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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates security screening for all air passengers of outgoing aircraft. The Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 (ACAA) ensured access to air travel for passengers with disabilities, including mandating equal or similar treatment in the screening process. This ACAA requirement comports with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which prohibits discri ...

Petrophysical properties such as porosity and permeability are arguably the most important parameters in enhancing geothermal heat production through better completion design and stimulation plan. Collecting well logs are often passive and associated with additional costs. In addition, many logging packages cannot sustain high-temperature formations often observed in geothermal conditions. In thes ...

C55-10b-270389Recent developments in electron microscopes, especially improved optics and new detectors have led to new types of experiments in the fields of physics, quantum information, and biology. With all the recent progress, one key system of the microscope, the scanning system, has fallen behind. The proposed development will introduce a fundamentally new type of scanning system that replac ...

C55-01b-270447-AbstractAs device designs become more complex and incorporate new, advanced technologies and materials, accurate simulations of multi-physics phenomenology become critical to ensuring that such design and analysis efforts are successful. The diversity of problems of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE) and wider audiences includes examples such as electric motor/generator desi ...

There are two principal technical limitations and challenges associated with bioimaging. First, depth imaging is limited by light scattering and diffraction in biological tissue. Second, classical high flux multiphoton optical imaging causes photo-damage to cellular viability and perturbations to molecular biological processes. This renders the sample unusable for repeated in situ imaging and proh ...

C53-13a-271299A recent development in electron microscopes improved energy resolution ten times, enabling a new field of science: the study of atomic vibrations at the nanometer scale, down to single atoms. The proposed development will improve the energy resolution 3x further, extending the field to new areas including quantum information technology. A new type of electron monochromator, used tog ...

C47-24c-271412This proposal addresses the challenge of non-invasively, economically, and accurately detect and imaging groundwater and hydrogeological properties in the top 30m of the subsurface. We will apply imaging methodologies at the core of medical MRI to efficiently map shallow groundwater and hydrogeologic properties at improved resolution. Conventional surface NMR has been proven as a pow ...

Real-time monitoring of traffic conditions is crucial for improving traffic safety and efficiency, and there is an urgent need for the development of in situ traffic sensing & computing technologies leveraging the recent advancements in edge computing. This project will develop an edge computing and sensor fusion system for comprehensive traffic and road conditions data collection and efficient tr ...

Transportation Safety Officers (TSOs) currently use a multi-step decision tree to screen and resolve an alarm of a suspicious object in crowded and high-throughput environments, such as aviation and security checkpoints. In high-throughput environments, this can lead to information overload and mental fatigue. Homeland Security desires a more capable integrated Alarm Resolution (AR) sensor suite, ...

The rapid detection of highly toxic compounds, such as chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial compounds, pharmaceutical-based agents, and non-traditional agents, is paramount to industrial and national security. While multiple chemical detection platforms exist, the ability to detect toxic compounds is fundamentally limited by the available reference database of known chemical signatures. Recen ...