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THE PROJECT WILL ASSESS SEVERAL DESIGN ALTERNATIVES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERT SYSTEMS AND, MORE GENERALLY, MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. SPECIFICALLY, A UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FRAME WILL BE EVALUATED AS A MEAN OF: 1) REDUCING THE AD HOC NATURE OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASE OF EXPERT SYSTEMS, 2) FACILITATING THE PRODUCTION OF NEW EXPERT SYSTEMS, 3) PERMITTING THE INTERACTION OF EXPERT SYSTEMS FROM WITHIN THEIR DIS ...

IN ORDER TO QUANTITATIVELY IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTION OF SEVERAL CRITICAL FUEL PROPERTIES TO IGNITION, COMBUSTION AND SUBSEQUENT ENGINE PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATE DIESEL FUELS, AND EMPIRICAL MATHEMATICAL MODELING INVESTIGATION IS PROPOSED. THE PERFORMANCE OF A WIDE VARIETY OF ALTERNATE HYDROCARBON DIESEL FUELS IN A DETROIT DIESEL SERIES 53 ENGINE WILL BE EVALUATED. WILL INCLUDED IGNITION QUALITY, DEN ...

WITH OXIDES LIKE THORIA HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME. HOWEVER, OXIDES ARE NOT WET BY METALS, SO WHEN OXIDE DISPERSION HARDENED METALS ARE MELTED, THE DISPERSED OXIDE SEPARATES AS A SLAG AND THE ADVANTAGES OF DISPERSION HARDENING ARE LOST. IN THIS PROPOSAL, A NEW APPROACH TO OXIDE DISPERSION HARDENING IS SUGGESTED, THROUGH THE USE OF METALLOPHILIC COLLOIDAL OXIDE PARTICLES. SPECIFICALLY, A FUNDAM ...

THE MISSILE GUIDANCE LAW PROGRAM DEVELOPED A DIGITAL COM- PUTER PROGRAM (OPTGID) WHICH COMPUTES OPTIMAL MISSILE GUIDANCE LAWS. IT DETERMINES THE ANGLE-OF-ATTACK TIME- HISTORY TO SHAPE A VERTICAL PLANE TRAJECTORY TO OPTIMALLY MEET SPECIFIED PERFORMANCE INDICIES AND TERMINAL CONSTRAINTSTHREE GUIDANCE LAW OPTIONS ARE INCORPORATED INTO OPTGID: 1) MAXIMUM RANGE WITH AND WITHOUT A SPECIFIED TERMINAL VEL ...

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ARE SUBJECT TO TRAUMA. CERTAIN CHANNELS FAIL FOR PROTRACTED PERIODS OF TIME. THE RED NOISE PROBLEM ARISES WHEN SOME, BUT NOT ALL, OF THE CHANNELS LINKING A SENDER TO A RECEIVER BECOME INOPERATIVE. THE SOLUTIONS TO THIS PROBLEM ARE CALLED POOL/SPLIT/ RESTITUTE PROCESSES. P/S/R PROCESSES AMOUNT TO WAYS TO ENCODE DIGITAL MESSAGES AT A SENDING NODE SO AS TO MAKE SURE TH ...

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TO SATISFY AIR FORCE REQUIREMENTS TO IMPROVE AVIATION REACTIVE ATMOSPHERES IN A UNIQUE, CONTRACTOR-OWNED ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR WITH ON-LINE, IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE SPECIES, TEMPERATURE AND RADIATION ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS BY FOURTER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR) SPECTROSCOPY. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE THE APPLICATION OF EXISTING CONTRACTOR-DEVELOPED MODELS OF VAPORIZATION, PYROLY ...

SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS IN COST AND DISPLACEMENT OF VALUABLE PETROLEUM FUEL CAN BE ACHIEVED BY BURNING COAL WHEN APPROPRIATE FOR DOD POWER GENERATION REQUIREMENTS. THIS PROPOSAL OFFERS A COST EFFECTIVE, PORTABLE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED AND INTEGRATED COAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A COAL'S COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM FOR COAL ANALYSES IS AN INTEGRATED THERMOGRAVIMETER ANALYZER (TGA), ...