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An interactive application that employs social interactions to teach key social conventions, including appropriate responses, reacting to body language and facial expressions, and the ability to ask for help to facilitate functioning in society

High energy density battery will be developed by combining metallic sodium anode with an air cathode. The proposed sodium-air battery is expected to dominate the performance of lithium-air battery. This battery technology is based on sodium conducting solid-electrolyte developed at Ceramatec Inc. The sodium conducting solid-electrolyte has conductivity in the range of 10-2 S/cm at ambient tempera ...

The objective of the proposed program is to develop a portable, low-cost, label-free (reagentless), microarray system capable of near real-time simultaneous detection and identification of multiple analytes (bacteria, viruses, spores, toxins) with high sensitivity and low false alarm rate. Notably, the system will be capable of detection/identification of agents on the basis of protein and/or nuc ...

Stockpiles of weapons with composite rocket motors have been expensive to acquire. In the fortunate occurrence that these weapons are not used, they are too expensive to discard based upon simple expiration dates. However, use of these weapons can be dangerous if their integrity is compromised due to aging and deterioration. CogniTech proposes to build a software suite containing a graphical ...

Brief Description of Problem: Pharmacovigilance is a key area required for effective Force Health Protection. While good efforts have been made to address this problem, the traditional systems approaches used do not address underlying challenges such as data quality, unavailability and non-integration, and the expensive person-driven approaches to data mapping and integration inherent in traditi ...

This solicitation calls for research and exploration on approaches to find solutions to high power W-band amplifiers for use in directed energy (DE) weapons that are more affordable and compact and have additional desirable features including low standby power and instant-on capabilities and are, for example, HUMVEE field friendly. In addition the ability to produce such amplifiers in relatively ...

The goal of this program is to produce a small disposable forehead patch for quickly detecting non-convulsive seizures in an unconscious patient. The patch device will include a small coin battery, surface electrodes, EEG processing electronics, and LED indicators. The patch is activated by removing the adhesive backing tab, and once applied it will display seizure status for several hours as th ...

The goal of this program is to use Blind Source Separation (BSS) signal processing techniques to create a novel multi-axis controller for prosthetic limbs based on surface EMG electrode array recordings.

Practical use of hyperspectral imagery for target recognition relies on hardware speed and the ability of algorithms to properly separate (segment) targets from image background in the presence of changing illumination. Recent hardware advances have put frame-rate hyperspectral target segmentation on the horizon. Such applications are computationally intense -- requiring over 200 billion arithme ...

This proposal addresses the Ground/Sea Vehicles, Sensors Technology Area and entails the development of a suite of video (visual and IR) and radar sensors for detecting and declaring the presence of near vehicle threats. Opportunistic hostile attacks present a constant threat to US troops while in ground-combat vehicles. Existing ground weapons detection and near-vehicle situational awareness t ...