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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 ...

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THE DESIGN OF A MAN-PORTABLE GAS CHROMATOGRAPH / MASS SPECTROMETER (GCMS) BASED UPON THE VIKING MARS LANDER INSTRUMENT IS OUTLINED, TOGETHER WITH ITS APPLICATION AS A DETECTOR OF A BROAD RANGE OF CHEMICALS. THE PRINCIPAL BENEFITS OF SUCH AN INSTRUMENT ARE ITS PORTABILITY WHICH ALLOWS MEASUREMENTS TO BE MADE ON-SITE, ITS RUGGED, SIMPLE OPERATION, AND ITS ULTRA SENSITIVITY (AS A RESULT OF THE RESEAR ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE FEASIABILTY OF DEVELOPING COMPUTER SYSTEM SIMULATION PROGRAMS DIRECTLY FROM GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SYSTEM RESOURCE/DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS. THE CONCEPT IS TO EXTEND AND UTILIZE A SET OF EXISTING GRAPHICAL AND DECLARATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPUTER SYSTEM EXECUTION. THIS SET APPEARS TO BE A NEARLY ADEQUATE BASIS OF REPRE ...

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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 ...

SCHEDULING AND ROUTING OF VEHICLES FOR LARGE SCALE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS HAS BECOME AN INCREASINGLY SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM AREA BECAUSE OF INCREASED COST FOR FUEL,VEHICLE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE, AND LABOR. THE NEED FOR EFFICIENT VEHICLE SCHEDULING AND ROUTING EXISTS THROUGHOUT ALL SECTORS OF INDUSTRY, INSTITUTIONS, AND GOVERNMENT. AS A RESULT, EXTENSIVE RESEARCH HAS BEEN PERFORMED RELATED TO THE D ...

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