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CURRENT STUDIES CONCENTRATE ON GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) AS A SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION TOOL. TWO GPS ANTENNAS RECEIVING THE SAME SIGNAL CAN COMPARE THEIR RELATIVE PHASES TO DETERMINE THE ANGLE BETWEEN THE TWO ANTENNAS AND THE GPS SATELLITE. BY COMPUTING THE ANGLE TO THREE OR MORE SATELLITES, THE COMPLETE INERTIAL ORIENTATION MAY BE DETERMINED. APPLYING ADVANCES IN GPS INTERFEROMETRY ...

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 ...

ALTHOUGH AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY IS FINDING WIDESPREAD USE IN MANY INDUSTRIES, THE FOOD INDUSTRY IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING TOINTRODUCE SUCH TECHNOLOGY IN PRODUCTION FACILITIES. IN PARTICULAR, THERE IS A NEED TO INCREASE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS IN A NUMBER OF AREAS INCLUDING NEW SENSORS AND MONITORING SYSTEMS, ROBOTIC TECHNIQUES, AND APPLICATIONS OF VISION SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT EVALUATION AT INTER ...

THE SUCCESSFUL GROWTH OF GAAS ON SILICON SUBSTRATES USING DOUBLE SELECTIVE LIQUID EPITAXIAL (DSLE) PROCESS HAS RECENTLY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THESE RESULTS SET THE STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTREMELY USEFUL MATERIAL--LARGE PLANAR WAFERS OF SMOOTH GAAS ON SILICON. DOUBLE SELECTIVE LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY COULD SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY LATTICE MISMATCH AND DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL EXP ...

TO ACHIEVE THE PROGRAM GOALS OF ULTIMATELY FABRICATING AND DEMONSTRATING MINIATURIZED BROADBAND, HR/VHF ANTENNAS FOR USE ON AIR FORCE VEHICLES, THE TWO CRITICAL TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM, FORESHORTENING AND BROADBANDING, HAVE BEEN STUDIED, PROTOTYPE CONCEPTS DEVELOPED, AND ENGINEERIN FEASIBILITY ASSESSED IN AN EXTENSIVE PHASE I PROGRAM UNDERTAKEN BY ASTRON. REALIZATION OF THESE CONCEPTSREQU ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BE TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A SCREEN ACCESS MANGER (SAM) UTILITY TO ASSIST VISUALLY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS IN ACCESSINGDIFFICULT TO USE OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE FOR THE IBM PC, IBM AT, AND COMPATIBLES. THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON DETERMINING A METHODOLOGY (LOGIC) FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING THE DIFFERENT NEARLY RANDOM VISUAL SCREEN FORMATS PRESENTED ...

THE OVERALL PROGRAM IS ENVISIONED TO REQUIRE THREE PHASES TOWARDS THE PRODUCTION OF A SET OF CAPABILITIES THAT WILL ALLOW REGISTRATION BETWEEN DIGITAL MULTI-SENSOR RECORDS. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROGRAM IS PROPOSED AS A STUDY IN WHICH THE ANALYSIS WILL PRODUCE REGISTRATION SCENARIOS THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE MULTI-SENSOR REGISTRATIONS. THE SCENARIOS WILL DIFFER SINCE MAP DATA IS EXPECTED TO RANGE FRO ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ABDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE REASONING ALGORITHMS THAT WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM (FCS) MAINTENANCE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND THAT WILL OVERCOME MANY OF THE LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGY. A FOCUS OF THE EFFORT WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CAPABILITY TO REASON ABOUT FSC FAULTS AT A SYSTEM LEVEL WITH UNCERTAIN INFORMATION. ...

THE PROBLEM OF SMOKING AND THE DIFFICULTY OF CESSATION ARE WELL-DOCUMENTED PHENOMENA. DESPITE LARGE NUMBERS OF SUCCESSFUL QUITTERS, APPROXIMATELY 54 MILLION ADULTS CONTINUE TO SMOKE; HOWEVER, A MAJORITY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS REPORT THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO QUIT SMOKING. ONE APPROACH THAT MAY HOLD PROMISE FOR THESE SMOKERS IS TO APPLY COMPUTERTECHNOLOGY IN A SELF-HELP FORMAT TO INDIVIDUALIZE THE TREA ...

NUMEROUS TECHNIQUES AND METHODS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BY HUMAN FACTORS (HF) RESEARCHERS FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE PROBLEMS. THE TOOLS MOST FREQUENTLY USED BY HF RESEARCHERS TODAY CAN NO LONGER BE EXPECTED TO KEEP PACE WITH THE RAPID ADVANCES IN MILITARY SYSTEMS. THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TODAY'S ADVANCED SYSTEMS REQUIRE THE HUMAN OPERATORS TO RELY MORE ...