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DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantCardiovascular diseases and Asthma affects betweenandmillion people in the United States includingmillion childrenduring the pastyearsits incidence worldwide has doubledAsthma is responsible formillion person days of restricted activity anddeaths per yearamounting to $billion in direct heath related coststhere is uncertainty about the specific factors that are contr ...

Project Summary Chagas disease is a severe inflammatory syndrome caused by infection with a protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi Although transmission occurs mostly through an intermediate insect host the infection is silent and chronic carriers pose a significant risk through the transfer of infected products made from donated blood of these individuals to blood recipients Up to new c ...

We aim to develop a transcranial Doppler TCD ultrasound simulator on a physical mannequin for realistic medical training and professional competence testing The Specific Aims of the project are Develop a prototype TCD simulator The anatomy of the cerebrovascular system CVS will be reconstructed in three dimensional D from a patient s computed tomography angiogram CTA The blood flow ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In the US roughly in children experience a mental health problem severe enough to warrant intervention of them receive treatment in the education sector However schools are often unable to deliver high quality evidence based treatments The goal of this project is to improve the quality of school based mental health SMH services by leveraging health information te ...

This revised proposal is in response to PAR"BRAIN InitiativeDevelopmentOptimizationand Validation of Novel Tools and Technologies for Neuroscience Research"Our overall goal is to enable positron emission tomographyPETas a practical and effective quantitative tool in understanding brain function and healthIn vivo functional imaging of molecular tracers will play a key role in unraveling the physiol ...

Space platforms are complex dynamical systems and there are many reasons to model them from ground telescope imagery as well as from space-based sensor platforms. One key motivation is to determine the operational state and configuration of the vehicle. Key questions such as did the solar panels fail to deploy, did the object begin to tumble unexpectedly may be addressed by a sufficiently detaile ...

ABSTRACT: To produce high dielectric strength insulator materials, our approach, called Optimized Additive Manufacturing for High Dielectric Strength (OAHDS), will optimize fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing in order to fabricate high density parts. Currently, thermoplastics 3D printed via FFF have dielectric strengths one to three orders of magnitude lower than injection molded parts ma ...

ABSTRACT: With the increasing demand on structural performance as well as decreasing size and weight of advanced flying structures, there is a reduction in the available volume for aircraft instrumentation. In addition, integral fabrication of structures using composite materials and close integration and optimization of aircraft system and subsystems limit further access and space for sensors, ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Critically ill patients commonly arrive at an intensive care unit with anemia While blood transfusions are the standard of care with the intention to increase or maintain oxygen delivery to tissues questions have been raised about the benefit of blood transfusions particularly in non bleeding patients with moderate anemia A noninvasive measure of intracellu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Clean water is one of the most basic societal needs in the world Few situations incite more public outcry than when a community learns that their drinking water has been tainted Two of the biggest threats to groundwater quality in the U S are contamination from either chlorinated solvents or petroleum Left unattended the size and scope of the problems asso ...