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THE ADVENT OF ULTRAFILTRATION PROCESSES HAS ALLOWED THE CHEESE INDUSTRY TO PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY, WHEY-PROTEIN CONCENTRATES FOR USE AS FOOD INGREDIENTS. AT THE SAME TIME,HOWEVER, MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF THE WHEY VOLUME IS COLLECTED AS ESSENTIALLY UNUSABLE WHEY PERMEATE CONTAINING 5% LACTOSE AND ACCOMPANYING SALTS. ABOUT 20% BY VOLUME OF THE WHEY REMAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHEESE CURD AND IS EXPELL ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID SIMPLE METHODS FOR SEQUENCING DNA HAS LED TO A REQUIREMENT FOR THE DAY TO DAY USE OF COMPUTERSIN THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY. THE LOW COST OF MICROCOMPUTERS HAS GENERATED CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN THESE SMALL MACHINES AS THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE WAY TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT. THE PURPOSE OF THE FEASIBILITY STUDY PROPOSED HERE IS TO DEFINE THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIR ...

NATIONAL ELECTROSTATICS CORPORATION (NEC) PROPOSES TO DESIGNCRITICAL COMPONENTS, AND INVESTIGATE REQUIRED ION OPTICAL ELEMENTS FOR A 3 MEV, 2-5 AMP DC ELECTRON BEAM. SUCH A SYSTEM WOULD BE BASED ON A VERTICAL TEST PELLETRON ACCELERATOR OF THE VAN DE GRAAFF TYPE OWNED AND OPERATED BY NEC. IN THIS CONCEPT AN ELECTRON BEAM PRODUCED IN THE HIGH VOLTAGE TERMINAL OF THE PELLETRON ACCELERATOR WILL BE ACC ...

THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES A SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET SYSTEM TO SUSPEND AIRPLANE AND MISSILE MODELS IN WIND TUNNELS WITHOUT MECHANICAL STINGS. THE NEW OPPORTUNITY IS TO ACHIEVE MORE POWERFUL, MORE COMPACT, LESS EXPENSIVE, AND MORE RELIABLE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES ARE TO PREPARE AND EVALUATE SEVERAL ADVANCED CONCEPTUAL SYSTEMS BASED ON THE PRELIMINARY WORK DESCRIBED IN REPORT NASA C ...

THE IMMOBILIZATION OF PROTEINS ON INSOLUBLE SURFACES IS IMPORTANT IN DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTATION AND IN VIVO MONITOR-ING. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SURFACE ANTIBODY INTERACTIONS SHOULD RESULT IN MORE EFFICIENT APPROACHES TO IMMUNO- DIAGNOSTICS. THIS WOULD BE ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN THE FIELD OF TUMOR MARKER DETECTION WHERE PANELS OF ANTIGENS MAY BE NEEDED FOR PROPER DIAGNOSIS. THIS RESEARCH IS THE DEVELOPME ...

TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) ELECTROPHORESIS IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD KNOWN FOR RESOLVING COMPLEX MIXTURES OF PROTEINS. AT PRESENT, HOWEVER, THE METHOD IS SELDOM USED FOR QUANTITATIONOF PROTEINS IN HUMAN SERUM BECAUSE OF THREE PROBLEMS: (1) SERUM ALBUMIN INTERFERES WITH THE RESOLUTION OF MOST OTHER SERUM PROTEINS; (2) LOSSES DUE TO THE METHOD ARE NOT EASILY MONITORED; AND (3) COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR RO ...

ALMOST ALL MUNICIPAL SEWAGE COLLECTION AND TREATMENT FACILITIES HAVE WET-WEATHER FLOWS. MANAGING THE WET-WEATHER FLOWS TO MINIMIZE POLLUTION RESULTING FROM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS AND BY-PASSES NEEDS OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR VARIOUS FLOW CONDITIONS. TO DO THIS REQUIRES AN OPERATIONS MODEL OF THE SYSTEM. THE PROJECT PROPSES TO DEVELOP A SOFTWARE PACKAGE WHICH WILL BE USED TO MAKE OPERATIONS DECI ...

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FREE FATTY ACIDS AND METHYL ESTERIFIED FREE FATTY ACIDS OF SEED OIL AS ADJUVANTS FOR PESTICIDE SPRAYS WILL BE CONDUCTED. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO DEVELOP EMULSIFIER SYSTEMS FOR FREE FATTY ACIDS AND METHYL ESTERIFIED FREE FATTY ACIDS OF SEED OIL WHICH ARE COMPATIBLE WITH COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE HERBICIDES. SMALL PLOT FIELD EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED ...

THE J.P. LANGAN & ASSOCIATES, INC/SENTRY EQUIPMENT CORP. TEAM WILL DEVELOP TWO MODELING METHODS TO ENHANCE ILRT TESTING CONFIDENCE. WE INTEND TO ESTABLISH A MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTAINMENT SIZE AND THE FREQUENCY DURATION BETWEEN DISCRETEDATA POINTS FOR IDEAL AUTOMATED DATAACOLLECTION AND EVALUATION. WE WILL SUPPORT THE PROPOSED APPENDIX J BY ANALYZING 20 TYPEA AND VERIFICATION TESTS ...

A FEASABILITY STUDY IS BEING CONDUCTED TOWARD DEVELOPMENT OFA STAND-ALONE DATABASE PRODUCT FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS FEATURING LINKED ACCESS TO MULTIPLE DATABASES OF INTEREST TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS. ALL DATA AND ACCESS SOFTWARE WILL BE LOCATED ON A COMPACT DISK SO THAT NO CONNECTION TO EXTERNAL COMPUTER RESOURCES WILL BE REQUIRED. THE DATABASESENVISAGED INCLUDE GENBANK (TM), PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION R ...