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ABSTRACT Suicide is a leading cause of death in the US and suicide rates have steadily increased. Despite this, there is a paucity of interventions that reduce suicide ideation and behavior. In this project, we seek to enhance a beta version of our suicide prevention digital therapeutic (developed in phase I) and conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the digital therape ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI), in collaboration with a Research Institution, proposes to further mature a new fuel cell design utilizing a solid electrolyte technology that will meet NASArsquo;s target specifications of (i) cycling through very low temperatures (lt;150K) to survive storage during lunar night or cis-lunar travel; (ii) recovery of gt;98% of its mechanical, electrical, and chemica ...

SUMMARY Arboviruses present a constant threat to human and animal health worldwide. They are transmitted by hematophagous arthropods, primarily mosquitoes. One of them, Aedes aegypti, is the primary vector of several widely spread arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and West Nile viruses, and for most of them, human-licensed vaccines do not exist or are suboptimal. These pathogens are transmitted int ...

Touchstone produced carbon foam (CFOAM), graphite foam (GFOAM) composite core tool materials for evaluating heat transfer characteristics. In addition a high in-plane heat spreader was evaluated along with fiber reinforced bismaleimide (BMI) composite that is the tool surface.nbsp; The heat source were 300 and 600 W flexible heaters manufactured from glass reinforced silicone and polyimide.nbsp; T ...

ABSTRACT Suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in the US and suicide rates have increased steadily over the last twenty years. Currently, the most effective treatment options are cognitive behavioral therapies for suicide prevention (CBT-SP), which have been shown to reduce both suicide attempt (SA) risk and suicide ideation (SI). However, access to these treatments is limited because ther ...

The Bifunctional Regenerative Electrochemical Air Transformation for Human Environments (BREATHE) for life support and habitation is part of the atmosphere revitalization equipment necessary to provide and maintain a livable environment within the pressurized cabin of crewed spacecraft. nbsp;BREATHE is a low-power electrodialysis-based concept for regenerating a liquid carbon dioxide scrubbing mat ...

We are working on a new approach to treating acute arthritis based on a common pathway in the cellular infiltrates that damage bones and joints. Inflammatory arthritis disables thousands of people each year. It occurs in children and adults, after trauma and infections but most cases are idiopathic. Millions of adults live with chronic RA, which has similar features. Inflammatory arthritis often r ...

The key objective of the Phase II Sequential project is to develop and demonstrate a fully-autonomous,nbsp;large-scale hydrogen recovery and compression system that can be used as a modular building block to reclaim and compress a substantial portion of SSCrsquo;s hydrogen. Specific goals for the Phase II Sequential program effort are:Improve in-cell and stack water management, along with flow dis ...

Project Summary/Abstract – The EPA maintains a Toxics Release Inventory of andgt;650 toxic chemicals that are disposed or released from andgt;20,000 industrial sites in the United States, while HHS and USDA maintain a list of over 60 select agents and toxicants that pose a severe risk to human, animal, and plant health. These compounds represent only a fraction of the known and unknown environme ...

The goal of this fast track STTR proposal is to expand buprenorphine maintenance therapy for opioiddependent patientsOvermillion people in the US are addicted to opiatesProviding effective agonist therapymethadone or buprenorphinecoupled with behavioral counseling greatly improves outcomesreduces morbidityand reduces societal costsMethadone maintenance treatment has been limited due to complex sta ...