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Abstracts: Notch ductile-to-brittle transition due to localized inelastic band. An interdisciplinary framework for the design and life prediction of engineering systems
Abstracts: Not cleaning up: faster, cheaper ways to restore polluted ground are largely shunned. Sewage treatment plants; algae offer a cheaper way to clean up wastewater
Abstracts: Notes from the underground. Remembrance of things future. Carrots, sticks and robot picks
Abstracts: Nothing either good or bad: industrial espionage and technology transfer. Measurement and evaluation of technology transfer: review of technology transfer mechanisms and indicators
Abstracts: Nothing personal, you're just not my type. What's wrong with this picture?: for football fans in the sunshine state, it's sometmes the game of the name
Abstracts: Notice provisions must be followed. Payment bond covers delay damages. Patent versus latent contract ambiguities: who bears the increased costs of performance?
Abstracts: Not imagining it: Research into hallucinogens cautiously resumes. A need for new warheads?
Abstracts: Not in my backyard. A backyard pond idea. Biodiversity in the backyard
Abstracts: Not just hot air. Just rewards. Patients in research: not just subjects, but partners
Abstracts: Not Nelson's obelisk. Class acts. What a nerve
Abstracts: Notre Dame completes main building renovation. Here's the list, check it twice. Here is the church, here is the -- watch out!
Abstracts: Not so blind after all. To Err is Mechanical. The MBAs of summer
Abstracts: Not so easy rider. Supplying quality. 1992 and all that
Abstracts: Not so icy stares: the moon's water may be difficult to get. For the bees
Abstracts: Not so plain sailing. High anxiety. For good measure
Abstracts: Not so super. "Memjet" momentum. Race in a bottle
Abstracts: Not your family Taurus. Fast starts, high-tech stops. Fuel cells shift into drive
Abstracts: Not your father's concrete. Triumphant arches. Is virtual reality for real?
Abstracts: Not your father's strain gauge. Survey reveals changing attitudes about what it takes to succeed in business. CAD takes the strain
Abstracts: Novel barrier remediates chlorinated solvents. Energy efficiency research gains in Department of Energy's 1999 budget request
Abstracts: Novel center seeks to add spark to origins of life. Scientists who fund themselves. Latin America's elite looks north for scientific partners
Abstracts: Novel freezer cuts energy demand. Glowing sensors highlight contamination. Attacking beach erosion
Abstracts: No Winners in Patent Shootout. PCR: running hot and fast. Chiron challenged on hepatitis-C patent
Abstracts: Now showing: new roof system at Georgia theater. Cables support skylight roof at Morgan Library. Tapered insulation builds up new roof
Abstracts: Now that travel can be virtual, will congestion virtually disappear. Digital materials and virtual weathering
Abstracts: NSF, Academy to rank U.S. mathematics. Both sides point finger in tiff over China dig. Indonesian policies stymie global circulation experiment
Abstracts: NSF revamps graduate training grants. Illinois, San Diego centers win renewed NSF funding. NSF fits in new projects despite squeeze on funding
Abstracts: Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs. Electrodynamic Tethers in Space: by exploiting fundamental physical laws, tethers may provide low-cost electrical power, drag, thrust, and artificial gravity for spaceflight
Abstracts: Nuclear cleanup in Colorado crosses greatest hurdle. Port authority unveils Path terminal designs. Prototype of 'carbon tower' developed
Abstracts: Nuclear Functions Charge Ahead. The transcriptional paradox: octamer factors and B and T cells. A new turn (or two) for twist
Abstracts: Nuclear legacy of Soviet Union poses concerns. Changing course in the Americas. Migration poses major challenge for the Americas
Abstracts: Nuclear power grows in China's energy mix. Future energy innovation grows from today's R&D. China's population grows despite fertility decline
Abstracts: Nuclear power's dim future. Cleanup in the Arctic. Sustainable forest management in cold and warm lands
Abstracts: Nuclear sites: United States and Russia. Animal biomarkers. The GAO reports: cleanup delays at the largest Superfund sites
Abstracts: Nuclear Strongholds in Peril. Israel Hits Rich Seam in Ex-Soviet Immigrants. New Minister Sets Lofty Goals
Abstracts: Nuclear-waste-storage projects progress. Advancing under London. Case closed
Abstracts: Nuclear weapons facility dismantled, decontaminated. Road widened through landslide-prone Canyon. Rebuilding the Winter Garden
Abstracts: Nucleophilic carbenes in asymmetric organocatalysis. Design of acid-base catalysis for the asymmetric direct aldol reaction
