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Accurate and timely assessment of battle damage may determine the survival of ship and crew. Without training, stress and high workload are known to produce specific types of judgment errors, including a narrowing of attention in which critical information may be overlooked, and an increased reliance on simplifying assumptions which may result in a tendency to ignore relevant information. The foll ...

More than 100,000 patients now receive chronic hemodialysis therapy in Medicare's End StageRenal Disease Program. Hemodialysis related amyloidosis affects a significant portion of these patients.The syndrome presents clinically as carped tunnel syndrome, cystic bone lesions, and arthropathies. Thedisorder has been identified with excessive circulating and stored quantities of Beta2-microglobulin(B ...

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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS DEVELOPED PHYSICS: CINEMA CLASSICS (PCC) VIDEODISCS. THE VIDEODISCS CONTAIN VIDEO CLIPS AND FILM LOOPS WHICH EDUCATORS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY USED FOR DECADES. RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING ANCILLARY MATERIALS TO ENHANCE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE VIDEODISCS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER. ANCILLARY MATERIALS INCLUDE A BARCODE DIRECTORY FOR THE 2,000 VIDEO/IMAGES O ...

This proposal is in response to rapid modeling need in our military force. We plan to develop and demonstrate a framework that will allow warfighters to rapidly acquire and edit geospecific terrain databases, including both building exterior and interiors. The output of our models will be in standard 3D format, which can be used in a variety of simulation and training software, including VBS2. We ...

To address a Navy need for a high resolution full color situational awareness displays to optimize human interface for Navy personnel, ships, and crafts, Hitron Technologies Inc. proposes to develop a see-through full color transparent flexible display with collaboration of Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University. The transparent flexible display is based on innovative integration of a f ...

ABSTRACT: This Phase I project will be a feasibility study to develop a standard method, new image quality indicators (IQI"s) and software algorithms to automatically verify computed radiography (CR) image quality for nondestructive testing (NDT) of military airframes. Compared to existing IQI"s, the new IQI"s will more comprehensively measure the image quality by measuring more aspects with one ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) compliant GPS receiver for Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) applications. In this proposal, we explore an approach to design the GEO GPS SAASM receiver based on improved techniques for signal acquisition (or detection) and then signal tracking (and demodulation) of weak GPS signals. GPS signals availa ...

The objective of all Phases of Lokis current and proposed research and development work under Topic A12-064, Multi-Pulse Single Shot Explosive Power Supplies is to create new types of compact, autonomous multi-pulse single-shot power supplies that are capable of producing a series of high voltage and/or high current pulses. The specific objective of Phase II of this project is to integrate these ...

Most liquid high-level nuclear waste is currently being immobilized to a solid form as a borosilicate glass by vitrification. However, many nuclear wastes have complex and diverse chemical compositions that reduce their compatibility with borosilicate glass. The current baseline spent nuclear fuel reprocess generates secondary waste streams that generally include large amounts of MoO3 and lanthani ...