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THE PROJECT WILL REVIEW CURRENT INCENTIVES OFFERED BUSINESS FOR ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE TARGET POPULATION. RESEARCH EFFECTIVE METHODS OF PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO BUSINESS. EXAMINE ALTERNATIVES THAT INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT. STUDY VARIOUS MARKETING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRESENTATION OF BENEFIT PACKAGES TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, E.G., SAVINGS, CUTTING-COST, AND PROFIT MARGIN. THE PROJECT WIL ...

CURRENT SHOT PEENING TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT OFFER THE CAPABILITY TO ACCURATELY PREDICT FATIGUE LIFE BENIFITS. RECENT TEST RESULTS IDENTIFY A HERETOFORE UNDOCUMENTED SURFACE INTEGRITY PHENOMENOM ASSOCIATED WITH PEENING AT RELATIVELY HIGH INTENSITIES WHICH HAS BEEN LINKED TO PREMATURE SPECIMEN FAILURE AT SPECIMEN FAILURE AT FATIGUE LIFE LOWER THAN THAT OF UNPEENED SPECIMEN. DATA PRESENTED BY SEVERAL AU ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENTAL EFFORT IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A COMPUTER INTEGRATED ROBOT WORK CELL GAGING FINISHED PARTS OR OTHER ASSEMBLY/MACHINING OPERATIONS. THE FOCUS OF THE RESEARCH IS TO CONTROL THE ROBOT TOOL CONTROL POINT (TCP) THROUGH AN ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM. THE ROLE OF THE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM IS TO CONTROL AND MODIFY THE PATH OF THE TCP TO WIT ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS TO DETERMINE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A THREE DIMENSIONAL VISION BASED PASSIVE OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE LOCATION INFORMATION IN REAL TIME AT VIDEO FRAME RATES OF 30 FRAMES PER SECOND. THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UNDER INVESTIGATION WILL UTILIZE PARALLEL PROCESSING OF RAW VIDEO INPUT FROM MULTIPLE C ...

DIESEL ENGINE OILS HAVE MORE SEVERE DEMANDS MADE ON THEM IN SERVICE THAN DO GASOLINE ENGINE OILS. TWO DIESEL COMBUSTION PRODUCTS THAT LEAD TO RAPID OIL DETERIORATION ARE CARBONACEOUS PARTICULATES AND NO2. BOTH THESE PRODUCTS ARE STRONGLY OPERATING MODE DEPENDANT, THEREFORE, TO SPECIFY AN OIL CHANGE INTERVAL BASED ON MILES TRAVELLED DOES NOT NECESSARILY ACCURATELY REFLECT THE CONDITION OF THE OIL B ...

FURNACES DESIGNED TO OPERATE ON LIQUID FUELS HAVE RADIATION AS THE MAIN MODE OF HEAT TRANSFER, THEY ALSO HAVE LIMITED TURN-DOWN RATIOS. FLAME EMISSIVITIES FOR OIL AND NATURAL GAS IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN MEASURED AS 0.55 AND 0.15 RESPECTIVELY. THEREFORE, DUE TO THE NATURALLY LOW EMISSIVITY OF THE METHANE FLAME, CONVERSION TO NATURAL GAS (OF FURNACES ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR FUEL-OILS OR ...

THIS PROJECT APPLIES SEVERAL INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS FOR MODIFYING AN EXISTING AIRBORNE MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER TO MAKEIT CAPABLE OF MEASURING OCEAN BIOMASS IN SUPPORT OF THE NASAGLOBAL BIOLOGY EFFORT. PROVEN FEASIBILITY OF THIS APPROACH WOULD PERMIT ACCOMPLISHMENT OF NASA OBJECTIVES WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN EXPENSIVE AND LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. THE RESEARCH INCLUDES THE ANALYSIS OF EACH OF THE SP ...

HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS, ESPECIALLY TYPES ONE AND TWO (HSV-1 AND HSV-2), IS ONE OF THE MOST FEARED DISEASES IN THE WORLD TODAY. NO KNOWN CURE IS AVAILABLE FOR THE TREATMENT OF THIS DISEASE. COMMERCIAL DRUGS PROVIDE ONLY TEMPORARY RELIEF. BASED ON ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE AND PRELIMINARY TISSUE CULTURE STUDIES, CERTAIN PLATINUM COMPLEXES SHOW CONSIDERABLE PROMISE AS EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR HERPETIC ...

PARALLEL PROCESSING OF SPARSE MATRICES HAS BEEN A DISAPPOINTING ENTERPRISE TO DATE. THE "VECTORS" THAT CAN BE PROCESSED SIMULTANEOUSLY ARE TOO SHORT TO ACHIEVE MUCH IMPROVEMENT OVER SERIAL PROCESSING. ATTEMPTS TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THESE VECTORS SIMPLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF OPERATIONS RATHER THAN DECREASE SOLUTION TIMES. WE SUGGEST AN ENTIRELY NEW APPROACH BASED ON THE FACTORS OF THE INVERSE. T ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP CLONING AND EXPRESSION VECTORS FROM NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUSES (NPV) WITH CAPABILITIES FOR EFFICIENTLY PRODUCING ONE OF SEVERAL GENES SIMULTANEOUSLY IN INFECTED INSECT CELL CULTURES. THE OBJECTIVES IN PHASE I ARE TO CONSTRUCT ALTERNATIVE PLASMID TRANSFER VECTORS WITH INCREASED EXPRESSION CAPABILITIES THROUGH THE ISOLATION AND ENGINEERING OF AT LEAST TWO NEW POLYHEDRIN GENE ...