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ALTHOUGH TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING AT AN EVER INCREASING PACE,ITS APPLICATION FOR USE BY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS HAS BEEN SLOW. SEVERELY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS OFTEN REQUIRE SOME TYPE OF "HIGH TECHNOLOGY" MEANS TO ENABLE THEM TO HAVE A DEGREE OF MOBILITY. THE SPECIFIC AIM OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL OF USING ELECTRO-OPTICS AS A MEANS FOR THE HANDICAPPED TO EFFECT CONTROL OF HIS/HER ...

THIS PROPOSAL WILL IDENTIFY PRESENT COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES BY SURVEYING HEALTH/EDUCATION COMMITTEES OF THE FIFTY STATES' INTERAGENCY COMMITTEES. POLICY IMPLEMENTATION, TRAINING PROGRAMMING, INFANT AND FAMILY SERVICES, INTRACOMMITTEE MECHANICS, LEAD AGENCY SELECTION, AND OTHER INTERAGENCY FUNCTIONS ARE DETAILED. A DELPHI PROCEDURE WILL BE UTILIZED WITH IDENTIFIED EXEMPLARY COMMITTEES TO ELICIT THE ...

THERE CURRENTLY EXISTS NO ECONOMICALLY PRACTICAL REAL-TIME CAPTIONING DEVICES OR METHODS WHICH CAN PROVIDE A SPEEDY AND ACCURATE REPRODUCTION OF SPEECH-TO-TEXT TRANSLATION IN THE CLASSROOM. THE INTEGRATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH REAL- TIME CAPTIONING HOLDS THE PROMISE OF PROVIDING A TRANSPARENT INTERFACE BETWEEN THE SPEAKER AND THE AUDIENCE. TN THIS PHASE I RESEARCH, WE WILL CONDUCT AN INVESTI ...

Carbozyme will develop a novel closed circuit rebreathing apparatus based on biomimetic principals. Our objective is to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to ionic equivalents that can be readily absorbed into seawater, eliminating gas bubbles. This design has the unique advantage of being able to operate continuously for the full duration of the oxygen supply. Installation of the rebreathe ...

Readorium will develop a desktop software to support students struggling with reading comprehension in middle school science. The software teaches readers the special features of nonfiction text and strategies for reading comprehension. The games will include an avatar to guide the student, multi-media articles of differing levels of difficulty that are aligned to standards, and embedded assessmen ...

MaXentric proposes the GAU2x2 wideband power amplifier system. The design combines MaXentric’s wideband RF PA technology with advanced digital signal processing in a single small footprint package. This tight integration is made possible through the extremely high efficiency and low power dissipation. Since very little power is dissipated as heat, the package and heat sink size can be minimized. ...

Rapid strikes upon targets hidden in cluttered background may require a self-guided gun launched high velocity projectile having a unique seeker. A gun hard seeker that employs long wave polarimetry to quickly discriminate man-made objects in natural scenes is proposed. Simple polarimetric schemes that minimizes part count and utilizes no moving parts makes gun launch survival designs accessible. ...

A 1280x1024 on 8 µm pitch seeker with 0.4 to 2.6 µm detection capability will be incorporated with electronics and a Bayer mosaic of polarizing filters to allow real time target discrimination at rapid closure rates. The imager will have peak sensitivity greater than 60% and dark current of less than 6 µA/cm2 at 273 K. The camera will have greater than 99% pixel operability with a 12 bit digita ...

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a smart electro-optical video seeker will likely become the prevalent sensing modality integrated into a gun-launched hypervelocity projectile and many other manned and unmanned systems and platforms. We propose a high-resolution, high-sensitivity, long-range Photon-Sensing Integrated Circuit (PSIC) video seeker operating at high frame ra ...

One key concern of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) is the security component of the “Asia-Pacific Rebalance” where the Chinese anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) policy threatens regional security. In response to A2/AD our forces in the Pacific require more affordable and rapidly deployable alternatives to costly missile defense such as large caliber projectiles for Navy electroma ...