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A NEW APPROACH TO ALKALI BATTERY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH CAN SATISFY THE DEMANDING HIGH RATE, HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY SPACE MISSION REQUIREMENTS, IS PROPOSED. THE PROPOSED APPROACH OFFERS SPEPCIFIC ENERGY PERFORMANCE COMPARABLE TO THE BEST RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY CHEMISTRIES CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, WITH SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN SPECIFIC POWER. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PHASE I BATTERY CONCEPT FE ...

MRC PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A SAFETY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (PI) OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) PROTECTION STATUS OF A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (NPP). WE BELIEVE THAT SUCH A PI IS NEEDED BECAUSE: (1) EM ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IS ON THE INCREASE,(2) ADDITIONAL EM THREATS MUST BE EVALUATED, AND (3) DISRUPTION OF NPP OPERATIONS BY EM EFFECTS CAN AND MUST BE AVOIDED. PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF E ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN AND ITS DEMONSTRATION IN PRODUCING MODERN DATABASE FOR RV TECHNOLOGIES IS PROPOSED BY USING CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL DATA SETS COLLECTED SINCE 1985 OVER THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT AND U.S. ARMY KWAJALEIN ATOLL. THE PLAN INCLUDES THE USE OF AIRBORNE RADAR, MODELING, AND SATELLITE ADDITIONS TO THE PARTICLE SIZE DATA TO CORRELATE PARTICLE SIZE AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT OVER AN EXTEN ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO USE ADVANCED THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR STUDIES OF HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYER STABILITY AND TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE. THESE STUDIES WILL ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRANSITION PHENOMENA AND THUS HELP PREDICT AND CONTROL TRANSITION WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE. TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL, WE USE LINEAR STABILITY THEORY, SECONDARY INSTABILI ...

PREVIOUS RESEARCH EFFORTS CONCERNING THE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) TEAMS IN DISTRIBUTED, COMPUTER-MEDIATED SYSTEMS HAVE FOCUSED ON MODIFICATIONS OF SYSTEM DESIGN TO ENHANCE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE. MYSTECH PROPOSES A COMPLEMENTARY EFFORT THAT FOCUSES ON INNOVATIVE C2 TEAM TRAINING METHODS TO IMPROVE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE. THE RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON A SPECIFIC C ...

CURRENT TECHNIQUE OF OPTICAL FLAME DETECTION RELY ON THE USE OF NARROW BANDWIDTH SENSORS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE PRONE TO FALSE ALARMS. TO ADDRESS THIS NEED, AMERICAN RESEARCH CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA (ARCOVA) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE VISION INTERFACE FOR THE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPECTRAL FLAME SIGNATURES. THE APPROACH BEING PROPOSED WOULD USE MACHINE VISION ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A MORE EFFICIENT, HIGH POWER MILLIMETER WAVE SOURCE BY MODIFYING THE ORIGINAL ORBITRON MASER. THE ORIGINAL ORBITRON IS DRIVEN BY A SINGLE POWER SUPPLY (I.E.A SMALL CAPACITOR) WHICH GENERATES AN AXISYMMETRIC LOGARITHMIC POTENTIAL-WELL AS RADIALLY DIRECTING (AT FIRST) ELECTRON BEAMS IN THE TUBE OF COAXIAL GEOMETRY. HOWEVER, THE POSITIVE POTENTIAL (V(O)) I ...

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METHODS OF INTEGRATING ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES TO PREDICT ELECTRONIC DEVICE RESPONSE TO VIBRATION AND SHOCK LOADINGS ARE PROPOSED. UNIQUE NONINTRUSIVE EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES, COUPLED WITH ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS, WILL BE USED TO VERIFY FINITE ELEMENT MODEL INPUT DATA, MODELING ASSUMPTIONS, BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, AND TO DETERMINE MATERIAL PROPERTIES SUCH AS DAMPI ...

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