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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ovarian cancer is the fifth most leading cause of cancer related deaths in women in the US It has been observed that the cancer relapses within relatively short periods of time even after the surgery and chemotherapy Therefore immunotherapeutic strategies may serve as an alternative to control the recurrence or progression of ovarian cancer Oral vaccines ar ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Intracerebral hemorrhage ICH is a major public health problem with highest mortality rate of all stroke subtypes and long term disability Since there are no available FDA approved therapies for ICH it is of enormous importance to establish effective treatment for this medical condition Following ICH the deposited blood is damaging initially via compression ...

The Office of Nuclear Energy, fuel cycle research and development program, requires improved radioisotope detectors for spent fuel rod monitoring and process control. Processing spent fuel rods releases large amounts of the fission by-product gas krypton-85 (Kr-85). This beta emitting radioisotope gas has a 10.7 year half-life and must be captured and stored for up to 100 years. The health hazards ...

There is an ongoing effort to replace high activity radioactive sources that could pose a risk for use as terrorist weapons with non-radioisotope based technologies. Currently radioactive sources serve a number of critical needs including the treatment and diagnosis of disease, inspection and certification of critical mechanical structures, the sterilization of food and medical products, ...

At present, CdZnTe is considered the material of choice for efficient, room temperature gamma-radiation detection systems used for the detection and identification of radionuclides. Despite the advances in CdZnTe materials technology during the last decade, the major impediments in the progress of - ray detection technology are the low yield of device quality materials and detectors, and the limit ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR (Phase 1) project begins the translation of untapped scientific findings into an improved software tool for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities. The project evaluates a package to train teachers to use software called the Pivotal Skills Trainer and examines whether doing so improves preschoolers' functional communic ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PowerPoint(R) multimedia software is ubiquitous in our schools but its capacity for teaching children with autism spectrum and related disorders barely has been realized. This STTR (Phase I) project will begin to change this state of affairs by researching and developing empirically derived multimedia teaching tools. Encouraged by early-stage feasibility work, ...

76164-The economical production of natural gas from conventional and low permeability gas resources requires additional advances in exploration and production technologies. In particular, diagnostic and imaging technologies are needed to assess the effectiveness of new extraction techniques related to drilling, completion, and stimulation. This project will develop three-dimensional, multicompon ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The main objective of this project is to develop membranes with surfaces tailored for specific affinity for a particular protein or nucleic acid molecule. These 'smart' membranes will be used in the next generation of high throughput Layered Expression Scanning (LES) applications, such as tissue screening and analytical blotting (northern and western). The hear ...