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IN THE MANUFACTURING OPERATION OF MACHINING, IMPROVED COMPONENTS FOR MACHINE TOOLS IN ULTRA-HIGH SPEED MACHINING HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY ANDREDUCE COST. THE ABILITY TO INCREASE SPEED AS WELL AS METAL REMOVAL RATE RESULTS IN SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN PRODUCTIVITY AS WELL AS A COST REDUCTION IN MANUFACTURING. A COMPOSITE CUTTING TOOL INSERT OF SIC WHISKERS REINFORCED A ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP THE APPLICATION OF STATE-OF-THE-ART CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD) IMAGE DETECTORSTO THE PROBLEM OF THE AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF DNA-SEQUENCING GELS. SUCCESS OF THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN COMMERCIALIZATION OF AN INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF READING, INTERPRETING, AND STORING DNA SEQUENCE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM AN AUTORADIOGRAM OF A DNA-SEQUENCING GEL. SUCH AN INSTRUMENT WILL STREN ...

MILLIONS OF ACRES OF UNMANAGED PRIVATE NON-INDUSTRIAL FORESTLAND ACROSS THE RURAL SOUTH PRESENT AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPOR- TUNITY TO CREATE NEW BUSINESSES AND JOBS. MOST PRESENT FORESTRY CONTRACTORS WHO PROVIDE SERVICES SUCH AS TIMBER HARVESTING AND SITE PREPARATION OPERATE WITH EQUIPMENT TOO LARGE AND INEFFICIENT FOR LANDOWNERS. TO ASSIST LANDOWNERS IN BEGINNING INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT, ADDITIONAL NEW ...

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THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION OF A NOVEL SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE (STM) FOR ROUTINE SURFACE MICROTOPOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS. THIS PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT IS DESIGNED TO COVER AN EXTENSIVE MAGNIFICATION RANGE FROM 2500X TO 10(8)X. SINCE THE ENTIRE STM UNIT IS SMALL ENOUGH TO BE MOUNTED ON A6-IN CONFLAT FLANGE, IT CAN BE READILY INSTALLED ONTO ANY UL ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A HOMOGENEOUS, LIPOSOME-BASED IMMUNOASSAY FOR ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY (ANA) DISEASES. IN THE PHASE I STUDIES, WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE APPROACH FOR ONLY ONE ANA DISEASE, I.E., THE MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE. THE MAJOR NUCLEAR ANTIGEN U1-RNP, FOR THIS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE HAS BEEN CLONED IN BACTERIA WITH A PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY. WE WILL INCORPORATE THE CLONE ...

ALUMINUM HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN NEUROLOGICAL AND AGING DISORDERS, INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DIALYSIS DEMENTIA. PREVIOUS TRACE ANALYSIS STUDIES WERE SUBJECT TO INTERFERENCES AND CONTAMINATION, AND LACKED ELEMENTAL SPECIFICITY, SENSITIVITY, AND ISOTOPIC INFORMATION. RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY (RIS), WHICH UTILIZES LASER ATOM COUNTING TECHNIQUES, OFFERS THE POTENTIAL TO OVERCOME THESE ...

TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (TII) PROPOSES A PROGRAM TO DESIGN, TEST, AND MANUFACTURE A MINE AND EXPLOSIVES DETECTION CAPABILITY EMPLOYING X-RAYS (MINEDECX), UTILIZING MULTIPLE-ENERGY BACKSCATTER IMAGING. THE MINEDECX IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE A PRECISE MEANS OF DETECTING BURIED ANTI-VEHICULAR AND ANTI-PERSONNEL LAND MINES. THE MAIN GOALS INCLUDE, DESIGN AND EVENTUAL FABRICATION OF A MINE D ...

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A PORTABLE PHOTOMETER IS PROPOSED CONSISTING OF A DEVICE WHICH IS PLACED OVER THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL LENS. AN INTERNAL OPTICAL SYSTEM ALLOWS MEASUREMENT OF THE SIGNAL CANDLEPOWER AT VARIOUS ANGLES OF INTEREST. THE INSTRUMENT ELECTRONICS AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODES PROVIDE A PASS/FAIL INDICATION FOREACH MEASUREMENT ANGLE, WITH THE GO/NO-GO SET POINT BEING AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED TO DIFFERENT CANDLEPOWER V ...