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This proposal aims to develop a polymer hydrogel strategy that can be used to improve the clinical care of patients receiving brachytherapy for gynecological cancers The biocompatible hydrogel will form in situ after being injected into the vaginal space and later removed by instillation of water to soften the hydrogel for easy extraction This Phase I proposal focuses on optimizing the polymer ...

Project Summary Glioblastoma GBM is one of the most lethal incurable human diseases Even with aggressive therapies including surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy using temozolomide TMZ the median survival for GBM patients is only months In fact GBM cancer cells are highly infiltrative and comprise a sub population of glioma stem cells GSCs with tumorigenic pro ...

Project Summary Many clinical and preclinical studies demonstrated that interferons IFNs exert a superior anti tumor effect when combined with retinoids a class of vitamin A metabolites We identified a novel tumor suppressor Gene associated with Retinoid IFN induced Mortality GRIM by a genome wide knockdown strategy In our recent publication in the PNAS we have shown that GRIM g ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Breastfeeding has the potential to reduce health disparities associated with infant mortality and morbidity Breastfeeding rates by ethnicity in the United States show a marked disparity in African American AA women as compared to other groups Barriers to breastfeeding are complex with literature citing a lack of knowledge poor family and social support inhibiting soc ...

Abstract This Phase I application aims to determine the feasibility of using lipid enhanced nanosensor LENS arrays for smart phone based detection of lead Pb and mercury Hg in drinking water at concentrations above FDA allowable levels LENS arrays are composed of fluid lipid multilayer diffraction gratings on surfaces The fluid nature of these arrays has two advantages reagents can ...

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.

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 ...

JRM Technologies proposes a new CUDA-based 3D thermal signature physics engine which combines real-time raytracing (photon-mapping) and localized temperature maps that together with new GPU shaders will better model the transient interactive coupling of dynamic thermal sources with affected 3D scene elements. To support this new physics engine, JRM proposes to leverage and extend its proven real- ...

An innovative loading stage design based on the principle of eccentric loading is proposed for mechanical testing of thin composites to impart precise mixtures uniaxial and bending stresses. In contrast to alternative designs, the mechanism is fully compatible with advanced experimental techniques such as three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D-DIC) strain measurements and in situ micro X- ...

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 ...