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The use of lead projectile cores in current U.S. Army small caliber ammunition has caused increasing concern over the environmental contamination of military firing ranges and surrounding areas. A number of military firing ranges are in danger of being closed due to high levels of lead contamination. TRI/Austin proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a non-toxic, lead free, cost ef ...

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Attitude estimation of 3D objects is a necessary component of many of today's most difficult problems. Currently White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) has an application in which they wish to use live imagery from multiple video sources to precisely determine the attitude or pose of missiles, aircraft, and submunitions as they pass through the field of view. This proposal describes a system that solv ...

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Concentrations of most circulating hormones and their metabolites are too low for existing test strip technologies to measure. Laboratory measurements are based upon immunological binding of these hormones. Color tests utilizing colloidal gold or enzyme mediated color changes have been linked to immunological binding and applied to hormones to yield non-quantitative yes or no tests. These methods ...

Semiconductor-catalyzed photooxidation of chemical waste is a comparatively recent development which offers several advantages over other know oxidation processes. The advantages include: 9i) no consumption of expensive oxidant; (ii) catalyst is non- hazardous; (iii) the photocatalytic reactions may be driven by sunlight, and (iv) the oxidation is powerful and leads to the mineralization of the m ...

The proposed research seeks to develop an automated method for searching a reuse reposing or and retrieving reusable software components using algebraic specifications. Each component in the repository has an associated algebraic specification that describes both the type signature of its interface and its computational behavior. The OBJ3 language and system is used to do equational reasoning vi ...

Statistically sound approaches to making interfrences regarding simulation model validation, rather than reliance upon subjective appeal, are needed. Fundamentally, the question of interest is whether a model reflects reality to the required degree of accuracy. The utility (and hence validity) of a simulation model relies on how well it captures those aspects of the phenonmenon under study that ...