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City planners and engineers need detailed assessments of public rights-of-way to evaluate existing conditions, determine compliance with draft accessibility guidelines, and plan reconstruction projects. Current assessment methods are inadequate and inefficient due to the time and resources required. This project will develop an automated public rights-of-way assessment process and the measuremen ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Panic attacks (PA) impact about 23% of adults in community samples. Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PDA) tends to be a chronic condition with a lifetime prevalence of 4.7%. When untreated, panic disorder (PD) often leads to debilitating problems, with severe financial and interpersonal costs. Panic Control Treatment (PCT) is an efficacious treatment ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to conduct basic and applied biomedical research is becoming increasingly dependent on data produced by new and emerging technologies. This data has an unprecedented amount of detail and volume. Researchers are therefore dependent on computing and computational tools to be able to visualize, analyze, model, and interpret these large and complex sets ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the western societies. The plasma level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), the good form of cholesterol, is negatively correlated with the risk of heart disease, myocardial infarction, and coronary death. However, current composite risk score tests such as the Framingham tests identify only 1/3rd of i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal is to develop monoclonal antibody (MoAb)-based compounds capable of blocking human MASP-2 function as potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). MASP-2 is a plasma serine protease uniquely required for complement activation via the lectin pathway and may be an attractive target for the development ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 6. Project Summary Abstract Currently 17 percent of the total U.S. nursing work force is foreign-born. Many of these highly qualified professionals speak U.S. English as a second language and struggle to communicate effectively with clients and colleagues. The Intercultural Communication Workshop (hereafter, ICW), is a multimedia, internet-based educational too ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Fluorescent tagging of cells using dyes, fluorescent proteins, and quantum dots forms the basis for many powerful analytical methods in modern biology. Locating these cells within entire animals is necessary to study cell delivery, differentiation and gene expression. The Phase II SBIR research is developing an intelligent microtome to provide the means to loca ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant application to support the further development of an innovative, online training program to aid in the dissemination of Behavioral Activation (BA), a therapy for depression. The current application represents a continued cooperative partnership between the small business, Behavioral Tech Researc ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant application to support the further development of an innovative, online training program to aid in the dissemination of exposure therapies (ETs) for anxiety disorders. ETs have consistently and robustly been found effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders. However, these evidence-based tre ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The CardioMetrix Endoluminal HF Monitoring System is intended to provide patients with ambulatory monitoring their heart function, allowing for better management of their disease and allowing them to live a life less encumbered by HF. The system uses ultrasound to determine pulmonary arterial blood pressure and flow. Using these two parameters, calculations are ...