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For the U.S. Navy, Creare is developing a Compact Swaging Machine (CSM) to attach arresting gear Purchase Cable terminals on ship. Our CSM utilizes three innovative features to dramatically reduce the size and weight of the swaging machine to make it usable in a shipboard environment: (1) a high pressure hydraulic system which minimizes the actuator size, (2) an efficient swaging schedule which re ...

Work to be performed in this program is based upon years of innovative technology development invested by personnel at Nova Research. Techniques proposed here are patterned after biological principles which, when applied to finding targets which are moving against highly cluttered infrared backgrounds, will be shown to exhibit remarkable performance. Sensor and data fusion techniques may ...

Bright Energy Storage Technologies and the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State University propose to demonstrate the feasibility of a custom reversible compressor design for use in compressed air energy storage systems. The design proposed combines a very lightweight rotary compressor design with extremely high flow volumes, allowing a highly efficient device at extremely lo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important worldwide cause of liver disease. Current standard of care (SOC) agents are inadequate for most patients, and new virus-specific drugs are urgently needed. Our long-term objective is to bring a new class of anti-HCV drugs to the clinic. We discovered that the HCV NS4B protein specifically binds a key segment of the HCV RN ...

Each tactical radio uses a particular waveform that inhibits it from freely communicating with a radio on another network. There is a need for a flexible communication gateway that supports interoperability, and can automatically translate among a set of waveforms to transfer information across networks. In response to the need for a flexible gateway, MaXentric and The Cooper Union have partnered ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will demonstrate the feasibility of the use of non-contacting acoustic respiratory movement sensor (ARMS) for a device that will be used as a sensor for a module that can trigger any commercially availableneonatal ventilator to produce non-invasive synchronized ventilation. Synchronization of the ventilator improves gas exchange, decreases the leng ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neurologic disorders frequently affect everyday functioning. However, clinicians and researchers have had limited success in predicting who will, or will not, succeed at real-world tasks, since most assessments rely ontesting from in a controlled environment (clinic, laboratory) to predict performance in the less controlled and more chaotic real world. Research ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The use of tissue transfer flaps is a method of moving tissue from a donor location to recipient location and re-attaching the arteries and veins to the blood vessels at the recipient site. These procedures enable reconstructive surgery after trauma, as well as after surgical resection of cancer. Flap transfer surgery is subject to failure via a number of modes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The accurate quantification of skeletal muscle morphology is desired in a wide variety of medical areas such as muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, exercise physiology, and nutrition. For such studies, skeletal muscle is often fixed, sectioned, and labeled to visualize the borders of the muscle fibers, and digitally photographed. Investigators then use lab ...