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Additive manufacturing of integrally cored ceramic molds promises substantial cost savings and much shorter development cycles for the cooled blades and vanes of the high pressure turbine section of aircraft engines. AM directly prints the ceramic mold and core as a monolithic body, thereby eliminating the major steps of ceramic core and wax pattern fabrication. Based on a cost analysis conducte ...

CAMX Power is proposing field demonstration of a new, ultra-high sensitivity cell screening technology that would reduce a 14-28 day cell monitoring operation in present lithium-ion manufacturing practice to about ten minutes, with cost savings, safety and logistics benefits. EaglePicher and Inventus Power, key suppliers of batteries to the US Military, have each agreed to serve as our collaborat ...

The final product is Cyberchase Fractions Quest—a math game based on the storyline of PBS children's television series, Cyberchase. In the game, students in grades 3 and 4 will apply learning fractions within three contexts: areas and regions (such as shapes), sets (groups of objects), and on a number line. The game will identify specific areas where students struggle and will introduce challeng ...

This project is relevant to USDA's Strategic Goal to, "Assist rural communities to create prosperity so they are self-sustaining, repopulating, and economically thriving" (USDA, 2014). By creating solutions for rural affordable housing, entrepreneurship, and electric utility financial sustainability, the proposed work simultaneously addresses issues that USDA supports individually through the ...

This Phase II SBIR focuses on the application of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) processing to the growth and extraction of microalgae and algal products. PEF processing uses short, high voltage electrical pulses to break cellular membranes (also referred to as electroporation or cell lysing). PEF has been applied across a range of applications, from non-thermal pasteurization of juices to wastewater ...

Magnetic nanoparticles are widely-used tools over a range of industries, but have particularly powerful biomedical applications for clinical and research diagnostics, clinical therapy, and basic life science research. Many of these applications require consistent sources for magnetic nanoparticles with narrow distributions of magnetic properties, but no technology is now commercially available for ...

GREENHOUSES MUST MEET THE CONFLICTING REQUIREMENTS OF BOTH ADMITTING SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF SUNLIGHT TO THE ENTIRE GROWING AREA, OF PROVIDING VERY SUBSTANTIAL INSULATION TO REDUCE HEAT LOSS IN WINTER, AND MINIMIZE VENTILATION AND COOLING COSTS. BROAD BANDWIDTH HOLOGRAMS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO REDIRECT THE PORTIONS OF THE SOLAR SPECTRUM REQUIRED FOR PLANT GROWTH CAN BE AN IDEAL SOLUTION FOR ADMITTING ...

A LARGE SEGMENT OF SOCIETY-HEARING AND SPEECH IMPAIRED PERSONS-IS CUT OFF FROM THE MAINSTREAM OF SOCIETY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN BYPASSED BY CURRENT COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY. INTEGRATED MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. (IMS) PROPOSES TO RESEARCH, DESIGN, DEVELOP AND EVALUATE AN EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNIT TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF HEARING AND SPEECH IMPAIRED USERS TO CALL OR RE ...

CERAMIC MEMBRANES ARE RAPIDLY EMERGING AS A NEW TECHNOLOGY IN MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS. HOWEVER, COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE DEVICES HAVE HIGH COSTS RELATIVE TO POLYMERIC MEMBRANES, TYPICALLY FIVE TO TEN TIMES HIGHER. THE TECHNOLOGY TO BE DEVELOPED EMPLOYS A UNIQUE APPROACH TO CERAMIC MEMBRANE MODULE DESIGN. THE MODULE CONCEPT SHOULD RESULT IN PRODUCTION OF CERAMIC MEMBRANES WITH A COST LESS THAN THOSE FOR ...

THIS RESEARCH STUDY DEVELOPS AN INTERACTIVE, MICROCOMPUTER-BASED, ASSISTIVE AND ADAPTIVE DEVICE LOCATOR SYSTEM (ADLS) FOR DISABLED PERSONS. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IS ORGANIZED AROUND A FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF IMPAIRMENTS AND CORRESPONDING ADAPTIVE DEVICES. THE DESIGN THEORY AND INITIAL DATA BASE CONTENT DRAW UPON EXTENSIVE RESOURCES PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED FOR PRINT MEDIA DEVICE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS. A ...