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This project involves building and demonstrating a wireless seismic system for assessing the condition of railroad ballast.The system is designed for portability and ease of use by non-specialized personnel. It is based on the well-known multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method. The system consists of a seismic source and an array of receivers. The source will be empirically optimized ...

Check-in Check-out (CICO) is a widely used behavioral intervention for elementary and middle schools centered on goals, feedback, and communication with parents about daily behavioral performance. This project will develop a prototype platform to streamline and automate the delivery of CICO. The prototype will include an app, a user-friendly interface, and a dashboard to track progress and capture ...

In a previous National Science Foundation SBIR project, the developer created an online platform that uses songs to support mathematical learning. In the current project, the team will develop a prototype of a component of a platform to guide students in creating and producing their own music videos about algebra. The prototype will include a video production application, features to enhance learn ...

Small and mid-sized family farms comprise over 95% of America's farms and theirproductivity is critical to our nation's future.Increasing the productivity of all farms is anessential goal and it is especially challenging for small farms.Many of these small and mid- sized farms grow a variety of vegetables flowers and specialty crops but often do not haveaccess to the technical or financial resourc ...

This project will develop the methodology and technological design necessary for kelp farmers to"plant" seed directly into the longlines of their ocean-based farms. This practice is likely to offer anexpected cost savings of 60% over the current status quo of specialized hatcheries collecting wild"parent" kelp plants extracting their seed for settlement onto thin seedstring in a hatchery settingan ...

Stony Creek Colors sells clean and safe natural dyes to the textile and fashion industries allowingits customers to offer environmentally conscious premium products. Through its flagship naturalindigo product the company has developed and proven a complete agricultural supply chain toreplace synthetic dyes with plant-based drop-in solutions.Through its flagship natural indigoproduct the company ha ...

Wood flour is a common byproduct of the forestry industry. It is used as a filler in plasticcomposites to make products such as decking materials but due to the hydrophilicity of the wood(resulting from surface hydroxyl groups) it is difficult to blend into the hydrophobic polymermatrix. This results in agglomeration of the wood particles and creates voids in the polymerreducing the mechanical str ...

Given mass consolidations in the dairy industry equipmentmanufacturers have focused on large-scale pasteurization solutions causing a lack of small-scaleequipment configurations - a key pain point for both small and large producers interested indeveloping new products such as small-batch specialty beverages that are high in demand.Atlantic Corporation proposes to develop an interactive spatial-vis ...

We brew - and drink - a lot of beer in America.Approximately 202 million barrels of beer areproduced domestically per yearand all of that alcohol requires fermentable sugars which comepredominantly from malted barley.Barley starts as a highly nutritious grain known to be rich inprotein fiber and antioxidants.After the brewing industry borrows it to extract the leastnutritious portion of the grain ...

Poultry farms are the largest source of ammonia emissions followed by non-dairy and dairycattle farms and poultry farms emit 1.9 million metric tons of ammonia per year. Ammonia isnot directly produced or excreted by the birds but is a common by-product of poultry wastes.Ammonia emission is one of the major air quality concerns at the global national and regionallevels. It is a precursor of acid r ...