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The Math Messenger is a tool for communicating mathematics in an Internet dialog. It combines typesetting, graphing, computer algebra and instant messaging technologies to enable collaborative authoring and online tutoring interactively. In its simplest form, the Math Messenger is a tool with rich user interface for teaching high school mathematics over the Internet. In a more complex form, it c ...

This proposal addresses environmental problems associated with indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy consumption in residential buildings. As building envelopes become increasingly tight to satisfy energy efficiency requirements, health conditions that are correlated with indoor air quality - such as asthma and allergic diseases - are on the rise. The most effective strategy to improve IAQ is vent ...

A large number of potentially harmful chemicals and pollutants in the environment make comprehensive experimental chemical testing cost prohibitive and unrealistic. Methods that can decrease the required experimental work and aid in the streamlining of this process would provide a valuable tool in this area. Computational cellular modeling can provide a significant improvement in linking exposur ...

This project¿s intent is to enhance the Green Building Studio web service to incorporate various data and analyses that enable architects and other building designers to design sustainable buildings much more cost effectively. Today¿s building designers are struggling to design sustainable buildings and this solution is designed to make that task much easier. This enhanced service will be call ...

The goal of the proposed Phase I project is to develop a suite of web-interactive tools and curriculum materials for gathering and analyzing “survey” data in mathematics classrooms. The project addresses the urgent need to provide pre-college students with a background in data gathering, exploration, and analysis. The tools are based on Fathom Surveys, a product (to be released in Spring, 2006 ...

The sensitivity of low-cost, portable volatile organic compound (VOC) detectors currently is use is low, which limits their application in many situations. More sensitive detectors are more expensive and less robust and not suitable for field use. This proposal describes the development of a membrane-based preconcentrator able to concentrate trace amounts of VOC contaminants to levels that can b ...

VentureMap is a project-based learning environment that challenges students to apply Algebra I concepts to the problem of managing a music company. To do so, they must track sales, cost, profit data for 3 different genres of music to determine their own production plan to increase profits, they must analyze the speed, quality and cost of different network configurations and compression algorithms ...

Electoronic waste (e-waste) is one of the most rapidly growing waste problems worldwide. Improper handling of e-waste results in vast amounts of toxic waste being sent to landfill and leaching into the water supply. Due to these concerns e-waste recycling is a rapidly growing industry. Unfortunately, most current e-waste recycling processes rely on either manual hand sorting or differental dens ...

Picarro will build a trace gas sensor based on Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy (CRDS) targeting the acrolein absorption band in 1623 nm for environmental monitoring. Acrolein is a ubiquitous airborn pollutant the sources of which include burning vegetation (e.g., forest fires), waste incinerators, furnaces, fireplace, gasoline-and diesel-engine emissions, power plants, polyethelene combustion, cigar ...

We propose research and development to optimize a multimedia approach we have taken to helping children build reading fluency. In this e-book application we highlight text phrase by phrase in synchrony with a fluent voiceover. Children reading in this environment have shown substantial increases in reading fluency. New research coordinating the study of eye movement with detailed study of oral r ...