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OCCUPANT INJURY CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED BY THE INCORPORATION OF PADDING OF HARD SURFACES IN VEHICLE INTERIORS. SEVERAL INTERIOR HARD SURFACES SUCH AS ROOF HEADER, A-PILLAR, AND B-PILLAR ARE DIFFICULT TO PAD DUE TO LIMITED SPACE. WAT IS NEEDED IS AN INFLATABLE PLASTIC BI-LAYER THAT COULD BE ATTACHED TO HARD SURFACES AND GIVE ACCEPTABLE WEAR AND APPEARANCE WHEN UNINFLATED, YET BE INFLATABLE DUR ...

DOWEL BARS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN USED AS AN IMPORTANT LOADTRANSFER MECHANISM ON OUR FEDERAL HIGHWAYS. A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM OCCURRS WITH THE USE OF THESE BARS DUE TO RUST AND RESULTANT SPALLING AND CRACKING CONCRETE. COMPOSITE REINFORCING BARS (CRB) HAVE BECOME WIDELY USED FOR CRACK CONTROL IN MANY REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES EXPOSED TO AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENTS. A LIMITED AMOUNT OF DATA IS AVA ...

THE EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HAD LED TO APPLICATIONSAND OPERATING SYSTEMS REQUIRING THE USE OF A MOUSE AS THE OPTIMUM INPUT METHOD. A VARIETY OF ALTERNATE KEYBOARD INPUT METHODS CURRENTLY EXIST TO ASSIST THE DISABLED INDIVIDUAL INACCESSING COMPUTERS, BUT MOST DON'T SUPPORT MOUSE FUNCTIONS.THE ALTERNATE INPUT DEVICE MOUSE EMULATOR (C), AID-ME(C), WOULD PROVIDE THE LINK BETWEEN THESE ALTERNA ...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY HAVE LED TO THEINTRODUCTION OF VARIOUS AIDS TO ASSIST THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN THE USE OF COMPUTERS. PRODUCTS CURRENTLY FALL INTO ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES: 1) APPLICATION SPECIFIC SOFTWARE THAT UTILIZES SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS, OR 2) TRANSPARENT UTILITIES THAT "READ" THE COMPUTER'S DISPLAY. THE MAJOR DRAWBACK TO THESE PRODUCTS IS THAT THEY ARE COMPUT ...

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