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DETECTION, CALSSIFICATION, AND IMAGING OF UNDERGROUND OBJECTS IS OF IMPORTANCE IN GEOPHYSICS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF ROCK-FLUD SYSTEMS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION ON GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE AND PROVIDING A BASIS FOR INTERPRETATION OF GEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS IN POROUS AND FRACTURED ROCK. A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD MULTIPARAMETER ESTIMATION APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM WILL BE USED. AN UNDERGROUND OBJECT TO BE IMAGED IS PAR ...

IN-SITU PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF ADVANCED GLAZING MATERIALS COULD HELP MANUFACTURERS AND BUILDING INSPECTORS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UTILITY INCENTIVE PROGRAMS. ONE OF THE MORE WIDELY USED ADVANCED GLAZING MATERIALS IS THE MULTIPLE PANE WINDOW, IN WHICH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE PANES IS SEALED AND BACKFILLED WITH A DENSE GAS OF LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, SUCH AS ARGON. IF THIS GAS IS ABSENT, D ...

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MOUTHSTICKS OR ORTHODONTIC ORTHOSES ARE WIDELY USED BY PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CHORD INJURIES OR SIMILAR DISABILITIES TO INCREASE CONTROL OVER THEIR ENVIRONMENT. PEOPLE WITH THE ADDITIONAL LIMITATION OF LITTLE OR NO ANTERIOR/POSTERIOR HEAD MOTION MAY BENEFIT FROM AN EXTENDIBLE MOUTHSTICK. HOWEVER, COMMERCIAL EXTENDIBLE MOUTHSTICKS SUFFER IN THAT THEIR ACTION IS OFTEN SLOW, EXTENDIBILITY IS LIMITED, OR ...

THE PROLIFERATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUIS) IN PERSONAL COMPUTERS, SUCH AS MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH, IS A THREAT TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS' ABILITY TO USE COMPUTERS BECAUSE GUIS REPRESENT INFORMATION ICONICLY AND SPATIALLY, AS WELL AS TEXTUALLY. THE GUIS VISUAL ORIENTATION MAKES GUIS DIFFICULT FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ACCESS THROUGH TRADITIONAL ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. WE PR ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN ADVANCED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR NUCLEAR TELEROBOTIC SYSTEMS THAT COMBINES POWERFUL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES, THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF ROBOTS AND WORKCELLS, CAPABILITIES FOR ON-SCREEN GRAPHICAL ROBOT PATH GENERATION, EDITING AND SIMULATION, INTEGRATION OF VIDEO FEEDBACK FROM THE REMOTE SCENE, AND A NOVEL ROBOT PROGRAMMING SCHEME (MACRO PROGR ...

NUMERICAL METHODS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR SOLVING NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, USING THE FAMILY OF COMPACTLY SUPPORTED WAVELET FUNCTIONS THAT ARE ORTHOGONAL. BEING BOTH COMPACTLY SUPPORTED AND ORTHOGONAL, THE WAVELETS COMBINE THE ADVANTAGES OF FINITE ELEMENT, SPLINE, AND FOURIER SPECTRAL METHODS. TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF THE WAVELET METHODS, PHENOMENA THAT EXHIBIT SINGULAR BEHAVIOR ...

THIS PROJECT WILL EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF INTEGRATING THE VISOR PORTION OF A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PERSONAL VIDEO SYSTEM WITH A SIX-AXIS HEAD-TRACKING SYSTEM RECENTLY DEVELOPED FOR PERSONAL COMPUTER USE, TO PROVIDE A COST-EFFECTIVE VISOR VISION SYSTEM FOR TELEOPERATED VEHICLES. TELEOPERATION OF AIR, LAND, AND UNDERWATER VEHICLE PLATFORMS REQUIRES A HIGH LEVEL OF OPERATOR INTERACTION. MOST SYS ...

THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE AN INNOVATIVE, PROPRIETARY BURNER DESIGN FOR NITRIC OXIDES (NOX) FROM THE COMBUSTION OF FOSSIL FUELS. THE PROPOSED BURNER INCORPORATES, FOR THE FIRST TIME, TWO WELL-KNOWN METHODS OF NOX) REDUCTION IN A SINGLE DESIGN. IN PHASE I, A SCALE MODEL OF THIS BURNER WILL BE CONSTRUCTED FOR PULVERIZED COAL, AND TESTED IN AN EXISTING 3 MILLION BTU/HR COMBUSTION FACILITY. FLUE GA ...