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An interactive application that employs social interactions to teach key social conventions, including appropriate responses, reacting to body language and facial expressions, and the ability to ask for help to facilitate functioning in society

Processing of vegetable oils is complicated by the need to remove free fatty acids. Washing with caustic is a viable process but is inefficient because fatty acids and caustic form soaps which cause emulsions. These emulsions cause a yield loss of 1-1.5% or 160-240 Million lb/yr of soybean oil alone. The purpose of this project is to improve yields in vegetable oil processing with a novel non-disp ...

Formosan termites are cellulose eating subterranean insects that build colonies in the soil and cause billions of dollars of damage every year. They invade buildings from beneath by cracks in the foundation or by constructing mud tubes over concrete foundation walls to reach wood. Anti-termite treatment under and around building foundations with persistent pesticides was effective and long-lived. ...

In natural reproduction, the sex ratio is approximately 50:50. In the dairy industry, only female animals (and very few male stud bulls) are productive and most male calves are slaughtered with little financial return to the farmers. This natural limitation costs the dairy industry billions of dollars around the globe. Selecting sex of offspring has long been a dream in the livestock industry. The ...

Conventional watering uses hose or boom irrigation systems to apply excess water to ensure complete coverage of the entire crop to the point of full saturation of the root medium. This method is costly in terms of water and nutrients. Water falls outside the area of the pots and is lost to the environment. Excess water may leach up to 75% of the fertilizer from potted plants. It may be necessary t ...

The impact of acute and chronic disease via exposure to pathogens and chemical contaminants in food as well as financial losses incurred from such contaminants is significant. In an effort to increase the safety of foods, many intervention strategies have been developed, though none have been successful for uniform reduction of diverse food-derived chemical and biological contaminants in foods. Oz ...

Development of a "rendering" technique to allow people with visual impairments or dyslexia to acess the internet easily using any telphone and without using a computer

Investigative odor research work to date indicates that with increasing distance from high-density swine feeder operations the residual odor is increasingly caused by a limited number of high priority odorous volatile chemicals. These character defining odorants appear to be dominated by compounds of relatively low volatility and high polarity. Recent work suggests that, as previously shown for hi ...

Study of the development of a comprehensive web-based audit, certification, and remediation system for accessibility of web sites

1. CSF is a highly contagious viral disease of swine. 2. The US is free of this disease; however, the disease is widespread in most islands of the Caribbean Sea, and in Mexico, and Central and South America. 3. Either enhancement of presently available tests or development of newer tests is of utmost importance. 4. The US must be prepared to protect its swine industry from the threat of either ina ...