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Among the factors that inhibit the use of composite materials in both general aviation aircraft and DoD platforms are the high cost of engineering and the cost of certification. Unless manufacturers can control risk when introducing new materials and pro

There is a need to achieve 10^-9 reliability for actuators for critical aerospace applications and this precludes single point failure for all but the simplest and most reliable electrical and mechanical components. LC Drives proposes a method of constructing a high reliability linear actuator for critical aerospace applications that is designed such that jams caused by conventional electrical a ...

Looking Glass is an immersive, story-driven game experience that enables computer science education for students K-12. It presents learning in a game-based series of challenge levels that permit a high degree of player choice in tailoring educational progression and adapting game systems that present both STEM and SEL interactions. Gameplay occurs within a futuristic Wonderland, where proficiency ...

The dried blood spot (DBS) method is an alternative to venipuncture. The available data indicates that the DBS method is both precise and accurate for a diverse range of compounds. We discovered that proprietary additives vastly improve extraction of proteins in DBS using electrospray. Our unexpected results appear to dramatically increase analyte recovery concentration while reducing DBS prep, an ...

Future manufacturing of integrated circuits (IC's), will require analytical instrumentation that can provide on-line process monitoring linked to real time process control. Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy can be effectively utilized to meet this need. As an example, Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (AFR) has successfully employed simultaneous FT-IR reflection and emission spectroscopy ...

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High temperature superconducting (HTS) thin films have important near-term potential for application in multi-chip modules (MCMs). Furthermore, recent developments in magnetic ferrite films for integrated microwave devices offer process compatibility with HTS MCMs. For instance, the incorporation of monolithic ferrite circulators in HTS MCMs will permit sighnificant weight and size savings along ...

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Range imaging is the measurement of the three-dimensional shape of an object as an array of 3-D distance values. While range imaging is a critical robotic sensing techonology, existing methods are very slow; the best current devices still produce only a few tens of frames per second. We propose to develop an ultra fast range imaging system consisting of a scanning laser and a sensor array of photo ...