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NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: What can be done to ensure a high level of water quality for wildlife, agriculture, and humans around the world? More and more wells, whether they are for water, oil and gas, or coal-bed methane, are deeper than ever and are at risk from surface pollution and inter-aquifer mixing. Cement, long known as the only alternative, has been shown to have serious drawbacks. This prop ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) affects a wide range of agriculturally important animals. The economic impact of an outbreak of VSV can be quite large due to its effect on animals, but more importantly, because at early stages of the disease, it is nearly indistinguishable from foot and mouth disease virus (FMD). Reliable detection of VSV is complicated by the existence of ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Economic impacts due to coldwater disease (CWD) have dramatically increased in recent years at public and private aquaculture facilities and CWD is the number one disese problem in the commercial rainbow trout industry in Idaho. In the United States, antibiotics available for the therapeutic treatment of fish with this disease are very limited and not expected to increase. V ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Economic impacts due to coldwater disease (CWD) have dramatically increased in recent years at public and private aquaculture facilities and CWD is the number one disese problem in the commercial rainbow trout industry in Idaho. In the United States, antibiotics available for the therapeutic treatment of fish with this disease are very limited and not expected to increase. V ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Cereal straw is an abundantly available by-product of agricultural activities, with inherently attractive mechanical and geometric attributes for use as reinforcement in cement products This project undertakes integrated development activities towards processing and incorporation of cereal straw in cement-bonded boards suiting exterior siding and interior tile backerboard ap ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Cereal straw is an abundantly available by-product of agricultural activities, with inherently attractive mechanical and geometric attributes for use as reinforcement in cement products This project undertakes integrated development activities towards processing and incorporation of cereal straw in cement-bonded boards suiting exterior siding and interior tile backerboard ap ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The fire hazard in many forests is increased by small diameter trees which are costly to remove. The technology described in this proposal will allow an operator to monitor and control a number of small, unmanned vehicles. These vehicles will reduce the cost of removing small diameter trees and provide an effective tool for reducing the fire hazard in many forests.

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Many rural Native American communities suffer high rates of chronic disease related to contemporary diets, including the Kalispel Tribe. Native bulbs originally used as staples in these communities, are scarce due to the loss of indigenous ways of life and traditional uses of native lands. Phase I research will determine whether or not the dormancy period of native bulbs can ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Antibiotic growth promoters are used in diets for newly weaned pigs, and may increase the risk of transmitting antibiotic-resistant bacteria from livestock to the human food chain . It is anticipated that this experiment will identify natural products that can effectively replace antibiotic growth promoters in diets for newly weaned pigs. If successful, the use of antibiotic ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Small electroplating shops are having difficulty in meeting existing wastewater treatment standards. The problem will get worse, affecting even the larger facilities, when new and more stringent standards are promulgated The purpose of this program is the development and commercialization of an innovative modular treatment system using specially formulated, modified soybean ...