| Development of a Fuel Lubricity Haze Test (FLHT) for Naval Applications |
16-Mar-2009 |
78 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis R Hardy; NAVY TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND SURVIVABILITY WASHINGTON DC
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 | Highly processed diesel fuels are now monitored for lubricity by specially developed mechanical tests. Because these mechanical tests are imprecise, difficult to run, expensive, and difficult to relate to actual field conditions, a chemical test for lubricity has been developed. This Fuel Lubricity Haze Test (FLHT) has been miniaturized, and can be run in the laboratory or field. It has been found to be an objective, precise test that is ... |
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| Portable Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain for Use in Forward Battlefield Areas |
Mar-2009 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory T Clement; ULTRADIAGNOSTICS INC ATTLEBORO FALLS MA
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| Using ultrasound as a detection device in the body, including the brain, has been extensively investigated. Unfortunately, previous ultrasound-based methods on the brain have suffered from the severe distortion caused by the skull bone. The authors have recently developed a technique that allows ultrasound to propagate through the skull with significantly reduced distortion using a shear mode technique. The current project will develop a device for noninvasive identification of the ... |
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| Telemedicine Based Ultrasound for Detecting Neonatal Heart Disease in Babies at Remote Military or Native American Health Care Facilities |
Mar-2009 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
James Kinney; Robert Puntel; David J Sahn; OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES UNIV PORTLAND
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| Our partnership of investigators from Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Washington, and Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, is testing the hypothesis that trained primary care practitioners or nurses can, with telemedicine supervision, perform cardiac ultrasound exams on neonates at risk for heart disease, and thereby impact time to diagnosis and outcomes. This study is targeted at Military Medical Facilities within TRICARE West and Western Regional Medial ... |
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| Organic Photodiodes for Biosensor Miniaturization |
Jan-2009 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Jason R Wojciechowski; Max Sonnleitner; Hans J Prall; Christoph Winder; Martin Schamesberger; Roland Pieler; Erwin Fuereder; Mariko Y Yamaguchi; Lisa C Shriver-Lake; Frances S Ligler; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
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| Biosensors have successfully demonstrated the capability to detect multiple pathogens simultaneously at very low levels. Miniaturization of biosensors is essential for use in the field or at the point of care. While microfluidic systems reduce the footprint for biochemical processing devices and electronic components are continually becoming smaller, optical components suitable for integration- such as LEDs and CMOS chips-are generally still too expensive for disposable components. This paper describes the ... |
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| Safe Acceptable Standoff Distances for Body Wearable Antennas |
Dec-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
George Palafox; Waliul Mizan; ARMY COMMUNICATIONS-ELECTRONICS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENG CTR FT MONMOUTH NJ
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| Soldier Manpack radios for programs such as Future Warrior Technology Integration (FWTI), Land Warrior (LW) , and JTRS Handheld Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) use standard whip antennas which can be as large as a meter in height. During combat operations, the whip antenna can become entangled, damaged or destroyed, causing a degradation or loss of communications. In addition to the antenna's size, whip antennas present electrical challenges in ... |
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| Modeling and Simulation of Engraving and Gun Launch of a 40-mm Sensor Grenade |
Nov-2008 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Mellini; Nicholas Payne; Pasquale Carlucci; ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER PICATINNY ARSENAL NJ MUNITIONS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CENTER
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| The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey is developing an inert 40-mm sensor grenade, which houses an array of sensors and electronic components. This grenade is intended to be fired from a hand-held launcher and once deployed, relay sensor information back to the user. To accomplish this task, the internal electronic components must be structurally housed and guarded from impact induced g-levels. Also, radio ... |
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| Design, Build, and Test a Hand-held GPS Interference Detector |
01-Sep-2008 |
93 pages |
| Authors:
