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FERTILIZED TURKEY EGGS CAN BE PRODUCED COMMERCIALLY ONLY BY ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. CURRENT PRACTICAL METHODS PERMIT HOLDING OF TURKEY SPERM FOR ONLY 6 HOURS AFTER COLLECTION. THIS ALLOWS ONLY 2 HOURS FOR POSSIBLE TRANSPORT. SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT IMPASSE REQUIRES REGULATION OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATION IN MEDIUM AROUND THE SPERM WHILE MINIMIZING PEROXIDATION OF MEMBRANE LIPIDS. WHEN ADEQUATE OXYGEN ...

COALITION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., (CTL) RESEARCH HAD IMPROVED A SIMPLE GAS PHASE TREATMENT (SULFONATION) OF WASTE RUBBER AND PLASTICS. RESULTS FROM LABORATORY SCALE EXPERIMENTS DONE AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HAVE SHOWN THAT CONCRETE MADE FROM SULFONATED RUBBER AND PLASTIC PROVIDED BY CTL HAS IMPROVED IMPACT RESISTANCE AS MEASURED BY ASTM STANDARD TESTS. IN MANY CASES, WASTE PLASTICS AND RUBBER ARE ...

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RURAL COMMUNITIES CAN INCREASE THE TOTAL VOLUME OF COMMERCE AND NUMBER OF JOBS BY SHARING IN THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY THE LOCATION MOTION FILM INDUSTRY. THIS SBIR WILL UTILIZE AN EXISTING ELECTRONIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL KNOWN AS IMAGENET TO ENABLE A COMMUNITY BASED EFFORT IN RURAL AREAS TO INVENTORY, PACKAGE, AND MARKET THEIR VISUAL ASSETS TO THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY. THE SPEC ...

A DEVICE FOR MONITORING TIME TEMPERATURE HISTORY IS PROPOSED. THE SENSING COMPONENT OF THE DEVICE, UNLIKE OTHER COMPETING SENSORS, DOES NOT REQUIRE ELECTRONIC DATA RECOVERY OR HAVE A NARROW TEMPERATURE RANGE OF OPERATION. THE SENSOR FUNCTIONS BY USE OF A PROPRIETARY CHEMICAL REACTION TO STORE DATA OPTICALLY. THE COLOR CHANGE CAN BE READ VISIBLY BY AN INDIVIDUAL FOR QUALITATIVE RESULTS AND SUBSEQUE ...

NEOGEN CORPORATION HAS DEVELOPED NUMEROUS IMMUNOASSAYS CURRENTLY IN WIDE COMMERCIAL PRACTICE TO DETECT AND QUANTIFY TOXIC RESIDUES (E.G. MYCOTOXINS, SULFONAMIDES). TECHNOLOGY IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING THE DEVELOPMENTALLY REGULATED ENZYME 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLATE (ACC) OXIDASE IN ETHYLENE BIOSYNTHESIS IN PLANTS, EXPRESSED IN CLIMACTERIC FRUITS AS THEY MATUR ...

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WHILE PRINTING PACKAGES FOR THE CONSUMER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY PRINTERS GENERATE HAZARDOUS INK WASTE IN QUANTITIES THAT QUALIFY THE INDUSTRY AS ONE OF THE NATION'S LARGEST SOURCES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE. IN FACT, SOLVENT COMPONENTS IN INK WASTE ARE AMONG 17 CHEMICALS TARGETED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) FOR MINIMIZATION. THE PROPOSED PROCESS TECHNOLOGY RECYLES INK WASTE ON-SITE VERSUS DIS ...

THE ROLE OF MODIFIERS IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION (SFE) TECHNOLOGY IS TO AUGUMENT THE SOLUBILIZING CHARACTERISTICS OF SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE FOR ACHIEVING EFFICIENT EXTRACTIONS OF TARGET ANALYTES. THIS WORK WILL SERVE TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS MODIFIERS FROM A MECHANISTIC POINT OF VIEW TO DETERMINE EXTRACTION KINETICS AND MODIFIER EFFICIENCIES. THIS WILL BE DONE WHILE INCOR ...