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In this Phase II effort, Zeteo will further develop over-the-ear and in-ear canine hearing protection device prototypes. These devices will combine passive hearing protection with active noise cancelation. The devices will also have a communication channel to allow the handler to communicate with the dog. Design requirements evolved from Phase I will be used to design over-ear and in-ear configura ...

Airworthiness assessments of software-intensive based systems in aviation cannot be limited to verification and testing of the end product, i.e. computer code, since other factors can have an important effect on safety and integrity. Current methods and tools have limitations that do not adequately address the issues affecting the growth in complexity and cost of system development and certificati ...

The team will develop a prototype of an augmented reality product for high school biology topics focusing on cellular and molecular functions. Students will be able to manipulate models and view cell processes in an engaging and informative series of hands-on group-learning lesson modules. At the end of Phase I, in a pilot study with 10 high school biology teachers and 100 high school students, th ...

The team will develop a prototype of a virtual reality environment for high school students who are learning a foreign language. Students will become active participants in virtual scenarios using the target language of instruction (Russian in Phase I), with listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition and recall, and grammar development occurring implicitly in simulated real-world context. At ...

Ubiquitous in U.S. news cycles are reports of foodborne illness due to products contaminatedwith foodborne pathogens including Salmonella spp. Listeria monocytogenes E. coli H7:O157and even Clostridium Botulinum.The National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS)curated bythe Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that between 2010 and 2016 these four foodbornepathogens caused over 1400 outbreaks and ...

Necrotic enteritis in both its clinical and subclinical forms is a major health welfare andperformance disease. Without technologies to control Clostridia perfringens (C. perf.) the causalagent of the disease producers are having a hard time to raise healthy birds and produce safe food.The challenge is now becoming acute with the withdrawal of antibiotics from livestock production.We propose to te ...

Vaccination has been the most effective means of controlling influenza infections of pigs. Howeverprotective antibody responses are largely strain-specific and are not effective against different influenzaviruses. Therefore the development of a vaccine candidate that elicits broad-spectrum protection againstdiverse influenza A viruses (IAV) i.e. a universal swine influenza vaccine is critically ne ...

Grand Unified Modeling of Behavioral Operators (GUMBO) will combine several different Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL)-based behavior modeling approaches into a single Unified Behavior Representation (UBR), coupled with fast, lightweight analysis and highly automated, usable verification for detailed designs. Component vendors will supply behavioral and interface specifications usi ...

J.F. Taylor, Inc. is proposing to research, design, develop, and build a centralized mission computer that employs an Open Systems Computing Hardware Architecture. Our Phase I tasking will research HOST Tier II core technology standards and additional existing standards to develop and recommend the generic product performance attributes to support an advanced mission computer that is interoperable ...

Modern force protection systems lack the ability to identify persons of interest through automated video and imagery analytics. In many force protection scenarios, especially at long distances and even with high quality sensors and optics, the number of pixels on a face are limited and thus is necessary to develop a purpose built low resolution face recognition model. Under this proposal, Minimum ...