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SummaryUnmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and small UAS (SUAS) technology hold great promise for facilitating the management of wildfires on forest lands. However technology is only a small part of the problem of integrating UAS into fireground operations. Significant concerns must be addressed about the coordination of air assets in the high-risk operational wildland fire airspace environment, which ...

Floriculture and nursery crops are one of the highest value-per-acre industries in the farm sector. Like food crops, ornamental crops are infected by many fungal and bacterial pathogens, which result in substantial yield and quality losses. The environmental horticulture industry is one of the key subsectors of the U.S. agricultural economy, providing an estimated 48,883 permanent and temporary jo ...

The purpose of the VisuGen Global E. coli test under development is to provide a rapid on-site water monitoring method to test environmental water or to assist produce growers establish a Microbial Water Quality Profile in compliance with the FSMA produce rule requirements. Our method will provide rapid on site testing andresults to avoid costly recalls and reduce illness due to microbial contamin ...

Greek (strained) yogurt represents nearly half of the $5B U.S. yogurt industry and has grown at a rate of more than 60 percent per year for the past eight years. For every pound of milk used in the manufacture of Greek yogurt, only one-quarter to one-third ends up in the final product. The remaining waste is liquid acid whey, which contains more than 93 percent water, along with minerals, protein, ...

Every year over 1 billion tons of fresh animal manure is produced in US and it raises pollution concerns. "Anaerobic digestion" is an environmental friendly and energy efficient way to dispose animal manure. Animal manure is converted to biogas and digestate through this process. The animal manure digestate has a much less pollution potential than untreated animal manure and can be used as a chemi ...

This SBIR project will develop a new process to produce diesel fuel oxygenates from bio-succinic acid and bio-butanol, which are produced in existing biorefineries.Biorefineries produce large quantities of C5 sugars, which are now commercially fermented to bio-succinic acid (C4O4H10) and bio-butanol (C4OH10). What is needed is an efficient means to convert these biomolecules into useful products s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma mccRCC is an incurable cancer with a year survival of less than for which novel therapeutic agents need to be developed urgently It is notoriously resistant to chemotherapy and radiation Although molecularly targeted therapies have led to an improvement in survival the benefit is rather limited due to event ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases that lead to detrimental outcomes such as progressive memory deficit and cognitive impairment Although it is expected that the prevalence of AD will double over the next years currently no widely accepted molecular biomarkers for early detection or non invasive monitoring ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the feasibility of using a novel gemcitabine ibandronate conjugate alone and or as part of a combination therapy for the treatment of osteosarcoma and associated metastases The conjugate consists of chemically linked anticancer antimetabolite Gemcitabine and the bone homing bisphosphonate Ibandronate The novel co ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal addresses topics of interest to the NIEHS Advanced Training Technologies ATT Program to andquot develop ATT products that will support high quality health and safety training for hazardous materials workers emergency responders and skilled support personnel andquot We propose to develop a Web based Virtual HAZMAT Response Academy VHRA with ...