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Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: http://youtu.be/P74Z5oNAo4c Purpose: This project will develop and test Kiko's Thinking Time, a series of game apps designed to strengthen children's cognitive skills related to executive functioning and reasoning. A principle objective of preschool is to prepare children for later success in school. Most programs focus on activities to support childr ...

The commercial marketplace has made tremendous advances in Virtual Reality (VR) technology and product maturity. VR is being used to enhance training in a number of areas including maintenance and operation of complex systems, but application of this technology to the training of dismounted soldiers has proven challenging. Fortunately, these advancements in VR technology now make possible the deve ...

User Systems, Inc (USI) is developing the Unusual Activity or Inactivity Detector (UAID) to automatically search a time series of SAR imagery of a given location to find areas of interest. Changes between consecutive image pairs and movers in the scene ar

Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: http://youtu.be/AIGigEXn12Q Purpose: This project team will develop and test Zaption, a mobile and desktop platform designed to support educators in effectively and efficiently utilizing video (e.g., from YouTube, Vimeo, or their own desktop) as an interactive teaching and learning object. Personalized learning devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets) pop ...

NITROGEN OXIDES (NO AND NO2 OR NOX) ARE AMONG THE MOST PERVASIVE AND DIFFICULT EMISSIONS TO CONTROL. ALTHOUGH THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE MAJOR SPECIES (NO) IS THERMODYNAMICALLYFAVORED, THERE ARE NO CATALYTIC PROCESSES CAPABLE OF DECOMPOSING NOX WITHOUT THE ADDITION OF A REDUCING GAS. THIS IS BECAUSE THE OXYGEN PRODUCED DURING THE DECOMPOSITIONREMAINS STRONGLY CHEMISORBED ON THE CATALYST, BLOCKING AC ...

MANY U.S. MUNICIPALITIES AND COMMUNITIES ARE INTEGRATING RECYCLING PROGRAMS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR SOLID WASTE INORDER TO MINIMIZE LANDFILL REQUIREMENTS. THE SUCCESS OF THESE RECYCLING PROGRAMS IS STRONGLY DEPENDENT UPON THE MARKETABILITY OF THE MATERIALS SET ASIDE FROM THE WASTE STREAM FOR RECYCLING. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MARKETING RECYCLED GLASS ARE WELL ESTABLISHED AND ARE HIGHLY DEPENDENTUP ...

THE PROPOSED PROJECT ADDRESSES THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A PROTOTYPE MATHEMATICS PROGRAM EVALUATION ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS. THE PROPOSED ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT WILL ADDRESS THE NEW STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS THAT WERE ESTABLISHED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS AND WILL RELY ON ALTERNATIVE TESTING STRATEGIES TO MORE A ...

To deal with the increasingly complex, dynamic and unpredictable operational environments of the 21st century, unmanned and autonomous system, sensor, and vehicle technologies are being expanded and improved. For example, unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems provide an expanding set of capabilities, such as intelligence, detection, security, targeting, and strike, while reducing the risk to ...

Small drinking water systems consistently provide safe, reliable drinking water to their customers; however challenges of such systems include; lack of financial resources, aging infrastructure, lack of scale, and technical/logistical challenges associated with regulation compliance. The deployment ofnew cost-effective monitoring technologies hold opportunities to substantially advance infrastruct ...

ADAPT AND REFINE, SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE, DESIGNED AND BUILT BY THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, TO PERFORMADDITIONAL AND INTER DEPENDENT TASKS RELATED TO AND PARTLY ALREADY ACHIEVED BY THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THE MIC300I INTERNAL MODERN. THE DEVICE WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO RECOGNISE AND IDENTIFY 'VISUALLY' ALL STANDARD TELEPHONE "LINE STATUS" SOUNDS IN THE 'AREA OF OPERATION'. A VOI ...