John C Rayburn; James E Carson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation signal is extremely vulnerable to intentional and unintentional interference. Increased dependence on GPS by military users has created a need to quickly detect and locate interference at its source. Current methods for detecting and locating GPS interference sources employ a network of multiple sensors to identify interference. The data collected from sensors is then sent to a remote centralized processing station and analyzed to ... |
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| Integration of CW / Radionucleotide Detection Systems to the Fido XT Explosives Detector |
31-Jul-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Ross J Harper; ICX TECHNOLOGIES INC STILLWATER OK ICX NOMADICS
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| The original concept of the Phase 11+ funding was to support integration of ICx Agentases's chemical weapons (CW) sensing materials into the Fido XT Explosives Detector system. It was determined however that despite marked advances in the enzymatic detection technology through the prototype, significant further work was needed before the Agentase materials would be sufficiently mature for integration. In place ofCW detection, the radiation detection capabilities of ICx Radiation (another ... |
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| Flexible Display and Integrated Communication Devices (FDICD) Technology. Volume 2 |
01-Jun-2008 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
David Huffman; Keith Tognoni; Robert Anderson; L-3 COMMUNICATIONS DISPLAY SYSTEMS ALPHARETTA GA
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| This flexible display and integrated communication device (FDICD) technology program sought to create a family of powerful visualization technologies that would reduce the weight, volume, and power while increasing usability by integrating many of the functions of present mission equipment into a small form factor. The goals included a network comprised of a worn main computer, a hand-held or knee-worn large display system and a wrist-worn small display. The large ... |
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| Hastily-Formed Networks for First Responders |
01-Jun-2008 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Gurminder Singh; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| First responders who participate in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions have many special requirements which are not common in normal civilian operations. These include the ability to get going with their mission with minimal infrastructure tight-loop and frequent communication, light-weight equipment, ability to scale-up the team when needed, and finally, the longest-running and lightest power source for their equipment. We present a system called TwiddleNet, which harnesses the power ... |
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| An Evaluation of Blood Cholinesterase Testing Methods for Military Health |
MAY 2008 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Paul L. Knechtges; ARMY CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH FORT DETRICK MD
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| Blood cholinesterase (ChE) testing is done to evaluate potential human exposure to chemicals that act as ChE-inhibitors, most often organophosphate and carbamates pesticides. The Model 400 Test-mate ChE kit (EQM Research, Inc.) is used for field blood ChE analysis within the Department of Defense. Suggested modifications to the Model 400 kit include displaying and recording acetyl-ChE activity uncorrected for temperature and using analytical standards for calibration or quality assurance purposes. ... |
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| Multi-Sensor Systems Development for UXO Detection and Discrimination: Hand-Held Dual Magnetic/Electromagnetic Induction Sensor |
APR 2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
David Wright; Jr. Bennett; Linda P. Dove; Dwain K. Butler; AETC INC CARY NC
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| The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS, developed, tested, and demonstrated an innovative, hand-held, dual-sensor unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection and discrimination system. This breakthrough technology markedly reduces UXO false alarm rates by fusing two heretofore incompatible sensor platforms, integrating highly accurate spatial data in real time, and applying advanced modeling and analysis to the co-registered data stream. The ArcSecond laser positioning module simultaneously integrates coregistered ... |
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| A Lightweight TwiddleNet Portal |
01-Mar-2008 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Antonios M Rimikis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| TwiddleNet is a distributed architecture of personal servers that harnesses the power of the mobile devices, enabling real time information and file sharing of multiple data types from commercial-off-the-shelf platforms. This thesis involves research in mobile personal members, mobile social networks and media sharing models and develops a TwiddleNet portal running on a smart phone or a PDA so that the entire TwiddleNet system can be run on handheld devices ... |
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| Measuring Learning and Performance in Collective Training Exercises |
MAR 2008 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
David H. McGilvray; Bruce C. Leibrecht; Karen J. Lockaby; NORTHROP GRUUMAN TECHNICAL SERVICES RESTON VA
