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Measurement and real-time telemetry of tsunami wave runup height data provides an important component of the overall threat estimate at tsunami warning centers. However, there are no commercially available devices which could furnish this information. Thus, the proposed is an R&D program aimed at the development of an inexpensive, "intelligent", accurate water level data transmitter based on the ...

Over the next decade there will be a renewed emphasis on the production of chemicals and liquid fuels from biomass, the use of agricultural wastes as feedstocks, and the development of crops and farming techniques optimized for fuel production. In view of the tremendous diversity of biomass feedstocks, a great need exists for a robust, comprehensive model that could be utilized to predict yields, ...

Protein is the most expensive component comprising a catfish feed; thus, a reduction in feed cost can most likely be achieved by either reducing the concentration of dietary protein, by using less expensive plant proteins, or by a combination of these factors. Feedstuffs of animal origin are expensive yet they are generally considered to be essential in catfish feeds. If low-protein, all plant-p ...

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A novel combination of techniques is proposed as a mass detector for biological compounds.A quadruple ion trap is used as a storage device for ions introduced from an Electrospray ionizationsource, thereby providing 100% duty cycle, while a reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer is usedfor the rapid and highly sensitive mass analysis of ion bunches expelled from the ion trap on asub-second ti ...

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We will develop kits, services, and reagents useful in the processes of generating and employingamplified DNA mini-libraries (i.e., amplified products) from microdissected human chromosomefragments. The focus of Phase I studies will be development of standard protocols for generating suchmini-libraries. Two amplification strategies are proposed based on their use of recognition sitesdistributed th ...

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