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  1. HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

    SBC: Adaptive Solutions Inc.            Topic: N/A

    WE PROPOSE TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) ON A VLSI NEUROCOMPUTER. THE OCR SYSTEM WILL USE STATE OF THE ART ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS ONADAPTIVE SOLUTIONS' CNAPS NEUROCOMPUTER CHIPS. THE CNAPS CHIPS OFFERUNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS. THE IMAGE PREPROCESSING OF THE OCR SYSTEM WILL ALSO EXECUTE ON THE CNAPS CHIPS. THE GOAL ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of DefenseDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  2. COMPOSITE PLASMA-POLYMER MEMBRANES

    SBC: BEND RESEARCH, INC.            Topic: N/A

    THE POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF MEMBRANE PROCESSES FOR SEPARATIONS ARE WELL KNOWN. HOWEVER, CURRENT MEMBRANE SYSTEMS HAVE CAPTURED ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF THE POTENTIAL MARKET, PRIMARILY BECAUSE THEY ARE MADE FROM POLYMERS THAT ARE NOT DURABLE ENOUGH FOR MANY APPLICATIONS, AND THEY DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT SELECTIVITY FOR CLEAN SEPARATIONS. PLASMA-POLYMER MEMBRANES OFFER A SOLUTION TO BOTH PROBLEMS. TH ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Energy
  3. A NOVEL PROCESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF NITROGEN FROM NITROGEN-CONTAININGNATURAL GAS: DEVELOPMENT OF WATER-BASED ABSORBENTS

    SBC: BEND RESEARCH, INC.            Topic: N/A

    DOMESTIC NATURAL GAS PROVIDES AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PORTION OF THE U.S. ENERGY SUPPLY. ESTIMATED U.S. GAS RESERVES ARE ABOUT 1000 TRILLON STANDARD CUBIN FEET (SCF)--OR ABOUT 1000 QUADS. FULLY 25% OF THE ESTIMATED U.S. NATURAL GAS RESERVES ARE CONTAMINATED WITH NITROGEN (N2) TO THE EXTENT THAT THE GAS CANNOT BE USED WITHOUT PROCESSING TO REDUCE THE N2 CONCENTRATION. NO TECHNOLOGY EXISTS TODAY F ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Energy
  4. Novel Process Technology for Utilization of Fruit and Vegetable Waste

    SBC: Chemica Technologies, Inc            Topic: N/A

    This Phase II proposal is targeted towards development of novel process technology for profitable utilization of fruit and vegetable wastes. The technology will be used to recover valuable organic soluts, such as flavor and fragrance chemicals, from aqueous waste streams. In Phase I we addressed the recovery of onion flavor from an aqueous waste stream generated during the production of onion oi ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Agriculture
  5. Amplifiers¿Dense Electrode Array Electroencephalography

    SBC: Electrical Geodesics, Inc.            Topic: N/A

    The research would develop an inexpensive electroencephalographic (EEG) amplifier system suitable for dense (128 or 256) electrode arrays. These arrays would provide the measurements necessary for new source localization algorithms constrained by MRI data that image the electrical activity of the cortex throughout the three dimensions of intracranial space. Although the anatomical resolution of th ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Health and Human Services
  6. Method for Dense Sensor Array Electroencephalography

    SBC: Electrical Geodesics, Inc.            Topic: N/A

    Recent studies show that the analysis of the brain's electrical fields with the electroencephalogram (EEG) could produce an informative, cost-effective method of neuroimaging if the density of scalp electrodes were increased substantially over conventional practice. We propose to commercialize an apparatus that attaches 128 EEG electrodes in an even spatial array across the surface of the human he ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Health and Human Services
  7. High Briteness, Long-Life Ion Sources for Focused Ion Beams

    SBC: Fei            Topic: N/A

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    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of DefenseNavy
  8. NOVEL FLUOROGENIC ENZYME SUBSTRATES AND THEIR USES

    SBC: MOLECULAR PROBES, INC.            Topic: N/A

    THIS PROJECT INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL FLUOROGENIC SUBSTRATES AND THEIR BIOANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS. SUPPORT IS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED FOR SYNTHESIS OF FLUOROGENIC ENZYME SUBSTRATES THAT YIELD INTENSELY FLUORESCENT PRECIPITATES NEAR THE SITE OF ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY. WORK IN PROGRESS HAS DEMONSTRATED A SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR THESE REAGENTS FOR ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION IN HISTOCHEMISTRY, MOLECUL ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Health and Human Services
  9. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW LATEX-BASED FLUORESCENT REAGENTS

    SBC: MOLECULAR PROBES, INC.            Topic: N/A

    WE WILL DEVELOP APPLICATIONS IN BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH AND IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS FOR THE FLUORESCENT LATEX MICROSPHERES THAT HAVE BEEN PREPARED. THE SUPERIORITY OF THESE PRODUCTS IN TERMS OF THEIR RANGE OF SIZE, WAVELENGTH AND FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY WILL ENHANCE THEIR APPLICATION IN AREAS OF RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY THAT HAVE SENSITIVITY REQUIREMENTS THAT CURRENTLYAVAILABLE FLUORESCENT LATEX AND ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Health and Human Services
  10. A PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION/TEMPERATURE SWING ADSORPTION PROCESS FOR NITROGEN REJECTION FROM NATURAL GAS

    SBC: Northwest Fuel Development, In            Topic: N/A

    A COMBINATION PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION (PSA)/TEMPERATURE SWING ADSORPTION (TSA) PROCESS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR REMOVING NITROGEN FROM LOW-QUALITY NATURAL GAS IN ORDER TO PRODUCE PIPELINE QUALITY NATURAL GAS ON A SMALL SCALE. NITROGEN REJECTION REMAINS THE MAJOR TECHNOECONOMIC HURDLE FOR UTILIZING MAJOR RESOURCES OF LOW-QUALITY NATURAL GAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A METHODOLOGY FOR PRODUCING A VALUABLE F ...

    SBIR Phase II 1994 Department of Energy
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