Current cigarette use in the U.S. includes roughly 20% of civilian adults, 30% of Armed Forces personnel, and a majority of psychiatric patients. Tobacco use by American Warriors deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan is estimated at approximately 50%, despite widespread knowledge of the health risks associated with tobacco use. Two animal (rat) experiments were conducted to examine whether nicotine, the drug of addiction in tobacco, decreases anxiety-related and depression-related behavior. In...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Moosey,Matthew J, Uniformed Services University Of The Health Sciences Bethesda...
CBRNE training for first responders in Canada currently consist of on-line training complemented with occasional field exercises. Completing all levels of training is expensive, includes significant time away from normal duties, and is limited to a small proportion of the end-user community. The current curriculum does not utilize training in a simulated urban environment using realistic hazard scenarios. Thus, there is a significant capability gap/need in providing realistic training for all...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Luoma,Greg, LuomaTech Inc Calgary, AB Canada, simulation, game theory, first...
This report summarizes SIGAR s oversight work and updates developments in the three major sectors of Afghanistan s reconstruction effort from April 1 to June 30, 2014. It also discusses whether the reconstruction is sustainable. During this reporting period, SIGAR published 30 audits, inspections, alert letters, and other reports assessing the U.S. efforts to build the Afghan security forces, improve governance, and facilitate economic and social development. These identified a number of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION ARLINGTON VA,...
This project pursued the development of representations of visual data suitable for control and decision tasks. The fundamental premise is that traditional notions of information developed in support of communication engineering -- where the task is reproduction of the source data, and nuisance factors can be easily characterized statistically -- are unsuited to visual inference, where the task is decision or control, and the data formation process include scaling (that makes the continuous...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES, *COMPUTER VISION, CONTROL, DETECTION, INFORMATION THEORY
pi-Conjugated molecular systems show attractive semiconducting and optical properties, which makes them highly interesting materials with a great potential for applications in organic electronic devices and molecular electronics. This report covers a thorough investigation into the photophysical properties of various functional pi-electronic molecular systems (e.g., expanded and Mobius porphyrins; pi-pi stacked molecular assemblies) using combined integrated time- and space-resolved...
Topics: DTIC Archive, YONSEI UNIV SEOUL (REPUBLIC OF KOREA), *EXCITONS, MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS, NONLINEAR...
Because of the multiple efforts across DOD, the Maneuver Support Battle Laboratory proposed and the DFP community funded, establishment of the Virtual Simulation Capability for Deployable Force Protection Analysis (VSCDFP) tool set at Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri. This toolset, a partnership with the Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), and the Army Research Laboratory--STTC has integrated multiple simulation tools into a common environment to examine the operational relevance and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, MANEUVER SUPPORT BATTLE LAB FORT LEONARD WOOD MO, *DETECTORS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS,...
Goals: The goal of this project was to develop supported bimetallic/monometallic catalysts for total oxidation of JP-8 at low temperatures. To achieve this goal, firstly catalysts for model compounds were developed using a single channel reactor, high throughput experimentation (HTE), quantum mechanical simulations, and informatics tools. Then the work was extended to more alkanes and to catalysts in a confined environment.
Topics: DTIC Archive, DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK CENTER FOR CATALYTIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, *CATALYSTS,...
Alkaline fuel cells (AFCs) using anion exchange membranes (AEMs) as electrolyte have recently received considerable attention. AFCs offer some advantages over proton exchange membrane fuel cells, including the potential of non-noble metal (e.g. nickel, silver) catalyst on the cathode, which can dramatically lower the fuel cell cost. The main drawback of traditional AFCs is the use of liquid electrolyte (e.g. aqueous potassium hydroxide), which can result in the formation of carbonate...
Topics: DTIC Archive, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES GOLDEN, *BLOCK COPOLYMERS, *FUEL CELLS, ANIONS, ANNEALING,...
Improvements in payload performance for the Air Force's EELV are advantageous to mission needs, since payloads typically increase. A third or kick stage is one potential solution to provide an incremental improvement in payload mass as well as to provide additional mission flexibility. A classical configuration stage design is very difficult to implement into the EELV architecture due to significant architecture impact. This could translate to vehicle structural changes and or payload volume...
Topics: DTIC Archive, AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB EDWARDS AFB CA ROCKET PROPULSION DIV, *LAUNCH VEHICLES
Shooting a firearm involves a complex series of actions, and each action depends on a distinct cognitive process (e.g., finding targets involves visual search, aiming involves perceptual judgments of distance and motion). Examining these action-cognition links provides a valuable tool for revealing how cognitive mechanisms interact with one another in addition to offering new avenues for enhancing shooting performance and safety. The present study established a direct relationship between a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DUKE UNIV DURHAM NC, *COGNITION, *GUNS, *LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, *MILITARY...
