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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): New interactive communication technologies continue to expand in modern society. Children and adolescents are frequently among the earliest adopters of new technologies. Communication via Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging is one example. This application proposes to develop computer-automated methods for interactively assessing clinical states in chi ...

SOIL CONTAMINATION BY TOXIC WASTES HAS DESTROYED SIGNIFICANTVALUABLE LAND ACREAGE. RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF SOIL REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES PERMITS RECLAMATION OF MUCH LOST LAND FOR PRODUCTIVE USES. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL INVESTIGATE REVEGETATION METHODS WHICH WILL COMPLETE THE SOIL DETOXIFICATION PROCESS AND PERMANENTLY STABILIZE THE RECLAIMED SOIL. UNDER PHASE I, GREENHOUSE TESTS WILL BE CONDUCTE ...

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MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION ON CELLS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND DEVISING METHODS TO PROTECT HUMANS AGAINST RADIATION DAMAGE ARE ESSENTIAL TO LONG-DURATION SPACE TRAVEL. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP FLOW CYTOMETRIC METHODS FOR MONITORING RADIATION DAMAGE TO LYMPHOCYTES, AND TO ASSESS CHEMICAL AGENTS FOR THEIR ABILITY TO SERVE AS RADIOPROTECTORS. THE RESPONSE OF ...

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP A MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH LASER DIODE BASED ON QUANTUM WELL TECHNOLOGY. THE DEVICE IS BASED ON GALLIUM INDIUM ARSENIC PHOSPHIDE ON AN INDIUM PHOSPHIDE SUBSTRATE. THE MATERIAL COMPOSITION IS TO BE DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THE FORMULA OF 1-X AND 1-Y FOR ALL VALUES OF X AND Y LESS THAN 1.0. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY MATERIALS WHICH WILL PRODUCE SPECIFIC OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS BE ...

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THE RESEARCH PLAN OUTLINED HERE COULD DISCLOSE A NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTRODES CHEMICALLY MODIFIED WITH ELECTROACTIVE COATINGS IN THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AREA, INCLUDING NEW METHODS FOR MICROIONTOPHORESIS, MONITORING NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE, AND TRANSDUCTION OF NERVE SIGNALS. THE IONTOPHORETIC METHOD WOULD CONTROL THE IONIC CONTENT OF THE COATING (AND THE SURROUNDING SOLUTION) BY CONTROLLING ...

"Special Operations Command wants to employ innovative, secure systems to enable real time communications with Special Forces Operations Combatant Craft deployed anywhere in the world. Communication structure must have sufficient bandwidth to enablecommand structure decision making, to monitor craft and personnel status, and to enable real-time failure analysis and in some cases, correction of de ...

SPECIFIC PROTEIN- PROTEIN INTERACTIONS ARE CENTRAL TO MANY CELLULAR FUNCTIONS. DETECTION OF THESE INTERACTIONS HAS GENERALLY BEEN BY CO-IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ANALYSES. THESE METHODS HAVE DRAWBACKS DERIVING FROM THE NATURE OF THIS TECHNIQUE, INCLUDING THE DIFFICULTY OF CLONING GENE SEQUENCES FOR NEWLY DETECTED PROTEINS. A YEAST-BASED GENETIC SYSTEM TO STUDY PROTEIN INTERACTIONS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED, WH ...

BY OPTIMIZING CONDITIONS, CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON BEAM BY OPTIMIZING CONDITIONS, CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON BEAM RESISTS, SUCH AS PBS, CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE GEOMETRIES IN THE 0.3 TO 0.5 MICRON RANGE IN A CONTROLLED MANNER, USING RASTER SCAN WRITING TECHNIQUES IN A LIMITED PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. IN ORDER FOR THESE PATTERNING TECHNIQUES TO BE USEFUL, THE DEFECT DENSITY OF THE FINAL PRODUCT MUST BE VERY T ...