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"Jaia Robotics’ low-cost, micro-sized hybrid uncrewed surface/underwater vehicles called JaiaBotsTM can be deployed from the shore or vessels. The system enables truly affordable multivehicle operations that can be scaled to provide wide area synoptic data collection. In the proposed effort the project team will develop a JaiaBot which is air-deployable from sonobuoy launch tubes to collect atmo ...

A cloud based system for sharing bathymetric survey data collected by FarSounder customers is proposed as a way(1) to improve safety of navigation on our oceans, (2) to collect measurements for the broader scientific and maritime communities and (3) to generally explore and broadly share information about our oceans in fulfillment of ideas proposed in Topic 9.3 “The Changing Ocean”, and in acc ...

Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...

Problem: Neck/back pain causes extensive losses in time and resources for the US and international allies. Back and neck pain compromise performance of aircrew and resource management in the cabin resulting in exhaustion or pain-related human error mishaps. Medical grounding has severe impact on crew operation and results in expensive medical procedures and loss of the aircrewman to disability-rel ...

Wildfire response planning is limited by the lack of high-resolution data for use in wildfire prediction. Wildfire models depend on many variables, including weather, topography, vegetation type and arrangement, fuel moisture content, and regional fire prevention measures, among others. Some of these variables are static or nearly so, but some of these are highly dynamic. In particular, live fuel ...

Hyperkalemia is a serious concern in the treatment of combat casualties as it is a common complication of acute kidney injury, which prevents the excretion of excessive plasma potassium released from damaged tissue. The risk of death from hyperkalemia-induced cardiac arrhythmias is significant in the absence of renal replacement therapy (RRT). Rapid evacuation out of Iraq and Afghanistan ensured t ...

Restoration of coral reefs is dependent upon an ability to adhere young corals, grown in tanks, onto inorganic substrates within the seas. The epoxies in current use do not provide a viable path to restoration owing to poor adhesion underwater, lengthy mixing of components needed, clouds of toxic epoxy precursors released into the water, and extensive diver time needed to clean the underlying cora ...

Over 2.7 million units of plasma are transfused annually in the United States mainly to treat trauma, shock, burn injury, and emergency surgery. Plasma from AB individuals, often referred to as universal plasma, is in high demand for both military and civilian emergency transfusions as it does not contain anti-A and anti-B antibodies that could induce fatal hemolytic reactions as a result of their ...

REACT will connect to a mix of proximity links between smartphones (e.g. NFC, QR-code sequences, BLE and WiFi). In particular we will implement a QR-based communications link prototype in Android to test performance of transfer between two smartphones. Li

Drug dosingcan bemademore precise by using pharmacokineticand pharmacodynamicmodeling. Pharmacokinetics is thestudy of the concentration of drugs in tissueasafunction of timeand doseschedule,whereas pharmacodynamics is thestudy of therelationship between drugconcentration and drugeffect. By relating doseto resultant drugconcentration (pharmacokinetics)and concentration to effect (pharmacodynamics) ...