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INTRODUCTION: PRESENT BLOOD GAS AND ELECTROLYTE INSTRUMENTATION IS DESIGNED PRIMARILY FOR HOSPITAL USE. A FIELD UNIT MUST BE PORTABLE, TECHNICALLY EASY TO OPERATE, AND BE OPERATIONAL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING TAKEN FROMSTORAGE OR HAVING BEEN TRANSPORTED. PROJECTED OBJECTIVE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE FIELDLABORATORY FOR MEASUREMENT OF BLOOD PO2, PCO2, PH, HCO 3, K ...

THE ASSOCIATED CORPORATION PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE AN INTERRELATED THREE-PART KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM HAVING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, AN EXPERT SYSTEM ANALYZER AND A NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATOR. TECHNIQUES USING A LEXICALLY/SEMANTICALLY/FUNCTIONALLY FOCUSED DICTIONARY, PARSER, ANALYSER WHICH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF REPETITIVE LEXICAL STRINGS ARE PROPOSED FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING. INVESTIGAT ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF SHOCK OR SHEAR SENSITIVE COLLOIDAL SEPARATION BY FLOW THROUGH THIN CHANNELS IS EXAMINED. COLLOIDAL SIZE PARTICLES HAVE LOW DIFFUSIVITIES AND MAY BE FRACTIONATED BY FLOW. IN SEPARATION BY FLOW A SAMPLE IN A CARRIER IS INJECTED INTO A COLUMN WITH BOUNDARY LAYER VELOCITY GRADIENTS DEVELOPING, CAUSING PARTICLES TO EMERGE FROM THE COLUMN ACCORDING TO SIZE. THIS METHODS ADVANTAGES IS ...

AN IMPROVED GATED VIDEO CAMERA WILL BE DEVELOPED AND RUGGEDIZED TO PERMIT THE ACQUISITION OF WEAPON POINTING ERRORS ON STABILIZED VEHICLE MOUNTED WEAPON SYSTEMS IN A HIGH SHOCK AND VIBRATION FIELD ENVIRONMENT. IMPROVEMENTS OVER EXISTING GATED CAMERAS WILL BE IN THE AREAS OF PHYSICAL SIZE AND WEIGHT, SENSITIVITY, RESOLUTION, LINEARITY, AND DYNAMIC RANGE. VIDEO SIGNAL INTERFACING WILL BE COMPATABLE ...

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THE PROPOSED FEASIBILITY STUDY IS AN ANALYSIS OF TRACKS OF TRACKED VEHICLES TO EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO DAMPEN STANDING WAVES IN THE TRACKS WHICH OCCUR WHEN THE TRACKED VEHICLES OPERATE AT HIGH SPEEDS. THE STANDING WAVES ABSORB POWER AND REDUCE DRIVETRAIN EFFICIENCY. A RUGGED, INEXPENSIVE MEANS OF DAMPING THE STANDING WAVES IS DESIRED.

THE LOW COST NON-INTRUSTIVE TORQUE TRANSDUCER IS ADDED TO AN EXISTING DRIVE TRAIN. IT MEASURES DIRECTLY THE ENGINE OUTPUT TORQUE WITH SHORT RESPONSE TIME. THE ANGULAR DEFLECTION AT BOTH ENDS OF THE CRANKSHAFT IS DETECTED BY TWO NON-CONTACTING ENCODER-PICKUP COMBINATIONS. THE PHASE ANGLE BETWEEN THE PULSE TRAINS FROM THE ENCODERS IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE SHAFT DEFLECTION AND THEREFORE A MEASURE OF TH ...

ALGORITHMS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR ENHANCEMENT AND SEGMENTATION OF FLIR IMAGES, WITH A VIEW TOWARD REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS ON SEQUENCES OF IMAGES ACQUIRED AT VIDEO-FRAME RATES. THE METHODOLOGY PIONEERED BY PERSONNEL ON THIS PROJECT, USING PROBABILISTIC MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODELS AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS SUCH AS SIMULATED ANNEALING (STOCHASTIC RELAXATION WITH ANNEALING), WILL BE EXTENDED IN TWO DI ...

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