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BETTER METHODS TO DELIVER AND DISSEMINATE CARGO ARE NECESSARY TO FULLY EXPLOIT THE CAPABILITIES OF FUTURE INTRATHEATER AIRLIFTERS. THE ARMY'S AND AIR FORCE RENEWED EMPHASIS ON MOBILITY WILL REQUIRE GREATER PRODUCTIVITY BY TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE NATIONAL OBJECTIVES. THE NECESSITATES A MORE THOROUGHLY-INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. ADVANCED TECHNOLGIES, MATERIALS, AND INNOVATIVE ENG ...

MAPPING AND SEQUENSING THE DNA IN THE HUMAN GENOME IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO FUTURE MEDICAL ADVANCES AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. UTILIZATION OF DNA PROBES LABELED WITH DOZENS OF STABLE ISOTOPES INSTEAD OF A SINGLE RADIOISOTOPE COULD INCREASE THE RATE OF SEQUENCE DETERMINATION 100-FOLD OR MORE COMPARED TO CURRENT METHODS. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES A NEW APPROACH, LASER ATOMIZATION RESONANCE IONIZAT ...

AIR BUBBLES TRAPPED IN POLAR ICE AT THE TIME OF ICE FORMATION PROVIDE VALUABLE CLUES TO AID IN OUR UNDERSTANDINGOF THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. IT IS VITAL IN THISEFFORT THAT THE AGE OF THE ICE (WHICH MAY BE 500,000 YRS. ORMORE IN SOME LOCATIONS) BE ESTABLISHED. PRESENTLY, THERE ISNO METHOD FOR DATING ICE ABSOLUTELY BEYOND 50,000 YRS. A NEW METHOD FOR DATING POLAR ICE IN THE RANGE OF 50,00 ...

(14)C DATING BY MEANS OF RADIOACTIVE DECAY COUNTING, AND RECENTLY BY MEANS OF TANDEM ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETER (TAMS) IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN A WIDE RANGE OF FIELDS INCLUDING ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HYDROLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, AND OTHERS. PROPOSED HERE IS A NEW METHOD FORCOUNTING (14)C OR, MORE SPECIFICALLY, MEASURING (14)C/(12)C AND (14)C/(13)C RATIOS, THAT REQUIRES SMALLER SAMPLES BY THREE ...

THE NEED TO MAP AND SEQUENCE DNA IN THE HUMAN GENOME IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GENETICS AND DISEASE PROCESSES. CURRENT DNA SEQUENCING PROCEDURES ALMOST UNIVERSALLY REQUIRE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS OF DNA FRAGMENTS, AND SEVERAL LABORATORIES ARE DEVISING PROCEDURES TO AUTOMATE AS MANY STEPS OF THIS PROCESS AS POSSIBLE. SEQUENCING BY HYBRIDIZATION (SBH) PROPOSED BY DRMANAC ET ...

THE USE OF TRACERS TO TAG WELL GAS WHICH IS REINJECTED INTO OIL RESERVOIRS HAS ACHIEVED CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS IN CHARACTERIZING THE STRUCTURE AND GEOMETRY OF THE RESERVOIRS. IDEALLY, THE TRACER SHOULD BE DETECTABLE OVER A WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE, PARTICULARLY IN FIELDS WHERE LARGE VOLUMES OF GAS ARE INJECTED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEMONSTRATE ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE INCREASE IN DYNAMI ...

CHROMIUM DEFICIENCY CAUSES SEVERE INSULIN RESISTANCE AND GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE. AVERAGE DIETARY CHROMIUM INTAKE IN THEUNITED STATES AND OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IS MARGINAL AND MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE HIGH FREQUENCY OF DIABETES PLAGUING DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. THE MAJOR CLINICAL CHROMIUM EVALUATIONPROBLEM IS THE ASSESSMENT OF CHROMIUM STATUS. DETERMINATIONOF CHROMIUM STATUS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF ...