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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The present application andquot Novel Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorderandquot addresses the critical need for efficacious treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD A key neural signaling cascade activated by a trauma experience is initiated by the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate Activation of the NMDA receptor a glutamate receptor ...

This Phase I SBIR project will evaluate the feasibility of utilizing low cost and high accuracy local position sensors and transmitters to autonomously estimate Mid-chord offset in rails. The two innovative parts of the proposed system are (1) a set of miniature and highly accurate local position sensors and transmitters for estimating the absolute positions of the mid point and end points of a 62 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pertussis is a serious and potentially life threatening respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis Worldwide million people become ill with pertussis each year and of these patients die Despite high vaccine coverage in the United States there were still over pertussis cases reported in the U S in Rapid diagn ...

The Phase I SBIR project will evaluate the feasibility of utilizing a low cost sensor to obtain rail temperatures from a moving train. The two innovative parts of the proposed sensor are (1) a rugged four wavelenght high frequency sensor that accurately measures the natural radiation emitted by the rails, and (2) an advanced algorithm that provides a emissivity compensated temperature from these ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed SBIR program is to implement and evaluate a low cost retinal camera, the Laser Scanning Digital Camera (LSDC), in a system for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening. Untreated DR has reached epidemic levels in underserved populations worldwide. As the LSDC has already demonstrated its readiness for DR screening in preliminary stud ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this Phase I study is to develop elastic, biodegradable ureteral stents that will degrade in the body within 2 weeks after a procedure. Current ureteral stents are made of non-degradable polymers and, unless they are permanent, have to be removed by second procedure, which requires further intervention on the patients. Biodegradable ureteral st ...

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Not Available Vehicle simulation capability will be enhanced by developing comprehensive, real-time subsystem models that will be integrated into their multi-body vehicle dynamics simulation. This simulation technology will be used in both driver and hardware-in-the-loop performance evaluations of vehicle systems. An equations of motion based approach will be used to build a suite of dynamic subs ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop a speech-recognition test in noise (SRTn) for use as a screening test for hearing disability, suitable for delivery over the telephone. Successful development and implementation of such a test has the potential to greatly increase awareness of hearing disorders and the numbers of persons with hearing impairment who seek services. The t ...