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RIGID, LOW DENSITY POLYURETHANE FOAM IS WIDELY USED IN CUSHIONING AND FLOTATION APPLICATIONS. IT DOES POSSESS CERTAIN DISADVANTAGES, INCLUDING COMBUSTABILITY, TOXIC GAS EVOLUTION IN A FIRE AND POOR DIMENSIONAL STABILITY. PHENOLIC FOAMS ARE MORE STABLE, DO NOT SUPPORT COMBUSTION AND LACK THE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GASES, BUT THEY LACK STRENGTH AND RESISTANCE TO ABRASION. WE PROPOSE T ...

THIS PROJECT WILL EVALUATE A NEW TYPE OF ALERTING SYSTEM DISPLAY: THE LIKELIHOOD ALARM DISPLAY (LAD). THE LAD FORMS AN OPTIMAL INTERFACE BETWEEN AN INTELLIGENT OR "EXPERT" COMPUTER MONITORING SUBSYSTEMS AND A HUMAN PILOT. IN A LAD DISPLAY, THE ALERTING SIGNAL PROVIDED TO THE HUMAN OPERATOR CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPUTED LIKELIHOOD OF THE PROBLEM AS DETERMINED BY THE INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO STUDY THE SYNTHETIC METHODS TO INCORPORATE HIGH-SENSITIVITY ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS INTO AMINES, AMINO ACIDS AND PEPTIDES OF BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN. THE PURPOSE OF THIS DERIVATIZATION IS TO PERMIT THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PICOMOLE LEVELS OF THESE COMPOUNDS USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COUPLED TO AN ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR. PHASE I OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO STUDY: ( ...

THIS PROPOSAL CONCERNS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL IMMUNOASSAY SYSTEM BASED ON THE FABRICATION OF HIGHLY SELECTIVE AMPEROMETRIC SENSORS CAPABLE OF DETECTING FEMTOMOLE QUANTITIES OF MATERIAL. PHASE I OF THIS PROPOSAL WILL INVOLVE THE SYNTHESIS OF A NUMBER OF MODIFIED SURFACES FOR THE AMPEROMETRIC ELECTRODE. A PROTOTYPE SENSOR WILL BE BUILT AND TESTED FOR THE DETECTION OF NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLE ...

WHILE THE PI WAS ON LEAVE AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE, A NEW CLASS OF MICROWAVE ELEMENTS WAS DEVELOPED, FABRICATED, AND TESTED. THE DESIGN OF THESE ELEMENTS COMBINES THE PRINCIPLES OF MICROWAVE TWIST REFLECTORS WITH THOSE OF DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY. THE RESULT IS A SINGLE REFLECTOR WHICH, IN AN INDEPENDENT FASHION, CONTROLS BOTH THE PHASE AND POLARIZATION OF AN INCIDENT WAVEFRONT IN A NEARLY ARBITRARY FASHIO ...

GENAVE SHALL INVESTIGATE A RADIO TRACKING SYSTEM WHICH MO MONITORS WILDLIFE. THE EFFORT WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING A SYSTEM WHICH WILL WORK WITH EXISTING TRANSMI TRANSMITTERS AS WELL AS WITH A UNIQUE PHASING TECHNIQUE WHICH IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY THE TRACKING ANTENNA AND WILL GIVE RANGE DATA FROM A SINGLE ANTENNA.

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WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A STANDARDIZED KIT OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (MOAB) CONJUGATED WITH A NOVEL BIOLOGICAL CATALYST TOXIN TO BE USED FOR THE EX VIVO ELIMINATION OF NEOPLASTIC CELLS FROM HUMAN AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW GRAFTS. THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES ARE TO PREPARE A TOXIN-CONJUGATED MURINE MOAB THAT WILL SPECIFICALLY BIND TO ANTIGEN POSITIVE NEOPLASTIC CELLS PRESENT IN AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW GRAFTS B ...

THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER, LONGER-WEARING CRUTCH TIP THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF ITS HANDICAPPED USERS. THE ""SURE-FOOT'' WILL BE A HIGHLY MARKETABLE PRODUCT THAT WILL ENABLE RICHMOND COMBINED ENTERPRISES TO EMPLOY AND TRAIN ADDITIONAL HANDICAPPED WORKERS. THE ""SURE-FOOT'S'' UNIQUE CONFIGURATION AND INTERNAL PIVOT ASSEMBLY AUTOMATICALLY LEVELS ITS LARGE ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROBLEM IS TO DEVELOP A SENSOR, TOGETHER WITH A MATHEMATICAL ALGORITH, THAT WILL ALLOW THE THREE- DIMENSIONAL QUANTITATIVE EDDY-CURRENT NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUTION OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES. THE APPROACH THAT WE PROPOSE IS BASED ON, AND EXTENDS WORK ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL EDDY-CURRENT NDE THAT THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PERFORMED BY ANALYTIC, INC. THAT WORK IS BRIEFLY REVIEWED. THE TEC ...