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TELY 600,000 COULD BENEFIT FROM A UNIVERSAL WTORS DESIGNED TO BE RETROFIT TO THEIR WHEELCHAIRS. ULTIMATELY, A SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WOULD BE INCORPORATED AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE 200,000 WHEELCHAIRS PRODUCED ANNUALLY IN THE US. ACCESS TO WORLD MARKETS WILL BE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE PROPOSED CONCEPT WILL MEET OR EXCEED ANTICIPATED INTERNATIONAL WTORS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

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COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE IN-STACK TRANSMISSMETERS FOR OPACITY MEASUREMENT PRESENTLY ONLYHAVE THE CAPABILITY OF A ONE POINTDYNAMIC UPSCALE CHECK OR NO DYNAMIC UPSCALE CHECK DURING OPERATION. IN ORDER TO PERFORM NECESSARY MULTI-POINT AUDITSOF LINERARITY CHECKS, THE INSTRUMENT MUST BE REMOVED FROM SERVICE OR AT THE LEAST BE MANUALLY FITTED WITH AN EXTERNAL AUDIT DEVICE. THIS REQUIRES ACCESS TO THE INST ...

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 ...

RECENT ASSESSMENTS ESTIMATE U.S. CROP LOSSES FROM ELEVATED OZONE LEVEL AND OTHER OXIDANTS (SULFUR DIOXIDE, NITROGEN DIOXIDE) TO BE AS MUCH AS $5 BILLION ANNUALLY. ADDITIONALLY,SEVERE FOREST DAMAGE MAY RESULT FROMPOLLUTION-RELATED OXI- DANTS PARTICULARLY IN EUROPE WHERE THERE HAS BEEN A DRAMATICDECLINE IN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS. THIS RESEARCH IS DIRECTED AT THE MITIGATION OF SUCH ...

ALTERNATIVES TO CHLORINE DISINFECTION IN DRINKING WATER TREATMENT ARE BEING INVESTIGATED. BOTH CURRENT AND NEW METHODS OF DISINFECTION MAY CAUSE REACTIONS WITH ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN THE WATER AND LEAD TO DANGEROUS BY-PRODUCTS. THERE IS A NEED FOR MEASUREMENT DEVICES THAT PROVIDE ON-SITE, REALTIME MEASUREMENT OF BY-PRODUCTS TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATE WATER TREATMENT METHODS. FOR TH ...

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 project objectives are to develop and evaluate a generic methodology foremission control of a wide variety of air toxic particulate using a revolutionarybreakthrough in filtration technology based on the recently developed BoundaryLayer Momentum Transfer (BLTM) concept. This novel filter is designed to augmentand substantially improve separate conventional toxic treatment/ reclamationmethodol ...

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