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A MODIFICATION OF THE ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO ELIMINATE SLUDGE BULKING, MINIMIZE REACTOR VOLUMES, AND ENHANCE NUTRIENT REMOVALS. THE FLOW SHEET UTILIZES TWO SEGMENTS IN SERIES. THE FIRST EMPLOYS A 10 MINUTE MIXED LIQUOR CONTACTOR TO ADSORB 50-60% OF THE SOLUBLE CARBON SUBSTRATE. CONTACTOR MIXED LIQUOR IS FLOTATION SEPARATED AND DISCHARGED TO A SEPARATE AERATION REACTOR FOR M ...

ANTI-IDIOTYPIC MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (AIMA) THERAPY HAS CURATIVE POTENTIAL FOR LOW-GRADE B-CELL LYMPHOMAS THROUGH IMMUNOLOGIC DOWN REGULATION OF THE MALIGNANT IDIOTYPIC CLONE AS WELL AS ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY. PRODUCTION OF AIMA IS PATIENT-SPECIFIC AND LABOR INTENSIVE REQUIRING A MEDIAN OF 912 MONTHS UTILIZING THE CLASSICAL MURINE MYELOMA $ HUMAN B-CELL HYBRIDOMA APPROACH. THE ...

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IT IS PROPOSED TO INVESTIGATE, BY A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS THE DESIGN OF A STORAGE AND CONTROL MECHANISM CALLED A RULING. IS A MATHEMATICAL CONCEPT WHICH LENDS ITSELD TO IMPLEMENTATION ON A CONVENTIONAL COMPUTER. IT IS AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH PERMITS LEARNING IN A REAL-TIME, UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENT, WITH CONTROL BASED ON PAST AND PRESENT LEARNED EXPERIENCE. IN A TYPICAL ENVIRONMENT, A RULING CNSUMING 10 T ...

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTON-COUNTING POSITION ENCODER IS PROPOSED FOR POSITION EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) 1. A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF PHOTONS FROM BISMUTH GERMANATE SCINTILLATORS, 2. THE USE OF ALL-DIGITAL PHOTON COUNTING FOR PROCESSING THE PHOTOMULTIPLIER SIGNAL, AND 3. THE USE OF PATTERN RECOGNITION TO ENCODE POSITION. THE NEW DETECTOR IS EXPECTED TO REDUCE THE COST OF THI ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS MODULE (ASM) FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OXYGEN-15 LABELED BUTANOL IS PROPOSED. OXYGEN-15LABELED BUTANOL IS THE ""GOLD STANDARD'' FOR CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT BUT BECAUSE OF THE SHORT HALF-LIFE OF OXYGEN-15 (2 MINUTES) THE SYNTHESIS MUST BE PERFORMED IN A RAPID AUTOMATED MODULE FOR WIDESPREAD UTILIZATION IN THE THE NEW ASM MODULE WILL EFFICIENTLY REMOVE T ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED CHEMISTRY SYSTEM TO WORK FROM THE TARGET OF THE CTI MEDICAL CYCLOTRON. THE SYNTHESIS WILL BE 16-BETAMETHOXY-17-ALPHA-IODOVINYLESTRADIOL. THE MATERIAL HAS PROVEN TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE STEROID RECEPTOR SITE AGENTS TO DATE AND SHOULD PROVE VALUABLE FOR THE DIFFERENTIATION OF STEROID-TREATABLE BREAST TUMORS FROM NONSTEROID-TREATABLE BREAST TUMORS. THE FUNDAMEN ...

A NEW TWO-DIMENSIONAL POSITION ENCODER IS PROPOSED FOR PET WITH POSITION RESOLUTION BETTER THAN 3 MILLIMETERS. THE NEW DETECTOR INCLUDES 32 BISMUTH GERMANATE (BGO) SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS MOUNTED ON A LIGHT GUIDE. THE LIGHT GUIDE PROVIDES A SQUARE ROOT SEPARATION OF THE LIGHT DISTRIBUTION FROM EACH CRYSTAL. THE LIGHT FROM THE LIGHT GUIDE IS DETECTED BY TWO DUAL HAMAMATSU PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES (R154 ...

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PURPOSE: THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS FOR DEVELOPING SPECIFICATIONS FOR AN INTELLIGENT DATA BASE MODEL THAT WILL BE THE BASIS FOR AN INTELLIGENT DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IDBMS). REASONS FOR RESEARCH: INFORMATION NEEDS OF SYSTEM USERS FREQUENTLY CHANGE. EFFICIENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS MUST BE ABLE TO ACCOMODATE EVOLVING INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS; HOWEVER, AVAILABLE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROVIDE LIMITED ...