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"BioSentient Corporation proposes the use of a proven method of non-pharmacologic physiologic self-regulation to delay the onset and decrease the symptoms of motion sickness and mitigate any concomitant cognitive degradation. The method, NASA patentedAutogenic Feedback Training Exercise-- Method & System (AFTE - M&S), has been shown to significantly improve performance on Coriolis Sickness Susce ...

"Improving responsiveness requires continual innovation, and technology has created the opportunity to use knowledge discovery for innovation and continual improvement in supply chain logistics. DMLSS can use knowledge discovery to increase medicallogistics support effectiveness while reducing costs in two distinct environments: Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) and deployed theater forces. The ...

"We propose to develop, build, and validate a Military Health Data Mining Algorithms Library (M-HDML), a set of reusable and extendible knowledge analysis software templates that facilitate the medical knowledge discovery process. Apart from delivering"data-driven" knowledge that is useful from a medical diagnostic/prognostic standpoint, the developed infrastructure would ultimately provide plann ...

"Reflex triode bremsstrahlung sources potentially provide warm X-ray sources (20 keV to 500 keV), capable of generating high doses (~10 cal/g gold) over exposure areas of ~20 cm2. This needed capability allows experimental verification of warm X-ray inducedthermomechanical response, SGEMP, and box IEMP models for achieving component and system certification to hostile environments.In a reflex trio ...

"Nuclear Weapons Effects Tests (NWET) frequently require that the test article be irradiated in an ultra-clean environment, making survivable shields a necessary part of many debris systems. Survivable shields as large as 12 inches in diameter are requiredbut have yet to be demonstrated in Plasma Radiating Source (PRS) environments. The loads on a survivable shield are a combination of radiation i ...

"Measurements of fluence from a Plasma Radiation Source (PRS) are critical to the performance of accurate Nuclear Weapon Effects (NWE) experiments. Fast, total stopping calorimeters have been demonstrated to provide a robust, reusable, economic sensor forfluence measurements. However, the output of these sensors is a few millivolts and thus high signal to noise recording is difficult to achieve, ...

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"Small infantry unit situational awareness (SA) can be observed, inferred, and measured during virtual simulations using a variety of non-intrusive tools and techniques. Dismounted infantry SA implies that the small unit leader and his team understand themission objectives and their specific roles and responsibilities to work together toward successful mission completion. They perceive the environ ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposal will lead to the development of a sensor for detection of the early onset of ketosis by breath acetone measurements. The device will be hand-held, lightweight, and battery-powered. Near-infrareddiode laser measurement of a gas-solid reaction product of acetone will afford increased sensitivity. The sensor will provide a rapid measurement ...

"SPEC has developed a prototype fluorescent corrosion indicator (FCI) system that shows tremendous promise in revealing corrosion beneath a specially prepared coating before any visible damage has appeared on the surface of the coating itself. Thisremarkable early warning system is based on the use of a fluorescent indicator that is distributed throughout the paint. The indicator is quenched by th ...