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| The goal of the research described in this report was to develop a proof-of-principle scoring system that can be used to evaluate training effectiveness across diverse scenarios. The focus was on supporting evaluators as they evaluate and track unit performance across scenarios. The report describes the products of the research as well as the insights and lessons learned. A scoring system with a computer interface suitable for a hand-held computer ... |
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| ALASKA: Applet and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas |
15 JAN 2008 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Ron Cole; Eric Hamilton; Phil Vahey; AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLORADO SPRINGS CO
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| Key to ALASKA is the creation of representations that teachers can employ in their moment-by-moment classroom teaching. The SRI team created and presented a set of draft representations that illustrate how this can be done using an iPhone-like interface. Throughout the project SRI participated in weekly meetings to advance the design of the ALASKA system, as well as suggest research directions for the project. SRI was also intimately involved in ... |
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| Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Tire Fire Extinguishing Agent |
01-Jan-2008 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Eric Wilson; Alex Ordway; NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIV CHINA LAKE CA
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| The overall objective of the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Tire Fire Extinguishing Agent test series is to provide enhanced fire fighting capability to warfighters. Vehicles suffering from mobility loss due to burning tires require a hand held extinguisher to put out the fire and prevent fire spread past the wheel well. The previously used agent (PKP) was not effective at preventing fire reflash after the fire was out. This report is ... |
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| Army Communicator. Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2008 |
Jan-2008 |
53 pages |
| Authors:
Ryan C Boileau; Paul Wein; J W Snawder; David Fiedler; ARMY SIGNAL CENTER AND FORT GORDON GA
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| CONTENTS: Army JNN enters Joint Network by 1LT Ryan C. Boileau; MG Stevenson explains operational capabilities for the future by Paul Wein; Project Manager Mobile Electric Power by Paul Wein; RASigs: supporting communications for our critical ally by CPT J.W. Snawder; Multi-service procurement/PRC-152 marks another milestone in hand-held multi-band radio by LTC (Ret) David Fiedler. |
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| Chem-Bio Self-Decontaminating Surfaces (Briefing Slides). AFRL Quarterly Summary on DARPA Effort |
05 DEC 2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph D. Wander; Brian K. Heimbuch; Kimberly R. O'Gurek; APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC TYNDALL AFB FL
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| A slide show describing progress to 5 Dec 2007 toward reproducibly contaminating sensitive equipment items and measuring the efficacy of different surface treatments as countermeasures to bioaerosol contamination. A small contamination chamber was fabricated and shown to achieve good reproducibility delivering Bacillus atrophaeus spores (13.6% coefficient of variation). Successful delivery (CV = 7.2%) of Staphylococcus aureus at 10e4/sq cm was also achieved in the small-scale chamber by aerosolization in a ... |
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| Tactical Medical Coordination System (TacMedCS) |
06 NOV 2007 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Diane Williams; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| The Tactical Medical Coordination System (TacMedCS) provides rapid casualty identification under adverse conditions, enables visibility of casualty status from the point of injury through medical treatment in higher echelons of care, maintains an electronic treatment record for the patient, utilizes non-physical-contact data transmission and storage media, and uplinks casualty information to a theater information network. Additionally, the current version of TacMedCS provides information to the corpsman in the field about ... |
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| Indirect Detection Of Bacillus Anthracis (Anthrax) Using Amplified Gamma Phage-Based Assays |
01 NOV 2007 |
152 pages |
| Authors:
Robert W. Reiman; COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES GOLDEN
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| The need for a simple, specific, sensitive, inexpensive, accurate, and rapid method to identify Bacillus anthracis became apparent during the Fall 2001 anthrax attacks which caused widespread panic and ultimately killed five individuals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently employs agar plate lysis by gamma phage and direct fluorescence assay to confirm the presence of Bacillus anthracis. These confirmatory methods require isolation of individual colonies from an overnight ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid Scoring Record No. 830 |
01 OCT 2007 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis Teefy; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD
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| This Scoring Record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid. This Scoring Record was coordinated by Dennis Teefy and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid Scoring Record No. 831 |
