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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

Demonstration of the feasibility of using a web-enabled, interactive telecommunications system to collect, interpret and communicate diabetic monitoring information for people with disabilities; also intended to improve monitoring compliance

Promotion of access to information in educational, employment, and community settings to develop an "accessibility first" authoring tool to support actively technical authors in the creation of accessible electronic documents

Use of a Talking Tactile Tablet (TTT) in conjunction with maps created by the TMAP website to allow users to learn place names by pressing on tactile features on the map surface to cause associated information to be spoken aloud

Study of the feasibility of incorporating interactive talking tactile illustrations in digital talking books carried out in conformance with the DAISY/NISO specifications for use by readers who are blind or low-vision

Not Available This proposal describes an innovative, ultrashort pulse laser system offering environmental stability, compactness and extremely high efficiency. This will be achieved by the use of a novel diode-pumped, mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser and fiber pulse stretcher, followed by a diode-pumped Yb:YAG amplifier and compact grating compressor. This system will deliver the >5mJ, subpicose ...

Not Available Modern satellite-communication transmitters use a single antenna array to form multiple beams. Each power-amplifier (PA) module must amplify multiple carriers simultaneously. The resultant high peak-to-average ratio causes conventional PAs to be very inefficient (5-10 percent). Kahn-technique (EER) transmitters combine nonlinear RF amplifiers with a high-level modulator to implement ...

Not Available Herein, a Phase I program is proposed to design, build, and evaluate actuator for a high field, high strain, dynamic environment to ultimately support a buffet load alleviation system. These actuator improvements include high field and dynamic field testing of Active Control experts (ACX), Inc. current interdigitated design, as well as the inclusion of fine grain piezoceramic elemen ...

Not Available Virtually every user of launch services is seeking methods to reduce launch costs. A reusable conventional launch vehicle configuration shows the potential to achieve this goal. The LOX/LNG propellant combination shows the potential to enhance both propulsion system reusability and launch system mass-to-orbit capability. This propellant combination also has the performance margins n ...

Not Available The development of advanced communication or electronic warfare systems requires high performance miniaturized microwave filters. Miniaturized high-Q evanescent (EV) is one of the most desirable filters due to its wide stopband and small size, especially for satellite down-converter applications where a few hundred EV filters are used. Currently, EV filters are made using very small ...