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NEW MATERIALS ARE BEING DEVELOPED EVERYDAY AND ARE REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES AT AN ASTOUNDING RATE. IN RECENT YEARS, THE ROADSIDE SAFETY APPURTENANCE FIELD HAS BEEN AFFECTED AS WELL, AS NEW MATERIALS HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO PRODUCE IMPROVED DESIGNS IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS. IN RECENT YEARS PLASTICS, CERAMICS, HIGH STRENGTH FIBERS AND COMPOSITES HAVE BECOME MORE WIDELY USED IN INDUSTRY ...

IN THIS PROPOSAL, WE WOULD LIKE TO CONSTRUCT AN AUTOMATIC HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK PRINCIPLES. A PRELIMINARY STUDY HAS RESULTED IN A MODEL SYSTEM THAT COULD RECOGNIZE HANDWRITTEN ENGLISH ALPHABET AND ARABIC NUMERALS IN A TENTH OF A SECOND ON A 386 MICRO-COMPUTER WITH AVERAGE ACCURACY OVER 95% IN AN OFF-LINE WRITER INDEPENDENT MODE. THE GENERALIZATION IS SO G ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED CAD SYSTEM FOR THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AEROSPACE MEMBERS. THE SYSTEM WILL ALLOW COMPLEX ASSEMBLIES TO BE SYNTHESIZED FROM STANDARD PARTS LIBRARIES IN A "TINKERTOY" ASSEMBLY FASHION. THE SYSTEM WILL BE ABLE TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE THE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF MAJOR STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLIES FROM THE DESIGN PART DEFINITION ...

TWO MAJOR IMPEDIMENTS TO THE EFFECTIVE USE OF ROBOTICS ARE 1) THE DIFFICULTY IN DEVELOPING ROBUST, ADAPTIVE, GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR BASED ON SENSORY INTERACTIVE CONTROL AND 2) THE DIFFICULTY IN REPROGRAMMING A ROBOTIC SYSTEM TO CARRY OUT NEW TASKS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS WORK IS TO DEVELOP A HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEM MERGING TRAINABLE NEURAL NETWORK MODULES WITH A WELL-STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE BASED CONTRO ...

DYNAMICS MODELING IS IMPORTANT FOR THE DESIGN, ANALYSIS, SIMULATION, AND CONTROL OF ROBOTIC AND OTHER COMPUTER CONTROLLED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. THE FORMULATION OF A MODEL AND THE REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED ON THE COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMSDIFFER FROM ONE APPLICATION TO THE OTHER. TODAY, ACCURATE MODELING CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY HAVING A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICS OF THE SYSTEM IN ADDITION TO PERF ...

THE GOAL OF THIS PHASE I RESEARCH IS TO DESIGN, SYNTHESIZE, DEVELOP, AND EVALUATE THE IN VITRO EFFICACY OF A NEW CLASS OF POLYMERIC "TARGETED" PRODRUGS OF AZT. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO CREATE NEW ANTI-AIDS PRODRUGS THAT WILL POSSESS MARKEDLY ENHANCED ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY, LOW TOXICITY, TARGET ACCESSIBILITY, AND SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE. THE PHASE I PLAN IS BASED ON THE PROMISING IN ...

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE IS TO PROVIDE A NEW DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM AND TO ENHANCE THE SOLUBILITY OF EXISTING COMPOUNDS THAT EXHIBIT EXCELLENT ANTITUMOR PROPERTIES BUT ARE INSOLUBLE IN WATER. AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR I.V. ADMINISTRATION OF ANTITUMOR DRUGS. PHASE I RESEARCH WILL SOLUBILIZE DIAMMINEPLATINUMHYDROXYMALONATE AND (TRANS-1,2-DIAMINOCYCLOHEXANE) PLATINUMHYDROXYMALONATE COMPLEXES BY ...

AEL WILL EVALUATE VARIOUS CARNOT CYCLE HEAT ENGINES (DYNAMIC CONVERTERS) AS WELL AS ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERTERS APPLICABLE TO SMALL SUBMERSIBLES OR AUV'S OVER THE POWER RANGE OF 20 TO 50 KW, WITH SYSTEM ENDURANCES OF 2 TO 10 MWH. THE SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION OF THE ENERGY CONVERTERS, FUEL AND EXHAUST SUBSYSTEMS STARTS WITH PRECISE REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION, WHICH IS DERIVED FROM MISSION ANALYSES ...

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