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Impact Technologies proposes to develop a Matlab/SimulinkT based Probabilistic Modeling and Analysis Toolbox (P-MAT) application that provides an intuitive and information-rich modeling environment for probabilistic reliability analysis with a powerful toolset consisting of Bayesian Update, Monte Carlo, 3rd party software integration and other modules. At the conclusion of Phase I, the USAF will ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Large insert DMA libraries are essential resources for the molecular analysis of the human genome and other genomes important to our well-being. The identification of susceptibility genes for complex disorders is critically dependent on a complete and accurate sequence assembly. Comparative genomics reveals new information about metabolic pathways, cancer, hor ...

78242S Long-term and continuous monitoring of heavy metal contaminants in DOE tanks or DOE landfills has long been of great interest to DOE. Existing technologies either have the required detection sensitivity but are not field deployable, or are field deployable but lack the detection sensitivity. This project will develop a compact, multi-element, x-ray analyzer that can perform automatic rea ...

Applied Radar Inc. proposes the development of active MMIC-based circulators in order to achieve high isolation between transmit and receive paths for simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) phased-array radar system architectures. This technology will enable increased persistence in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems and allow multiple simultaneous radar modes including ...

Today's battlefield environment contains large number of sensors onboard multiple platforms. This set of sensors types includes SAR, EO/IR, GMTI, AMTI, HSI, MSI, and video and for each sensor type there may be multiple modalities. In an attempt to maximize sensor performance, today's sensors employ either very simplistic tasking approaches or require an operator to manually change sensor tasking o ...

78140S Strong radio-frequency electric fields in high-power components used in colliders can induce a resonant cascade of particles near internal surfaces (called multipacting) that can lead to surface breakdown and device failure, in some cases limiting the power than can be handled to a fraction of the design specification. Existing tools available to analyze this phenomenon have limited accu ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I SBIR application requests six months of funding to develop and evaluate a commercial-quality prevention curriculum for adolescents in workplace settings based on the theoretical foundation of a state-of-the-art substance abuse prevention program called LifeSkills Training (1ST). Although there have been a number of important advances in workplace p ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Disturbances in movement coordination are the least well understood but often the most debilitating with respect to functional recovery following stroke. These deficits in coordination are expressed in the form of abnormal muscle synergies and result in limited and stereotypic movement patterns that are functionally disabling. The result of these constraints i ...