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THE COUNTER CURRENT SOLID STREAMS HEAT TRANSFER (CCSSHT) RETORT IS A NEW PROCESS FOR EFFICIENT OIL RECOVERY FROM OUR PLENTIFUL TAR SANDS AND OIL SHALE RESERVES. AS A HEAT RECOVERY SOIL INCINERATOR, IT HAS THE ADVANTAGES OF REDUCED FUEL DEMAND AND LOW COMBUSTION GAS PRODUCT (REDUCING AIR POLLUTION CONTROL NEEDS FOR THE INCINERATOR). THE CCSSHT UNIT IS A SINGLE VESSEL ROTATING KILN THAT (1) PREHEATS ...

FROM THE NASA/DOE MOD OA WIND ENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAM CAME THE FINDING THAT LAMINATED WOOD/EXPOSY COMPOSITE IS A LOW-COST CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL THAT MAY WITHSTAND THE LONGTERM SEVERE FATIGUE ENVIRONMENT OF THE ADVANCED WIND TURBINE BLADE. INCREASED ERRICIENCY AND RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS PLACED ON THE NEXT GENERATION OF WIND MACHINES WILL CHALLENGE DESIGNERS, DEMANDING THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE M ...

BECAUSE OF THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMANDS ON DATA ACQUISITION AND COMPUTER PROCESSING SYSTEMS IN MOST DOE-FUNDED RESEARCH TODAY, FASTBUS HAS BECOME A VITAL PRESENCE IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS PROJECTS WORLDWIDE. SIMILARLY, BECAUSE OF ITS BROAD FLEXIBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER, VMEBUS IS EMERGING AS A POPULAR HOST AND POST-PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT. ALTHOUGH SOME SYSTEMSHAVE BEEN DESIGNED THAT ALLO ...

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THERE IS A GREAT NEED FOR IMPROVED DISPLAYS TO DEAL WITH MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA FROM COMPLEX EXPERIMENTS. EVEN WITH A GREAT DEAL OF COMPUTER MANIPULATION, THE RESULTS MUSTBE PRESENTED TO THE EXPERIMENTER IN COMPREHENSIBLE FORM. THIS IS BEST DONE USING HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR GRAPHICS. THEDISPLAY SHOULD BE LARGE ENOUGH SO THAT A GROUP OF EXPERIMENTERS CAN WORK WITH IT AND INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER, A ...

ADVANCED SOLAR COLLECTOR TECHNOLOGY CAN PROVIDE LIGHT INTENSITIES SEVERAL THOUSAND TIMES THAT OF INCOMING SUNLIGHT. ACHIEVEMENT OF SUCH INTENSITIES SUGGESTS A NOVEL OPPORTUNITY: PROMOTION OF MULTIPHOTON CHEMICAL PROCESSES BY SOLAR SOURCES. AT VERY HIGH LIGHT INTENSITIES, MORE THANONE QUANTUM OF RADIATION CAN BE ABSORBED BY A SINGLE MOLECULE. THE RESULTANT MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION CAN LEAD TO NEW PHO ...

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ELECTRONIC IMAGE PROCESSING OF ONE- OR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORETIC GELS REQUIRES SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE FOR ANALYSIS. ALTHOUGH SEVERAL COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PACKAGES PROVIDE GENERIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS, A HIGH DEGREE OF USER MODIFICATION IS NECESSARY TO PRODUCE USEFUL DATA FOR ONE- OR TWO-DIMENSIONAL GELS. DEDICATED SOFTWARE FOR ELECTROPHORETIC GELS FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON TWO-D ...

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