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MODERN GENERAL PURPOSE VISCOUS FLOW CFD MODELING PROGRAMS WILL BE APPLIED TO DEVELOP METHODS FOR REDUCING THE VISIBLE WAKE PRODUCED BY SUBMARINES AT PERISCOPE DEPTH. DR. S. PANTKAR WILL ASSIST IN THE EFFORT. TECHNIQUES TO BE EXAMINED INCLUDE IMPROVE FAIRING DESIGN, FLOW MODIFICATION DEVICES, AND POLYMER ADDITION TO ALTER FLUID PROPERTIES.

FUNGI ARE THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF TREE DISEASES. IN FORESTRY, FUNGAL DISEASE ARE BEST CONTROLLED IN THE NURSERY OR GREENHOUSE, AND BIOCONTROL AGENTS ARE PREFERRED OVER CHEMICAL FUNGICIDES. THE NATURALLY OCCURRING ACTINOMYCETES ARE THE MOST PROMISING BIOCONTROL AGENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY TO PRODUCE A WIDE RANGE OF ANTIBIOTICS WITHIN THE THIZOSPHERE. THIS RESEARCH WILL COLLECT FOREST ACTINOMYC ...

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AN ADVANCED AIR COOLED, CYCLONE COAL COMBUSTOR WILL BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE ITS TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY FOR THE EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF FLY ASH FROM MUNICIPAL INCINERATORS TO SLAG. TWO SETS OF SHORT DURATION PARAMETRIC TESTS WILL BE PERFORMED IN WHICH FLY ASH WILL BE INJECTED IN A COMMERCIAL SCALE COMBUSTOR INSTALLED ON A 17,500 LB/HR PACKAGE BOILER, LOCATED IN WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA. THE OBJECTI ...

THE OVERALL GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO IMPROVE RESOLUTION WHEN USING LARGE-APERTURE, PHASED LINEAR ARRAYS IN CLINICAL ULTRASOUND. IN PARTICULAR, MEANS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO ELIMINATE BEAM-FORMING ERRORS CAUSED BY VARIATIONS OF SOUND VELOCITY IN THE ORGANS BEING IMAGED OR BY PHASE ERRORSIN THE SYSTEM HARDWARE ITSELF. IT IS BELIEVED THAT CURRENT CLINICAL INSTRUMENTS FAIL TO ACHIEVE THEIR POTENTIAL RES ...

Protection of ground troops and physical assets against hostile attacks on the battlefield is a crucial capability that must be provided by a combination of sensors and automated signal processing software that can function at all times, including in low-light/no-light and non-line-of-sight conditions. Existing surveillance sensor systems lack the automated ability to detect and classify threats. ...

Biomimetic Systems will develop and test a simulated system to localize and identify target sound sources including pistol, shotgun, and rifle fire. The software simulation will be a behavioral model of a proposed hardware system for Phase II development. Our system extracts novel feature sets generated by a biomimetic processor based on human hearing, on which we train and evaluate a proprietary ...

Biomimetic technology, a processing method based on biological neural systems, offers an approach to acoustic processing which is noise and reverberation tolerant, acquires targets quickly, localizes accurately, and is well suited for urban theaters of operation. The Phase I project demonstrated the feasibility of the applied technology for identification and localization of acoustic targets such ...

To reverse engineer the brain in order to discover novel design principles for physical systems providing enhanced information-processing capabilities for Navy/DoD and homeland security needs. Specifically, we are studying experimentally, and modeling mathematically, fundamental signal processing principles of neurons and neural systems for the purposes of designing and implementing acoustic patte ...

Project SummaryInfectious disease is the third leading cause of death in the United Statesand hospital acquired infectionsHAIsin particular affectmillion patients annuallyThe most common type of HAI is pneumoniaoften caused by multi drug resistantMDRpathogens such as Staphylococcus aureusPseudomonas aeruginosaKlebsiella pneumoniaeEscherichia coliand Acinetobacter baumanniiRates of antibiotic resis ...