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Foods are dehydrated to make them more easily packaged and stored at room temperature. The removal of water reduces the opportunity for harmful chemical reactions. Dehydrated food powders and particles are also used in "liquid meals" for dental patients. However, dehydrated foods traditionally have been difficult to rehydrate and are of relatively poor quality. The reasons for these difficulties a ...

The current market for fast switching frequency sythesizers is growing rapidly. Most synthesizers available today will not meet the stringent requirements for switching quickly, providing spectrally pure RF outputs and minimizing physical size and cost. As part of a current SBIR program, S.T. Research has developed a wideband, fast switching synthesizer, based on the use of broadband phase-locke ...

SAG Corporation proposes to develop a framework for measuring the economic and social costs and benefits of an Army career. The research will focus on identifying and evaluating data sources and developing quantitative methods and procedures for comparing these costs and benefits. The resulting model will go beyond traditional retention models to look at the total impact of an Army career on an in ...

This advanced development program is devoted to adapting SATIMO's proprietary Microwave Camera design and the associated proprietary microwave imaging codes based on Augumented Diffraction Tomography (ADT) and the Volumetric Electric Field Integral Equation (VEFIE) to provide efficient 3-D imaging of water movement along perferred flow channels during snowmelt. The customized Microwave Camera wil ...

In response to ever-increasing requirements, next-generation embedded systems will typically consist of several physically dispersed uniprocessor or multiprocessor nodes. In order to harness the potential of such architectures, a definition of distributed, fault-tolerant Ada must exist. Because the language standard does not meaningfully address distribution or fault tolerance, an extension of the ...

The Environmentally Oriented Systems Atmospheric Effects Library (EOSAEL) treats the propagation of ultraviolet through millimeter wavelength electromagnetic radiation for a wide range of atmospheric conditions. Because EOSAEL was originally designed in the 1970s for operation on mainframe and mini-computers, many archaic, cumbersome artifacts remain embedded in the code structure and programming ...

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A full motion video compression system with synchronized sound based on the MPEG-1 standard will be developed to provide a high compression ration and software playback capability on the Contract Test Set (CTS) III. Phase I will research new techniques in the areas of digital video preprocessing, adaptive quantization, motion prediction and bitstream manipulation with the objective of developing ...

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