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NeurocycsticercosisNCCis a leading cause of adult onset epilepsy in the developing world and an increasing public health concern in the United StatesNCC develops in individuals infected with tape worm Taenia soliumTsoliumHowevermost people are unaware of their infection before neurological symptoms appearthus posing a major risk of transmitting the infectionReliable diagnosis and efficacious treat ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: The objective of this project is to research the technical feasibility of designing a software tool “Permit Wizard” that will automate the process for aquamarine permit application submittal, review, approval/disapproval and issue (including collection of fees). Aquaculture producers are currently faced with slow, complex, and often confusing permitting processes that must ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: We propose developing a new observational capability for measuring upper atmosphere (20-Km to 200-Km+ altitude) wind and temperature dynamics, based on Doppler imaging of Limb concentrations of NO, N2O, and CO2 called the Doppler Wind Temperature Sounder. The principle of operation is that by measuring the Doppler shift of trace gases created by the differential velocity betwee ...

Prevention of biofilms on invasive medical devices has the potential to significantly reduce hospital acquired infections and improve patient outcomesProsthetic joint infectionsPJIsacquired from orthopedic implantsoften the result of microorganism contamination on the implant surface during surgeryaffect patient recoveries and can lead to significant mortalitiesOne approach for reducing the incide ...

Abstract InstadiagnosticsIDIis developing a point of carePOCdiagnostic technology platform with the goal of providing early detectionscreeningand treatment monitoring for patients at primary care centerscommunity clinicsurgent care centersand emergency departmentsThe device consists of a portable readerthe InstaReaderand disposable cartridgesInstaCartridgeA range of disease specific cartridges wil ...

Project Summary Abstract BackgroundPreterm birthsthose that occur prior toweeks of gestationare the leading direct cause of neonatal mortality and morbidityMore thaninbirths in the U Sare pretermwith rates that are disproportionately high among African Americans and families living in povertyregardless of raceAddressing the problem of preterm birth requires both accurate identification of the fact ...

This proposal describes the development of a generalized toolkit that enables improved and automated mapping of partitioned subdomains onto available distributed compute nodes for applications operating within pure-MPI or hybrid-MPI parallel runtime environments. This toolkit may be invoked either as an independent pre-processing step or as a dynamic library, improving an applications real-time do ...

Supercapacitors have attracted considerable recent attentions due to their high-power density, and long cycle life. Unfortunately, the energy density of supercapacitors is too low to meet these applications requiring an energy supply for longer periods (hours or days). Storagenergy Technologies Inc. proposes to develop a superior all solid-state battery (ASSB) fabricated by additive manufacturing ...