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CERAMICS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE IN THE DEFEAT OF A WIDE RANGE OF KINETIC ENERGY (KE) THREATS. HOWEVER, THE USE OF CERAMICS IN ARMORED VEHICLES HAS BEEN LIMITED DUE IN MOST PART TO THEIR HIGH COST. CERAMIC PARTICULATE REINFORCED METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMCS) PRODUCED BY PRESSURELESS LIQUID METAL INFILTRATION ARE INEXPENSIVE RELATIVE TO MONOLITHIC CERAMICS DUE TO THE LOWER COST OF THE ...

OF REACTOR THERMAL-HYDRAULICS CODES. THESE CODES HAVE INTERNATIONAL APPLICABILITY. TRADING THESE CODES, WITH APPROPRIATE SUPPORT, TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN EXCHANGE FOR USEFUL DATA OR OTHER RESOURCES WOULD ENHANCE THEIR UTILITY AND REDUCE THE COST TO THE U.S. OF GENERATING EQUIVALENT DATA. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO PROVIDE A SOUND TECHNICAL BASIS FOR SUCH AN EXCHANGE BY: IDENTIFYING C ...

OVERFISHING HAS DEPLETED NATURAL STOCKS OF BIVALVE MOLLUSCS USED TO PRODUCE PROCESSED CLAM MEAT. PRESENTLY LARGE CLAMS ARE SHUCKED, EVISCERATED AND REMAINING MEATS EITHER MINCED OR SLICED INTO STRIPS. IF THE WHOLE MEATS OF JUVENILECLAMS COULD BE USED TO MAKE THESE PRODUCTS, THESE COULD BE CULTIVATED IN MASS PRODUCTION IN A FEW WEEKS AND PROCESSED INTO VERY INEXPENSIVE PRODUCTS. RESEARCH IS PROPOSE ...

BECAUSE SOFTWARE HAS BECOME A DOMINANT FACTOR INSIGNAL-PROCESSING R&D, PRODUCTIVITY DEPENDS HEAVILY ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ISSUES: EASE OF WRITING NEW SOFTWARE, RE-USING EXISTING SOFTWARE, AND EXCHANGING TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN DIFFERENT GROUPS. RESEARCHERS WHO USE HIGHLY PARALLEL SIMD MACHINES, OR OTHER MACHINES WITH UNCONVENTIONAL ARCHITECTURES, HAVE DIFFICUTLY IN EXCHANGING TECHNOLOGY WITH USERS OF ...

BECAUSE MAN IS LEARNING THAT THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT IS A FRAGILE SYSTEM, THE NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING MAN'S EFFECTS ON THIS SYSTEM IS GREATER THAN EVER. AN IDEAL METHOD TO OBTAIN VALUABLE INFORMATION ON ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS IS THROUGH THE USE OF LIDAR. RESEARCHERS ARE USING A Q-SWITCHED HO:YAG LASER TO PUMP AN OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR (OPO) WITH SILVER GALLIUM SELENIDE (AGGASE2) NONLINEAR CR ...

THE CURRENT REFRIGERANTS USED IN THE VAPOR CYCLE SYSTEMS ARE SCHEDULED TO BE PHASED OUT AND REPLACED WITH REFRIGERANTS THAT ARE ENVIRONMENTALLY LESS HAZARDOUS. THESE REFRIGERANTS ARE BEING DEVELOPED TO REPLACE THOSE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS AND WILL ALSO FIND USE IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS. IN MOST REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS SOME TYPE OF COMPRESSOR OR PUMP IS REQUIRED ...

THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS THE CONCEPT FOR A SUITE OF REUSE TOOLS SUPPORTING THE RAPID ACQUISITION AND EXPLOITATION OF DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE TO SUPPORT DOMAIN-DIRECTED REUSE. THE PROPOSED TOOLSET IS NAMED SAHIB, IN HONOR OF RAO SAHIB S.R. RANGANATHAN, THE RECOGNIZED FATHER OF LIBRARY SCIENCE AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. THE APPROACH IS BASED UPON AN INNOVATIVE REPOSITORY TECHNOLOGY, TERMED THESAUROFACETS, FO ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING LOCAL AND REGIONAL SEISMIC EVENTS IS PROPOSED. THIS AUTOMATED SYSTEM WILL INCORPORATE MANY OF THE ADVANCED SEISMIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN SPECIALIZED AND LARGE SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. AMONG THE STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODOLOGIES WE WILL INTEGRATE INTO THE SYSTEM ARE THE NE ...

LANGUAGE IS THE BINDING FORCE OF A NATION AND SERVES AS THE COMMUNICATION TOOL FOR ITS PEOPLE. THE DIVERSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES AMONG VARIOUS NATIONS IN THE WORLD CREATES THE LANGUAGE BARRIER WHICH IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES FOR WORLD DISORDER. MACHINE TRANSLATION HOLDS THE KEY TO SOLVE THE LANGUAGE BARRIER. CITAC COMPUTER, INC., HAS SUCCESSFULLY DESIGNED THE WORLD'S FIRST GENUINE CHINESE-TO-ENGLI ...