OCT 2007 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis Teefy; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD
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| This Scoring Record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid. This Scoring Record was coordinated by Dennis Teefy and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Open Field Scoring Record No. 857 |
OCT 2007 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
Rick Fling; Christina McClung; Matthew Banta; William Burch; Patrick McDonnell; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD
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| This Scoring Record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Open Field. This Scoring Record was coordinated by Dennis Teefy and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Mine Grid Scoring Record No. 835 |
OCT 2007 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis Teefy; Rick Fling; Christina McClung; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD
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| This Scoring Record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Mine Grid. This Scoring Record was coordinated by Dennis Teefy and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid Scoring Record #833 |
OCT 2007 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Rick Fling; Christina McClung; William Burch; Patrick McDonnell; ARMY DEVELOPMENT TEST COMMAND ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| This Scoring Record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid. This Scoring Record was coordinated by Dennis Teefy and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the ... |
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| Human Factors Evaluation of the Enhanced Portable Inductive Artillery Fuze Setter (EPIAFS) |
OCT 2007 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Orest Zubal; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD HUMAN RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE
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| The enhanced portable inductive artillery fuze setter (EPIAFS) is a product improvement of the portable inductive artillery fuze setter (PIAFS). The EPIAFS was designed to receive data manually and via cable and to inductively set all the fuzes set by the PIAFS and initialize the Excalibur ammunition. The EPIAFS system consists of the platform integration kit (PIK) installed in the howitzer s fire control system, a 15-foot cable to connect ... |
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| Visual Terrestrial Cues for Landmine Detection |
27 JUN 2007 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
James J. Staszewski; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA
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| The project objective was to systematically generate foundational knowledge about the feasibility of detecting landmines via visual examination of the ground surface where such ordnance has been buried. The products of this effort were sought explicitly for their potential utility to support the design, testing, and development of training for visual detection. Such training, when used to augment current training of operators of handheld landmine detection equipment, holds potential to ... |
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| Automatic Identification Technology for Arms Room Management |
01-Jun-2007 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
John B Willis; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY DEPT OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING
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| Benefits of RFID * Automatic identification of weapons and equipment * Rapid authentication of soldiers and armorers * Information-rich environment, powered by RFID association * Captures, stores, and correlates detailed information about all system transactions. |
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| Human Effectiveness and Risk Characterization of Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) and Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide (PAVA or Nonivamide) Hand-Held Devices |
MAY 2007 |
254 pages |
| Authors:
Lynne Haber; Patricia Nance; Andrew Maier; Paul Price; Eugene Olajos; Larry Bickford; Maureen McConnell; B. J. Klauenberg; TOXICOLOGY EXCELLENCE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT (TERA) CINCINNATI OH
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| A Human Effectiveness and Risk Characterization (HERC) for oleoresin capsicum (OC) and pelargonic acid vanillylamide (PAVA or nonivamide) hand-held devices has been conducted in an effort organized by the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL), Biobehavioral Systems Branch (RHDJ), in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC). The active ingredients in these devices are collectively termed capsaicinoids and act by peripheral sensory ... |
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| Development of a Smart Diagnostics Platform for Early-Stage Screening of Breast Cancer |
01-Apr-2007 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Joerg Lahann; MICHIGAN UNIV ANN ARBOR
