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WE ARE DEVELOPING A WEARABLE, PERSONAL ELECTRONIC REMINDING,GUIDING AND LOCATION MONITORING SYSTEM THAT MAY BE USED TO AUGMENT TRADITIONAL TEACHING AND SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS WHOARE MENTALLY RETARDED AND/OR TO SERVE AS A LONG TERM COGNITIVE PROSTHETIC TO PROMOTE THEIR PERSONAL AUTONOMY. THIS WALKMAN-SIZED, MICROPROCESSOR-BASED GUIDANCE SYSTEM CANAUTOMATICALLY VERBALLY REMIND A USER ABOUT PRESCHED ...

A PHASE I RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT TO DESIGN THE EQUIPMENT AND ALGORITHMS TO MEASURE THE IMPACT POINTS OF DIRECT FIRED PROJECTILES ON A VERTICAL MATRIX OF 12.5 METERS BY 12.5 METERS TO A CENTROID ACCURACY OF 1 CENTIMETER AND ANGLE OF INCIDENCE TO AN ACCURACY OF 1 MILLIDEGREE IS PROPOSED. THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, THE KEY SUBSYSTEMS, THE OPERATION PROCEDURES AND THE MEASUREMENT ALGORITHMS ARE ...

UROKINASE-LIKE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR (UPA) HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN TISSUE REMODELING DURING SUCH PROCESSES AS TUMOR METASTASIS, WOUND HEALING AND EMBRYOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT. SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF UPA HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH WILL BE ASSAYED AS INHIBITORS OF EXPERIMENTAL METASTASIS IN A MOUSE MELANOMA MODEL SYSTEM. CONFIRMATION OF A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE UPA INHIBITORY AND ANTI-METASTATIC PROPERT ...

THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INVOLVES THE CHARACTERIZATION, EVALUATION AND MODIFICATION OF A CHAIN -SHOCK ABSORBER UTILIZED COMMERCIALLY. THESE SHOCK ABSORBERS CAN BE ASSEMBLED AS "LINKS" TO FORM A LENGTH OF "CHAIN" WITH THE DESIRED SHOCK ABSORBING CHARACTERISTICS. THIS CHAIN CAN EITHER BE INCORPORATED BETWEEN THE SHIP-S ANCHORING CHAIN AND A BOUY, BETWEEN THE BOUY AND ITS ANCHOR, OR BETWEEN THE SHIP- ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE COMPUTERIZED INSTRUCTION ON CANCER PREVENTION FOR MINORITY AND LOW SES CHILDREN. BOTH RACE AND LOWER SES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVATED CANCER MORTALITY RATE; LACK OF EARLY DETECTION IS A KEY FACTOR. TEACHING CHILDREN IN SCHOOL REACHES THE GREATER NUMBER OF LOWER SES AND MINORITIES WITH INFORMATION ABOUT CANCER PREVENTION AND EARLY DETECTION BOTH CHILDRE ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING A NEWLY DEVELOPED MICROPOROUS MATERIAL FOR VASCULAR PROSTHETIC APPLICATIONS, AND ALSO TO STUDY THE VARIOUS PROCESS PARAMETERS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE END PRODUCT. AN INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK ("IPN") OF POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE ("PTFE") AND POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE ("PDMS") IS EXPANDE ...

THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP NEW METHODOLOGIES TO MEASURE AND DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CYTOTOXICITY AND GROWTH INHIBITION BY TOXIC CHEMICALS, CARCINOGENIC AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS. THE SPECIFIC AIMS INCLUDE: (A) TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF MEASURING CELL NUMBERS IN MULTIWELL MICROCULTURE PLATES BY IMAGE ANALYSIS. (B) TO VALIDATE THE IMAGE ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR (I) C ...

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