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Project Summary Environmental risk factors are attributable toof the chronic respiratory disease burden in the U Sand toof the burden from other non communicable diseasese gcancercardiovascular diseaseand diabetesExposure to environmental risk factors occurs through various forms of water and air pollutionwith a smaller attribution to sources like noiseradiationand physical hazardsMuch of this exp ...

ABSTRACTSubstance use disordersSUDsincluding opioid use disorderscontinue to be one of the most serious public health issues in the USleading to negative physical and mental health problemsfamily disruptionand premature deathAfrican Americans with drug use histories that are under criminal justice supervision are particularly vulnerable to experiencing the negative consequences associated with SUD ...

Project Summary While studies support the efficacy of comprehensiveschool wide interventions in reducing bullyingthese types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementationresulting in barriers to providing school based bullying preventionespecially in low income and rural communitiesAdditionallyalthough training bystanders to act asdefenderson behalf of targets ...

Project Summary/Abstract Objective: This project aims to elevate electron beam therapy (EBT) technology, which provides effective radiation treatment for superficial cancers (depthandlt;6 cm), to that of other external beam radiotherapies (XRT), e.g. x-rays and protons, by bringing electron intensity modulation into the clinic. Challenge: Approximately 10% of radiotherapy patients (173,000 in U ...

The broader/commercial impact of this SBIR Phase I project addresses the important unmet clinical need of enabling interventional radiologists to prevent pneumothorax (collapsed lung) during transthoracic lung biopsies. Annually, over 1.2 million transthoracic lung biopsies are performed worldwide for lung cancer diagnosis (400,000 in the US). Pneumothorax (PTX), a collapsed lung, is the most comm ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this SBIR Phase I project is to develop a desalination system powered by solar energy. Water is used for lithium and rare metal mining, requiring energy-efficient water treatment to produce fresh water and concentrated brines. This type of water treatment in mineral recovery systems can yield valuable critical materials as byproducts. Many lithium and rar ...

Project Summary Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death and number one cause of adult disability in the United States. The primary goal of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) treatment is quickly restoring blood perfusion. However, studies have shown that this return of blood flow, while necessary, can also cause damage to local tissue leading to poor patient outcomes. Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has be ...

SUMMARY: The White House has initiated an aggressive campaign to combat the current opioid crisis that is affecting all levels of the American way of life. The opioid crisis has emerged from multiple fronts. Among these various fronts, the continued use of opioids in the post-operative area is a growing addiction risk. Current post- operative pain management utilizes a multimodal pain management s ...

PAProject Summary Abstract SERis a long acting polymer pro drug of buprenorphine that is being developed to treat postoperative pain following major surgeries such as bunionectomyabdominoplastythoracotomy and knee and hip surgerySERhas no biological activity by itselfbut when administered in vivo by subcutaneous injection it enters the vascular compartment where a plasma esterasebutyrylcholinester ...

Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWAP-C) are significant influencers in the design and operation of mobile Free Space Optical (FSO) communications hardware. As FSO technology evolves to applications for smaller vehicles such as Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), the need for reduced size and weight optics becomes critical. Large, heavy glass optical elements are required in today’s FSO units to acquire t ...