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Current research shows that failures in the standardization process are often the result of a failure of the participants to communicate or organize. To this effect, NIST has developed a tool, NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards (NOVIS), with an environment for visualizing, browsing, and querying standards. Aztera will create a Computer Aided Standards Development (CASD) framewo ...

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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant MicroRNAs miRNAs are involved in many diverse biological processes and a single miRNA can modulate the expression of hundreds of gene targets Changes in miRNA expression could have profound biological impacts leading to a variety of human diseases To date most miRNA expression profiling studies have relied on microarrays or high throughput RNA sequencing ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is societal need for new therapeutic agents in our arsenal of defenses against bacterial and fungal pathogens many of which are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics Filamentous fungi are considered promising resources for the development of novel bioactive compounds because of their great potential to produce various kinds of secondary metabol ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Wound healing is an intricately regulated process broadly characterized by phases of inflammation proliferation and remodeling Imbalances in any one of these phases can result in inadequate healing scar formation or in the development of chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers Diabetic ulcers are responsible for the majority of lower extremity amputations ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Air quality affects the health and well being of each of us especially those with chronic respiratory diseases Acute exposure to fatal levels of hazard materials causes millions of accidents every year and unnoticed long term exposure to lower levels of chemicals affect far more people Various technologies have been developed to monitor air quality but no ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Type diabetes is an immune mediated disease in which insulin producing beta cells are destroyed resulting in life long dependence on exogenous insulin The number of patients being diagnosed is increasing each year particularly in the very young Despite advances in glucose monitoring and insulin delivery there is a compelling need to identify therapies th ...