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The main objective of this project is to develop technologies for variable speaking speed synthesis, or Text-to-Speech (TTS). A TTS system converts written text into spoken language. There are numerous commercial TTS systems; however, most systems do not allow for speed control of the output speech. In the simulation-based virtual training system, TTS systems are used to generate the voice of the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuropathic pain is a common complication of cancer, diabetes mellitus, viral infections, and other causes. Although physicians currently employ a variety of treatments to manage moderate to severe neuropathic pain, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, tricyclic antidepressants, anti- seizure medications, serotonin-norepinephrine reupta ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the proposed research is to develop a novel quantitative flow through cell counting method for enumeration of CD4+ T lymphocytes in human blood. CD4 cell counts are needed to stage and monitor HIV-infected patients. In adults, the absolute number of CD4+ T cells per microlitre of blood has critical prognostic and therapeutic implications, ...

This proposal details an ambitious effort to develop Hybrid Phishing Protection System (HPPS). HPPS is a novel heuristics-based protection system that employs three lines of defenses to provide automatic, high-accuracy, and low-latency phishing identifica

This proposal details an ambitious effort to develop Smart Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (SHIDS). The SHIDS supports self-healing, self-monitoring, self-diagnosing, self-hardening, and self-recovering network architecture after corruption by an attack by automatically creating malware fingerprints and alert messages to protect against variants of known threats as well as possible zero day ...

The methods that has been historically developed and fielded for alarm and fault management in traditional communications networks do not provide adequate operational assurance for complex ad hoc tactical networks, especially for unskilled and inadequately trained operational personnel. Work on tactical network operations management that is proposed under A09-150 will use a novel approach that int ...

Aria Microwave System Inc. (AMS) will develop a lightweight, compact, scalable DEW system with 60% - 90% DC-to-RF efficiency. Examples of an S-Band concept system show that lethality levels > 1 W/cm ^2 at 100 meters can be attained with DC power in 10’s of kW, 10% duty cycle. The system uses AMS’s proprietary solid state, compact, lightweight, high efficiency, high power, active cavity amplifi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Each year, at least 10,000 critically sick babies in respiratory failure are intubated for ventilator support. For these babies, intubation bears major health risks such as airway emergencies, cardiopulmonary arrest, pneumothoraces. Neonates, however young, can be quite active, leading to undesirable tube movement and unplanned extubations. To date, there exist ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human serum albumin is capable of binding bilirubin with high affinity, thus sequestering it and mitigat- ing its harmful neurological effects in jaundiced newborns. Despite considerable work indicating that the level of bilirubin in the blood relative to the level of albumin binding sites is a key factor in assessing risk for bilirubin associated brain damage, ...

The overall objective of this Phase II program is to continue and finalize the development of the dropsonde satellite data transmission device and back-end data retrieval system. This design and development effort will yield a number of prototype units to be integrated with the Yankee Environmental Systems dropsonde being developed concurrently. The combined device will be a more automated system ...