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DIFFERENTIATING AMONG THE DENOMINATIONS OF U.S. CURRENCY IS A PROBLEM FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE DEVICES THAT ASSIST THE BLIND IN DETERMINING CURRENCY DENOMINATIONS ARE RELATIVELY LARGE AND EXPENSIVE. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IS A SYSTEMATIC APPLICATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND MICRO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP A PEN-SIZE PAPER CURRENCY READER. RECENT AD ...

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CHROMEX proposes to develop a monitor system for plasma etch reactors that will, in the Phase I program, demonstrate much improved endpoint detection when compared to currently availabe systems. The Phase II research will extend the monitoring capabilities to all important plasma parameters. The system will provide the feedback information to the reactor controller necessary to produce a flexible ...

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MIDI, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL INTERFACE, IS THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARD FOR STORING AND EXCHANGING MUSCIAL DATA. MANY MUSIC PUBLISHERS, AS WELL UNPUBLISHED COMPOSERS, ARE NOW STORING MUSICAL WORKS IN MIDI, OR MIDI CONVERTIBLE, FORMATS. THE GOODFEEL MIDI-TO-BRAILLE SOFTWARE WILL SERVE TO MAKE THESE WORKS AVAILABLE TO THE BRAILLE MUSIC READER.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF MERGING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) SIMULATOR WITH GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) IN ORDER TO PRODUCE IEMS(3) (INTELLIGENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEMS SIMULATOR), A PC-BASED SYSTEM WHICH CAN BE USED FOR BOTH ADDRESSING STRATEGIC PLANNING ISSUES OF EMS SYSTEMS (E.G., SYSTEM CONFIGURATION; VEHICLE LOCATION ...

The survivability of vehicles and aircraft is greatly dependent on their mobility and level of armor protection. In most cases, mobility is best served by minimizing mass. Conversly, the level of protection afforded by an armor system is usually directly proportional to its mass. This leads to the difficult trade off of protection versus mobility. There- fore, armor systems with increased levels o ...

ECOTEK INTERNATIONAL PROPOSES AN ALL SOLID-STATE VISIBILITY MONITORING SYSETM THAT WILL BE USED TO MONITOR VISIBILITY CONDITIONS ALONG ROADWAYS AND WARN TRAVELERS OF LOW VISIBILITY CONDITIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM IS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MULTIPLE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS AND CONSEQUENT FATALITIES, INJURIES, AND PROPERTY DAMAGES. THE SYSTEM IS BASED ON AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO A WELL-ESTABLISHED ...

Millimeter-wave system designers are limited to two terminal devices when high powers are required from a solid state device. InGaAs/InAlAs HEMTs latticed matched to InP substrates have produced excellent low noise results at millimeter-wave frequencies. The high power performance, however, is limited by the narrow bandgap of the InGaAs chamel which leads to low breakdown voltages between the drai ...

We will demonstrate the capability of scatterometry to provide a process monitor to post exposure bake of chemically amplified photoresist. Two or more scatterometers will be designed that are capable of monitoring the intensities of multiple diffraction orders that result from illuminating device patterns of photoresist. The goal is to demonstrate the capability of scatterometry to provide a PEB ...