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Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of usespecially those who work in certain industriessuch as petroleum extraction and refinery facilitiesmining industryand fertilizer factoriesVarious sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the needbut a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple chemical pollut ...

Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of us, especially those who work in certain industries, such as petroleum extraction and refinery facilities, mining industry, and fertilizer factories. Various sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the need, but a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple che ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our long-term research goal is to develop an ophthalmic, nanofiber-based, biodegradable device that will provide extended release of therapeutic agents to the posterior segment of the eye via transscleral and intravitr eal approaches. This platform device will address the major technical problem in the treatment of posterior eye diseases (diabetic retinopathy, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is focused on the development of a simple and sensitive technology for the detection of CpG methylation in CpG islands of human cancer cells. CpG islands are short genomic segments in the promoter regio ns of most human genes that are enriched in the dinucleotide CpG. CpG islands are unmethylated in normal tissues but become progressively more ...

Use of a new noninvasive test for the accurate early detection of preeclampsia is proposed as a tool to screen women during early stages of pregnancy. Preeclampsia affects 10% of the 4 million pregnancies in the U.S. each year and is the leading cause of maternal and neonatal medical complications and death. There is currently no means of detecting preeclampsia prior to onset of clinical symptoms ...

ABSTRACT Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is characterized by a disorganized activation of the atrium leading to impaired cardiac function and more serious complications like embolic stroke, worsening heart failure, and increased mortality. AE affects 9% of the U.S. population (2% younger than 65) and contributes to 750,000 hospitalizations and 130,000 deaths per year. There is a clear unmet clinical need ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project, will investigate manufacturing of shims and cold plates from ultra high thermal conductivity composites for thermal management of wide band gap active component in T/R modules for S-band and X-band radar. This materials based design approach will utilize ultra high conductivity Diamond/Aluminum and Diamond/Copper materials made by MER. To pr ...

FINDING AND DISABLING A BALLISTIC MISSILE IN FLIGHT REQUIRES THE COORDINATION OF MANY, TIGHTLY INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS. TRADITIONALLY, SUCH SYSTEMS ARE DESIGNED AS INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS WITH CLEARLY DEFINED INTERFACES, SO THAT THERE IS A CLEAR SEPARATION BETWEEN MODULE AND CLIENT. SUCH SYSTEMS PASS DATA TO EACH OTHER BUT DO NOT OTHERWISE COLLABORATE IN THE OVERALL SYSTEM GOALS. THEY ALSO A ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We intend on researching, testing, and constructing the world's first completely logic-driven actuarial acupuncture database software, distributing it on Personal Computers, Handheld Devices (Palmpilot (r)), and as an Internet Application based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory. Our research and products will provide health care professionals and ...

THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE ABILITY OF A COMPUTER BASED LEARNING AID TO ADAPT TO THE INDIVIDUAL, LEARNING DISABLED CHILD BY CHANGING THE MANNER IN WHICH IT PRESENTS SUBJECT MATTER. THE ABILITY OF COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS TO QUICKLY ADAPT, WITHLITTLE OR NO EXTERNAL INSTRUCTION, TO DIFFERING SITUATIONS, OFFERS CONSIDERABLE PROMISE FOR THE LEARNING DISABLED. THESE CHILDREN TYPICALLY REQUIRE HIGHLY PERSON ...