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Having demonstrated the feasibility of fMRI in awake dogs, we are now ready to move forward with a program aimed at extending this technology to the point that a reliable training regimen can be deployed to a wide range of service and working dogs. The ad

iK9, LLC, and Auburn University shall collaborate in the development of prototype procedures for conducting cognitive neuroscience studies employing fMRI imaging of the brains of unrestrained dogs while they are in an awake and responsive state. IK9 is an

Blood-based assays require upstream mechanisms to acquire sample from a patient, extract the analyte of interest, and preserve the analyte until it can be quantified. Current point-of-care assays overwhelmingly rely on lancet puncture, which is inconvenient because of the presence of blood that is open to the environment and induces high levels of user error inherent with the multiple steps requir ...

Hadoop style systems have done an excellent job of providing scalable long term disk bound data storage and enjoy wide acceptance in both Government and the private sector. However, Hadoop implementations suffer from performance limitations with respect to whole set aggregates and real time interactivity that we believe can be solved by optimizing for local memory operations. The key performance ...

Recent studies have shown that embedded systems are extremely vulnerable to security attacks. Some published exploits include remote hijacking of the electronic systems in a modern car and using IP phones and smart televisions to perform covert surveillance of their owners. In this project, we propose a protection system that automatically detects and removes vulnerabilities from embedded software ...

The ability to readily and rapidly detect the concentration of the 9- and 12-amino acid oxytocin analogs will significantly enhance the efficacy of understanding the conditions under which oxytocin is employed by the body. Ionica Sciences will take advantage of recent miniaturization of highly sensitive instrumentation that allows field application of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), a sp ...

Technology focusing on collection, processing, and analysis of real-time data is playing a major role in military and civilian applications. With the advent of GPU and accelerator computing, the collection, processing, and analysis of real-time data streams is technically possible at an unprecedented scale. The first goal of this proposal is to quickly analyze high-bandwidth data streams by levera ...

Addressing PTSD and related stress reactions by Service Members and Veterans is one of our country's most important public health challenges. Art therapy has been recognized as a powerful tool enabling"trauma survivors to symbolically express, process and contain feelings they find difficult or impossible to put in to words"(Buk, 2009). Enabling Service Members and Veterans to tell their st ...

Wound management becomes increasingly challenging due to bacterial infections, especially from epidemic drug-resistant strains. To address this problem, Agave BioSystems proposes to develop a RANT (Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics) breadboard system built upon the modules successfully established in Phase I of this work. The proposed breadboard system will use genomic sequencing data generated ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tools to assist the diagnosis and treatment of human patients with a brain tumor or other operable pathology. The specific focus of this proposal is to produce a practical, clinic-ready suite of MR imaging methods, analyses and display tools to solve the number one impediment to ...