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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will advance the development of a new pulmonary testing instrument. The innovative device utilizes a strain gauge to measure pulmonary airflow, an indicator critical in monitoring the health of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. The research challenge is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a customized ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to develop an indoor real-time locating system to provide a better wireless computer mouse and to enable new 3D human-machine interface. The conventional optical mouse provides only 2D tracking, and requires battery and a non-reflective patterned surface. New human-machine interface based on video processing such as Kinect is limited by ...

Training in the symptoms of Spatial Disorientation (SD) has shown to be valuable in aiding pilots to recognize its onset and provide a means for mitigating its effects, but such demonstrations have traditionally been associated with specialized equipment and devices. Since the vast majority of pilots for the commercial aviation jet fleet are trained (or recertified) on 6-degree-of-freedom (DOF) h ...

THE GROWTH OF GAAS ON SILICON HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A DESIRABLE APPROACH FOR ADVANCE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES INCLUDING OPTICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONBETWEEN CIRCUITS AND AS A SOURCE OF LOW-COST GAAS LAYERS FORSOLAR CELL AND DISPLAY APPLICATIONS. PROGRESS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY STRAINS AND DISLOCATIONS INTRODUCED INTO THE GAAS LAYER BY TH ...

UNDER IFR CONDITIONS, AIRPORT CAPACITY IS CURRENTLY LIMITED BY FAA SEPARATION STANDARDS BETWEEN AIRCRAFT. THESE STANDARDS ARE SET TO AVOID A LANDING ENCOUNTER WITH A VORTEX WAKE. IF AN ONBOARD VORTEX SENSOR AN ESCAPE SYSTEM COULD BE DEVELOPED WHICH IS BOTH RELIABLE AND INEXPENSIVE, THE A AVIATION COMMUNITY COULD BENEFIT BY DECREASED TERMINAL DELAYS WITHOUT COMPROMISING SAFETY. THE CONCEPT TO BE ST ...

A NOVEL CONCEPT IS PROPOSED FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF INTRINSICALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS. THE CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS PPOLYDIACETYLENES WILL BE SYNTHESIZED BY THE SOLID-STATE POLYMERIZATION OF DIACETYLENES POLARIZABLE GROUPS, EITHER UPON THERMAL ANNEALING OR UPON EXPOSURE TO HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION. THE RESULTANT CONDUCTIVE POLYDIACETYLENES COULD BE CRYSTALLINE, INTRINSICALLY CONDUCTIVE, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY S ...

A NOVEL IDEA TO IMPROVE IGNITION AND ENHANCEMENT OF COMBUSTION BY INFRARED MULTIPHOTON DISSOCIATION (IRMPD) IS PROPOSED. LASER-INDUCED IRMPD OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR SELECTIVELY INFLUENCING COMBUSTION EVENTS DUE TO A VARIETY OF FACTORS: 1) IR ABSORBING MOLECULES CAN BE DISSOCIATED INTO REACTIVE RADICALS. 2) ENERGY CAN BE DEPOSITED EXCLUSIVELY INTO DESIRED MOLECULES BY APPROPRIATELY SELECTIN ...

GRAVIT-INDUCED WATER WAVES HAVE AN IMPORTANT ON MANY OF MAN'S ACTIVITIES IN THE SHALLOW WATERS OF OUR COASTAL REGIONS, INCLUDING SHIP NAVIGATION, DESIGN OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, ETC. WAVES IN SHALLOW WATERSEDIMENT TRANSPORT ARE OBSERVED TO BE NONLINEAR, AND THE SURFACE WAVE PATTERNS ARE FULLY TWO-DIMENSIONAL. WE PROPOSEHERE TO CONSTRUCT AN EXPLICIT, ANALYTICAL MODEL OF PERIODIC ...

EXAMINATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A RELATIVELY SIMPLE PREDICTABILITY MODEL FOR A VARIETY OF DISPERSION PROBLEMS IN AIR OR WATER IS PROPOSED. WE BELIEVE THAT VALIDREPRESENTATIONS OF THE CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION IN BOTH PHYSICAL SPACE AND ENSEMBLE SPACE MAY BE ACHIEVED WITH SUFFICIENTLY FEW PARAMETERS TO PERMIT AN ATTRACTIVE ENGINEERING MODEL. PREDICTION OF THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION ...

TRADITIONALLY, SHIPBOARD POWER GENERATION IS ACCOMPLISHED VIA AUXILIARY ENGINES AND GENERATOR SETS. SIGNIFICANT COST ADVANTAGES CAN BE PROJECTED IF THIS ELECTRICAL DEMAND COULD BE MET BY EXTRACTING POWER FROM THE SHIP'S PRIME MOVER. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, AND TO MAINTAIN A CONSTANT FREQUENCY ON THEGENERATOR WHILE THE SPEED OF THE PRIME MOVER VARIES OVER A WIDE RANGE, THIS CONTRACTOR PROPOSES THE USE ...