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Providing Army combat medics with meaningful experience in treatment of battlefield injuries is a particular challenge. Moulage has the potential to assist in acquiring what could otherwise be very hard-to-come-by preparatory experience for the distressing real-life emergencies medics and soldiers may encounter in the field. However, current approaches to moulage are limited in their ability to re ...

Nokomis proposes to develop a real-time microwave spectroscopy device to identify Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) associated with Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity. Exhaled breath contains VOCs that act as signatures of bodily health, and are able to be utilized for health diagnostics. The proposed work will demonstrate sensitivity to the presence of chemicals at less than 50 ppb concentration levels, a ...

High-speed flight vehicles commonly use carbon / carbon (C/C) and carbon / silicon carbide (C/SiC) for structural components.These refractory composite materials are chosen because of their superior structural properties at the elevated temperatures.In most cases, their thermophysical and strength properties are characterized using flat and relatively thin material test plates that are fabricated ...

Among the factors that inhibit the use of composite materials in both general aviation aircraft and DoD platforms are the high cost of engineering and the cost of certification. Unless manufacturers can control risk when introducing new materials and pro

Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular 20-107B provides guidance on the achievement of compliance with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations regarding airworthiness type certification requirements for composite aircraft structures necessi

Pressure gain combustion has the potential to significantly improve the specific fuel consumption for gas turbine engines by realizing a pressure rise through the combustor as opposed to a pressure drop. One drawback to this form of combustion is the cycl

We propose to develop a computational model of leadership designed to capture complex variables including cultural differences in leadership requirements along with task differences, primarily ill-defined goals, which pose leadership challenges. Rather than avoiding these kinds of complexity and developing a computational model that is unlikely to scale up, we believe there is more to be gained b ...