Grants

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: Research contracts:

Professor J. McGuirk and Dr P. Render, Pounds 209,147 from British Aerospace Ltd (damaged wing studies); Professor J. McGuirk and Mr A. Wray, Pounds 191,548 from British Aerospace (unconventional nozzles); Dr P. Warwick, Pounds 179,789 from British Nuclear Fuels plc (research into metal speciation-complexation chemistry group); Professor A. Meadows Pounds 175,730 from the British Library (library and information statistics unit);

Professor C. Williams, Pounds 170,000 from Smithkline Beecham (influence of fluid intake on endurance running performance - a comparison between water and two carbohydrate drinks); Mr D. Whalley and Professor D. Williams, Pounds 142,560 from EPSRC/Cooksons Technology Centre/Lucas Electronics/ICL Computers Ltd/IBM(UK) Ltd/Eltek Semiconductors (anisotropic conductive adhesives for fine pitch interconnection); Professor J. McGuirk, Pounds 141,213 from British Aerospace (ingestion flows); Professor R. Walker, Pounds 125,810 from Department of Social Security (barriers to moving off income support); Mr J. Hayes, Pounds 111,181 from Ministry of Defence (software development to produce a marketable product from the Ieri Database) and Pounds 69,8 from Ministry.of Defence (failure mechanisms associated with field failure); Dr M. Passmore, Pounds 97,992 from the Ford Motor Company Ltd (1 piece parametric investigation); Professor J. Horne, Pounds 95,000 from Transport Research Laboratory (study of falling asleep at the wheel); Dr P. Haves, Pounds 91,141 from the Building Research Establishment (UK contribution to Annex 25); Dr B. Woodward, Pounds 90,000 from Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Department of the Environment (enhancing the acoustic detectability of fishing nets to prevent the entrapment of cetaceans); Professor J. Horne, Pounds 61,673 from the Wellcome Trust (study of human sleep and the prefrontal cortes);

HUSAT Research Centre, Pounds 57,839 from MAFF (integration of prediction models for brassicae); Dr G. Wilcox, Pounds 52,280 from Ministry of Defence (chromate free passivation treatments for zinc alloy coating); Dr P. Mitchell, Pounds 51,453 from AEA Technology (novel electrodes for solid polymer fuels cells); Professor B. Brooks, Pounds 51,000 from European Vinyls Corporation (UK) Ltd (droplet formation and factors influencing droplet behaviour during the polymerisation of VCM); Professor I. Smith, Pounds 50,911 from the Defence Research Agency (self excitation output storage MHD generators); Dr L. Mascia, Pounds 50,000 from Kodak Eastman (the mechanical properties and themoforming characteristics of blends of PET and very high molecular weight polyethylene).