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A COMPUTER-BASED MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM (MCS) PROGRAMMED WITH A NUMBER OF NEURAL NETWORKS IS PROPOSED FOR OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF AN EXISTING SEMI-CLOSED TANK SYSTEM FOR INTENSIVE AQUACULTURAL PRODUCTION OF SESSILE MARINE INVERTEBRATES FOR THEIR HIGH-VALUED METABOLITES FOR NEW MARINE PHARMACEUTICALS. THE AQUACULTURE SYSTEM WILL BE TESTED FOR CULTURE OF THE COLONIAL BRYOZOAN BUGULA NERITINA T ...

SILICON PHOTODIODES WITH STABLE, THEORETICALLY PREDICTABLE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY IN THE XUV SPECTRAL RANGE HAVE BEEN RECENTLY DEVELOPED BY RAJ KORDE AND SCIENTISTS AT NIST. SCIENTISTS AT BESSY AND PTB IN GERMANY HAVE INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMED THAT THE CALCULATED QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF THESE XUV SILICON DIODES CAN BE USED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT RESPONSIVITY SCALE IN THE XUV SPECTRAL RANG ...

WE HAVE RECENTLY DEVELOPED SILICON P-N JUNCTION PHOTODIODES WITH STABLE, THEORETICALLY PREDICTABLE QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES (QE) IN THE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET TO SOFT X-RAY (XUV) SPECTRAL REGION. ALTHOUGH, THE XUV PHOTODIODES ARE STABLE OVER MOST OF THE SOFT X-RAY SPECTRAL RANGE, THEIR QE WAS FOUND TO DEGRADE BY A PERCENT AFTER EXPOSURE TO 10(14)/CM(2) FLUENCE OF 120 NM PHOTONS. THE QE DEGRADATION HAS BEE ...

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DESIGN AND BUILD A SYSTEM FOR FISHERY AND MARINE MAMMAL STOCK PREDICTION USING NONLINEAR SPATIO-TEMPORAL NEURAL NETWORK THEORY. WHILE THE CENTRAL ENGINE OF THE SYSTEM MAKES USE OFNONLINEAR NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PREDICTION, SEVERAL PERIPHERAL MODULES INCORPORATED IN THE DESIGN ASSIST THE USER IN EMPLOYING THE PREDICTOR FOR VARIOUS APPLICATIONS. IN PARTICUL ...

THE FUNDAMENTAL GOAL FOR THIS RESEARCH EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DYNAMICAL PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH EAST COAST COLD SEASON SEVERE CONVECTIVE EVENTS AND TO NUMERICALLY SIMULATE THESE EVENTS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE HIGHER QUALITY OBJECTIVE GUIDANCE TO THE FORECASTER. THE PHASE I OBJECTIVE IS TO SHOW THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A MESO-B SCALE DYNAMICAL MODEL TO ASSIST IN THE REAL- ...

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DATA INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS PLACE A BURDEN ON EXISTING DATABASE SYSTEMS. ESPECIALLY ACUTE ARE THE REQUIREMENTS PLACED BY APPLICATIONS THAT REQUIRE DATABASE SEMANTICS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF EXISTING ENVIRONMENTS. WORK IN OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE TECHNIQUES PROMISES TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THESE PROBLEMS. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXTENSIBLE DATABASE ENVIRONMENTS WILL SUPPORT THE INTEGRATION OF OBJECTAPPROAC ...

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