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Recent developments in DNA microarray generation technology have made entirely new methods of gene analysis feasible. The DNA microarray can greatly facilitate research in the areas of drug and vaccine discovery, disease screening, and toxicology, amongothers. Therefore, the importance of a low-cost, high-resolution, high-throughput DNA microarray generation system cannot be understated. Curren ...

This proposal concerns the use of nuclear isomers as an energy storage system for defense and space applications. Nuclear isomers offer the potential to store energy at densities that are 10^4 times higher per pound ( ~ 10^9 J/g) than chemical systems.Nuclear isomers are long lived ( > 1 ns) excited states of nuclei that release their excess energy by electromagnetic decay. The importance of isome ...

Operational demonstration of a CFC-free, electrically-powered thermoacoustic refrigeration unit is proposed, enabled by cost-shared availability of proposer's patented STAR resonant drivers. STARs (developed in part through previous SBIR work and alreadyused in acoustic cryocoolers) uniquely resolve the primary performance problem demonstrated in all previous thermoacoustic refrigerators: the eff ...

DVC will develop a prototype implementation of a platform independent, generic, configurable software library to provide the ability to add sophisticated spatial access methods to an existing IG. This library will spatially group all data registered withit and provide a number of spatial access methods. Spatial access methods include insertion and removal of objects, range queries, and intersect ...

During the last several years advances in PC and Graphics computational power has been nothing short of phenomenal. Diamond Visionics LLC has been developing software and hardware products to take advantage of the technology advances. In this Phase Iproposal DVC has described features and tools that are essential for military visual simulation that can be leveraged from the entertainment industry. ...

High-performance, low cost monolithic radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) have many applications for ARMY, other DOD components, and commercial site. The need for RFIC operating in the high mm-wave range stresses the current GaAs based PHEMTtechnology to its limits, and has spurred development effort of InP based HEMT/PHEMT. The cost of InP based HEMT/PHEMT is very high due to expensive, mu ...

Modern rotorcraft, when engaged in high speed or maneuvering flight, can experience very complex and highly non-linear aerodynamic phenomena that induce exceptionally high loads on the rotor system. Aerodynamic and structural interactions can lead toviolent vibrations, reduced handling qualities, and reduction in fatigue life. The principal mechanism of this behavior is dynamic stall, which invo ...

Modern rotorcraft, when operating near performance boundaries typical ofhigh-speed or maneuvering flight, can experience complex and highlynon-linear aerodynamics phenomena which induce exceptionally high loads onthe rotor system. The strong interactionbetween the aerodynamics and thestructural dynamics can lead to violent vibrations, reduced handlingqualities, and a reduction in fatigue life. The ...

Aimed at knowledge management, IEM's innovative knowledge Vortal accomplishes all of the essential elements central to knowledge management. Our design connects to relevant sources of knowledge such as subject matter experts (SMEs), allows a uniform andeasy method to enter knowledge, and extracts/grabs pieces of useful knowledge from diversely located SMEs. Furthermore, our system indexes, categor ...

Integrated Sensors, Incorporated (ISI) proposes to evaluate a variety of image restoration algorithms for a compact, real-time, high-resolution FLIR implementation. The target hardware solution is a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) multiprocessorarchitecture. These provide the speed of a hardware implementation, while offering the reprogramming flexibility of a general-purpose processor.Algori ...