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In this program Infoscitex will develop a wearable electrotextile system that collects data from a suite of physiological and biomechanical sensors, pre-processes the signal and wirelessly transmits the data for further analysis and interpretation by a Neural Network (NN). This system will incorporate accelerometers, strategically located electromyography (EMG) sensors, and pressure pads in the so ...

The sophistication of weapons and the advances in protective armor in recent years has resulted in a change in typical injuries in combat situations. More and more soldiers sustain and survive catastrophic injuries to their extremities. Regional anesthesia is highly valuable in this context, providing effective pain management during medical evacuation, surgery and post-operative care. However, ...

Ontar proposes to design and implement a pharmacovigilance system and analytic database to rapidly and accurately evaluate the safety of marketed and to-be-developed drugs, vaccines or other treatment agents from disparate pre- and post-marketing clinical data trials and other sources. This will include development of a data mining tool to detect both known and unknown safety signals in the FDA, ...

We propose to test a new approach to cope with background noise environments during speech recognition. In the process we will give the BMIST group a data point of how well their recognition problem is handled by our speech recognizer.

A novel and promising solution for hands - and eyes-free voice interface for point-of-care data entry is proposed. The solution consists of the following major modules: a recently-developed noise-reduction microphone, a Bluetooth earphone, an automatic speech recognizer, a text-to-speech synthesizer, and a dialogue manager. To make the developed system useful in combat environments, we emphasize o ...

Optical Alchemy has invested internal research and development resources to conceive and initially reduce to practice an approach to making moldable infrared optics based on using an engineered composite material. This material may be molded from relatively inexpensive materials with mass production processes such as injection molding and variants thereof. The technology for the optical element co ...

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) ?Distributed Buoy Vessel Detection System? addresses the need for a forward-deployed buoy system to detect and track non-cooperative vessels. OPT proposes a network of proprietary passive acoustic sensors and COTS communication equipment, all powered by OPT?s proprietary Autonomous PowerBuoyTM. The PowerBuoy can efficiently convert ocean wave energy to useable ...

Engaged American troops suffering injuries to the extremities are best treated with regional anesthesia, which renders only a portion of the body, such as a limb, insensate. However, it is possible for long-lasting damage to occur when regional anesthesia is improperly applied, and a training system is needed that teaches anesthesiologist all aspects of regional anesthesia application. The syste ...

About 15% of combat injuries sustained during conventional land warfare involve thorax wounds. Many intrathoracic wounds cause pneumothorax (PTX). PTX is clinically defined as a collection of gas or air in the pleural space, the space that surrounds the lung. This loss of pleural integrity causes the lung to collapse, significantly impacting respiration. A relatively simple procedure of chest tube ...

Currently, adequate ballistic protection in optically transparent surface shields and transparent armor is provided either by thick sections of polymers, or by laminated sheets of polymer and glass. In both cases, the areal density is very high. For reasons explained in the proposal, efforts to date on the synthesis of transparent polymer nanocomposite materials, especially those based on polycarb ...