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RESEARCH IS PROPOSED ON ROBUST METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA) AND ON STATISTICALLY DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS (SDE), WITH A VIEW TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION IN MODERN INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS WORKSTATION ENVIRONMENTS. THE FOLLOWING ROBUSTNESS CONCEPTS AND TOOLS WILL BE USED: INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS, HIGH BREAKDOWN POINT ESTIMATION, MIN-MAX BIAS ROBUST ESTIMATION, AND MEAN-SQUARED ERROR EFFICIENCY ROBUSTNESS ...

A NEW CONCEPT OF A SLURRY ELECTROLYTE CELL FOR PRIMARY ALUMINUM EMPLOYING A NON-CONSUMABLE ANODE IS PRESENTED. THE FINE-PARTICLE ALUMINA SLURRY CONCEPT ALLOWS CELL OPERATION AT A TEMPERATURE OF 700 DEGREES CENTIGRADE AS COMPARED TO 950 DEGREES-980 DEGREES CENTIGRADE IN CONVENTIONAL HALL-HERAULT CELLS. THE LOWER OPERATING TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO MAKE PRACTICAL THE STATE-OF-THE-ART CERMET ANODES ...

ADVANCES IN VIDEO IMAGING TECHNOLOGY IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCESHAVE LED TO THE WIDESPREAD USE OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) SCANNERS, MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) IMAGING, ULTRASOUND IMAGING, AND CHEST RADIOGRAPHY. HOWEVER, SIMILAR BROAD-BASED PROGRESS IN VIDEO IMAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY HAS NOT OCCURRED, PARTLY BECAUSE THE HIGHRESOLUTION COLOR IMAGES OF ORDINARY MICROSCOPES CANNOT BE EASILY ...

VOLATILE HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS (VHALS) ARE PREDOMINANT CONTAMINANTS AT HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES. TRICHLOREOTHYLENE (TCE) IS THE MOST COMMONLY OCCURING COMPOUND IN THIS CLASS. THESE COMPOUNDS ARE PERSISTENT AND THEREFORE REQUIRE SOME FORM OF REMEDIATION OF REMOVAL. PRESENT TECHNOLOGY UTILIZES CARBON ADSORPTION, WHICH MEANS TRANSFERRING THE HAZARDOUS COMPOUNDS TO ANOTHER MEDIUM WHICHMUST BE D ...

THE PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE INSTRUCTION PACKAGE WILL BE A SOFTWARE AND COURSEWARE PACKAGE WHICH WILL TEACH SCIENCE IN GRADES 6-9 TO STUDENTS WHOSE NATIVE LANGUAGE IS NOT ENGLISH. STUDENTS USING THE PACKAGE WILL LEARN SCIENCE MATERIAL IN MICROCOMPUTER-BASED TUTORIAL DIALOGS THAT INCORPORATE INTERACTIVE VIDEO, GRAPHICS, AND MULTIPLE LEVELSOF TEXTUAL RESPONSES AND REMEDIATIONS. THE STUDENTS WILL WORK PAP ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO SHOW THAT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (RDBMS) WOULD BE BETTER SUITED AS A PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATED, FULL-PHASE COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) PRODUCTS IF THEY PROVIDED MORE SOPHISTICATED DATA INTEGRITY CHECKING. MOST CASE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES ITS OWN DATA MANAGEMENT; THOSE FEW PRODUCTS WHICH DO UTILI ...

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A TECHNIQUE IS PROPOSED WHEREBY ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS CAN BE MADE TO ACCURATELY MEASURE SMALL CONCENTRATIONS ( 1%) OF AN ELEMENT IN A SAMPLE WHOSE COMPOSITION IS DOMINATED (>90%) BY AN ELEMENT OF SIMILAR BUT LARGER ATOMIC NUMBER (Z). SUCH MEASUREMENT IS NOW PRECLUDED BY THE OVERWHELMING FLUORESCENCE SIGNAL FROM THE DOMINANT ELEMENT. THE PROPOSED TECHNIQUE WOULD EMPLOY A PRI ...

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