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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

There is significant opportunity to reduce cost, cycle time, and process variability of optical sensor assemblies through the application of innovative engineering and metrology tools. The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying DFMA (Design for Manufacturability and Assembly) techniques and Advanced Metrology tools to systematically evaluate the manufacturing proc ...

This proposed program will develop new computer models and integrate them with existing core lethality models to better predict KEW boost phase engagement strategy lethality effectiveness and to assist development of emerging enhanced lethality weapon systems tasked to neutralize enemy missile attack threats. Traditional Hit-To-Kill (HTK) lethality simulations have focused on KEW/warhead interact ...

"The BMD program has been redirected to develop fully integrated, layered defenses capable of defending against all ranges of threats. A critical aspect of this development is an integrated firing doctrine; i.e., that part of the battle management systemthat allocates interceptors to attackers across all the layers. Optimal firing doctrine is a function of both offense and defense capabilities. ...

"M Cubed has conducted preliminary work to fabricate near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) fiber reinforced ceramic composites. These composites have high specific stiffness and thermal stability (thermal conductivity/CTE). M Cubed has alsodeveloped ways to rapidly polish surfaces of various materials to Angstrom level surface finish. In the proposed program, these technologies will be ...

"M Cubed has developed three key processes for manufacturing advanced materials components which include PRIMEX, DIMOX and reaction bonding. The processes have been used to make a variety of components for commercial and military systems making themlighter, stiffer, highly functional and resistant to many threats. However, market penetration has been achieved only in high value added commercial pr ...

35% of US Children, particularly poor children, enter kindergarten unprepared to learn, and 38% of 4th graders cannont reat a grade level. New research highlights reliable pre-literacy interventions for at-risk preschoolers. But adults most of in need of this training ar least liklely to know it exists. R&D will: (a) distll evidence-based interventions for strngthening emergent literacy skills of ...

"The overall goal of this proposed program is to develop fiber optic Raman spectroscopy as an on-line analyzer capable of optimizing the mechanical properties of composites during manufacture. Phase I will demonstrate feasibility by developingrelationships between reaction mechanisms measured by Raman spectroscopy and mechanical properties measured by rheology for epoxy resin as a model system, w ...

"Direct detection radar requires both AD and DA conversion located essentially at the antenna or at the LNA output. The advantages are dramatic improvements in EMI interference and dynamic range and a reduction in power and complexity. For example with RFat 2 - 10 GHz, the down conversion process could be eliminated by direct digital conversion if sampling at 20GS/s were possible. In addition, an ...

Clocks and pulse sources are critical elements for next generation IC¿¿s such as DSP¿¿s and ¿Yprocessors which depend critically on stability and jitter. Clock skew becomes significant because of the large chip dimension. ADC¿¿s and DAC¿¿s are mixedsignal circuits which demand extremely precise clocks at multi GB/s rates. Telecommunication transceivers and transponders ...