Abstracts: Nucleophilic substitution as a tool for the synthesis of unsymmetrical porphyrins. Origin, control and application of supramolecular chirogenesis in bisporphyrin-based systems
Abstracts: Nucleotide sugar transporters of the Golgi apparatus: From basic science to diseases. Effect of carboxylate-binding mode on metal binding/selectivity and function in proteins
Abstracts: Numbers: prime or choice? Air-cooled. Head start on the 20th century
Abstracts: Numerical analysis of welding residual stress and its verification using neutron diffraction measurement. Residual stress reduction and fatigue strength improvement by controlling welding pass sequences
Abstracts: Numerical Green's function for steady-state heat conduction in heterogeneous media. Heat treatment of metal surfaces by a conformal electron beam
Abstracts: Numerical modeling of resistance brazing process behavior in joining electrical contact materials. Thermal phase transformation and residual stress estimation of multi-layer materials for cylindrical or flat shape
Abstracts: Numerical modeling of the temperate distribution in a commercial hazardous waste slagging rotary kiln. A three-dimensional detailed numerical model of a field-scale rotary kiln incinerator
Abstracts: Numerical simulation of residual stress caused by quenching process in aluminum gas cylinders. Upsetting of cylinders: a comparison of two different damage indicators
Abstracts: Numerical simulation of the coinjection molding process. CAE of mold cooling in injection molding using a three-dimensional numerical simulation
Abstracts: Nurses in short supply. To serve man. Blue-collars in eclipse
Abstracts: Nurture Helps Mold Able Minds. Mining the Genome for Drugs. Cocaine Exposure and Children: The Meaning of Subtle Effects
Abstracts: Nylon fibers help design hold water. Recycling Penn Forest Dam. Nylon matting combats erosion at South Carolina Dam
Abstracts: N.Y. state begins 5-year Love Canal health study that includes noncancer effects. EPA reassessment finds as much as 20 times less cancer risk from PCBs
Abstracts: Oak Ridge community shapes DOE's future. DOE restores trust in post-Cold War era. Clear priorities should govern national cleanup
Abstracts: Obesity: An overblown epidemic? Gaining on fat. An uncertain defense
Abstracts: Observation decks at Rockefeller Centre reopen after infrastructure changes. Structural engineering: Mock-up help engineers test features of New York Times building
Abstracts: Observations of the constitutive response and characterization of filled natural rubber under monotonic and cyclic multiaxial stress states
Abstracts: Occurence and fate of the pharmaceutical drug diclonefac in surface waters: rapid photodegradation in a lake. Stereo- and enantioselective degradation in sewage sludge and soil
Abstracts: Occurence of estrogenic nonylphenols in the urban and coastal atmosphere of the lower Hudson River estuary. The NO3 radical-mediated liquid phase of nitration of phenols with nitrogen dioxide
Abstracts: Occurence, sedimentation, and spatial variations of organochlorine contaminants in settling particulate matter and sediments in the northern part of the Baltic Sea
Abstracts: Occurrence and behavior of pesticides in rainwater, roof runoff, and artificial stormwater infiltration. Aqueous speciation and 1-octanol-water partitioning of tributyl- and triphenyltin: effect of pH and ion composition
Abstracts: Occurrence and behavior of the herbicide prometon in the hydrologic system. Everglades mercury debate
Abstracts: Occurrence and distribution of pharmaceutical organic compounds in the groundwater downgradient of a landfill (Grindsted, Denmark)
Abstracts: Occurrence of chlorate in hypochlorite solutions used for drinking water disinfection. Physical and chemical characterization of indoor aerosols resulting from the use of tap water in portable home humidifiers
Abstracts: Occurrence of chlorate in hypochlorite solutions used for drinking water disinfection. part 2 TiO2-mediated photochemical disinfection of Escherichia coli using optical fibers
Abstracts: Occurrence of fluorescent whitening agents in sewage and river water determined by solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography
Abstracts: Occurrence of PCDD/F in dated lake sediments of the Black Forest, southwestern Germany. Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of sediments: a potential method to infer the past acidity of lakes
Abstracts: Occurrence of PCDD/F in dated lake sediments of the Black Forest, southwestern Germany. part 2 Role of copper species in chlorination and condensation reactions of acetylene
Abstracts: Occurrence of pesticides in shallow groundwater of the United States: initial results from the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Abstracts: Occurrence of pesticides in shallow groundwater of the United States: initial results from the National Water-Quality Assessment Program. part 2
