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APPLICATION OF ADVANCED ORGANIC COMPOSITE AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE IS OF CURRENT INTEREST. HOWEVER, RELATIVELY LIMITED DEVELOPMENT WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS AREA. OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL BEHAVIOR OF AN ORGANIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL AT CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT IS SOMEWHAT LACKING. IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS THAT AFFECT THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ORGANIC COMPOSI ...

THE NEED FOR SOPHISTICATED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT IN NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CONTINUES TO GROW. HOWEVER, CONVENTIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES ARE NOT CURRENTLY MEETING THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF NAVY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, WHICH REQUIRE EXTENDED CAPABILITIES FOR HANDLING UNCONVENTIONAL DATA FORMATS AND TEMPORAL INFORMATION. IN THIS PROPOSAL, AQUIDNECK MANAGEMENT ASS ...

AN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AND NOVEL THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER ALLOYS WITH HIGH RESISTANCE TO ALL KNOWN HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS. A FURTHER OBJECTIVE WILL BE TO CROSSLINK INDIVIDUAL POLYMERS IN THESE ALLOYS TO FORM NON-MELTING INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS (IPN'S) WHICH WILL EXHIBIT GREATER RESISTANCE TO HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS THAN THE THERMOPLASTIC ALLOYS FROM WHICH THEY ...

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A RAPID HIGH RECOVERY DIAFILTRATION PROCESS FOR THE SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES WILL BE DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED. THE MILD PROCESS CONDITIONS AND SIZE SELECTIVITY OF MEMBRANE FILTRATION WILL BE USED TO RECOVER BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCED FUSION PROTEINS OF 15,000 TO 20,000 MOLECULAR WEIGHT. THE FUSION PROTEIN WILL BE CONSTRUCTED TO CONTAIN THE DESIRED BIOLO ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DEVELOP AN IN VITRO CULTURE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY STAGE EMBRYOS TO BLASTOCYST STAGES. A SERIES OF FOUR EXPERIMENTS ARE PROPOSED IN WHICH FOUR TREATMENTS; 1) BOVINE TROPHOBLASTIC VESICLES, 2) FETAL BOVINE UTERINE CELLS, 3) OVIDUCTAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND 4) SHELL-FREE CHICK EMBRYOS ARE USED AS FEEDER CELLS TO CO-CULTURE WITH EITHER MOUSE OR G ...

KVH INDUSTRIES PROPOSES TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A MINIATURIZED ORTHOGONAL MAGNETIC SENSOR ASSEMBLY WHOSE VOLUMETRIC DIMENSION, INCLUDING SHIELD, WILL NOT EXCEED 10 CM(3). THE UNIT HAS AS OBJECTIVES A SENSITIVITY OF 1 NANOTESLA WHILE OPERATING AT FLUX DENSITIES OF UP TO 20 OERSTED. FURTHERMORE, THE SYSTEM DRIFT AT ROOM TEMPERATURE IS NOT TO EXCEED 1 NANOTESLA WITHIN A 60 MINUTE ...

WE PROPOSE A NEW LASER MACHINING TECHNIQUE USING NONLINEAR SELFFOCUSING MEDIA SUCH AS CARBON DISULFIDE AND NITROBENZENE. THE TECHNIQUE USES THE CATASTROPIC SELF-FOCUSING SOLUTIONS TO THE NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION TO PRODUCE INTENSE NON-DIFFRACTING OPTICAL FILAMENTS IDEALLY SUITED FOR PRODUCING SMALL HOLES. THE "LIQUID OPTICS" OFFERS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL FOCUSING: 1) CONSIDERA ...

ALGORITHMS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR ENHANCEMENT AND SEGMENTATION OF FLIR IMAGES, WITH A VIEW TOWARD REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS ON SEQUENCES OF IMAGES ACQUIRED AT VIDEO-FRAME RATES. THE METHODOLOGY PIONEERED BY PERSONNEL ON THIS PROJECT, USING PROBABILISTIC MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODELS AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS SUCH AS SIMULATED ANNEALING (STOCHASTIC RELAXATION WITH ANNEALING), WILL BE EXTENDED IN TWO DI ...

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING NESTOR'S NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING TECHNOLOGY FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION IN A MULTISENSOR AVIONICS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT. PATTERN MATCHING VIA PARALLEL SEARCHES IN A MULTISENSOR DATA ENVIRONMENT MUST BE CONTROLLED BY AN APPROPRIATE HIERARCHICAL DECISION LOGIC THROUGH WHICH A SYSTEM CAN LEARN HOW BEST TO USE ITS AVAILABLE DATA FOR ROBUST RECOGNITION. ...