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THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A METHOD OF HEAD STARTING SHRIMP IN AGREENHOUSE COVERED ENCLOSURE WITHIN CULTURE PONDS. PONDS ARE EQUIPED WITH INTERNAL DIVIDERS SO THAT THEY CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THREE UNITS. UNIT A IS 0.08 ACRE, UNIT B WILL BE 0.4 ACRE AND UNIT C WILL BE THE 2.0 ACRE FARM POND. A GREENHOUSE WILL BE PLACED OVER UNIT A. SHRIMP WILL BE GROWNIN THE GREENHOUSE UNTIL THE WATER TEMPERATURE REACHES ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS DIRECTED TOWARDS ESTABLISHING THE FEASIBILITY OF USING WAVE ENERGY TO PROVIDE HIGH-PRESSURE SEAWATER AT REMOTE COASTAL AND ISLAND LOCATIONS. THIS HAS POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL VALUE BECAUSE OF THE MANY POSSIBLE USESOF HIGH-PRESSURE SEAWATER: IT CAN BE CIRCULATED IN ONSHORE AQUACULTURE TANKS, PASSED THROUGH A REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE TO PRODUCE FRESH WATER, OR PASSED THROUGH AN IMPULSE ...

METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMCS) REPRESENT AN EMERGING CLASS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS WITH POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS RANGING FROM DIMENSIONALLY STABLE SPACE STRUCTURED COMPONENTS TO HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY PACKAGES FOR HYBRID MICROELECTRONICS. USE OF MMCS IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN LIMITED TO DATE BECAUSE OF HIGH MATERIAL COSTS AND EXTREMELY HIGH MANUFACTURING COSTS (BOTH MATERIAL FABRICATION ...

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARTS OF GENERAL SHAPE CAN BE PRODUCED DIRECTLY FROM A COMPUTER DATABASE WITHOUT PART-SPECIFIC TOOLING OR HUMAN INTERVENTION BY A NEW PROCESS CALLED SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING. EACH BUILT-UP LAYER CORRESPONDS TO A CROSS-SECTION OF THE PART. A THIN LAYER OF POWDER IS FIRST DEPOSITED INTO A CONTAINER. THE POWDER SURFACE IS RASTER-SCANNED WITH A HIGH-POWER LASER BEAM FROM ABOVE. BEAM ...

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THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS ENDEAVOR IS TO DEVELOP AN AUTOMATED AND CONTINUOUS MEANS OF MONITORING WATER QUALITY, UTILIZING FISH AS THE SENSORS. THE SPECIFIC AIMS INCLUDE THE IMPROVEMENT OF COMPUTERIZED INSTRUMENTATION, AS WELL AS,TO QUANTIFY THE POTENTIAL FOR MONITORING THE FISH VENTILATORY PROFILES IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESENCE OF TOXICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN IN A VARIETY OF COMMERCIAL APPLIC ...

NOVA TECHNOLOGY, INC. IS INVESTIGATING THE USE OF AN OPTICAL SETUP SIMILAR TO A TWYMAN-GREEN INTERFEROMETER, A LASER BEAM TO ILLUMINATE A MICROSCOPE SPECIMEN AND A REFERENCE SURFACE, IN THE SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE SPECIMEN IS MIXED WITH THE SCATTERED LIGHT FROM THE REFERENCE SURFACEAT THE IMAGE PLANE OF THE MICROSCOPE. BY MONITORING THE SPECKLE INTENSITY WITH A CCD ARRAY, THE PHASE CHANGE IN SPEC ...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF COUNTING NOBLE GAS ATOMS WITH ISOTOPIC SELECTIVITY STEMS FROM THE PRACTICAL FACT THAT THESE ATOMS CAN BE REMOVED FROM LARGE QUANTITITES OF MATERIALS, AND IF COUNTED INDIVIDUALLY, OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS, DATING, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS. RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY (RIS), COMBINED WITH MASS SPECTROSCOPY, HAS LED TO A SYSTEM FOR COUNTING KR-81 ...

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