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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Seasonal influenza flu virus an NIAID category C priority pathogen causes widespread infection resulting in at least million cases of severe illness and deaths worldwide Young children and elderly or immunocompromised individuals are typically at greater risk of severe illness or death from influenza Newly emerging strains can result ...

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 ...

A general framework for course of action (COA) recommender systems consists of four primary functional areas : (1) mapping human entered COA into formalized, machine readable knowledge representation; (2) deconstructing COA decision models into relevant features or variables of interest; (3) gathering and routing intelligence related to those features to specific warfighters evaluating COA; and (4 ...

The goal of this project is to develop processing capabilities for high-strength and ultra-conductive wires to improve power-to-weight ratios and energy efficiency of electrical military systems. The first objective of this Phase I project is to build up quantitative microstructure-property models to guide the development of electrical and thermal conductive carbon nanotubes (CNTs) modified coppe ...

ABSTRACT: The ability to obtain time-resolved, direct wall shear stress measurement is an important asset to aerodynamic research, flow control and to enhance the fundamental understanding of the turbulent boundary layer. Due to a lack of reliable and affordable skin friction sensors, existing indirect methods are used to measure wall shear stress but their usefulness is limited since prior kno ...

3D printed phased array antennas (PAA) would be more rugged, lighter and take a variety of shapes and including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wings. Printing antennas, passives and interconnects has been demonstrated in 3D printing. Using printed electronic approaches for printing Field Effect Transistors (FET) has been demonstrated and including printing switches in the GHz regime. The challenge ...

Innovative Veterinary Medicine, Inc. will conceptualize and design an anesthesia ventilator named DolVent specifically designed to meet the unique physiologic requirements of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions. The significance of the DolVent ventilator will be its ability to properly support normal respiratory function in anesthetized animals using ventilation modes that mimic ...

QuNav and Illinois Institute of Technology propose the development of local-radio carrier phase methodology mechanization. Phase I will develop carrier phase tracking approach; and, precise positioning mechanization. Carrier phase of CDMA signals (such as pseudolites) will be tracked by utilizing the GPS receiver design to minimize changes for legacy receivers. For TDMA radios (such as Link 16), o ...

The increasing penetration of MEMs devices into the commercial market has lead to an increasing demand for micro-sized electrical energy storage devices to interface with a support them. Electrochemical double layer capacitors hold significant promise as

ABSTRACT: UltraHiNet, LLC (UHN) proposes to develop a prototype next generation tracking architecture which exploits wide area motion imagery (WAMI) systems and leverages projected heterogeneous high performance computing (HPC) architectures for on-board and ground-based processing of vehicle and dismount targets for urban surveillance. Our research team will focus on the following goals: 1. Dev ...