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THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH ACTIVITY IS TO DEVELOP A C3 MASTER PLAN TO SUPPORT THE SRT ATTACK MISSION. THIS PLAN WILL BE DEVELOPED IN THE CONTEXT OF A MID/FAR TERM SRT ATTACK ARCHITECTURE CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED BY FRONTIER FOR THE AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS DIVISION/DEPUTY FOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (ASD/XR). THIS ON-GOING ACTIVITY WILL EXPAND AND EVOLVE THE CURRENT/NEAR SAC PLANS INTO AN I ...

WE PROPOSE TO ISOLATE NEW GROWTH FACTOR OR GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR GENES, BASED UPON THEIR LINKAGE TO A CLUSTER OF SUCH GENES ON HUMAN CHROMOSOME 5. A LONG RANGE COMPARATIVE PHYSICAL MAP OF THE KNOWN GENES WITHIN THIS REGION WILL BE COMPILED, AND LARGE DNA FRAGMENTS ON WHICH TWO OR MORE OF THESE GENES RESIDE, WILL BE IDENTIFIED. PROBES SPECIFIC TO THESE FRAGMENTS WILL BE ISOLATED USING A COMBINATIO ...

THIS RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY AND CLONE ENDOGENOUS INHIBITORY MOLECULES OF INTERLEUKIN-1 (IL-1). HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)-INFECTED MACROPHAGES AND MACROPHAGE CELL LINES RELEASE TWO INHIBITORS OF IL-1, AN 8-KD MOLECULE AND A 95-KD MOLECULE. POLY (A)(+) MRNA WILL BE PREPARED FROM THESE SOURCES AND CDNA LIBRARIES PREPARED IN LAMBDA GT11 EXPRESSION VECTOR. CLONES WILL BE SCREENED WITH A RABBIT ...

THE PROPOSED PROGRAM PRESENTS A PLAN TO DEVELOP THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF A SECONDARY THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLAN THAT CAN BE USED IN THE COAST GUARD'S MAJOR AIDS TO NAVIGATION. THIS DESIGN WILL TAKE THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE COAST GUARD INTO CONSIDERATION. THIS INCLUDES POWER LEVEL, SIZE, COST, AND RELIABILITY GOALS. THE DESIGN WILL USE AS MUCH OF THE TECHNOLOGY RELATED TO POWER SYSTEMS OF THIS TYP ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A REAL-TIME MENTAL WORKLOAD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM BASED UPON A PROVEN BRAINWAVE ANALYSIS APPROACH THAT IS CURRENTLY IN RESEARCH USE. THE EXISTING APPROACH WILL BE AUGMENTED BY USE OF NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION. THE FEATURE EXTRACTION NEURAL NETWORK WILL UTILIZE A SELF-ORGANIZING, UNSUPERVISED TRAINING APPROACH. THE PATTERN RECOGN ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP, AND DEMONSTRATE ON A SHIP, A SYSTEM FOR SIGNIFICIANTLY REDUCING NOISE (IN THE 20 HZ - 2,000 HZ RANGE) BY ACTIVE CANCELLATION USING A NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE. THE EMPHASIS WILL BE ON A REAL-WORLD SOLUTION RATHER THAN A LABORATORY DEMONSTRATION. UNLIKE PAST ACTIVE CANCELLATION SYSTEMS, THE SYSTEM PROPOSED HERE WILL NOT INVOLVE THE USE OF UNCOMFORTABLE HEADPHONES. INSTEAD, ...

HORIZONS TECHNOLOGY, INC., (HTI) PROPOSES TO EXAMINE THE BENEFITS OF APPLYING HYPERTEXT, EXPERT SYSTEM, AND MICROCOMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND COMPUTATIONAL AIDS (CAP) AND BY INCREASING THE USABILITY OF REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION DESCRIBING COMPLEX NUCLEAR WEAPON EFFECTS PHENOMENOLOGY. A HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT ALLOWS THE USER TO EASILY ACCESS DIFFERENT TY ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF TERRAIN DATA TO THE SUCCESS OF TACTICAL OPERATIONS AND ADVANCES IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HAVE CREATED WIDESPREAD REQUIREMENTS FOR THE UTILIZATION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN DATA (DTD) WITHIN THE ARMY. THE CONCEPTS AND ANALYSIS DIVISION OF THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC LABORATORIES (USAETL) HAS THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING THESE ARMY REQUIREMENTS AND IS INVESTIGATING THESE T ...

THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATING TEACHERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS ON THE DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE IS AN ENDURING ONE. PRINTED MATERIAL IS READILY AVAILABLE BUT IS INEFFECTIVE IF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS TOO CONDENSED AND IS IGNORED IF TOO DETAILED. A COMPUTERIZED VERSION OF SUCH MATERIAL WILL FARENO BETTER UNLESS IT CAN BE PUT INTO A FORM WHERE JUST THE RIGHT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AT THE RIGHT LEVEL OF DE ...

A COMPUTER BASED ALGORITHM IS PROPOSED THAT INTEGRTES AN ADVANCED NAVIER-STOKES HYPERSONIC FLOW SOLVER WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART MATERIAL RESPONSE COMPUTER CODES TO CREATE A POWERFUL TOOL FOR REENTRY VEHICLE HEATSHIELD DESIGN. COMPLEX GAS PHYSICS ARE MODELED WITH CONSIDERATION OF THERMAL AND CHEMICAL NONEQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS.