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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): ASAP-YS: Adaptive Screening and Assessment of Psychopathology. Project Summary: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I proposal will develop and test a new computerized adaptive self-assessment measure: the Adaptive Screening and Assessment of Psychopathology-Youth Self-informant (ASAP-YS). This is a computer-assisted self-interview (A-CASI) fo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recreational use of prescription opioids among adolescents is a significant and growing public health concern and has been referred to as an emerging epidemic in the U.S. Abuse of prescription opioids among adolescents has been estimated to have increased approximately 542 percent in the past decade, making prescription opioids the second most commonly abused ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) proposal responds to program announcement PAS-06-131 entitled, Applications of Imaging and Sensor Technologies for Clinical Aging Research . The purpose of the announcemen t is to improve imaging methods for measuring age-related changes in regulation of complex physiologic systems, including responses to stimuli ...

The development of fast and robust learning models which can work in non-stationary environments or scenarios with rapidly changing goals is becoming a critical task in both military and civilian applications. The objective of this proposal is to develop new mathematical/computational models based on cognitive science principles that are capable of rapid learning for command and control problems. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Analysis of DNA is important in many applications including forensics, agriculture, pathogen detection, diagnostic genetic testing and biomedical research. For the vast majority of genomic DNA analysis, chemical amplif ication methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a target sequence are used to increase the amount of the genetic fragm ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with abnormal accumulation of amyloid-2 peptides (A2) in brain due mainly to faulty clearance. Rapid clearance from brain across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is regulated by the l ow density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1). LRP consists of four ligand binding domains of which domains II (LRP-II) and IV (LRP- ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Web-Based Wellness Policy Toolkit for Obesity Prevention in Middle Schools The childhood obesity epidemic is escalating with significant adverse health and economic impact. We propose to develop and test a web-based too lkit designed to facilitate implementation of required wellness policies (WP) in middle schools as well as a commercialization strategy for und ...

ABSTRACT: Most cross-domain information flows require some human intervention to ensure that the requirements for releasability are met. Such intervention is expensive and slow, and can form a bottleneck in operations. Unfortunately, fully automated sharing of information across security domain boundaries is also fraught with difficulties due to problems with identifying releasable information, a ...

ABSTRACT: Corvid Technologies, in partnership with Clemson University"s combustion modeling group, is pleased to offer a physical sub-model evaluation and development plan for turbulent combustion applications relevant to the Air Force. We will leverage the computational resources and combustion modeling expertise from both parties to evaluate the current state of combustion modeling and then tra ...

ABSTRACT: This project addresses the need for high-efficiency broad-spectrum PV cells. The proposed original PV design is based on quantum dots with built-in charge (Q-BIC), where the dot charging is realized by selective doping of dot medium. The preliminary data demonstrate that the charged dots placed in a single p-n-junction strongly enhance harvesting and conversion of sub-bandgap photons an ...