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Energy-Efficient Extreme Winter Solar Greenhouse for Urban Farms in Rapid City SDProject SummaryThis collaborative proposal from Shende LLC in partnership with the researchers from theSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) Rapid City SD seeks to develop anEnergy Efficient Extreme Winter Solar Greenhouse product.Rapid City (RC) was declared as one of the cities with the most unpredicta ...

Tick-borne pathogens cause major economic losses to the livestock industry leading to anestimated $19.7 billion in losses for the U.S. including approximately $3 billion in losses for cattleproducers. Among the 900 species of ticks the Asian longhorned tick (ALT) an invasive non- native tick species poses a major threat to animal health and productivity in cattle and otherlivestock. Currently tick ...

Current production methods for tungsten fragmentation warheads are expensive and require significant labor to produce. Needed is a method that can maintain or improve upon the quality of the tungsten components while reducing the amount of time and labor to create the fragmentation warheads. Cold spray has the potential to answer both of these issues. Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) techn ...

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The food supply chain consists of many potential contamination points including growingharvesting post-harvest handling transport processing distribution storage and packaging andfinally preparation by the consumer.Food can become contaminated with harmfulmicroorganisms at any point in the supply chain.If left unchecked microbial contamination cancause foodborne illness if the consumer eats contam ...

Development of new lead-free replacements for lead styphnate and lead azide-based munition formulations made necessary to re-examine possible compatibility problems with current and future materials used for selecting adequate ammunition housings. Moreover, the compatibility/corrosion problems could be inherently associated with processing technology and therefore this aspect should be addressed b ...

Advanced numerical simulations of fluid flow and solid/structural mechanics are often used to assess the vehicle or engine performance, to identify the mechanical factors that contribute to the shortening of their life span, and to suggest design modifications that improve efficiency and durability. The latter often results in significant cost savings to the DoD. As the vehicle and engine designs ...

Structural steels found in bridges and railways are damaged over time due to loading and the environmental conditions in which they operate. VRC Metal Systems, LLC in collaboration with research partners at Northeastern University propose to develop novel protective/repair coating materials that can be applied to bridges and railways by using the cold gas spray (CS) technology to improve the wear ...

Modern deep learning-based face recognition systems perform at or above human levels on high quality frontal imagery, but their performance suffers significantly on more operationally relevant imagery with confounding factors such as extreme pose.  This performance degradation is based on two primary shortcomings: poor match between training and test-time image data, and failure to model inherent ...

We propose to develop effective robust rechargeable and economic antimicrobial coatings tofight cross-contamination in food manufacturing and improve food safety. The severeconsequences of microbiological contamination (e.g. foodborne illnesses food recalls branddamage and economic losses) demand food industry to re-examine the current food safetycontrol strategies and introduce novel technologies ...