Abstracts: Occurrence of selected pesticides and their metabolites in near-surface aquifers of the midwestern United States
Abstracts: OCEA goes green. Who's surfing? We're working. Automating the corps
Abstracts: Ocean anomaly triggers record fish kill. Ocean scientists find life, warmth in the seas. Balancing fish consumption benefits with mercury exposure
Abstracts: Ocean color and CO2. Biofuel development; Americans, Finns discuss strategies. Going, going, gone? Plant Species Extinction in the 21st Century
Abstracts: Ocean health could persage what lies ahead. Marine monitoring in near real time. Atomic Force Microscopy of Humic Substances: Effects of pH and Ionic Strength
Abstracts: Ocular dominance column development: analysis and simulation. Ocular responses to linear motion are inversely proportional to viewing distance
Abstracts: Odor control in wastewater treatment: the removal of thioanisole from water - a model case study by pulse radiolysis and electron beam treatment
Abstracts: Of Chemistry, love and nanorobots. Machine-phase nanotechnology. The incredible shrinking circuit
Abstracts: Offering success. UK needs funding push for medical engineering success. Profile of success
Abstracts: Offshore breeze: offshore wind farms are finally becoming a reality. Design round-up
Abstracts: Off with its head! Profile: Milo Medin. Focusing in a flash
Abstracts: OH radical initiated photooxidation of 2-ethoxyethanol under laboratory conditions related to the troposphere: product studies and proposed mechanism
Abstracts: OH radical reactions: the major removal pathway for polychlorinated biphenyls from the atmosphere. Comment on "Seasonal Variations in Air-Water Exchange of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Lake Superior." (comment on article by K.C. Hornbuckle, J.D. Jeremiason, C.W. Sweet and S.J. Eisenrech, Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 28, p. 1491, 1994)(inclues reply)
Abstracts: OH reaction kinetics of gas-phase alpha- and gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane and hexachlorobenzene. Ambient concentrations of ethanol and methyl tert-butyl ether in Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 1996-April 1997
Abstracts: Oil and water. New designs stack up. Water world
Abstracts: Oil in 4-D: time-lapse software boosts oil recovery. Animating human motion. Visualizing biological molecules
Abstracts: Oiling the works. Latest flame: Baglan Bay Energy Park near Swansea in South Wales will offer tenant companies a 30 per cent saving on their energy bills, thanks to a gas-fired power station its designers say is the most efficient in the world
Abstracts: Oil production in the 21st century: recent innovations in underground imaging, steerable drilling and deepwater oil production could recover more of what lies below
Abstracts: Oil rig sinking blocked in Europe, accepted in U.S. Gulf coast. Environment emerges as key issue in 1996 election
Abstracts: Old Aswan Dam: standing the test of time. Pyramid power. A cautionary tale
Abstracts: Old dates for modern behavior. Ancient island tools suggest Homo erectus was a seafarer. Tracing the identity of the first toolmakers
Abstracts: Oldest mound complex found at Louisiana site. North America's wars: new analyses suggest that prehistoric North America, once considered peaceful, was instead a bitter battlefield where tribes fought over land and water
Abstracts: Old feuds, new finds mark anthropologists' meeting. Ecologists flock to Snowbird for varied banquet of findings
Abstracts: Old-growth bears. Underwater bloomers: it took almost 2,000 years for observers to realize that the flower-like sea anemone belonged to the animal kingdom
Abstracts: Oldies but goodies. Queen of the deep. Shortcut to Mars
Abstracts: Old MacDonald's pharm. New movement in Parkinson's. Stem cell imperative
Abstracts: Olefinic fuels. Comment on "A study of the stability of methanol-fueled vehicle emissions in Tedlar bags." On-line measurement of benzene and toluene in dilute vehicle exhaust by mass spectrometry
Abstracts: Olfactory bulb uptake and determination of biotransfer factors in the California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) exposed to manganese and cadmium in environmental habitats
Abstracts: Olfactory memory formation in Drosophila: From molecular to systems neuroscience. Epidemiology of neurodegeneration
Abstracts: Omega Watch Corporation: a 30-year relationship of space and time. World Space Congress report
Abstracts: Omega Watch Corporation: a 30-year relationship of space and time. part 2 McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company: innovation and experience
Abstracts: On a rollercoaster: James Stott. What HIV parts should be the basis of a vaccine? How should they be presented to the immune system?
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