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With this research, we would like to provide new materials joining methods to the DOT. This will be achieved with a pulse energy store that has already demonstrated game changing capability in welding a wide variety of metals and alloys. The process we are proposing is known as Homopolar Welding. The weld is created by a solid state fusion welding process whereby high current is passed through ...

Not Available Mastitis costs the average U. S. dairy farmer approximately $180 per cow annually in lost milk production, cost of antibiotic treatment, and discarded milk. Unfortunately, the disease is obvious only in the clinical form. Subclinical mastitis is about 15 to 40 times more prevalent and accounts for approximately 70% of all economic losses because of reduced milk yield. Many teat germi ...

PHASE II TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES The Phase I study demonstrated that ammonia gas can be venerated at high current efficiencies by the reduction of nitrogen gas to nitride ion (N) at a nickel cathode and that these ions can be oxidized, in the presence of atomic hydrogen, to form ammonia. The results also demonstrated that this method for ammonia production has the potential to reduce production costs ...

The overall objective of this Phase II project is the development, optimization and evaluation of a prototype mass spectrometer based electronic nose instrument for rapid aroma quality monitoring in brewing operations. This current project will expand on the previous Phase I feasibility study which explored the concept of integrating GC-Olfactometry, multidimensional GC, MS batch inletting and mul ...

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The primary objective of this Phase-2 study is to screen, chemically identify and quantify vitamins, minerals, simple sugars, proteins, polysaccharides (including starches, cellulosics, lignins and fibers) and muccopolysaccharides from the harvestable components (senescent, dormant and active) of BOSTx PHHiberids & Selections in support of the development of a suite of new fiber (industrial and di ...

The lateral flow (LF) or immunochromatographic (IC) test strip is a staple test format in the food safety testing arsenal. However, the sensitivity of LF assays is limited partly due to antibody affinity and partly due to the visual detection limit of colloidal gold or colored latex particles. Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) has developed hundreds of high affinity candidate DNA aptam ...

In order for America to remain competitive in the world market in agriculture production and processing it must continue to innovate and create technologies that decrease the cost of food production. If America can do so, it maintains the ability to produce high quality products. Sorting and grading is an expensive and time consuming part of agriculture production and decreasing its cost through t ...