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THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY'S EFFORTS TOWARD COMPUTERIZATION OF BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS AND THE TECHNICAL DATA HAVE MADE A HUGE VOLUME OF INFORMATION MORE MANAGEABLE AND EASIER TO USE. THE DESIGN PROFESSION WOULD BENEFIT FROM A SIMILAR ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP SOME CONSISTENCY AMONG THESE SPECIFICATIONS AND THEIR LEGAL COUNTERPARTS, THE MODEL BUILDING CODES. DEVELOPMENT OF A PRELIMINARY KEY WORD INDEX/THE ...

LIKE ENERGY, MANY BUILDING MATERIALS ARE NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES. FURTHER, THEY ARE BEING CONTINUALLY DEPLETED TO SUPPORT A GROWING WORLD POPULATION. WHEN BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED TO ALLOW NEW CONSTRUCTION, MOST WRECKAGE WASTE BECOMES A DISPOSAL PROBLEM FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT. THIS DEMOLITION WASTE IS A POTENTIAL BUILDING MATERIALS RESOURCE IF PROPER REPROCESSING METHODS CAN BE INVENTED. THIS PROJECT ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF MODELING AND MODIFYING A BIVANE TO MEASURE SMALL SCALE AND VERTICAL WIND FLUCTUATIONS FOR USE IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS AND REMOTE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS IS EXAMINED. THE THEORETICAL EQUATIONS USED TO DESCRIBE THE MOTION OF THE BIVANE ARE EXAMINED AND UTILIZED IN IMPROVING THE RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS. A PROTOTYPE WILL BE TESTED IN THE WIND TUNNEL. THE INFORMATION GAINED FROM THESE TE ...

VARIOUS FORMS OF CARBON AND GRAPHITE ARE USED IN A WIDE RANGE OF IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE UNIQUE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE IN THESE MATERIALS. THESE PROPERTIES INCLUDE EXCELLENT THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, CORROSION RESISTANCE, LUBRICATION, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL CATALYSIS. MANY APPLICATIONS INVOLVE BOTH THE SURFACE AND BULK PROPERTIES OF CARBONS. IT IS BELIEVED THAT DISCON ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A BASIC MANUFACTURING PROCESS TO FABRICATE V-ZR-HF LAVES PHASE (C15) SUPERCONDUCTOR IS EXAMINED WITH SCALE-UP TO COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES. SUPERCONDUCTORS BASED UPON A V-ZR-HF SYSTEM OFFER EQUAL TO SUPERIOR PROPERTIES TO TO THE NB3SN CONDUCTORS CURRENTLY USED IN HIGH FIELD SUPER- CONDUCTING MAGNET APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY NMR SPECTROMETERS. THE SUPERIOR PROPERTIES OF THE LAVES PHASE ...

INCREASED DEMAND FOR LIVE AND PROCESSED CLAMS HAS BEEN ACCOMPAINED BY A DECREASED SUPPLY OF WILD CLAMS. THE SURF CLAM (SPISULA SOLIDISSMA) WAS UTILIZED EXTENSIVELY FOR PROCESSED CLAM PRODUCTS UNTIL OVERFISHING REDUCED THE SURF CLAM POPULATIONS AND HARVESTS. RESEARCH HAS INDICATED THAT SURF CLAMS CAN BE PRODUCED IN LAND-BASED CULTURE SYSTEMS IN ONE GROWING SEASON, FOR USE IN MARKETS CURRENTLY SUPPL ...

AN ESTIMATED 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE ARE EXPOSED TO FORMALDEHYDE IN THE WORKPLACE, AND VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE POPULATION COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE CHEMICAL BECAUSE OF ITS UBIQUITOUS PRESENCE IN POLLUTED AIR AND IN CONSUMER PRODUCTS. AN INTERIM REPORT FROM THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY INSTITUTE TOXICOLOGY STATED THAT FORMALDEHYDE WAS CARCINOGENIC TO RATS AND OSHA HAS RECOMMENDED A WORKPLACE CEILING LIMIT OF 1 ...

IN ORDER TO MEET THE ACCELERATING MARKET DEMAND FOR VLSI SEMI-CONDUCTOR MEMORY AND LOGIC CIRCUITS, IT APPEARS AS THOUGH MAGNETICALLY CONFINED PLASMAS ARE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ATTAIN ANISOTROPIC ETCHING AT A HIGH RATE. CURRENT HIGH-PRESSURE PLASMA SYSTEMS ETCH WITH A HIGH RATE BUT WITH POOR FEATURE CONFORMATION, WHILE REACTIVE ION ETCHERS ETCH ANISOTROPICALLY, BUT SLOWLY. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM USES A ...

A VERY CONSISTANT GEOPHYSICAL MODEL OF ELECTRICAL ANOMALIES OVER OIL AND GAS FIELDS HAS EMERGED FROM OVER SEVEN YEARS (1500 LINE-KILOMETERS OF COVERAGE IN OVER 30 DIFFERENT BASINS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA) OF RESEARCH. THE TYPICAL ELECTRICAL RESPONSE OBSERVED OVER A HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION IS A LOW-RESISTIVITY VERTICAL COLUMN OR PLUME WHICH EXTENDS FROM THE TRAP TO, OR VERY CLOSE TO, THE SURFACE. T ...

Sepax Technologies, Inc. has identified a new type of anoin-exchange resin which separates single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with >80% recovery yield and resolves in a single pass the chiral tubes of (6,5) well from commercial SWCNT starting materials by Chromatography. Improvement and scale up of the targeted resin production will facilitate the separation of chiral nanotubes for the academic ...