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LOWER QUALITY LUMBER PRODUCTS ARE USED WITH INCREASING REGULARITY DUE TO THE CONTINUOUSLY SHRINKING HIGH QUALITY TIMBER RESOURCE. THE USE OF LOWER QUALITY LUMBER RESULTS IN ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS DUE TO A POTENTIALLY EXTENSIVE WARPING, BOTH DURING STORAGE AND CONSTRUCTION. INCREASED WARPING IS EQUATED TO UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO NEEDED REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT. THE PROPOSAL ...

ALGORITHMS ARE DERIVED THAT DEFINE THE PATHS OF MAXIMUM COHERENCY FOR A SEISMIC EVENT GENERATED BY FIRING AN ARTILLERY WEAPON FROM AN ARBITRARY LOCATION. SIGNAL EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES ARE DESCRIBED TO EXTRACT THE COHERENT SIGNAL FROM AN EVENT RECORDED ON MULTIPLE RECEIVERS. SIMULATED BATTLEFIELD RECORDINGS ARE GENERATED BY TREATING THE SEISMIC SIGNATURE OF ARTILLERY WEAPONS AS IMPULSE RESPONSES FRO ...

IN THIS RESEARCH, NSAIDS WILL BE INDIVIDUALLY INCORPORATED INTO A DELIVERY SYSTEM. THE IN VITRO DELIVERY RATES WILL BEDETERMINED, AND THEN THE SYSTEM OPTIMIZED TO OBTAIN IN VITRO DELIVERY RATES OF 1 TO 12 WEEKS. THE VARIABLES THAT WILL BE EXAMINED TO OPTIMIZE RELEASE ARE POLYMER TYPE AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT, DRUG LOADING, AND BIOCOMPATIBLE PLASTICIZER CONTENT. FIVE NSAIDS WILL BE INDIVIDUALLY EVALUAT ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL COMPUTER FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS. THIS NEUROCOMPUTER, CALLED THE "PARAMETRIC AVALANCHE", WILL INTEGRATE SENSOR DATA FROM ARBITRARY ARRAYS OF SENSORS, DETECT SPACE-TIME PATTERNS, ANDSYNTHESIZE ACTUATOR RESPONSES TO THOSE PATTERNS CONSISTENT WITH MISSION OBJECTIVES AND SYSTEM SURVIVABILITY. THE PROPOSE ...

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CAD PROPOSES TO DO MODEL BASED COMPUTER VISION RESEARCH CULMINATING IN FASTER AND MORE CAPABLE PROGRAMS. CAD WILL DEMONSTRATE A SUPERIOR ACTIVE DETECTION AND TRACTING SENSOR (ADTS) BY COMBINING ITS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SOFTWARE WITH A MICROCOMPUTER, VIDEO CAMERA, AND IMAGE DIGITIZING ELECTRONICS. THE ADTS WILL HAVE SUPERIOR CAPABILITY BECAUSE OF A NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION ALGORITHM BEING D ...

A NEW AND INNOVATIVE CLASS OF ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES IS TO BE DEVELOPED FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF NUMERICALLY-MODELING COMPLEX FLOWS INHERENT IN ADVANCED HELICOPTER-BLADE DESIGNS. THESE PROCEDURES MAKE USE OF MATHEMATICALLY CONSISTENT ESTIMATES OF LOCAL NUMERICAL ERROR, AND AUTOMATICALLY REFINE OR UNREFINE THE MESH OR INCREASE OR DECREASE THE LOCAL SPECTRAL ORDER OF THE APPROXIMATION ...

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THE ADVENT OF THE CORDRAY ROTARY ENGINE HAS MADE POSSIBLE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN THE POWER TO WEIGHT RATIO AVAILABLE TO THE AIRCRAFT DESIGNER. ENGINE SELECTION IS HISTORICALLY THE PRIMARY DETERMINATIVE OFVEHICLE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE. THE AVAILABILITY OF THIS ENGINE ALONGWITH ADVANCES IN COMMAND AND CONTROL ELECTRONICS MAKES POSSIBLE A NEW CLASS OF VEHICLE CAPABLE OF VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND THEN ...

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