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THERE IS A RECOGNIZED NEED, IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND IRRIGATION FARMING, TO DEVISE IMPROVED INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING PLANT AND SOIL WATER POTENTIAL. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH HAS THE OVERALL AND LONG-TERM GOAL OF CONTRIBUTING TO THE REDUCTION OF WATER USED IN IRRIGATION AND INCREASING CROP YIELDS. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE: 1) DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEPOSITING CUSTOMIZED PLASMA POLYMER MEMB ...

No simple/convenient process exists to concentrate wine without developing a burnt taste. This program develops the osmotic distillation process to concentrate wine at room temperature. Osmotic distillation enhances dewatering approximately 10-fold and in so doing makes the process economically attractive.

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) causes an economically significant, untreatable disease in young salmonid fish. A recombinant IPNV subunit vaccine (pTA1) has been developed and consists of a lysate of Escherichia coli cells that expressed IPNV VP2, NS and VP3 proteins. The Phase I research confirmed that the recombinant pTA1 vaccine was effective in laboratory scale trials and indica ...

Magneto-Thermal MRAM uses both heat and magnetic field (current)to overcome thermal instabilities of very small memory cells. Self-generated heat in the cell raises the temperature of magnetic material in the cell above the exchange ordering temperature of the magnetic material (either ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic). Magneto-Thermal MRAM is compatible with advances in photolithography down t ...

THE COAST GUARD USED VELOCITY FIELDS FROM VARIOUS OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS TO PROVIDE INPUT INTO TRAJECTORY MODELS WHICH ARE USED IN SEARCH PLANNING TO DETERMINE SEARCH AREA MOVEMENT. STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES (CALLED OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS), WHICH ARE APPLICATIONS OF THE GAUSS-MARKOV THEOREM, ARE USED BY THE OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELING COMMUNITY TO COMBINE OBSERVATION DATA WITH DYNAMICAL MODELS TO PROVIDE AC ...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTERS ARE FOSTERING PRACTICAL PRODUCTS FOR MAPPING AND SPATIAL CONTROL OF CROP PRODUCTION VARIABLES. HARVEST YIELD MAPS, FIELD POSITIONING, AND ON-THE-GO AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL RATE AND BLEN CHANGES ARE BEING OFFERED TO AMERICAN AND WESTERN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. ACCESS TO ACCURATE SPATIAL INFORMATION DERIVED FROM AERIAL INFORMATION HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED BY ...