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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO PROVIDE PROTOTYPE, ACTIVELY CONTROLLED GAS BEARINGS FOR PRECISION MOVEMENT IN INSTRUMENTS AND MACHINE TOOLS. THIS WILL DRAW UPON PRELIMINARY WORK ON (1) FABRICATION, (2) DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE BEARING AND SUPPORTED MASS, (3) PIEZOELECTRIC VALVING AND PIEZOELECTRIC DISPLACEMENT OF THE BEARING SURFACE, AND (4) THE ADAPTATION OF A MICROPROCESSOR TO SER ...

THIS RESEARCH WILL ADDRESS SOME KEY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS THAT WILL NEED TO BE RESOLVED BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE AND FLEXIBLE SET OF ADA PROGRAM QUALITY ENHANCING TOOLS, THE ADA QUALITY TOOLSET (AQT). THESE TOOLS WILL SUPPORT ADA SYSTEM DEVELOPERS BY CHECKING, AND WHERE APPROPRIATE ENFORCING, A SET OF ADA PROGRAMMING STYLE GUIDELINES. SPECIFIC TOOLSETS WILL BE CONFIGU ...

THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A FIELD PORTABLE GAS-CHROMATOGRAPH/TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETER (GC/MS/MS) IS PROPOSED FOR APPLICATION TO CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING NEEDS. THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE A POWERFUL NEW TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING THAT WILL GREATLY IMPROVE THE CAPABILITY TO MONITOR AND ULTIMATELY PREDICT THE DIFFUSION, DISPERSION, INTERACTION AND IMPACTS OF AI ...

RESEARCH ON AN ALTERNATE MATERIAL, ANHYDRITE CALCIUM SULFATE, FOR USE AS CULTCH IN CONSTRUCTING SEED BEDS AND ARTIFICIAL OYSTER REEFS IS HEREIN PROPOSED. GIVEN THE FACTS THAT OYSTER PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES HAS DECLINED GREATLY SINCE 1908 AND THAT NATURAL OYSTERSHELL IS SCARCE AND EXPENSIVE, MOTIVATION FOR USE OF THIS ALTERNATE MATERIAL AS CULTCH INCLUDES ITS CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION, LOW COST ...

A NUMBER OF NEW TUNABLE, AND SOLID STATE LASERS SUCH AS TI:SAPPHIRE, EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASER, LASER DIODE PUMPEDYAG, YLF AND A HOST OF OTHER LASERS, HAVE CREATED NEW LASER CONFIGURATIONS THAT WOULD REQUIRE HIGH FREQUENCY MODE LOCKING DEVICES TO PRODUCE PICOSECOND MODE LOCKED LASER PULSES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO PROPOSE SELECTING LINBO3 AS THE MOST EFFICIENT HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTO-OPTI ...

TODAY'S COMPLEX SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT AND COMPETITIVE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT DEMAND PRECISE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING DEPENDABILITY AND QUALITY. CURRENT TOOLS ARE NOT PROVIDING THE ABILITY TO MODEL COMPLEX FAULT HANDLING SCENARIOS AND OFTEN REQUIRE SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT FAILURE RATES, REPAIR RATES, AND INITIAL STATES WHICH LEAD TO INCORRECT SOLUTIONS. ACCURATE DEPENDABILITY EVALUATIONS AR ...

MANY DIVERSE METHODS OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION HAVE BEEN USED BY AI RESEARCHERS. NONE APPEAR POWERFUL ENOUGH TO CAPTURE THE DIVERSE TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE THAT PEOPLE POSSESS NOR DO THEY APPEAR FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SCHEME THAT INTEGRATES THREE MAJOR FRAMEWORKS: SCHEMAS/FRAMES, PRODUCTION RULES AND MENTAL ...

WHEN A BUSINESSMAN OR OTHER DECISION MAKER NEEDS AN ESTIMATE (SAY, OF SALES OF A NEW INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT), AND HEHAS ACCESS TO RICH AND VARIED INFORMATION, BUT LIMITED RESOURCES HE NORMALLY MAKES HEAVY USE OF JUDGEMENT IN HIS ENQUIRY. PERSONALIST (BAYESIAN) STATISTICS PROVIDES A LOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE THE USE OF SUCH JUDGMENT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY SAMPLE OR OTHER DATA. IN PARTICULAR, IT PROD ...

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