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PROJECT SUMMARY Cardiac valve repair or replacement is indicated when progression of degenerative disease or bacterial infection of the native valve results in valvular dysfunction, thereby impacting cardiac output. Both procedures require the use of a woven or knitted polyester material with an internal reinforcement (Teflon, silicone or metal) to either stabilize the native valve (annuloplasty r ...

ABSTRACT: Current composite USAF platforms suffer damage during media blast stripping operations. This is a pervasive issue, with repair being laborious and costly, a material solution is needed to fill in existing damages to the composite skin and provide a protective barrier against future aggregate blasting. NanoSperse proposes to develop a spray-on, flexible, highly erosion resistant polymer ...

Military network environments will be subject to both internal and external threats for the foreseeable future. Internal threats to cyber networks from U.S. personnel receive little attention in comparison to external threats; yet, the consequences can be even more devastating. The lack of tools for understanding insider threat, analyzing risk mitigation alternatives, and communicating results e ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An estimated 5.4 million Americans had Alzheimer's disease in 2012 and a 50% increase in this number is expected by 2030. The majority of these patients (70%) will live at home where they receive 75% of their care frominformal caregivers, unpaid individuals such as family members, friends, and neighbors. These caregivers provide valuable services, often a ...

Busek Co. Inc. and Stanford University propose to develop and test an advanced high power plasma propulsion concept referred to here as a Coaxial High EnerGy Thruster, or CHENG thruster.  The thruster is first and foremost a propulsive device.  However, because the device is pulsed, compact, and efficient the plasma beam is highly condensed and energetic. For this reason, the thruster may also b ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a compact, cost-effective Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier at 263 GHz with 50 W of peak power, 5 W of continuous wave power and 5% instantaneous bandwidth for application in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) enhanced solid-state and solution-state NMR and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. With DNP, the inherently smal ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Retransfusion of a patient's shed blood during cardiopulmonary bypass is attractive since it reduces the need for allogeneic transfusion, minimizes cost, and decreases transfusion related morbidity. Heterologous transfusions are linked to increased long term mortality after cardiac surgery. However, brain damage after cardiac surgery with retransfusion of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transcutaneous electrical stimulation applications involving high numbers of stimulated muscles have been an area of growing interest in recent years. customKYnetics has been approached in recent months by research groups and stimulation application developers requesting high channel count stimulation devices for use in their spinal cord injury rehabilitation ...

ABSTRACT: In the new global theater of war, there is a critical and highly urgent need to reliably detect, identify, and track high priority targets such as those related to terrorist networks and Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear/Explosive (CBRNE) threats. The specialized bio-taggants being developed by the Air Force could provide a transformational technology to help detect and covertly ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Culture-Free Platform for Rapid Pathogen Identification Project Summary Sepsis is a one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the US, with more than 751,000 confirmed cases occurring every year and 210,000 mortalities. This high mortality rate (~30%) means that nearly 600 patients a day succumb to sepsis-related infections. In addition to the hu ...