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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sustained-release narcotic drugs are highly sought after by drug abusers because they provide a much more powerful euphoric high than immediate-release formulations. Drug abusers easily defeat the sustained-release feature then ingest, snort or inject the narcotic drug for an immediate and potent drug high. The abuse of oxycodone (Purdue Pharma's "OxyContin(tm) ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although sexual activity among U.S. high school-age students has declined over the last decade, U.S. teens remain at high risk of acquiring HIV and other STDs. Approximately 25% of sexually active teens contract an STD each year. An estimated half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur in people under age 25. Further, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate remains s ...

PROJECT SUMMARY To make simulation-based exercise development efficient, it is important that scenarios be developed and executed ¿on-the-fly¿ in an automated fashion with minimal reliance on software personnel. To this end, what is needed is an intelligent scenario/script building capability that enables training personnel to rapidly assemble and ¿test-drive¿ incident scenarios, and that can ...

The video surveillance industry is experiencing dramatic change with the move from analog to digital video. Command centers need to have coordinated viewing of multiple camera feeds at one time, and the ability to switch automatically between feeds and display relevant patterns. Conventional security control rooms include a bank of monitors connected through a switch to an array of security camera ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Broad long term objectives and specific aims: The long-term objective of this project is to develop a digital anatomical research resource library of very high-resolution computational models, and imaging data sets. Our objective is to produce an anatomical library otf the complete human skeleton. The implications of this project, both scientific and social are ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Broad long term objectives and specific aims: The long-term objective of this project is to develop a digital anatomical research resource library of very high-resolution computational models, and imaging data sets. Our objective is to produce an anatomical library otf the complete human skeleton. The implications of this project, both scientific and social are ...

In border security applications for remote deployment, with no existing infrastructure or roadways as well as areas with dense foliage, a promising technology is the use of unattended ground sensors (UGS). While there has been a great deal of research and development in the areas of UGS and wireless sensor networks (WSN) over the last decade, traditional use of these technologies suffers from eith ...

In order to achieve the strategic plan for a more secure Emergency Preparedness and Response system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), UtopiaCompression proposes to develop innovative 3-D visualization software system for identifying, localizing and tracking people/resources within buildings in urban area infrastructures. The proposed system will not only automatically collect and proc ...

Detection systems for aeropathogens require the concentration of airborne particles from large volumes of air into small volumes of liquid. This proposal addresses this need through droplet encapsulation of airborne particles, with subsequent capture into a microliter-sized collection reservoir. Droplet encapsulation is accomplished through our company¿s proven, patented growth tube technology. T ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency is a significant public health problem among the elderly. Deficiency can lead to a wide spectrum of hematological (pernicious anemia) and neurological disorders (dementia) which are usually reversible by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. The primary causes of deficiency is malabsorption due to a lack of intrinsic factor an ...