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LONG LEG BRACING AFFORDS AMBULATION AND A REDUCTION IN DEFORMITY TO INDIVIDUALS WITH PARALYSIS OR WEAKNESS. HOWEVER, THE MAJORITY OF BRACES ARE MADE OF STEEL AND ARE QUITE HEAVY. FOR CHILDREN, BRACES CAN CONSTITUTE UP TO 40% OF THEIR TOTAL WEIGHT. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL UTILIZE RECENT ADVANCES IN THE FIELD OF REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS TO INVESTIGATE LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOFORMABLEMATERIALS FOR ...

QUANTECH PROPOSES, DURING THE PHASE I SBIR, TO DETERMINE IF THEY CAN ASSIST IN THE STATISTICAL DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND BIOMEDICAL EXPERIMENTS BY UNITING ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE AND NUMBERICAL COMPUTATION ON A MICRO-COMPUTER. THEY WILL ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STATISTICIAN AND CLIENT CONCERNING THE INTENT AND STRUCTURE OF AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY, TO REPRESENT THIS MA ...

A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC POWER FACTOR CONTROL IS PROPOSED WHICH MODULATES REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION. THIS PROPOSED SHUNT SYSTEM COMPRISED A FIXED SIZE CAPACITOR AND A SYSTEM OF COUPLED FIXED RATIO AND VARIABLE RATIO TRANSFORMERS. THEMODULATING CONTROL CAN NOT CAUSE ELECTRIC TRANSIENTS, WHICH ARE AN UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OLD ART OF CAPACITOR SWITCHING. IN THOSE SYSTEMS IN WHICH THE DIST ...

ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING NEW KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION METHODOLOGIES IS THE "OBJECT-ORIENTED" APPROACH. ONE OF THEWEAK POINTS IN MANY OF THE OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS PREVIOUSLY STUDIED IS THE LACK OF A SUFFICIENTLY EFFICIENT AND POWERFUL REASONING ENGINE. FOR THIS REASON, THERE HAS BEEN A GOOD DEAL OF INTEREST IN DEVELOPING A PROLOG-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING SYSTEM: PROLOG HAS THE MOST EFFI ...

THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A 3-AXES ACOUSTIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETER SUITABLE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS AT A SINGLE POINT. THE PROPOSED APPROACH UTILIZES INTERRUPTED CONTINUOUS WAVE ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION WITH THE WATERMASS SAMPLING VOLUME DEFINED BY THIS INTERSECTION OF MULTIPLE CROSSBEAMS. THE PRIMARY PHASE I OBJECTIVES ARE TO ANALYTICALLY DEFINE ...

THIS VACUUM GAUGE EMPLOYS A MAGNETIC MIRROR TO DETECT AND IDENTIFY GASES AT LOW PRESSURES. IT IS EXPECTED TO OCCUPY APLACE IN THE MARKET BETWEEN AN ION GAUGE AND A MASS SPEC- TROMETER.

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WHILE THERE ARE TUNED MASS DAMPERS IN USE IN TALL BUILDINGS NOW THE INSTALLED COST OF THESE UNITS HAVE BEEN IN THE RANGEOF SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. NO RESEARCH HAS BEEN DONE TO BRING THE COSTS DOWN BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF SUCH UNITS IN SERVICE IS SMALL. YET, TALL BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES SUCH AS THE JOHN HANCOCK BUILDING IN BOSTON AND THE CN TOWER IN TORONTO, WERE EQUIPPED WITH TUNED DAMPER SYST ...