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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 ...

THE USE OF MICROBORE CAPILLARY COLUMNS FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY PROMISES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF RESOLVING AS MANY AS 15 COMPONENTS PERSECOND. THUS, MANY ANALYSES COULD BE COMPLETED IN JUST A FEW SECONDS PERMITTING, FOR THE FIRST TIME, REAL-TIME ANALYSIS BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY. TO TRANSLATE THIS CONCEPT INTO A PRACTICAL INSTRUMENT, WE SHALL HAVE TO REDESIGN EVERY COM ...

A DUAL LASER BEAM TECHNIQUE INVOLVING LASER EVAPORATION OF ALIQUID TARGET WILL BE DEVELOPED TO DEPOSIT THIN FILMS OF INDIUM TIN OXIDE (ITO) ON SILICON. ITO IS EXCELLENT FOR USEIN HIGH SPEED ELECTRONIC DEVICES, WHILE SILICON IS AN OPTIMAL SUBSTRATE DUE TO AVAILABILITY OF HIGH PURITY, LOW COST, LARGE AREA WAFERS. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS OF LASER EVAPORATION THAT WILL FACILITA ...

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EXFLUOR RESEARCH CORPORATION HAS RECENTLY DEVELOPED A TECHNOLOGY FOR PREPARING MONO- AND DI-BASIC PERFLUOROCARBOXYLIC ACIDS IN VERY HIGH YIELDS. THE CARBOXYLIC ACID FUNCTIONALITY CAN BE CONVERTED TO VARIOUS OTHER FUNCTIONALITIES SUCH AS ALCOHOLS, AMINES, HALIDES, SULFONATES, ETC. WHICH CAN THEN BE USED AS FLUOROCARBON INTERMEDIATES FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FLUOROELASTOMERS. THIS APPRO ...

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SPUTTER INITIATED RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY (SIRIS),BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF RESONANCE IONIZATION OF SPUTTERED ATOMS, OFFERS THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE IN SITU CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC MICROANALYSES WITH EXCELLENT SENSITIVITY, MINIMAL FRACTIONATION AND MATRIX EFFECTS, AND FREEDOM FROM ISOBARIC INTERFERENCES-FACTORS WHICH FREQUENTLY LIMIT ION MICROPROBE ANALYSES IN GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. MEASUREME ...

RESEARCH ON SPACE MARCHING ALGORITHMS ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES FOR HIGH SPEED AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATION DESIGN IS PROPOSED IN RESPONSE TO THE NEED FOR SIGNIFICANT NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY GAINS WITH A MINIMAL LOSS IN GEOMETRIC FLEXIBILITY. CHARACTERISTIC BASED ALGORITHMS FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE EULERS' EQUATIONS OF GAS DYNAMICS ARE PROPOSED FOR COMPUTATION ON GRIDS CONSTRUCTED BY AN ADVANCING FRONT METH ...

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; ( ...