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THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A ROBOTIC SYSTEM TO FILAMENT WIND COMPLEX SHAPES WITH ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS IS EXAMINED. COMMERCIALLY AVAILABEL FILAMENT WINDING MACHINES ARE EXPENSIVE AND LIMITE-SYMMETRIC FAMILIES OF SHAPES. THEY REQUIRE THE MANDREL (WRAPPING FORM) TO ROTATE AS A MEANS OF DISPENSING THE FILAMENT. AN EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE WAY TOWIND COMPLEX SHAPES IS TO MOUNT THE FORM TO A BASE ...

THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR A PHASE I CONTRACT IN WHICH WE WILL EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A NEW CANCER TREATMENT REGIMEN IN HUMANS. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PHASE I STUDY WILL BE TO DETERMINE THE TOXICITY AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY OF THIS NEW REGIMEN IN RABBITS. THE INFORMATION DERIVED FROM THE PHASE I EXPERIMENTS IN ANIMALS WILL PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A PHASE II STUDY OF THIS REGIMEN IN HUMAN ...

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GOOD RECOVERY OF MOTOR FUNCTION FOLLOWING SEVERE DAMAGE TO THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM, PRIMARILY THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, IS DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE. THERE MAY BE A NUMBER OF REASONS WHY THE REGENERATIVE RESPONSE TO INJURY WOULD NOT LEAD TO FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY, AND A VARIETY OF METHODOLOGIES HAVE EMERGED TO MANIPULATE THE REGENERATIVE RESPONSE TO INJURY. SUCH METHODOLOGIES INCLUDE MUSCLE TRANSPLANTA ...

TISSUE CULTURE MEDIA ARE CURRENTLY SUPPLIED IN STERILE LIQUID AND NONSTERILE POWDERED FORMS. THERE IS A NEED TO DEVELOP STERILE POWDERED MEDIA. ALTHOUGH THE LIQUID FORM PROVIDES CONVENIENCE, IT HAS SEVERAL DRAWBACKS: SHORT SHELF LIFE, BATCH-TO-BATCH VARIABILITY, VULNERABILITY TO TEMPERATURE EXTREMES, CONTAINER DAMAGE AND CONTAMINATION, COSTLY REFRIGERATED STORAGE, AND HIGH UNIT PURCHASING AND TRAN ...

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INFORMATION WHICH CAN BE MEASURED BY THE ELECTRONIC WARFARE SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE TO DETERMINE IN REALTIME THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ECM TECHNIQUES AGAINS MANY ATI-SHIP CAPABLE MISSILES. MISSILE CHARACTERISTICS AND ECM TECHNIQUES WILL BE EXAMINED TO IDENTIFY THE MEASURABLES. DATA UTILIZATION SCHEMES WILL BE DEFINED AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA ESTABLISHED TO ACHIEVE THE ASSESSMENT CAPABILITY GOALS. A REFINED ...

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MANY PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE REQUIRE INDEFINITE MECHANICAL VENTILATORY ASSISTANCE TO SUSTAIN LIFE. PATIENTS TREATED AT HOME, AS WELL AS HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS, ARE RESTRICTED TO A BED-TO-CHAIR EXISTENCE BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF EXISTING MECHANICAL VENTILATORY EQUIPMENT. THE AVAILABILITY OF A SMALL WEARABLE RESPIRATOR WOULD FREE SUCH PATIENTS FOR PERIODS OF TIME FROM ATTACHMENT TO TH ...

THERE IS NEED FOR A TWO-PHASE FLOWMETER TO MEASURE MASS FLOWRATE OF EACH PHASE OF LIQUID/VAPOR FLOW IN CONDUITS FOR LAUNCH PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT. A GREAT VARIETY AND COMBINATIONS OF FLOW MEASURING DEVICES AND METHODS HAVE BEEN USED FOR TWO-PHASE FLOW, INCLUDING VIBRATORY TUBULAR TRUE MASS FLOWMETERS. SUCH FLOWMETERS AREDEFICIENT FOR MEASURING HORIZONTALLY STRATIFIED TWO-PHASE FLOW, AND EXISTING CO ...