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The World Bank and the Afghan government have established mechanisms to monitor and account for funds contributed...  Read More >>

United States Coast Guard's reported anti-deficiency violations for shore construction and improvement projects...  Read More >>

In generating the lift on a wing, the static stall is a severe barrier. As the angle of attack, alpha, increases...  Read More >>

United States Customs and Border Protection's radiation portal monitors at seaports.  Read More >>

In order to assist the Cassini project in evaluating risks of collisions with particulate matter in the rotational...  Read More >>

There is a wide-spread belief that most explicit one-dimensional advection schemes need to satisfy the so-called...  Read More >>

The applicability of the Euler method of source location determination was investigated on several model situations...  Read More >>

U.S. civilian uplift in Afghanistan is progressing but some key issues merit further examination as implementation...  Read More >>

Veterans Health Administration, review of alleged patient deaths, patient wait times, and scheduling practices at...  Read More >>

An interactive real time flow simulation technique is developed for an unsteady channel flow. A finite-volume algorithm...  Read More >>

Structural design and analysis tools appropriate for estimating the structural weight of an axisymmetric inlet designed...  Read More >>

This effort involved investigating the welding and brazing techniques of molybdenum tubes to be used as cartridges...  Read More >>

The Monte Carlo method (MCM) is employed to study the radiative interactions in fully developed laminar flow between...  Read More >>

U.S. export assistance centers could improve their delivery of client services and cost recovery efforts.  Read More >>

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) was incorporated 25 years ago in the District of Columbia as...  Read More >>

The gains in buckling performance are explored that can be achieved by deviating from the conventional straightline...  Read More >>

U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan would benefit from a finalized comprehensive U.S. anti-corruption strategy...  Read More >>

Transportation Security Administration Office of Inspection's efforts to enhance transportation security  Read More >>

The main goal was to develop the necessary secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) techniques to use a Cameca ims-4f...  Read More >>

The singularity problem associated with wrist mechanisms commonly found on industrial manipulators can be alleviated...  Read More >>

During January 1985, the scanning radiometer aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite was operated to scan along-track....  Read More >>

A laser transit anemometer (LTA) system was used to probe the boundary layer on a slender (5 degree half angle)...  Read More >>

Computer vision techniques which have the potential for use on the space station and related applications are assessed....  Read More >>

A ground-based testing technique is under development for the measurement of dynamic or time-dependent ground effects...  Read More >>

Intelligent systems require software incorporating probabilistic reasoning, and often times learning. Networks provide...  Read More >>