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ABSTRACT:Quantitative ablation recession rate measurements of heat shield surfaces are essential for evaluating the performance of heat shield materials. Currently, these measurements are limited to two-dimensional images that focus on the nose tip regression rate. For wedge testing, recession rate is determined by comparing pre- and post-test measurements, and therefore, recession rate as a funct ...

Quantum has two technical objectives for Phase II. The first is to develop, test, demonstrate, and deliver prototype three-dimensional (3D) array, Seismic Acoustic Detection and Ranging (SADAR) systems with a data sampling rate of 8,000 (8K) per second to automatically detect, classify, report, and localize underground sources for specific seismic-acoustic signals of interest in near real-time. Th ...

Hydrothermal vents emit large amounts of hot water, which has the potential to produce electric power. This type of power source can enable remote sea sensors and communication networks, recharge unmanned underwater vehicles, and facilitate a variety of other deep sea activities. Developing a power system for this application is challenging because the environment is extremely corrosive, mineral p ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantHuntington s DiseaseHDis an inherited disease that results from expansion of a trinucleotideCAGcytosine adenine guaninerepeat that encodes a polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin proteinPsychiatric symptomsincluding irritability and aggressionare common in HD patientsThese are among the most distressing aspects of the diseaseThey have adverse effects on daily life a ...

The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) THAAD system is capable of detecting and intercepting ballistic missile threats. Hypergolic fuels are used in these missiles for inducing spontaneous ignition. These fuels are toxic, and require monitoring of leakage. InnoSense LLC (ISL) has developed a prototype sensor following Lockheed Martin (LM) specifications. ISL sensors are designed to serve as a dr ...

The introduction of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) compounds the already challenging nature of conducting mine countermeasures (MCM) operations, which take place in a dynamic and uncertain operating environment. The MCM Commander (MCMC) needs decision aids to streamline their decision making. To meet this need, we will research and develop a suite of modular algorithms called Adaptive MCM Operations ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantSchistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease of public health concern to a billion people withmillion currently infected andmillion at risk to acquire the infectionthe majority of these in AfricaThe disease has a high impact on affected people s lives with disability adjusted life years atmillion years which ran this malady ahead of malariaCurrent control s ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe goal of the project is to develop a therapeutic against vancomycin resistant enterococcusVREThese infections are a serious health concern because antibiotic resistance has gotten to the point where there are few or no effective treatment options availableFor the enterococciresistance is inherently linked to toleranceth ability of the pathogen to survive in the p ...

ASI will leverage its recent work in small form factor HF, VHF and UHF RF direction finding to accelerate and risk reduce Navy’s Spectrum Monitoring payload. In this Phase I SBIR, ASI will deliver analysis and system descriptions for the antenna subsystem and its calibration, the RF and digital processing subsystems and ScanEagle integration. For the antenna subsystem, ASI will leverage its RF p ...

LongShortWay Inc. and Northeastern University propose a family of feature reduction and ensemble classifier methods based on Principal Component and Dynamic Logic feature clustering algorithms. New methods combine feature clustering with non-linear feature reduction via manifold learning, and bagging, boosting, and stacking ensemble algorithms.