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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant)The major goals of this revised, SBIR Phase II application for the combined R25/R44 mechanism to complete development of a multi-media, cancer risk behavior modification intervention and to conduct a randomized controlled trial with low income patients and their primary care physicians to assess its impact. The prototype system of tools created in the Phase I is ...

Forgetfulness or memory dysfunction occurs more frequently with advancing age, as well as in situations of routine office environments. Routine office tasks like filing are frequently boring tasks, and the forgetfulness problem is exacerbated when an individual with a proclivity to memory dysfunction is working with time constraints and large volumes of materials. We propose to develop a computer ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this research is to design and develop a dedicated, imaging guided, minimally invasive, percutaneous axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy system for staging of breast cancer. While axillary lymph node dissection remains the gold standard of care for staging of breast cancer, over 70% of women with small breast tumors who undergo axilla ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): The goal of Phase II is the continued development of the Comprehensive Pain Assessment System (COMPASS), a self-report battery of questionnaires designed to provide information about both the adaptive significance of a patient's pain problem and the psychosocial concomitants. The COMPASS consists of two components, the CO ...

Description (provided by applicant): High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) phased arrays allow flexibility in beam steering, beam shaping, and dynamic focusing. These features enable them to create large and contiguous tissue lesions of predetermined shape with high efficiency, resulting in shorter treatments, increased accuracy, and ease of operation. The g ...

DESCRIPTION(provided by applicant): The MUSE System delivers personalized experiences to museum visitors on a handheld tablet computer based on their preferences, special needs, and other contextual information. The system will be built on Universal Design standards and developed with user participatory design methods to help ensure the product will serve the bro ...

Biosensor Chip Mass Spectrometry (BCMS) is an arrayed, chip-based platform intended for use in the rigorous investigation of trace-level proteins present in complex biological mixtures. BCMS may be used as a protein-based complement to genotyping approaches for SNP analysis, or even used on its own in phenotyping or clinical studies. The overall goal of this project is to further evaluate and vali ...

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's abstract) Many clinical/medical conditions, i.e, neurological emergencies and disorders, require rapid intervention. Stroke is one example. In this context, availability of medical devices can enhance medical care to the patient. ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of the Phase II study is to develop a problem-based, online continuing medical education (CIVIE) program that will improve physicians' and other health professionals? ability to manage patients suffering -from domestic (or intimate partner) violence (DV). Medical Directions will market this online program via private intranets and via its commercial CME ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In order to accurately assess the efficacy of botanical products, consistent materials are needed for clinical studies, as well as a guarantee of sustainable access to commercial volumes of those materials should the products prove useful. This proposal addresses exactly that by developing a sustainable horticultural production method that can provide clean, un ...