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THIS PROPOSAL'S RESEARCH HOPES TO APPLY SEVERAL OF CHESTNUT SOFTWARE'S PROPRIETARY TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES TO THE PROBLEM OF LISP TO ADA TRANSLATION. LISP IS OFTEN THE DESIRED DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE FOR COMPLEX PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS. IT IS A FEATURE-RICH LANGUAGE WHICH ALLOWS PROGRAMMERS TO SOLVE DIFFICULT AND COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN THE SHORTEST PERIOD OF TIME. HOWEVER, THESE VERY FEATURES MAKE IT A DIFF ...

HIGHLY POLYMORPHIC ALU LOCI WILL BE USED AS GENETIC MARKERS TO REFINE THE HUMAN GENETIC LINKAGE MAP. A REFINED GENETIC MAP IS IMPORTANT FOR MAPPING INHERITED DISEASE GENES, FOR STUDYING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY, AND FOR CONSTRUCTING A PHYSICAL MAP OF THE HUMAN GENOME. REGIONS FLANKING ALU ELEMENTS FROM VARIOUS LOCI WILL BE SEQUENCED AND PCR PRIMERS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO AMPLIFY THE ALU ELEMENTS. PCR ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS INVESTIGATION IS TO DESIGNAND CHARACTERIZE A PROTOTYPE NEURAL TECHNOLOGY SENSORY SYSTEM, A "SMART SENSORY RETINA," TO PERFORM SATELLITE AND SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION BY STAR PATTERN IDENTIFICATION. THE PROPOSED SENSOR CHIP IS CALLED A RETINA BECAUSE, LIKE BIOLOGICAL RETINAS, IT COMBINES OPTICAL TRANSDUCTION AND PREPROCESSING WITHIN A SINGLE ANALOG COMPUTING SURFACE. T ...

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STATE-OF-THE-ART, IMPLANTABLE, NICKEL-CADMIUM (NI-CD) RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES USED IN VENTRICULAR ASSIST SYSTEMS OFFER BARELY ADEQUATE ENERGY DENSITY AND CYCLE LIFE. ADVANCES IN RECHARGEABLE BATTERY TECHNOLOGY WOULD GREATLY IMPROVE THE DAY-TO-DAY COMFORT OF PATIENTS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY REDUCING THE NEED FOR SURGERY TO REPLACE WORN-OUT CELLS. WHILE RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM (LI) BATTERIES EXCEL WITH RES ...

IT IS PLANNED TO SYNTHESIZE A NEW FAMILY OF LIPOPHILIC LI(+)ION FLUOROPHORES THAT MAY ULTIMATELY FIND USE IN A VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS OF INTEREST TO CELL PHYSIOLOGISTS AND NEUROSCIENTISTS. THESE FLUOROPHORES WILL BE ABLE TO FUNCTION IN CELL MEMBRANES AS LITHIUM ION CARRIERS TO TRANSPORT LI(+) INTO THE CYTOPLASM FOR STUDY OF THE INHIBITION OF INOSITOL PHOSPHATE METABOLISM. WITH SOME ALTERATIONS OF ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A FIBER OPTIC PROBE FOR LITHIUM ION BASED ON NEW FLUORESCENT LITHIUM ION CARRIERS IMMOBILIZED ONFIBER OPTIC BUNDLES BY LANGMUIR-BLODGETT FILM TECHNIQUES. IN PHASE I THE NEW FLUORESCENT IONOPHORE WILL BE SYNTHESIZEDAND TESTED FOR LI/NA SPECIFICITY. OPTICAL PROPERTIES WILL ALSO BE INVESTIGATED TO DETERMINE SUITABILITY FOR USE IN A FIBER OPTIC PROBE. IN PHASE II WE WILL SYNTHESI ...

THE AIR FORCE HAS A NEED FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE, LIGHT WEIGHT, RECHARGEABLE POWER SOURCES FOR A VARIETY OF SPACE POWER APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LOW EARTH ORBIT PLATFORMS. OUR ONGOING EFFORTS IN NON-AQUEOUS RECHARGEABLE BATTERY R&D SUGGESTED THAT THE INTRINSICALLY SAFE, HIGHLY EFFICIENT AI ELECTRODE MAY BE COUPLED WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE INSERTION CATHODE IN AN A1C13-BASED MOLTEN SALT ELECTROLYTE. DURING P ...