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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pain accounts for almost 80% of all of the office visits to physicians each year (National Center for Health Statistics, 1986; Stucky, Gold, & Zhang, 2001; Winterowd, Beck, & Greuner, 2003) and is a major source of disability, accounting for upwards of 700 million lost work days and $100 billion in health care costs per year (Report of the Commission on Evaluat ...

A WNW Host Simulator (WHS) can be considered an indoor open-air range in which a JTRS radio is given the various electronic stimuli it needs to “think” it is flight operation over a geographic area. The JTR Set and its waveforms are then “operated” in simulated conditions and its performance and integration with the host platform measured. The goal is to reduce the risk to flight testing b ...

Engineering Science Analysis Corporation (ESA) has developed a new stopping technology that is compact, scalable, and easily deployable. None of the current mechanical vehicle stopping technologies meet the requirements for small, portable highly effective vehiclestopping devices. Mechanical stopping technologies must consider the kinetic energy of the vehicle being stopped. This means a large lar ...

Various Earth Science fields require well-calibrated field radiometers whose calibrations must be tracked and verified in the field. NASA has long recognized requirement. However, these activities require specialized light sources that typically require high power, are bulky and difficult to use in the field, and do not work with all types of radiometers. We propose a next-generation portab ...

This SBIR Phase II project aims to develop and commercialize a novel, next-generation photoluminescence (PL)-based, palm-size and miniaturizable dissolved oxygen (DO) sensor. DO sensors are primary monitors of water quality in industrial wastewater treatment. The new sensor is based on a pioneering platform for PL-based biochemical sensors where the excitation source is a pulsed organic light emit ...

The completed Phase I work was directed at the application of nanotechnology to graphite/epoxy composites. A novel approach to the application of the nanotubes onto the carbon fiber surface was investigated. As a result, a very significant increase in compressive strength of 120% was attained, compared with 20% reported in the literature. The Phase II builds on the success of the Phase I. It w ...

MER and RSC are developing advanced high temperature electronic packaging for power electronics based on SiC devices which can operate at junction temperatures above 300°C and baseplate temperatures of above 200°C. The packaging is being utilized in a hybrid SiC/Si 3-phase inverter for high power motor drives with output of 15kW. The inverter modules developed in Phase II will contain Si based I ...

Ceramic matrix composites (CMC’s) consisting of SiC/SiC offer significant potential for weight reduction, reduced cooling and durability improvements for jet engines and many other high temperature applications. Some SiC/SiC composites have been flight qualified, but their high cost limits their applications. A Phase I program demonstrated a low cost manufacturing route that produces mechanica ...

The deterioration of existing concrete structures, the necessity to repair a very large inventory of concrete structures, the premature failure of repairs and the need to repair the repairs, the desire to improve durability of repaired structures in a cost-effective way are among the major problems the U.S. Navy is facing today. About 75% of all Navy piers and wharves are over 40 years-old and req ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We will develop a system both for training efficient handwriting in school children and for scientific testing of hypotheses on handwriting education. Handwriting is the only and most widely learned fine motor skill. The US school system spends $200M per year (our estimate) on handwriting instruction materials. Teachers receive only limited training to teach ha ...