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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Critical Technologies"”.
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Applications for nanomaterials in critical technologies
… and applications of nano materials for critical technologies, including three areas: (1) Microbial contamination of drinking water is a serious problem of global significance. About 51% of the waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States can be attributed to contaminated ground …
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Critical Technologies: The United States Department of Defense Efforts to Shape Technology Development After the Cold War - A Discourse and Network Analysis
… efforts during 1989-1992 to define certain technologies as critical to national security. Inherent in the effort to identify critical technologies was the desire to articulate technology ideology; to establish asymmetries of power and resources; and to patrol the boundaries of policy and …
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Rate-Transient Analysis of Tight Oil and Gas Reservoirs
… horizontal wells or MFHWs) have been critical technologies applied to low-permeability (tight) oil and gas reservoirs in recent decades, resulting in commercial production. For each stage in a MFHW, the formation is fractured by injecting water and sand at high pressure. The resulting …
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Robust GPS-based timing for phasor measurement units based on single-receiver and multi-receiver position-information-aided vector tracking
… PMUs are considered to be one of the most critical technologies for the future and modernization of the power grid. This technology produces time-stamped voltage and current phasor measurements, allowing measurements from any point in the power infrastructure to be synchronized. Widely …
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Supply, demand, and entrepreneurial ventures in the space launch industry
… risk, the employment of a myriad of high-risk technologies, the lack of Federal assistance beyond early stage RLV technology development, and numerous other barriers to entry have greatly undermined successful RLV system development. Historically, the U.S. government has stepped into the fray …
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Tradespace exploration for space system architectures : a weighted graph framework
… in stakeholder requirements), failure to develop critical technologies, or planned evolution of the system over time. Given the high cost in terms of resources, schedule, and performance of making these changes during system development or operations, it is essential to make these decisions with a …
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Infrastructure sharing of 5G mobile core networks on an SDN/NFV platform
… (MNO) have the opportunity to leverage these technologies so that they can enable the delivery of traditional networking functionality in cloud environments. The benefit of this is reductions seen in the capital and operational expenditures of network infrastructure. When going for NFV, how a …
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Pointing system performance analysis for optical inter-satellite communication on CubeSats
… This thesis presents pointing and tracking technologies to support lasercom on CubeSats. It covers three critical issues: (1) attitude determination and control of CubeSats, (2) relative orbit determination, and (3) development of a miniaturized fine beam pointing module. New attitude …