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THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT, HIGH ENERGY DENSITY, HIGH POWER (AND POTENTIALLY C.W.) LASER SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF PROPAGATING THROUGH BOTH AIR AND WATER COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR NEXT GENERATION TACTICAL NAVAL SYSTEMS. APPLICATIONS IN OTHER DEFENSE AREAS AS WELL AS A HOST OF COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE TYPES OF SYSTEMS. WE PROPOSE TO PROVIDE A DETAILED PLAN AND DESIGN OF SPECIFIC E ...

CERAMATEC HAS CONDUCTED EXPLORATORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON MONOLITHIC AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN THE ZRB2 AND TIB2 SYSTEMS AND HAS OBTAINED VERY ENCOURAGING RESULTS WITH SEVERAL PROPRIETARY COMPOSITIONS/CONSTRUCTIONS. THE AVERAGE STRENGTH OF A BASELINE TIB2 COMPOSITION WAS MEASURED AT 877 MPA (127.3 KSI). COMPOSITE STRUCTURESWITH DISCONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT HAD STRENGTHS IN THE RANGE 400-600 ...

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE SUCCESSFUL FABRICATION AND DENSIFICATION OF CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES FORMED BY INJECTION MOLDING. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OBJECTIVE, A DESIGNED TEST MATRIX WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT WILL SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTIGATE THE KEY INJECTION MOLDING AND DEBINDING PARAMETERS SUCH AS BINDER COMPOSITION, SOLIDS RATIO, MOLDING CONDITIONS, DEBINDING CONDITIONS ...

DEVELOPMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PROPOSES TO DEVELOP THE MAP-SCREEN, A SHORT SCREENING TEST TO DETERMINE WHICH PRESCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN ARE AT RISK FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES. THE MAP-SCREEN WILL BE DEVELOPED FROM THE RESEARCH OF THE MILLER ASSESSMENT FOR PRESCHOOLERS (MAP), A MORE COMPREHENSIVE, PREDICTIVE INSTRUMENT, AND SERVE AS A COMPANION PRODUCT TO THE MAP. THE MAP-SCREEN IS BEING PROPOSED IN DIRECT ...

THE PROPOSED WORK AIMS TO DEVELOP NOVEL, HIGH PERFORMANCE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM) MADE FROM ARRAYS OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) LIGHT VALVES. THE FLC TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL FABRICATION OF SLMS WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE EASILY ADDRESSED EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR OPTICALLY. PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE SUBMICROSECOND WRITE TIMES, HIGH OPTICAL THROUGHPUT ...

THE PROPOSED PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A 1 X 2 ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCH FOR USE WITH MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS. BY EMPLOYING LIGHT VALVES HAVING FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS AS THE ELECTRO-OPTIC MEDIUM, THE DEVICES TO BE DEVELOPED WOULD EXHIBIT SWITCHING TIMES AT OR BELOW 1 MICROSECOND. THE DEVICES WOULD BE SMALL IN SIZE, CONSUME LITTLE ELECTRICAL POWER AND WOULD COMPLETELY SWITCH UNPOLARIZED LIGHT WHIL ...

THE APPLICATION OF PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES TO BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FREQUENTLY LEADS TO SITUATIONS IN WHICH THE QUANTITATIVE TREATMENT OF CONCEPTUALLY SIMPLE MODELS IS CONFOUNDED BY THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SYSTEM. SUCH IS THE CASE, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE STUDY OF THE PERMEATION (AND POSSIBLE CONCURRENT METABOLISM) OF DRUGS THROUGH COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES, THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELING OF THE DISTRI ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF PHAE I IS TO DETERMINE BY AN ANALYTICAL STUDY THE OPTIMUM DESIGN APPROACH, OR APPROACHES, FOR SOLID-STATE ELECTRICAL FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS FOR THE CURRENT RANGE OF 15 TO 5000 AMPERES. THE ANALYTICAL TRADEOFF STUDY WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TASKS: 1) DEFINITION OF CURRENT LIMITER REQUIREMENTS, 2) DEFINITION OF TRADEOFF ANALYSIS CRITERIA, 3) DEFINITION OF CANDIDATE CURRENT LIMITER ...

AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE IS PROPOSED TO ACQUIRE AND DIGITIZE 200 SAMPLES OF DATA TO 8-BIT ACCURACY AT LNS INTER VALS EVERY 67 MS. A UNIQUE CHARGE- COUPLED DEVICE (CCD) S SAMPLES THE DATA AND TEMPORARILY STORES 200 SAMPLES AT 1 GS/S. AT SLOWER RATE, THIS SAME CCD CONVERTS THE 200 SAMPLESOF SAMPLED-ANALOG DATA TO A DIGITAL FORM COMPATIBLE WITH CONVENTIONAL MICROPROCESSORS AND DITITAL MEMORY. IT CAN A ...

A QUALITY CONTROL (QC) TEST KIT WILL BE DEVELOPED AND AND VALIDATED FOR USE IN MEASURING THE PERCENTAGE OF IMMUNOREACTIVE RADIOACTIVITY OF RADIOLABELED ANTIBODY OR ANTIBODY FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR PATIENT USE. THIS QC PRODUCT IS BEING DESIGNED FOR A MULTICENTERED CLINICAL TRIALOF COMPOUNDED, RADIOLABELED ANTIBODIES. PANELS OF CURRENTLYAVAILABLE MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES (MABS) THAT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR T ...