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This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II Program will demonstrate a magnetic field sensor device of high sensitivity using spin-dependent tunnel (SDT) materials. The tunnel materials will be developed with guidance from the state of the art realistic atomistic modeling and aided by state of the art nanostructural characterization techniques of 3-D atom probe and high-resolution transmissio ...

Collective allostatic load (CAL) is known to cause the degredation of team performance in a variety of contexts. SIFT is proposing MEDULLA (Monitoring Emergent Duress Under Long-Lasting Allostasis), a multi-method approach based on physiological, cognitive, and behavioral measures to develop and fine-tune algorithms for assessing CAL and predicting changes to CAL that can affect team performance. ...

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This proposal investigates handheld chemical sensors that utilize surface-enhanced Raman spectrometry, or SERS. First, SERS will be developed utilizing nanoporous alumina membranes with selective binders and metallic nanodots. These devices have demonstrated 10^12 enhancement Second, a microfluidic chip will be developed to house the SERS substrate, provide fluid access to the SERS chip, and pr ...

In today's society, computers are being interconnected at ever increasing rates - with an apparent goal of seamless global communication. One of the last roadblocks restricting the formation of one globally inter- connected network is the fear of malicious hackers invading protected islands of information, stealing secrets and reaking havoc with an expensive information base. Because of this fear, ...

Technical Abstract Current economic conditions and an aging population are increasing the strain on the Medicaid program, which is the main funding source for long-term skilled nursing care. In 2008, Medicaid spending for long-term care was $99.9 billion and growing at a rate of 8.6% annually. Given that the population of persons over 65 years of age is expected to grow from 35 million in the ye ...

OBLONGATA proposes an in-depth analysis of data collected during MEDULLA’s 4 1-month long HI-SEAS missions. As such it is a continuation of the work performed under MEDULLA. The projects complement each other to form MEDULLA OBLONGATA. The Base Phase proposal describes all measures SIFT and collaborators collected during missions M1-M4 (M4 is ongoing), as well as our analytical approach, and pre ...

SIFT will identify a set of linguistic events or strategies, occurring in on-line discourse and dialogues (such as email, tweets, blog discussions, etc.) that are expected to alter trust, affiliation, and/or regard on the recipients. The Brown and Levinson model suggests several of these such as "bullying", "buttering up", "discrediting", etc. A politeness-based linguistic analysis approach, augme ...