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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PASSIVE ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR REENTRY VEHICLE FLIGHT TEST MEASUREMENT OF HYDROMETER MASS AND NUMBER DENSITY IS PROPOSED.

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THE FERMENTATIVE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICAL FEEDSTOCKS IS AGAIN BECOMING COMPETITIVE TO PETRO-CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY. REVIVAL OF THE CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM FERMENTATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ACETONE AND BUTANOL WILL UTILIZE NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT WOULD BE TO OVERCOME THE GREATEST SHORTCOMING OF THE BUTANOL FERMENTATION, THE VERY LOW PRODUCT STREAM CONCENTR ...

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THE DOD SOFTWARE INITIATIVE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED THE CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE SYSTEMS. THEY WILL HAVE TO BE LARGER AND MORE COMPLEX, DEVELOPED AND DELIVERED MORE RAPIDLY, AND MAINTAINED OVER LONGER PERIODS. TRADITIONAL PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES, HOWEVER, APPEAR TO HAVE REACHED THEIR LIMITS, MAKING MUCH LARGER SOFTWARE SYSTEMS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN. AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH, CALLED FUNC ...

DESIGN OF EFFECTIVE MAN-MACHINE INTERFACES (MMI) IS CRITICAL TO THE OPERATIONAL EFECTIVENESS OF INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS. UNFORTUNATELY, MMI DESIGN FLAWS USUALLY ARE NOT UNCOVERED UNTIL LATE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE WHEN THEIR CORRECTION IS VERY EXPENSIVE OR IMPOSSIBLE. RAPID PROTOTYPING TOOLS HAVE BEEN USE TO ALLEVIATE THESE PROBLEMS BY ALLOWING MMI DESIGNS TO BECOME VISIBLE AND MODIFIABLE ...

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES (CTA) PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATION TO BE USED BY ENGINEERS AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON, TO DEFINE ALTERNATIVES FOR MIGRATION OF MICRO COMPUTERS INTO PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATIONS, AND TO RECOMMEND A PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTING THIS MIGRATION. ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED WILL INCLUDE THE INTEGRATION OF OFFTHE-SHELF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE AS WELL AS ...

A NEED EXISTS IN THE AREA OF HEALTH EFFECTS INSTRUMENTATION TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED SAMPLING SYSTEM THAT CAN RECORD THE DRY DEPOSITION OF FINE PARTICLES ( 2.5 ). THE RECENT SYMPOSIUM ON PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING, DRY DEPOSITION AND RESUSPENSION, PUBLISHED IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, SANTA MONICA, CA NOV-DEC '82, HAS CLEARLY ELUCIDATED THREE POINTS: (1) THE PAUCITY OF ...

CHARACTERIZING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL AEROSOL PARTICLES IN THE AEROSPACE ENVIRONMENT REQUIRED TO ALLOW PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL AND INFRARED SYSTEMS AND OPTICAL OBSCURATION COUNTERMEASURES. THERE EXISTS A NEED TO DEVELOP NEW INSTRUMENTATION WHICH CAN AUTOMATICALLY AND REMOTELY (IN-SITU) MEASURE AND RECORD THE TOTAL SCATTERING PATTERN FROM INDIVIDUAL AIRBORNE PARTICLES OF DIFFE ...