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THIS PROPOSAL CONCERNS AN ACOUSTIC SOURCE FOR OCEAN ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY. A SWITCHED STATE DESIGN IS PROPOSED. THIS APPROACH HAS NOT YET BEEN REDUCED TO PRACTICE, HOWEVER, THE RESEARCH RISKS MAY BE OFFSET BY THE PROMISE OF EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN TOMOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS. A SWITCHED STATE SOURCE COMPARED TO A CONVENTIONAL SOURCE OF THE SMAE BANDWIDTH, FREQUENCY, AND EFFICIENCY WILL BE SMALLER, LIGH ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS RELATED TO A LONG STANDING NEED FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF MODULI VALUES OF EARTH MATERIALS AS THEY EXIST AT LARGE STRAIN LEVELS SUCH AS DURING EARTHQUAKE LOADINGS. THE DETERMINATIONS OF SUCH MODULI AT LOW STRAIN LEVELS ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF NUMEROUS WESTON GEOPHYSICAL PROJECTS BY THE DESIGNATED PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR MANY YEARS; IN ADDITION, AND ON NUMEROUS OCCURRENCE, SUCH ...

"ELECTRONIC CELL FUSION TECHNIQUE FOR HYBRIDOMAS" SBIR - DIV. OF RES. RESOURCES AND/OR NIAID - IMMUNOLOGY. THE PRODUCTION OF HYBRIDOMAS BY CELL FUSION IS AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF BOTH RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PROTOCOLS. ALMOST ALL FUSIONS ARE DONE WITH TECHNIQUES WHICH HAVE LOW ABSOLUTE FUSION EFFICIENCY (TYPICALLY 1 IN 10(5)), REQUIRE LARGE NUMBERS OF CELLS (TYPICALLY 10(9)) AND ARE PARTI ...

REGIONAL CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW (RCBF) IS AN IMPORTANT PARAMETER OF BRAIN FUNCTION IN ACUTELY AND CHRONICALLY ILL PATIENTS. INSTRUMENTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR MEASUREMENT OF RCBF ARE LARGE, IMMOBILE AND LACK THE FLEXIBILITY AND UTILITY REQUIRED TO STUDY RCBF IN MULTIPLE SITUATIONS SUCH AS THE OPERATING ROOM AND OUTPATIENT SERVICES. WE PROPOSE TO SPLIT THE PROCESS OF RCBF MEASUREMENT INTO A PORTABLE ...

THIS PROPOSAL CONCERNS DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE, MICROCOMPUTER/VIDEODISC TOOL FOR TEACHING LIFE SKILLS TO LEARNING DISABLED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WE HAVE TERMED IT A LIFE SKILLS SYSTEM (LSS), AN ATTEMPT TO REMEDY PRESENT DAY SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM DEFICIENCIES IN TRAINING LD STUDENTS TO FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY. THE LSS IS BASED ON FUNCTIONAL CONTEXT TRAINING, AND THUS IS A DISTINCT DEPART ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE NEED FOR AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR CONTENT. THE ULTRAVIOLET ABSORPTION HYGROMETER IS DESIGNED TO FULFILL THE REQUIREMENT FOR A COMPACT, RUGGED, RELIABLE SENSOR WITH A WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE WHICH CAN BE OPERATED IN A FIELD OR LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT. THIS HYGROMETER WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION OF ULTRAVIOLET (UV) RADI ...

BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS FROM THE LARGE QUANTITIES OF HCL RELEASED INTO THE ATOMOSPHERE FROM SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCHES, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MONITOR THE TRANSPORT OF HCL IN BOTH VAPOR AND AEROSOL FORM INTO THE SURROUNDING AREAS. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF PHASE I ARE TO EXPERIMENTALLY DEMONSTRATE A NOVEL INFRARED LIGHT SOURCE AND TO DESIGN AN HCL VAPOR/AEROSOL MONITOR, BASED ON THE NEW I ...

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