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A NEW MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORM METHOD FOR THE COMPRESSION OF MOTION VIDEO HAS BEEN FORMULATED BY AVELEX AND A BREADBOARD MODEL FABRICATED TO DEMONSTRATE LOW BIT-RATE MONOCHROME IMAGERY. A METHOD IS PROPOSED FOR OBTAINING COLOR MOTION VIDEO BY A NOVEL MEANS WITH A RATHER SMALL INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF DATA REQUIRED TO BE TRANSMITTED. THE BENEFIT OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY IS TO PROVIDE STABLE MOTION IMA ...

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TWO GENERAL APPROACHES TO FLAT WINDING ARE DISCUSSED. IN ONE METHOD, THE WINDING SEQUENCE BEGINS BY WINDING THE FIRST LAYER ON A SPIRAL PATTERN INSIDE TO OUT, THEN WINDING THE NEXT LAYER OUTSIDE TO IN. IN ANOTHER METHOD, TWO SUCCESSIVE LAYERS ARE WOUND BY METERING OUT A PREDETERMINED LENGTH SUFFICIENT FOR A WINDING OUT FROM THE CORE AND BACK, HOLDING METERED FIBER ON AN AUXILIARY SPOOL, WINDING FR ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PROGRAM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERIOR SEA WATER BATTERIES INCORPORATING RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED AMORPHOUS PALLADIUM-SILICON CATHODES AND RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED CRYSTALLINE ALUMINUM ALLOY ANODES. THE SEA WATERBATTERY PERFORMANCE WILL BE EVALUATED AND THE CORROSION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANODE WILL BE CORRELATED WITH THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND ALLOY COMPOSITION OF THE ANODE MATERIAL. ...

WITH THE DOD HGCDTE AND GAAS PROGRAMS MOVING TOWARD EPITAXIAL GROWTH TECHNOLOGY THERE IS A NEED TO DEVELOP REAL-TIME MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES OF BOTH SUBSTRATES AND/OR EPITAXIAL FILMS QUICKLY FOR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS. REAL-TIME X-RAY TOPOGRAPHY OF WHICH BRIMROSE IS A PIONEER IS ONE METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING THESE MATERIALS INSTANTLY BEFORE COSTLY PROCESSING IS PERFORMED ON POOR MATE ...

NOAA AVHRR DATA HAS PROVIDED USEFUL QUALITATIVE INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY APPLICATIONS. QUANTITATIVE APPLICATIONS OF AVHRR ARE HOWEVER IN THEIR INFANCY. STUDIES BY EARTHSAT PERSONNEL HAVE SHOWN THAT FOR ONE YEAR IN ONE LOCATION CORN YIELD CAN BE QUANTITATIVELY RELATED TO AVHRR VEGETATION INDEX COUNT VALUES. THE PROPOSED STUDIES WILL EXAMINE FURTHER QUANTITATIVE APPLICATIONS OF AVHRR ...

THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF PASSIVE FIBER OPTIC SENSOR SYSTEMS ALLOWS FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ABILITY TO DEVELOP ALL-DIELECTRIC HYDROPHONE ARRAYS. THESE FIBER OPTIC SENSOR SYSTEMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR BEING EXTREMELY LOW IN COST SO THAT THEY MAY IN MANY INSTANCES BE CONSIDERED DISPOSABLE. THE PROPOSED TECHNICAL APPROACH COMBINES LOW COST COMPONENTS TO CREATE A PASSIVE OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR SYST ...

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC MATERIALS WILL BE TESTED FOR THEIR PROCESSABILITY IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING. THE MATERIALS TO BE TESTED INCLUDE POLYPHENYLENE, POLYPHTHALOCYANINES, POLYACRYLONITRILES, TETRATHIAFULVENE HALIDES, AND POLYSILASTYRENE. THESE MATERIALS, WHEN PROPERLY DOPED, HAVE GOOD ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES AS WELL AS MAINTAINING EXCELLENT THERMAL STABILITY OF 400 DEG C. RATHER THAN D ...

BOVINE PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE A (RNASE A) IS A MODEL SYSTEMFOR ESTABLISHING RULES THAT GOVERN PROTEIN STABILITY AND FOLDING. BY LEARNING AND APPLYING THESE RULES, MORE ROBUST ENZYMES OF VARIOUS TYPES COULD BE DESIGNED FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. SYNTHESIS, CLONING AND EXPRESSION IN BACILLUSSUBTILIS OF A GENE ENCODING RNASE A WILL ALLOW FOR THE ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF VARIANT PROTEINS WHICH ARE ...