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The overall goal of this SBIR project is to develop, fabricate, and test a fully enzymatic fuel cell capable of continuously producing electrical energy to power an implantable neurostimulator. Neurostimulation technology can dramatically improve the qua

This Small Business Innovation Research project will develop a next-generation plasma design tool using adaptive kinetic and fluid models for modern heterogeneous computing architectures. The new tool will have a) ability to dynamically switch between flu

The importance of graph applications is growing as society becomes more interconnected. Many real world datasets are best modeled as graphs, e.g., road networks, the Internet, social networks, protein-protein interactions, utility grids, and communication. Graph analytics are used to answer many different categories of questions, including traversal, querying, and data mining. It is often desirabl ...

Cellular automata are computer-theoretical models originally developed by computing pioneer John von Neumann in 1950s to study self-reproduction computing machines. Cellular automata are massively parallel, regularly connected and allow only local data exchanges between cells. Cellular automata computation models map perfectly to modern many-core computing hardware. Opportunities have arrived to ...

The proposed product will provide extreme performance on large graph data sets by developing novel support for well known graph frameworks on edge-of-the-art GPU architectures that include innovative stacked memory. This provides an ultra-high bandwidth (over 1 TB/s) and large (16+ GB) memory near the GPU processing cores. These advancements provide an enormous opportunity to leverage GPUs for ext ...

CRG proposes to evaluate MG resin systems for use in primary launch vehicle composites utilizing low-cost, unitized manufacturing processes facilitated by Smart Tooling and NONA Composite technology. In Phase I, CRG will work with Firefly Space Systems to identify key components where MG resin systems coupled with the unique manufacturing processes would provide the highest value in terms of cost ...

Collectively Phytophthora species are estimated to cost the agricultur industry tens of billions of dollars per year globally. Phytophthora capsici a fungus-like plant pathogen is a scurge of vegetable crops known to infect over 45 species including peppers, cucumbers, squash, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, pumpkin, eggplant, tomatoes, snap beans and lima beans.Its complex life cycle high genet ...

Fertilizer is required for increasing crop productivity and gives farmers economic viability. However, the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers results in excess nitrate runoff in the ground water, and has the potential to cause significant health problems if consumed in large quantities. There is an increasing body of evidence that nitrate pollution of ground water is a large and growing problem aro ...

Worldwide, 60 to 90% of available water is used for agricultural purposes and competes with industrial and drinking water for high quality sources. Irrigation water can be source of wide range biological problems such like plant pathogens especially when surface water or recirculated water is used. For example, the water mold plant pathogens,.cause seedling damping-off, stunting, and stem, crown, ...

Processing of whole grains and other cropsinto agricultural products, storage of those products and treatment of those stored products to control insect population growth are important parts of the agriculture industry.The red flour beetle, the warehouse beetle, the sawtooth grain beetle, the cigarette beetle and the Indian meal moth are destructive insect pests of these stored products.These stor ...