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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLID-STATE DIRECTION-INDICATING APPARATUS, WITH TILT-IMMUNITY, THAT PROVIDES AN AUDIBLE OR TACTILE INTERFACE WITH THE USER. REDUCED SIZE TO ALLOW ENCAPSULATION IN A TYPICAL WALKING CANE. A DEVICE WILL BE DESIGNED THAT WILL PROVIDE A VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON WITH AN INDICATION OF HORIZONTAL DIRECTION, WITH RESPECT TO THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD. THE DEVICE WILLALSO SIGNAL ...

Through the proposed USDA-SBIR Phase I Marketing and Trade project, market expansion and diversification opportunities will be explored for the Amazing Grains Grower Cooperative and their trademarked MontinaTM products. MontinaTM products are formulated from the gluten-free grain Indian ricegrass. The expanding demand for gluten-free/wheat-free products, largely by the growing population of indivi ...

An important problem facing rural America is the lack of job opportunities. This is particularly true in much of the arid southwestern U.S. These rural communities have little that they can export into commodity priced markets. Hence, this region has among the highest incidence (% of county population) of poverty in the U.S. Yet, the southwestern U.S. has abundant solar energy which could provide ...

This project, titled “Digitizing the K-8 Portion of the Positive Action Program for Web-Based Delivery,” is in response to Priority Two (Products) of the U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovation Research Program, RFP Number: errd080008. The anticipated start date of this six-month grant is June 1st, 2006. The Positive Action (PA) program is a comprehensive approach to school refo ...

The emergence of compact, high-performance imaging spectrometers and small, military-grade Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has created an opportunity to develop an airborne system that provides affordable, timely, map-registered, hyperspectral data for precision agriculture. The purpose of the Phase I effort is to design an airborne hyperspectral imaging system for flight on small UAVs and cust ...

The short read range of current cattle electronic identification ear tags threatens to hinder the widespread adoption and utility of the USDA-developed National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Tag readers that require placement within inches of an animal's ear in order to read the NAIS number introduce obstacles at various points in the beef production cycle. This project will determine if be ...