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The utility of continuously tracking vehicles in a battlefield has been demonstrated during the Gulf War and other recent conflicts. However, the ability to achieve reliable continuous tracking in many environments will require the use of FOPEN radar andefficient use of sensor resources. In this effort we extend current research to include heterogeneous terrain and apply this model to simulations. ...

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from Applicant's Abstract) Malaria is a disease which affects more than 300 million people each year and is fatal for 1.5 million. The overall objective of this STTR Phase I project is to produce a cGMP malaria vaccine consisting of the 42 kDa C-terminal polypeptide of P. falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP1.42) to be formulated with ...

INTACT is an embedded tool to reduce operator workload un ccomples, information-rich, multi-task operational envbironments as well as an embedded coach for simulation based training. The coach is intended to ensure that a student is able to completesimulated mission task correctly, even when unsupervised during extracurtricular practice sessions.

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract) Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to permanent loss of motor function and control of function below the level of the injury. A significant portion of the loss is due to secondary factors rather than the initial trauma. These factors include increased extracellular concentrations of glutamate which ha ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cocaine abuse remains a grave concern for the American, and increasingly the world, population. As no current therapeutic agents are available to assist cocaine addicts in achieving and maintaining abstinence it is important that new pharmacotherapies be developed. One important question not usually addressed in the development ...

A new class of organic photovoltaics is proposed based on star conducting polymers. These materials will provide superior hole and/or electron transfer properties that determine the ultimate efficiency of the devices. The star polymer architecture employslinear conjugated arms radiating from a centrosymmetric core, and therfore, unlike the linear arms alone, facilitate carrier transport in three d ...

DESCRIPTION Adapted from applicant's abstract): Aging is accompanied by a slow decline in cognitive function, now referred to as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and by accumulation of oxidized proteins and lipids as a result of oxidative stress. Eukarion has discovered a new class of manganese complexes that display both superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase ac ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease afflicts 12-14 million people in the US and in an advanced form, emphysema, disables 2 million and ultimately leads to death. No approved, existing treatment can arrest emphysema's progressive destruction of the lung. Exhale Therapeutics, Inc intends to develop and commercialize aeros ...

The complex biological processing and spinning operations used by the silkworm and spider to create silk fibers lead to a morphology that yields exceptionally high combinations of strength, stiffness, and extensibility. In this proposed STTR effort,Foster-Miller will join with Professor David Kaplan and the Biotechnology Center at Tufts University in an effort to produce films from silk that pos ...

The innovation addressed in this proposal is an advanced composite material that provides a high degree of damping with little sacrifice of stiffness or strength. By integrating the functions of load-bearing and vibration suppression, this high-dampingcomposite material (HDCM) will enable the elimination of parasitic structural components. This simplification will improve the reliability of stru ...