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Development and validation of a universally designed, handheld/wireless educational software intervention to train students with learning disabilities and their teachers in translating mathematical word problems into visual-spatial schematic models

Demonstration of the feasibility of using a web-enabled, interactive telecommunications system to collect, interpret and communicate diabetic monitoring information for people with disabilities; also intended to improve monitoring compliance

There are more than 11 billion pounds of trap grease available annually which have the potential to create over 1 billion gallons of biodiesel that can be utilized to power the nation's public works and public transit systems. Removing this trap grease from our nation's wastwater treatment facilitis and infrasturcture will reduce maintenance on existing sanitary sewer collection mains and the loa ...

The design, construction and feasibility testing of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) based instrumentation capable of detecting the presence of atomic species within ambient particulate mater (PM) on near real time basis has been successful completed. The XRF analysis is made feasible for hourly ambient PM samples through the implementation of novel high volume flow impaction and post-impaction concentra ...

The research and development project Sirius Thinking, Ltd., (co-producer of the award-winning children s educational television series Between the Lions) is proposing to conduct in Phase II is intended to assess the effectiveness of video segments in teaching English vocabulary to native English-speaking children and Spanish-speaking English language learning children. Based on our successful Phas ...

Virtual Reality provides a great opportunity to build synthetic environments that are safer, cheaper, and offer better learning environments than their physical counterparts. Surgery training is an area that has wholeheartedly adopted Virtual Reality as an invaluable medium for training. Today, virtually every surgical procedure has an associated Virtual Reality trainer available. We propose to ta ...

Use of a Talking Tactile Tablet (TTT) in conjunction with maps created by the TMAP website to allow users to learn place names by pressing on tactile features on the map surface to cause associated information to be spoken aloud

Study of the feasibility of incorporating interactive talking tactile illustrations in digital talking books carried out in conformance with the DAISY/NISO specifications for use by readers who are blind or low-vision

Air particulate has been identified as a souce of primary and secondary health risks. Even small, short-term increases in the amount of air particulte contamination in the atmosphere can produce significant increases in both mortality and morbidity from respiratory and cardiovasulare diseases. For example, recent studies show that just two hours of breathing fine particles in a city from sources ...

Air particulates have been identified as a source of primary and secondary health risks. Even small, short-term increases in the amount of air particulate contamination in the atmosphere can produce significant increases in both mortality and morbidity from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. For example, recent studies show that just two hours of breathing fine particles in a city from sou ...