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| The proposed research aims to develop innovative technology that could ultimately lead to new breast cancer screening tests ? ones, which will not require expensive equipment for read-out, but rather will be compatible with miniaturized systems integrated in cheap handheld devices. Towards this goal, we have designed and realized in practice a surface that can act as detection unit. This opens the door for further work that will be geared ... |
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| Development of a Smart Diagnostics Platform for Early-Stage Screening of Breast Cancer |
01 APR 2007 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Joerg Lahann; MICHIGAN UNIV ANN ARBOR
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| The proposed research aims to develop innovative technology that could ultimately lead to new breast cancer screening tests ones, which will not require expensive equipment for read-out, but rather will be compatible with miniaturized systems integrated in cheap handheld devices. Towards this goal, we have designed and realized in practice a surface that can act as detection unit. This opens the door for further work that will be geared towards ... |
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| PCA RAW FABRIC: Architectural Prototyping, Demonstration and Evaluation |
15 FEB 2007 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Saman Amarasinghe; Anant Agarwal; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
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| This report is the final technical report for the project "PCA RAW Fabric: Architectural Prototyping, Demonstration, and Evaluation." This project successfully built and demonstrated a Raw fabric system containing 4 Raw chips, with 3 streaming fabric boards. In addition to the Raw fabric hardware, the project also developed and demonstrated StreamIt: a language and compiler specifically designed for embedded, high performance stream computing on PCA architectures such as Raw. The ... |
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| Handheld Broadband Electromagnetic UXO Sensor |
DEC 2006 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
I. J. Won; Bill SanFilipo; Alex Oren; GEOPHEX LTD RALEIGH NC
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| Detection of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and discrimination between UXO and metallic clutter pose challenges to cost-effective remediation of UXO-contaminated land in order to reclaim it for civilian use. The need to develop sensors that can be deployed in a realistic setting and accomplish these goals motivated this project. The broadband electromagnetic sensor improvement and demonstration undertaken in this project took the prototype GEM-3 and evolved it into an operational sensor ... |
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| End-Pumped Monoblock Laser For Eyesafe Targeting Systems |
01 NOV 2006 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Bradley W. Schilling; Stephen Chinn; A. D. Hays; Lew Goldberg; C. W. Trussell; ARMY BELVOIR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER FORT BELVOIR VA
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| We describe a next-generation monoblock laser capable of greater than 10 mJ, 1.5 8m output at 10 pulses per second (PPS) over broad ambient temperature extremes with no active temperature control. The transmitter design is based on a Nd:YAG laser with a Cr4+ passive Q-switch and intracavity KTP OPO. In order to achieve the repetition rate and efficiency goals of this effort, but still have wide temperature capability, we are ... |
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| Mitigation of Critical Single Point Failure (SPF) Material - Laminac 4116 Binder Replacement Program for Parachute and Cluster Stars Illuminant Compositions for Hand Held Signals |
01 NOV 2006 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
G. R. Lakshminarayanan; Gary Chen; Richard Ames; Wai T. Lee; James L. Wejsa; ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER PICATINNY ARSENAL NJ
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| Laminac 4116 binder has been identified as a single point failure (SPF) material since it is being produced by only one company and there is a possibility that the company may discontinue production due to low product demand. In addition, other issues involved with the use of Laminac include limited shelf life, environmental and health hazardous concerns. An investigation was conducted to develop alternate and environmentally compatible binder materials to ... |
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| A Framework for Developing Mobile Location Based Applications |
01 OCT 2006 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Andrej Krevl; Tone Vidmar; Matjaz Pancur; Mojca Ciglaric; Saso Tomazic; Ales Zavec; Stanko Ciglaric; LJUBLJANA UNIV (SLOVENIA)
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| Location based services and applications are buzzwords nowadays, yet they have been around for quite some time in a variety of applications. However, due to high costs of the positioning equipment the number of such applications is increasing too slowly. Even though "location based" is a hot topic, there are no publicly available application development frameworks that would enable rapid location based application development on COTS hardware. The paper presents ... |
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| An Object-Oriented View of Backend Databases in a Mobile Environment for Navy and Marine Corps Applications |
