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MODERN DREDGES, PARTICULARLY HYDRAULIC CUTTERHEAD PIPELINE DREDGES, ARE AMONGST THE MOST EFFICIENT EXCAVATION TOOLS DEVISED AND OPERATED BY MAN. THEY ARE USED TO MAINTAIN NAVIGATION FOR MANY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MILES OF WORLD WATER WAYS. THESE DREDGES COULD BE EVEN MORE EFFICIENT IF OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES WERE EMPLOYED WHICH WOULD OPTIMIZE THE SOIL MOVEMENT ALONG WITH MODIFYING THE SUCTION ENTRAN ...

PURIFICATION OF THE PRODUCTS OF AN ENZYMATIC REACTION FROM DILUTE AQUEOUS SOLUTION CAN BE ENERGY- AND EQUIPMENT- INTENSIVE. HOWEVER, TWO-LAYER MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS CONSISTING OF SANDWICHES OF PERMSELECTIVE AND IMMOBILIZED ENZYME MEMBRANES CAN BE DESIGNED TO SEPARATE AND CONCENTRATEREACTION PRODUCTS AS THEY ARE PRODUCED, THEREBY IMPROVING EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY OF BIOCONVERSION PROCESSES. IN THE PR ...

MANY REVERSE-OSMOSIS MEMBRANES COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TODAY ARE MADE FROM POLYAMIDE OR POLYUREA MEMBRANES. THESE MEMBRANES GIVE HIGH SALT REJECTION AND HIGH WATER FLUX- YET ARE RAPIDLY DEGRADED WHEN EXPOSED TO TRACE LEVELS OF CHLORINE OR OTHER HALOGEN DISINFECTANTS USED FOR THE PRETREATMENT OF FEED WATERS. EFFORTS TO DEVELOP CHLORINE-RESISTANT MEMBRANES HAVE BEEN SLOW BECAUSE OF THE INCOMPLETE UND ...

VIRTUALLY ALL POLYMERIC MEMBRANES ARE MORE PERMEABLE TO OXYGEN THAN TO NITROGEN. IN CURRENT COMMERCIAL MEMBRANES THE RATIO OF OXYGEN TO NITROGEN PERMEABILITIES IS BETWEEN 2 AND 5. WITH THESE LOW SELECTIVITIES, THE HIGHEST-PURITY OXYGEN-ENRICHED AIR OBTAINABLE IN A SINGLE MEMBRANE STAGE ISABOUT 50%-AND MORE TYPICALLY, MEMBRANE PROCESSES MAKE 30 TO 35% OXYGEN. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT ...

A METHOD FOR INCREASING THE SENSITIVITY OF NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION REACTIONS INVOLVING NON-RADIOACTIVE DNA PROBES IS EXAMINED. PACIFIC BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES HAS A PROPRIETARY METHOD WHICH INCREASES THE HYBRIDIZATION EFFICIENCY OF RADIOACTIVELY-LABELED GENETIC PROBES BY OVER 1000%. THIS METHOD WILL BE APPLIED TO COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE SYSTEMS WHICH PRODUCE NON-RADIOACTIVE DNA PROBES ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will focus on scale-up and validation of the company's relational model discovery technology, with specific application focus on web-visitor behavior modeling. In Phase I research the company developed a modeling paradigm based a synthetic variable language for relational Bayesian modeling. Its synthetic variable language is the first compre ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II research project will create a prototype system that will cut through the overload of audio/video (rich media) content by generating personalized broadcasts from a library of rich media documents. Building upon existing expertise in dealing with rich media, the proposed research will apply and refine the techniques discovered in phase I to organize ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will support development and testing of Windows applications for creating and making available highly accessible SVG files. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a graphics markup language supporting features critical to accessibility by individuals with print disabilities. One application permits authors easily to create and/or edit ma ...

As stated in the solicitation, the pavement infrastructure in the US covers a large surface area and requires intensive energy and natural resources. Vehicles that travel over these pavements are also resource intensive. Solar Roadways Incorporated envisions replacing current asphalt surfaces with modular Solar Road Panels: structurally-engineered solar panels that can be driven upon. The roadwa ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the development of a safe, effective, and sustainably-produced natural sunscreen compound, gadusol, to replace harmful ingredients widely used in current sunscreen products. Two to three million cases of skin cancer are reported globally each year, including 132,000 cases of melanoma. In 2 ...