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Stochastic resonance (SR) is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of noise imparted to a system actually increase its sensitivity to weak stimuli. SR has been shown to produce a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects - elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers - a notable increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is seen whe ...

Stochastic resonance (SR), a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of environmental noise actually increase the discernability of signals or stimuli, produces a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects- elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers-a significant increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is noted when electrical or me ...

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of noise imparted to a system actually increase its sensitivity to weak stimuli. SR has been shown to produce a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects-elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers-a notable increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is seen when el ...

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DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract): The bioartificial liver has been proposed to perform liver function during hepatic failure unit the native liver has regenerated, or until transplantation is possible. The ideal bioartificial liver would mimic normal liver function. A bioartificial liver could also be used to periodically detoxify those patients w ...

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): This Phase I SBIR project introduces a novel laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detector that will raise DNA sequencing to a new level. All commercial sequencers make basecalls from one-dimensional fluorescence data, viz., intensities at four wavelengths. Fluorescence lifetime, another basecalling option, is developmental. Our ...

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) types 16 and 18 are detected in roughly 70% of all invasive cervical tumors. Among cytologically normal women, detection of HPV infection by PCR has been shown to increase the subsequent risk of cervical cytologic abnormalities by 12 fold, suggesting that effective vaccines (preventive/therapeutic) for HPV infection would be a useful medical advance in the battle agains ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): West Nile virus (WNV) is a flavivirus commonly found in Africa, West Asia, and the Middle East. The virus was introduced into the United States in 1999. Case-fatality rates during the 1999-2000 U.S. epidemics ranged from 3 percent to 15 percent and were highest in the elderly. The virus is expected to over-winter during ...

The goal of this project is to develop a more powerful and robust system for the sequencing and analysis of DNA by hybridization to microarrays. Our conceptually novel approach is based on a new probe design and sequence reconstruction algorithm which has been demonstrated by computational modeling to provide higher information density on a DNA hybridization chip. The Human Genome Project is provi ...