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THE ESCAPE OF HYDROCARBONS FROMA VARIETY OF SOURCES CAN PRESENT A HEALTH SAFETY PROBLEM. THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR RESEARCH FUNDS TO EXPLORE A FLAMELESS IONIZATION CONCEPT TO DETECT SUCH GASES. SMALL QUANTITIES OF HYDROCARBONS (E.G. 0.03% V/V) IN EITHER AIR OR RARE GASES CAN GENERATE LARGE PENNING EFFECTS (ENHANCED IONIZATION THROUGH COLLISIONS WITH METASTABLE METASTABLE STATES). INITIAL EXPLORATORY ST ...

ROBOT VISION FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING IS A DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING PROBLEM. A ROBOT VISION SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLY TASKS MUST BE ABLE TO ANALYZE IMAGES INCLUDING PARTS, TOOLS,AND THE ROBOT ARM ITSELF. SPECULAR SURFACES AND TEXTURE AREAMONG THE PROBLEMS THAT WILL CAUSE DIFFICULTY IN SEGMENTING THE IMAGES. OUR LONG TERM RESEARCH OBJECTIVE IS TO CONSTRUCT AN INTEGRATED ROBOT VISION SYSTEM FOR AUTOMA ...

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MANY COMBUSTION EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING PARTICLE SIZING AND RADIATION MEASUREMENT REQUIRE AN ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE REFRACTIVE (N) AND ABSORPTION (K) INDICES OF SOOT. EVEN THOUGH SOOT IS A COMPLEX HYDROCARBON WITH A PARTICULARLY HIGH C:H MASS RATIO, VALUES FOR N AND K FOR CARBON ARE OFTENUSED AS BEING EQUIVALENT FOR SOOT. LITERATURE VALUES OF N AND K FOR SOOT AND CARBON SHOW WIDE SCATTER: 1.40

A DIFFUSING-VORTEX METHOD, FOR SOLVING THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESS NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION, WILL BE EXTENDED AND APPLIED TO THE EXTERNAL INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOW OVER A GENERALLY SMOOTH BLUNT BODY. THE NUMERICAL ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER LAGRANGIAN VORTEX METHODS WILL BE FURTHER DEMONSTRATEDBY REDUCING TOTAL CPU TIME AND BY AVOIDING CUT-OFF PROCEDURES. THE NEW APPROACH WHICH IS AN APPROXIMATE EXP ...

THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES A SIX-MONTH RESEARCH PROGRAM AIMED ATFUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF METAL SULFIDE CLUSTER-OXIDE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR HYDRODESULFURIZATION (HDS). HYDRODESULFURIZATION REMAINS A POORLY UNDERSTOOD REACTION DESPITE VERY EXTENSIVE STUDY. THE USE OF CLUSTER-DERIVED CATALYSTS FOR HDS REPRESENTS A VERY NOVEL APPROACH TO ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSIOCHEMICAL NATURE OF THE A ...

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NEOGEN IS COMMITTED TO DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGNOSTICS WHICH WILLIMPROVE THE HEALTH OF BOTH PLANTS AND ANIMALS. USING INFORMATION GATHERED FROM PRODUCTION OF ANTIBODIES WHICH RECOGNIZE VARIOUS MYCOTOXINS, SIMILAR PROCEDURES WOULD BE USED TO PRODUCE POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM IN RABBITS AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES (SECRETED BY STABILIZED HYBRIDOMA CELLLINES) WHICH BIND TO SULFONAMIDES. THE INCORPORATION OF ANTI ...