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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death among U S workers and cost employers $ billion annually in medical care legal expenses property damage and lost productivity Compounding the safety problem is the high commercial driver turnover rate and shortage of experienced drivers The industry is thus faced with the challenge of screening trai ...

The military is looking for innovative technologies that will improve aircraft braking systems. Currently, the majority of the braking power during aircraft landing is supplied by the friction brakes. Many problems arise with the use of friction brakes, the first being the excessive wear on the brakes. The solution we propose involves improving the existing material used for friction braking along ...

Most fielded aircraft weapon systems currently utilize wheel/brake technology that was developed in the 1960s thru 1980s.The wheel/brake systems rely almost exclusively on friction brakes to convert kinetic energy during a landing or rejected takeoff into heat energy.These friction-based components require large investments in high cost spares to replace worn friction consumables. Furthermore, str ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of Moby.Read, a stand-alone app for handheld devices or tablets. Using Moby.Read, grade school students will read a passage out loud and the speech-recognition software will generate an assessment of oral-reading fluency in real-time. The app is intended to replace face-to-face oral reading assessments done by teachers in order to save teachers t ...

Military respirator masks provide the Warfighter with life critical protection against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. To ensure the safety, comfort, and effectiveness of the American Warfighter, it is essential that every Warfighter be assigned a respirator that is properly sized and fitted. However, current methods for sizing and fitting respirators depend on manu ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

The control or mitigation of equipment noise is paramount for worker protection in mines If a computerized system was developed that accurately predicted noise emission during equipment design and siting the current need to build site and then operate equipment to understand or control its noise emission would be eliminated This project aims to develop such a computerized system With success ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposed effort will conduct a pilot study in which correctional officers wear a safety device consisting of a wireless location tag with an alarm assault detection feature The Correctional Officer Distress Alarm CODA system localizes the endangered officer thus allowing aid to be sent to his or her precise location The expected outcome of the CODA ...

In prior research and development, the project team and partners developed Cyberchase, a multimedia story-based series for students to practice and learn math. Researchers will develop and test a prototype of a mobile app-based fractions game to be integrated within the multimedia series. The prototype will adjust to students of different skill levels, and will present fractions in different repre ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype an online platform to facilitate engineering project challenges within K–12 classrooms across many schools. The prototype will include a content management platform to enable a high volume of challenges for students to conduct projects on a broad range of STEM topics, such as computer coding, digital modeling, or producing simulations. In a pil ...