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IMAGE SEGMENTATION IS A CRUCIAL STEP IN IMAGE ANALYSIS AND IS REQUIRED BEFORE ANY HIGH-LEVEL SYMBOLIC MANIPULATION CAN BE DONE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CARRY OUT VERY LARGESCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS USEFUL FOR ANALYZING INDUSTRIAL, BIOMEDICAL AND MILITARY IMAGES. DURING PHASE I ONE ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a ceramic hydrogen fuel appliance (CHFA) using ceramic microreactor modules (CMMs) using a low-cost, net-shape manufacturing process, and a new material, that was developed in the Phase I project. The new material developed was demonstrated to have excellent capability for cost-effective microfabri ...

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS TO EMPLOY A RECENTLY PROVEN GENERALIZATION OF HERBRAND'S THEOREM TO AUTOMATIC THEOREM PROVING (ATP). THE GENERALIZATION, WHICH WAS PROVEN BY THE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR, CHARACTERIZES PROVABILITY IN THE NORMALIZABLE FRAGMENT OF SET THEORY IN TERMS OF PROVABILITY IN PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC. THIS RESULT WILL BE APPLIED TO UTILIZE FINITE MODELS WHICH WILL PROVIDE SEMANTIC GUIDAN ...

THE LONG RANGE SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF THIS RESEARCH ARE TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORRELATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE WITH PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) PHASES, AND TO TEST STRATEGIES FOR DESIGN OF NEW MATERIALS. THE PRACTICAL GOAL IS THE INVENTION OF NEW FLC MATERIALS WITH PROPERTIES SUITED FOR INCORPORATION INTO COMMERCIAL FLC SHUTTERS AND LARGE-AREA MATRIX DISPLAY ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes to develop a testing application for intermediate and full scale boron nitride (BN) composites for a wide variety of wear applications with a focus on aircraft brakes. Viability of this material was demonstrated in Phase I where 3-dimensional needled carbon fiber/C-BN hybrid matrix composites displayed an order of magnitud ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL BE TO USE ELECTROCHEMICALLY GENERATED HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSTS (TI3+ AND V3+) CAPABLE OF THE IN SITU FORMATION OF AMINYL RADICALS (.NH2) FROM ACIDIC HYDROXYLAMINE ELECTROLYTES WHICH WOULD THEN BE AVAILABLE TO UNDERGO FREE RADICAL ADDITION ONTO 3,4-DIHYDROXYCINNAMIC ACID AND CINAMMIC ACID TO GIVE RESPECTIVELY DL-DOPA AND DL-PHENYLALANINE. THE EXPERIMENTAL PR ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will continue developing a method for incorporating Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT) into nylon to act as reinforcement. Their incorporation will be achieved by wrapping the SWNTs with a functionalized polymer that interacts with the SWNTs mechanically, but is not chemically bound to them. The polymer will be chemically bound to the nyl ...

METHODS FOR RELIABLY ASSESSING THE IN-SITU STRENGTH OF WOOD MEMBERS WILL BE STUDIED USING NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION PROCEDURES INVOLVING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF STRESS-WAVE PARAMETERS. THESE PROCEDURES ARE BASED ON THE EXTENSION OF THE RESULTS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF THE STRENGTH OF WOOD UTILITY POLES AND WOOD COMPOSITE PANEL PRODUCTS. THE DEVELOPED PROCEDURES OFFER CONSI ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project will develop a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) that operates at 1.3 micron wavelength based on incorporating a quantum dot active region of GaAs-based InAs and GaAsSb. It is based on recent research developments within the university laboratory in developing novel 1.3 micron laser and VCSEL sources, and the commercial e ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new generation of fluorescence amplifying reagents based on poly (phenylene ethynylene (PPE)) nanoparticles. Because of the role of the amplifying polymer in the enhanced sensitivity of these compounds, these compounds are called Amplimer reagents. The project will develop and launch two types of Amplimer reagents: mic ...