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ADVANCED BATTERIES BASED ON LITHIUM METAL SULFIDE CELL TECHNOLOGY ARE UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR APPLICATIONS SUCH AS THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE,PRIMARILY DUE TO THEIR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY CAPABILITIES. HOWEVER, CURRENTLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS LIMIT THE RELIABILITY OF THIS BATTERY TECHNOLOGY FOR LONG-TERM USE. IN PARTICULAR, THE CONTAINMENT OF THE ELECTROLYTE BY AN INERT SEPARATOR MATERIAL IS A DESIGN-LIMITIN ...

ADVANCED METHODS FOR THE CONVERSION OF NATURAL GAS TO LIQUID FUELS ARE NEEDED SO THAT NATURAL GAS ENERGY RESOURCES CAN BE BETTER UTILIZED. IN RECENT RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS, CERAMIC MONOLITHS HAVE BEEN USED IN PARTIAL OXIDATION TO CATALYZE VERY FAS, HIGH SELECTIVITY SYNTHESIS OF HIGHER HYDROCARBONS FROM METHANE. USE OF METAL MONOLITHS (SOLID METAL PLATES PERFORATED WITH SMALL, UNIFORM HOLES) IS P ...

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PHASE I ADDRESSES A NEW APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN OF HIGH POWER NUCLEAR TARGETS USED FOR PRODUCTION OF RADIOISOTOPES BY HIGH ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLE BEAMS, NOTABLY HIGH ENERGY PROTONS. SUCH TARGETS WILL YIELD LARGER QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE SPECIES THAN PRESENTLY AVAILABLE, EITHER FOR BASIC RESEARCH (E.G., STUDIES USING RADIOACTIVE BEAMS) OR FOR APPLIED PURPOSES (E.G., PRODUCTION OF MEDICAL RADIOI ...

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COALESCING THE FRAGMENTED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH EACH EVENT OF A HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTOR AND THEN PROCESSING IT AT THE RATES DEMANDED BY ACCELERATOR SYSTEMS ARE AMONG THE LARGEST CHALLENGES IN THE PHYSICS COMMUNITY. NEW DETECTOR SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEASURED PARAMETERS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASE THE RESOLUTION OF DETECTOR COMPONENTS SO THAT THE VOLUME OF GENRATED ...

NEUTRON SCATTERING STUDIES HAVE BEEN USUALLY CARRIED OUT USING SINGLE DETECTORS. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE USE OF SPATIALLY RESOLVING DETECTORS HAS RESULTED IN BETTER STATISTICAL ACCURACY WITH SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED DATA COLLECTIONS TIMES. ALTHOUGH, THE COMMONLY USED NEUTRON DETECTOR ARRAY CONSISTING OF MULITWIRE HE-3 CAMERA IS CAPABLE OF EXCELLENT PHOTONIC BACKGROUND REJECTION, ITS USE IS SEVEREL ...

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AN EXISTING SYSTEM HAS DEMONSTRATED, IN QUIET CONDITIONS, VERY RELIABLE DETECTION OF HUMANS HIDDEN IN VEHICLES. SEISMIC VIBRATIONS ARE THE MAJOR, UNAVOIDABLE LIMITATIONS. MEASUREMENT OF THE SEISMIC VIBRATIONS AND COHERENT ANALYSES WILL BE UTILIZED TO COMPUTE AND SUBTRACT THE EFFECT OF THE SEISMIC INTERFERENCE ON THE VEHICLE MOTION. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL IMPROVE THE RELIABILITY, INCREASE THE S ...

RELIABLE INTRUSION DETECTION MAY BE ACHIEVED BY COMBINING GENERALIZED POTENTIAL FUNCTION (GPF) NEURAL NET CONSTRUCTION AND MULTIPLE SENSOR DATA FUSION. TRADITIONALLY, RELIABLE INTRUSION DETECTION CAN BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE NOISE LEVELS CHANGE WITH TIME AND LOCATION, AND AN INTRUSION MAY PRODUCE A WIDE RANGE OF SIGNALS OR VARIATIONS OVER THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SENSORS. ACCOMMODATING THESE VARIATION ...