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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The broad, long term objective of this application is to overcome optical design, ergonomic and cosmetic obstacles standing in the way of innovative ophthalmic lens designs for low vision enhancement, particularly field expansion for Homonymous Hemianopsia. Phase I resulted in the manufacture of the EP-Horizontal expanding the visual field of hemianopes by 20 d ...

Wind power has the potential of supplying a significant percentage of the United States electrical demand at low cost. However, costs of transportation, erection, and repair must be reduced before these systems are competitive with current technology. The large size of multi megawatt turbine components makes transportation from manufacturing facilities to wind sites problematic. Once on site, t ...

UHF radar is used for surveillance from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A typical transmitter must produce multi-kilowatt pulses, but the efficiency of existing transmitters is only 20 to 30 percent. Low efficiency results in transmitters that are unnecessarily large and heavy. It also taxes the limited power available on a UAV and limits the capabilities of the UAV payloads. GMRR proposes to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this application is to develop a comprehensive system for the acquisition and quantitative analysis of focusable (3D) virtual slides. A 3D virtual slide is a complete digital representation of a tissue specimen imaged through a microscope, containing the full XY extent of the tissue, captured at the highest possible optical resolution, and includi ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR proposal is to design, build, test, and demonstrate next generation energy harvesting wireless sensors for real time load measurement and structural damage tracking on helicopters. Energy harvesting allows the realization of wireless monitoring systems that do not require battery maintenance. During Phase I, our energy harvesting wireless sensors were optimized for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The focus of this Phase II proposal is a computer-based method called the Dynamic Assessment of Hearing Aids (DAHA). The method uses an intuitive graphical interface to record visual analogue ratings of a patient's satisfaction with various facets of his/her hearing aid(s). The results of each assessment are immediately available to the clinician. The hearing a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For patients with respiratory disease the symptom of breathlessness (dyspnea) is the most frequent reason for seeking medical attention. Current methods for measuring the impact of breathlessness on activities of daily living rely on face-to-face interviews conducted by health care providers. Two common measures are the Baseline Dyspnea Index representing the s ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ongoing concerns about the management of children's pain and its treatment make pain assessment in children a high medical priority. Currently, the dominant clinical technique has children indicate pain by selecting from among a set of static, stylized facial expressions that represent different degrees of pain. Although the widespread use of such methods has y ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project seeks to develop an inexpensive, multi-purpose active noise reduction (ANR) module and associated software evaluation tools with broad commercial application to many occupational environments. This project will develop signal processing algorithms that improve the computational efficiency for ANR. The current Phase II objectives inc ...

Turbo Solutions Engineering LLC is providing this proposal for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, to develop a rocket engine health management (REHM) system. The proposed project is a follow-on to Turbo Solutions’ nearly completed Phase I SBIR entitled “Integrated Vehicle Health Management ‘Intelligent Engine’ Turbopump Concept,” (AFRL Contract FA9300-05-M-301 ...