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This program addresses a new approach to IR imager that closely mimics biological organisms sense principals, having advantages in sensitivity, energy efficiency, reliability, and cost as compared with the competitive approaches. The innovation is based onincorporation of sensitive polymer-molecular with a highly efficient micro-machined thermal-mechanical PFA that directly converts IR image into ...

The Large N ASW problem can be summarized as pervasive short-range sensors with limited communication capabilities. The driving questions are how are false alarms controlled-not necessarily from an individual sensor node, but from the overallfield-performance of individual sensor nodes, the amount of information and frequency of communication. From its inception, distributed detection has produc ...

The lack of physical feedback in immersive virtual environments makes it difficult to provide an accurate simulation for training close-quarters battle (CQB) skills. Environments require a soldier to come into contact either directly or indirectly withmany different types of objects and with potential multiple body parts. Sometimes contact could be initiated by someone else. A simulator for CQB ...

The effects of poor usability range from mere inconvenience to disaster. Human factors specialists employ usability analysis to reduce the likelihood or impact of such failures. However, good usability analysis requires usability reports that are rarelycollected, rarely complete, and difficult to analyze.Aptima and the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (U. Mass. Amherst) have partnered ...

A sensor has data to send to a human observer. In the present case the sensor is a camera, and the data consists of an image. When commanded to do so, the image is heavily compressed, passed to the modem, and sent by robust, low data rate acommsgateway, then to the observer. The sensor system retains the uncompressed image in a file. If the observer finds the (compressed/decompressed) image to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Jet lag is a syndrome of behavioral, cognitive, and physical symptoms that result when travelers are exposed to a sudden shift of the day-night cycle. These symptoms impact on alertness and performance of airline and military personnel and the safety of the traveling public. They may also exacerbate medical and psychiatric illness, and frequent flyers may face ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Jet lag is a syndrome of behavioral, cognitive, and physical symptoms that result when travelers are exposed to a sudden shift of the day-night cycle. These symptoms impact on alertness and performance of airline and military personnel and the safety of the traveling public. They may also exacerbate medical and psychiatric illness, and frequent flyers may face ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of this STTR proposal is to take an innovative, successful; laboratory based technology and transfer it to the commercial sector. Specifically, we wish to establish the capabilities within the Company to manufacture reliable, robust and inexpensive ultra-micro oxygen sensors suitable for electrochemical applications related to cellular metabolis ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a new method for imaging medical devices that can contain amorphous ferromagnetic materials. Potential devices include Fiducial markers, surgical clips, catheters, and brachytherapy-seeds. The procedure would not require radioactive materials and would be relatively insensitive to inhomogeneities. Small array- or stereologic-detecto ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neuropsychiatric condition characterized by hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity, typically in school-aged boys. Psychostimulants, including methylphenidate and amphetamines, are commonly used to alleviate symptoms of ADHD. However, these medications are typically associated with undesirable sid ...