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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a multimodal, psychosocial treatment with demonstrated efficacy in treating borderline personality disorder (BPD). In Phase I, we developed and evaluated a pilot videotape of Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., teaching a DBT emotion regulation skill. Results demonstrated the videotape's efficacy at impa ...

DESCRIPTION: (taken from the abstract) The goal of this Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Application is to build and evaluate a commercial quality orthodontic Headgear Monitoring System that provides a quantitative measure of a patient's headgear use (both time and force). The Headgear Monitoring System consists of a headgear monitor, a communic ...

"This STTR Phase II activity will further develop arrays of micro-discharges and build 3 distinct UV lamp prototypes. Based on our Phase I results where we have succeeded in scaling from ~10 micro-discharges in parallel to 900 emitters on a common chip, wewill build novel lamps for germicidal, diagnostic and processing applications. The arrays will be fabricated using semiconductor processing me ...

The Phase I effort demonstrated viability of developing a new chemical propulsion system on a scale that is suitable for microsatellites. A preliminary micropropulsion system complete with a high Isp propellant, catalyst, combustion chamber, and exhaustnozzle was outlined, and component materials were identified.In the Phase II program Sienna Technologies, Inc., and the University of Washington p ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) offers a non-invasive, non-surgical, bloodless, outpatient treatment for uterine fibroid tumors. These tumors develop in over half of all women, and account for approximately 30 percent of all hysterectomies. This proposal will develop an integrated transvaginal HIFU probe and imaging transducer for fibroid treatment ...

Based on several experimental results during Phase I, MicroEnergy Technologies has analyzed and sequenced the protein that initially leaves Bacillus bacteria that reveals deactivation of spores. We are proposing a unique plasma mechanism:(1) spore membranes are ruptured as seen in SEM micrographs of plasma treated biomaterials,(2) uniform glow discharge noble-gas argon and air plasmas produced di ...

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is an SAE standard language for describing the software and hardware architecture of performance-critical real-time systems. In addition, the AADL standard allows the definition of annexes, i.e., formal extensions to the standard language to enhance the design specifications of hardware or software components. We propose to leverage the AADL la ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Otoreflectance (OR) is a new class of hearing-test instruments utilizing acoustic signals presented and recorded in the ear canal. OR instruments address the following limitations in existing instruments to screen and diagnose middle-ear function: (1) detection of otitis media, (2) prediction of conductive hearing loss, (3) detection of middle-ear dysfunction i ...