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SIMPLIFYING AND IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE CREATION IS THE GOAL OF A THREE-PHASE PROJECT THAT HAS AS ITS OUTCOME A FIVE- TO TEN-HOUR COMPUTER-BASED COURSE THAT WILL TEACH SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP INSTRUCTIONALLY SOUND COURSEWARE. PLANNING SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (PSI) PROPOSES THIS COURSE AS A FRONT-END TEACHING TOOL TO THE AUTHORING LANGUAGE THAT THE U.S. DEPARTMEN ...

THE GENETIC ENGINEERING OF COTTON PROVIDES AN OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THIS CROP. THE PRIMARY PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING A USEFUL GENE TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR COTTON HAS BEEN THE DIFFICULTY IN PLANT REGENERATION. HOWEVER, RESEARCHERS AT PLANT GENETICS, INC.,HAVE RECENTLY DEVELOPED A COTTON EMBRYO-FORMING SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS HIGH FREQUENCY PLANT REGENERATION WITH MINIMAL SOMACLONAL VARI ...

THE INFLUENCE OF FOUR TISSUE CULTURE SYSTEMS FOR MICROTUBER INDUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH ARE EXAMINED. THE LITERATURE DESCRIBES THREE SYSTEMS FOR MAKING MICROTUBERS. HOWEVER, NO DATA HAS BEEN GENERATED TO DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIP AT A PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVEL BETWEEN MICROTUBERS AND FIELD TUBERS. THREE POTATO VARIETIES WILL BE EVALUATED.THE PARAMETERS OF MICROTUBER FORMATION WHICH WILL BE EXAMINED ...

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CURRENTLY GAS METAL ARC WELDING AND FLUX CORED ARC WELDING HAS THE LIMITATION THAT FOR A GIVEN WIRE DIAMETER, THE PROCESS HAS A GIVEN MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM WIRE FEED SPEED RANGE TO OBTAIN A CONSISTENT STABLE ARC. DUE TO THIS RANGE LIMITATION THERE ARE LIMITATIONS ON THE DEPOSITION RATE, HEAT INPUT, AND TRAVEL SPEED. IF THE AMPERAGE AT THE ARC COULD BE MADE LESS DEPENDENT ON THE WIRE FEED SPEED, THER ...

POLAR RESEARCH LABORATORY HAS DEVELOPED RELIABLE DRIFTING BUOY SUSPENDED SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURES, CONDUCTIVITY/TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE (DEPTH) AT SELECTED POINTS ALONG A SUBSURFACE SENSOR STRING. A TREMENDOUS DEMAND EXISTS FOR MEASUREMENTS OF THIS TYPE AS WELL AS FOR DATA FROM OTHER SENSORS WHERE PROFILE TYPE INFORMATION IS REQUIRED. THE DRIFTING BUOY IS THE IDEAL VEHICLE FO ...

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX FORMATION WHEN COUPLED WITH MARKER TECHNIQUES CONSTITUTE AS IMPORTANT AREA OF RESEARCH AND CLINICAL RESEARCH, TECHNIQUES OF COVALENTLY BINDING THESE IMMUNO-MACRO-MOLECULES TO DESIRED MARKERS BY IMPROVED PROCEDURES IS THE OBJECT OF THIS STUDY. TO DETECT LOW LEVELS OF ANTIGENIC BEHAVIOR BY MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES RAPIDLY, A NEW PREACTIVATED LATEX MICROPARTICLE SYSTEM WILL BE S ...

THE PROJECT WILL ADDRESS THE DEVELOPMENT OR ADAPTATION OF ASSISTIVE DEVICES TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATIONS AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, AND ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM ENVIRONMENTS BY INFANTS, TODDLERS, PRESCHOOLERS, CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES, SPECIFICALLY CHILDREN WHO MUST RELY ON AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICES BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEVERE COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS AND SEVERE MOTOR L ...

A GENERIC SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LTO RULE STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS INTENDED FOR USE ON SUPERCOMPUTERS IS DESCRIBED. MANY PROBLEMS OF PHYSICAL INTEREST ARE INTRINSICALLY LARGE DIMENSIONAL WHICH ALSO ENHANCES THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF VECTOR/PARALLEL PROCESSING MACHINES. PROBLEMS OF STABILITY ARE MORE SERIOUS THAN IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND ARE DUE TO THE UNBOU ...

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