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SI2 Technologies proposes to design, model, fabricate and transition wideband tunable multiferroic electronics for advanced RF systems including adaptive Radar, software defined radios and other electronic warfare (EW) applications. Combining novel nanost

Voltage tunable multiferroic materials with strong magnetoelectric coupling provide a unique approach to compact, lightweight and power efficient tunable RF/microwave multiferroic components, such as tunable inductors, filters, phase shifters, etc. The tu

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ebola and Marburg viruses belong to the family Filoviridae and can cause fatal hemorrhagic fevers characterized by widespread tissue destruction with an incubation period of days Because of the safety concerns these viruses are designated as the biosafety level agents Currently there is no effective vaccine or therapeutic treatment against filoviral i ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lassa fever virus LASV and Machupo virus MACV are hemorrhagic fever arenaviruses which are classified as Category A Agents Currently there are no licensed LASV or MACV vaccines and LASV MACV therapy is limited to use of the nucleoside analog ribavirin which is only partially effective and associated with significant side effects The impact of arenavirus ...

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 ...

Effective management of air quality in closed environments is important for the health and performance of military personnel. High concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including aromatics, halocarbons, and aldehydes are present in spacecraft and submarines. Traditional approaches to treat VOCs based on catalytic oxidation or photooxidation are costly, bulky, and not effective at low ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air, especially in closed environments pose a major health threat. There is a critical need to remove these pollutant, and biofiltration is a promising solution to this need. This is a Phase I STTR proposal to develop...

Human-machine teams are increasingly prevalent across the DoD. These teams unite human operators with advanced automated teammates to execute complex, mission-critical tasks. Unfortunately, this collaboration between automated and human teammates can increase operator strain, because operators must complete their own tasks while also monitoring teammates and distributing tasks; one specific strain ...

Project Summary The primary goal of this proposal is to develop implement and evaluate an online module to improve obstetric providersandapos knowledge skills and practices regarding perinatal depression There is a tremendous public health need for addressing this problem as upwards of in women suffer from perinatal depression Left untreated it has deleterious effects on maternal and bi ...

Project Summary Abstract Radiation therapy is one of the primary therapeutic techniques for treating cancer Nearly two thirds of all cancer patients will receive radiation therapy during their illness with an average of radiation treatment episodes Although largely effective radiation therapy like other forms of cancer treatment has difficulty killing hypoxic regions within solid tumors ...