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TAC PROPOSES TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF DETECTION AND LOCALIZING OIL DRUM SIZE OBJECTS ON/IN THE BOTTOM OF SURF ZONES. THE APPROACH IS TO ANALYZE THE PERFORMANCE PROBABILITIES AND DESIGN FEASIBILITY OF LOW FREQUENCY (20 TO 500 HZ) ACTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC DESIGNS IN A TOWABLE, SUBMERGED HYDROFOIL CONFIGURATION. DETECTION SYSTEMS WOULD BE SUPPLEMENTED FOR LOCALIZATION BY EITHER NAVIGATIONAL FIX METH ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP NEW ANALYTIC METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING MINE WARFARE EFFECTIVENESS. IT WILL USE A COMBINATION OF A PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF SEQUENTIAL CHOICE OUTCOMES AND UNCERTAINTY IN SEQUENTIAL OUTCOMES. THE APPROACH WILL BE TO DEVELOP A SEQUENTIAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE FOR INDIVIDUAL MINE FIELDS WHICH FULLY CHARACTERIZES SYSTEM PERFORMANCE LINKED TO OBJ ...

ANTI-IDIOTYPIC MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (AIMA) THERAPY HAS CURATIVE POTENTIAL FOR LOW-GRADE B-CELL LYMPHOMAS THROUGH IMMUNOLOGIC DOWN REGULATION OF THE MALIGNANT IDIOTYPIC CLONE AS WELL AS ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY. PRODUCTION OF AIMA IS PATIENT-SPECIFIC AND LABOR INTENSIVE REQUIRING A MEDIAN OF 912 MONTHS UTILIZING THE CLASSICAL MURINE MYELOMA $ HUMAN B-CELL HYBRIDOMA APPROACH. THE ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING POLYIMIDE PRECURSORS WHICH CANBE DIRECTLY IMAGED BY ELECTRON-BEAMS WILL BE INVESTIGATED. THESE DIELECTRICS WILL HAVE ALL OF THE ADVANTAGES OF POLYIMIDES, AND SAVE PROCESS STEPS BECAUSE THEY WILL BE DIRECTLY IMAGABLE. INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESS TESTS WHICH INCLUDE THICKNESS AND UNIFORMITY OF COATINGS, ADHESION TESTS, AND THERMAL STABILITY WILL BE PERFORMED. THE SENSITI ...

THIS PROJECT IS A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF POLYMERIC PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ON NEAT RESIN MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. THE POLYMER CHOSEN FOR THIS STUDY IS A POLYIMIDE SULFONE FORMED FROM BENZOPHENONE TETRACARBOXYLIC HIANHYDRIDE (BTDA) AND 3,3'-DIAMINODIPHENYLSULFONE (DDS). DURING PHASE I, SAMPLES OF POLYIMIDE SULFONE OF DIFFERENT MOLECULAR WEIGHTS, PURITIES, AND CURING SCHEDULES WILL BE SYNTHESIZED. THE SA ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO INVESTIGATE, BY A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS THE DESIGN OF A STORAGE AND CONTROL MECHANISM CALLED A RULING. IS A MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT WHICH LENDS ITSELD TO IMPLEMENTATION ON A CONVENTIONAL COMPUTER. IT IS AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH PERMITS LEARNING IN A REAL-TIME, UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENT, WITH CONTROL BASED ON PAST AND PRESENT LEARNED EXPERIENCE. IN A TYPICAL ENVIRONMENT, A RULING CNSUMING 10 T ...

GOLD BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC. IS STUDYING A NEW METHOD FOR GENERATING FULL-LENGTH CDNA. THIS METHOD SHOULD BE SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT AND THUS ALLOW CLONING OF BOTH RARE AND ABUNDANT MRNA. THIS METHOD IMPROVES UPON OTHER PROCEDURES IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS: (1) NO S1 NUCLEASE IS REQUIRED FOR CLONING CDNA INTO THE VECTOR, AND (2) TAILING OF CDNA IS UNNECESSARY FOR BOTH INSERTION OF THE CDNA INTO THE VECTOR AN ...

A STUDY IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A COMPUTER BASED MODEL FOR ADMINISTERING ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY TO MENTALLY RETARDED/DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS AND CHILDREN. THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF PHASE I IS TO SURVEY CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES AS THEY RELATE TO THERAPY AND PROVIDE A BASIS FOR A PHASE II RESEARCH PLAN. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BASED SIMULATION OF A MODEL WILL BE ...

THE TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUND MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF SLUDGES FROM INDUSTRIAL AND MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATIONS ARE COMPLEX AND EXPENSIVE. THE RECOVERY OF VALUABLE RESOURCES FROM SLUDGES MUST BE AN IMPORTANT INTENT OF THE SLUDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, IF THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH WASTE DISPOSAL OPERATIONS ARE TO BE CONTAINED. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS AIMED AT D ...

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