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EMERGING FIFTH-GENERATION EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS ARE INCREASING THE FLOW OF INFORMATION BETWEEN THE STUDENT AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY SYSTEM TO LEVELS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE. ONE GROUP OF FIFTH-GENERATION SYSTEMS, CONCEPTUALLY DESCENDED FROM GRAPHICS-BASED SIMULATORS, USES VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) TECHNOLOGY TO CAPTURE MOTOR RESPONSES AND ALTER A SIMULATED WORLD ACCORDINGLY. A SECOND GROUP, CO ...

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ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT A CURE FOR ALL EDUCATION PROBLEMS, IT IS EXPECTED THAT SCHOOLS SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHATEVER HELP TECHNOLOGY CAN PROVIDE INCLUDING COMPUTER-BASED SOLUTIONS. ACCESS TO COMPUTERS DEFINITELY HELPS STUDENTS EXCEL IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE. IT HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT DEVELOPMENT OF NEW EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BE STRONGLY SUPPORTED; HOWEVER, SUCH TECHNOLOGIES ARE TYPICALLY IMP ...

INFORMATION IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY IN TODAY'S SOCIETY AND THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION IS INCRASING AT A PHENOMENAL RATE. AS A RESULT, THE ABILITY TO STORE, ACCESS, AND TRANSMIT INFORMATION IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER IS BECOMING CRUCIAL. IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY, NEWLY-EMERGING VOICE AND IMAGE APPLICATIONS SUCH AS VOICE MAIL, TEXT-TO-VOICE SYSTEMS, VOICE-ANNOTATED RECORDS, VOICE RECOGNITION, V ...

A NEW ELECTRON SOURCE FOR HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM WELDING WHICH IS SIMPLE, YET CAPABLE OF IMPRESSIVE BEAM BRIGHTNESS AND ENERGY IN A COMPACT STRUCTURE IS BEING DEVELOPED. THE NEW DEVICE CAN ACHIEVE REDUCED SPOT SIZE, INCREASED ENERGY DENSITY, AND INCREASED RANGE OVER CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON-BEAM WELDERS. USING SPECIAL TECHNIQUES, WELDING AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURES OVER LONG DISTANCES MAY EVEN BE P ...

SUPERLATTICE BASED ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES WILL FORM THE BASIS OF A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN THE FIELD OF RF FILTERS, RF SIGNAL PROCESSING, AND RF FREQUENCY SOURCES. THIS TECHNOLOGY SHOULD MOVE THE MAXIMUM OPERATING FREQUENCY FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES WELL INTO THE MICROWAVE RANGE BY OVERCOMING THE BARRIER POSED BY THE FABRICATION DIFFICULTIES AND THE ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE LOSSES ASSOCIATED WIT ...

RESEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED BY HICHEM CORPORATION, TO DEVELOP A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR PYROLYSIS OF SCRAP TIRES. DISPOSAL OF USED TIRES IS A BIG PROBLEM IN THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY USA, SINCE MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION TIRES ARE DISCARDED EACH YEAR. MOST OF THESE TIRES ARE DISPOSED IN LANDFILLS. PYROLYSIS OF SCRAP TIRES HELPS TO RECOVER AND REUSE MOST OF THE VALUABLE CHEMICAL AVAILABLE IN TIRES. PYROLYSIS OF S ...

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LIQUID PHASE PROCESSING OF CERAMICS, GLASS, SEMICONDUCTORS, AND OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS PROVIDES A ROUTE TO PRODUCING USEFUL FORMS OF THESE MATERIALS WHICH IS OFTEN BLOCKED BY REACTION WITH CONTAINERS. THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES A NOVEL CONTAINERLESS PROCESSING METHOD FOR THESE MATERIALS. HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION AT CONTAINER SURFACES WOULD BE ELIMINATED TO ENABLE SYNTHESIS OF AMORPHOUS MATERIALS AND IM ...

UNDERSTANDING THE BEHAVIOR ON N- AND P-TYPE DOPED CUBIC BORON NITRIDE (CBN) THIN FILMS IS IMPORTANT TO THE ABILITY TO MAKE ELECTRONIC DEVICES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE THERMAL AS WELL AS ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF CBN. N- AND P-TYPE DOPED CBN ARE BEING GROWN USING ATOMIC LAYER EPITAXY (ALE) IN A MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) VACUUM CHAMBER. PREVIOUSLY RESEARCHERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE BN FILMS W ...