of 7 nuclei (Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, and Sb) and also probably Tc and Ru. The decay of 250.4-d 110Ag has been studied extensively with the result that the γ-energies are now known to within 20–50 eV and the relative γ-intensities to within 2–8%. By combining the extensive decay and reaction data pertaining to the 40 known levels in 110Cd, it was possible to assign 9 definite and 22 tentative J π values. The present detailed compilation should serve as a basis for further experiments and theoretical calculations.

Nuclear data sheets for A = 58

Level schemes and decay characteristics are presented for all nuclei with mass number A = 58. Experimental data, adopted values, comparisons with theory, and agurments for spin and parity assignments are given. Emphasis is placed on the presentation of level schemes which seem “best” in the light of the data and theoretical ideas available at this time. Inconsistences and discrepancies in the level schemes are discussed. In 58Fe, recent γγ angular correlation studies following thermal-neutron capture have been combined with previous spectroscopic information from (t,p) and (d,p) reaction studies to provide J π-assignments for 17 of the 25 levels below 4.2 MeV. In 58Ni, recent (p,p′γ) and (α,α′) studies have resulted in J π-assignments for 18 of the 27 levels below 4.8 MeV. Moreover, the lifetimes of 19 states in 58Ni are known, mostly from the Doppler shift attenuation method. The present detailed compilation should serve as a basis for further experiments and theoretical calculations. The adopted levels and decay properties are based on data received before July 1969. Data received between July and September 1969 have been “Added in Proof”.

Reported solubilities of 738 pesticide chemicals in water.

There is no single compilation of the solubilities of pesticide chemicals in water, yet both actual and surmised solubility figures are used daily to predict or extrapolate such parameters as systemic penetration into aqueous tissues, distributions from formulations into aqueous spray carriers, transfer coefficients from residence in soils or decomposing vegetation into runoff and ground water, ease of removal from treated commodities by water rinsing, probable water contamination from direct applications or from spillage, and others. Exhaustive search of the literature by titles and by pesticides discloses that comparatively few numerically useful solubilities of pesticide chemicals in water have been recorded, however. As will be discussed later, a description of “slightly soluble” or “practically insoluble” is hardly definitive or even useful. It is hoped that the present exhaustive compilation will stimulate the production of actual solubility data, for even casual examination of the table (Table I) will disclose glaring inconsistencies and lamentable gaps in the literature commonly available to research workers and others interested in even approximate solubility data.