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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will study effective models for carrying out assessments employing challenging puzzle-like questions that incorporate distractor analyses in which meaning is assigned to complex responses. Such distractor analyses apply where there is the possibility that the test taker can give alternative correct, partially correct, and incorrect an ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project addresses the manufacturing and testing of an agricultural byproduct (biomass) as a high performance cement (HPC) for highway applications. There are several benefits of using this processed byproduct, such as significantly increasing the compressive strength, reducing heat of hydration to prevent concrete cracking, and enhan ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project aims to develop, validate and bring to market an innovation that has the potential to dramatically enhance the return on investment from audit of fraud or non-compliance cases. In most audit detection domains, resource intensive evaluation of cases, such as costly audits, is the principal means of monitoring (and thus enhancin ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the impact of product variety on the customer order fulfillment process. It aims to help the manufacturers of highly configurable products with many possible "variants" or "configurations" to maximize product availability and order fill rates. Prior research by Emcien has created a methodology for representing product varia ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the impact of product variety on parts inventories. The goal is to help the manufacturers of configurable products; these are products that have many different configurations, or variants, or build combinations. These variants arise because the product has a large number of features/options or the customer is given choices ov ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research program proposes a novel concept for actuating artificial human-like skin. The application of the artificial skin in numerous applications such as robotic faces, prosthetics and medical simulation devices, animatronics, and high-end toys has been limited because of the lack of adequate muscle-like technologies. A solution to this prob ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is directed towards the development, fabrication, and testing of miniature high-stability integrated super broadband optical emission sources for field and in-flight calibration of stellar photometers and spectrometers widely used in astronomy research. No calibration sources for field, in-flight or real time broadband star simulation are cur ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will further develop a new Flow Path Management System (FPMS) representing an innovation in manufacturing software that: (1) Extends existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software by incorporating 'Lean Manufacturing' principles into a set of innovative si ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project could result in a new one-step, environmentally friendly solid-state synthesis of novel hybrid pigments for a wide variety of applications such as the coloring of plastics, paints and coatings, and cement. The properties of the proposed pigments result from a chemical bond between organic dyes and an inorganic clay, imparting advantageous che ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate three-phase nanocomposite films for embedded capacitor applications. There is demand for an embedded capacitor technology that addresses the need for miniaturization and increased functionality of electronic systems. The proposed three phase nanocomposite artificial dielectrics have the potential to have high dielectri ...