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This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project concerns the use of time-lapse seismic P-wave and S-wave data simultaneously to obtain seismic monitoring images of fluid-flow saturation and pore pressure in subsurface reservoirs. Time-lapse seismic using P-waves alone may not always produce reliable discrimination between fluid-flow saturation changes and pore pressure changes sinc ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II project will develop advanced forms of transparent network proxies for both satellite and terrestrial broadband wireless communications to the Internet. Shared wireless access links to the Internet often exhibit what has been called a traffic / cost anomaly. While almost 90% of the traffic in the network can flow from the Internet to the use ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to develop a process that uses halophytic plants and aquaculture effluent to treat highly saline coal bed methane (CBM) discharge water. Vast volumes of water are a necessary though unwanted byproduct of the gas drilling process. The saline discharge is widely viewed as an environmental liability. Discharges into streams are esse ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II research project develops personalized user-interfaces for location-based services. This adaptive proximity-based personalization algorithm recommends nearby venues based on predicted user interest and distance. It will further develop a highly distributed algorithm that allows handsets to perform part of the calculation, dramatically reducing compu ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project describes an innovative Approach for development of a high sensitivity laser ultrasonic receiver for Application in industrial environment. A high sensitivity classic reference beam interferometer with the ability to efficiently overcome the limitation caused by the speckle light generated from the reflection from rough surface will be dev ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II is for the development of nanofluidic-flowing liquid junction (NFLJ) reference electrodes using nanochannel glass arrays developed by the Naval Research Laboratory. While consuming electrolyte at less than 2 ml/yr, the NFLJ reference electrodes will allow a flow at velocities of over 0.1 cm/sec to impede back diffusion of sample solution into ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project will integrate Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) with Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) optical switching to make the critical network element needed for reconfigurable, transparent, high capacity fiber optic networks. This technological advancement will facilitate the transition from today's point-to-point opaque ne ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes to add telemetry and monitoring equipment to the spar designed and constructed under our Phase I contract. Furthermore, we propose to test and evaluate an automated spar feeding system suitable for use on an operating offshore fish farm. C Cates International, Inc. has developed a feeding system for it¿s underwater cages that functions from a small boat. But ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II proposes to develop a Meshless Petrov-Galerkin Geo-Environ Technology For Wide Scale Field Uses. Groundwater supplies are increasingly threatened by organic, inorganic, and radioactive contaminants that are introduced to the environment by improper disposal or accidental releases. Estimates of remediation costs at U.S. government sites alon ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes to develop a novel technology for laser-enabled analysis and processing (LEAP) of living cells. The ability to load cells with compounds is critical in many areas of research and medicine such as drug discovery and gene therapy. Current methods have limitations with respect to specificity, efficiency, toxicity, and/or throughput. Optoinjection is a novel and ver ...