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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to provide farmers with a low-cost plant sensor for direct, instantaneous measurement of nitrate-nitrogen (N) levels in crop sap. Widespread adoption of the sensor could support cost-effective and improved N fertilizer management, which may increase farmers’ productivity and profitabilit ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II is to improve schedule-based maintenance programs to ensure that industrial and farming equipment can function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The downtime associated with such high productivity equipment can result in significant lost revenue, and research shows that the average manufacturer deals wi ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be to produce high-quality (accurate/high-resolution) soil maps for agronomists and farmers at scale. Accurate soil information is a fundamental driver of better, more-efficient crop/soil management. This new branch of technology will deliver developed map products across various cropping systems ...

PROJECT SUMMARYOpportunity: Nitrate contamination has emerged as the most pervasive groundwater pollutant inNorth America predominantly originating from agricultural activities and shifting nitrogen inputsto land surfaces. In the United States over 7 million people rely on community water systems(CWS) with nitrate concentrations exceeding the maximum contaminant level (MCL). A rigorouspeer-reviewe ...

This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now leaves us highly vulnerable to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ Rare-earth metals enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power gene ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Although the ubiquity of metabolic problems in pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been known for more than a decade, a wealth of new details on the nature of this problem presents the opportunity for intervention. A combination of experimental work in cells and animals and early trials in humans, suggests that these metabolic problems are part of the causation for PH, and that inactiv ...

SPECIFIC AIMSApproximately 90% of lung cancer results from smoking. Low Dose Computerized Tomography (LDCT) of smokers can detect lung cancer earlier allowing more effective treatment. But determining which smokers should get LDCT screening is controversial and potentially harmful. Recently, the U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated their opinion on screening to recommend annual LDCT ...

The goal of this project is to develop a treatment booth with technology that allows opioid treatment programs to remotely dispense, either methadone or buprenorphine, under medical observation through telemedicine to a patient in a treatment booth. We believe that robotic automation is the ideal application to perform the same mechanical functions of the nurse at the dosing window. Specifically, ...

This Phase II project aims to prototype a novel technology that can advance the state-of-the-art in high performance space computing.nbsp; The base computer technology, called ldquo;RadPCrdquo;, brings together a suite of fault recovery mechanisms that enable Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to operate reliably in the presence of space radiation that causes si ...

All-electrical chip-scale atomic magnetometers based on spin-coherent transport effects through atomistic defects in semiconductors will have orders of magnitude improved sensitivity if the semiconductor hosts are isotopically purified and related device parameters optimized. Current all-electrical chip-scale atomic magnetometers have room-temperature sensitivities ~400 nT/root-Hz, and the propose ...