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PROJECT OBJECTIVES: COMPLETE TESTING OF FIRE-RESISTANCE AND STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF PAPER AND PAPERBOARD TREATED WITH ARNOX FIRE RETARDANT, DEVELOP PRODUCTION SCALE APPLICATION METHODS. ARNOX IS A PATENTED CONDENSED PHASE SYSTEM, LOW SMOKE FIRE RETARDANT RENDERS PAPER AND PAPERBOARD ESSENTIALLY NON-COMBUSTIBLE. DECOMPOSITION AND OUTGASSING IS MATERIALLY SLOWED. ASTM TESTS DEMONSTRATE TREATED P ...

DESCRIPTION:(provided by applicant) The goal of this project is to develop a novel inhibitor of methane formation in ruminant animals. Currently, monensin, a relatively nonspecific antibiotic, is widely used in the livestock industry. Monensin increases agricultural productivity by decreasing methane and increasing propionate production; however, it also inhibits ...

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract verbatim): A new method for deflecting electron beams using electric fields has been proposed. It is published and patented. Basically, electrostatic deflection was predicted to be best done with the beam injected offset from the symmetrical center line between the two oppositely charged plates. If correct, with this invention i ...

The purpose of this project is to design, develop, and evaluate an Intergrated Media Intervention (IMI) that will assist teachers, school counselors, group facilitators and related personnel to foster the development of age-appropriate social problem-solving skills by children and adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders such as ADHD, ODD, and CD. The IMI is a package of classroom implement ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Children with ADHD are at significant risk for failing to complete high school and as many as 25 percent develop chronic patterns of antisocial behavior that persist into adulthood. Primary care providers--the practitioners who evaluate and treat the vast majority of children with ADHD--often fail to uti ...

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): DB-67 is a promising new silatecan (silylcamptothecin) analog that displays superior blood stability relative to the FDA-approved camptothecin congeners, topotecan and CPT- 11. DB-67 also exhibits a high degree of anti-cancer potency both in vitro and in vivo. DB-67 is a highly lipophilic camptothecin and active lactone levels pe ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Protein-protein interactions are central to the process of signal transduction in biological systems. Transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase (RTKs) play important roles in many aspects of cell growth and behavior. Activated RTKs, including one of the well-studied PDGF-beta receptor, have been shown to bind more than a doze ...

DESCRIPTION: Our goal is to develop a diagnostic assay to identify carriers of the hereditary colon cancer (HNPCC) trait using blood samples as the input specimen. In Phase 1 we will demonstrate the assay's feasibility, showing: 1) requisite predictive value, 2) practicality (easy, rapid, inexpensive), and 3) adaptability to automated technologies. Our assay should det ...

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The overall goal of the proposed program is to provide military personnel with a hand-held analyzer capable of detecting chemical and biological agents, as well as toxic industrial chemicals. This will be accomplished through the use of a newnanocomposite material (metal-doped sol-gel) that enhances analyte specific Raman signals sufficiently to allow identifying and quantifying agents at relevan ...