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To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

HealthMyne proposes developing a Clinical Decision Support tool to be used in the point-of-care workflow for the Radiation Oncologist that uses radiomic features that have evidence-based association to disease course and/or normal organ damage, in order to impact the treatment planning process. Phase 1 will focus on extraction, calculation, and validation of identified radiomic features for lung c ...

Project Summary This is a supplementalrenewalgrant to the Phase II SBIR grantComputerized Screening for Comorbidity in Adolescents with Substance or Psychiatric DisordersSince the funding of the Phase I granttwo significant developments occurred in the fieldthe American Psychiatric Association s release of the DSMmanualand NIMH s launch of the Research Domain CriteriaRDoCinitiative that aims to cr ...

SUMMARY Although solid tumors oftentimes arise from the uninhibited growth of a single aberrant cellthe population of cells within a tumor are genetically and molecularly heterogenousThis makes it very difficult to evaluate a therapy s efficacy when using bulk population measurementsFurthermorerecent research has implicated microRNAsmiRNAsas drivers of progression and malignancy in many tumor type ...

Project Summary Despite advances in the field of transplantation that have curbed acute rejection through immunosuppressive drugs and better control of infection and ischemia reperfusion injurychronic allograft rejection is still a major obstacle for successful organ transplantationSuccessful organ transplantation appears to require a balanced function of effector and regulatory T cellsTregto prev ...

Project Summary Abstract Human neural cells manufactured using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cellsiPSCshold great promise for modeling neurodevelopmental disordersdiscovering new precision therapiesand screening for potential risks from environmental toxinsHoweverbiomanufacturing of neural cells and tissues is severely limited by low efficiencypoor reproducibilityand extended timeframes ...

Seasonal influenzafluvirusan NIAID category C priority pathogencauses widespread infectionresulting in at leastmillion cases of severe illness anddeaths worldwideWhile annual vaccination is recommended for all individuals aged overmonths in the UScurrent vaccines are only aroundeffective and there is an urgent need for safemore effective influenza vaccines that offer broad spectrum protectionTo me ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases in the U.S., affecting up to 16% of the population and substantially diminishing the quality of life and productivity of patients. In four years, the annual U.S. health care expenditure to treat patients with CRS dramatically increased from $9B to $64B (5% of the health care budget), with a correspondin ...

Summary Enhanced Recovery of Pharmaceutical Solvent driven by EPA InitiativeThe United States Environmental Protection AgencyEPAis establishing new safeguards for hazardous secondary materials with objectives to promote the economicenvironmentaland public health benefits of recycling wasteswith an emphasis on several industrial sectorsincluding the pharmaceutical industryOn averagepharmaceutical m ...

PROJECT SUMMARY and ABSTRACT The clinical outcome of radiation therapy depends on delivering the highest possible absorbed dose to the tumor swhile limiting the dose to normal tissuesUnfortunatelyunlike external beam radiotherapyEBRTcurrent RT prescription methods do not consider absorbed dose to individual patients but instead use empirically derived or standard methodsThusup toof these patients ...