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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR AN ELECTRONIC ORIENTATION, MOBILITY AND SAFETY SYSTEM FOR WHEELCHAIR BOUND HANDICAPPED PERSONS. THE DEVICE IS PROJECTED TO SERVE TWO MAJOR FUNCTIONS: 1) AS A TEACHING ANDCOMMUNICATIONS TOOL FOR PROFESSIONALS TO TRAIN PERSONS WITH SINGULAR, MULTIPLE, AND/OR SEVERE DISABILITIES; 2) AS A PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY MOBILITY AID USABLE BY PERSONS WITH THESE ...

Accelerated development of directed energy technologies has presented new problems to mission planners and weapon operators regarding the capabilities, lethality and performance of weapon systems. The Emerging Weapons Technology Evaluation Model willaddress these shortcomings by providing users of varying technical expertise 1) the ability to model a variety of weapons in various mission scenario ...

ChemImage Corp. and ITT are proposing to demonstrate the feasibility of detecting and identifying chemical and biological threats using UV Raman Chemical Imaging techniques from a stand-off distance of 1 meter and against complex stationary backgroundmaterials such as asphalt and soil as commonly encountered by fielded military and homeland security personnel. The use of a standoff surface detect ...

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