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In this Phase II SBIR effort we will dramatically reduce the size, weight, and power requirements of a passive millimeter wave imaging system based on optical upconversion. To this end, we will integrate custom silicon-germanium low noise amplifiers that have been designed to efficiently couple with our high performance lithium niobate upconversion modules. In Phase I we analyzed the design requ ...

Purpose: To be qualified to teach their future students in math, preservice students need to gain specialized mathematics content and pedagogical knowledge. The purpose of this project is to develop a web-based game to strengthen preservice teachers' knowledge of mathematics and provide college instructors with accurate assessments of their students' mathematical understanding. Project Activities ...

Purpose: Students with high functioning autism spectrum disorders (HF-ASD) face unique challenges with social skills and social relationships, often experiencing heightened levels of social isolation and exclusion from social opportunities. Without intervention, these social difficulties can interfere significantly with students’ ability to engage in and learn at school. However, few social inte ...

Purpose: In education research, the standardized mean difference (symbolized by d) is the predominant effect size index. It is calculated as the difference between the treatment-group and control-group means, divided by the pooled standard deviation. Using d allows the impacts of education interventions to be compared even when they have been evaluated using different measures or study designs. Ca ...

A growing body of research underscores the need to prepare students socially—as well as academically—to ensure successful transition to middle school and foster subsequent academic success. This project team is developing a prototype of a series of web-based interactive games to help students practice and learn needed social skills to successfully transition from grade school to middle school. ...

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The sample support problem in space-time adaptive processing (STAP arises from the requirement to adapt to a changing interference environment where the available wide-sense-stationary sample support is severely limited for direct implementation ofadaptive algorithms. In this proposal by combining several approaches such as (i) forward/backward subaperture-subarray smoothing techniques (ii) alter ...

The sample support problem in space-time adaptive processing (STAP) applicationsarises from the requirement to adapt many spatial and temporal degrees-of-freedom (DOF) to a changing interference environment that includes clutter and jammers. Often, in heterogeneous overland strong clutter environments, the available wide sensestationary sample support is severely limited to preclude the direct imp ...

Based on the previous extensive work on NIL in Prof. Chou's group and at Nanonex Corporation, the objective of the project is to further develop a promising innovative nanoimprint lithography (NIL) machine design. The design, using a new principle, offersnot only excellent uniformity of nanostructures over large areas, high-throughput (

The project has the objective of studying the feasibility of a number of novel methods and concepts for electric power generation for high-speed guided gun-launched interceptors and other similar projectiles. A number of the electrical power generationconcepts are integrated into the structure of the projectile. As the result, all or a significant portion of the space required to house an equivale ...