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SOLID BORON HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A POTENTIAL HIGH VOLUMETRIC DENSITY PROPELLANT FOR VOLUME LIMITED ROCKET AND AIR BREATHING PROPULSION SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, ACHIEVING THIS POTENTIAL HAS BEEN DIFFICULT DUE TO LOW COMBUSTION AND HEAT RELEASE EFFICIENCIES IN CONVENTIONALLY DESIGNED COMBUSTORS. A THREE PHASE MODEL OF BORON ASSISTED COMBUSTION IS POSTULATED AND THE ROLE THAT KINETIC SENSITIVITY ANAL ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS TO INITIALLY CHARACTERIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF A NEW CLASS OF CALCIUM CELLSWHICH USE AN ORGANIC CATHOLYTE. BASED ON INITIAL DATA, THISCLASS OF CELLS WILL HAVE THE ENERGY AND POWER DENSITIES OF BOBBIN-TYPE LI/SOC12 CELLS. THE MAJOR ADVANTAGES OF THIS NEW CLASS OF CELLS ARE ITS HIGH PERFORMANCE LEVEL, THE NON-CORROSIVE NATURE OF ITS CATHOLYTE, THE LOW COST OF I ...

Precision timekeeping is an essential enabling tool for all modern navigation, digital data transmission and telecommunications networks. In particular; rapid direct acquisition of the GPS Y-code in the presence of deliberate jamming is important for a wide variety of weapon systems. Legacy atomic clock solutions are too large and consume too much power to be routinely integrated into stressful ...

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In this program, Busek Co. Inc and Stanford University will develop and demonstrate a multi-mode high power plasma gun that can be used for both space propulsion and as a counter-measure against space debris or potentially hostile spacecraft. Investigations of this Coaxial High Energy (CHENG) thruster in the 1980's showed that it can damage a target. Because it is efficient over a wide range of ...

GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING IS LIMITED BY THE POOR SEEING CONDITIONS THAT RESULT FROM ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE IN THE VIEWING PATH. MULTIPLE-MIRROR AND SEGMENTED-MIRROR TELESCOPES REQUIRE ACTIVE OPTICAL WAVEFRONT CONTROL TO OBTAIN THE MAXIMAL RESOLVING POWER AVAILABLE FROM THEIR SYNTHETIC APERTURES. UNFORTUNATELY, TRADITIONAL ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS HAVE DEMONSTRATED POOR SCALABILITY TO LARGE ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Compact Soft X-Ray Microbeam Facility for Small Laboratories: Radiation due natural and manmade sources is ubiquitous; research into its effects -- both harmful and beneficial -- is a major component of the mission of the NIH and related health agencies. Radiobiological microbeams are facilities able to deliver precise radiation insults to individual cells ( ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes development of the ASI-MV-CAT, a Computerized Adaptive Testing edition of Inflexxion's popular Addiction Severity Index-Multimedia Version.net (ASI- MV.net). Despite its substantial commercial success, the current version of the ASI-MV.net does not meet all the assessment and treatment needs of administrators, researchers, and clinicia ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over half of laryngectomy patients use an electrolarynx (EL) to communicate, but current EL devices produce speech that has poor quality ("non-human sounding") and reduced intelligibility. The acoustic deficits in EL speech inhibit the ability of laryngectomy patients to communicate, thus reducing their functional capability and quality of life. The long-term g ...

Acrolein (CH2 = CHCHO) is a toxic unsaturated aldehyde that has been classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a hazardous air pollutant (HAP) because of its adverse health effect, particularly on respiratory systems. There are both anthropogenic and natural sources of acrolein in the environment. Acrolein is produced by combustion sources (e.g., vehicle exhaust, prescribed a ...