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Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of usespecially those who work in certain industriessuch as petroleum extraction and refinery facilitiesmining industryand fertilizer factoriesVarious sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the needbut a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple chemical pollut ...

Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of us, especially those who work in certain industries, such as petroleum extraction and refinery facilities, mining industry, and fertilizer factories. Various sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the need, but a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple che ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is focused on the development of a simple and sensitive technology for the detection of CpG methylation in CpG islands of human cancer cells. CpG islands are short genomic segments in the promoter regio ns of most human genes that are enriched in the dinucleotide CpG. CpG islands are unmethylated in normal tissues but become progressively more ...

Project Summary In Type I diabetic (T1D) patients, insulin is injected into the subcutaneous (SC) tissue, by needle or a pump and SC cannula. A bolus of insulin SC reaches its peak in about one hour or more. This slow absorption is in dramatic contrast to the secretion of insulin into the blood by the normal human pancreas, a process measured in seconds. Consequently, patients with T1D often strug ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a growing trend to make public-use data of all kinds directly available to consumers of those data without the need for skilled, technologically-proficient programmers to deliver reports. This project will pro

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The effort under this proposal is to prepare for and perform a large clinical study using in-vivo confocal microscopy to validate the results of a smaller, recently published study of the efficacy of this technology for diagnosis of melanoma. The main goal of this Type 2 Phase II Competing Continuation SBIR Proposal is to obtain data for submission to the FDA a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed effort aims to dramatically enhance the realism of radiation safety training for Emergency Responders, both First Responders, as well as Skilled Support Personnel. The goal is to develop andevaluate realistic dosimetry simulation or Dosimulation tools. These Realistic, Accurate Dosimulation (RAD) tools will be the centerpiece for ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Irreproducibility of biomedical and preclinical research is responsible for wasting 50% of the entire research budget and accounts for billions of wasted dollars. Issues with authenticity of key resources, such as cell lines, form a major contributor to this problem. An alarming increase in cell authenticity issues has prompted the NIH and some journals to take action by requiring ...

Abstract The U SDepartment of Commerce predicts that STEMsciencetechnologyengineeringand mathjobs occupations will grow byfromtocompared tofor non STEM occupationsSTEM wages are generally higher than non STEMwith adifference inYetcurrent approaches to STEM education are falling significantly shortInof U Shigh school students underwent American College TestingACTOf theseonlyattained the benchmark o ...