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The objective of this Phase I application is the focused development of an advanced bioinformatic based wearable critical care monitor to enhance warfighter medical care. This will be accomplished by building upon an existing advanced sensor, hardware and software platform developed by BodyMedia Advanced Development combined with additional computational and clinical expertise provided by Virgini ...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in males. Treatment with androgen ablation therapy after radical prostatectomy (RP) eventually leads to relapse and development of androgen-independent disease. Patients with androgen independent prostate cancer experience high morbidity and morality. At present, the ability to monit ...

This Phase II project will develop a system for the perioperative management of head trauma patients that is compliant with the proposed Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) standard. Device interoperability will be implemented using a microprocessor-based adapter that translates communication protocols of specific legacy medical devices into a standard protocol readable by an open-source API. T ...

A study of Mo-Si-B-XX alloys for high temperature structural applications is proposed. The material for such applications require strength, ductility, toughness, fatigue and creep resistance, and oxidation resistance. The Mo-Si-B alloy system provides an opportunity to develop desired properties. The alloy processing and microstructure synthesis will be pursued. The deformation mechanisms wil ...

With ever sophisticated antenna and transceiver designs, the traditional separation between antennas and circuits has become blurred. Many antenna designs now contain integrated circuitry and have circuitry that includes active and passive devices with nonlinear and time-varying characteristics. In order to design such antennas and conduct a correct a thorough investigation of proposed designs, i ...

The proposed work addresses the problem of determining whether a given small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV) can traverse a given terrain, when the state of both the SUGV and the terrain are not known exactly. In Phase I, we developed Monte Carlo-based methods to predict the mobility of the PackBot on steps, and we experimentally validated those methods with experiments with a real robot on real t ...

Photon-X, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and University of Washington (UW) are teaming to propose to develop next generation EO modulators based on photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides and stable functional polymeric materials that would provide revolutionary performance for broad range of applications. We will design and analyze PhC modulators based on highly stable advanced NLO polymers and d ...

During Phase I, we have conducted proof-of-principle experiments to fabricate exchange-coupled isotropic permanent magnets with SmFeN-Fe4N compositions employing shock wave consolidation technique. We have also successfully synthesized nearly 100% Fe16N2 in bulk form. Under this Phase II plan, we propose to optimize and further enhance the isotropic exchange-coupled permanent magnets with higher e ...

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is being successfully transitioned to field applications in both close-contact (proximity) and standoff detection modes. LIBS is attractive since it can be used to detect a wide range of chemical, biological and explosive (CBE) hazardous materials. While LIBS is well suited to evaluation of complex hazards, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ...

Crystalplex has developed novel semiconductor nanocrystal technology that can be a platform solution to meet the Army's desire for a light emitting diode (LED) with enhanced output in the deep green region using nanoparticles. This innovation produces an efficient deep green (555-585 nm) nanoparticle emitter capable of sustaining the Army's stated goal of 120 lumens per watt of input power. Crys ...