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Non-traditional interior roof military vehicle impact injury prevention technologies address the challenge to provide warfighter survivability, allowing them to complete their mission, by preventing impact related injuries such as skull fractures and neck injuries, otherwise incurred during underbody blast, crash and rollover events. The solution accounts for the full range of occupants to include ...

SOLAR FLARE PREDICTION IS A CRITICAL NEED FOR AIR FORCE SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS. THE KEY TO FLARE PREDICTION IS IN THE HIGHLY STRUCTURED MAGNETIC FIELDS PRECEDING FLARE ERUPTION. THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT WILL ACHIEVE HIGH-SPATIAL-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF THESE FIELDS BY OPERATION FROM A STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON, ABOVE THE DISTORTING EFFECTS OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED SBIR PHA ...

NASA seeks intelligent monitoring for hybrid and/or all electric propulsion systems, as well as methods to significantly extend the life of electric aircraft propulsion energy sources. Lithium-based batteries will continue to play a key role as an electric propulsion source due to their high energy and power densities. However, the requirement to advance towards more fuel efficient and environment ...

THE PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT, THROUGH VIDEOTAPE TRAINING AND SUPPORT PRINT MATERIALS, CHILD WELFARE PRACTITIONERS CAN USE THE ABC MODEL TO ASSIST FAMILIES IN MANAGING THE BEHAVIOR OF CHALLENGING CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOSTER, ADOPTIVE, AND BIRTH HOMES. THE TRAINING PACKAGE WILL INCLUDE A VIDEOTAPE, SUPPORTING PRINT MATERIALS, AND A SELF-TEST. THE VIDEOTAPE WILL HAVE TWO PARTS. PART I WILL USE ...

Project Summary The objective of this Phase I SBIR proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a device designed to connect two small vessels together simply and easily and that would replace the hand suturing technique currently used to connect vessels in microsurgery and macrovascular end to end vascular repair surgeries This completely biodegradable vascular coupling device VCD being devel ...

WE WILL DEVELOP A BIODEGRADABLE WOUND TREATMENT THAT CAN BE AEROSOLIZED DIRECTLY ONTO A WOUND SURFACE. IT WILL FORM A TOUGH, FLEXIBLE FILM THAT WILL SEAL THE WOUND AND PROVIDE FOR PROPER WATER LEVELS AT THE WOUND SURFACE. AN ANTIBIOTIC WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER AND WILL BE SLOWLY RELEASED INTO THE WOUND BOTH TO ELIMINATE EXISTING INFECTION AND TO PREVENT LATER INFECTION. ...

Floriculture and nursery crops are one of the highest value-per-acre industries in the farm sector. Like food crops, ornamental crops are infected by many fungal and bacterial pathogens, which result in substantial yield and quality losses. The environmental horticulture industry is one of the key subsectors of the U.S. agricultural economy, providing an estimated 48,883 permanent and temporary jo ...

Metallic Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology can deliver breakthrough solutions to U.S. Navy air platform and weapon systems by drastically increasing performance and reducing weight. However, the current design and engineering tools cannot fully exploit the design freedom brought about by advanced AM processes. In addition, many existing topology optimization tools are unable to directly addre ...

HIGH RESOLUTION BOREHOLE-TO-BOREHOLE SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY CAN PROVIDE MUCH OF THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO IDENTIFY SUBTLE OIL RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITIES. TO DATE, MUCH OF THE HIGH RESOLUTION CROSS-WELL RESEARCH HAS INVOLVED THE USE OF FLUID-COUPLED PIEZOELECTRIC SEISMIC SOURCES. HOWEVER, IN PRACTICAL COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF FLUID-COUPLED SOURCES, SOME CONSIDERATION MUST BE GIVEN TO DEPLOYING THE SOU ...

HIGH RESOLUTION BOREHOLE-TO-BOREHOLE SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY CAN PROVIDE MUCH OF THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO IDENTIFY SUBTLE RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITIES THUS ALLOWING STRATEGIES PLACEMENTOF PRODUCTION WELLS. HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC TECHNIQUES ARE IDEALLY SUITED TO HARD ROCK APPLICATIONS WHERE FORMATIONVELOCITIES EXCEED 10,000 FEET PER SECOND. HOWEVER, TO DATE,THE ACQUISITION OF HIGH FREQUENCY TOMOGRAPHIC D ...