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Researchers will conduct a pilot study with a socio-economically and diverse sample of at least 500 high school students who will test the prototype ROI tool. The researchers will examine the feasibility and usability of the prototype, whether ROI information increases search and discovery for educational opportunities; whether having ROI information increases the likelihood of click-through rates ...

Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is a surgical approach for the clinical management of non-salvagable injuries. Tissue rejection is a major issue for patients receiving VCA. Tacrolimus is the most common immunosuppressant employed to minim

Hy-Tek Mfg. Co. Inc. (HMC) is proposing a new concept for military expeditionary shelters that is compact, lightweight, structurally robust and offers the rapid and easy installation and teardown logistics necessary to accommodate the fast paced, agile and highly mobile Expeditionary Military Force. The REMS concept developed by HMC is comprised of a simple articulating structural frame with integ ...

Current soldier Individual Water Treatment Devices (IWTD’s) are limited to use with freshwater sources since they lack desalination capabilities. State of the art desalination technologies such as reverse osmosis are too energy intensive and heavy for individual soldier applications. Lynntech has developed a desalination battery that removes salts from feed water as it discharges which eliminate ...

Natural fiber welding provides a unique strategy to impregnate fibers, threads, and fabrics with nanostructure materials such as MOFs. The procedure utilizes ionic liquids to slightly dissolve cellulosic structure of the material, making it loose and mobile. Then water is used to remove the ionic liquid, and upon the removal of the ionic liquid, the cellulose structures are comingled and bind to e ...

Existing wired and wireless communication systems are simplex, also called half-duplex. The transceiver nodes today either transmit or receive at a given time. Typically, a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system is used by radios to transmit and receive at the same time but at different frequencies. GenXComm has developed the world’s first wide-band, small-form-factor single frequency simultaneo ...

Dense Urban Environments (DUE) are characterized by large concentrated populations that tend to cluster into groups networked together by common interests and needs. Populations cluster along political, social, cultural, ethnic, economic and other social lines. Networks among these groups, formed along lines of shared characteristics, are often in friction with one another as they contend over sca ...

There is a developing need for a low-cost high performance eSWIR infrared detector technology that can operate at room temperature with a cutoff wavelength of 2.5 microns. Over the years, many new and innovative technologies have emerged that have made some progress towards this goal, but the gap between the quantum efficiency and cutoff wavelength with room temperature have been difficult to brid ...

The highest performing infrared (IR) detectors are fabricated from alloys of HgCdTe (MCT) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on lattice-matched substrates. Although the best performing IR detectors, MCT-based imaging arrays exhibit higher than anticipated noise, especially random telegraph noise (RTN) that occurs in seemingly random sets of pixels. It is presently believed that RTN originates f ...

Field effect transistors (FETs) based on alloys of AlGaN are the current state of the art for the switching and amplification of radio frequency (RF) signals, as would be used in radio communications, RADAR systems, and power conversion and control devices. A significant problem preventing AlGaN-based devices from realizing their true potential is the presence of dislocation defects that result fr ...