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This project will develop a Socially-Assistive Robot (SAR) to provide cognitive training, in the form of learning to play the piano, to improve cognitive functioning and reduce feelings of loneliness in socially-isolated older adults. The SAR will administer cognitive training via guided practice on a set of standard piano lesson tasks designed to reflect particular cognitive functions: memory, at ...

SOF combat swimmers have a need for the continuous monitoring of each others relative position while diving and for the capability of being able to communicate with each other to help establish a common operational picture (COP).The C3SA system was previously developed under SBIR Topic SOCOM08-001 thru the receipt of both Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards.The C3SA established a stand-alone network ...

Development of Zika viral pseudoinfectious virus as zika vaccine candidate(Phase 2) Abstract Zika virus epidemics and the association of ZIKV infection with Guillain–Barré syndrome, and congenital disabilities, including microcephaly, led the World Health Organization to declare ZIKV a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” in 2016. Since then, various ZIKV vaccine platforms hav ...

Project Summary Bacillus anthracis (Ba) is a Gram-positive spore forming bacterium that is listed as an agent of highest concern (Category A) by NIAID and CDC. Ba is easy to grow, and its spores can be formulated into highly stable powder form and disseminated as aerosol or used to contaminate food or water. In 2001, letters laced with powdered anthrax spores were mailed to several US politicians. ...

ABSTRACT When Cryptococcus is manifested as cryptococcal meningitis (CM), it creates a large burden of mortality and morbidity to the patient and is very difficult for the clinician to treat. There are now an estimated 2600-7800 US cases and 400,000 cases of CM worldwide annually, with estimated mortality of 15-50% per year. CM is caused when Cryptococcus neoformans, a basidiomycete fungal pathoge ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We devised a new generation highly sensitivity method to diagnosis peripheral neuropathy early when the probability for reversal is greatest Cancer chemotherapy and diabetes are the most common causes of neuropathy in the USA Both cause decreased sweating abnormal circulation peripheral numbness pain and weakness If diagnosed early both are potentially ...

Project Summary / Abstract Over 5.8 million Americans are currently affected by Alzheimerandapos;s disease (AD) with an economic burden estimated at andgt; $270 billion/year in 2020 that is projected to increase at least four fold over the next several decades. Accurate biomarkers have been developed that demonstrate that AD pathology is present 15 years of more prior to the onset of memory sympto ...

Through existing STTR N16A-T012, Continuous Solutions (CS) and Purdue University are developing a product line which consists of Common Mode (CM) current-mitigating Bus-Bar Based Common Mode Inductors (B3CMI) and AC Common Mode Shorting Networks (ACSN). These products are installed on the DC (B3CMI) or AC (ACSN) interfaces of power converters. The DC-rail-inline B3CMI adds significant CM impedance ...

ABSTRACT MarPam Pharma is developing a one-time treatment for durable remission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for patients treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART). This treatment is an autologous HIV-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR; specifically, CD4-MBL-CAR) T cell therapy that employs the CXCR5 chemokine receptor as a homing device to direct anti-HIV killer T cells into “hidd ...

To address the need of auto-extracting data relevant to significant events and to archive patterns, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) team proposes to continue developing a Scalable Event Extractor for Multi-Level Event Data and Pattern Archiving: SEE. The key innovations of our proposed SEE system are (1) a large class of analytics that extract valuable and important information from raw data, a ...