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INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION USING HEAVY ION DRIVERS IS A PROMISING TECHNIQUE TO OBTAIN COMMERCIAL FUSION ENERGY, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS HIGH EFFICIENCY, HIGH REPETITION RATES, AND THE GOOD RELIABILITY OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS. THE VERY INTENSE, SHORT DURATION HEAVY ION BEAM PULSES FROM THE DRIVER MUST BE FOCUSED TO A VERY SMALL SPOT TO IGNITE A FUSION PELLET IN A REACTOR. CONSEQUENTLY, IT IS VER ...

FLUE GAS HUMIDIFICATION DOWNSTREAM OF THE AIR PREHEATER PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ALL CALCIUM-BASED DRY SORBENT PROCESSES. FOR IN-DUCT SORBENT INJECTION PROCESSES, HUMIDIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED REACTION RATES BETWEEN THE SORBENT PARTICLES AND THE FLUE GAS SO2; FOR FURNACE SORBENT INJECTION, SUPPLEMENTAL SO2 CAPTURE IS POSSIBLE. HUMIDIFICATION ALSO IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL MEANS ...

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WE PLAN TO INVESTIGATE THE USE OF RESONANCE TRANSITION RADIATION TO IDENTIFY ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC CHARGED PARTICLES. WE WILL LOOK INTO METHODS FOR SINGLE AND MULTIPLE PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION. BY SELECTING FOIL THICKNESS AND SPACING, IT IS POSSIBLE TO DESIGN RADIATORS WHOSE ANGLE OF EMISSION INCREASES WITH THE ENERGY OF THE INCIDENT CHARGED PARTICLE. BY NOTING THE STRONG ANALOGOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEE ...

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A MOLECULAR MECHANICS COMPUTATIONAL SCHEME IS PROPOSED FOR SIMULATION OF GRAPHITE-POLYPROPYLENE SEMICRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE. A CELL OF APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS 18X18X60 A(O) OF GLASSY POLYPROPYLENE BOUNDED BY GRAPHITE ORCRYSTAL ON THE UPPER AND LOWER PLANES IS GENERATED USING KNOWN STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS AND INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS FOR POLYPROPYLENE AND GRAPHITE. AFTER GENERATION ...

MAPPING AND SEQUENSING THE DNA IN THE HUMAN GENOME IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO FUTURE MEDICAL ADVANCES AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. UTILIZATION OF DNA PROBES LABELED WITH DOZENS OF STABLE ISOTOPES INSTEAD OF A SINGLE RADIOISOTOPE COULD INCREASE THE RATE OF SEQUENCE DETERMINATION 100-FOLD OR MORE COMPARED TO CURRENT METHODS. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES A NEW APPROACH, LASER ATOMIZATION RESONANCE IONIZAT ...

THE NEED TO MAP AND SEQUENCE DNA IN THE HUMAN GENOME IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GENETICS AND DISEASE PROCESSES. CURRENT DNA SEQUENCING PROCEDURES ALMOST UNIVERSALLY REQUIRE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS OF DNA FRAGMENTS, AND SEVERAL LABORATORIES ARE DEVISING PROCEDURES TO AUTOMATE AS MANY STEPS OF THIS PROCESS AS POSSIBLE. SEQUENCING BY HYBRIDIZATION (SBH) PROPOSED BY DRMANAC ET ...

THE USE OF TRACERS TO TAG WELL GAS WHICH IS REINJECTED INTO OIL RESERVOIRS HAS ACHIEVED CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS IN CHARACTERIZING THE STRUCTURE AND GEOMETRY OF THE RESERVOIRS. IDEALLY, THE TRACER SHOULD BE DETECTABLE OVER A WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE, PARTICULARLY IN FIELDS WHERE LARGE VOLUMES OF GAS ARE INJECTED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEMONSTRATE ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE INCREASE IN DYNAMI ...