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NEW MATERIALS ARE BEING DEVELOPED EVERYDAY AND ARE REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES AT AN ASTOUNDING RATE. IN RECENT YEARS, THE ROADSIDE SAFETY APPURTENANCE FIELD HAS BEEN AFFECTED AS WELL, AS NEW MATERIALS HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO PRODUCE IMPROVED DESIGNS IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS. IN RECENT YEARS PLASTICS, CERAMICS, HIGH STRENGTH FIBERS AND COMPOSITES HAVE BECOME MORE WIDELY USED IN INDUSTRY ...

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AN ANALYTIC MODEL OF A WIDE FIELD, PHASED ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED. THE MODEL IS BASED ON A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF ERROR MEASUREMENT DIRECTLY WITH RESPECT TO THE FINAL IMAGE PLANE. THE BEAMS FROM INDIVIDUAL SUBAPERTURES WILL BE COMPACTED AND CONFORMALLY MAPPED TO A DEMAGNIFIED PUPIL. WE WILL DEVELOP NONREDUNDANT, CODED APERTURE MASKS TO BE INSERTED AT THIS COMPACT PUPIL WHICH ...

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VISION AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IS BASED ON INDUCTIVE INFERENCE, WHICH IS REALIZABLE BY LARGE SCALE NEURAL NETWORKS. CONSTRUCTING FULLY PARALLEL, LARGE SCALE, NEURAL NETWORKS IS FRUSTRATED BY THE PROBLEMS OF PROVIDING FOR MASSIVE INTER-CONNECTIVITYAND FOR OVERCOMING FAN IN/OUT LIMITATIONS IN AREA-EFFICIENT VLSI/WSI REALIZATIONS. A MODULAR BUSED NEURAL RING (MBNR) ARCHITECTURE IS PROPOSED HE ...

IN SEPTEMBER 1989, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY ISSUEDA REPORT FUNDED BY CONGRESS CALLED, "THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: WHERE DO WE STAND?" ONE OF THEFINDINGS OF THE REPORT IS THAT THERE IS NO NATIONAL DATABASETHAT INCLUDES THE ROUTINE COLLECTION OF DATA REGARDING SPECIAL EDUCATION DUE PROCESS HEARINGS. SPECIAL EDUCATION DUE PROCESS HEARINGS ARE ADMINISTRATIVE-LEVEL ARBITRATI ...

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WE PROPOSED TO DEVELOP A MICROCOMPUTER BASED INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR USE BY ENGINEERS WORKING ON CREWMEMBER EJECTION AND CAR CRASH PROBLEMS. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM WILL BE AN INTERACTIVE, MENUDRIVEN SYSTEM MADE UP OF SEVERAL MODULES. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP THIS SYSTEM ON AN INTEL 80386 BASED MICROCOMPUTER. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM WILL COMPRISE OF MODULES WHICH WILL ALLOW THE ANALYST TO DEVELOP ANTH ...

THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM (NAS) PLAN AND THE CANADIAN AIRSPACE SYSTEM (CAS) PLAN CONTAIN MODERNIZATION PROJECTS AFFECTING MOST ELEMENTS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AIRSPACE SYSTEM AND HAVE POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON SYSTEM USERS. FURTHER, THE AIRSPACE SYSTEMS OF THE U.S. AND CANADA HAVE CONSIDERABLE POINTS OF INTERDEPENDENCY AND INTERRELATIONSHIP. AS BEFITED THEIR INDEPENDENT NATIONAL INTERES ...

THE U.S. AIR FORCE AND OTHER DEFENSE ELEMENTS HAVE RECOGNIZED THE NEED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF SURVIVABILITY OF CURRENT AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES IN A TACTICAL ENVIRONMENT. AS PART OF THE TRANS-CENTURY SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTOMATED TACTICAL LAUNCH AND RECOVERY SYSTEM (ATALARS) MUST INTEGRATE EMERGING AUTOMATION CAPABILITIES AND DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES IN ...