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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 ...

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2, 6-DI-T-BUTYL-P-ETHYLPHENOL (DBPEP) FINDS COMMERCIAL APPLICATION AS AN ANITOXIDANT IN POLYETHYLENE PACKAGING FILMS. IT IS MADE BY REACTING P-ETHYLPHENOL (PEP) WITH ISOBUTYLENE UNDER ACIDIC CONDITIONS. PEP, AVAILABLE ONLY FROM OVERSEAS SOURCES, IS MADE BY DATED TECHNOLOGY WHICH IS ENERGY INTENSIVE AND WHICH GENERATES LARGE QUANTITIES OF PHENOL CONTAMINATED WASTES. THE OBJECT OF THIS SEARCH IS TO ...

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THE OCEAN SCIENCE COMMUNITY HAS NO ECONOMICAL MEANS FOR TAKING DEEP CORES FROM BARE ROCK SEAFLOORS. IN THE ABSENCE OF DEEP SEDIMENTARY OVERBURDEN THE DRILL BIT AT THE END OF ALONG PIPE STRING "WALKS" FROM THE POINT OF INTENDED ENTRY ONTHE ROCK SURFACE, RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO THE BIT. A PROMINENT, ADVANCED CONCEPT FOR SEAFLOOR ROCK CORING REPLACES THE DRILL PIPE WITH AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL CABLE. TH ...

THE THREE TYPES OF MAGNETIC FIELD REGION WHICH FUNCTION IN SEPARATING MATERIALS BY EXPLOITING THEIR MAGNETIC RESPONSES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ANADYNAMIC, ISODYNAMIC AND KATADYNAMIC. THESE THREE FIELD REGIONS MAY BE ARRAYED IN CONTIGUOUS SEQUENCE SO AS TO PROVIDE A "MAGNETIC BARRIER" AT WHICH MAGNETIC FORCE PERPENDICULAR TO FIELD DIRECTION EFFECTS CONTINUOUS SEPARATION OF PARTICLES ACCORDING TO SU ...

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MESSAGE-PASSING ARCHITECTURES (SUCH AS THE FPST SERIES, THE NCUBE 10, THE INTEL IPSC, AND THINKING MACHINES CONNECTION MACHINE) ARE ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR APPROACHES TO BUILDING PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES. THESE ARCHITECTURES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO INCORPORATE LARGE NUMBERS (GREATER THAN 100) OF PROCESSORS, A POTENTIAL THAT THE OTHER MAJOR APPROACH (SHARED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES) DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE. BEC ...