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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

Not Available Utilizing plasma interactions on hypersonic vehicles for aerodynamic control, drag reduction, thermal management and propulsion are proposed by-US agencies, industry and foreign interests (Russian AJAX). These schemes address the Air Force's need for future hypersonic vehicles. This SBIR will develop a plasma MGD/MHD system designed to enable ' hypersonic propulsion by electromagnet ...

Not Available A very promising method of controlling hypersonic flows is through the use of a remotely-driven air plasma. The remotely driven plasma avoids the necessity of bringing the air to stagnation and also permits energy deposition at locations both near and far from vehicle or wind tunnel surfaces. The challenge is to generate the plasma with sufficient energy, and with sufficient control ...

Not Available The objective of this Phase I proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of automating the tasking and reporting of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets in real-time. These ISR assets consist of multiple sensors onboard space, air, sea and land-based platforms performing cooperative, multi-INT, cross-program ISR activities. To achieve this objective and overcom ...

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 A methodology for the estimation of the fatigue life of thermally buckled composite panels subjected to acoustic loading is proposed. The approach uses existing fatigue damage accumulation models but accounts for both damages created by the snap-throughs and in between snap-throughs. The proposed strategy relies on the decomposition of the response fields, i.e. displacements, stress ...

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 ...

IN SEPTEMBER 1989, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY ISSUEDA REPORT FUNDED BY CONGRESS CALLED, "THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: WHERE DO WE STAND?" ONE OF THEFINDINGS OF THE REPORT IS THAT THERE IS NO NATIONAL DATABASETHAT INCLUDES THE ROUTINE COLLECTION OF DATA REGARDING SPECIAL EDUCATION DUE PROCESS HEARINGS. SPECIAL EDUCATION DUE PROCESS HEARINGS ARE ADMINISTRATIVE-LEVEL ARBITRATI ...

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MANY PEOPLE WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS ARE EITHER UN- OR UNDEREMPLOYED. A PRIMARY REASON FOR THIS IS DEFICITS IN INTERPERSONAL SKILLS WHICH AFFECT BEHAVIOR IN JOB SEEKING AND JOB PERFORMANCE. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS ARE EMPLOYED IN ALL HUMAN INTERACTIONS. THE ABSENCE OF THESE SKILLS DAMAGESRELATIONSHIPS, BOTH IN PERSONAL LIFE AND IN THE WORKPLACE. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY SUGGESTS THAT INTERPERSON ...