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THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM IS TO INVESTIGATE THE USE OF COLLIMATING OPTICS WITH A TRANSITION-RADIATION SOURCE TO PRODUCE A LOW COST, LABORATORY SCALE, INTENSE, FOCUSED, SOFT X RAY SOURCE FOR SPECTROSCOPY. AS HAS BEEN SEEN FROM THE RAPID RISE IN THE USE OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION, BRIGHT, RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVEX-RAY SOURCES ARE NEEDED FOR MATERIALS STUDIES AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC AND ...

RESEARCH ON UNIQUE SOFT X-RAY WAVE-LENGTH DISPERSIVE INSTRUMENTATION IS PROPOSED TO FULFILL IMPORTANT PROCESS MONITOR NEEDS IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY. ARACOR EXPERIENCE IN DESIGNING AND SUCCESSFULLY APPLYING MULTILAYER SYNTHETIC MICROSTRUCTURES TO OBTAIN BOTH WAVE-LENGTH DISCRIMINATION AND FOCUSING OF SOFT X-RAYS IS UTILIZED AS A KEY PART OF THIS WORK. THIS PROPOSAL DETAILS HOW THE NOVEL X-RAY ...

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REUSE OF EXISTING, PROVEN SOFTWARE CAN POTENTIALLY REDUCE PROBLEM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT COSTS BY A LARGE FACTOR. TWOIMPORTANT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES CAN FACILITATE THE REUSE OF SOFTWARE: (1) SOFTWARE LIBRARY MAINTENANCE, AND (2) SOURCE-CODE TAILORING. IN THE FIRST METHOD, THE SPECIFICATION OF A SOFTWARE MODULE SERVES TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT WILL BE USEFUL FOR A GIVEN APPLICATIONS. IN THE ...

AN IMPORTANT CLASS OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS HAS THUS FAR EVADED EXTENSIVE ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN--REAL-TIME SYSTEMS. IN PARTICULAR, REAL-TIME MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES HAVE NOT BEEN DEVELOPED AS PARTOF LARGER, INTEGRATED SYSTEMS BASED ON HIGHER LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES. REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTER (RISC) ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY HAS DEMONSTRATED ITS EFFECTIVENESS AS A MEANS O ...

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A PRIMARY GOAL OF FIELD ARCHEOLOGY IS TO RECONSTRUCT ECOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND DIETARY ASPECTS OF PREHISTORIC CULTURES. TOWARD THAT END, MODERN ARCHEOLOGY HAS BORROWED TECHNICAL ADVANCES FROM SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES (SUCH AS IMMUNOLOGY) TO OBTAIN FIELD DATA WHICH IS UNAVAILABLE WITH CONVENTIONAL MEANS. IN A PRELIMINARY EFFORT CONDUCTED IN A COLLABORATION BETWEEN BABCO AND RESEA ...

THE RAPIDLY GROWING AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY IS DEDICATED TO PRODUCING FOOD FISH IN CAPTIVITY. AMONG THE MANY PROBLEMS CURRENTLY FACING THE COMMERCIAL AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY ARE DIFFICULTIES IN RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING THE SEX AND SEXUAL MATURITY OF PUTATIVE BREEDING STOCK. THIS IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AMONG MANY FISH OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. VITELLOGENIN, AN EGG ...

MARRON LOBSTER, CHERAX TENUIMANUS, A FRESHWATER LOBSTER OR CRAYFISH INDIGENOUS TO SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA, IS A PROMISING NEW SPECIES FOR UNITED STATES AQUACULTURE. IT LOOKS AND TASTES LIKE MAINE LOBSTER AND GROWS WELL AT HIGH DENSITIES IN POND CULTURE FEEDING ON DETRITAL ORGANISMS. TRAVERSE GROUP, INC. (TGI) PROPOSES TO CONDUCT PHASE I EXPERIMENTS TODETERMINE GROWTH RATE, DENSITY EFFECTS, AND REPRODU ...

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