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A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF IMPROVING DECOY PENETRATION AID (PENAID) PERFORMANCE BY SUPPLYING MEANS TO 1) ALLOW FOR DUAL CENTER OF GRAVITY (CG) LOCATION, THEREBY ENABLING INDEPENDENT FULFILLMENT OF IMPULSE BALANCING AND REENTRY STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; AND/OR 2) COUNTERACT DECOY CONING BY SENSING ITS PRESENCE, AND CORRECTING THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF THE DECOY TO ELIMINATE CONING.

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS TO EMPLOY A RECENTLY PROVEN GENERALIZATION OF HERBRAND'S THEOREM TO AUTOMATIC THEOREM PROVING (ATP). THE GENERALIZATION, WHICH WAS PROVEN BY THE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR, CHARACTERIZES PROVABILITY IN THE NORMALIZABLE FRAGMENT OF SET THEORY IN TERMS OF PROVABILITY IN PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC. THIS RESULT WILL BE APPLIED TO UTILIZE FINITE MODELS WHICH WILL PROVIDE SEMANTIC GUIDAN ...

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THE LONG RANGE SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF THIS RESEARCH ARE TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORRELATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE WITH PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) PHASES, AND TO TEST STRATEGIES FOR DESIGN OF NEW MATERIALS. THE PRACTICAL GOAL IS THE INVENTION OF NEW FLC MATERIALS WITH PROPERTIES SUITED FOR INCORPORATION INTO COMMERCIAL FLC SHUTTERS AND LARGE-AREA MATRIX DISPLAY ...

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THE NUMBER OF STABLE, INEXPENSIVE ANODE MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR THE ELECTROSYNTHESIS OF CHEMICALS IS QUITE LIMITED. A SERIES OF HIGH SURFACE AREA CARBONS AND GRAPHITES ARE PROPOSED AS NEW ANODE MATERIALS FOR A VARIETY OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES. THESE MATERIALS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE STABLE IN STRONGLY ACIDIC MEDIA AT HIGH OXIDATION POTENTIALS. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE HIGH SURFACE ELECTRODES VS. ...

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METHODS FOR RELIABLY ASSESSING THE IN-SITU STRENGTH OF WOOD MEMBERS WILL BE STUDIED USING NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION PROCEDURES INVOLVING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF STRESS-WAVE PARAMETERS. THESE PROCEDURES ARE BASED ON THE EXTENSION OF THE RESULTS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF THE STRENGTH OF WOOD UTILITY POLES AND WOOD COMPOSITE PANEL PRODUCTS. THE DEVELOPED PROCEDURES OFFER CONSI ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING AN EXTREME STABLE, SPECTRALLY NARROW (150 MEZ), HIGH REPETITION RATE (30 KHZ) TUNABLE DYE LASER OSCILLATING IN A SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE OVER THE ENTIRE RANGE OF THE DYE IS EXAMINED. THE EXTREME SHORT CAVITY (5 CM), LONGITUDINAL PUMPED GRAZING INCIDENCE DYE LASER DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED SCHEME PROVIDES MANY DISTINCT ADVANTAGES. THE SHORT CAVITY DESIGN NOT ONLY SUPPORT ...

THE INTEGRATION OF OPTICAL CAM SYSTEM PARAMETERS DIRECTLY INTO OPTICAL CAD PROGRAMS IS EXAMINED. WITH OPTICAL CAM SYSTEMS EMERGING, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT THE FAMILY OF SURFACES WHICH CAN BE PRODUCED ON THE OPTICAL CAM IN AN OPTICAL CAD PROGRAM. MATHEMATICAL MODELS WILL BE DERIVED WHICH REPRESENT THE POSSIBLE OPTICAL SURFACES IN TERMS OF A CAM SYSTEM'S OPERATING PARAMETERS. SENSIT ...