Psychological stress measurement through voice output analysis

Audio tape recordings of selected Skylab communications were processed by a psychological stress evaluator. Strip chart tracings were read blind and scores were assigned based on characteristics reported by the manufacturer to indicate psychological stress. These scores were analyzed for their empirical relationships with operational variables in Skylab judged to represent varying degrees of situational stress. Although some statistically significant relationships were found, the technique was not judged to be sufficiently predictive to warrant its use in assessing the degree of psychological stress of crew members in future space missions

Small business innovation research. Abstracts of 1988 phase 1 awards

Non-proprietary proposal abstracts of Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects supported by NASA are presented. Projects in the fields of aeronautical propulsion, aerodynamics, acoustics, aircraft systems, materials and structures, teleoperators and robots, computer sciences, information systems, data processing, spacecraft propulsion, bioastronautics, satellite communication, and space processing are covered

Towards a Multimodal Silent Speech Interface for European Portuguese

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the presence of environmental noise is still a hard problem to tackle in speech science (Ng et al., 2000). Another problem well described in the literature is the one concerned with elderly speech production. Studies (Helfrich, 1979) have shown evidence of a slower speech rate, more breaks, more speech errors and a humbled volume of speech, when comparing elderly with teenagers or adults speech, on an acoustic level. This fact makes elderly speech hard to recognize, using currently available stochastic based ASR technology. To tackle these two problems in the context of ASR for HumanComputer Interaction, a novel Silent Speech Interface (SSI) in European Portuguese (EP) is envisioned.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

NASA SBIR abstracts of 1990 phase 1 projects

The research objectives of the 280 projects placed under contract in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1990 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 program are described. The basic document consists of edited, non-proprietary abstracts of the winning proposals submitted by small businesses in response to NASA's 1990 SBIR Phase 1 Program Solicitation. The abstracts are presented under the 15 technical topics within which Phase 1 proposals were solicited. Each project was assigned a sequential identifying number from 001 to 280, in order of its appearance in the body of the report. The document also includes Appendixes to provide additional information about the SBIR program and permit cross-reference in the 1990 Phase 1 projects by company name, location by state, principal investigator, NASA field center responsible for management of each project, and NASA contract number

The effects of weak electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure on developing Xenopus laevis tadpoles

The effect of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on biological systems continues to be explored in the scientific literature and is expanded upon in the present study by using Xenopus laevis tadpoles as a model for vertebrate physiology and behaviour . Previous research has shown that weak EMF exposure causes delays in tadpole metamorphosis. The current study assesses the influence of EMFs on tadpole social behaviour by quantifying the strong natural gathering instinct of the animals. EMFs that have an impact on tadpole behaviour are hypothesized to further show quantifiable differences in tadpole neuroanatomy. Results from the present study do not show a significant interaction between field exposure and tadpole growth or social behaviour. Strong limitations are discussed with respect to the data collected. How the data from this experiment coincides with the current literature on biological-EMF interaction is rationalized. Finally, aspects of the present study that can be utilized to guide future research are identified.Honours Essa

NASA SBIR abstracts of 1991 phase 1 projects

The objectives of 301 projects placed under contract by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are described. These projects were selected competitively from among proposals submitted to NASA in response to the 1991 SBIR Program Solicitation. The basic document consists of edited, non-proprietary abstracts of the winning proposals submitted by small businesses. The abstracts are presented under the 15 technical topics within which Phase 1 proposals were solicited. Each project was assigned a sequential identifying number from 001 to 301, in order of its appearance in the body of the report. Appendixes to provide additional information about the SBIR program and permit cross-reference of the 1991 Phase 1 projects by company name, location by state, principal investigator, NASA Field Center responsible for management of each project, and NASA contract number are included

The Design and Construction of a Green Laser and Fabry-Perot Cavity System for Jefferson Lab\u27s Hall A Compton Polarimeter

A high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity with a frequency doubled green laser (CW, 532 nm) have been built and installed in Hall A of Jefferson Lab for high precision Compton polarimetry project in spring of 2010. It provides a high intensity circularly polarized photon target for measuring the polarization of electron beam with energies from 1.0 GeV to 11.0 GeV in a nondestructive manner. The IR beam (CW, 1064 nm) from a Ytterbium doped fiber laser amplifier seeded by a Nd:YAG narrow linewidth NPRO laser is frequency doubled in by a single-pass Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPMgLN) crystal. The maximum achieved green power at 5 W IR pump power was 1.74 W with a total conversion efficiency of 34.8%. The frequency locking of this green light to the cavity resonance frequency is achieved by giving a feedback to Nd:YAG crystal via laser piezoelectric (PZT) actuator by Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique. The data shows the maximum amplification gain of our cavity is about 4,000 with a corresponding maximum intra-cavity power of 3.7 kW. The polarization transfer function has been measured in order to determine the intra-cavity laser polarization within the measurement uncertainty of 0.7%. The PREx experiment at JLab, used this system for the first time and achieved 1.0% precision in electron beam polarization measurement at 1.0 GeV