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The Air Force has a need for low-cost, short takeoff and landing vehicles to provide recovery and transport support in contested areas while minimizing the required number of operational personnel. An autonomous vehicle capable of 100 miles operational radius, cruise speed greater than 100 kts at 4000 ft, and takeoff/landing zone of 50 ft x 50 ft is desired to perform combat search and rescue, as ...

The broader/commercial impact of this SBIR phase II project will develop magnetic and fluorescent reagents for the separation and analysis of cells from tissue samples stored in biobanks, central repositories for biological samples, including tissues, cells, blood, sera, and urine, and their associated patient data, used in research to identify new methods to diagnose and treat disease; this indus ...

In the Phase II project, METSS will continue the development of a safe, robust, rapid, and effective chlorine dioxide (ClO2) gas dispersion system to be used for on-site room decontamination in hospital and non-hospital settings. The heart of the decontamination system is a proprietary ClO2 generating micro-reactor technology that is used to quickly and safely generate ClO2 on-site. This technolog ...

NIH SBIR PA-18-871 w/o Clinical Trials A Safe and Compact Neonate to Adult Neuroimaging MRI System The intriguing human brain is the most imaged end-organ non-invasively, without ionizing radiation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). High spatial resolution brain MRI is an established diagnostic tool to assess injury mechanisms affecting newborn growth and the adult human connectome. To predic ...

The importance of determining crystallographic orientation information over large areas has existed within the materials science community for solutions to a variety of applications in aerospace and otherwise since the connection of MTRs and material performance was discovered, but it isn’t until recently that a feasible solution has existed. In this work, MRL will demonstrate the feasibility of ...

In the naval aircraft many disparate materials are subject to galvanic corrosion, due to the marine environment. Some of these aircraft have hybrid (carbon fiber composite/aluminum) designs that exhibit accelerated corrosion damage, compared to legacy all-metal frames, due to galvanic interaction between the fastener, the composite skin, and the aluminum frame. In the Phase I SBIR program, UES Inc ...

SUMMARY Despite significant advances in the surgical and medical management of congenital heart diseasecongenital cardiac anomalies remain a leading cause of death in the newborn periodMost severe forms of congenital heart disease require multiplestaged surgical interventionsA significant source of the heightened morbidity and mortality associated with these operations is the development of cardia ...

This project aims to develop NeuroManager™, an innovative neuroinformatics platform for advanced parsing, storing, aggregating, analyzing and sharing of complex neuroscience image data. A core technology that we will develop in NeuroManager will be Image Content Analysis for Retrieval Using Semantics (ICARUS), a novel, intelligent neuroimage curation system that will enable image retrieval based ...

Falls are a significant source of early morbidity and mortality in the aging population, yet the neurological,sensory, and motor changes that lead to increased fall risk often escape early identification and intervention. Vital signs are commonly used in clinical settings to assess the cardiovascular system (blood pressure, heart rate), immune system (body temperature), and the respiratory system ...

ABSTRACT The goal of this Fast-Track STTR project is to optimize and test a novel arm restraint in older critically ill mechanically ventilated patients that increases mobility; reduces agitation, use of sedative medications, and delirium; and exhibits high satisfaction and acceptability among hospital staff, family members, and patients. Older mechanically ventilated patients are often immobilize ...