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A cerebral aneurysm is an abnormal enlargement or pouch that forms from a weakened vessel segment in the brain Often going unnoticed and untreated an aneurysm can cause a sudden and catastrophic hemorrhage or stroke Approximately of patients die from an aneurysm rupture even before receiving medical attention and of patients die despite medical treatment Patients that survive typical ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy CIPN is a common prevalence and potentially dose limiting side effect of many cancer chemotherapy drug treatment regimens Clinically CIPN presents with pain that is burning shooting or electric shock like The increase in prevalence of cancer coupled with an increase in the cancer survival rates due to chemotherapy regimens ...

ABSTRACT SUMMARY The outcome of this phase project will yield a turnkey system for spectroscopy polarimetry in the terahertz THz frequency range designed to support development of new drugs This system will directly probe protein vibrations using polarized terahertz radiation allowing researchers to rapidly characterize intramolecular vibrations which will help identify sites on ...

The long term objective of this project is the synthesis and assembly of wound healing devices that mimic as closely as possible the biochemical and mechanical characteristics of healthy human skin The proposed research would focus on the synthesis of membranes containing electrospun human recombinant tropoelastin and collagen mixtures The ratios of the two molecules and the spinning condition ...

Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

This is a Phase I STTR to investigate the preclinical efficacy of a novel immunomodulator DR MOG in a clinically relevant thromboembolic stroke model in mice We have previously shown that T cells are activated after stroke infiltrate brain and exacerbate ischemic brain damage Strategies that reduce T cell activation and brain tissue infiltration have been investigated as potential therapeu ...

The purpose of this proposed research is to develop and commercialize a novel two color sodium guidestar laser operating simultaneously at 589 nm and 1141 nm. Our patented T-cavity design combined with VECSEL technology will be the basis for the guidestar development. The polychromatic laser guidestar (PLGS) system being proposed currently does not exist and would allow for the correction of atmos ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force trains and educates a large and diverse workforce to meet requirements across a complex array of missions. Early-stage training in many Air Force Specialty Codes can consist of large corpora of foundational, static material, so training that motivates airmen is a necessary element in helping ensure a supply of qualified personnel in mission-critical areas like aerospace maintena ...

The mechanical testing of energetic materials makes experimentation highly expensive and hazardous. Therefore, an accurate and practical modeling approach is necessary to predict their mechanical properties. Numerous atomistic to continuum models exist to predict the properties of energetic materials. However, these methods are not coupled with each other in a systematic and practical way; thus, ...