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CONVENTIONAL INTERCONNECT AND SWITCHING TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A LIMITATION IN HIGH THRUPUT PROCESSORS AND COMPUTERS. WAFER SCALE INTEGRATION IS ONE TECHNIQUE TO RESOLVE INTERCONNECT PROBLEMS. METHODS OF INTERFACING TO WAFER SCALE DEVICES WILL RESOLVE INTERCONNECT PROBLEMS. METHODS OF INTERFACING TO WAFER SCALE DEVICES WILL REQUIRE OPTICAL INTERCONNECT TECHNIQUES. IMPLEMENTING COMMUNICA ...

THE RESEARCHERS PROPOSE A PROGRAM TO FABRICATE SINGLE CRYSTAL MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES IN ALXGAL-XN, AND TO MEASURE THE ELECTRO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MATERIAL SYSTEM. THEIR PROGRAM IS SIGNIFICANT DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF USING ALXGAL-XN MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS FOR UNIQUE ELECTRO-OPTIC AND OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES OPERATING IN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND VISIBLE PARTS OF THE SPECTRUM. THEY SPECIFIC ...

REAGENTS AND REACTION PROCEDURES WILL BE DEVELOPED DURING PHASE I FOR THE COUPLING OF ANTIBODY MOLECULES TO THE ACTIVATED SURFACE OF MICROCHIP CAPACITANCE SENSORS. PROPRIETARY PHOTOAFFINITY REAGENTS WILL BE SYNTHESIZED AND COUPLED TO THE ELECTRODE SURFACE FOR SPECIFIC COVALENT BINDING OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (USING ONE OF THE TWO ANTIBODY BINDING SITES). THIS WILL LEAVE THE REMAINING STABILIZED ANT ...

RECENTLY, MUCH ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THE USE OF ILLICIT AND/OR DESIGNER DRUGS BY PEOPLE FROM ALL FACETS OF AMERICAN LIFE. ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF THE DESIGNER DRUGS ARE THE FENTANYLS WHICH ARE VERY POTENT AND VERY DIFFICULT TO DETECT IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS. THESE POTENT DRUGS ARE BEING USED BY PEOPLE FROM ALL SEGMENTS OF OUR SOCIETY INCLUDING HEALTH CARE WORKERS, MILITARY PERSONNEL, AND P ...

A PROJECT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP NEW STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR IMMOBILIZED ENZYMES USED IN BIOREACTORS. THIS TECHNIQUE, WHICH HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO SIGNIFICANTLYSTABILIZE AN ENZYME TO STORAGE AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES, WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPED AND APPLIED TO STABILIZATION OF FUNCTIONING IMMOBILIZED ENZYMES AS USED IN BIOREACTORS. THE RATIONALE IS TO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR OPTIMAL STABILI ...

DAGAN CORPORATION HAS RECENTLY DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATING PATCH CLAMP THAT USES A CAPACITOR IN THE HEADSTAGE TO SENSE CHARGE. BOTH THE NOISE AND BANDWIDTH CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS INSTRUMENT ARE SUPERIOR TO THOSE OF RESISTIVE PATCH CLAMPS. HOWEVER, PRELIMINARY STUDIES INDICATE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS ARE ADDING SIGNIFICANT NOISE TO THE SYSTEM. IN THIS STUDY, THE RESEARCHERS WILL INV ...

THIS PROJECT WILL ANALYZE AND PREPARE THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR A DIGITAL FEEDWATER CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A COMMERCIAL LIGHT WATER REACTOR POWERPLANT. THE CONTROL SYSTEM WILL FEATURE SENSOR VALIDATION AND REPLACEMENT OF FAILED SENSORS WITH SYNTHETIC VARIABLES. AN ADVANCED TECHNIQUE BASED ON PATTERN-RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS ALREADY PROVEN IN SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS WILL BE USED TO VALIDATE SENSOR INPU ...

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THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO IMPROVE PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY AND TO REDUCE THE COST OF DEVELOPING PERSISTENT DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS. THE APPROACH PROPOSED IS TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP A TOOLKIT FOR PERSISTENT DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING WHICH (1) PROVIDES LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR EXPRESSING PERSISTENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATIONS (2) SUPPLIES MECHANISMS IMPLEMENTING PERSISTENCE AND PROGRAM ...

HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNED IMAGES ARE DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH FOR SEVERAL REASONS: THEY REQUIRE LARGE AMOUNTS OF STORAGE AND BANDWIDTH; THEY ARE PRONE TO ALIASING ARTIFACTS WHEN SCALED OR ROTATED; AND OPERATORS CANNOT WORK DIRECTLY AND NATURALLY ON THE OBJECTS DEPICTED IN THE SCENE. THE RESEARCHERS PROPOSE DECOMPOSING AN IMAGE INTO "SURFACE PATCHES" WHERE EACH PATCH IS DESCRIBED BY AN ALGEBRAIC INTENS ...