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IN COLLABORATIVE STUDIES WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, WE HAVE OBTAINED PRELIMINARY DATA ON THE ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES OF DERIVATIVES OF THE NATURAL PRODUCT GOSSYPOL. IN PARTICULAR, ONE DERIVATIVE NAMED GIL HAS SHOW PROMISING ACTIVITY IN THE TREATMENTOF DOMESTIC CATS INFECTED WITH FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS (FELV). ALSO NOTEWORTHY IS THE FACT THAT GIL SHOWS PROMISING IN VITRO ACTI ...

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The nuclear weapons community has traditionally focused on the next generation or level of weapon capability complimented by gathering and analysis of actual test data. Now, with the cessation of actual weapons testing, there is an increased need to use the actual test data in modeling techniques to better understand the phenomenology and potential effects of nuclear weapons. The first phase of ...

Warhead design calculations and weapons effectiveness estimates require a methodology to predict the terminal ballistic structural response and the associated functional damage to operating missile batteries subjected to warhead fragment impacts at speeds up to 16,000 ft/sec. The objectives for the proposed Phase I study effort are to develop a candidate structural representation for the missile b ...

A miniaturized lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is proposed as a low altitude, station keeping, optical instrumentation platform. The advanced airship design will be derived from parameters developed during the successful Small Aerostat Surveillance System, Low Intensity Target Exploitation (SASS LITE) UAV program. This miniature airship developed by Applied Research Associates, I ...

Warhead design calculations and weapons effectiveness estimates require a methodology to predict structural response and the associated damage to air targets from reactive munitions. The objectives for the proposed Phase I study effort are to develop candidate launch conditioning, reaction initiation and reaction rate methodology, to incorporate existing ballistic, blast and quasi-static pres ...

Turbulence of gas flows by its very nature is one of the most difficult things to model and measure. We propose to develop a new way of measuring the turbulence and to compare these measurements to predictions using the k-epsilon model. Typical measurements, in the past, use smoke, Schlierin or shadow graph techniques to visually infer turbulence characteristics. These features are either motio ...

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A SMOKE EVACUATION SYSTEM IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF LASER SURGERY, BOTH IN RESEARCH AS WELL AS IN HUMAN SURGERY. CURRENT TECHNIQUES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMOKE AND DEBRIS GENERATED DURING LASER SURGERY ARE INEFFICIENT, NOISY, AND EXPOSE THE SURGEONS AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL TO THE HAZARDS OF PATHOLOGICAL AIRBORNE AEROSOLS. THE AIRBORNE AEROSOLS ARE CURRENTLY REMOVED THROUGH VACUUM ACTION (AIR PUMPS) AND C ...

The capability to routinely sort single cells with absolute purity will be developed. This applicatneeds scientists of the cancer research community have to easily select and isolate unique cells, suspecific cloning or abnormal cells, for genetic analysis. A new apparatus will be developed and desithese application requirements. It will give scientists access to cutting edge technologies and unprs ...