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How much energy can be saved by opening a window instead of running an air conditioner? How does this affect the air quality of a home? With rising energy costs and as concern for the environment grows more widespread, the need to conserve energy resources is becoming more apparent. Although many alternative energy technologies have been introduced, these can prove to be nearly useless without the ...

The importance of fast, reliable detection of pathogens in drinking water in the United States and worldwide, is increasing rapidly due to rising populations and increasing environmental degradation, as well as the threat of terrorism. Although the technology readiness level of rapid detection methods for pathogens in water has increased dramatically in recent years, rapid, automated sample concen ...

We are utilizing the output from eye trackers to develop procedures to identify momentary lapses in alertness. The intent to deceive should be associated with the converse, momentary increases in alertness. We review literature dealing with the issue of deception as reflected in: pupil diameter, saccadic eye movements, eye blinks, minor eye movements,vergence eye movements, and conjugate oculomoto ...

We propose to run 3 experiments to refine and utilize measures of oculomotor activity and pupil diameter change to assess an individual's malicious or deceptive intent. We also propose to concurrently develop the software and determine the hardware necessary for online, real-time assessment of malintent based on prior research results and the results of the proposed experiments. In addition to ocu ...

PHASE I WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A SIMPLE, COST EFFECTIVE PROCESS FOR THE ON-SITE REGENERATION AND REACTIVATION OF SPENT CARBONS. THE SPENT CARBONS MAY CONTAIN HAZARDOUS COMPONENTS, BOTH ORGANIC AND INORGANIC. THE REGENERATION IS ACCOMPLISHED WITH AN INNOVATIVE THERMAL PROCESS WHICH PRODUCES HIGHLY REACTIVE CHEMICAL SPECIES AT HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE SURFACE OF THE CARBON MATRIX WHERE THE ...

Not Available The utilization of space is increasing as commercial, military/government, research, and academic entities discover new ways to exploit the use of this environment. With the increase in numbers of satellites and debris orbiting Earth, comes the increase in importance of protecting the safety of manned and unmanned space-based assets. This growth rate is expected to increase in the n ...

Metals in aqueous effluents are of regulatory interest due to their varied potential environmental and health effects. Monitoring such effluents typically requires sampling, digestion, and analysis by atomic absorption or inductively coupled plasma. The proposed innovation, a new form of spectrometry, will be able to quantify the metals in aqueous effluents to 100 ppb in real time. Some industries ...

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THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYING A FIXED FILM ANAEROBIC DIGESTER SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE AN ADEQUATE DEGREE OF BIOLOGICAL SLUDGE DIGESTION WITH A RETENTION TIME WHICH IS ONE ORDER OFMAGNITUDE SHORTER THAN THAT OF THE CONVENTIONAL SUSPENDED- GROWTH DIGESTER. IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THE BIOLOGICAL REACTION RATE, THE INFLUENT SLUDGE WILL BE TREATED WIT ...