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MCNC PROPOSES A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND EVALUATION OF THREE PROMISING APPROACHES TO THE FABRICATION OF SURFACE TEST STRUCTURES ON SILICON. SURFACE FEATURES ON THE FIRST STRUCTURE WILL BE PRODUCED BY CONTROLLABLY ETCHING THERMALLYGROWN OXIDES. FEATURES ON THE SECOND WILL BE MADE BY ETCHING PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILMS. USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC FILM AS PART OF A CAPACITOR, STEP-HEIGHT CAN BE VARIED AND PRO ...

THE PROGRAM PROPOSED BY DESE RESEARCH AND ITS PROPOSED SUBCONTRACTOR, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABS., IS DESIGNED TO DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE TECHNICAL MONITORING OF CHEMICAL AGENTS. TECHNICAL OBJEECTIVES DURING PHASE I OF THE PROGRAM ARE TO: DEMONSTRATE THE CONCEPTUAL FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE SENSING OF CHEMICAL AGENTS THROUGH APROGRAM THAT: DEFENSES TREATY DRIVEN SYSTEM REQUIREMEN ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP THE RUDIMENTS, IN PHASE I, OF A SOFTWARE SHELL THAT WILL ALLOW TEACHERS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION TO CONSTRUCT SPECIFIC SCIENTIFIC "EXPERIMENTS" ON PERSONAL COMPUTERS. THE SHELL WILL INCORPORATE A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, ALREADY DEVELOPED IN PREVIOUS WORK, GRAPHICS FILES, AND OTHER STORAGE AND PRESENTATION UTILITIES IN A WAY THAT DRAMATICALLY STREAMLINES ...

WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE IN PHASE I A VOLUME-SPECIFIC, LIMITED-SCAN PHOTON BACKSCATTER TECHNIQUE FOR THE DETECTION OF LOCALIZED CHANGES IN COMPOSITION AND/OR THICKNESS OF A LAYER HIDDEN UNDER A SURFACE LAYER, AS A GENERIC ANALOGUE OFTHE HIDDEN CORROSION PROBLEM. FEATURES INHERENT IN THE WELL-ESTABLISHED GAMMA-RAY BACKSCATTER DENSITY GAUGE CONCEPTS AND IN BACKSCATTER IMAGING TOMOGRAPHY INDICATE TH ...

THE SERVICEABILITY LIMIT STATE ASSOCIATED WITH OCCUPANT COMFORT UNDER WIND INDUCED LATERAL AND TORSIONAL MOTION IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN THE DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS. IN SOME INSTANCES, STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRED TO PRODUCE ACCEPTABLE PREDICTED RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS CAN COST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OR EVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WITH THESE KINDS OF CO ...

IMMOBILIZED FORMS OF ENZYMES HAVE OUTSTANDING PROMISE AS INDUSTRIAL CATALYSTS TO MAKE OR MODIFY PRODUCTS; AND ADVANCES IN IMMOBILIZED ENZYME TECHNOLOGY CAN HAVE A MAJOR ECONOMIC IMPACT ON THE PRODUCTION OF FOODS AND OTHER MATERIALS. ENZYME TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP, INC. IS DESIGNING THE DEVELOPING UNIQUE CARRAGEENAN-BASED SUPPORTS FOR IMMOBILIZED ENZYMES. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DESIG ...

INADEQUATE STARTER FEEDS SEVERELY HOLD BACK NEW AQUACULTURE ENTERPRISES SUCH AS PRESENT ATTEMPTS TO RAISE FISHES WHOSE LARVAE DEVELOP FROM SMALL EGGS AND HAVE VERY "DIFFICULT" FOOD REQUIREMENTS. INERT LARVAL FEEDS HAVE NOT SUCCESSFULLYELIMINATED THE STRICT DEPENDENCY ON NATURAL FORAGE DURING THE CRITICAL POST-LARVAL STAGE AFTER YOLK ABSORPTION AND BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM WITH ...

THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (FMS) IN GENERAL, AND COOPERATING MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS IN PARTICULAR. THIS SYSTEM, TO BE REFERRED TO AS ANACTIVITY CONTROLLER (AC), WILL BE ORGANIZED IN A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE WHERE THE LEVELS OF THE HIERARCHY CORRESPOND TO THE DIFFERENT DECISION TYPES NECESSARY TO CONTROL A FMS. A ...

RESEARCH INTO ESTABLISHING THE FEASIBILITY OF FORMULATING A NEW THEORY TO PREDICT THE ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF SCATTERING FROM SURFACES WHICH ARE ROUGH COMPARED TO THE WAVELENGTH OF INCIDENT LIGHT IS PROPOSED. THE RESEARCH WOULD INCLUDE IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES OBSERVED IN SCATTERING FROM METALLIC SURFACES. THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS SUCH AS THE RMS SLOPES, RMS ROUGHNESS, AUTOCOVARIANCE ...