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THIS PROJECT, IF SUCCESSFUL, SHOULD PROVIDE: A GENERAL MODEL AND PROCEDURE FOR USE IN DESIGNING PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS -HYDROPHONES, ACCELEROMETERS, ETC.--WHICH WOULD ENABLE THE DESIGNER OF A SENSOR TO PREDICT ITS SENSITIVITIES TO THE STIMULUS FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED, AND TO EXTRANEOUS STIMULI WHICH GENERATE INTERFERING SIGNALS; INFORMATION ON HOW THE CHOICE OF PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND MODE OF ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO ASSEMBLE AVAILABLE SOFTWARE PROGRAMS INTO AN INTELLIGENCT RDT&E MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS.

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THIS RESEARCH WILL ULTIMATELY PRODUCE AN INTERACTIVE ALGORITHM DESIGN TOOL FOR EMBEDDED MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS. DESIGNERS WILL SPECIFY ALGORITHM STRUCTURE AS A DIRECTED GRAPH OF INTERCONNECTED NODES. THE TOOL AUTOMATICALLY PARTITIONS THESE GRAPHS INTO TASKS AND THEN ASSIGNS THESE TASKS TO PROCESSORS. THESE GROUPINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS WILL OPTIMIZE ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE (I.E., THROUGHPUT AND PROCESSI ...

IT IS THE INTENT OF THIS PROJECT TO RESEARCH THE VARIOUS QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STENOGRAPHIC DEVICECAPABLE OF INSTANTLY CONVERTING THE SPOKEN WORD INTO SOME TYPE OF VISUAL "TEXT" DISPLAY THAT WOULD BENEFIT THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE HEARING IMPAIRED. THE DEVICE SHOULD BE A PORTABLE, LIGHTWEIGHT, SELF-CONTAINED UNIT THAT COULD BE EASILY MOVED FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER AND SET UP FOR ...

THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES AN APPROACH TO BRING TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY A TECHNOLOGY AND CONCEPT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT VESSELS CAPABLE OF TRANSITING THE OCEANS AT OR ABOVE 300-400 KNOTS AND INITIALLY DISPLACING 1000 TO 5000TONS. WHILE THE SPEEDS WILL REMAIN SUBSONIC, THESE VESSELS ARE NOT PHYSICALLY BOUND, AND COULD GROW TO APPROXIMATE SHIPDIMENSIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS, DEPENDING ON MISSION. ...

FATIGUE LIFE EXPENDITURE DETERMINATIONS UNDER THE SAFE PROGRAM DO NOT ACCOUNT FOR FLIGHT VARIATIONS FOR DIFFERENT MISSIONS, OR EMPLOY STATE-OF-THE-ART SEQUENCE-ACCOUNTABLE FATIGUE ANALYSES. THE PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING THE FLIGHT PURPOSE CODE DATA TO DEVELOP CORRELATIONS BETWEEN FLIGHT PURPOSE CODES, GROSS WEIGHTS, AND FLIGHT MANEUVERS SPECTRA; AND ESTABLISH A ...

RECENT ADVANCES IN THE FORMULATION AND PROCESSING OF HIGH CRITICAL TEMPERATURE (HIGH TC) SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS PRESENT THE OPPORTUNITY OF PRODUCING COMPONENTS SUCH AS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, SENSORS, SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES (SQUID), MICROWAVE GENERATORS AND DETECTORS, MICROWAVE STRIP LINES, POWER TRANSFORMERS AND MOTORS CAPABLE OF OPERATION WITH LOW POWER LOSSES AT TEMPERATUR ...

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SCIENCE AND ADHESION AND ADHESIVE BOND- ING HAVE LET TO INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN THE USE OF FOREST PRODUCTS. HOWEVER, TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF FABRICA- TION OPERATIONS AND TO EXPAND THE USE OF WOOD-BASED MATERIALINTO APPLICATIONS IN WHICH IMPROVED SHEAR AND BENDING STRENGTH INCREASE RELIABILITY AND STRUCTURAL LIFE, IT IS NECESSAY TO INCREASE THE INTERLAMINAR BOND STRENGTH ...

THE PRESENT TREND IN HUMAN/COMPUTER INTERFACES IS THE USE OF VISUAL, ICONIC MANIPULATION FOR COMPUTER CONTROL. THE APPLICATION OF A VISUAL INTERFACE CAN BE ADAPTED TO USE IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AND TESTING PROGRAM WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE IF A DIAGRAMMATIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROVIDES AS MUCH PRODUCTIVITY AND AS HIGH A QUALITY OF SOFTWARE AS TEXTUAL LANGUAGES. THE ...