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A NOVEL METHOD, SUPERSONIC VIRAL IMPACTION, IS BEING INVESTIGATED TO SEPARATE AND COLLECT FINE, SOLID PARTICLES FROM GASES. THE MAIN ADVANTAGES OF THE METHOD ARE: SEPARATION OF PARTICLES FROM HOT, CHEMICALLY AGGRESSIVE, CONDENSIBLE CARRYING GASES WHILE PRESERVING THE PARTICLES FROM CONTAMINATION BY THE CARRYING GAS; REDUCTION IN SIZE AND COMPLEXITY COMPARED TO COMPETING SEPARATION TECHNIQUES SUCH ...

RESEARCHERS ARE DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING A REAL-TIME VIDEO AND SPEECH ENCODER/DECODER SYSTEM THAT COMBINES THE FEATURES OF A HIGH QUALITY, LOW BIT-RATE, FULL COLOR VIDEO CODER WITH A HIGH QUALITY, VERY LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODER. THE TARGET BIT-RATE FOR THE COMBINED VIDEO AND SPEECH RANGES FROM 19.2 KBPS TO 64 KBPS. THE REAL-TIME HARDWARE ENVIRONMENT IS BASED ON A MULTIPROCESSOR CONFIGURATION USING ...

THE GOAL OF THE WORK IS TO DEVELOP A COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION TOOL TO ALLOW SCALING-UP THE DESIGNS OF LABORATORY SIZE OR SEMI-INDUSTRIAL GRANULAR FLOW SYSTEMS TO FULL-SCALE INDUSTRIAL DIMENSIONS. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS RANGE FROM THE DESIGN OF CHUTES TO HOPPERS, BINS, AND OTHER SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTING BULK SOLIDS. RESEARCHERS ARE CONCENTRATING ON COMPLEMENTARY THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYS ...

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FERROELECTRIC (CHIRAL) SMECTIC C(*) LIQUID CRYSTALS (FLCS) EXHIBIT HIGH SPEED AND MULTISTATE ELECTRO-OPTIC AND DISPLAY DEVICE APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY WHEN INCORPORATED INTO THE SURFACE STABILIZED FERROELECTRIC LIQUID (SSFLC) LIGHT VALVE. THE TWO STATE (DIGITAL NATURE OF THE SSFLC DEVICE POSSESSES CERTAIN ADVANTAGES IN APPLICATIONS SUCH AS PASSIVE MULTIPLEXED FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS BUT DOES NOT ALL ...

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PRODUCTION OF MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH PATTERN FEATURES IN THE SUB-0.25 MICRON REGIME REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN MICROLITHOGRAPHIC AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES. CURRENT I-LINE STEPPER TOOLS ARE PATTERNING STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICES WITH DEPTH OF FOCUS (DOF) BUDGETS OF 1 MICRON AND BELOW, A MANUFACTURING NIGHTMARE. RECENT RESEARCH HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT CHEMICAL-MECHANICAL POLISHING (CMP) ...

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MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) IS A GROWING NATIONAL PROBLEM WITHOUT A GOOD SOLUTION. THIS PROJECT TARGETS MSW AS A LOW GRADE/HAZARDOUS FUEL AND REPRESENT A DISTINCT IMPROVEMENT OVER CURRENT COMBUSTION/INCINERATION METHODS. ALTHOUGH CURBSIDE RECYCLING HAS REDUCED THE QUANTITY OF MSW, LANDFILLS ARE REACHING CAPACITY. AQUEOUS RUNOFF IS A INCREASING CONCERN. THE MAIN ALTERNATIVE, MASS BURN (OFTEN REFERR ...