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Reuse in software engineering is an exciting concept that has yet to be reliably implemented. The number of program subroutines that are truly generic (and therefore applicable across all applications) is limited. However, there are specific applications that are required by many organizations, albeit with a set of constraints specific to each organization. This project proposes to design a too ...

Cellular of T lymphocyte function is important in defense against infectious disease. T lymphocytes also participate in tumor and transplant rejection, auto immune disease, and hypersensitivity. A central facet of T lymphocyte function is activation toward proliferation following exposure to specific antigen in the conted of the major histocompatibility complex on antigen presenting cells. We p ...

Brimrose proposes to research and build in this SBIR Phase I program, a miniature optically based immunosensor for biodetection. By combining state of the art guide-wave technology, integrated optics and acousto-optics, this biosensor offers advantages of high sensitivity, extra fast speed, reliability, ruggedness, light weight, small size, low maintenance and potentially very low cost because of ...

We propose to develop DIALOG, an environment for collaborative decision making that will enable health care providers and administrators to model, learn, and reason about their business enterprise. DIALOG will utilize a user-friendly, pen- and gesture-based graphical interface, and will enable "any time/any place" collaboration over shared digital libraries and dynamic "microworld" simulations. ...

A fluidic, tab-actuated, vortex valve is proposed to throttle solid propellant hot gasses. conventional approaches are expensive due to the need for close tolerances and exotic materials and reliability is poor due to the mechanical complexity. DRT's valve, operated by a simple vortex-tripping tab has been demonstrated in high speed pulsing of drilling mud in bore-hole telemetry systems and can ...

It is proposed to develop a miniature guarded hot plate apparatus that can be used to determine the thermal conductivity or thermal resistance of very small specimens (1 to 3 cm square) of thermal insulation materials over a temperature range from at least -40 degrees Celsius to +65 degrees Celsius, with the apparatus having the capability to carry out measurements under controlled environments of ...

Our proposed research for Phase I is in response to US Army solicitation for developing novel tungsten-based composites which offer the best properties for munition applications, particularly as kinetic energy penetrators. To meet this goal, we propose to produce, high purity, unagglomerated, engineered, nanocrystalline tungsten and titanium particlates in situ in the ration of around 10:1 as a m ...

A combustion environment can be described by a characteristic fuel-to-air ratio normalized by the stoichiometric fuel-to-air ratio, otherwise defined as an equivalence ratio, _. The equivalence ratio is used extensively in a wide range of combustion fields from fundamental flame studies, to full-scale fire testing, to power plant operations. There have been basically two methods for calculating ...

We propose to meet the needs of this solicitation by designing a complete sytem for the design and instantiation of microelectronic display (MIDIS) technology on individual printed circuit boards (PCBs). MIDIS technology is a system of on-board built-in test couled with both local and remote display systems. MIDIS-equipped PCBs will alert technicians of any faults occuring on the board. Accurate d ...

The primary objective of this project is to devise and build a prototype system that tracks the position and orientation of a mobile robot. Tasks such as ammunition handling, resupply, and logistics applications often make use of mobile robots such as a Cybermotion robot. These mobile robots have a severe deficiency in that there is sufficient slippage between the wheels and the floor that after v ...