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CLAB IS A COLLECTION OF FUNCTIONS FOR PERFORMING CLUSTER ANALYSIS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES. THE CLAB FUNCTIONS ARE OPERATORS EMBEDDED IN THE MLAB (MODELING LABORATORY) SYSTEM,A MODELING LANGUAGE ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH FOR USE ON DEC-10 AND DEC-20 COMPUTERS. THE MLAB SYSTEM IS WIDELY USED BY MEDICAL RESEARCHERS, SCIENTISTS, AND STATISTICIANS. MANY MLAB USERSFIND CLA ...

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Chlamydia traehomatis is a major cause of sexually transmitted disease and blindness.Development of an anti-chlamydial subunit vaccine appears feasible. Nearly all subunit vaccine studieshave used the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) as the immunogen with only modest success.The identification of alternate surface proteins to test as vaccine candidates could significantly hastenthe development ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND EVALUATE A MODULAR DIGITAL TELEMETRY SYSTEM CAPABLE OF RECORDING VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS ON 16 INDEPENDENT CHANNELS. IT WILL FULLY INTEGRATE A POWERFUL MICROPROCESSOR WITH THE MEASUREMENT FUNCTION OF A POLYGRAPH AND IS INTENDED TO REPLACE THE CUMBERSOME POLYGRAPH EQUIPMENT COMMONLY USED IN PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH TODAY. THE SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF TWO PAR ...

BUTYROLACTONES ARE NOVEL, NONTOXIC, WATER-SOLUBLE, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT COMPOSITIONS DEVELOPED BY THE THERACEL CORPORATION. THE KETOBUTYROLACTONES, WHICH ARE IMMUNOSTIMULATORY, WERE ASSESSED FOR THEIR UTILITY AS VACCINE ADJUVANTS. THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EMPLOYED IMMUNIZATION WITH COMMERCIALLY PREPARED VACCINES TO TETANUS AND INFLUENZA, AND A SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE OF HIV-1, GP-41. THEVACCINES WERE ADM ...

Currently, advanced tools for modeling injection modeling of thermoplastics and predicting formed part dimensional stability and residual stress content use the static bulk modulus of the polymer at the temperatures and pressures associated with the molding process. The short cycle times associated with injection molding, however, could be more accurately modeled if dynamic bulk modulus data were ...

THE LONG-RANGE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ESTABLISH A TRAINING CERTIFICATION SYSTEM WHEREBY OPERATORS AND STAFF OF BOARD AND CARE HOMES FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES CAN RECEIVE UNIFORM, VALIDATED FIRE SAFETY TRAINING. TWO LEVELS OF TRAINING WILLBE DEVELOPED. LEVEL I CERTIFICATION FOR OPERATORS AND STAFF WILL BE DEVELOPED, TESTED, AND EVALUATED DURING PHASE I. ...

MANY SMALL RESEARCH LABORATORIES WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE USE OF A SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM TO MONITOR THEIR TEST PROCEDURES,HANDLE THEIR TEST RESULT REPORTING, PROVIDE DIAGNOSTIC DECISION SUPPORT, MAINTAIN THEIR DATA FOR LATER RESEARCH PURPOSES, AND PERFORM ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AND BILLING FUNCTIONS. POTOMAC MEDICAL SYSTEMS HAS DEVELOPED A LABORA- TORY INFORMATION SYSTEM THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING USED ...

ALTHOUGH INVESTIGATION INTO BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS HAS INCREASED RECENTLY, MOST OF THE EFFORT HAS BEEN TOWARDS POTENTIATING THE HOST'S CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY. DATA ACCUMULATED BY OUR LABORATORIES INDICATE THAT THE METHYLFURYLBUTYROLACTONE (MFBL) CLASS OF COMPOUNDS REPRESENTS NEW SYNTHETIC IMMUNE RESPONSE MODIFIERS CAPABLE OF ACTIVATING SEVERAL COMPONENTS OF IMMUNE RESPONSE WITH NEGLIGIBLE T ...