Award Data

We shall deliver an information exploitation demonstration prototype simulatirsg actual rlata exploitation. Within this prototype we shall deliver five different types of capabilities. The first three capabilities are data mining tools. These tools shall demonstrate the capability of identifying electronic patterns or f ingerprints in data, relationships between data, and visualizations of such ...

We propose a plan sentinel prototype consisting of three components. The first component is the development of a plan mining tool which identifies and computes false or missing assumptions and deviations to plans and time phased tasks. The second component, the annotated database, computes plans which the plan mining tool access and parses into a logical annotated rule set. Finally, MAVIS, a to ...

QUENCHING OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF LUMINESCENT COMPOUNDS IMMOBILIZED ON OR IN SUITABLE THIN- FILM MATRICES IS PLANNED AS A METHOD FOR MEASURING RELATIVE HUMIDITY. COMBINED WITH FIBER OPTICS TECHNOLOGY THIS APPROACH APPEARS TO HAVE THE CAPABILTY OF MEASURING RELATIVE HUMIDITY. COMBINED WITH FIBER OPTICS TECHNOLOGY THIS APPROACH APPEARS TO HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF MEASURING AND/OR MONITO ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING FOR MEASUREMENT OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY AT TEMPERATURES FOUND IN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS. IT IS BASED ON THE OBSERVATION THAT CERTAIN FLUORESCENT AND PHOSPHORESCENT COMPOUNDS, IMMOBILIZED ON SPECIFIC SUBSTRATES, SHOW A LUMINESCENT RESPONSE WHOSE INTENSITY IS PROPORTIONAL TO RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR THE PROPORTION OF WATER VAP ...

THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EASILY USABLE, NONTRAUMATIC APPARATUS FOR THE ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF BODY VOLUME IN NORMAL AND LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS. A SECONDARY GOAL IS THE INCLUSION OF AN ASSESSMENTOF ENERGY EXPENDITURE INTO THE SAME APPARATUS. THE METHOD PROPOSED FOR THE VOLUME DETERMINATION INCORPORATES THE PROVEN METHOD OF FLUID DISPLACEMENT BUT UTILIZES A CONCEP ...

THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPACT, LOW-COST EXPIRED BREATH ANALYZER SUITABLE FOR DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS IN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOMS, CLINICS, AND FACTORY FIRST AID STATIONS. THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS STUDY WILL BE A DETERMINATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A MICROVOLUME, LONG PATHLENGTH INFRARED GAS CELL BASED ON OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE PRINCIPLES. PHASE II WILL CONSIST OF TH ...

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THE USE OF LASERS AS A SURGICAL MODALITY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN RECENT YEARS. LASERS OF VARIOUS WAVELENGTHS ARE SUITED FOR DIFFERENT SPECIFIC SURGICAL FUNCTIONS. CO2 (10.6 ) RADIATION HAS SMALL PENETRATION DEPTHS IN TISSUES. THIS LEADS TO HIGH SURFACE TEMPERATURES WHICH ARE DESIRABLE FOR TISSUE INCISION THROUGH EVAPORATION. ND:YAG LASERS (1.06 ) PROVIDE VOLUMETRIC TISSUE HEATING WHICH IS EFFECTIV ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PULSED MID-IR LASER IN THE 3.5 TO 4.1 MICROMETER ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION WINDOW. SUCH SPECTRAL SOURCE IS RELEVANT TO A VARIETY OF TACTICAL APPLICATIONS. THE DF CHEMICAL LASER HAS BEEN THE CHOICE, BUT SUFFERS FROM WASTE FUEL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS. NO OTHER EFFICIENT DIRECT LASING SOURCE IS AVAILABLE. TO OBTAIN SUCH A SOURCE, WE PROPOSE THE USE O ...