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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 ...

WELL DESIGNED SHIPPING AND STORAGE CONTAINERS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PROVIDING PROTECTION TO WEAPONS FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME WITH VERY LITTLE MAINTENANCE REQUIRED. WHETHER OR NOT THIS DEGREE OF PROTECTION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED WITH CURRENT CONTAINER TECHNOLOGY HAS NOT BEEN CONCLUSIVELY DETERMINED. THIS PROPOSED INVESTIGATION IS TO MAKE AN IN-DEPTH EVALUATION OF THE RELIABILITY OF CURRENT CONT ...

THIS RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY AND EXAMINE THE FACTORS AFFECTING MISSILE TARGET DETECTING DEVICES WHEN PRESENTED WITH CHAFF COUNTERMEASURES. THIS RESEARCH WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO AN EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION OF PERTINENT LITERATURE AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH RECOGNIZED EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. FROM THIS RESEARCH, SEVERAL ALGORITHMS, VARYING IN COMPLEXITY, WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR PREDICTING THE ...

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 ...

WE PROPOSE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF KNOWLEDGE/GEOMETRY BASED MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SIMULATION SYSTEM BASED ON SOLID (3D GEOMETRY) MODELER FOR OBSTACLES, A COMBINED VISIBILITY FREE-SPACE FOR ROBOT KNOWLEDGE, GOAL-FINDING EXPLORATION ALGORITHMS, AND FACILITIES TO SPECIFY THESE ALGORITHMS IN TERMS OF THOSE MODELING AND REPRESENTATION SCHEMES. A SOLID MODELER FACILITATES COMPLETE REPRESENTATION O ...

ANTIMATTER CONTAINS THE HIGHEST RATIO OF ENERGY STORAGE PER UNIT MASS OF ANY SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO MAN. WHEN ANTIMATTER COMES INTO CONTACT WITH NORMAL MATTER IT COMPLETELY ANNIHILATES, WITH ITS MASS CONVERTED INTO ENERGY ACCORDING TO THE FORMULA, E=MC(2). THE ENERGY RELEASED IN THE ANNIHILATION MAY PROVE USEFUL AS A FUTURE SPACE PROPULSION. NEAR TERM APPLICATIONS OF ANTIMATTER INCLUDE MATERIAL DIAGNO ...

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 ...

TO ANALYZE THE EFFECT OF A REFRIGERANT ON THE CAPACITY OF REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF THE REFRIGERANT MUST BE KNOWN. MAINSTREAM WILL DEVELOP THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS BINARY AND TERNARY REFRIGERANT MIXTURES USING AN EQUATION OF STATE APPROPRIATE FOR REFRIGERANT MIXTURES. VARIOUS AZEOTROPIC AND NON-AZEOTROPIC MISTURES WILL BE IDENTIFIED, AND THE NECESSARY C ...