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THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A METHOD OF HEAD STARTING SHRIMP IN AGREENHOUSE COVERED ENCLOSURE WITHIN CULTURE PONDS. PONDS ARE EQUIPED WITH INTERNAL DIVIDERS SO THAT THEY CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THREE UNITS. UNIT A IS 0.08 ACRE, UNIT B WILL BE 0.4 ACRE AND UNIT C WILL BE THE 2.0 ACRE FARM POND. A GREENHOUSE WILL BE PLACED OVER UNIT A. SHRIMP WILL BE GROWNIN THE GREENHOUSE UNTIL THE WATER TEMPERATURE REACHES ...

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARTS OF GENERAL SHAPE CAN BE PRODUCED DIRECTLY FROM A COMPUTER DATABASE WITHOUT PART-SPECIFIC TOOLING OR HUMAN INTERVENTION BY A NEW PROCESS CALLED SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING. EACH BUILT-UP LAYER CORRESPONDS TO A CROSS-SECTION OF THE PART. A THIN LAYER OF POWDER IS FIRST DEPOSITED INTO A CONTAINER. THE POWDER SURFACE IS RASTER-SCANNED WITH A HIGH-POWER LASER BEAM FROM ABOVE. BEAM ...

WE PROPOSE A PROGRAM TO FABRICATE SINGLE MODE SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES IN ALXGA1-XN, AND TO MEASURE THE ELECTRO-OPTICAL PROPOERTIES OF THE MATERIAL SYSTEM. OUR PROGRAM IS SIGNIFICANT DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF USING ALXGA1-XN WAVEGUIDES FOR UNIQUE ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES OPERATING IN THEULTRAVIOLET AND VISIBLE PARTS OF THE SPECTRUM. WE SPECIFICALLY DESIRE TO FABRICATE SUCH A SOLID STATE LASER SCANNER UNDER ...

THERE IS A COMMON MISCONCEPTION THAT MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS ARE NATURALLY RELIABLE, FAULT-TOLERANT, AND RECONFIGURABLE BECAUSE OF THEIR ABUNDANCE OF RESOURCES. IN FACT, THE ONLY ATTRIBUTE GAINED BY MULTIPLE PROCESSORS IS A HIGHER TOTAL FAILURE RATE. HOWEVER, DESIGNERS ARE LARGELY IGNORING THIS ISSUE TO CONCENTRATE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SYSTEMS WITH PEAK PERFORMANCE BEYOND THE TERAFLOP BOU ...

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A LARGE NUMBER OF TOXINS (SUCH AS PARALYTIC SHELLFISH TOXINS, TETRODOTOXIN, AND BACTRACHOTOXIN) ARE POTENTIALLY LETHAL CONTAMINANTS IN SEAFOOD SAMPLES. THESE TOXINS ARE KNOWN TO ACT BY ALTERING THE CONDUCTANCE PROPERTIES OF A WELL-CHARACTERIZED SODIUM CHANNEL FOUND IN MUSCLES AND NERVES. IN THIS STUDY, WE WILL PREPARE AN ENZYME-LINKED ASSAY TO DETECT THESE TOXINS: ENZYME- OR COENZYME-TOXIN CONJUGA ...

A DIFFUSING-VORTEX METHOD, FOR SOLVING THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESS NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION, WILL BE EXTENDED AND APPLIED TO THE EXTERNAL INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOW OVER A GENERALLY SMOOTH BLUNT BODY. THE NUMERICAL ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER LAGRANGIAN VORTEX METHODS WILL BE FURTHER DEMONSTRATEDBY REDUCING TOTAL CPU TIME AND BY AVOIDING CUT-OFF PROCEDURES. THE NEW APPROACH WHICH IS AN APPROXIMATE EXP ...

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY WILL BE LIMITED TO HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS AS LONG AS PRODUCTION COSTS ARE CONTROLLED BY THE CAPACITY OF EXISTING CULTURE SYSTEMS. ULTRASONICALLY ENHANCED DIFFUSION CAN ACCELERATE PLANT AND CELL GROWTH AND THESE PHENOMENA OPERATE AT THE NEAR MOLECULAR LEVEL, AN EXTENT OF EFFECT WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GROSS MECHANICAL AGITATION. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED W ...

SCIENTIFIC AND REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS DICTATE THAT MANY VACCINES AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PROTEINS FOR USE IN IN HUMANS ARE BEST PRODUCED IN MAMMALIAN CELL LINES DERIVED FROM NON-MALIGNANT SOURCES. THESE CELLS USUALLY REQUIRE A SURFACE UPON WHICH TO GROW, AND SEVERAL BIOREACTOR CONFIGURATIONS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH HAVE LARGE SURFACE AREAS COMPRESSED INTO SMALL VOLUMES, THEREBY IMPROVING T ...

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