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The Navy needs high energy density, safe, cost effective propulsion systems for underwater vehicles such as torpedoes, mines, and unmanned undersea vehciles. Systems currently in development (the PEM fuel cell and the aluminum-oxygen semi-cell) present an engineering challenge for scale-down to fit the 21 inch (and smaller) hull diameters for these applications. MATSI proposes to develop a zinc-so ...

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Although the autogenous saphenous vein is the vessel typically utilized in arterial bypass procedurarise in which it is not possible to use this vein, demanding an alternative method. The investigatofeasibility study in canine subjects to determine whether an immunologically modified xenogeneic vesendothelium can serve as a replacement of the autogenous saphenous vein. The investigators intend tot ...

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During flight testing, an aircraft's performance is evaluated using data obtained from sensors placed throughout the airframe. The data is transmitted to a central data acquisition center via hardwire connections. This hardwire system has been found to be unsatisfactory due to high costs incurred from installation and removal. The ideal solution to reducing costs would be a data collection system ...

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Computing technology (as well as control and display technology) is rapidly becoming more powerful, miniaturized and wearable. These trends will allow Navy personnel to be increasingly mobile, not tethered to hardwired console and computer systems. In conjunction with wearable display systems, wireless LANs, and alternative control mechanisms (such as voice recognition), system operators may, ...

We will develop and commercialize significantly improved software for digital enhancement of the dechromosome banding patterns in microscopic images. Recently developed wavelet transform and multiresanalysis techniques, used with modern computerized chromosome analysis, promise improved enhancementdisplay of chromosome banding patterns, for more effective visual comparison of chromosomes to normap ...

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AbTech will survey the hardware and software available to determine what capabilities should be included in a natural language understanding mission planning assistant. A language parsing and encoding system in ANN will be used to parse and encode ASCII outpuf resulting from a voice recognition system such as DragoDictate. The ASCII output from the voice recongnition system will go to the ANN la ...