William L. Roper named as CDC director

Can low-lying Roper states be explained as antidecuplet members?

It is shown that the anomalously low-lying Roper states cannot be assigned as members of the 5Q antidecuplet or 5Q octet multiplets as suggested by Jaffe and Wilczek. A possible experimental discovery of the antidecuplet state Θ + (1540) [1] certainly disturbs a quiet life of hadron physics. Obviously there is a need not only to explain Θ + (1540) in a quark language (see, e.g. [2–4]), but also...

William James as American Plato ?

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

B-Factory leader Dorfan named third director of SLAC (12/98)

State of Michigan Department of Conservation Gerald E. Eddy, Director Geological Survey Division William L. Daoust, State Geologist Information on Michigan Silurian Oil and Gas Pools

Michigan's first commercial oil field was discovered at Port Huron, St. Clair County, in 1886. By 1910, 21 shallow wells had been completed in the Dundee formation at depths of about 500 to 650 feet. In 1910 the daily production from this field amounted to about 10 barrels of oil per day, all of which was used locally in the manufacture of lubricants. However, it was not until 1925 when the Sag...

Tiglicaciduria in Propionicacidaemia By WILLIAM L . NYHAN , TOSHIYUKI ANDO

Propionicacidaemia is an inborn error of organic acid metabolism in which there is a defect in propionyl-CoA carboxylase activity, and a clinical picture of overwhelming illness very early in life which was originally described as ketotic hyperglycinaemia (Childs et al., 1961; Hommes et al., 1968; Hsia et al., 1970). These patients have large amounts of glycine in their blood and urine. They al...