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TELY 600,000 COULD BENEFIT FROM A UNIVERSAL WTORS DESIGNED TO BE RETROFIT TO THEIR WHEELCHAIRS. ULTIMATELY, A SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WOULD BE INCORPORATED AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE 200,000 WHEELCHAIRS PRODUCED ANNUALLY IN THE US. ACCESS TO WORLD MARKETS WILL BE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE PROPOSED CONCEPT WILL MEET OR EXCEED ANTICIPATED INTERNATIONAL WTORS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE IN-STACK TRANSMISSMETERS FOR OPACITY MEASUREMENT PRESENTLY ONLYHAVE THE CAPABILITY OF A ONE POINTDYNAMIC UPSCALE CHECK OR NO DYNAMIC UPSCALE CHECK DURING OPERATION. IN ORDER TO PERFORM NECESSARY MULTI-POINT AUDITSOF LINERARITY CHECKS, THE INSTRUMENT MUST BE REMOVED FROM SERVICE OR AT THE LEAST BE MANUALLY FITTED WITH AN EXTERNAL AUDIT DEVICE. THIS REQUIRES ACCESS TO THE INST ...

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH ARE THREE-FOLD: (1) TO DEV ELOP TECHNIQUES FOR RAPID START-UP OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS; (2) TO DEVELOP PROCEDURES FOR RAPID RECOVERY OF UPSET DIGESTERS WHICH HAVE BEEN SHOCKED BY OVERLOADING, TOXIC SUBSTANCES, OR PH DEPRESSION PROBLEMS; AND (3) TO INCREASE THE OVERALL KINETICS OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION. REACTION KINETICS MAY BE IMPROVED BY ENHANCING THE GROWTH OF METH AN ...

MILLIMETER-WAVE SYSTEMS ARE RAPIDLY EMERGING WITH NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING VARIOUS RADAR SYSTEMS AND GUIDANCE FOR SELF-CONTAINED MUNITIONS. VIABILITY OF MANY MILLIMETER-WAVE SYSTEMS RELIES HEAVILY UPON ACHIEVING THE LOWER COST AND SMALL SIZE AFFORDED BY CIRCUIT INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES. DIELECTRIC-BASED WAVEGUIDES, SUCH AS INSULAR LINE, ARE HIGHLY APPROPRIATE MEDIA FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATION BY ...

VARIOUS RADAR AND TARGET SEEKER SYSTEMS ARE BEING DEVELOPED TO OPERATE AT MILLIMETER SYSTEMS. LOW COST, HIGHLY RELIABLE FRONT END HARDWARE IS REQUIRED FOR THESE MUNITIONS. DIELECTRIC INSULAR WAVEGUIDE PLANAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR THIS PURPOSE WERE DESCRIBED INITIALLY BY EPSILON LAMBDA PERSONNEL IN 1970. SOME OF THESE RADARS ARE OF THE FM-CW TYPE, AND THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE NEED FOR DEMONSTR ...

THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A STATE-OF-THE-ART ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER CODE FOR THE DEPOLARIZATION EFFECT OF A RADOME. WE HAVE AN INNOVATIVE COMPUTATIONAL SCHEME IN PERFORMING THE PHYSICAL-OPTICS INTEGRATION OVER THE DOUBLY CURVED RADOME SURFACE THAT IS FAR SUPERIOR TO CONVENTIONAL METHODS. FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE ALREADY DONE SUBSTANTIAL PRELIMINARY WORK, AND ARE IN A POSITION TO DELIVER COMPUTER CODES ...

ICAI SYSTEMS CONTAIN CONTENT DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE AND TEACHING KNOWLEDGE. BOTH CONTENT DOMAIN AND TEACHING EXPERTS ARE NEEDED TO BUILD A COMPLETE ICAI SYSTEM. TWO SEPARATE KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION PROCESSES MUST BE PERFORMED -ONE FOR CONTENT, ONE FOR TEACHING STRATEGIES. IN THIS PROJECT, WE SYSTEMATICALLY CAPTURE AND REPRESENT THE TEACHING KNOWLEDGE IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL DIAGNOSTIC MODULE. THE TEACHING STR ...

THE PRESENT POTTING MATERIAL IN USE ON IMAGE INTENSIFIER TUBES, RTV-11 ALLOWS MOISTURE PENETRATION TO THE SURFACE OF THE TUBE ALLOWING EXCESSIVE LEAKAGE DURING HIGH HUMIDITY CONDITIONS. A TWO STAGE APPROACH IS PROPOSED INVOLVING THE APPLICATION OF A HIGH RESISTANCE, HYDROPHOBIC COATING TO THE SURFACE OF THE COMPONENTS. THE MODULE WILL THEN BE POTTED WITH A LOW MOISTURE ABSORPTION, HIGH INSULATION, ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN AUTOMATED PROBLEM SOLVING ADVISOR. THIS EXPERT SYSTEM WILL QUERY THE USER TO IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. WHEN NECESSARY, THE EXPERT SYSTEM WILL PARTITION THE PROBLEM INTO SUB-PROBLEMS. IT WILL ADVISE THE USER ABOUT THE MOST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION APPROACHES AND ALSO ...

AN NOVEL INVESTIGATION IS PROPOSED FOR THE POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE ARMY'S COMBAT VEHICLE UNITY PERISCOPE. THE NEW DESIGN COULD BE BETTER DESCRIBED AS "ALL ANGLE" INSTEAD OF A WIDE ANGLE; HOWEVER, THIS PROPOSAL USES WIDE ANGLE IN THE SENSE OF EVENTUALLY BEING ABLE TO SEE 180, 270, OR 360 DEGREES WITHOUT POTENTIAL "BLIND SPOTS" OR ABERRATIONS. THE NEW DESIGN WOULD UTILIZE COHERENT FIBEROPTICS W ...