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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ENZYMES OF INTEREST IN CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE, PARTICULALY OXIDASES AND PEROXIDASES, WOULD BE MORE USEFUL IF THEY COULD WITHSTAND HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HAD A LONGER SHELF LIFE. THERMALLY LABILE FORMS NOW AVAILABLE COULD BE SYNTHETICALLY STABILIZED BUT THIS WOULD BE EXPENSIVE. MICROORGANISMS EXISTING IN HIGH TEMPERATURE HABITATS SURVIVE SUCH CONDITIONS BECAUSE THEY PRODUCE HEAT STABLE ENZYMES. ...

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SCATTER FROM GROUND-BASED LASER PORTS (WEAPONS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, RANGE FINDERS) CAN BE LARGE ENOUGH THAT THE LASER LOCATION MAY BE DETERMINED BY DETECTORS POSITIONED WELL AWAY FROM THE BEAM. PORT SCATTER CAN BE REDUCED, BUT NOT ELIMINATED, THROUGH THE USE OF BAFFLES TO LIMIT DIRECT VIEWING OF THE LASER OPTICS. THIS DOCUMENT PROPOSES DEVELOPING A METHOD TO PREDICT THE SCATTER SIGNAL FROM LASE ...

FAILURE OF AIR CLEANER SYSTEMS IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF ENGINE FAILURE. A NEED EXISTS FOR A DETECTOR TO INDICATE WHEN PARTICLES ARE ENTERING THE ENGINE. THE PROPOSED DETECTOR PROVIDES A LOW COST SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF: 1) DESIGNING AND FABRICATING THE DETECTOR; 2) DEVELOPING AND FABRICATING THE SIGNAL PROCESSING ELECTRONICS; AND 3) EVALUATING THE DETECTOR. THE PRO ...

THERE IS A NATIONAL NEED TO CONVERT TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FROM CONTOUR MAPS TO 3D DIGITAL TO CAD OR TERRAIN MODELING DATA. MUCH LABOR IS BEING EXPENDED EACH DAY ACROSS THE NATION TO PERFORM THIS TASK USING MANUAL OR SCANNING TECHNIQUES. OUR SOLUTION, THE VECTORIZER, COMBINES SCANNING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO TRACE SELECTIVELY LINES FROM A DRAWING DIRECTLY INTO CAD FORMAT. WE PROPOSE TO DE ...