Target Augmentation

ITAF provides a towed or self-propelled aerial practice target with the appropriate infrared signature to enable lock-on of IR-guided missiles at tactical distances 

Flare pellet magneslum/Teflon/Vlton or Hytemp  

M206 CM flare performance characteristics (intensity vs time) 

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Figure 10.9 Target augmentation flare design with electromagnetically secure wiring [12].

Aside from technology developments, there is always a major emphasis on value added services. It includes the design concept to fabricator that continually tries to find ways to augment or reduce steps during manufacture with the target of reducing costs. 

Lymphocytes are specialized white blood cells that play a crucial role in an immune response.They can be T lymphocytes, which can directly target and destroy defective cells, or B lymphocytes, which produce antibodies directed against specific antigens. Both T and B lymphocytes produce a variety of cytokines to augment and amplify the immune response. 

Attempts to find the cause(s) of depression have adopted two main approaches. One is to look for the neurobiological basis of depression in human subjects and animal models of this condition. The second is to investigate the pharmacology of established antidepressant agents to see whether they consistently augment some, and ideally the same, neurobiological targets in the brain. 

However, experience proves that depression can be reversed by drugs that augment serotonergic and noradrenergic transmission (and reinstated by a deficit in the synthesis of these monoamines). These, then seem to be crucial targets that ultimately determine mood. This would explain why, despite numerous neurochemical options for the causes of depression, all antidepressants developed so far (and even those discovered by chance) target these neuronal systems. Whatever the cause of depression, therefore, its relief seems to rest on appropriate secretion of these monoamines. This would be entirely... 

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