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This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project builds on a research program investigating the design of process-based software development tools and methodologies. The project will develop a next generation of this software that supports the creation, refinement, and adaptation of software development methodologies in a principled manner while preserving the need for rapid innovation. Th ...

The research proposed here is built on the recent successful fabrication of metal oxide semiconductor heterjunction field effect transistors (MOS-HFETs) based on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures with very high drain-current-driving and gate-control capabilitiesas well as unprecedented high breakdown voltages by the P.I.s research group at Kansas State University. III-nitride HFETs have great promises i ...

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The work proposed here presents a novel approach to channel coding which will provide flexibility and robustness which are necessary to alleviate many significant limitations in current RF communication systems. The proposed approach is entitledTail-Biting Circular-Trellis Block Coding (TBC2). This family of coding methods provides unique advantages in the tactical military communication environm ...

Human ability to attend to a single voice in the presence of background interference is remarkable. If this could be imitated in practical technology it would be of great benefit for automatic speech recognition and other applications. Researchers at OhioState University have demonstrated computational methods for separating speech from interfering sounds that imitate human auditory processing, an ...

To develop algorithms, software, and/or hardware necessary to collect, process, and fuse information from multiple sensors based on multiple platforms (XBR, SBIRS, EKV, UEWR) in real time in order to improve acquisition, tracking and discrimination ofthreat objects in a cluttered environment, advanced sensor fusion techniques will be investigated. Automated abductive inference (best-explanation re ...

Sandwich structural designs are the most weight efficient concepts for stability-critical components such as control surfaces. The objective of Phase I of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of producing a honeycomb sandwich structure using aunique Double Wall Honeycomb design. This new ARDL honeycomb design is called Hexagonal Double wall structure or

The proposed study is directed at demonstrating the feasibility of developing a tire-wheel system for military vehicles using a patented (US Patent #6,032,710 - 2000) tire design developed by MASYS (Israel). Akron Rubber Development Laboratory (ARDL) willdevelop a 20-inch tire using the reinforced element based on the

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Glycosphingolipids and cholesterol form associations with important signaling proteins, within biological membranes forming what are called "rafts". These rafts are characterized by their insolubility even in the presence of many detergents used in membrane chemistry to isolate proteins from the lipid components of membranes. Some of the most effective detergen ...