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Blast induced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major threat to the health of military personnel serving in modern theaters. As such, the biomechanical injury pathways of TBI are, and have been, the focus of many animal studies. However, differences in the experimental setups across laboratories make it difficult to draw definitive conclusions from the resulting data. A tool that can accurately es ...

Despite over 100 years of research, decompression sickness (DCS) remains the mission-limiting factor in the design and execution of combat diving operations.Divers may spend over an hour decompressing after spending as little as ten minutes at the target depth.While decompressing, divers are limited in vertical mobility, making then susceptible to detection and threatening their survivability.This ...

Drug dosingcan bemademore precise by using pharmacokineticand pharmacodynamicmodeling. Pharmacokinetics is thestudy of the concentration of drugs in tissueasafunction of timeand doseschedule,whereas pharmacodynamics is thestudy of therelationship between drugconcentration and drugeffect. By relating doseto resultant drugconcentration (pharmacokinetics)and concentration to effect (pharmacodynamics) ...

The ability to detect and avoid collision is vital for intelligent vehicles navigating in dynamic environments. There is an acute need of high quality collision detection systems to improve the performance of the US military UGV/UAV, and to develop active safety devices for the conventional automotive market. In the proposed Phase I work, a Monte Carlo sampling based collision detection algorithm ...

In this Phase 2 program, nLight intends to demonstrate high-reliability / high-efficiency 808-nm broad area diode lasers. The root-cause of the failure modes of diode lasers investigated under Phase 1 will be addressed in this program. Collaborative work on built-in filament control by etching holes will continue in this program. Prototype designs first demonstrated by focused ion beam processi ...

This program will entail making further refinements to a rapidly polymerizable resin which was shown during the Phase I Program to induce corrosion and ductility loss within treated steel rifle barrels. Besides optimizing the formulations, efforts will also be directed during this Phase II program towards devising suitable equipment for efficiently dispensing this resin into rifles using truck, b ...