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The ultimate goal of the proposed project is the development of a novel drug delivery system which is cable of providing long-lasting pain relief with superior release profiles (using both polar and nonpolar anesthetic/analgesic drugs while reducing the debilitating side effects, such as loss of motor function or sensation. The proposed system is anticipated to improve the therapy and care of pat ...

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Concentrations of most circulating hormones and their metabolites are too low for existing test strip technologies to measure. Laboratory measurements are based upon immunological binding of these hormones. Color tests utilizing colloidal gold or enzyme mediated color changes have been linked to immunological binding and applied to hormones to yield non-quantitative yes or no tests. These methods ...

Disability is the nation's largest public health issue; with over 35 million Americans experiencing disability and annual disability-related costs exceeding $170 billion. Planning for the efficient and equitable allocations of state and local rehabilitation services has generally been inadequate, however. Geographic information systems (GIS) approaches have the potential to dramatically improve ...

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The further development of a Computational Vision Model (CVM) for the generation and analysis of photo-realistic scenes for military and civilian virtual reality applications is proposed. The proposed approach is to extend the existing CVM model, the TARDEC Vision Model (TVM). The main outputs of Phase I will be: 1) A specification of image fidelity needed (spatial resolution, temporal resoluti ...

DMA is now publishing its city graphi product at 1:25,000 scale in the Vector Product Format (VMap 3). The problem is that the level of detail in the product is insufficient when measured against the needs of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) communities. The SOF requires highly detailed information for planning and rehearsal, particularly for Operations O ...

This proposal responds to the DOD requirement for a dendrimer-based coating to protect materials from chemical agent contamination and degradation due to environmental and POL (petroleum, oil, lubricant) exposure. The benefits of such protection include enhanced reliability, improved safety, reduced maintenance costs, and extended service life. The development of a low energy coating based on th ...

Many man-machine interface features of the modern unmanned ground vehicle control station require sophisiticated trade-offs be made. For instance, the need to transmit video information from a vehicle for teleoperation greatly exceeds the current capability of military radios to transmit this information. The remote operator needs advanced video compression techniques to support low data rate and ...