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Work related injuries and illnesses have risen to their highest level in ten years. Recent Departmestatistics indicate that a total of 6.8 million cases were reported in 1992 at a rate of 8.9 cases pfinancial cost of occupational injuries are in $60 billion range and include such things as medicallegal fees, and lost productivity. These data provide compelling evidence that work-related injuriesas ...

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Bacterial plant diseases of economically important crops are difficult to control. Chemicals used to treat bacterial plant diseases cannot only alter soil flora and auna, but ar unreliable for preventive control when environmental conditions favor growth of plant pathogenic bacteria. This research is directed toward development of an effective control for bacterial plant diseases using phages wh ...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) require a real time display of appr opriate data to allow the helmsman to access the damage potential to his cargo (equipment/personnel) and support his decision relative to speed and course selection when operating in rough water. Furthermore, maintenance support personnel need quantitative data to support design decisions and maintenance activities. This proposa ...

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This proposal addresses the need identified by the NIMH for innovative computer interfaces that can continuously acquire, analyze and store neurophysiological data for research and clinical use. We will develop affordable data acquisition hardware and software that will permit parallel recording, display, and analysis of multichannel neural responses with a Pentium-based PC system. The focus is on ...

The device described in this proposal addresses the need identified by the NINDS for high-density percutaneous feedthroughs and implantable electrical connectors for neural prosthesis. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a chronic system for the transcranial delivery of signals and power to and from high density, multichannel electrode arrays implanted in mammalian sensory and motor c ...

One of the limiting factors in the operation of MEMS is energy transmission and storage. It is often necessary to transmit energy for a MEMS from some external source into the circuit, thereby suffering power losses which can be significant. The reduction of the power losses is therefore a desirable goal. The purpose of this work is to develop and build microscopic batteries (0.0001 cm2) which can ...