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The Navy wants the capability of firing over twenty missiles with Mark 72 boosters compared to about a dozen today, which will require a different ablative material than what is currently used. A solution to this problem is needed to get ahead of the curve for the future fleet operations. There is an opportunity to develop new ablative materials for the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) with th ...

NASA manned and robotic missions to the surface of planetary or airless bodies require Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL). For many of these missions, EDL represents one of the riskiest phases of the mission. Despite the criticality of the EDL phase, NASA has historically gathered limited engineering data from such missions, and use of the data for real-time Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) ...

PROJECT SUMMARY We propose to build a cloud based integrated solution for scalablecustomizableprivacy preservingand interactive antibody repertoire analysisImmune repertoire sequencingIR seqhas become a useful tool in both basic research and clinical settingsAs the heart of the adaptive immunity to infection and many vaccinesthe abundance and diversity composition of the B cell receptorBCRand its ...

There is a substantial body of evidence demonstrating that biofilms growing inside the water lines of dental units pose a significant risk as a source of infection. The problem has been recognized by practitioners, regulators, manufacturers, and the ADA, with the ADA proposing a set of guidelines for water quality that include a limit of 200 colony forming units per milliliter for the year 2000. ...

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The achievement in realizing low-loss waveguides on any surface of interests using photolime gel polymer motivates us to further investigate the feasibility of employing such a unique material as a multi-functional polymer that can provide modulation, switching, wavelength conversion and amplification simultaneously on any optoelectronic substrate of interest. In this program, we propose to resear ...

Robots will play an important role in NASA's upcoming missions to the Moon and beyond. More than just remote sensors, they will be expected to manipulate their environment in a complex and useful way - carrying objects, using tools, and assisting the crew with various physical activities. NASA has been developing world-class dexterous end effectors for years. Unfortunately, developing softwa ...

Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. (TRI/Austin) will develop a composite standardized payload canister that will support rapid integration of payloads into the forward Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT) or Virginia Payload Module (VPM) tubes. The composite material standardized payload canister shall have universal connections and fittings that will interface between the individual payload tubes with ...

Project Summary Abstract PTIis a novel small molecule AD therapeutic candidate with a novel target and mechanism of actionPTIbinds and reverses an altered conformation of the scaffolding protein filamin AFLNAto prevent Aandapos s tight binding to and toxic signaling via thenicotinic acetylcholine receptornAChRas well as Aandapos s aberrant activation of toll like receptorTLRHenceby restoring FLNAa ...

The innovation proposed is a method for the fabrication of a very low cost, very light weight large apertureAl10SiMg aluminum alloy mirror by the combination of three manufacturing processes. 1. Additivelymanufactured mirror substrates as demonstrated in previous Phase 1 NASA SBIR S2.03-9125 with 0.2 mmcontour accuracy. 2. Precision robotic welding of hexagonal on-axis and hexagonal off-axis segme ...