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Clinical trial data is insufficient for drug safety purposes since not enough patients are covered. Hence the drug design process can be improved if post-marketed safety data can be used to augment data available from clinical trials. The FDA and WHO are some agencies that make such safety data available for pharmacovigilance purposes. The DOD aims to create a data warehouse that combines such pub ...

The use of Si-based composite substrates for HgCdTe infrared focal plane arrays holds the promise of improved resolution, greater robustness and lower cost as compared to arrays that employ the present-day standard CdZnTe substrates. The principal challenge associated with the use of Si-based substrates is the presence of dislocations, created by the large lattice mismatch, that thread into the Hg ...

For the past four years, Lumidigm has focused development efforts on multispectral skin analysis and multispectral fingerprint imaging in an effort to build robust, convenient, and reliable biometric sensors. This work has been funded by private investors, government intelligence agencies (CIA & NSA), the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense (currently a Fast-Track Phase II through the ...

The proposed project is based on two recent exciting innovations: the direct operation of low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) by direct internal reforming of liquid hydrocarbon fuels, and a novel mechanically-robust stack design that is ideally suited for small-scale (»1kW) generators. The aims of the Phase I project are to demonstrate the combination of these innovations by fabricat ...

This Phase II proposal presents the design and development approach for a handheld tactical STTW radar system for intelligence collection. Phase I research yielded a viable path of development that will culminate in the delivery of a working prototype device that will be capable of determining multiple stationary targets through-the-wall, along with information on where the targets are located.

A novel sensor based upon Coherent-Surface-Enhanced Raman scattering (CSERS) is being proposed for rapid detection of biological and chemical contaminants in water. The main characteristic of this sensor is a periodic array of metal nanoparticles or nanoshells deposited on the surface of an optical fiber waveguide. The nanoparticles/nanoshells will be deposited and immobilized in a periodic array ...

Armors that provide protection against blast do so through a number of mechanisms. Simple elastic mechanisms include reflection of the blast wave because of the armor's high impedance relative to air, and distribution of energy over a large area by wave propagation through the armor. Non-linear effects, such as plasticity and damage evolution, enhance the armor's effectiveness by dissipating mec ...

The problem to be solved in the proposed work is that the deposition of the usual In and Au metal contacts on HgCdTe-based IR detectors creates additional stress in the HgCdTe immediately below the contacts, This stress has been observed to getter threading dislocations, which, in turn, creates misfit dislocation segments just below the detector surface and parallel to the surface, in the active a ...

Demilitarization of unserviceable ammunition by open burning and open detonation is no longer an option. Autoclaving of low melting point materials is labor intensive, hazardous to the health of operators, and generates pinkwater which requires clean-up as hazardous waste. Other explosives such as insensitive munitions composed of polymer bonded explosives present a particularly difficult challen ...

Rapid response to homeland security related incidents requires dynamic integration of military and civilian medical information systems. Currently, this integration process has been difficult to accomplish due to various factors: diversity of medical information systems, lack of universal data standards, plethora of data formats (text,images,video, audio), and the semantic mismatch between the dif ...