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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 ...

50% of produce goes uneaten. Loss in the produce supply chain costs $80B eachyear in the United States and represents a tremendous waste of key natural resources:land water and energy. A major cause of loss in the agricultural supply chain is spoilagebrought on by fungi and bacteria. Post-harvest pathogenic damage can be mitigated bya variety of strategies such as applying fungicides ozone chlorin ...

Specialty crops such as pineapple and other tropical fruits beverage and nut crops are importantcomponents of the economy of Hawaii the subtropical areas of the mainland U.S. and many othertropical areas around the world. Significant opportunities exist to improve productivity harvestefficiency and reduce in-field losses by the application and integration of new technologies. Onesuch example is to ...

This application describes research to further advance an innovative algal-based productionsystem for the manufacture of a suite of novel biobased ingredients for sustainable andenvironmentally advantaged skin care products. Specifically we propose the mass cultivation ofgenetically enhanced photosynthetic algae (cyanobacteria) in specialized photobioreactors(PBRs) to produce mycosporine-like amin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Structural properties and cost of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) are highly dependent on manufacturing techniques and material selection. The proposed work defines Innovative Composite Engineering’s (ICE) existing capabilities and identifies a path to successfully producing FRP cylindrical structures. A partnership between ICE and Oregon State University (OSU) will couple ICE’s decades of exp ...

Army Special Operation Forces (ARSOF) play a critical role in our nation’s safety and security, often acting as a force multiplier in small unit tactics. Critical within ARSOF, Multi-purpose Canines (MPCs) attached to ARSOF handlers serve as a critical component to mission success. However, an inability to communicate with MPCs out of line of sight (LOS), with specificity and without detection, ...

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 ...