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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

Bacterial contamination in the American beef supply continues to be a serious concern for the meat processing industry. As part of a broad program of improvements in processing procedures and sanitary methods, meat processors in the U.S. and abroad have initiated use of the VerifEYET Carcass Inspection System (eMerge Interactive, Sebastian, FL). The VerifEYE system automatically inspects each beef ...

Marketing and packaging are key steps in introducing a new product to consumers. Delight Foods has done four years of research into the Domestic Production of Vegetable Soybeans in partnership with crop scientists, food scientists and a cooperative of farmers. Now, this team will move into commercialization. This research will develop a powerful brand platform, including the story about North Caro ...

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 ...

Conceputal prototype testing to improve web accessibility and make it cost-effective and attractive to non-technical audiences

During a series of innovative studies in the Department of Poultry Sciences at North Carolina State University (NCSU), the Principal Investigator (PI) and his colleagues isolated and identified a unique feather-degrading bacterium, Bacillus licheniformis PWD-1. Subsequent research elucidated the broad-spectrum keratinase enzyme, the gene encoding keratinase, and potential applications of keratinas ...

The overall objective for this proposal is to prepare the CRAFTi, a portable fluorometer, for commercial production including finalized extraction methods and kits for fortified sugar, rice, flour, and milk. This will include accessories, packaging and a marketing/distribution plan. Specific objectives for this proposal include: 1)Refined modifications to the CRAFTi fluorometer. a)Evaluate type an ...

35% of US Children, particularly poor children, enter kindergarten unprepared to learn, and 38% of 4th graders cannont reat a grade level. New research highlights reliable pre-literacy interventions for at-risk preschoolers. But adults most of in need of this training ar least liklely to know it exists. R&D will: (a) distll evidence-based interventions for strngthening emergent literacy skills of ...

In 1999 the FDA reported that as much as 1% of food brought to market may have contained pesticide residues exceeding EPA tolerance levels (sub part-per-million concentrations) set for safe consumption. The uncertainty in this value is due to the long analysis times (hours/sample) that limit the amount of food actually analyzed. Inspectors need an analyzer that can provide comprehensive analysis i ...