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APPLIED GENETICS LABORATORIES, INC. PROPOSES TO UTILIZE NEWLY DEVELOPED MOLECULAR GENETIC TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE THE SPECTRUM OF MUTAGENIC EVENTS THAT OCCUR AT THE TK AND HPRT LOCI IN MOUSE L5178Y CELLS. THE PURPOSE OF THESE STUDIES ISTO DETERMINE IF THE SPECTRUM OF GENETIC ABNORMALITIES REGISTERED AT THESE LOCI IS A FUNCTION OF THE HETEROZYGOUS/HOMOZYGOUS NATURE OF THE GENE LOCI INVOLVED, AND TO C ...

CONCERN ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT ON A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT IS CAUSING HEARING EVALUATION TO BECOME A ROUTINE PART OF PEDIATRIC CARE. WHILE THE COMMERCIAL MARKET HAS FOCUSED ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT, BEHAVIORAL PROCEDURES WHICH MAY BE MORE APPROPRIATELY USED WITH OLDER INFANTS AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN LARGELY IGNORED. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PRO ...

LASER RADAR (LADAR) IMAGING HAS BEEN POSTULATED AS PROVIDING DATA SIGNIFICANT TO ROBOTIC VISION. WE PROPOSE TOADD DOPPLER VELOCITY MEASUREMENT TO EXISTING 3D AND INTENSITY IMAGING AND AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMABLE SCANNER/SIGNAL PROCESSOR CONCEPT, USING LONG RANGE CO2 LASERHETERODYNE IMPLEMENTATION. A DUAL FOV SCANNER APPROACH WILLBE INVESTIGATED TO ALLOW SIMULATNEOUS WIDE FOV BODY TRACKINGAND NARRO ...

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 ...

THIS RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY AND EXAMINE THE FACTORS AFFECTING MISSILE TARGET DETECTING DEVICES WHEN PRESENTED WITH CHAFF COUNTERMEASURES. THIS RESEARCH WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO AN EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION OF PERTINENT LITERATURE AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH RECOGNIZED EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. FROM THIS RESEARCH, SEVERAL ALGORITHMS, VARYING IN COMPLEXITY, WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR PREDICTING THE ...

BECAUSE OF THE RAPIDLY INCREASING USE OF IN SITU DNA SEQUENCE MAPPING TO MITOTIC CHROMOSOMES, A CENTER SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED TO DEVELOP THE MOST EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES AND TO AUTOMATE THE PROCEDURE. SUCH A CENTER WOULD MAKE AVAILABLE TO LABORATORIES INVOLVED IN THE CLONING OF DNA SEQUENCES THEABILITY TO EFFICIENTLY MAP TH SEQUENCES TO MAMMALIAN CHROMOSOMES. DNA SEQUENCING BY IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION WO ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE NEED TO PROVIDE AN AUTOMATIC BEST SOURCE SELECTION OR BEST DATA ESTIMATE FOR UP TO SIX SPACE-DIVERSIFIED SOURCES OF TELEMETRY DATA. AN AUTOMATED BEST SOURCE SELECTOR IS PROPOSED WHICH MEETS THE REQUIREMENT WITH THREE OUTPUT MODES; A BEST SOURCE SELECTION, A BEST ESTIMATE VIA MAJORITY VOTING, AND COMBINED MODE WHICH AUTOMATICALLY OUTPUTS THE BEST SOURCE WHEN AT LEAST ONE ...

IT IS DESIRABLE TO HAVE A MTHOD FOR EFFICIENT, COST EFFEC- TIVE, AND SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF PB(II), AG(I), CD(II) AND HG(II) FROM POTABLE WATER TO LEVELS WELL BELOW THEIR EPA LIMITS. SUCH A METHOD COULD BE USED BY BOTH MUNICIPAL WATER WASTE TREATMENT PLALNTS. THE INTERACTION OF THE MACROCYCLE TETRAAZA-18CROWN WITH THE METALS OF INTEREST IS OF SUFFI- CIENT STRENGTH AND SELECTIVITY TO REMOVE THE ME ...

UTAH CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES OF TAR SANDS WHICH, IF DEVELOPED, COULD BECOME AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE NATION'S REQUIREMENTS FOR PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. THE ECONOMICSFOR PRODUCTION OF SYNCRUDE FROM UTAH TAR SANDS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN JUST BEYOND THE RANGE OF PROFITABILITY. PRODUCTION OF ASPHALT, HOWEVER, APPEARS TO BE PROFITABLE TODAY. CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS FOR PRODUCTION OF ASPHALT ...