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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Wound infection is the single-most important complication encountered in the management of chronic non-healing wounds. More than 10 million US patients per annum, at a cost of greater than $10 billion, receive treatment for chronic wounds. Microorganisms not only interfere with the wound healing process but use open areas ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Wound infection is the single-most important complication encountered in the management of chronic non-healing wounds. More than 10 million US patients per annum, at a cost of greater than $10 billion, receive treatment for chronic wounds. Microorganisms not only interfere with the wound healing process but use open areas ...

DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract): More than 15 million patients in the US alone suffer from recalcitrant non-healing wounds with an estimated expenditure of greater than $10 billion in treatment costs. The demographic shift in longevity will mean an increase in the population base that is at risk of suffering from chronic non-healing wounds ...

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an innovative approach for targeting genes involved in a specific trait or pathway using the model cereal plant, rice. Rice is known to have highly conserved disease resistance signal transduction pathways and yet so far a very few signaling molecules have been studied. Application of Activation Tagging methods may allow f ...

Essential oil plants in Mentha species have been valued historically for their medicinal, culinary, and fragrance properties. Despite the existence of several mint species and many cultivars, the U.S. Mint Oil Industry is based upon three sterile clones and their minor somatic variants. The narrow genetic base of these commercial varieties could endanger the stability of the mint industry if virul ...

The largest groundfish resource for Oregon commercial fisherman is Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus). This fishery is economically important to many rural, coastal communities and in 2000 over 60,000 metric tons of whiting were delivered to Oregon shore-based processors. Processing Pacific whiting generates very large amounts of carcass waste. Over 70 percent of the landed weight of fish is d ...

The largest groundfish resource for Oregon commercial fisherman is Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus). This fishery is economically important to many rural, coastal communities and in 2000 over 60,000 metric tons of whiting were delivered to Oregon shore-based processors. Processing Pacific whiting generates very large amounts of carcass waste. Over 70 percent of the landed weight of fish is d ...

This program develops a system that s capable of measureing to high accuracy and at high speeds two dimensional deformations of structural panels supporting antennas. The development of this system will serve to enhance imaging capabilities of radars.The system relies upon single and multi-axis fiber grating strain and temperature sensor technology that can be interrogated by high speed, high sen ...

Structural monitoring systems installed on marine and waterfront structures experience accelerated corrosion rates and failures associated with premature degradation. Fiber optic sensors can be packaged in housings that offer the ability to be embeddeddirectly into composite and concrete structures allowing for very long lifetimes. This program will develop, fabricate and install structural moni ...

In order to measure multi-axis strain fields and strain field gradients interior to composite materials, it is necessary to be able to measure both transverse axes of strain and axial strain. In addition, these sensors should be capable of measuringstrain gradients. Blue Road Research has developed a multi-axis fiber optic grating sensor that can be used to meet these requirements. This proposa ...