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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetes mellitus afflicts 20.8 million people, or 7% of the population, in the United States. Fifteen percent, or 2.4 million people, will develop diabetic foot ulcers in their life time. Diabetic foot ulceration and i nfections are a major cause of hospitalization of diabetic patients. The direct and indirect costs of ulcer management and treatment exceed 10 ...

Conflict Kinetics will develop an innovative new technology, the “Elevated Ocular Tactical Conditioning” (EOTC) system, for firearms training. The Conflict Kinetics’ EOTC utilizes a three-step training methodology that will mathematically prove that the soldier of today sees, reacts, and shoots targets with small arms weapons at around one-third his or her natural potential. This small arm ...

The potential for combustion instability has historically been a hindrance in developing rocket engines, and nearly always represents the major technical risk in engine developments. This proposal addresses innovative approaches toward prediction of liquid rocket engine combustion instability, as well as innovations in full-scale engine stability verification. Specific objectives are to demonstrat ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One of the most expensive aspects of a cryopreservation program is related to ongoing, long-term storage and shipping of samples at very low temperatures (typically between - 196oC, the temperature of liquid nitrogen (L N2), and approximately -120oC, in the high- end temperature range of LN2 vapor). Current approaches to cryopreserving most cells and tissues, i ...

MO-SCI Corporation and the Missouri University of Science & Technology (MST-formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) propose to develop low cost, IR retro-reflective (800 nm - 2800 nm), visible absorbing glass microspheres for ubiquitous spectroscopic tagging through our innovative material design, fabrication and characterization technologies. These glass microspheres of any size (e.g., 20 - 100 mi ...

The Navy desires the use of RHIB’s in littoral waters for MCM because of its many advantages. However, these advantages can only be accomplished by providing a towed minesweeping approach that allows the RHIB to adequately perform the required mission within its limited towing capacity. The Phase I program established a baseline approach for an electrically driven, towed Acoustic Source that was ...

Energy extraction is needed for various ocean deployed devices. Extracted energy can be expected to be at various levels and intermittent, but plentiful. The Phase I effort will recommend an extraction technique that directly converts ocean energy into electrical power. The extractor will be inherently self-starting, require no external inputs from the crew when deployed and produces enough power ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The pharmaceutical industry has access to well-designed clinical trial management software (CTMS) for their studies. Specialized CTMS packages are essential for drug trials but are not optimal for other kinds of clinica l research, such as observational, epidemiological, and mechanistic studies, nonpharmacological intervention trials, health behavior research, ...

Unable to read or interpret written text can pose major problems for people in many circumstances, and Rosetta Phone is a system that will aid in interpreting this written text. The objective of this research project is to develop a complete system investigating both hardware platforms and software programming environments capable of real-time, autonomous, visual interpretation of written text. ...

Odyssian Technology and its team of highly regarded experts propose to develop advanced distribution and control technology for hybrid intelligent microgrids. The novelty of their proposed concept is in the use of a wireless mesh network to control distributed generation assets in concert with system loads through multi-layer intelligent load shedding. A technology proprietary to Odyssian Technol ...