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A SIGNIFICANT COST COMPONENT IN MANY CIVIL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IS GEOTECHNICAL EXPLORATION. THE RESEARCH PROPOSEDFOCUSES ON DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOTECHNICAL EXPLORATION SYSTEM THAT WOULD HAVE CAPABILITIES NOT FOUND IN ANY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM UNDER CONSIDERATION IS A COMBINATION OF TWO KNOWN TECHNOLOGIES, ELECTRIC CONE PENETRATION TESTING (ECPT), AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) ...

THE CONTROL OF TERMITES IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES. THE PRINCIPAL METHODS OF WOOD PRESERVATION ARE INORGANIC ARSENIC COMPOUNDS, PENTACHLOROPHENOL AND CREOSOTE. THESE AGENTS APPEAR TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS, INCLUDING CARCINOGENIC. PRELIMINARY RESEARCH HASREVEALED THAT THE HEARTWOOD AND LEAF COMPONENTS OF THE JUNIPERS (JUNIPERUS) HAVE VERY HIGH TERMITICIDAL ACTIVITIES. THE PROPOS ...

THERE IS A LARGE POTENTIAL MARKET FOR BIOSENSORS IN THE CLINICAL AND HEALTH CARE FIELDS AND FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESS MONITORING. OFTEN BIO-SENSORS REQUIRE EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES THAT ARE CONFINED TO THE SKILLED OPERATOR ANDTHUS ARE UNSUITABLE FOR MANY PURPOSES OUTSIDE THE ANALYTICALLABORATORY. A NOVEL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION METHOD IS DESCRIBEDTHAT COULD LEAD TO SIMPLIFIED MONOCLONAL ANTIBOD ...

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THIS RESEARCH PROGRAM WILL DEVELOP AND EXTEND THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY UNDERLYING THE ELICITATION OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR USE IN BAYESIAN REGRESSION ANALYSES. INCORPORATING EXPERT OPINION IN THE FORM OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS IS ESSENTIAL IN APPLICATIONS FOR WHICH AVAILABLE DATA ARE INSUFFICIENT FOR OBTAINING PRECISE PARAMETER ESTIMATES USING CLASSICAL ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES, BUT FOR WHI ...

GENERALLY DEFINED, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING IS THE PROCESS OF ELICITING KNOWLEDGE FROM HUMAN EXPERTS AND ENCODING THAT KNOWLEDGE IN MACHINE USABLE FORM. ALTHOUGH THE TERM KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING CAME FROM THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) LITERATURE, THE GENERAL PROCESS OF ELICITING AND ENCODING EXPERT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT UNIQUE TO AI. VIRTUALLY ANY INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EFFORT WILL, AT SOME POIN ...

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A FUNDAMENTAL APPROACH IS PROPOSED TO MODERN LUBRICATION PROBLEMS, INCLUDING THERMOHYDRODYNAMICS PROBLEMS, VIA COMPUTER SIMULATION OF THE FULL NONLINEAR, THREE-DIMENSIONAL, TIME-DEPENDENT NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS, I.E. VIA MODERN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD). THE APPROACH IS CAPABLE OF ADDRESSING SEVEN MAJOR PROBLEM AREAS IN MODERN LUBRICATION PROBLEMS: (1) THERMAL EFFECTS IN THE FLUID (THERM ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-BASED MODEL TO PERFORM CONCURRENT LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS FOR THE DESIGN OF ADVANCED LAUNCH SYSTEM CONCEPTS. THE MOTIVATION FOR THIS EFFORT STEMS FROM THE HIGH COST OF MANUFACTURING, OPERATING, AND SUPPORTING CURRENT EARTH-TO-ORBIT VEHICLE DESIGNS. UNITED STATES ACCESS TO SPACE HAS BEEN SEVERELY LIMITED AS A RESULT OF THE ANALYTICAL DESIGN ...

THIS PROPOSAL SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES "KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION" BY PERFORMING RESEARCH INTO "SOFTWARE DEVICES FOR CAPTURING KNOWLEDGE FROM A REAL-TIME CONTEXT ANDCONVERTING IT TO AN EFFECTIVE COMPUTATIONAL FORM". THE PROPOSED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING PARADIGM OPERATES ON SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS AND HAS THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS: (1) OPERATES CONTINUOUSLY WITHOUT AD HOC SUPERVISION; ( ...