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RESEARCHERS ARE USING THE PIONEERING OF THE PAST 25 YEARS AND COMBINING THE USE OF COMPUTERS AND A NEW PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL TO CONCEIVE AN ARRAY OF 14,000 NODES THAT CAN PRODUCE THE DIMPLE FOR TACTILE SENSATION. THIS ALSO ANSWERS THE NEED FOR DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO SERVICE (DVS) TO PERSONS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. THE PROJECT IS CALLED VISUAL TO TACTILE CONVERSION (VISTACON). VISTACON CAN BE AN AFF ...

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THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES A RESEARCH PROGRAM ON THE OPTIMAL METHOD FOR PRODUCING, CLOSING, AND ADJUSTING CONTROL SURVEY NETS. WE WILL INCORPORATE THE RECENT ADVANCES IN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND THEIR INTERFACES AMONG SYSTEMS. WITHIN THIS ISSUE, WE WILL ADDRESS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE PRACTICES USED FOR SURVEYING DATA MANAGEMENT. THIS INVOLVES STRUCTURING THE MEASUREMENT, STORAGE, REDUCTION, AND OUTPUT ...

EMERGING FIFTH-GENERATION EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS ARE INCREASING THE FLOW OF INFORMATION BETWEEN THE STUDENT AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY SYSTEM TO LEVELS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE. ONE GROUP OF FIFTH-GENERATION SYSTEMS, CONCEPTUALLY DESCENDED FROM GRAPHICS-BASED SIMULATORS, USES VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) TECHNOLOGY TO CAPTURE MOTOR RESPONSES AND ALTER A SIMULATED WORLD ACCORDINGLY. A SECOND GROUP, CO ...

THE USE OF BIOREMEDIATION PROCEDURES TO TREAT ORGANIC WASTES CONTAINING CHLORINATED SOLVENTS OR CONCENTRATED ORGANICS PROVIDES AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF REDUCING SUBSURFACE CONTAMINATION. HOWEVER, THE TRANSITION OF MICROBIALLY MEDIATED BIODEGRADATION FROM LABORATORY STUDIES TO FIELD-BASED METHODS HAS BEEN HAMPERED BY METHODOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS RELATED TO THE INABILITY TO VERIFY THE ACTIVITY AND TYPE ...

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SIALON IS A WELL ESTABLISHED, HIGH TECHNOLOGY CERAMIC UTILIZED IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS SUCH AS CUTTING TOOLS AND ENGINE COMPONENTS. IT IS PRODUCED THROUGH THE INSITU REACTION OF ITS CONSTITUENTS SI3N4, A1N AND A12O3 PLUS SINTERING AIDS. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE VARIATION IN PROPERTIES AND RELIABILITY DUE TO THE PRECURSOR POWDERS PURITY AND SOURCE. IT WOULD BE DESIRABLE IF A HIGH PURITY SIALON POWD ...

THE DEMONSTRATION THAT FULLERENES (BUCKYBALLS) CAN BE PRODUCED FROM A CARBON ARC HAS SPECTACULARLY OPENED A COMPLETELY NEW FIELD OF CARBON SCIENCE WHICH HAS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS IN ALL SCIENTIFIC FIELDS OF CHEMISTRY, ELECTRONICS, PHYSICS, AND MEDICINE. HOWEVER, THE CONTINUED RESEARCH IN FULLERENES AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS IS LIMITED BY ITS EXTRAORDINARY HIGH COST OF SEVERAL TIMES THAT OF GOL ...

RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING AND DEMONSTRATING A MODEL FOR SCALABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SOFTWARE WHICH COMBINES TWO EXISTING COMPUTING PARADIGMS. THE FIRST IS A MODEL FOR DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING THAT HAS BEEN TESTED ON MULTIPLE-INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE-DATA (MIMD) MACHINES. THE SECOND IS A REUSABLE SOFTWARE DESIGN CALLED A "FRAMEWORK." THE FRAMEWORK IS AN OBJECT-BASED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT ...