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Native American Cancer Initiatives Inc NACI is a woman owned minority American Indian business with fewer than three full time equivalent employees This for profit company founded in has the mission to provide technical assistance and products to communities patients researchers academicians universities research institutions and professionals on Native Americans cultural iss ...

Boulder Nonlinear Systems BNS and Prof Edward Boyden s Synthetic Neurobiology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab propose to develop a new liquid crystal spatial light modulator SLM capable generating high resolution holograms to overcome the imaging gap that currently divides cellular level optogenetic techniques and whole brain techniques to improve function ...

Project summary The fast millisecond timescale of neuronal activity has posed a difficulty for D volumetric imaging whose speed is limited in part by the axial scan methods currently available The use of electrically tunable lenses ETLs for remote focusing confers speed and vibration reduction advantages over the more traditional sample stage or microscope objective motion but current state ...

Tinea capitis scalp ringworm is a fungal dermatophyte infection of scalp hair follicles that afflicts of the U S pediatric population Tinea capitis is a major health care disparity because it occurs predominantly among individuals with a disadvantaged socioeconomic background and sub Saharan African descent Diagnosis of tinea capitis is currently dependent on culture and microscopy Both ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

Despite significant advances in chemotherapeutic approaches due to new drugs and combinatorial therapies over the past decades cancer is still the second leading cause of death in the United States Further pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancer types with only a chance of patient survival five years past diagnosis In this Phase I SBIR proposal the Tubular Plasma ...

Among the measures against drunk driving available to policy makers and prevention practitionersResponsible Beverage ServiceRBStraining has shown promiseIn these programsalcohol servers are educated in a number of techniquesincluding correct identification checkingrecognizing signs of intoxication in patronsand managing patrons via drink counting techniques to safely keep them under Driving While ...

Novel Methacrylate Thiol Ene Composites for Dental Restorative Materials As the demand for aesthetically pleasing restorative materials has increased so has the desire and demand for improved performance Despite their increasing prevalence the methacrylate resin phase for the vast majority of these materials has remained largely unaltered since Bowen first proposed the materials nearly year ...

The prevalence of healthcare associated infections is a critical issue in the medical community resulting in compromised patient healthcare and billions of dollars in corrective costs Chronic non healing wounds affect approximately million people in the US each year with an estimated annual cost of $ $ billion As such new methods are needed for producing antimicrobial agents to treat ...

Summary Nearly million wounds are treated in U S emergency departments every year Skin wounds such as severe burns large trauma wounds or non healing chronic wounds that are too extensive or complex to close by natural healing are often reconstructed using autologous skin grafts Although autologous skin grafts are currently the gold standard in complex wound repair there are significant ...