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Tall towers and foundations for modern offshore and land-based wind turbines are too large to transport over roads or rail due to their extremely large dimensions. Existing “one-off” on-site construction methods are too expensive, and are too slow for manufacturing foundations and towers in the large numbers needed, especially for offshore components manufactured in ports with limited lay-down ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT More people die every year from kidney disease than breast or prostate cancerKidney transplantation is life saving but is limited by a shortage of organ donors and an unacceptably high donor organ discard rateThe decision to use or discard a donor kidney relies heavily on manual quantitation of key microscopic findings by pathologistsA major limitation of this microscopic ...

Establish means and methods to perform comprehensive mechanical characterization using miniature tensile specimens for highly irradiated materials. The solution should aid in dramatic reduction of irradiated material waste and provide feasibility for easy incorporation and remote operation within hot cell environments. Based on previous research, an Advanced Mechanical Test (AMT) test bed incorpor ...

Quantifying atmospheric aerosol, clouds and precipitation processes are critical needs for understanding and interpreting Earth’s changing energy budget, is a DOE objective, and is of broader benefit to the public. Specifically, the formation of ice in the atmosphere depends on the nature and abundance of ice nucleating particles, and has major implications for precipitation and cloud interactio ...

Psychostimulant abuse is a significant public health problemwithmillion Americans reporting cocaine use andmillion reporting methamphetamine useCurrentlythere are no FDA approved pharmacotherapies to treat stimulant dependencePrevious cocaine medications development efforts have focused on small molecule drugs as they can readily enter the brainThe lack of brain penetrance by large molecules was s ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Melanoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and is estimated to account for overdeaths inin the United States aloneAlthough highly curable when detected earlytheyear survival rates decline precipitously for patients with regionaland metastaticmelanoma indicating a lack of efficacy of conventional therapiesand a strong need for novel therapies for this patient populationIn respons ...

NuPeak Therapeutics Incis a biotechnology start up companyC corporationdesigned to deliver a first inclass small molecule kinase inhibitorThe present Project is aimed at an inhibitor for treatment of breast cancerwhich remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the U Sdespite current therapeutic approachesIn that contextwe identified a novel typeimmune response that activates mitogen ac ...

AbstractNoise is the number one occupational and environmental hazardand noiseinduced hearing lossNIHLis one common form of sensorineural hearing deficitonly second to age related hearing lossCurrently no drug preventing NIHL is approved by the United States Food and Drug AdministrationFDAOne major challenge for the introduction of such interventions is the need to identify appropriate human popul ...

The Point PartialA Ratcheting Prosthetic Partial FingerUsing Advanced Rapid Manufacturing Technology Project SummaryAbstract The goal of the proposed project is to develop a purely mechanicalratcheting prosthetic partial fingerthe Point Partialwhichhas an industry leading strength to weight ratiocan be operated unilaterallyone handedoffers anatomical rotation and flexion around the patient s proxi ...

There is increasing interest in the use of biomarkers in clinical drug developmentwith much of thest Century Cures Act focused on encouraging this approachIdeallybiomarkers could provide and acute and objective read out of drug mechanism of actionpharmacodynamic biomarkersor prediction of later clinical benefit or harmsurrogate outcome measureHoweververy few biomarkers have been validated for rout ...