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AN EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF A NEW METHOD OF OXIDATION - REDUCTION OF HAZARDOUS ORGANICS BY THE USE OF A SACRIFICIAL METAL IN A SPONTANEOUS PROCESS TRIGGERED BY CEMENTATION OF A NOBLE METHOD WILL BE PREFORMED. EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH MAJOR PROCESS PARAMETERS SUCH AS PH,MIXING, ATMOSPHERE, ETC. ON THE EFFICIENCY AND RATES OF OXIDATION - REDUCTION OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF HAZARDOUS ORGANICS WILL ...

THE DIAGNOSIS OF PANCREATITIS WOULD BE FACILITATED BY AN IMMUNOASSAY WITH INCREASED SPECIFICITY AND SENSITIVITY OVER THE EXISTING ASSAYS AVAILABLE TO THE CLINICIAN. THE INITIALOBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP SUCH AN ASSAY FOR ONE OF THE HUMAN PANCREATIC ENZYMES, CATIONIC TRYPSIN, WHICH IF PRESENT IN SERUM, IS INDICATIVE OF PANCREATITIS. SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL FOCUS ON THIS PROTEIN, ITS ZYM ...

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MINIATURIZATION OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS INTO INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES) HAS DRAMATICALLY AFFECTED OUR LIVES. NO WHERE IS THIS MORE APPARENT THAN THE LARGE DEPENDENCY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING HAS ON SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN AND FABRICATION. THE PRODUCTION OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT REQUIRES A FOUR STAGE PROCESS: 1) WAFER FABRICATION; 2) WAFER PROBE; 3) ASSEMBLY (PACKAGING); AND 4) FINAL T ...

MANY COMBUSTION EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING PARTICLE SIZING AND RADIATION MEASUREMENT REQUIRE AN ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE REFRACTIVE (N) AND ABSORPTION (K) INDICES OF SOOT. EVEN THOUGH SOOT IS A COMPLEX HYDROCARBON WITH A PARTICULARLY HIGH C:H MASS RATIO, VALUES FOR N AND K FOR CARBON ARE OFTENUSED AS BEING EQUIVALENT FOR SOOT. LITERATURE VALUES OF N AND K FOR SOOT AND CARBON SHOW WIDE SCATTER: 1.40

THE WORLDWIDE POTENTIAL MARKET FOR LIGAMENT AND TENDON IMPLANTS IS IN EXCESS OF 100,000 UNITS ANNUALLY. THE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE PROSTHETIC IMPLANTS ARE CLINICALLY UNSATISFACTORY AND AUTOLOGOUS GRAFTS MAY COMPROMISE THE SITE OF TISSUE ORIGIN. THE LONG TERM OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP METHODS FOR PROCUREMENT, TRANSPORTATION, PRESERVATION, AND TRANSPLANTATION OF ALLOGRAFT LIGAMENTS AND TE ...

MANY CASES OF GLAUCOMA ARE INTRACTABLE TO COMMON SURGICAL AND LASER PROCEDURES, AND THUS THEY REQUIRE CILIODESTRUCTIONTO CONTROL INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE. TRANSSCLERAL CYCLOCOAGULATION WITH A RUBY AND/OR ND:YAG LASER HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE THE MOST EFFICACIOUS CILIODESTRUCTIVE PROCEDURE. THIS TECHNIQUE HAS NOT GAINED POPULARITY BECAUSE OF PROHIBITIVE EQUIPMENT COSTS. ALSO THE CURRENTLY USED DELIVERY EQU ...

THE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION OF NEURAL PROSTHESES, ESPECIALLY THOSE FOR USE IN CORTICAL AREAS, REQUIRES THE USE OF VERY THIN AND HIGHLY EFFICIENT BIOCOMPATIBLE FIBER ELECTRODES WHICH CAN CONTINUE TO WORK RELIABLY DURING LONGTERM RESIDENCE IN THE BODY. IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF THESE ELECTRODES IS EXPECTED IF THEY CAN BE COATED WITH A HIGHLY ADHERENT LAYER OF IRIDIUM OXIDE. SUCH A COATING IS BIOCOMPATIB ...