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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of a platform technology for cancer therapy which overcomes the inherent shortcomings of other attempts to delivery siRNA to cancer cells. The difficulty with current siRNA delivery is that the enzymes in the body degrade the siRNA before it can reach its target. Most current siRNA technologies on the m ...

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THIS PROGRAM WILL DEMONSTRATE HIGH SPECIFIC POWER, LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE, THIN SILICON SOLAR CELLS. THESE SOLAR CELLS CAN BE DIRECTLY SUBSTITUTED FOR EXISTING STATE OF THE ART SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH THE EFFECT OF SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVING SPECIFIC POWER, POWER/AREA, AND POWER SUPPLY LIFE. THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE, ULTRA-THIN SILICON SOLAR CELL THAT INCORPORA ...

THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A (GAP)1-X(ZNS)X-BASED MATERIAL IS BEING ENGINEERED TO PREPARE AN UTEROPOLAR, DIRECT BANDGAP MATERIAL. THIS TYPE OF MATERIAL WITH BANDGAP IN EXCESS OF 2.6 EV CAN BE EMPLOYED IN BLUE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES, AND IN UV DETECTORS CAPABLE OF SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE COMPARED TO SILICON, IN HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS IN EARTH ORBIT AND PARTICLE ACCELER ...

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This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project will further develop HunchLab -- software tools that leverage spatial statistics to enable police personnel to test their theories of criminality against data collected in the day-to-day activities of policing. The preceding Phase I project proved the feasibility of developing HunchLab as a set of innovative software tools that scour ...

THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES METHODS TO PROVIDE PRACTITIONERS OF MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING WITH READY ACCESS TO THE ADVANCED LINEAR PROGRAMMING (LP) TOOLS OF LAGRANGEAN RELAXATION (LR) AND LAGRANGEAN DECOMPOSITION (LD). THESE TOOLS ARE USED PRIMARILY TO SOLVE MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMS (MIP). THESE PROGRAMS ARISE NATURALLY IN THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS THAT OCCUR IN MYRIAD INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS, SUCH AS PROCESS ...

This Small Businees Innovation Research phase I project is investigate the incorporation of design for assembly and design for manufacture constraints into automated circuit board layout design software. Including these constraints will improve the capabilities of automated layout design software. Successful completion of this research will shorten time to market for circuit boards, reduce desig ...

COMMERCIAL MACHINE VISION WAS TRODUCED IN THE 1970S. TO THIS POINT, IT HAS NOT BEEM USED WIDELY FOR AUTOMATION IN MANUFACTURING DUE TO PERFORMANCE, COMPLEXITY, AND COST ISSUES. MOST COMMERCIAL VISION SYSTEMS ARE BASED ON VIDEO TECHNOLOGY WITH SEPARATE CAMERAS, FRAME GRABBERS, DIGITIZERS, AND PROCESSORS. RELIANCE ON VIDEO TECHNOLOGY LIMITS PERFORMANCE AND REQUIRES EXPENSIVE, COMPLEX ARCHITECTURES. ...

IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PRACTICABLE COMPOSITE GEOTECHNICAL MATERIAL CONSISTING OF SMALL DISCONTINUOUS REINFORCING ELEMENTS IN A COHESIONLESS SOIL MATRIX WOULD HAVE SEVERAL IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING: BACKFILL FOR RETAINING SYSTEMS; BASE, SUBBASE, AND SUBGRADE MATERIALS FOR PAVEMENTS; ENGINEERED FILLS; BACKFILL AROUND UTILITIES; BEARING MATERIALS FOR FOUNDATIONS I ...