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THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE ADPTATION OF THE LOOP CURRENT STEP RESPONSE METHOD INVENTED AND DEVELOPED BY THE PROJECT PARTICIPANTS FOR DETERMINING INSTALLED THERMOCOUPLE RESPONSE FOR TYPE J, K AND E THERMOCOUPLES USED IN TURBINE ENGINE TEST FACILITIES. THE METHOD INVOLVES PROCESSING DATA FROM A COOLING TRANSIENT FOLLOWING CESSATION OF JOULE AND/OR PELTIER HEATING OF THE THERMOCOUPLE. THE PROJECT WILL ...

THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE ADAPTATION AND VALIDATION OF NOISE SIGNAL ANALYSIS FOR MONITORING OF OPERABILITY OF THE PROCESSSENSORS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON DEVELOPING MICROCOMPUTER-BASED ALGORITHMS AND PROCEDURES FORCONTINUOUS, UNATTENDED MONITORING OF SENSORS AS THE PROCESS IS OPERATING. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SENSOR SYSTEM DEGRADATION AND PROCESS TRANSIENTS WILL BE PERFOR ...

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A PILOT SERIES OF THREE COMPUTER-INTERACTIVE VIDEODISK (CIVD) MODULES WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR TEACHING TOPICS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE (TM). THE CONTENT OF THE CIVD MODULES IS DETERMINED FROM THE NHLBI NATIONAL TM CURRICULUM AND INCORPORATES BOTH THE ETHICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE PRACTICE OF TM. THE AUDIOVISUAL ELEMENT OF THE CIVD PACKAGES WILL BE SUPPLEMENTED BY APPROPRIATE WRITTEN ...

THE ASSOCIATED CORPORATION PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE AN INTERRELATED THREE-PART KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM HAVING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, AN EXPERT SYSTEM ANALYZER AND A NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATOR. TECHNIQUES USING A LEXICALLY/SEMANTICALLY/FUNCTIONALLY FOCUSED DICTIONARY, PARSER, ANALYSER WHICH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF REPETITIVE LEXICAL STRINGS ARE PROPOSED FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING. INVESTIGAT ...

IN THE DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTES, ATTENTION MUST BE DIRECTED NOT ONLY TO THE PROBLEMS OF SAFE COLLECTION, TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE, BUT ALSO TO THE PROBLEM OF ISOLATING THE HAZARDOUS MATERIAL FOR A LONG TIME. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTES, WHICH NEED TO BE ISOLATED FOR MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS. UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL IS AN OPTION THAT SHOW CONSIDERABLE PROMISE IF ASSURANCES CAN ...

REQUIREMENTS FOR MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION ARE BECOMING MORE STRINGENT AS THE ROLE OF THE TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF HIGHTECHNOLOGY DEVICES BECOMES APPARENT. IN SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH, FOR INSTANCE, THERE IS A NEED FOR ULTRA-TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS IN SOLIDS BELOW THE PPBA LEVEL WITH SPATICAL RESOLUTION IN THE FEW MICRON RANGE. RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY (RIS) INVOLVES THE STEPWISE EXCITAT ...

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