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THE ABILITY TO MEASURE AN ACROSOME REACTION IN HUMAN SPERM MAY LEAD TO NEW DIAGNOSES AND THERAPY FOR MALE INFERTILITY. A NUMBER OF TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED, BUT NONE ARE ROUTINELY USED IN A CLINICAL SEMEN ANALYSIS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO OPTIMIZE THE CONDITIONSFOR AN INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE ASSAY USING EXISTING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES, T6 AND MHS-10, TO QUANTITATE ACROSOME-RE ...

THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE NEEDS OF OLDER PERSONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INTERFACE DESIGNS OF HAND-HELD CONTROL UNITS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE, ESPECIALLY TELEROBOTS. THESE REMOTE CONTROL UNITS (RCUS), PROLIFERATING WITHOUT ADEQUATE HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING, WILL BE USED INCREASINGLY BY SENIORS IN THEIR HOMES AND AT WORK. THE ONLY STUDY OF RCUS INDICATES THAT THEIR OPER ...

SEVERAL STATES ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING MUCH-NEEDED NEW LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE DISPOSAL SITES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1980. ANY NEW COMMERCIALREQUIREMENT THAT A SITE BE CAPABLE OF BEING MODELED AND THATITS PERFORMANCE BE ASSURED FOR 500 YEARS. FOR MOST SITES, THE HYDROGEOLOGICAL AND RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT CHARACTERIS- TICS OF THE UNSATURATED ZONE ARE MAJOR FACT ...

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THIS RESEARCH WILL SEEK TO DETERMINE IF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION DEVELOPED FOR THE MOD-SERIES COMPUTER SYSTEM IN THE 1970S, FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF LARGE NUMBERS OF CENSUS SUMMARY TAPES ON MAINFRAME COMPUTERS, CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY ADAPTED TO THE MICROCOMPUTER ENVIRONMENT EXPECTED TO EXIST AT THE TIME OF THE 1990 CENSUS. A PARTIALPROTOTYPE OF THE MAINFRAME MOD-SERIES SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED AND ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE CLINICAL LONGEVITY OF ENDOSSEOUS DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS. THIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH TREATMENT OF ALUMINA AND TITANIUM DENTAL IMPLANTS WITH A UNIQUE HA COATING PROCESS THAT PRODUCES THIN, HIGHLY ADHERENT, POLYCRYSTALLINE HA FILMS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. THE HA PROCESS INVOLVES ION BEAM AND ELECTRON-PLASMA TECHNIQUES THAT ARE USED TO INTEGRATE COATING W ...

THE INCREASED REPLACEMENT OF COMPLEX SENSORY AND MOTOR FUNCTIONS IN THE DISABLED BY PROSTHETIC DEVICES HAS RESULTEDIN THE USAGE OF VERY SMALL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FOR BOTH STIMULATION AND RECORDING. THE ABILITY TO ADDRESS FUNCTIONSAT A NEUROLOGICAL LEVEL OFTEN REQUIRES THE USE OF EXTREMELY SMALL, INDEPENDENTLY ADDRESSABLE ELECTRODES IN THE 1 TO 2 MICRON RANGE. IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE ELECTRONI ...

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