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This novel approach to making cement at ambient temperature uses 55% Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) incinerator ash AND adds chemicals and wastes to sequester environmentally problematic combustion gases, chemicals and heavy metals during incineration, that in turn eliminates undesired chemicals in the final product leachate. The main project objective is the development of a novel cement product bas ...

Harmful algal blooms can devastate ecological and economic systems; federal disasters are declared, public drinking water systems shut down, fisheries closed, and mass wildlife die offs and acute toxicity/death for humans occur. By the numbers, the negative financial impact of HABs globally is $10B and, as temperatures climb, conditions are increasingly favorable for HAB events. HABs can be contro ...

While increases in maritime shipping traffic continue on an exponential trend, marine mammals, especially the critically endangered Right whale, is experiencing ever increasing injuries and deaths due to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. This SBIR seeks to combine two fielded prototype technologies- a parafoil built for the US Navy (TALONS), and a whale detection sensor system that woul ...

InventWood with its partner institutes propose to develop and manufacture lightweight 3D wood corrugated honeycomb structures to replace metal counterparts. The proposed research addresses the Technical Areas of Interest of “Advanced trees as high-performance, durable structural materials and/or as permanent carbon sequestration solutions”. The technical targets for the twoyear ARPA-E project ...

InventWood with its partner institutes propose to develop and manufacture lightweight 3D wood corrugated honeycomb structures to replace metal counterparts. The proposed research addresses the Technical Areas of Interest of “Advanced trees as high-performance, durable structural materials and/or as permanent carbon sequestration solutions”. The technical targets for the twoyear ARPA-E project ...

As aquaculture increases productivity to meet worldwide demand, it faces an increasing threat from the spread of disease, aquatic organisms, and pathogens. However, biosensor technologies have not kept pace with the need to monitor these ever-increasing threats. In particular, biomonitoring has been limited by the need for continuous human presence, whether at the point of collection or in the lab ...

Atmospheric Rivers (AR) transport large volumes of water vapor outside the tropics and, when making landfall, produce large quantities of rain that replenish aquifers, contribute to beneficial increases in snowpack, yet can cause flooding and significant damage to property and lives. Accurate forecasts of precipitation during landfalling ARs are critical because of their large role in water supply ...

Bioluminescent imaging (BLI) is considered the most sensitive and broadly used small animal imaging modality that covers a wide range of therapeutic areas. BLI allows more data to be collected from a single animal, achieving better statistical power with a reduced number of animals. These advantages significantly lower the cost of drug discovery and result in higher confidence in clinical decision ...

In order for manufacturers to unlock the promise of AI for data-driven decision making, they need visibility into large volumes of unstructured knowledge trapped in technical language like work order notes. The process of annotation and knowledge extraction from unstructured technical language data is currently a time consuming and challenging bottleneck to adopting machine learning at scale. In N ...

The proposed innovation uses a model-based approach to streamline understanding and application of standards. NIST standards addressing cybersecurity, presented in the form of documents, spreadsheets, and database tools, provide thousands of complimentary and overlapping items for users to track. Significant effort is expended understanding the standards before attention can be focused on the syst ...