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Realistic computer simulation and gaming applications require very close integration of large amounts of data that describe everything from how an object looks to where it exists in the simulation space. Historically, data controlling the various aspectsof a simulation were stored in multiple, incompatible, and often proprietary formats. The rapid acceptance of XML and development of global XML st ...

Medium caliber cannons, such as the Army's M230 chain gun, currently utilize a high current electrical pulse to initiate the propellant. While electrical ignition is reliable, electrical based primers are susceptible to premature ignition from EMI, EMP, orother stray or directed electromagnetic sources. In the event of a weapon jam, electrically initiated primers are dangerous as the potential for ...

Terahertz plasma wave detectors and emitters utilizing the high-density 2-D electrons in submicron AlGaInN/GaN-based Quantum Well Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors (QW-HFETs) with high sensitivity levels for the sensing of terahertz (THz) frequencyelectromagnetic radiation are proposed The novel plasma wave terahertz detectors will find applications in biological and chemical hazard detec ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is concerned with the development of an integrated laser system which can deliver both intense high energy laser pulses and low energy high peak power pulses from the same device. The purpose of such a device would be the use of high energy pulses for the ignition of a pyrotechnic or propellant from a remote location through a fiberoptic. T ...

Growing interest in vaccination and diversity of new vaccines which can be administered as a single dose for timely response and prolonged immunity evoked use of absorbable polymers for developing controlled delivery systems. Although absorbable microspheres were explored for controlled delivery of vaccines, poor reproducibility of these systems created a need for a unique single-shot vaccine for ...