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The broader impact of this Small Business Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to reduce methane production in the ruminant livestock industry via the commercial production of Asparagopsis taxiformis for inclusion in cattle feed. There are currently 1.5 billion head of cattle on earth, which contribute significantly to greenhouse emissions via methane release during growth. It has been demonstrated ...

The XTG (pronounced “ex-tag”) smart tag system, provides individual device authentication, traceability, and a higher standard of security with an information rich system able to record, view, and analyze each tagged product’s full provenance production history.  The XTG system serves as a holistic solution, capable of combining and incorporating device level traceability data across both m ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT When the internal temperature of a material during freezing is below its equilibrium freezing point before ice nucleation has occurred, the material is said to be in the supercooled state. The long-term objective of this project is to develop a novel commercially viable supercooling device to preserve biological materials far below their freezing points while retaining the ...

The proposal describes an under-the-human skin implantable sensor that can measure biological markers of interest continuously and provide a signal that can be interrogated either with an external device or internally, as part of the implantable device it

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the poor performance and unaffordability of existing, onsite, wastewater treatment technologies. In Hawaii, the state government has mandated the upgrade of 88,000 cesspools across the state by 2050, but studies have shown that 97% of homeowners will not be able to afford the upgrade. Further ...

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"Rising sea levels and king tide flooding in coastal areas across America are saturating onsite wastewater disposal systems (OSDS), resulting in the degradation of coastal ecosystems and 200,000+ illnesses annually. Many States are mandating system upgrades, with 88,000 upgrades required by 2050 in Hawaii alone. Unfortunately, existing upgrade options are unaffordable for 97% of Hawaiian homeowner ...

Oceanit proposes the design, construction, and testing of a hyperspectral imaging equipped Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for the detection of various coral species and the monitoring of coral health. This system will be the prototype for the sensor part of a robust, COTS-based UAS system to aid the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. Different coral families and species will be identified ...

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and combatant ships require affordable, reliable, fuel efficient, proven hull forms.  Commercially available designs offer a good baseline but typically lack fuel efficiency across the broad operational speeds required by military vessels.  The operational speed variance of USVs make broad range fuel efficiency even more critical.  Existing hydrodynamic hull appe ...

Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs) are three dimensional non-self-intersecting surfaces that can be precisely described by mathematical functions. The continuous, smooth surfaces suggest more uniform stress distribution and potentially enhanced load