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Genetic manipulation is a developing tool in cardiovascular research, and much of this work isdone in mice. Ultrasound equipment designed for use on humans is not suitable for non-invasivemonitoring of cardiovascular parameters in mice due to small organ size (5 mm dia heart) and high heartrates (400-600 bpm). We propose to develop an instrument to measure cardiac output and myocardialfunction non ...

Research is providing increasing evidence of the potential therapeutic effectsof the physical environment for people with dementia in long-term care settings. Despite this, facilitieshave limited options for learning how to create more supportive environments. Hence few facilities areincorporating those environmental features cited as important in the research literature. Existing optionsare eithe ...

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The proposed research seeks to develop an automated method for searching a reuse reposing or and retrieving reusable software components using algebraic specifications. Each component in the repository has an associated algebraic specification that describes both the type signature of its interface and its computational behavior. The OBJ3 language and system is used to do equational reasoning vi ...

Passenger safety concerns have prompted the FAA to elicit energy-sensitive neutron detectors which do not rely on the time-of-flight method and are suitable for use in explosive detection systems. Invocon, Inc. proposes to design an inspection system consisting of an energy source and a detector. Designated FERET sytem, (Field Energy Recoid Emission Technology), it would detect substances identi ...

Enterprises today rely heavily upon a wide variety of modeling methods and modeling technologies for the development of requirements for complex, software intensive systems. In general, however, (i) the different modeling methods provide very different perspectives on system information, (ii) models created with these methods are expressed in very different modeling languages, and (iii) models ar ...

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The thrust of this proposal is the development of small, economical, table-top accelerators for thethe short-lived radioisotopes for the powerful medical diagnostic techniques, based on positron emis(PET), which have proven effective in monitoring physiological processes in the body, including braivisual processing. It draws upon recent advances in linear accelerator technology, a new rf-focusedst ...

Routine, fully automated analysis of air, water, soils, sludge, etch., would help target clean-up efforts and improve worker safety in the field. The availability of highly portable and affordable chemical analyzers would allow widespread deployment, which has been unobtainable with traditional instrumentation presently used for this evaluation. However, we propose a system employing state-of-th ...