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SAFE TREATMENT AND UTILIZATION OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SLUDGES IS A TOPIC OF SIGNIFICANT CONCERN. THERE IS DEFINITE NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TREATMENT PROCESS WHICH DOES ALL THE FOLLOWING: CONFORMS TO U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR A "PROCESS TO FURTHER REDUCE PATHOGENS" ,CREATES A PRODUCT NOT SUBJECT TO REINFECTION., PRODUCES A MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR BENEFICIAL USE., IS ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH PROPOSED IN THIS APPLICATION IS TO DEVELOP AND TEST AN INSTRUMENT FOR IN VIVO MEASUREMENT OF ERYTHROCYTE VELOCITY AND MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY FOR OXYHEMOGLOBIN SATURATION DETERMINATION. THE FIELD OF MICROCIRCULATORY RESEARCH CONTINUES TO BE DEPENDENT UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED INSTRUMENTATION FOR MEASUREMENT OF MICROVASCULAR HEMODYNAMIC VARIABLES. THE COMMERCI ...

DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED OF AN IMPROVED TYPE OF 400 HZ LINE VOLTAGE REGULATOR (LVR) THAT INHERENTLY PROVIDES LOW-DISTORTION OUTPUT VOLTAGE WITH NON-LINEAR LOADS WITH DISTORTED INPUT VOLTAGE. REGULATION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY ALTERNATELY SWITCHING AT HIGH FREQUENCY A BOOST OR A BUCKTRANSFORMER SECONDARY WINDING IN SERIES BETWEEN THE LVR INPUT AND OUTPUT. THE LVR FUNCTIONS AS A VARIABLE-RATIO TRANSFORMER ...

THIS STUDY WOULD DEFINE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART FOR THE USE OF HYDROGENOXYGEN MIXTURES FOR DIVING OPERATIONS BY COMPILING INFORMATION RELATIVE TO PAST AND CURRENT RESEARCH EFFORTS IN THE U. S. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE UTILIZED TO DEVELOP A RATIONALE FOR THE USE OF THIS MIXTURE FOR APPROXIMATE CONDITIONS AND DEFINE AREAS IN WHICH HYDROGEN-OXYGEN MIXTURES WOULD OFFER PHYSIOLOGIC ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS CONCERNED WITH EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF, AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNIQUE FOR EARLY DETECTION OF DEGRADATION AND WEAR IN LMFBR EQUIPMENT. DUE TO THE NONDETECTABILITY OF THE AGING MECHANISM VIA PRESENT SURVEILLANCE METHOD, THERE IS AN ESSENTIAL NEED TO INVESTIGATE NEW APPROACHES FOR WEAR MEASUREMENT. THE METHOD TO BE EMPLOYED HERE ...

SMALL SIZED, CONTINUOUS MONITORING PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTAL OR SAW DETECTORS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR DETECTION OF COF OF CONTRABAND DRUGS USING IMMOBILIZED ANTIBODIES. MONITORS WILL BE DESIGNED THAT ARE (1) SPECIFIC FOR ONE DRUG AND (2) GENERAL DETECTORS FOR ANY OF SEVERAL DRUGS THAT MIGHT BE PRESENT. MONITORS WILL BE DESIGNED THAT ARE SIMPLE TO USE, OF LOW COST, AND ARE BASED ON ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY ...

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PIG MUCOSAL GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS (GAGS) WILL BE SYSTEMATICALLY FRACTIONATED TO SEPARATE THE COMPONENT HEPARINS, HEPARAN SULFATES, AND DERMATAN SULFATE ACCORDING TO THEIR ANIONIC FUNCTIONALITY BY CHARGE DENSITY. THESE COMPONENT GAGS WILL ALSO BE SEPARATED USING MEMBRANE ULTRAFILTRATION INTO VARIOUS MOLECULAR WEIGHT SIZES. THE GAGS WILL BE EXTRACTED FROM THE CRUDE MUCOSAL MIXTURE OR AS ISOLATED FRACTI ...