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In order to maintain our nation’s technological superiority on air, sea and land, we must respond quicker to emerging threats and reduce the cost of major sensing platforms. Every DoD platform developed nowadays contains at least one sensor, whether it be RF, EO/IR, or acoustic. In fact, in a lot of recent developments, the platform is built around the sensor and exists only to support the senso ...

This program proposes to demonstrate an ultra-low power design methodology and circuits for digital logic employing advanced dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) circuits operating in sub-threshold to super-threshold voltage regimes. The power supply voltages of logic block partitions will be independently set by on-chip voltage controllers based on the data p ...

Domestic textile manufacturing has suffered a sad fate over the course of the last 15 years and competition with imported products has reduced capacity in the U.S. textile and apparel sectors, and the domestic textile industry no longer consumes the majority of the cotton produced in the United States. However, the nonwovens sector of the textiles industry is alive, healthy, and growing. In fact, ...

THE TERM WINTER KILL REFERS TO A SERIOUS DISEASE PROBLEM AFFECTING POND-REARED CHANNEL CATFISH DURING THE LATE FALL, WINTER, AND EARLY SPRING. FISH LOSES CAN BE HIGH AND ALL SIZES OF FISH CAN BE AFFECTED. THE CAUSE AND PATHOGENESIS OF WINTER KILL IS LARGELY UNKNOWN. IT IS BELIEVED THAT IT IS CAUSED BY SOME PREDISPOSING CONDITION THAT DECREASES THE ABILITY OF THE FISH TO ADAPT TO STRESS ASSOCIATED ...

Recent progress in the availability of low cost reinforced thermoplastic unidirectional tape provides a family of alternative composite systems for pultruded structures. Cost effective pultrusion of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic resins will be demonstrated in the Phase I effort of this program. A significant increase in speed is expected with the use of pre- impregnated material that is no ...

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