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his SBIR Phase I project will develop an innovative application, geared towards the growing emergent bilingual population which enters the educational system. Despite their growing size (approximately 20 percent of the total US population), emergent bilinguals still do not have adequate support to succeed in an academic setting, and are often victims of a subtractive bilingualism process, which ev ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will result from improving the efficiency of air traffic operations and unlocking runway and airspace capacity utilization, thus enabling reduction of emissions, noise impact, flight delays, and operational cost of airports and airlines. As urban metropolitan areas have grown and air traffic h ...

This SBIR Phase I project is directed towards creating a resource that would enable non-experts to evaluate the validity of scientific claims. The current measures of scientific reliability - the number of times a scientific report is cited and the prestige of the journal that publishes it - are known to be inherently poor indicators of research quality but are still used for the lack of a better ...

This SBIR Phase I project seeks to produce a first of its kind educational technology application for the development of emotional literacy among adolescent and adult learners. Emotional literacy is increasingly recognized as a universal need that is critical to one's academic and professional success and psychological health, as well as for society's cohesion and tolerance. At the same time, mode ...

This SBIR Phase I project will create the first trusted source where parents and teachers can easily find, buy and adopt high-quality digital content for their children. Games, e-books and other digital learning tools show significant potential for improving lives. Children in low-income families (43% of all U.S. children) spend more screen time than their higher income counterparts, and their tea ...

This SBIR Phase 1 project will develop novel technology to more efficiently train surgeons and reduce the risk to patients in the operating room. Current surgical education is inadequate, and as a result inexperienced surgeons inevitably end up operating on live patients during their training. The proposed work will be performed outside of the operating room and allow them to train in a simulated, ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to improve battery health and predicting hazardous events related to battery performance. This will have an important impact on consumer safety, sustainable energy development via promoting reliable energy storage from solar and wind power, as well as in critical applications related to healthcare. As the power density of the batteries kee ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will result from enabling self-evolving telecommunication networks to ensure that reliable and high-speed internet access is available in large metropolitan areas and mission critical applications in smart cities will receive guaranteed Quality of Service, while the capital and operational cos ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to overcome the barrier to transparent passive radiative cooling materials that are applicable to commercial environments. The project develops a transparent passive cooling thin-film applicable to situations that lose efficiency when heated, and where both mechanical and thermal stress are ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is that the proposed innovative research has the potential to be developed into a self-contained robotic inspection tool with vertical mobility that carries an RGB-D camera and ground penetrating radar (GPR) to detect and characterize both surface flaws and subsurface defects. The software alg ...