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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 ...

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 ...

Terahertz plasma wave detectors and emitters utilizing the high-density 2-D electrons in submicron AlGaInN/GaN-based Quantum Well Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors (QW-HFETs)with high-sensitivity levels for the sensing of terahertz (THz) frequency electromagnetic radiation are proposed and developed.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The high cost ($0.8 - $1.7 billion) and long time frames (about 13 years) required to introduce new drugs to the market contributes substantially to spiraling health care costs and diseases persisting without effective cures. A major factor is the high attrition rate of new compounds failing due to toxicity identified years into clinical trials. This particular ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is associated with a number of serious neurological conditions. Its successful management yields improved outcome for patients, yet ICP can only be measured by placing a device within the cranium through a hole in the skull (yielding invasive ICP, or ilCP), a procedure associated with significant risks and requiring a neuros ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Phase I of this proposal, products were developed necessary for disseminating CAST, an effective indicated suicide prevention program. One of the products is The CAST Trainer Guide. Fundamental to CAST is skills training within the context of group support. The training of CAST Leaders therefore focuses on the acquisition of leader behaviors that foster skil ...

The objectives of Phase II are to provide an advanced prototype 24-channel, portable surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensor system that is capable of simultaneously detecting 1)bacteria [spores (killed B. anthrasis) and vegative (killed F. tulare

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the collaboration between the USC and Southern Sun BioSystems is to create a plant breeding and remediation technology-development center which would supply hardware, protocols for breeding-selection and mass production of elite plants for nurseries and remediation businesses, with licensing and tracking mechanisms for protecting intellect ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neural prosthetic devices are artificial extensions to the body that restore or supplement nervous system function that was lost during disease or injury. Particular success has been realized in the cochlear prostheses development. In contemporary cochlear implants, however, the injected electric current is spread widely along the scala tympani and across turns ...