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DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): Psoriasis is a common, inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by hyper-proliferation of keratinocytes. A variety of antipsoriatic therapies are available, however, due to problems with side effects and variability in clinical response, intense clinical and commercial interest remains in the development of new treatments. Thiaz ...

Wet biomass is a potentially valuable energy resource but it cannot be shipped economically. If wet biomass could be converted to hydrogen, the hydrogen could be used in fuel cells to provide electricity and space heating to farms and other rural facilities. However, the only presently available technology for this conversion, steam reforming, is not economical for small installations. This pro ...

Current research initiataives, including DoD IHPTET and HyTech, DOE ATS, and commercial development, are agressively pursuing significant improvements in combustor performance Optimization typically results in operating regimes for which combustionstability is difficult to maintain. This proposed program continues the novel combustion control and optimization concepts with flexible dual-use appl ...

In a process known as ABE furmentation (acetone, butanol, ethanol), butanol is produced from biomass carbohydrates via fermentation using the bacteria strain Clostridium acetobutylicum. The process involves the uptake of butyric acid while maintaining the bacteria in a solventogenic phase. In this project, the process will be scaled up to produce only butanol and to determine the efficiency of t ...

Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI) and University of Florida (UF) propose to validate and demonstrate designs for biomimetic camouflage systems (

Tailored carbon nanofibers are under development at Florida Atlantic University. These materials exhibit an uncommon double-layer capacitance at high frequencies; this feature makes them desirable for electrochemical capacitor applications. Their power and energy characteristics may be dramatically improved by surface functionalization using processes developed at Inorganic Specialists, Inc. Funct ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have developed and patented (U.S. Pat No. 5,706,830) a new type of closed circuit perfluorocarbon (PFC) liquid ventilator with enhanced capabilities for gas exchange and exudates clearance from the lungs. This system has potential application to rescue of patients in acute respiratory failure and treatment of cystic fibrosis. ...

Two microwave limiters will be built from silicon carbide (SiC) field effect transistors (FETs). The first will operate between 1 and 5 GHz with insertion loss below 0.8 dB. This limiter will protect down stream low-noise amplifiers from exposure to 200 Wcontinuous wave (CW) radiation. The second limiter will operate between 4 and 20 GHz with less than 0.8 dB of insertion loss across the band. It ...

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