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Abstract The liver is the most common organ for metastasis of various cancersincluding pancreaticovariancolorectalgastric cancers and melanomaUveal melanoma metastasizes inof patients and upon metastasis targets the liver inof these casesThe most common primary malignant liver cancer worldwide is hepatocellular carcinomaHCCThe use of blind liver biopsy as a diagnostic tool for liver cancer has man ...

Sexual violenceSVexperienced by women on college campuses is a serious public health problem that has garnered a national responseCampus climate surveys show that approximately one in five college women experience sexual violenceFederal regulations now mandate implementation of educational prevention programs for new students of institutions of higher educationIHEsBest practices for sexual violenc ...

Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM), Inc., founded by MBE expert Dr. W. Alan Doolittle, has developed a new generation of MBE tools with revolutionary capability and remarkably lower cost than legacy tools and proposes to construct a prototype tool to demonstrate its power. The prototype tool will be delivered to AFRL for use in the growth of Gallium Oxide shattering current technical roadblocks c ...

This Phase II STTR effort is focused on generating the data necessary to identify the phenomenology that produces carbon deposition within kerosene film cooled rocket engines.This data is essential to guide the model development and validation process.Program outputs will be both data and a physics-based model for carbon deposition.

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pediatric Food Allergy FA is recognized as a serious public health concern that affects approximately percent of children with symptoms affecting multiple organ systems including skin the respiratory tract and the GI tract Food induced anaphylaxis which is a rapid potentially life threatening reaction can occur in more serious cases Despite the s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among youth with lifetime prevalence ranging between of the general population Among anxiety disorders social anxiety disorder SAD affects of all youth resulting in significant short and long term impairment including increased likelihood of substance abuse limited academic achievemen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Overweight and obesity are major health problems affecting over two thirds of US adults Commercially available Internet based weight loss programs are currently used by millions of overweight obese individuals in the U S but weight losses are often poor likely because these products on the whole do not incorporate empirically validated behavioral weight los ...