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MYMIC LLC will team with Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Psychic Bunny Inc. to develop the MyART system, a web-based, therapeutic system for supporting those with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other emotional issues and their care team through the use of graphic art. MyART will be a highly individualized system that emphasizes simple and intuitive interfaces that support the ...

SSCI will develop a toolkit for assisting people with limited previous writing experience to write and illustrate a graphic novel as part of a program of treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This project will include built-in therapeutic aids for Art Therapy, Therapeutic Storytelling, and Narrative Therapy. In Phase I, we will analyze requirements and develop a detailed project plan for P ...

IN-Comics begins with a research and development effort by Total Immersion Software, Inc. to create an innovative web-based personal computer platform for soldier self-expression as a new tool for therapeutic storytelling. The resulting technology that will emerge blends the principles of art therapy with innovative online graphic novel and sequential 2D and 3D art authoring tools and online deliv ...

Luna Innovations will establish the feasibility of modifying our novel bio-encapsulation techniques for enhanced preservation of biological samples. The proposed technology has been successfully applied to protein and whole cell encapsulation, providing significant improvements in storage life-time and temperature stability. This unique preservation method has the ability to reduce analyte loss wh ...

The need for improved biological sample collection and processing for diagnostic applications has grown with the advent of new assays based on small sample sizes and high performance analytics. In contrast to the advances in these analytics, the ability to collect, stabilize, ship and utilize such samples has lagged in terms of development. We offer a relatively simple platform based on recent dis ...

We have developed a novel nanotechnology that overcomes major roadblocks that limit the ability to collect, process, analyze and store biological samples at ambient temperatures over extended periods of time. Ceres will fabricate and demonstrate Nanotrap-enabled dried biofluid sample collection paper technology suitable for a range of biofluids (whole blood, plasma, saliva, urine, food matrices) a ...

Revere has conceived a light weight public key algorithm (PKA) named"PASSERINE"that offers a significant improvement in speed, power, footprint, latency and bandwidth when compared with RSA and ECC. On some platforms, we predict PASSERINE will outperform ECC by an order of magnitude in both the footprint and speed of the public key operation. Unlike more conventional PKA solutions, Passerine has ...

Fielded unattended ground sensors (UGS) are deployed in dangerous areas, where devices are found and stolen by adversaries. Some adversaries have a high level of technical sophistication, which is used to attempt reverse engineering the device found and to attempt to compromise the remaining deployed system. A cryptosystem which provides the capabilities of both public-key and private-key crypto ...

Low cost SWIR Micro-Sensors are needed for a variety of Defense and Commercial Applications. Magnolia proposes to investigate packaging and optics integration for short wave infrared focal plane arrays. This will include assessment of materials and manufacturing approaches amendable to the manufacture of wafer level camera. We will determine optimum array format and pixel size for imaging at a t ...

Military personnel are asked to interact effectively, under stress, with individuals from both similar and dramatically different backgrounds and cultures. The desire for automated, operationally deployable capabilities to improve such interactions has created an interest in the development of technologies to sense and report in real-time on the properties of interaction. To address this need, we ...