SEP 2006 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Lemuel S. Lawrence; Kasey C. Miller; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| A Database Management System (DBMS) is system software for managing a large amount of data in secondary memory. The standard DBMS used today in both industry and the military is the Relational DBMS (RDBMS). The RDBMS is based upon the relational paradigm, whereas modern software development technologies that interact with the RDBMS are based upon the object-oriented paradigm. This difference in paradigms presents a conceptual mismatch which greatly reduces programmer ... |
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| Portable Handheld Laser Small Area Supplemental Coatings Removal System |
MAY 2006 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Gerard Mongelli; CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES FAIRBORN OH
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| The traditional coating removal methods employed throughout the Department of Defense (DoD) involve hazardous chemical or abrasive blast media. These conventional methods result in major waste streams consisting of toxic chemicals and spent blast materials. The chemicals typically used in this process are high in volatile organic compounds (VOC) and hazardous air pollutants (HAP), both of which are targeted for reduction/elimination by environmental regulations. Coatings removal operations that use abrasive ... |
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| Hand-Held and Portable Devices for Oil Assessment: Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities |
05 APR 2006 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Edward T. Urbansky; JOINT OIL ANALYSIS PROGRAM PENSACOLA FL TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER
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| In an effort to reduce costs and bring about real-time oil assessment in the field while reducing maintenance costs, the Department of Defense seeks to further develop existing commercial technologies. The project is intended to lead to the production of commercialized hand-held and/or portable oil assessment units that will work with minimal volumes of oil and give a pass/fail rating to the oil. Such units will reduce the need for ... |
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| Improving Maintenance Data Collection Via Point-Of-Maintenance (POMX) Implementation |
MAR 2006 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
William D. Cone; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| Maintenance data collection is an integral part of flightline aircraft maintenance. Historically, this data was input via traditional keyboard data entry methods at a computer terminal. These terminals are typically located in the aircraft maintenance unit (AMU) facility, away from where the actual maintenance is being performed. In contrast to the traditional approach, the Point-of-Maintenance system (POMX) seeks to reduce the data entry burden while increasing data accuracy through the ... |
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| Improving Maintenance Data Collection Via Point-of- Maintenance (POMX) Implementation |
MAR 2006 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
William D. Cone; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF OPERATIONAL SCIENCE
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| Maintenance data collection is an integral part of flightline aircraft maintenance. Historically, this data was input via traditional keyboard data entry methods at a computer terminal. These terminals are typically located in the aircraft maintenance unit (AMU) facility, away from where the actual maintenance is being performed. In contrast to the traditional approach, the Point-of-Maintenance system (POMX) seeks to reduce the data entry burden while increasing data accuracy through the ... |
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| Evaluation of Ahura's First Defender Handheld Chemical Identifer |
JAN 2006 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Robin L. Matthews; Kwok Y. Ong; Christopher D. Brown; Leyun Zhu; Kevin Knopp; EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| The handheld Raman spectrometer for point detection of chemicals developed by Ahura Corporation was tested using chemical warfare agents (CWAs). The device was assessed for its capacity to detect and identify liquid through sealed glass containers in a completely non-contact, non-destructive manner. The CWAs tested included the following: mustard (HD), nitrogen mustard (HN1 and HN3), VX, tabun (GA), sarin (GB), and lewisite (L). Detection characteristics were examined for neat agents, ... |
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| IBM MASTOR SYSTEM: Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-speech Translator |
2006 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Yuqing Gao; Liang Gu; Bowen Zhou; Ruhi Sarikaya; Mohamed Afify; Hong-Kwang Kuo; Wei-zhong Zhu; Yonggang Deng; Charles Prosser; Wei Zhang; IBM THOMAS J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER YORKTOWN HEIGHTS NY
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| In this paper, we describe the IBM MASTOR, a speech-to-speech translation system that can translate spontaneous free-form speech in real-time on both laptop and hand-held PDAs. Challenges include speech recognition and machine translation in adverse environments, lack of training data and linguistic resources for under-studied languages, and the need to rapidly develop capabilities for new languages. Another challenge is designing algorithms and building models in a scalable manner to perform ... |
