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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is concerned with the development of an integrated laser system which can deliver both intense high energy laser pulses and low energy high peak power pulses from the same device. The purpose of such a device would be the use of high energy pulses for the ignition of a pyrotechnic or propellant from a remote location through a fiberoptic. T ...

The proposed effort focuses upon exploring the potential of a combination of neural, wavelet, and fuzzy logic processing to yield significant performance improvements needed for future seeker scene processors. Seeker scene processors must rapidly process images to detect and classify objects such as tanks on the ground, aircraft in flight, or ships at sea. The problem of detecting and classifyin ...

This project will explore the potential of neural network and wavelet algorithms to yield significant performance improvements needed for future acoustic detection and classification systems. Future systems must automatically recognize complex acoustic signatures in realistic environments. Neural and wavelet algorithms open new possibilities for designing sonar systems by offering the poten ...

Growing interest in vaccination and diversity of new vaccines which can be administered as a single dose for timely response and prolonged immunity evoked use of absorbable polymers for developing controlled delivery systems. Although absorbable microspheres were explored for controlled delivery of vaccines, poor reproducibility of these systems created a need for a unique single-shot vaccine for ...

Identified needs for new opportunities to enhance agriculture's rold as a reliable supplier of new industrial materials directed the attention to soy protein, an abundant basic agricultural product, to explore its potential as a viable source of such materials. This and the growing interest in using naturally derived biodegradeable substitutes for petrochemically based non-degradable films provid ...

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A major constraint to the continued development of the hybrid striped bass industry is the seasonally limited supply of fingerlings. The availability of gravid brood animals is extremely limited outside the normal spawning season and production of fingerlings in earthen ponds is poor after pond temperatures exceed 25 degrees Celsius. A great deal of recent research is directed towards developmen ...