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DESCRIPTION: The research (Phase II) is designed to complete the initial validity (development stage) research on an intrafamilial child sexual abuse screening scale constructed from items in the Sexual Child Abuse Potential (SCAP) Inventory, so that the Inventory can be released for selected types of field use. Seven studies (Phase II) build upon preliminary s ...

Military aircraft are largely constructed from special aluminum alloys, which typically have secondary precipitate phases that substantially improve mechanical strength. However, these regions also promote corrosion in such common environmental conditionsas acid rain, saltwater, and thermal cycling. The problem is significant enough that the U.S. Air Force expends approximately $1 billion per year ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the research (Phase I and Phase II) is to design (Phase I) and to evaluate in a clinical trial (Phase II), a time-limited, theoretically and empirically based secondary prevention program (Thoughtful Parenting: Moment to Moment, TPMM) to reduce risk factors associated with the ubiquitous problem of child physical abuse. Specifically, the ...

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): Latino communities have been disproportionately impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially Latino gay and bisexual men and transgender persons (GBT). The stigma towards homosexuality and HIV/AIDS has been proposed as one of the underlying factors leading to unprotected sex, hence, to HIV and AIDS. The stigma towards homosexuality and HIV/AIDS may put individ ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objectives of this study are to develop a new portable rehabilitation device with intelligent control to stretch an ankle joint with spasticity and/or contracture repeatedly to reduce spasticity/contracture in neurologically impaired patients. It will stretch the joint to true extreme plantar- and dorsi-flexion until a specified peak resistance torque is r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chicago PT is developing rehabilitation robotics to help clinicians provide more intensive functional retraining of overground walking, post-stroke. Chicago PT's concept is to build devices that work with the clinician rather than replacing the clinician, in order to retain the clinician's skilled manual connection with the patient in all its important aspects: ...