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TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: The objective of this project is to research the technical feasibility of designing a software tool “Permit Wizard” that will automate the process for aquamarine permit application submittal, review, approval/disapproval and issue (including collection of fees). Aquaculture producers are currently faced with slow, complex, and often confusing permitting processes that must ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: The Hybrid Quadrotor concept, developed by Latitude Engineering, combines the high power density of electric motors and propellers with the high energy density of a piston engine and liquid fuel. Together, each technology enables maximum performance in HQ's two regimes of flight: the electric system is responsible for lift while hovering (high power, short endurance), and the g ...

New therapies, designed to enhance anti-tumor immunity are based on the blockade of the checkpoint components, either PD-1 on immune cells or PD-L1 on tumor cells. This strategy, while being spectacularly successful in some patients for some cancers, fails for many other patients. The expression of PD-L1 is highly dynamic and its prevalence within tumors can vary significantly over time. The curre ...

The goal of this fast track STTR proposal is to expand buprenorphine maintenance therapy for opioiddependent patientsOvermillion people in the US are addicted to opiatesProviding effective agonist therapymethadone or buprenorphinecoupled with behavioral counseling greatly improves outcomesreduces morbidityand reduces societal costsMethadone maintenance treatment has been limited due to complex sta ...

Approximatelymillion Americans suffer from asthmawhich leads to aboutdeaths per yearand is responsible for estimated annual total direct and indirect costs of $billionDespite the existing treatments for asthmapredominantly combinations of inhaledagonists and corticosteroidsCSsthere remains a significant unmet medical need for new therapies which address two key issuesapproximatelyof patients are i ...

Noise induced hearing lossNIHLis the most common occupational disease for which no clinically effective drug is availableSince NIHL involves oxidation linked loss of sensory hair cells and auditory neurons in the cochleathere is a need for potent and effective antioxidants that offer protection to these tissuesIn preliminary studies we have observed that the orally administered multifunctional ant ...

Project Summary A research plan is proposed to engineer goats that produce fully human immunoglobulinThese animals will be evaluated as a candidate platform system for production of both targeted therapeutic immunoglobulin as well as reagent antibodies for standards and controls of serological assays of human clinical samplesPrevious studies have demonstrated that ungulates such as cattle can prod ...

Abstract Currentlyclinically used drug abuse medications exist for treatment of addiction to opiatesalcoholand nicotinebut not cocaineThe objective of the proposed project is to test the hypothesis that the partial kappa agonist PPLcan be effective as a pharmacotherapy for treatment of cocaine abuseBecause of chronic drug induced changes in the kappa opioid receptor systemkappa receptor directed c ...

Project Summary Human babesiosis is a malaria like multisystem disease caused primarily by Babesia microtian emerging apicomplexan parasite that infects and develops within human erythrocytesThe parasite is transmitted to humans by the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and can also be introduced through blood transfusionInfection can cause flu like symptomsand severe infection can be fatalin particula ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Clinical ChallengeIn acute traumain the civilian settinghemorrhage is the second most leading cause of deathIn the military settingof potentially preventable deaths are caused by hemorrhage due to traumaof civilian andof military mortality caused by traumatic hemorrhage occurs pre hospitalizationAdverse outcome in trauma patients during prehospital resuscitation is due to ...