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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop a package of planning products for radiation treatment that will introduce a measure of quality assurance now lacking, provide clinicians the opportunity to raise tumor dose, and expose the tradeoffs among the treatment constraints and objectives. The new approach based on mixed integer programming (MIP) will ensure that the dose distr ...

The intent of this phase 1 proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of forced air convective warming to prevent hypothermia among battlefield casualties. The consequences of hypothermia for trauma victims can be severe, and the technical requirements of providing safe warming therapy in the field are challenging. Unfortunately while the need is great, no product currently on the market accepta ...

Many Unites States Army, and other Department of Defense (DoD) sites, are contaminated with a variety of contaminants including highly energetic compounds, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), chlorinated aliphatics (such as trichloroethylene,TCE) and chlorinated aromatics. These compounds often persist in soil or groundwater for extended periods of t ...

Many Unites States Army, and other Department of Defense (DoD) sites, are contaminated with a variety of contaminants including highly energetic compounds, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), chlorinated aliphatics (such as trichloroethylene,TCE) and chlorinated aromatics. These compounds often persist in soil or groundwater for extended periods of t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is the development of a fully automated, wireless ethernet capable, near realtime, field deployable immunoassay-based analysis system for the concurrent, ultra low-level detection of biowarfare agents in air or water by using innovations in surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and related supporting materials and hardware. A ...

Fabrication procedures have been proposed to develop biofilm-containing appliques capable of mitigating the corrosion of aluminum aerospace alloys (e.g. AA2024-T3). The proposed methods are expected to produce surface protective flexible polymer coatings that containing bacterial biofilms capable of providing corrosion protection to the metal surfaces of aircraft and other military equipment to wh ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Antibiotics are an essential component in bio-defense preparedness. Soil microorganisms were a major source of antibiotics during the 20th century, yet antibiotic discovery is now severely limited. A primary reason is that drug discovery from microorganisms has been confined to those microbes that can be recovered by laboratory cultivation, yielding high rates ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection with antiretroviral agents invariably leads to selection and accumulation of drug-resistant mutants that arise due to the intrinsically low fidelity of HIV polymerase. Early detection of these growing variants may be clinically relevant. Before the level of clinical importance can be ascertained, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will enhance the MASTERCATALOG, EraGen's product that combines an evolutionarily organized protein sequence database with tools to enable phylogenomics analysis. This will help maintain the commercial advantage of the MASTERCATALOG over public databases and tools, and help ensure that the MASTERCATALOG continues to enjoy its status as the "best in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prostate cancer imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) has been facilitated by the recent development of the radioactive tracer fluorine-18 fluorocholine (F-18 FCH). Like other substrates for the enzyme choline kinase, F-18 FCH demonstrates increased accumulation in malignant cells. In addition to whole-body cancer staging, F-18 FCH PET may potentia ...