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Individual differences in vulnerability to sleep loss and fatigue from extended work hours and night work are a substantial problem in transportation policy making, work schedule development, fatigue risk management strategies, and prediction of performance impairment in real-world operations (Van Dongen et al. 2003; Mollicone et al. 2010). Our group was the first to document the considerable magn ...

The objective of this SBIR Phase II effort is to grow larger size (50 mm diameter x 25 mm thick or larger) single crystals of aluminum oxynitride (AlON) and aluminum nitride (AlN) by refining and optimizing the rapid and contamination free growth method developed at the Phase I stage. The major properties of the single crystals will be quantitatively characterized and evaluated. The crystals shoul ...

Layflat hoseline is used in Army water and fuel systems to transport bulk fluid over varying distances. Ease of storage, layout, and retrieval are desired characteristics offered by layflat hoses currently in use. In order to meet the Armys need for an improved hoseline with a higher working pressure, new approaches to integrating higher strength fibers and optimizing fiber orientation in the hose ...

The cost of logistics fuels, including transportation and distribution, is significant not only in terms of dollars but also increased risk exposure for soldiers. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) systems are an attractive renewable energy solution due to their high net average efficiencies of solar-to-electric conversion, and have the added benefit of being able to provide heat loads such as hot w ...

Phishing fools end-users into disclosing sensitive information or downloading malware. Commercially available solutions have shown limited success in stopping these attacks. We aim to refine and commercialize novel anti-phishing email and web filtering techniques that overcome these limitations. Our approach combines two new technologies originally developed at CMU, as well as novel linguistic an ...

In this proposal Zeomedix proposes to develop a dressing for infected trauma wounds based on its zeolite encapsulating nitric oxide (NO) technology. Nitric oxide has been shown to enhance the wound healing process as well as act as a powerful antibacterial agent. However, delivery of nitric oxide to a wound area is extremely challenging because NO is a gas. Zeomedixs approach is to use zeolites ...

This Phase II proposal addresses a current need relevant to the US military: a lightweight and durable electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) shielding fabric, with EMI/RFI shielding across a wide frequency range. To address this statement of need, a scale-up demonstration/validation program is proposed, based upon the previous Phase I results and on-going propri ...

In this SBIR Phase II research, we propose to i) improve robustness and efficiency of the algorithms and techniques, which we developed in Phase I for wall parameter estimation, detection of metallic-backed walls, and characterization and near real-time imaging of wall"s interior structure, ii) extend the developed techniques to a combination of an exterior and interior walls, iii) investigate per ...

The ability to model complex systems relevant to EW defeat scenarios requires a knowledgeable user to decompose analyses into a set of individual phenomena for separate analysis. There are no end-to-end models that can appropriately model all aspects of the problem and coherently bring them together into an accurate solution. This results in two key disadvantages: (1) The required multi-step sim ...

CustomArray produces a field-deployable electrochemical microarray platform ideally suited for the multiplexed detection of pathogenic organisms. In this Phase II proposal, we will continue our Phase I effort to build an automated arthropod-borne virus detection system. The Phase I assay work-flow included the following three steps: (1) Extract RNA from Mosquitoes; (2) Amplify and label viral RNA ...