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Many injuries in the battlefield are being treated by non-medical personnel(e.g. 42% of tourniquet applications are applied by non-medical personnel). Unfortunately, most non-medical personnel are not provided with opportunities to practice medical skills in a high stress environment prior to completing them during live missions. This lack of practice of critical skills is related to a need to foc ...

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 ...

The presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment represents an emerging issue due to their stability, bioaccumulation potential, and risks to human and ecological well-being. There is a critical need to develop sampling methods for PFAS to assess risks and inform remedial investigations and feasibility studies (RI/FS) at locations where historical releases have elevate ...

NODA Telehealth system improves access to an autism diagnostic assessment by guiding families to share video clips of their child at homeso diagnostic clinicians can directly observe andtagvideo of any atypical behaviorand if warrantedrender a diagnosisThis system is evidence based and has been commercializedwith several published studies to discuss the benefitsWe now propose to improve this servi ...

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 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 ...

AbstractPancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaPDACis one of the most devastating human cancersIt is the fourth leading cause of cancer related deaths in the U Sannuallywith a andltyear survival rateDespite FDA approved therapeutic regimens and marked improvements in medical and surgical careno significant impact on PDAC patient survival has been achievedInsomeAmericans are expected to be diagnosedandare ...

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 ...

NODA Telehealth system improves access to an autism diagnostic assessment by guiding families to share video clips of their child at homeso diagnostic clinicians can directly observe andtagvideo of any atypical behaviorand if warrantedrender a diagnosisThis system is evidence based and has been commercializedwith several published studies to discuss the benefitsWe now propose to improve this servi ...

PROJECT SUMMARYBayesic TechnologiesLLCproposes to participate in the I Corps program predicated on our STTR Phase I awardRGMADevelopment of a User friendly Bayesian Software PackageProof of ConceptThis project aims to meet researchersincreased demand to iuse Bayesian statistical methods to analyze data and iido so using easy to use software that is intuitiveinteractivetime efficientand incorporate ...