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THE USE OF DERIVATIZED POLYSTYRENE RESINS FOR ABSORPTION AND CHEMICAL NEUTRALIZATION OF CHEMICAL AGENTS IS PROPOSED. DERIVATIZED RESINS WILL BE SYNTHESIZED AND EVALUATED FOR THEIR ABILITY TO BOTH ABSORB AND TO CHEMICALLY NEUTRALIZE TOXIC CHEMICAL AGENTS SUCH AS SULFUR MUSTARDS AND ORGANOFLUOROPHOSPHATES. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT USE OF SUCH DERIVATIZED RESINS WILL YIELD IMPROVED DECONTAMINATION OF S ...

BECAUSE OF ITS COMPLEXITY, THE STUDY OF THE NATION'S NATURALGAS SELF- SUFFICIENCY REQUIRES A REGIONAL APPROACH. BEFORE SELF-SUFFICIENCY CAN BE EMPIRICALLY ANALYZED, IT IS NECESSARY TO DELINEATE THE REGIONAL FACTORS INVOLVED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL FOR NATURAL GAS SELF-SUFFICIENCY ON A NATIONAL LEVEL THROUGH STATE AND REGIONAL SUCCESSES. THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS T ...

PERSONNEL WORKING IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS OR WEARING BALLISTIC AND/OR NUCLEAR/BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL (NBC) PROTECTIVE CLOTHING ARE SUBJECT TO THE HAZARDS OF OVERHEATING. THESE HAZARDS INCLUDE PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT, DECREASED PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ABILITIES, DEHYDRATION, AND EVENTUALLY DEATH FROM HEAT STRESS. THE NUMBER OF PERSONNEL VULNERABLE TO THESE HAZARDS IS ALREADY QUITE LARGE AND IS STEADILY INCREA ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this proposal is to develop efficient sensitivity analysis methods based on adjoint techniques for multi-disciplinary time-dependent problems. The approach is based on the discrete adjoint, which will be derived and implemented on a software component basis, with the various multidisciplinary software components being linked together through a Python interface, thus pre ...

ABSTRACT: This Phase I SBIR will produce a concept, and algorithms, for a Sensor Suite which can be used as a research tool to characterize strong atmospheric turbulence. Previous and on-going theories, statistics, and empirical data will be evaluated to arrive at an optimal Sensor design concept. That Sensor may exploit the superior resolution and performance inherent in the Radio-Hydro-Physi ...

Accelerators used for nuclear-physics research require megawatts of radio-frequency energy. They currently employ vacuum-tube power amplifiers or conventional solid-state amplifiers that are inefficient and therefore consume a great deal of prime power. Many other applications including semiconductor processing, cellular-telephone base station transmitters and military communication systems simila ...

Accelerators used for nuclear-physics research require megawatts of radio-frequency energy. They currently employ vacuum-tube power amplifiers or conventional solid-state amplifiers that areinefficient and therefore consume a great deal of prime power. Many other applications including semiconductor processing, cellular-telephone base station transmitters and military communication systems similar ...

Conventional indoor environmental monitoring technologies are expensive, cumbersome to install and maintain, and do not provide the distributed granularity required to capture the necessary details for efficient energy management of commercial buildings. Developments in wireless sensor networks (WSN) provide substantial framework for monitoring and addressing indoor environments at scale. However ...