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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 ...

DNA AND BIOSEQUENCES ARE BEING DETERMINED FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE COMPARED AND ANALYZED. PRESENT TECHNIQUES FOR RIGOROUSLY SEARCHING A LARGE DATABASE ARE COSTLY AND TIME CONSUMING. UNDER ALL PLAUSIBLE GROWTH PROJECTIONS, THE PROBLEM WILL SOON BECOME OVERWHELMING. A CUSTOM, VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THAT COULD BE USED FOR HIGH SPEED COMPARISON, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF DNA AND PROT ...

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MERCURY IS A HIGHLY TOXIC MATERIAL THAT OCCURS IN BOTH ORGANIC AND INORGANIC FORMS. BECAUSE OF ITS WIDESPREAD INDUSTRIAL USE THE WHOLE POPULATION IS EXPOSED TO MERCURY COMPOUNDS EVERYDAY. THERE IS A NEED FOR A FAST, EASY TO USE, INEXPENSIVE, SENSITIVE METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF MERCURY TO REDUCE THE RISK OF CHRONIC EXPOSURE. OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE SELECTIVE DETECTION ...

A METHOD OF CONVENIENTLY ADOPTING EXISTING SCENARIO LAYDOWNS TO A FORM COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING MULTISPECTRAL SIMULATOR WILL ALLOW FACILITIES SUCH AS THE CECOM CENTER FOR EW/RSTA TO QUICKLY AND ECONOMICALLY CONFIGURE TEST SCENARIOS. NUMEROUS "BLESSED" MULTISPECTRAL LAYDOWNS EXIST THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED INTO SIMULATOR TESTING METHODOLOGIES WITH A MULTISPECTRAL INTERFACE. A COMPLEMENTARY METHOD F ...

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A COMMON DILEMMA IN ECOSYSTEM MODELING IS THE COMPLEXITY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT DATA. TRADITIONAL MODELING APPROACHES REQUIRE QUANTITATIVE DATA AND DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM. ALTHOUGH SUCH DATA MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR SMALL CONTROLLED SYSTEMS SUCHAS THE LABORATORY MICROCOSM, IN MOST CASES SUFFICIENT INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR LARGE NATURAL SYSTEMS. QU ...

ARMY UNITS MAKE USE OF A VARIETY OF PSEUDO-FORMATTED MESSAGE TYPES, PARTICULARLY FOR TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING. THESE MESSAGES EXHIBIT CONSIDERABLE VARIATION FROM OFFICIAL FORMATS, REFLECTING DIFFERING OPERATING PROCEDURES OR CHANGING NEEDS. OFFICIAL MESSAGE FORMATS ARE AMENABLE TO STANDARD COMPUTER SCIENCE PARSING TECHNIQUES, BUT SUCH PARSERS ARE RIGID, AND ALTERATIONS ARE VIRTUALLY IMPOSS ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO PRODUCE MORE RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF EXTREME WINDS IN THE UNITED STATES BY SEPARATELY ANALYZING WINDS DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE SCALE EXTRATROPICAL STORMS. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ART METHODS FOR ESTIMATING DESIGN WIND SPEEDS IN NON-HURRICANE REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DO NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN WINDS ORIGINATING FROM THE LARGE SCALE EXTRATROPICAL P ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN ELECTROSTATIC PARTICLE SEPARATOR CONCEPT CAPABLE OF ENHANCING THE FINE PARTICLE SEPARATION OF A T800-TYPE INERTIAL IPS. ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION IS AN EFFICIENT PROCESS FOR THE COLLECTION OF FINE PARTICLES AND REQUIRES LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR THE OPERATION AND PRESSURE LOSS THROUGH THE DEVICE. DIFFICULTIES ARISE FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRY DUSTS W ...