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Acute infectious diseases pose significant problems which include the potential failure of antimicrobial therapy and the serious sequelae that may result. These treatment failures may occur due to a lack of diagnostic information during early onset of the disease, resulting in the use of the incorrect antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance, and the inadequacy of current therapy for ameliorating s ...

Development of new algorithms for improved tracking of MTI data from airborne standoff platforms can be enabled by exploiting additional information extracted from multi-mode radar including both SAR image information and MTI. MTI radar is being increasingly used for tactical battlefield surveillance and several new Systems are reaching ICC which will provide continuous wide area surveillance. T ...

A Phase I project to design and demonstrate the concept of a "high-speed laser scanning technology for the measurement" and reporting of the small fire arm scoring. Accuracy of the measurement is +/- 1 mm over an area of 30'x30' with a projectile velocity of up to 1,550 meter/second. The results of the Phase I program will provide crucial design guidelines for the construction of a full brassboa ...

Ozone treatment of wastewater to destroy organic contaminants prior to discharge into the environment is an extremely effective advanced oxidation technology. To date the use of this powerful technology has been limited in part by the relatively high capital costs of an efficient ozone to water, gas-liquid, mass transfer system. Existing ozone injection devices must overcome the inherently low m ...

Lean burn spark engines are a promising technique to further reduce both NOx and hydrocarbon/carbon monoxide (HC/CO) engine emissions. Higher lean burn levels improve HC/CO oxidation while simultaneously reducing NOx formation. The NOx reduction is due to cooler flame temperatures. While the lean burn limit (beyond which combustion is poor) restricts further emission reductions, the use of oxyg ...

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DACCO SCI, INC. proposes a Phase I SBIR program to develop an affordable sensor system to monitor the health or condition of infrastructure. Although the selection of sensors will depend on the particular infrastructure being monitored, it is anticipated that in-situ corrosion sensors will be coupled with fiber optic and/or acoustic sensors. The corrosion sensor is capable of monitoring corrosio ...

This Phase I project will develop a multianalyte biosensor field screening instrument (MBFI). The MBFI has the potential to reduce the annual cost of environmental analyses in the United States by more than $20 million and to reduce the analysis turnaround time from approximately 19 days to less than 15 minutes. The major barrier to the development of a biosensor instrument for environmental mea ...

Information on the effect of long term dormant storage is essential for making correct parts selection and design decisions for next generation strategic programs of particular concern is the effect of exposure to elevated temperature and humidity, which may produce more corrosion in stored devices than in operating devices where power dissipation reduces moisture condensation. An accelerated age ...

SAR systems covering large swath widths suffer from range ambiguities when using high duty cycle radar signals having standard SAR waveforms. Range ambiguities can be eliminated by transmitting nonstandard orthogonal waveforms. Analysis and simulations will be carried out to determine the performance of different orthogonal waveforms in terms of minimizing SAR image sidelobe levels and limiting ...