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Chronically implanted neural electrodes are becoming increasingly relevant a number of medical conditions ranging from the treatment of neurological disorders like epilepsy, Alzheimers, and Parkinsons disease as well as being used for brain machine inte

Despite the advancement of prosthetics design, there exists a lack of quantifiable diagnostic fitment information for assessing the characteristics of the socket-limb interface. The lack of diagnostic data yield improperly fitted, uncomfortable, and unstable sockets. Responding to the need to develop innovative diagnostic tools for socket-limb interface quantification, TRI/Austin proposes an elec ...

Lynntech is developing an electrochemical pump (ECP) to enable high efficiency individual water purification systems for military and civilian applications.ECPs utilize >80% less power compared to traditional pumps and are compact, lightweight, low cost, and virtually silent which make them ideal for integration into small water purification systems.Coupled to commercially available filtration mod ...

Techshot proposes the L4 ArchitectUre for Next-generation Crewed Hardware (LAUNCH), a set of open-source software components that leverages the verified separation kernel of seL4 to create a robust achievable system that can be used to reduce the cost and development time of highly reliable systems like those used on crewed space flight. With over a 25 year history of developing life science paylo ...

Standards and specifications are widely used in government and industry to define requirements for products and processes and insure interoperability, safety, and quality of industrial and domestic products. Specifications and standards documents almost always cross-reference other standards and specification. Taken together, the web of interdependent standards forms an immensely important knowled ...

The underlying framework for modern-day weather forecasting is numerical weather prediction (NWP). Even the current and planned weather observing platforms leave gaps that are insufficient to meet the requirements of NWP. Mano Nanotechnologies, Inc. proposes a new environmental sensing system, known as “GlobalSense”, which will enable transformational forecast improvements by filing these crit ...

Conventional rockets all use a traditional bell nozzle. The nozzle represents lost weight from a payload point of view, but is necessary to direct thrust and ensure that the exhaust gas expands at the correct rate. However, this expansion velocity is dependent on the external air pressure, and for a rocket, that pressure is constantly changing. In other words, traditional bell nozzles are a compro ...

The proposed effort will expand on the previous efforts data mashing technology development to enable it to handle scenarios that are simultaneously more complicated and more dependent on high accuracy. This project will fulfill the solicitations Phase II goal, Develop a prototype that demonstrates the efficacy of DATALATOR technology based on Phase I results, data, and analysis. Evaluate the per ...

The overall objective of this topic is to build applications that expand the ecosystem of secure software components around the seL4 operating system microkernel. The CTI/SU teams interpretation of this is broad, including an application primarily as a demonstration of the utility of a more fundamental expansion of the ecosystem: to release to the community, as open source, a minimized Trusted Com ...

Nanometrology International, Inc. (NMI) proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of 3-dimensional (3D) characterization of nanoscale objects using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) with a measurement uncertainty of less than 0.7 nm. To accomplish this task, we propose a novel method of 3D tip characterization and use of an innovative surface reconstruction algorithm recently introduced by NIST and th ...