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The psychiatric emergency service at the Orange County (Calif.) Medical Center provides emergency service for periods from one to two hours up to a day or more on the unit. Comparisons were made between patients seen only once over the first four months of operation and those seen more than once during that period. Patients with acute situational problems could be handled on a one-visit basis, often without hospitalization. Those with personality disorders (including alcohol and drug problems) came more frequently and were hospitalized more often.

(1940). A Study of the Distance Traversed and the Time Spent in Active Play in Women's Basketball. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 94-101.

(1941). Sources of Supplementary Materials for Health Instruction. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 266-277.

Field measurements of the water surface heat exchange coefficient, K, can be obtained using the methodology presented. The method was developed in conjunction with a hydraulic model study of a thermal discharge. A prototype power plant's thermal discharge can be simulated on the model, and the resulting increased temperature field measured. Using model results, an improved prediction of the prototype field is possible if an adjustment is made for model-prototype differences in surface heat exchange. Previously, water surface heat exchange coefficients have been computed using empirical equations and meteorological data. The method presented provides an alternate means of evaluating K. Data required are time-temperature histories of two or three moderately sized cooling basins and certain meteorological information.

Infrared temperature sensing systems were used to compare the temperature fields resulting from a prototype power plant’s condenser cooling water discharge with those obtained by simulating the discharge on a distorted hydraulic model. IR temperature measurement offers certain advantages over the more common thermocouple or thermistor temperature sensing and recording systems. The prototype plant is located in the upper reaches of San Francisco Bay, and was simulated on the San Francisco Bay-Delta model. The model is operated by the Corps of Engineers and has 1000:1 horizontal and 100:1 vertical length ratios. Photographic images of the temperature fields on both model and prototype are presented, along with best fit lines relating nondimensional surface temperature increase and the surface area enclosed by the increase. The general features of the prototype fields were satisfactorily reproduced by the model. The IR systems used are described and an analysis of the factors influencing the results is included.

Three phenotypically distinct strains of Escherichia coli B were studied: one in which the transport of glutamate was strongly stimulated by sodium, one in which the transport was relatively independent of sodium, and one which did not transport glutamate. Membrane vesicle preparations from the three strains followed the behavior of whole cells with respect to sodium-stimulated transport. Although glutamate-binding material could be released from cells by osmotic shock, its affinity for glutamate was not significantly influenced by sodium. Furthermore, the shocked cells retained sodium-stimulated transport. The accumulated results suggest that the sodium-activated glutamate transport system resides in the cytoplasmic membrane and that releasable binding protein(s) is not intimately involved in its function.