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ROBOTICS IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FIELD IN RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURING. MOST ROBOTS, HOWEVER, EITHER PERFORM REPETITIVE PREPROGRAMMED OPERATIONS OR ARE GUIDED BY A HUMAN OPERATOR. THIS IS NOT PRACTICAL IN MANY APPLICATIONS WHERE AUTONOMOUS OPERATION IS REQUIRED, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS IN FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ROBOTS, ESPECIALLY FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS, WILL COME IN THE AREA ...

LEAD IODIDE (PBI2) IS A LAYERED SEMICONDUCTOR COMPOUND THAT POSSESSES A NUMBER OF STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS KNOWN AS POLYTYPES. THE FORMATION OF THESE STRUCTURES IS KNOWN TO BE CAUSED BY IMPURITIES. RECENTLY METHODS FOR GROWING THIS MATERIAL IN VERY HIGH PURITY FORM HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE LITERATURE USING METHODS SIMILAR TO THOSE USED BY RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. TO PRODUCE CDTE FOR COM ...

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY PRACTICED PROCEDURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS, YET A SIMPLE AND RAPID METHOD FOR ASSESSINGTHE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROCEDURE WHILE IT IS BEING PERFORMED IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. IT WOULD BE EXTREMELYUSEFUL IF A DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF REGIONAL MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW (RMBF) COULD BE MADE PRIOR TO THE CLOSING OF THE ...

LEAD IODIDE (PBI2) IS A LITTLE USED COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR THE HIGH ATOMIC NUMBERS OF ITS CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS GIVES ITEXTRAORDINARY PHOTOELECTRIC ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY OFOR GAMMAPHOTONS, WHILE ITS 2.5 EV BANDGAP PROMISES PERFORMANCE AT TEMPERATURES UP TO 250 DEGREES C. IT HAS SHOWN SOME PROM- ISE AS A HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLID-STATE DETECTOR, BUT EARLY DEVICES WERE LIMITED BY MATERIAL IMPURITIES AND ...

ALTHOUGH AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY IS FINDING WIDESPREAD USE IN MANY INDUSTRIES, THE FOOD INDUSTRY IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING TOINTRODUCE SUCH TECHNOLOGY IN PRODUCTION FACILITIES. IN PARTICULAR, THERE IS A NEED TO INCREASE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS IN A NUMBER OF AREAS INCLUDING NEW SENSORS AND MONITORING SYSTEMS, ROBOTIC TECHNIQUES, AND APPLICATIONS OF VISION SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT EVALUATION AT INTER ...

THE METHYLFURYLBUTYROLACTONES (MFBL'S) ARE A UNIQUE GROUP OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS THAT COMPRISE A NEW GROUP OF SYNTHETIC IMMUNOMODULATORS. THE COMPOUNDS ARE WATER SOLUBLE, RELATIVELY NON-TOXIC, ECONOMICAL TO PRODUCE IN QUANTITY, AND EFFECTIVE WHEN ADMINISTERED VIA THE INTRAVENOUS, INTRAPERITONEAL OR ORAL ROUTES. THE DRUGS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO POSSESS A WIDE RANGE OF IMMUNOMODIFYING PROPERTIES. MURINE ...

PRESENT AND PLANNED AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES HAVE EFFECTIVE RANGES THAT GREATLY EXCEED A PILOT'S ABILITY TO IDENTIFY AN AIRCRAFT. AS A RESULT, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE WEAPONS IS GREATLY REDUCED. SYSTEMS SUCH AS ARTIS, OPUS AND MK XV IFF INCREASE THE RANGE AT WHICH AIRCRAFT CAN BE IDENTIFIED, BUT EACH HAS A CHARACTERISTIC PERFORMANCE ENVELOPED IN WHICH IT FUNCTIONS OPTIMALLY. WHAT IS NEEDED IS AN ART ...

A HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND HIGH SENSITIVITY X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM HAS BEEN DEVELOPED THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE IN-PROCESS INSPECTION OF SURFACE MOUNTED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLIES. IT IS A NEAR REAL-TIME SYSTEM THAT PRODUCES HIGH-QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGES CAPABLE OF PROVIDING QUANTITATIVE DATA FOR FEEDBACK TO THE ASSEMBLY SOLDERING AND OTHER SURFACE MOUNTED TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING PROCESSES ...

A PROGRAM OF STUDY IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL LEAD TO A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS CAPABLE OF CALCULATING THE FLOW AROUND AND THE LOADS ON CONFIGURATIONS WHERE ELEMENTS OF THE VEHICLE ARE IN MOTION RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER AND WHERE THE VEHICLE ITSELF MAY BE IN UNSTEADY MOTION IN THE INERTIAL FRAME. A WIDE RANGE OF PROBLEMS FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY RANGING FROM COUPLED MOTION OF ORDNANCE OR STORES RELEASED FROM ...

THE NEED TO APPLY EXPERT KNOWLEDGE IN THE INTERPRETATION OF MEDICAL IMAGERY AND SENSOR DATA IS WELL DOCUMENTED. RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMS HAVE PROVEN THEIR VALUE IN SUCH APPLICATIONS AS MEDICAL EXPERTISE. MOST DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS MIMIC THE CONSULTING-ROOM ENVIRONMENT, ACQUIRING SYMPTOM DESCRIPTIONS AND LAB FINDINGS THROUGH DIALOG WITH THE USER. AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS FROM IMAGERY AND ANALOG IS A MORE ...