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Through a pilot study of in three high schools with a diverse mix of racially and socio-economically-diverse end users, the researchers will examine the feasibility and usability of the prototype when used by students. The team will also collect user-experience feedback on whether the prototype helped students consider different pathways, changed perceptions about the cost or benefit of higher edu ...

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 ...

Cargo containers are an attractive target for criminals and other enemies of the state. Yet the most widely adopted method of securing cargo containers--the bolt seal--provides at best limited protection from tampering and illicit entry. Such seals can be defeated quickly and the evidence hidden easily, in a variety of ways. These seals also rely on slow visual inspection to confirm their presence ...

The goal of this project is to develop a validated, commercial quality reagent kit for the reliable collection of fingerprints (i.e., latent ridge impressions) that would subsequently be used for both comparison and DNA profiling. The kit would provide all required materials, reagents, solutions and would include a detailed protocol describing the steps to (i) identify latent ridge impressions (al ...

AIDING THE HEARING HANDICAPPED IN PERCEIVING SPEECH BY THE SENSE OF TOUCH REQUIRES FIRST THAT SPEECH CUES BE ACQUIRED AND RECONSTRUCTED TO LOW DATA RATE FORM, COMPARABLE TO THAT CONVEYED BY VISUAL SIGNING AND TACTILE BRAILLE. SEVERAL PROMISING CUE EXTRACTING METHODS ARE DESCRIBED BASED ON EXISTING COVOX WORLD RECOGNITION PRODUCTS AS WELL AS ON STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES WHICH USE OVE ...

SOFTWARE FOR PUBLIC-ACCESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS, SUCH AS PUBLIC LIBRARY ARE ONLINE CATALOG SYSTEMS, HAVE BEEN DESIGNED WITH RELATIVELY LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE COGNITIVE AND SENSORY ABILITIES OF SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MIGHT ACCESS SUCH SYSTEMS. THE PRESENT PROPOSAL EXAMINES THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF DESIGNING SOFTWARE INTERFACES FOR PUBLIC-ACCESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS THAT UTILIZE PI ...

SIDEWALK RAMPS, ADOPTED FOR THE SAFETY AND CONVENIENCE OF WHEELCHAIR BOUND CITIZENS, HAVE EXHIBITED A NUMBER OF SHORTCOMINGS. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT, AND WILLCONTINUE TO BE SPENT, FOR THE CONVERSION OF CURBS INTO RAMPSA LESS THAN SATISFACTORY SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM. A MORE FEASIBLE APPROACH TO ALTERING THE MILLIONS OF CURBS IS THE ADDITION OF CURB CLIMBING CAPABILITIES TO THE FIFTY T ...