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AEL WILL EVALUATE VARIOUS CARNOT CYCLE HEAT ENGINES (DYNAMIC CONVERTERS) AS WELL AS ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERTERS APPLICABLE TO SMALL SUBMERSIBLES OR AUV'S OVER THE POWER RANGE OF 20 TO 50 KW, WITH SYSTEM ENDURANCES OF 2 TO 10 MWH. THE SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION OF THE ENERGY CONVERTERS, FUEL AND EXHAUST SUBSYSTEMS STARTS WITH PRECISE REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION, WHICH IS DERIVED FROM MISSION ANALYSES ...

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO USE THE MASSIVE STORAGE CAPABILITIES OF AN OPTICAL DISK TO 1) SUPPORT AN ENHANCED LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE WITH REGARD TO ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BASE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL AND 2) BROADEN DATA BASE EMPLOYMENT CAPABILITIES, INCLUDING IMPROVED RESOLUTION AND INCREASED AMOUNTS OF DISPLAYED INFORMATION. THIS OBJECTIVE WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED DURING PHASE I BY IMPLEMENTING ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BA ...

THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROGRAM WILL ANALYZE THE APPLICATION OF TWO NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ARE (1) PAYING OUT AN OPTICAL FIBER FROM THE RPV AND PROBABLY ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM A SURFACE SHIP OR SUBMARINE SO AS TO FORM A CONTINUOUS PHYSICAL BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN THE RPV AND SHIP, AND (2) USE OF MODULATABLE OPTICALRETROREFLECTOR MOUNTED ON THE RPV OR RELAY WHICH CAN BE INT ...

SURFACTANTS AND ENZYMES WHICH PLAY KEY ROLES IN THE DEGRADATION OF HEAVY HYDROCARBONS BY MICROORGANISMS WILL BE PRODUCED, PURIFIED AND CHARACTERIZED. ANAEROBIC AND AEROBIC CULTURES OF A NUMBER OF MICROORGANISMS WILL BE INVESTIGATED AS PURE AND AS MIXED CULTURES. KEY VARIABLES AND PARAMETERS AFFECTING THE PRODUCTION OF ENYMES AND SURFACTANTS OF INTEREST WILL BE IDENTIFIED.

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY METHODOLOGIES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM RADIALS AND DEPTHS FOR WHICH RANGE-DEPENDENT PROPAGATION LOSS CALCULATIONS ARE TO BE PERFORMED. THIS OBJECTIVE WILL BE ACHIEVED BY FIRST DEFINING REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS UPON WHICH TO BASE THE ANALYSIS. FOLLOWING ENVIRONMENT SELECTION, RANGE-DEPENDENT PROPLOSS MODELS WILL BE RUN USING FINE MESH POINTS IN DEPTH AND ANGLE, AND OUT ...

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COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH RESIN, METAL AND CERAMIC MATRICES ARE ASSUMING A LEADING ROLE IN AEROSPACE, AIRCRAFT, TRANSPORTATION AND MARINE STRUCTURAL DESIGN. ALTHOUGH POSSESSING HIGH STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS TO WEIGHT RATIOS, THEY DO NOT EXHIBIT DAMPING AT A LEVEL REQUIRED FOR MANY OF THESE APPLICATIONS. THE STATE-OF-THE-ART HIGH DAMPING METALLIC SYSTEMS, ON THE OTHER HAND, THOUGH EXHIBITING EXTRODINA ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL INCORPORATE THE PARAMETRIC AVALANCHE NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE INTO A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTION AND TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR USE IN AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS. THE PARAMETRIC AVALANCHE WILL PERFORM O(1) SEARCH IN ITS STORED PATTERN FEATURES TO IDENTIFY THE TARGET AND ITS MOTION EQUATIONS, AFTER WHICH IT WILL TRACK THE TARGET. A SECOND PARAMETRIC AVALANCH WILL USE THE S ...

MUCH OF THE TOTAL OPERATIONAL CYCLE EMISSION FROM AUTOMOBILES OCCURS DURING THE INITIAL MINUTES OF ENGINE OPERATION, BEFORE THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER HAS BEEN SUFFICIENTLY WARMED BY INLET AIR TO REACH FULL OPERATING TEMPERATURE. PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. (PCI) WILL DEVELOP ITS FAST THERMAL RESPONSE CATALYTIC METAL MONOLITH TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE RAPID EFFECTIVE COLD STARTING PERFORMANCE OF AUTOMOTIV ...