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AN ANALYTIC MODEL IS DEVELOPED FOR COMPUTING THE BLOWOFF IMPULSE DISTRIBUTION ON SMALL BODIES. CORRELATIONS ARE MADE BETWEEN MODEL PREDICTIONS AND UGT DATA. THE MODEL IS SIMILAR IN PHYSICAL BASIS, SPEED, AND SIMPLICITY TO THE BBAY FORMULATION FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL BLOWOFF IMPULSE. AN GT AND UGT EXPERIMENT TECHNIQUE IS DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY TO SUBSTANTIATE THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS AND TO PROVIDE D ...

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES PRODUCED BY HIGH-ALTITUDE NUCLEAR DETONATIONS ARE WIDESPREAD AND PERSISTENT. DATA FROM ATMOSPHERIC TESTS (LATE 50'S, EARLY 60'S) PLUS EXTENSIVE RESEARCH EFFORTS ARE THE BASIC FOR UNDERSTANDING THE NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT AND RESULTANT SYSTEMS EFFECTS. HOWEVER, ALL NUCLEAR TESTS AND MOST SUBSEQUENT BASIC RESEARCH HAVE INVOLVED ONLY SINGLE EXPLOSIONS. BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ...

Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: http://youtu.be/P74Z5oNAo4c Purpose: This project will develop and test Kiko's Thinking Time, a series of game apps designed to strengthen children's cognitive skills related to executive functioning and reasoning. A principle objective of preschool is to prepare children for later success in school. Most programs focus on activities to support childr ...

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AT PRESENT, COMPUTERS ARE AVAILABLE WITH ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF CORE STORAGE AND EXTREMELY FAST COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES AS COMPARED WITH COMPUTERS JUST A FEW YEARS OLD. IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO, EVEN MORE DRAMATIC INCREASES IN MEMORY AND COMPUTATIONAL SPEED WILL BECOME AVAILABLE. OF IMPORTANCE TO DNA/RAAE IS THE FACT THAT THESE NEW COMPUTERS WILL ALLOW THE CALCULATION OF HIGH ALTITUDE NUCLEAR WE ...

The project team is developing and testing a prototype of PiGames, intended to be a game-based formative assessment system for physics. The prototype will include a curated collection of pre-existing assessments, authoring tools to create new assessments, a dashboard with progress monitoring, and teacher implementation support. In the Phase I pilot research with 6 classrooms and 180 high school st ...

Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: http://youtu.be/AIGigEXn12Q Purpose: This project team will develop and test Zaption, a mobile and desktop platform designed to support educators in effectively and efficiently utilizing video (e.g., from YouTube, Vimeo, or their own desktop) as an interactive teaching and learning object. Personalized learning devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets) pop ...

PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ESTABLISH THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF A COMBINED COMBUSTION/VITRIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF SPENT ALUMINUM POTLININGS. RE- SEARCH RESULTS WILL BE EVALUATED AGAINST PREDETERMINED CRITERIA TO VERIFY THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF THE PROCESS. SPENT ALUMINUM POTLININGS ARE PRIMARILLY GRAPHITIZED CAR- BON AND REFRACTORY MATERIALS, CONTAINING FLUORIDE, ALUM ...

TURBO ENERGY SYSTEMS AND TIERNEY TURBINES ARE TEAMED TOGETHER TO DEVELOP A NEW GENERATION OF GAS TURBINES. THE INITIAL ENGINE WILL OPERATE WITH LOW NOX AND CO EMISSIONS WHILE BURNING NITROGEN-CONTAINING CALIFORNIA HEAVY CRUDE OILIN COGENERATION APPLICATIONS. THE TURBINE'S DESIGN IS A RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM CONVENTIONAL GAS TURBINE CONCEPTS IN THAT THE TURBINE INCORPORATES LARGE EXTERNAL COMBUSTORS ...

THE PROBLEM OF GAS DYNAMIC FLOW PROPERTY MEASUREMENT IN PARTICLE LADEN FLOWS IS ADDRESSED VIA AN ADVANCED NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATION STUDY OF PRESSURE GAUGE RESPONSE. THE APPROACH UTILIZES A HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE NUMERICAL SOLUTION TECHNIQUE FOR TURBULENT TWO-PHASE FLOWS. GAUGES OF EXISTING DESIGN SUCH AS THE GREG/SNOB GAUGES WILL BE ANALYZED OVER A RANGE OF CLEAN AND DUSTY AIRBLAST FLOW ENVIRONMENT ...