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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Persons with asthma are characterized by hyper-responsive airways, tissue inflammation, airway remodeling and the consequent impaired mucociliary transport. This proposal is based on the hypothesis that the IL-4 and IL-13 activated STAT6 pathway is up-regulated in persons with atopic asthma and subsequently responsible for pathogenic epithelial functional chang ...

We will integrate a deductive logic system with the GUI from the most successful Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) spreadsheet – Excel. We will then deploy this extension as an Excel Add-In. The deductive logic system will be OWL, W3C’s ontology language for the semantic web, extended with OWL’s rule language. This will extend the variety of data that can be displayed in spreadsheet cells to e ...

The objective of the Phase II is to develop an optimal design approach for the creation of a device that will support low bit rate communication over existing in-building wiring infrastructure. The desired content of data transferred was targeted for voice and sensor data. Additionally, each individual unit must be able to connect to one another via an efficient ad-hoc network structure.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using proprietary light adjustable materials technology, Calhoun Vision's mission is to perfect vision in patients undergoing cataract and refractive surgery. The injectable, accommodating light adjustable intraocular lens system proposed to address presbyopia in the cataract patient is comprised of an injectable, gel-filled capsular lens with an adjustable, an ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Refractive surgery is the most rapidly evolving discipline in ophthalmology today, with 1.2 million procedures performed in 2002. The emergence of phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) technology expands the capabilities of refractive surgery to address higher level of myopic and hyperopic corrections than were previously possible. Despite careful preoperative measur ...

Project Summary Today s clinical learning environments do not provide the level of deliberate practicedirect supervisionand rigorous assessment and feedback needed to develop diagnostic reasoning expertiseClinical performance assessment emphasizes learner evaluation over learner developmentlacks rigor and utility for developmental purposesand clinical teachers have expressed particular difficulty ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In this Phase IIB application we propose to commercialize and bring to market EyeArt a fully automated high throughput retinal image analysis based diabetic retinopathy DR screening tool which has been developed and already validated in bench tests on very large real world data by conducting formal clinical trials and integrating it into several clinica ...

AbstractIn this Commercialization Readiness PilotCRPProgram applicationwe propose to commercialize and bring to market EyeArta fully automatedhigh throughputretinal image analysis based diabetic retinopathyDRscreening toolwhich has been developed and already validated in bench tests on very large real world databy developing and executing a market access planconducting a pilot clinical studyand fo ...

Project Summary Abstract Between and million people each year suffer a mild TBI in the US alone Reliable diagnosis and prompt treatments are vital to managing the often serious short and long term sequelae resulting from mild TBI However a reliable objective and accurate method for mild TBI diagnosis outside of a hospital setting and in particular for determining RTP readiness has e ...

In response to a DTRA need, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) has developed a new, low-cost Advanced Radiation Detector (ARAD) and a process to produce it. ARAD is based on thallium-doped cesium iodide scintillator, sensitive to gamma and X-ray energies up to 1 MeV with 3% resolution, and fully compatible with existing mass production technologies. In Phase I POC successfully completed the ARAD ...