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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Nearly half of all college students have a diagnosable mental health problem Blanco et al College counseling centers CCCs are faced with increasing demands for services from Universities students and parents to meet the treatment needs of their students Kay and Schwartz in the context of increasingly severe cases and declining resources ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant It is a rare event when new and useful medical parameters can be added to the suite of monitoring and diagnostic tests available in a clinical setting Of particular importance is the ability to measure crucial physiological parameters or analyses in a continuous and noninvasive manner evidenced by the importance of noninvasive vital signs monitoring because it ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Completion of the HGP human genome program has opened the andapos Genomic Eraandapos in biomedical research and enables functional genomics analysis of various gene elements The long term goal of the ENCODE Project is to identify and functionally characterize all of the sequence based genomic elements Functional elements that have been studied in ENCODE in ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Prostheses reduce the incidence of contralateral overuse syndrome in upper limb amputees by encouraging balanced bimanual limb usage Benefits include reduced pain and muscular atrophy increased productivity and self reliance improved self image a sense of well being and increased social acceptance Body powered prostheses are used extensively in the Uni ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Development of radiological nuclear medical countermeasures to treat Acute Radiation Syndrome ARS is a high priority research area for NIAID Bone marrow is one of the most sensitive tissues to radiation damage and impaired hematopoiesis is one of the first clinical signs of excessive radiation exposure often resulting i death Granulocyte colony stimulating ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a very low cost whole head neonatal MEG system that can adapt to the shape and size of the head Clinically there is a longstanding need for a technology that can aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of babies with brain dysfunction due to intrauterine and postnatal central nervous system insults which may result in menta ...

Envisioned Navy applications ranging from shore-based microgrids to directed energy weapons pose energy storage performance, cost, and scalability requirements that far exceed the capabilities of todays technologies. Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLC) can meet most power demands ($/kW and kW/L) but cannot be used where high energy density is also required. As such, there is a need for a new e ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant It is widely acknowledged that for split vaccines potency determination is often a rate limiting step The FDA approved andquot gold standardandquot potency assay for influenza hemagglutinin HA protein based vaccines is single radial immunodiffusion SRID SRID is a time and labor intensive assay often requiring days to complete and a minimum of hou ...

In this Phase II effort, FIRST RF will demonstrate array technology enabling highly directive multi-beam TCDL communications using phased arrays integrated on the FireScout UAV platform. Phased array systems allow for dynamic beam steering with graceful degradation. Wide elevation patterns desirable for air-to-air or air-to-ground communications are achieved by using a linear array topology. These ...

This project targets the development of a commercially viable silicon-nitride (SiN) Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process for gallium nitride (GaN) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) applications. In particular, this project will provide a higher quality substitution for commonly used PEVCD SiN passivation layers. These better passivation layers will enable the development and manufa ...