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Project objectives briefly described: i. Improve accuracy of measurement for cheating examinees by using a scoring method that takes account of the credibility of the examinee's patterm of wrong answers. ii. Provide an adjunct to on-line calibration that would assist in timing the replacement of items. iii. Identify test sites and recruiters that are associated with high rates of item compromis ...

A rang of AF activities generate wastewater containing oily substances, emulsion=stabilizing agents, and insoluble materials, including Aqueous, Film-Forming Foam (AFFF). US AF is searching for a cost effective method to handle the problem. This problem in reality refers to two issues: a) removal of oil from wastewater and b) removal of AFFF from the wastewater. The AFFF is a fire-fighting fo ...

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This project is designed to investigate an innovative remotely delivered needle-less controlled release implant to provide antimicrobial (ceftiofur) therapy to calves with bovine respiratory disease complex. Bovine respiratory disease complex is the most economically important (an economic impact of $624 million in 1992) infectious disease of calves in North American feedlots. Although antimicro ...

The International Normalized Ratio (INR) is designed to standardize the reporting of prothrombin timeasurements in patients taking warfarin. To appropriately manage patients taking anticoagulants, abe achieved between too much or too little anticoagulation, which can respectively result in bleedinVariability and bias in INR determinations leads to errors in therapeutic management. Quantitative ema ...

Our long term objective is to design and develop a prototype instrument for automated reticulocyteerythrocyte maturation determination, based on the latest technology in image cytometry, to increaseaccuracy, and reliability of bone marrow activity assessments. Evaluation of bone marrow activity habecome important in clinical and research medicine as shown by the marked increase in the number ofreq ...

We will develop a unified experimental approach to the accurate and simultaneous measurement of bonand resorption rates applicable to all animals, including man, using stable isotopes of strontium (Sformation and resorption rates is of fundamental importance to a better understanding of bone metabodisease. During Phase I, they will establish 1. that when rats undergo continuous feeding with the sm ...

We propose to design and develop a new x-ray detector system for use in underground mine imaging applications. The detector system will be designed to operate with a pencil-beam sca m ing x-ray source, and will detect the Compton interacted radiation that is scattered back toward the X-ray source. It will image horizontal views of thin layers of the underground structure. The detector we propose t ...

We offer a scanning linear x-ray tube with easy length extension, using a scanning laser to excite electron emission in lieu of a conventional cathode. The project will use the results from a current Phase I SBIR contract and from two major companies.

We offer a scanning linear x-ray tube with modular length extension, using sequentially activated multiple cathodes, each with a short linear scan range. The problem of assuring a smooth transition from one cathode to the next has been addressed, and the program will benefit from knowledge and equipment obtained in a previous contract on switched cathodes.