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Despite over 100 years of research, decompression sickness (DCS) remains the mission-limiting factor in the design and execution of combat diving operations.Divers may spend over an hour decompressing after spending as little as ten minutes at the target depth.While decompressing, divers are limited in vertical mobility, making then susceptible to detection and threatening their survivability.This ...

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 ...

Project SummaryAbstract The goal of this Phase I work is to finish development of an innovative interactive app designed to help patients appropriately use total knee replacementTKRsurgery and provide support to achieve best outcomesTKR is highly effective for treating advanced osteoarthritis of the kneebut it has risksAppropriate use can be assured by engaging patients in a Shared Decision Making ...

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 ABSTRACTMillions of children around the globe are afflicted with conditions that can alter neuropsychological developmentincluding human immunodeficiency virusHIVtraumatic brain injuryTBIcerebral malariaand a host of other developmental and acquired diseases and disordersEarly assessment and intervention are critical in overcoming cognitive and developmental deficiencies and are in ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The filovirusesfamily Filoviridaecomprising five ebolavirusesa cuevavirusand two Marburg virusesare negative strand RNA viruses that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with up tohuman case fatality rateTheepidemic in Western Africacaused by the Zaire ebolavirusEBOVspecies demonstrated the potential for these viruses to cause dire health emergencies of global scopeand highlighted the ne ...

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 ...

ImmuNext has defined an anti MCTmonoclonal antibodymAbthat will be developed for the treatment of human autoimmune diseaseThe membrane monocarboxylate nutrient transporter SLCAMCTis a multi pass transmembrane protein responsible for the facilitated transport of critical metabolitesincluding products of glycolysislactatepyruvate and ketonesOur strong preliminary data support the tenet that mAbs tha ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT Older patients with persistent and progressive symptoms of chronic back pain and leg pain often have a diagnosis of lumbar degenerative spondyolisthesis and undergo complex lumbar decompression and fusion surgeryOverof these procedures are performed in the United States each yearSurgery is highly effective but technically challengingOne technical challenge of fusion in spon ...