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Development of efficient spray combustors requires a complete understanding of fundamental phenomena that influence and control the overall spray combustion process. Toward this end, detailed experimental characterization of spray flames is essential. This includes measurement of various fuel droplet parameters such as droplet size, velocity, number density, temperature, composition, and droplet ...

The specific problem addressed by the proposed research is the development of a scanner for storage phosphor plates with significantly better positional and intensity accuracy than the current state of the art. The new scanner will be based on the use of a "scanning head" scanning approach which is more simple, accurate, and stable than the approaches previously used. This results in stable and ...

Discrete-event simulation is used by thousands of companies to design new manufacturing systems and to improve the performance of existing ones. Manufacturing systems contain numerous sources of randomness such as machine times to failure and machine repair times, which greatly impact on system performance. If each source of system randomness is not modeled by an appropriate probability distr ...

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The growing use of DNA sequence data in research, databases, dianostic and therapeutic biotechnology; and even litigation requires that the quality of data being used be objectively assessable. The proposed research addresses the following problems associated with sequence data: the inability to associate consistent, quantitative error rate estimates with sequence data; the concomitant lack of q ...

This project will complete the design and fabrication of a novel high-resolution termal microprobe, and evaluate its potential for measuring the temperature of operating microelectronic components with a temperature resolution of 0.01 C and a spatial resolution of 10 nm. Fabrication is in two major steps: formation of a prototype AFM microprobe, and the addition of a thermocouple junction to the ...

Shrimp farming is the world's most valuable aquaculture sector with 1994 production of 733,000 MT and crop value of $4 billion. This huge industry depends on wild animals with its seedstock either gathered directly from the sea or produced in hatcheries from wild-caught broodstock. Recently the industry has experienced severe disease problems which in part are due to its reliance on wild animals ...

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The development of Microsoft Windows based database software is proposed. The electronic database will contain information associated with vibrational frequency of polyatomic molecules as provided in various literatures and by Standard Reference Data (SRD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The electronic database will hold frequency of fibrational modes, the force con ...

InterNetwork, Inc. proposes, for Phase I of the SBIR, to conceptually develop, design, and produce a prototype computer-generated, multimedia presentation to be eventually published as a CD-ROM. The contents will be based on the first three issues of Reports to the Nation. The prototype will combine, where appropriate, animation, sound, music, still photographs, and video. INI will design the p ...