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IN HYPERSONIC CRUISE, THE OUTER SURFACE OF A VEHICLE MADE OF A COMPOSITE MATERIAL ABLATES. THE ABLATED PARTICLES PENETRATE INTO THE BOUNDARY LAYER AFFECTING THE FLOW DYNAMICS AS WELL AS RADIATIVE AND CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER TO AND FROM THE VEHICLE. THE AUTHORS PROPOSE TO PERFORM THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF RADIATIVE AND CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN A TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER OF HEAT RADIATION SCATTERI ...

THE ADVENT OF AVAILABLE HIGH SPEED IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES WILL PROVIDE TREMENDOUS DATA PROCESSING BENEFITS OVER CURRENT HAND TECHNIQUES IN PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT. THE LONG AND COSTLY FRAME BY FRAME ANALYSIS USING PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES OR VISUAL OBSERVATION OF EXISTING ROAD PAVEMENT SURFACES CAN BE REDUCED TO A HIGHLY ORGANIZED DATA BASE FOR EFFECTIVE AND MUCH NEEDED COST EFFECTIVE PAVEMENT MAN ...

GEOLOGIC MATERIAL PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS FOR NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF AN EXPLOSIVE EVENT DEPEND ON SEVERAL FACTORS, INCLUDING: THE PEAK PRESSURE EXPECTED OR ACHIEVED, THE GEOMETRY OF LOADING, AND THE TYPE OF CALCULATION BEING PERFORMED. ADDITIONALLY, THE CLASS OF GEOLOGIC MATERIAL INVOLVED; E.G., SAND VERSUS CLAY VERSUS ROCK, WILL DICTATE REQUIREMENTS BASED ON WHAT ARE ANTICIPATED TO BE THE IMPORTA ...

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AN EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS WILL BE FABRICATED FOR INSTRUMENTED OPERATION OF CURRENT COLLECTORS IN CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES. TERNARY ALLOYS OF GALLIUM, INDIUM AND TIN WILL BE MADE AND APPLIED TO SURFACES OF THE CURRENT COLLECTORS AND SUBJECTED TO OPERATION, ACCOMPANIED BY OBSERVATION OF FRICTION, WEAR, CONTACT RESISTANCE, AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE FILM AND WEAR DEBRIS. INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL ...

THE FOREST MUSHROOM (SHIITAKE) IS THE ONLY GOURMENT CLASS OFMUSHROOM THAT CAN BE COMMERCIALLY CULTIVATED. IT IS P PRIMARILY GROWN IN JAPAN, PRINCIPALLY BY OVER 170,000 SMALL LOT GROWERS. THE CURRENT ANNUAL WORLD AND U.S. MARKETS E EXCEEDS $1.58 BILLION AND $10 MILLION RESPECTIVELY. IN R RURAL SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES OVER 2 MILLION PRIVATE NON- INDUSTRIAL FOREST LAND OWNERS OWN OVER 70% OF THE COMM ...

UP TO 35,000 WORKERS OF THE U.S. CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND MORE THAN 270,000 WORKERS IN THE PETROLEUM AND COAL-RELATED IN- DUSTRIES MAY BE EXPOSED DAILY TO CARCINOGENIC AND MUTANOGENIC COMPOUNDS FROM THE AROMATIC AMINE GROUP. COAL GAS, INC DEVELOPED A VERY SIMPLE HIGH-TECHNOLOGY APPROACH TO MONITORING THE EXPOSURE OF PERSONNEL TO TRACE LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS AND IS PROPOSING TO CONDUCT R&D WHICH WILL EX ...

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READING COMPREHENSION IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILLS IN OUR SOCIETY, YET THERE HAS BEEN A PAUCITY OF RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING CONSTRUCT VALID INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE IT. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED STUDY IS TO DEVELOP A STATE-OF-THE-ART CONSTRUCT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR READING COMPREHENSION. THE CAPABILITY TO DEVELOP SUCH A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE ITEM ENGINE ...