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THE MOST CRITICAL ASPECT OF THE RADIO FREQUENCY POWER SUPPLY FOR THE NEUTRAL PARTICLE BEAM INTEGRATED EXPERIMENT IS ITS POWER TO WEIGHT RATIO. IN ADDITION, THE SPACE-QUALIFIED 45V POWER SUPPLY MUST BE ABLE TO SUPPLY 27,000 AMP PULSES DOWN TO 350 MICROSECONDS WITH ONLY A 2 - 3% VOLTAGE DROP. PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS HAVE POTENTIALLY THE HIGHEST POWER TO WEIGHT RATIO OF ANY TYPE OF FUEL C ...

THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP A FUZZY SET METHODOLOGY FOR UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. FUZZY SET LOGIC WILL BEUSED FOR COLLECTING, QUANTIFYING AND PROPAGATING SUBJECTIVE,ENGINEERING JUDGEMENT USED IN THE UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS. IN PHASE I, FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH WILL BE DEMONSTRATED BY APPLYING IT TO SELECTED PARTS OF A PROBABI ...

BASED ON OUR RESEARCH, WE FEEL THAT THE STAINING PROPERTIES OF SITS (4-ACETOAMIDO-4'-ISOTHIOCYANOSTILBENE 2,2' DISULPHONIC ACID), A REAGENT WHICH ENABLES IN SITU VISUALIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION AMONG LIVING, DYING AND DEAD CELLS, MAKE IT A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR USE IN AN APPROPRIATELY DESIGNED INSTRUMENT. WE PROPOSE AN AUTOMATED VIDEO MICROSCOPE WITH MEMORY AND POSSIBLE REMOTE VIEWING CAPABILITY. IT ...

THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROJECT WOULD ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY AND DEVELOP THE SPECIFICATIONS AND WORK PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM (PHASE II) FOR THE SELECTION AND PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF CRITICAL AEROSPACE COMPONENTS. THE SYSTEM WOULD PROVIDE A RELIABLE MATERIALS PROPERTY KNOWLEDGE BASE AND THE INFERENCE CAPABILITY TO PERMIT RAPID AND SOPHISTICATED COMPARISONS OF CANDI ...

THE OPPORTUNITY ADDRESSED HERE IS TO QUANTIFY THE UNCERTAINTY ASPECTS OF INDICATIONS & WARNING, SITUATION ASSESSMENT, AND PREDICTION, IN A UNIFORM AND CONCEPTUALLY SIMPLE, MATHEMATICAL MODEL WHICH ALSO SUPPORTS DECISION MAKING ASPECTS OF COLLECTION MANAGEMENT. THE MATHEMATICS NEATLY FIT THE CASUAL MODEL OF INTELLIGENCE RECENTLY PROPOSED BY THE CIA AND IS BASED ON A STRAIGHTFORWARD GENERALIZATION O ...

RAPID-FIRE, HIGH VELOCITY GUN SYSTEMS ARE SUBJECT TO PROBLEMS SUCH AS EXCESSIVE MUZZLE PRESSURE, BLAST, AND SECONDARY FLASH. THESE PROBLEMS OCCUR BECAUSE NEARLY SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE PROPELLANT CHEMICAL ENERGY, REMAINS IN THE GAS IN THE FORM OF THERMAL AND KINETIC ENERGY. THE AFOREMENTIONED PROBLEMS ARE A DIRECT RESULT OF THIS ABUNDANCE OF HOT, HIGH-PRESSURE GAS THAT IS RAPIDLY VENTED FROM THE BA ...

NATURAL NEURAL NETWORKS ARE STILL OUR BEST GUIDE TO THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF ADAPTIVE, INTELLIGENT COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES. DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICAL STRUCTURES THAT MAKE BRAINS WORK WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE, BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO EXTRACT NATURE'S SECRETS. THIS PROPOSAL USES THE CONCEPT OF RESONANCE AS THE MEANS TO TUNE THE PARAMETERS OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL SYSTEM (AN ...

CARBON ELECTRODES ARE AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF HIGH ENERGY DENSITY LI/SOCL(2) AND LI/SO(2)CL(2) PRIMARY BATTERY SYSTEMS. RATE CAPABILITY AND POLARIZATION BEHAVIOR OF THE ELECTRODE IS EXPECTED TO BE ENHANCED BY SPECIFIC PRETREATMENTS OF THE CARBON. FACTORS KNOWN TO INFLUENCE THE CARBON'S PERFORMANCE ARE SURFACE AREA, POROSITY AND PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTION, THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, AND WETT ...

WE PROPOSE A STUDY OF AN OPTIMAL DESIGN FOR A POWERFUL SINGLE PROCESSOR AND A PARALLEL ORGANIZATION OF SUCH PROCESSORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT OF SUPERCOMPUTER PERFORMANCE. WE PLAN TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL DESIGN OF THE LST SINGLE PROCESSOR WITH THE LARGEST POSSIBLE WORD SIZE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CURRENTLY COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE VLSI TECHNOLOGY. SIMULTANEOUSLY, WE WILL INVE ...

AN "INHALATION SCREENING DOSE COLLAR-STANCHION MONITOR" WITHEMBEDDED MINIATURE THIN-WALL GEIGER-MUELLER RADIATION DETECTORS EVALUATES THE THYROID GLAND FOR NANOCURIE ACTIVITYINVENTORY. THE PRIMARY TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE IS TO ESTABLISH THAT THE "COLLAR-STANCHION MONITOR" WILL BE CAPABLE OF DETECTING WITHIN 15 SECONDS AND WITH 2 SIGMA CONFIDENCE AN ACTIVITY INVENTORY OF 0.7 NANOCURIES OF I-131 DOSE EQ ...