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Shigella and non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) frequently cause gastrointestinal illnesses that lead to diarrhea and loss of duty days in Service members with very limited access to advanced clinical diagnosis and care. These infections are easily communicab

Innovision LLC proposes an innovative and robust solution to this topic, a software toolDACAA (Dynamic avatars with Complete Articulated Anatomy) that can be used to quickly reposition USARIEMs avatars to the desired postures and apply natural motions to them. A template skeleton model with well-defined joints will be constructed and fitted to each individualized avatar. Methods and algorithms wi ...

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CRG proposes to develop a wearable health monitoring system that leverages multi-modal, distributive sensing through an array of miniature, ultra-low power sensors to realize high accuracy while mitigating bulk and discomfort. The proposed approach facilitates integration of electronics into a compression garment enabling remote health monitoring of physiological data, generating actionable infor ...

Biomimetic Slope Adaptive Foot-Ankle Prosthesis This project will develop an innovative mechanical/hydraulic foot-ankle system that will help lower extremity prosthesis wearers to walk or run in a wider range of environments with close to normal walking biomechanics. The proposed system will have a unique combination of features, all mechanically implemented without electronics or external powe ...

Recent advances in augmented reality (AR) offer valuable opportunities for simulationbased training outside of a medical simulator facility. The potential benefits for combat casualty care training are particularly powerful, as over 100,000 U.S. military medical personnel must be prepared to quickly respond to a broad range of injuries at any point in time. We propose to develop and evaluate a hig ...

The automotive and aerospace industries use topology optimization to minimize structural weight while satisfying functional constraints. However, the industry-standard fictitious material or density approach has been less effective when applied to physics beyond simple structural mechanics. Known issues include: failed numerical convergence or so-called gray material in computed optimal designs, n ...

The objective of the proposed Phase-I effort by Spectral Energies LLC is to design and develop a fiber-coupled hyperspectral LWIR thermal imaging sensor suite for temperature measurements in practical combustors. The proposed sensor suite will be capable of performing spectrally resolved imaging to achieve accurate temperature measurements in practical gas-turbine engines while resolving optical i ...

Computational design is encountering barriers due to chaotic dynamics. The characteristic unpredictability, aperiodicity, and sensitivity to initial conditions in chaotic dynamics requires computationally costly time-dependent analysis. Computationally costly analysis precludes sampling-based optimization, indicating that chaotic systems would significantly benefit from gradient-based optimization ...

The overall goal of the proposed research program is to design a ruggedized imaging system capable of visualization and analysis of the particle field and product gases in a multiphase blast. This will be accomplished by combining kHz-MHz-rate burst-mode laser technology with tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) and new nonlinear particle tracking methods to resolve dense particle fields. ...