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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Groundwater is one of the most important freshwater resources on this planet. However, contaminated groundwater has become an ever-increasing problem in the United State. Among the many types of contaminants, Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs) are a major concern and a potential human health threat for those who use groundwater for the supply of drinking water. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to design, fabricate, and test a compact, low-cost, confocal reflectance microscope capable of producing images of skin with quality comparable to those of current commercial instruments. The new design uses a scanner concept in which the optical path is passed through two prisms, which are rotated about the beam axis, result ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Health and Retirement Study is one of the world's most important data resources for the study of aging. The basic longitudinal survey instrument has been supplemented with data from a variety of other sources including Social Security Administration records containing the detailed earnings history of the respondent. Under current HRS protocols, the use of t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the proposed work is to aid in preventing a major public health problem that is now referred to under the umbrella term, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). These disorders result from a woman drinking alcohol during her pregnancy and include both physical and mental birth defects. Although it is entirely preventable, maternal al ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are more than 1 million burns each year in the US, resulting in 700,000 emergency department visits, 45,000 hospital admissions, and 4,500 deaths. Burns are dynamic injuries characterized by progressive extension of the injury over the first few days. Progression of partial thickness burns to full thickness injuries is associated with increases in mortali ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project represents the first-ever comprehensive investigation to research, develop and introduce innovative application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for automatic identification, tracking and condition-monitoring of blood and blood products across the entire transfusion medicine supply chain, from the point of collection, through blo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are two leading causes of blindness in the Western countries. What these two diseases have in common is ocular neovascularization (angiogenesis), which is also involved in other retinopathies. Neovascularization is mainly caused by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) that is produced by retin ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is becoming widely recognized as a disease with high prevalence and co-morbidity. Making psychosocial and pharmacological treatments more available is a high priority for future studies and clinical trials. In order to ensure that these treatments are evaluated both for safety and for efficacy, a robust, valid, and practica ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The development of resistance to chemotherapy represents an adaptive biological response by tumor cells that leads to treatment failure and patient relapse. There is an urgent need to overcome this problem if treatments are to be successful in eradicating tumors. Tumor cell irreversible growth arrest (senescence) is an early cellular response to the stress of e ...

Abstract Atrial fibrillationAFprevalence is estimated toof the general population in the United StatesA shockingtoaccording to studiesof patients with AF are unaware of their diagnosissilent AFMost AF patients will suffer from congestive heart failure or and develop thromboembolic events leading to a dramatic reduction of patientsquality of lifeand a significant consumption of health care resource ...