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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Poor eating habits sedentary behavior and deficient sleep quality are problematic for many college students Surrounded by numerous unhealthy food choices and physical activity barriers students are vulnerable to overweight and chronic diseases such as diabetes heart disease and cancer Todayandapos s college students are more technologically connected tha ...

Theoretical computing speeds have increased dramatically in the last decade with chip advances, including Graphics Processor Units (GPUs).In practice, however, these gains have not been realized, largely due to the accompanying high development costs due to the need for multiple code bases to take advantage of the various chips and their variants.The proposed project addresses these issues from bo ...

Since the first NAVSTAR GPS satellite was launched over 35 years ago, GPS has grown into one of the most important and widespread technologies used by modern military systems. These modern systems rely heavily on conventional GPS signals for position, navigation, and timing (PNT) functions and these mission-critical systems could be rendered inaccurate or inoperable if even a portion of the imping ...

ABSTRACT:Vescent Photonics proposes to develop a laser system complete with drive electronics to support the superluminal IMU development at Northwestern University and Digital Optics Technology by Selim Shahriar. The technology will also be applicable to other research programs such as DARPA IMPACT, DARPA CSCAN, DARPA STOIC, AFRL CSTAR, and other future atomic clock development programs. Vescent ...

Innovative, energy-savings lighting controls methods such as occupancy sensing, personal control, and daylighting have realized a market that is only a fraction of the potential lighting market. With the increasing market penetration of solid-state lighting technology, there is an opportunity to re-invigorate the adoption of energy-savings lighting controls. Along with the recent growth of solid ...

ABSTRACT: The semiconductor pumped fiber laser has generated considerable interest for High Energy Lasers (HELs) in a number of BMDS applications including long range sensing, communications and missile defense. The potential efficiency, compact size and low weight, reliability and ruggedness are attractive for these and other directed energy applications. A key requirement is the creation and ...

This proposed phase 2 program builds on the foundations established in the phase 1 effort to demonstrate both a one dimensional close packed removable array for spectrally combined systems, and a two dimensional large collimated array for both diffractive optical element (DOE) coherently combined systems and also for multi aperture systems. This proposed program is well within Optical Engines exp ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project stems from the possibility of obtaining real-time precise 3D depth information using a miniature robust sensor system opening up a myriad of opportunities for commercial application. Imaging sensors are now widespread and inexpensive, as is computing power, already an integral part of most cameras. The 3D imaging sensor to be developed enable ...