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This project designs and develops, Reclaiming Employment, an online capacity-building program for individuals with psychiatric disabilities that aims to improve self-sufficiency and empowerment through entrepreneurship. The product targets employment outcomes at two stages of self-employment: increased competencies for individuals with psychiatric disabilities who wish to become self-employed; and ...

The goal of this project is to confirm that informatics generated using the commercial version of the System for Personalizing and Evaluating the Fit of Assistive Devices in a Clinical Setting (SPEC) system, designed for clinicians by clinicians, can seamlessly integrate data into an Integrated Informatics System (IIS) database module for wheelchair fitting. The objectives are to: (1) verify that ...

This project introduces T3, a system for creating, distributing, and consuming touch-responsive, audio-embedded tactile graphic maps, games, puzzles, and interactive lessons. Based on the successful but outdated Talking Tactile Tablet (TTT) paradigm, this new approach solves several shortcomings of earlier products, and seeks to reach new markets beyond the original target of students who are blin ...

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ALTHOUGH THE ASP (ACCIDENT SEQUENCE PRECURSOR) METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYZING OPERATIONAL DATA AND EVENTS FOR PRECURSORS TO SEVERE ACCIDENTS HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR ABOUT A DECADE, IT DOES NOT NOW INCORPORATE THE ANALYSIS OF PRECURSORS TO EARTHQUAKE-INITIATED AND INTERNAL-FIRE-INITIATED ACCIDENT SEQUENCES. THIS PROJECT'S OBJECTIVE IS TO FILL THIS GAP BY DEVELOPING SUCH A METHODOLOGY. THE OBJECTIVE OF ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A MEASUREMENT-BASED METHODOLOGY AND A TOOL SET TO IMPLEMENT THE METHODOLOGY FOR PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF OPERATIONAL DATA FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES TO PROVIDE SYSTEMATIC AND OBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS OF RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY. THE RESULTS WILL BE A PARTICULAR USE FOR DEDICATION OF COMMERCIAL GRADE DIGITAL INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL (I&C) SYSTEMS IN NUC ...

AN ALPHA/BETA RADIATION DETECTOR SUITABLE FOR USE IN THE INSTRUMENT CHANNEL OF A FIBEROPTIC ENDOSCOPE WILL BE WILL BE DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE IN-VIVO IN-SITU BIOASSAY MEASUREMENTS LEADING TO COMPUTER-ASSISTED ESTIMATES OF IN- TERNAL DOSE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE RESPIRATORY AND GASTRO- INTESTINAL TRACTS. DURING PHASE I OF THE PROGRAM, ALPHA AND BETA PARTICLE SENSITIVE SCINTILLATING PLASTIC FIBERS WILL ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO BUILD A USER-FRIENDLY, PERSONAL COMPUTER BASED WORKSTATION FOR PERFORMING TRAC-BWR ANALYSIS. THE SOFTWARE WILL ALLOW A USER TO READ-IN DATA FROM EXISTING TRAC-BWR INPUT DECKS (ASCII), DRAW NODALIZATION DIAGRAM, MODIFY INPUT, AUTOMATICALLY RENODALIZE THE VESSEL, CHAN AND PIPE COMPONENTS, GENERATE INPUT DECK, SUBMIT JOB, BRING BACK PLOTDATA, DISPLAY RESUL ...