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TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AND TO REMOVE HUMAN WORKERS FROM HAZARDOUS ENVIRON- MENTS, MORE SOPHISTICATED, ECONOMICAL ROBOTS WILL BE NEEDED. SPECIFICALLY, THESE MACHINES WILL BE GENERAL- PURPOSE DEVICES (EITHER STATIONARY OR MOBILE, E.G., AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES) CAPABLE OF BEING READILY RE- PLETELY DISPERSED SILICA PARTICLES. THE CERMET WILL PRODUCE A CASTABLE AND RECASTABLE MATERIAL ...

MOTION IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE OVERALL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING (IU) PROBLEM WHICH CAN BE USED TO DIRECTLY DERIVE BOTH SURFACE DEPTH AND ORIENTATION. IN ORDER TO EXTRACT DEPTH FROM MOTION IN REAL-TIME, SPECIALIZED HARDWAREWILL BE REQUIRED. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO USE VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TO IMPLEMENT A REAL-TIME DEPTH PERCEPTI ...

THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THIS SBIR PROJECT IS THE RESERCH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGNING AND FABRIC ATING NON-AVAILABLE MICROCIRCUITS USING STATE-OF-THE-ART CMOS PROCESSES. THE RESEARCH IS AIMED AT KEEPING THE NON- RECURRING ENGINEERING (NRE) COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH DESIGN AND FABRICATION LOW. DESIGN COSTS FOR THE PARTS WILL BE KEPT LOW BY USING A MODIFIED VERSION OF A METHODOLOG ...

HARNESSING SOLAR ENERGY AS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE AND INEXPENSIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY HAS BEEN A GOAL OF MANKIND FOR CENTURIES. ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING SCHEMES NOW DEVISED TO HARNESS SOLAR ENERGY IS THE PHOTOELECTROLYTIC DECOMPOSITION OF WATERUSING SEMICONDUCTING ELECTRODES. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS LIMITING INITIATION OF PRACTICAL PHOTOELECTROLYSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FACT THAT ONLY SEMICONDUCTING E ...

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CERAMIC MATRIX- SIC WHISKER COMPOSITES BY PRESSURELESS SINTERING FOR ADVANCED HEAT ENGINES IS PLANNED. DENSIFICATION OF WHISKER-REINFORCED COMPOSITES WITH HIGH LOADING OF WHISKER CONETNT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED TO DATE ONLY BY HOT PRESSING. NOVEL METHODS ARE PROJECTED, BASED ON PRIOR WORK, WHICH PERMIT THE FABRICATION OF COM- POSITES BY PRESSURELESS SINTERING SO THAT ...

CURRENT DENSE SI3N4 MATERIALS HAVE HIGH STRENGTH AND MODERATE TOUGHNESS AND ARE EXCELLENT CANDIDATES FOR APPLICATIONS SUCH AS CUTTING TOOLS AND HEAT ENGINE COMPONENTS. IMPROVEMENTS IN TOUGHNESS, CREEP RESISTANCE, THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, HARDNESS AND WEAR OF SI3N4 ARE NEEDED FOR THESE AND OTHER APPLICATIONS. A POTENTIAL MEANS OF ACHIEVING THESE IMPROVEMENTS IS THROUGH THE ADDITION OF DISPERSED PARTIC ...

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CSE PROPOSES TO APPLY ITS DEMONSTRATED, PATENDED PROTOTYPE PRESSURE-SENSOR TECHNOLOGY TO HBRID 3 FACE AND OTHER ATD AREAS, ALLOWING ACCURATE RECORDING TRIAXIAL ANGULAR ACCELER ATIONS AS WELL AS AREA-PRESSURE-TIME HISTORIES ON HEAD, FACENECK, THORAX, ABDOMEN, KNEE, AND ANY OTHER ATD REGION. PRESSURE SENSORS WILL CONSIST OF SEGMENTED STRIPS, VESTS, ORGLUED-ON PATCHES. DATA WILL BE PROCESSED BY MDAS ...

RETROVENOUS DIASTOLIC MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION (RVDP) WITH OXYGENATED BLOOD VIA THE CORONARY SINUS AND CORONARY VEINS HAS BEEN SHOWN EXPERIMENTALLY TO PROVIDE 45% OF THE NORMAL CORONARY BLOOD FLOW. RVDP THERAPY COULD SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER THE MORBIDITY OF PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND ACUTE MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA. CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL RVDP CATHETERS REQUIRE A SECOND ARTERIAL SOURCE OF OXYGENATE ...

MULTIMONITORS FOR ECG, TEMPERATURE, HEART SOUNDS, AND BREATH SOUNDS WILL BE FABRICATED ON ENDOTRACHEAL TUBES AND BENCH TESTED. THE CAPABILITY OF MONITORING MULTIPLE PHYSIOLOGIC PARAMETERS FROM A SINGLE ANATOMIC SITE (THE TRACHEA) IS COST EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND WILL PROVIDE BETTER PATIENT CARE. THE MULTIMONITOR ENDOTRACHEAL TUBES WILL BE TESTED IN SHEEP AND DOGS AND THE PHYSIOLO ...