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Piasecki Aircraft (PiAC) proposes to continue development and testing efforts of the Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel USA has been developed to support the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer mission requirements and contains sensors an ...

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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this Phase II project is to optimize and validate a microfluidic chip based process that automates and shortens the labeling washing and collecting of human blood leukocytes WBCs for flow cytometric analysis of clinically important cell surface and intracellular markers Multi parameter flow cytometry is an increasingly powerful and widely used t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant By January oncology care providers will be expected to craft Survivorship Care Plans SCPs for all individuals ending active treatment for cancer however there is a lack of systematic study of the impact survivorship planning has on patients providers or healthcare systems The Polaris Oncology Survivorship Transition POST program is a web based sy ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantSignificanceThe USPHSTFSAMHSACDCand NIAAA have affirmed the importance of screening in medical settings for alcohol consumption that exceeds the NIAAA low risk limitsbrief educational and motivational counseling for those who screen positive or have other evidence of an Alcohol Use Disorderandwhen appropriatereferral to treatmentSBIRTHowevertranslation to clinical p ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The smallpox virus variola has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people worldwide Although smallpox was eradicated from the globe in following a valiant immunization campaign existing viral stocks may fall into the hands of those seeking to employ variola as a biological weapon This calls for the development of safe antiviral ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One in African American women will be diagnosed with HIV in her lifetime compared to in White women Beyond abstinence the most effective way to prevent HIV is the male condom Because condoms are male controlled women are often unable to negotiate their use This is especially true for African American women who are often socialized to be sexually ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Our long term goal is to provide a solution to the protein ligand binding affinity and pose prediction problems The protein ligand docking and scoring problem is one of the central problems in computational biology because of its importance in understanding intermolecular interactions and because of its practical payoff The transformative impact molecular do ...