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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 ...

Inexperienced swimmers are often unaware of the presence of treacherous rip currents and this leads to many drowning deaths each year. Even when signs are posted, the public probably does not clearly understand the danger. It would be more informative if the public were ale to maps of the location, speed, and direction of coastal currents. Ocean safety officials are using various methods to inform ...

Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: http://youtu.be/vS0XzzPl3iU Purpose: This project will develop and test Happy Atoms, a physical modeling set and an interactive iPad app for use in high school chemistry classrooms. Happy Atoms is designed to facilitate student learning of atomic modeling, a difficult topic for chemistry high school students to master. Standard instructional practice ...

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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 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 ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantHepatocellular carcinomaHCCis usually undetected until its later stageswhere theyear survival rate for patients is less thanHoweverthe survival rate can be as high asif the cancer is detected earlyUnfortunatelyearly detection of HCC is not possible with any screening tests that are currently availablesuch as ultrasound or imaging technologiesAlpha FetoproteinAFPwhic ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Coronaviruses CoV are RNA viruses that cause gastrointestinal respiratory and neurological symptoms in several mammalian species The outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV SARS CoV in humans was fatal in of infected patients infecting people and killing The recent incidents involving the highly pathogenic Middle East ...