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Native American Cancer Initiatives Inc NACI is a woman owned minority American Indian business with fewer than three full time equivalent employees This for profit company founded in has the mission to provide technical assistance and products to communities patients researchers academicians universities research institutions and professionals on Native Americans cultural iss ...

Boulder Nonlinear Systems BNS and Prof Edward Boyden s Synthetic Neurobiology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab propose to develop a new liquid crystal spatial light modulator SLM capable generating high resolution holograms to overcome the imaging gap that currently divides cellular level optogenetic techniques and whole brain techniques to improve function ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This Phase II project aims to continue development of a commercial qualityinnovative cloud hosted information management systemcalled Climbthat will increase laboratory efficiency and provide improved capabilities for research laboratoriesClimb is designed to offer integrated laboratory process management modules that include mobile communications tools data monitoring and alert sy ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant TDA Research Inc TDA proposes to develop new types of activated carbons to protect the more than agricultural workers who according to the CDC are at risk from exposure to toxic levels of ammonia In addition to agricultural workers fire fighters first responders and chemical industry personal are also at risk OSHA rates ppmv NH in air as ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of the project is to develop a four hour cooling system that replaces ice packs in mine rescue reentry rebreathers that unlike ice will maintain the temperature of the air returned to the miner from the CO absorber at a constant safe temperature TDAandapos s cooling technology maintains the temperature of the return air at a constant level regardl ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant African American men experience health disparities across a number of preventable chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease strokes obesity and diabetes Physical activity PA is a modifiable risk factor for these conditions The few PA promotion studies that have included African American men have resulted in successful short term behavior change ...

Project summary The fast millisecond timescale of neuronal activity has posed a difficulty for D volumetric imaging whose speed is limited in part by the axial scan methods currently available The use of electrically tunable lenses ETLs for remote focusing confers speed and vibration reduction advantages over the more traditional sample stage or microscope objective motion but current state ...

Novel Methacrylate Thiol Ene Composites for Dental Restorative Materials As the demand for aesthetically pleasing restorative materials has increased so has the desire and demand for improved performance Despite their increasing prevalence the methacrylate resin phase for the vast majority of these materials has remained largely unaltered since Bowen first proposed the materials nearly year ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Exposure to air pollution has many detrimental effects on human health Although the risks of air pollution exposure are well known personal exposures are rarely evaluated due to the cost of measurement Reducing the fixed costs associated with purchasing personal exposure sampling equipment would allow more industries as well as individual citizens to measu ...