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Ankle sprains occur frequently with military personnel and in the general population. An early diagnosis of an ankle sprain is crucial to prevent the development of chronic ankle instability and to decrease the need for further intervention. A portable device that can be used to evaluate and quantify ankle instability in any setting (clinical, residential, field, etc.) by conducting a variety of t ...

The major limitations for the use of ECLS in the far-forward environment are the difficulty of its initiation, the need to adjunctive imaging to avoid damage to the heart and great vessels, and difficulty confirming correct cannula placement both in the far-forward and the transport environments. Thus, our proposed study will design and test two highly innovative features that will directly addre ...

This project will combine a semi-rigid solar panel with a low cost hoop house resulting a protectedagriculture structure at an installed cost of less than $2.00/W. This cost point allows for capitalfinancing from energy developers through a commercial power purchase agreement. Combiningsolar with agriculture opens up farmland to solar development that would normally be off limits fora solar only i ...

FIELD 7: PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACTProject Title: Intelligent Optical Nerves for Precision AgricultureDynamic micro-environmental monitoring has the potential to be a key precision horticulturalcapability for increasing production and quality of crops in the tightly controlled environments ofgreenhouses while increasing the overall energy efficiency of production. IFOS proposes ascalable multi-fun ...

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly resistant to chemical/thermal degradation and arehydrophobic and oleophobic. Due to these properties they have been used for decades in productssuch as aqueous film-forming foams Teflon waterproof clothing and food packaging. The sameproperties that make them useful also cause them to be difficult to remediate and to bioaccumulatein livestock and humans. ...

Per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are chemically and biologically resistant organiccompounds that are persistent bioaccumulative and highly toxic. Owing to their widespreadcontamination of public drinking water supplies on June 21 2022 the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency announced new interim lifetime drinking water health advisories of 0.004nanograms per liter and 0.02 nanograms p ...

Project SummaryPer and Poly fluorinated alkyl substances whose origins date back to the 1940s are a class ofcompounds possessing high thermal and chemical stability. The compounds have been used in a range ofconsumer products owing to these robust properties. Their unusual stability and thus long half-life have ledto the proliferation of these compounds in the environment. It is now well establish ...

The presence of these excess nutrients in natural waterways leads to algal blooms that threaten thelife of aquatic organisms and human drinking water sources. Algal blooms not only reduce theoxygen content in water but also produce toxins that are difficult to remove and harmful to health.A key nutrient is nitrogen an estimated one-hundred billion kilograms of which is releasedannually from fertil ...

Two major anthropogenic events need immediate attention. First is climate change triggered byincreased emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) including carbon dioxide (CO ) nitrous oxide2 (N O) and methane (CH ). The second is increased air pollution from particulate matter (PM2.5)2 4 and ozone catalyzed by nitrogen oxides NO (NO =NO+NO ). Agricultural practices play a majorx x 2 role in exacerbating ...

Aether seeks to commercialize a unique biomimetic chemical sensor capable of discriminating between various gases in the atmosphere and specifically capable of discriminating greenhouse gases from ordinary atmospheric pollutants. The proposed detection approach is based on a methodology developed at the Naval Research Laboratory and licensed to Aether. Our infrared-based sensor achieves high selec ...