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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to design and demonstrate a location tracking system for underground coal mines using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop a miner tracking system based on inertial navigation technology.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to explore the need for ensuring compressed air line integrity in a practical way through laboratory tests and design and construction considerations for compressed air lines to a refuge alternative.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to complete a beta test installation of the contractor’s inertial sensor tracking and communication system in a working mine and demonstrate the accuracy, communication capability, and suitability for use in a working coal mine.
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7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to assess the suitability of current power line communication methods (used in nonmining applications) for underground coal mine communication, using mine electrical power distribution conductors as a system backbone.
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6/16/2016 - Calls for participationReserve a spot now to attend a webinar on refuge alternatives June 23.
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1/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study looking at how a dust assessment technology, the Helmet-CAM, was used to identify and encourage communication about potential problem areas and tasks on site that contributed to elevated exposures.
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11/20/2015 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop and test an enhanced magnetics-based communications waveform with increased ability to provide communications in the presence of ambient noise and interference in order to extend existing magnetics-based technologies.
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9/1/2015 - Non-peer reviewed journal articlesThis trade publication piece by NIOSH discusses testing of the Helmet-CAM system. NIOSH partnered with Vulcan Materials Co. to test and evaluate the setup for noise assessment at the company's mining operation near Baltimore.
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6/25/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA paper examining the particle size distributions, specific surface areas (SSA), and the explosion suppression effectiveness of various rock dusts.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program