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| Handheld Broadband Electromagnetic UXO Sensor |
08 DEC 2005 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
I. J. Won; William A. San Filipo; Jeffrey Marqusee; Anne Andrews; George Robitaille; Jeffrey Fairbanks; Larry Overbay; GEOPHEX LTD RALEIGH NC
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| The broadband electromagnetic sensor improvement and demonstration undertaken in this project took the prototype GEM-3 and evolved it into an operational sensor with increased bandwidth and dynamic range, and enough memory and processing power to allow efficient data acquisition while decreasing the weight for ease of operation. In addition to the original hand-held configuration specified at the outset, a cart-mounted large-coil configuration has also been developed for surveying large open ... |
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| Advances in Terrain Augmented Geometric Pairing Algorithms for Operational Test |
Dec-2005 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Wolfgang Baer; Nikolaus Baer; William D Powell; James Zografos; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Geometric paring (GP)systems are being developed by AOTC Ft. Hood to augment or replace laser-pairing instrumentation for long-range and unconventional weapon tests. Such systems require terrain-augmentation to rapidly calculate accurate line-of-sight (LOS) algorithm accommodating vegetation and obscurants and non linear trajectory prediction through complex near earth terrain. At one meter resolution, both vegetation types and terrain elevation uncertainty complicate the LOS calculations. We will present advances in statistical LOS algorithm ... |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid Scoring Record Number 680 |
NOV 2005 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Jr. Overbay Larry; Rick Fling; Christina McClung; George Robitaille; Matthew Banta; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD COMMANDER OF DEVELOPMENT AND TEST COMMAND
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| This scoring record documents the efforts of Geophex, Ltd. to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the APG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Blind Grid. Scoring Records have been coordinated by Larry Overbay and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the Institute ... |
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| Reversible Antibody Trap for Selective Sensor Devices |
01 OCT 2005 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Dale L. Huber; George C. Bachand; Bruce C. Bunker; Ronald P. Manginell; Susan M. Brozik; SANDIA NATIONAL LABS ALBUQUERQUE NM
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| PRELIMINARY RESULTS: (1) Achieved total reversibility of protein adsorption on pNIPAM films; (2) Can capture protein from very dilute solutions; (3) Adsorption behavior of antibodies on pNIPAM is simlar to other proteins, except there is a tendency to form multilayers; (4) Antibody adsorption is reversible; (5) Currently quantifying binding activity as a function of surface coating for a series of antibodies (native and engineered); (6) Designs for integration of heating, ... |
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| National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness for the National Strategy for Maritime Security |
OCT 2005 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
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| Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is the effective understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy, or environment of the United States. MDA is a key component of an active, layered maritime defense in depth. It will be achieved by improving our ability to collect, fuse, analyze, display, and disseminate actionable information and intelligence to operational commanders. MDA is supported by the Global ... |
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| Plans for Hand-Held/Portable Oil Assessment Devices |
07 SEP 2005 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Edward Urbansky; JOINT OIL ANALYSIS PROGRAM PENSACOLA FL TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER
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| At the request of the U.S. Army Oil Analysis Program, the JOAP TSC conducted a market study, assembled a plan of action, and prepared a worksheet for the evaluation of portable or hand-held oil assessment devices. The document includes a review of the critical functions of motor oil, the factors to consider in selecting physicochemical properties for examination, and characteristics for ideal devices. |
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| Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Moguls Scoring Record No. 669 |
SEP 2005 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Larry Overbay; Matthew Boutin; Robert Archiable; Christina McClug; George Robitaille; ABERDEEN TEST CENTER MD
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| This scoring record documents the efforts of NAEVA Geophysics, Inc., to detect and discriminate inert unexploded ordnance (UXO) utilizing the YPG Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Moguls. Scoring Records have been coordinated by Larry Overbay and the Standardized UXO Technology Demonstration Site Scoring Committee. Organizations on the committee include, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the Institute ... |
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