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This project addresses the need for increased opportunities for customized employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities by developing the Person-Centered Planning ToolKit. The Toolkit will enhance implementation of personcentered planning (PCP), often limited by lack of follow-through on action items and a lack of tools to match career preferences to specific customized employment opport ...

This project develops and evaluates an intelligent web-based application, Tools for Reading to Acquire Content Knowledge (TRACK) for middle and high school students with neurocognitive deficits such as individuals with learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, traumatic brain injury, or autism spectrum disorder. Applying a participatory action research approach, investigator ...

Technology validation study of a wearable NIR spectrometer to quantify BAC in real time

Specific AimsIn Phase I of this SBIRwe will complete three specific aimssynthesize stable combination adjuvant formulations that are compatible with an HVLP antigenidentify the combination adjuvant properties that augment the safe and durable immunity to Handdemonstrate the superior protective benefit of the new combination adjuvant over existing adjuvant solutions for pandemic influenza vaccinesI ...

Development of an agile device that can deliver supplies to and from remote locations during public health emergenciesIn the context of emergency public health responsedrones could be extremely useful for transporting necessary supplies to remote or inaccessible locationsSupplies might include dry goodsbut would certainly include clinical specimensreagent kitsvaccines and other perishable goodsThe ...

In vivo imaging of cells labeled with fluorescent nanodiamondsFNDsis a new way of monitoring immune cells during cancer immunotherapyFNDs are non toxicinfinitely photostable nanomaterials that are easily conjugated with antibodiesand emit fluorescence in the near infrared spectral regionIn this Phase I SBIRwe will use a murine melanoma model and outline a plan to use FNDs for imaging immunosupress ...

Besides surgeryradiotherapy is the most effective treatment modality for localized prostate cancerThe success of radiotherapy stems from the exploit of a therapeutic window in tumor response and normal tissue tolerance which maximizes the chance of sterilizing the tumor while sparing the surrounding normal tissue from severe damageThis requires an accurate and individualized radiation dose distrib ...

Under the Small Business Innovation Research ProgramSBIRPhase I programTopicthe Contractor will develop a comprehensive approach to allow hospitals gain control of their opioid medicationsThe Contractor approach is totrack opioids from the pharmacy to the patienttrack the amount given to the patientand for opioid waste to track it back to the pharmacybetter administer opioids to patients that offe ...

The purpose of this proposal is to develop an automated Auditory Brainstem ResponseABRbased neurological screening device and software module that will enhance the early detection of autism and other neurological conditionsAutism Spectrum DisordersASDhave an incidence rate ofBased onmillion births in the United States innew cases of ASD will be diagnosed from that birth cohort aloneThe practice of ...

Project SummaryAbstract There is an urgent need of bioinformatic tools for mining glycan array data in order to accurately and statistically study the interactions between cell surface glycans and glycan binding proteinsWe propose here to develop a software and hardware integrated system for the interpretation of glycan array dataThe problem with existing glycan array data mining tools is that the ...