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Traumatic head and neck injuries account for 16-33% of all war-related injuries and are a leading cause of mortality upon evacuation to a definitive care setting. This application is focused on treating one of the most important determinants of outcome from severe head injury, the degree and duration of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP). The main objective of this proposal is to continue the ...

Optical measurements including laser velocimetry (LV), particle image velocimetry (PIV), and other similar techniques are becoming a more important part of aerodynamic testing. However their implementation into large production wind tunnels is severely hindered by difficulties with flow seeding. Phase I of this program will focus on the problem of seed delivery and dispersal into a transonic strea ...

The nuclear power industry continues to depend largely on antiquated methods and hands-on maintenance for its instrumentation, for plant-aging management, and health monitoring. This project will develop on-line monitoring technology that will help establish the accuracy and reliability of nuclear power plant instrumentation and also will help in the management of aging critical plant equipment. ...

The use of carnauba wax in melt/castable explosives yields a insensitive explosive formulation that enhances overall safety for the use of these munitions in the field. However, carnauba wax is only obtained from overseas sources and there is no domestic source for this material. This leads to shortages of material and higher prices. There exists a need for a wax substitute to replace the carna ...

Internal Combustion engines (IC) are bound in their ability to create power primarily by the volume of air an engine is able to deliver to the combustion chamber. This formula has particular import at high altitude, where air pressure decreases, resulting in a correlative power loss. Traditional solutions for generating higher compensating air pressure are limited to external add-on devices such ...

Since the 1990's, applications requiring high power (>1 KW) millimeter wave energy have relied on either gyrotrons or multiple gryotwystron amplifiers. While the gryotwystron approach offers bandwidth and single point failure benefits, it is inherently more complex and larger than that of the single gyrotron. The gyrotron however requires a superconducting magnet to create the 3.7 Tesla field ne ...

The databases and software tools developed for the electrical distribution system do not interoperate. As a result, electric utilities incur a number of problems: increased costs for training and database maintenance; delays in completing engineering studies and other functions; and, often, a decreased quality of output from software systems. For software providers, this situation leads to mark ...

Many good load-estimation algorithms for the electricity distribution system have arisen from research activities, but they often are difficult for utilities to implement. This project will develop a customizable load estimation system, using OSIsoft's Historian with extensions to the IEEE Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) standard, to collect and manage the data. In Phase I, the OSI ...

In order to capture incoming data streams at tens of terabits per second continuously or for tens of minutes, it is useful to preprocess the data as close to the collector as possible, then make either the digested data or raw segments of interest available via conventional networking and remote files. This proposal adapts and demonstrates FTL Systems’ COTS embedded supercomputer, StarStream, t ...

Deriving coherent antenna array clocks from a common tapped delay line driven by a synchronizing pulse per clock cycle results in reduced jitter and optimal beam forming at minimal cost. Phase one effort analytically considers both electronic and optical implementations with an option for simulation-based validation of a critical PLL circuit and other physical parameters. Analysis considers three ...