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Modified computer-to-memory interface architecture and memory management executive software provide substantial increases in multiprocessor system reliability and throughput. The MIL-STD-1750A computer interface has a local cache memory using 8-word pages. The common main memory has fault tolerant data and address buses and fault tolerant data storage, with a page long word length, and hardware ar ...

Broad-band, dynamic (switchable), solid-state, ultrafast (sub-ns) optical shutter activated by a laser or other high intensity radiation source is provided based on novel interfaces of inorganic semiconductor (SC) electrodes with conducting polymers (CPs). The CPs, normally switched electrochemically between opaque and transparent states, are switched via direct charge transfer from photoexcitatio ...

THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A ONE-DAILY, ORAL PROGESTERONE FORMULATION FOR HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AS INDICATED FOR POSTMENOPAUSAL MANAGEMENT, ORAL CONTRACEPTION, AMENORRHEA, AND PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE. THE SPECIFIC AIMS ARE: 1) TO REFINE A FORMULATION OF MICRONIZED ORAL PROGESTERONE IN A NOVEL PROPRIETARY POLYMER MATRIX DRUG DELIVERY VEHICLE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATION; 2) TO TEST DOSAG ...

THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ULTIMATELY DEVELOP NOVEL THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER. THE AGENTS ARE BASED ON THE USE OF RADIOLABELED MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY BEARING THE ISOTOPE, RHENIUM-188. THIS ISOTOPE IS A GENERATOR PRODUCED ITEM WHICH COULD BE USED IN ANY NUCLEAR PHARMACY IN A RAPID MANNER TO GIVE INJECTABLE MATERIAL, AND CARRYING A GAMMA EMISSION AS WELL AS A BETA EMISSION CAN B ...

THE WIDESPREAD PRESENCE OF CHLORINATED AND NONCHLORINATED ORGANICS IN BOTH NATURAL AND TREATED WATER AT MANY AIR FORCE BASES POSES A SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH PROBLEM, SINCE SUCH UBIQUITOUS HALOCARBONS AS TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) AND CHLOROFORM ARE CARCINOGENIC AND/OR TOXIC. CURRENTLY, THE MOST COMMON TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMOVING ORGANICS FROM GROUNDWATER ARE ACTIVATED CARBON ADSORPTION AND COU ...

AN OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR (OPO) CAN PROVIDE HIGH-POWER, INFRARED TUNABLE OVER A BROAD RANGE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPO DEVICES HAS BEEN LIMITED BY THE SCARCITY OF HIGH-QUALITY, NON-LINEAR CRYSTALS AND LOW LASER-DAMAGE THRESHOLD. ZNGEP2 SINGLE CRYSTALS HAVE AN EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH FIGURE OF MERIT (D(2)/N(3), WHERE D IS THE NON-LINEAR COEFFICIENT AND N IS THE INDEX OF REFRACTIONS THAT IS APPROXIMA ...

Two methods for growing large beta-SiC proposed: (l) top-seeded solution growth under high pressure and (2) sublimation. We believe these two are the most promising techniques for producing large hauls, of beta-SiC, suitable for use as substrates for epitaxial growth of beta-SiC thin films. In the top-seeded solution growth method, pure silicon will be used as the solvent. The growth chamber will ...

THE WIDESPREAD PRESENCE OF CHLORINATED AND NONCHLORINATED ORGANICS IN GROUNDWATER AT MANY GOVERNMENT INSTALLATIONS POSES A SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH PROBLEM, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION BEING DRAWN TO TRICHLORETHYLENE (TCE) AS A COMMON CARCINOGENIC CONTAMINANT. MONITORING OF THE TCE CONTAMINANT LEVEL IN GROUNDWATER TYPICALLY REQUIRES THE COLLECTION OF SAMPLES AT THE SITE, TRANSPORTATION OF TH ...

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