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This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project aims to develop and implement a new algorithm in the area of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) that will lead to (i) dramatic decreases in disk and memory requirements at a given speech quality level and (ii) minimization of the amount of voice recordings needed to create a new synthetic voice. Most current TTS systems operate by concatenating ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop an inexpensive, passive water purification system that will remove chemical and biological contaminants from water for home and personal use. Worldwide there is grave concern with the potential for terrorist acts to pollute municipal water systems. The uncertain nature of terrorist action makes defensive measures equall ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a tool to help engineering faculty design and administer assessments of engineering education. The tool will also assist in the management of assessment data to support instructional decisions for individual students, decisions on courses and programs, and accreditation decisions through the Accreditation Board for Engine ...

Manning Applied Technology proposes to develop a handheld infrared spectrometer, ideally suited to detection of airborne chemical agents at and below permissible exposure limits. This approach offers unmatched sensitivity and specificity for detection of all types of chemical vapors. The instrument is modular, rugged, compact and highly sensitive. Volume pricing will be less than $1000 each. ...

It is proposed to formulate an equation(s) to describe the (A) evaporation and (B) death rates of aerosolized bacteria in their spent culture fluid droplets. This formulation will account for effects of atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, droplet solute concentration, and droplet size effects perhaps including effects of solute-particle (i.e,, bacteria) concentration and p ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a congruence-based encoding scheme for structured information, such as XML documents. It employs a new labeling scheme that assigns numeric labels to information components like XML document elements. The labels fully encode the hierarchical structure of the information content. The labels alone can be used to determine if ...

THE SERVICEABILITY LIMIT STATE ASSOCIATED WITH OCCUPANT COMFORT UNDER WIND INDUCED LATERAL AND TORSIONAL MOTION IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN THE DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS. IN SOME INSTANCES, STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRED TO PRODUCE ACCEPTABLE PREDICTED RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS CAN COST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OR EVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WITH THESE KINDS OF CO ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LIQUID OXYGEN ABSORBENT THAT COULD BE USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-PURI-TY OXYGEN. WHEN USED IN THE TEMPERATURE-SWING MODE, AND IN CONVENTIONAL GAS/LIQUID CONTACTING EQUIPMENT, THE ABSORBENT COULD PRODUCE HIGH-PURITY OXYGEN (98 TO 99%). IT IS ANTICI CIPATED THAT SUCH A PROCESS WOULD BE COMPETIVE WITH CRYOGEN IC FRACTIONATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OXYG ...

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