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Interfaces on existing military chemical/biological protection garments are not designed to fully eliminate macroscopic and microscopic air gaps at folds, fabric surfaces, or hook-and-loop closures, and thus do not provide a hermetic barrier against exposure. Creare proposes to develop a hermetic garment closure system that seals macroscopic and microscopic gaps at interfaces and closures and pro ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The Clinical Challenge Alcohol project seeks to improve outcomes of patients with at risk alcohol use or an alcohol use disorder by improving the alcohol assessment and intervention skills of medical students To accomplish this goal we will build upon our platform independent Clinical Encounters D Patient Training Environment This project expands the Clinic ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dropping out of school costs the nation up to $ billion annually in lost wages unemployment incarceration costs welfare dependence and health care costs Moreover poorer individual health and well being result from dropping out Despite recent reductions in the total number of dropouts minority students remain twice as likely to drop out as White stud ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Today systemic sclerosis SSc clinical trials generally include all subsets some may benefit others do not confounding measures of efficacy Because each expression subset has a different underlying deregulated molecular pathway no single drug is expected to benefit all patients i e rational patient selection is required to facilitate drug development F ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In there were new cases of head and neck cancers HNC in the United States Early detection of new and locally recurrent cancers is clinically important to reduce not only cancer related mortality but also treatment associated morbidity as it impacts multiple organ functions including respiration olfaction hearing eating swallowing and speak ...

ABSTRACT: Current Separable Thermal Mechanical Interfaces (STMIs) found in advanced digital processing electronics are unable to efficiently remove dissipated heat, limiting performance far below their capability. The standard approach produces high contact resistance (~1.0C-in./W) with local variations in excess of 25%, severely limiting allowable electronic power levels. During this program, ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Burn injuries and chronic wounds present a significant burden to patients and the US healthcare system Each year in the US there are burns that require medical treatment and burn patients that require hospitalization The mortality rate associated with severe burns can be as high as with of patient deaths arising from infection In add ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The proposed project will complete the development of and evaluate the efficacy of Master Mind a mindfulness education substance abuse prevention for late elementary school aged children Past research has found that mindfulness has many benefits for youth such as increases in attention social competence and emotion regulation as well as decreases in stres ...

ABSTRACT: The Phase II program will develop and mature a new salient physics-driven solution for CID feature design and classification to support onboard CID and decision fusion for remotely piloted vehicles. Saliency analysis will be used to develop databases of compact, simple geometric features derived from known, discriminative, and robust scattering physics. A new Bayesian probabilistic cla ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to create a system to conduct research with the assistance of a andapos High Throughput Multifunction System for Neurophysiology of Behaviorandapos This Phase II application to the Omnibus Solicitation is based on the Phase I for PA that was funded by NIAAA R AA The advanced system will provide capabilities for m ...