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INFORMATION USE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A KEY FACTOR IN ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF THE NATION'S INDUSTRIES. THE RESEARCH PROPOSED WOULD RIGOROUSLY EVALUATE CURRENT IMPEDIMENTS TO EFFECTIVE USE, DEFINE POTENTIAL ECONOMIC VALUE OF ENHANCED USE, AND EXPLORE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPUTERIZED DECISION AIDS TO INCREASE INFORMATION EFFECTIVENESS IN DECISIONMAKING. THESE GOALS WOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR TH ...

SUPERCONDUCTING HEAVY-ION BOOSTERS ARE LIMITED IN THEIR MASS RANGE BY THE VELOCITY ACCEPTANCE OF THE RESONATORS IN THEIR FIRST SECTIONS. A NEED HAS ARISEN TO DO NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN MASS RANGES INACCESSIBLE WITH EXISTING ACCELERATING STRUCTURES. THE END PRODUCT THAT WOULD RESULT FROM THIS RESEARCH IS AN ACCELERATING RESONATOR WITH AN UPPER MASS ACCEPTANCE 50% LARGER THAN EXISTING STRUCTURES. OUR EXP ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO INCREASE THE UTILITY OF INTRACELLULAR FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS FOR CONTROL OF FERMENTATION AND CELL CULTURE BY CORRECTING ON-LINE FOR BACKGROUND FLUORESCENCE OF THE MEDIA. THIS WILL USE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EVANESCENT WAVE AT THE SURFACE OF AN OPTIC WAVE GUIDE. THE WAVE PENETRATES INTO THE LESS DENSE MEDIUM ONLY TO ABOUT THE DEPTH OF 1/3 TO 1/2 WAVE LENGTH. THE THICKNESS O ...

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THE OBJECTIVE ADDRESSED IS TO USE STOCHASTIC PROCESS METHODS TO CHARACTERIZE MOTILITY OF HUMAN SPERM AND THEREBY TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN FERTILE AND NON-FERTILE DONORS. A LANGEVIN EQUATION IS CONJECTURED AS A MODEL OF SPERM MOTILITY AFTER LOCAL PROGRESSIVITY IS SUBTRACTED DETERMINISTICALLY. DISCRETIZATION RENDERS THIS AS A STATIONARY SECOND-ORDER AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS. THE THREE PARAMETERS ARE TO ...

THE METALFORMING INDUSTRY IS ACTIVELY SEEKING METHODS TO ANALYZE THE MATERIAL FLOW DURING PRODUCTION PROCESSES. ACCURATE COMPUTER MODELLING WOULD PROVIDE AN EFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR PROCESS DESIGN. TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS HAS BEEN USED TO SUCCESSFULLY MODEL SEVERAL METALFORMING PROBLEMS, BUT IS INCAPABLE, BECAUSE OF ITS TWO-DIMENSIONAL NATURE, OF MODELLING SOME VERY IMPORTANT ...

THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE (1) TO EVALUATE A NOVEL BACILLUS HOST-VECTOR SYSTEM FOR THE CLONINGAND EXPRESSION OF GENES SPECIFYING MICROBIAL INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITIES; AND (2) TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF AN INTERGENIC CONJUGAL TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR MOBILIZING RECOMBINANT PLASMIDS BETWEEN A VARIETY OF GRAM-POSITIVE HOSTS. A DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENE FROM A PROTOTYPE STRAIN OF BACILLUS T ...

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THE RESEARCH EFFORT IS DIRECTED TOWARDS DETERMING THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF MORPHOLOGICALLY INVARIENT ELECTRODE/SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE (SPE) JUNCTIONS FOR LONGCYCLE LIFE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS. ALKALI ION CONDUCTING SPES TO BE USED IN THIS PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE THOSE BASED UPON POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE) AND THE POLYPHOSPHAZENES. NOVEL SECONDARY ELECTRODES WILL INCLUDE THE LITHIUM INTERCALATING MATE ...

TECHNICAL EFFORT IS DIRECTED TOWARDS DETERMING THE FEASIBILITY OF AN ELECTROCHEMICALLY REVERSIBLE LIQUID NEGATIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL CONSISTING OF LITHIUM DISSOLVED IN LIQUID AMMONIA TO GIVE A NOVEL SOLVATED ELECTRON SECONDARY LITHIUM ELECTRODE. CONTAINMENT OF THE ACTIVE MATERIAL FROM DIRECT CONTACT TO THE LIQUID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE IS REALIZED VIA USE OF A LITHIUM INTERCALATED ELECTRONICALLY CON ...