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DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN AND ITS DEMONSTRATION IN PRODUCING MODERN DATABASE FOR RV TECHNOLOGIES IS PROPOSED BY USING CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL DATA SETS COLLECTED SINCE 1985 OVER THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT AND U.S. ARMY KWAJALEIN ATOLL. THE PLAN INCLUDES THE USE OF AIRBORNE RADAR, MODELING, AND SATELLITE ADDITIONS TO THE PARTICLE SIZE DATA TO CORRELATE PARTICLE SIZE AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT OVER AN EXTEN ...

TO MEET THE KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE (KE ASAT) REQUIREMENTS FOR TIMELY AND RELIABLE KILL ASSESSMENT, AEROMET PROPOSES TO RECOMMEND INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN REAL-TIME KILL ASSESSMENT SPECTROSCOPY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ACCURATELY VERIFY SATELLITE ELIMINATION, A KILL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM MUST DISCERN BETWEEN VARIOUS HIT AND MISS PHENOMENA, INCLUDING THE USE OF POTENTIAL COUNTER ...

BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HELICOPTER FLOW FIELD, A ZONAL METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMICS IS REQUIRED. IN THIS RESEARCH, A NEW PROCEDURE FOR COUPLING POTENTIAL AND VISCOUS FLOW CALCULATION SCHEMES IS PROPOSED. AN OVER-LAPPING, VELOCITY-COUPLING TECHNIQUE IS TO BE DEVELOPED WITH THE UNIQUE FEATURE THAT THE POTENTIAL FLOW SURFACE SINGULARITY STRENGTHS ARE OBTAINED DIRECTLY FRO ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS EFFORT WILL BE A REDUCTION IN WEIGHT AND PRODUCTION COSTS, RELATING TO THE CURRENT 5.56 BRASS CASED AMMUNITION CARRIED BY THE U.S. MILITARY FORCES. IT WILL INVOLVE THE EVALUATION OF MATERIALS AND DESIGNS USED BY AMMUNITION TECHNOLOGIES INC (A.T.I.) IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE M193 PLASTIC CARTRIDGE CASE DEMONSTRATED AT FORT LEWIS WASHINGTON IN SEPTEMBER OF 1988. THESE ...

A GRID ADAPTION PROCEDURE IS PROPOSED FOR A RECENTLY DEVELOPED CLASS OF NAVIER-STOKES SOLVERS WHICH USE RELAXATION RATHER THAN APPROXIMATE FACTORIZATION TO SOLVE THE LINEAR SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS THE IMPLICIT COUPLING OF AN EXISTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES CODE AND AN EXISTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRID ADAPTION CODE. THE GRID ADAPTION USES A SPRING/DAMPER ANALO ...

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLID-STATE DIRECTION-INDICATING APPARATUS, WITH TILT-IMMUNITY, THAT PROVIDES AN AUDIBLE OR TACTILE INTERFACE WITH THE USER. REDUCED SIZE TO ALLOW ENCAPSULATION IN A TYPICAL WALKING CANE. A DEVICE WILL BE DESIGNED THAT WILL PROVIDE A VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON WITH AN INDICATION OF HORIZONTAL DIRECTION, WITH RESPECT TO THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD. THE DEVICE WILLALSO SIGNAL ...

THE LONG-TERM OBJECTIVE IS TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO UROLOGISTS AND SPECIALLY TRAINED TEAMS OF TECHNICIANS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD A SIMPLE, RELIABLE, LOW-COST MACROSURGICAL VASOVASOSTOMY SYSTEM. OFFERED IN A RESTOCKABLE KIT FORMAT, THE ARMAMENTARIUM WOULD INCLUDE A VAS LUMEN SIZING GAUGE, A SELECTION OF FLOW-THROUGH ABSORBABLE VAS STENTS, MICROSUTUTERS, AN IMPROVED VAS STABILIZING CLAMP, AND TWO SPECIAL ...

THE LONG TERM GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP AN IMAGING SYSTEM TO EVALUATE VIABILITY OF VASCULARIZED SKIN GRAFTS. TOWARDS THIS END IT IS PROPOSED TO CONSTRUCT AND EVALUATE A DIGITIZED IMAGER THAT WILL VISUALLY DISPLAY TWO PARAMETERS THAT CORRELATE WITH SKIN GRAFT VIABILITY. THE FIRST TECHNIQUE WILL MEASURE DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD VOLUME BETWEEN SYSTOLE AND DIASTOLE PHASES OF ARTERIAL CIRCULATION B ...

THE LONG-TERM GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND IMAGING TISSUE TEMPERATURE. IN PHASE I, TECHNIQUES WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT COMPUTE TEMPERATURE READINGS FROM NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) ABSORPTION BANDS OF WATER. THE EFFECT OF INTERFERENCE ON SUCH MEASUREMENTS FROM OTHER TISSUE COMPONENTS WILL BE DETERMINED. IN THE INITIAL STUDIES TO BE PERFORMED DURING PH ...

BIOMARINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., IS IN THE BUSINESS OF DEVELOPING HIGH-VALUE CHEMICALS FROM CULTURED MICROALGAE. THE PRODUCTS IN THIS PROJECT ARE THREE FORMS OF EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID (EPA), AN ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID WITH THERAPEUTIC AND PROPHYLACTIC APPLICATIONS FOR CARDIOVASCULARPATIENTS. THE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCE THESE PRODUCT FOR LESS THAN $1.00 PER G ...