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Fiber coupled mid-infrared semiconductor lasers provide potential reduction in life cycle costs for tactical military systems compared to current lasers. The proposed work will investigate the stability of semiconductor lasers in military environments for reliable insertion into mid-infrared transmitting fiber optics. The overall project will demonstrate stable operation of a moderate power, mul ...

Project Summary Neurological disorders significantly outnumber diseases in other therapeutic areas and are growing in incidence faster than any other disease classesHoweverthe pharmaceutical industry has been unsuccessful in coming up with effective drugsA big factor in these failures has been a lack of adequate model systems for fundamental disease understanding affecting both diagnosis and treat ...

Because of its high sensitivitypolymerase chain reactionPCRis the gold standard for the diagnosis of many infectious diseasesbut generally only implemented in well equipped laboratoriesOne of the major roadblocks for expanding PCR to point of care markets is the lack of simplerobustsingle tube PCR designs which preserve its laboratory based high sensitivity and specificityIn this Fast Track STTR a ...

eSpin Technologies will design the scale up machine to produce novel high performance separator for lithium primary batteries. The process will be developed to produce novel separator and a variants which has the potential of a significantly higher volumetric efficiency for electrolyte storage capacity and kinetics to distribute electrolyte flow within nanoporous channel efficiently. This new sepa ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI), utilizing patented Microlith® substrates, has demonstrated small, modular reactors for reforming liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels at exceptionally high power densities. During Phase I, in addition to demonstrating efficient JP-8 and Diesel reforming capability, PCI successfully integrated the fuel injection, mixing and vaporization within the catalytic reacto ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a disease affecting infants who become oxygen dependent as a result of prolonged mechanical ventilation with supplemental oxygen early in life. Barotrauma and elevated levels of oxygen induce direct injury to the immature lung tissue, resulting in an inflammatory response and infiltration by circulating neutrophils. When neu ...

ABSTRACTThis application is seeking funding specifically for ChemistryManufacturingand ControlCMCof scale up production of long acting atrial natriuretic peptidedANPand its protected graft co polymerPGCexcipient for use in heart failureHFtreatmentThe extrinsic merit of this project will be the availability of cGMP grade PGC for use in prolonging the half life of various peptide drugs that are in p ...

The overall objective of this project is to advance the development of a clinically usefully multiplex assay todetect biomarkers of radio sensitivity that will identify subsets of prostate cancer patients for whichradiotherapy should be contraindicated This assay will be capable of predicting the risk of developingadverse effects principally urinary morbidity and rectal injury resulting from ...

Our goal is to develop VTC MSas a novel tolerance inducing therapeutic to treat Multiple SclerosisMSMS is the most common demyelinating disorder of the Central Nervous SystemCNSaffecting approximatelymillion people worldwide andin the US aloneCurrent and developing treatment of MS relies mainly on immuno suppression and modulation to reduce inflammatory symptoms creating a significant need for new ...

This proposal will create an open speech signal processing platform. The open computational framework will be used for developing algorithms that will help accelerate acoustic and hearing science research. It will permit researchers to more rapidly and easily test new algorithms with greater control, performance, and ease. Several example systems will be created to show that the platform can be ad ...