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Improving vehicle fuel efficiency for the military can significantly reduce costs and reduce risk to solider safety. One way to improve vehicle efficiency for new and legacy vehicles is to reduce frictional loses in the drivetrain through use of lower viscosity lubricants. However, this comes with the risk of reducing durability of drivetrain components through increased wear, pitting and scuffing ...

Approximately 70% of sentinel events in medical care are related to communication mishaps, and despite regular and frequent occurrence, an even higher percentage (80%) of severe medical errors are related to miscommunication during handoffs (i.e., the transferring of information, responsibility, and authority for patient care from one provider to another). The TiER1 team proposes to address challe ...

Micro-RDC has developed portable radiation effects test structures that scale to new process nodes.These structures will enable the investigation of the effects of radiation on the new technology from the material processing level as well as the circuit level.Fabricating the chosen structures and the refinement of software to extract the model parameters will be completed in this effort.A suite of ...

Traumatic brain injuryTBIis a substantial health care issue affecting both civilian and military populationsAlthough extremes of head injury are recognizablemild to moderate TBImmTBIis more difficult to diagnose leading to a need for the identification of circulating biomarkers of brain injury that may facilitate early identificationUsing a rat model of TBI we identified a novel marker of neuronal ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Melanoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and is estimated to account for overdeaths inin the United States aloneAlthough highly curable when detected earlytheyear survival rates decline precipitously for patients with regionaland metastaticmelanoma indicating a lack of efficacy of conventional therapiesand a strong need for novel therapies for this patient populationIn respons ...

There is increasing interest in the use of biomarkers in clinical drug developmentwith much of thest Century Cures Act focused on encouraging this approachIdeallybiomarkers could provide and acute and objective read out of drug mechanism of actionpharmacodynamic biomarkersor prediction of later clinical benefit or harmsurrogate outcome measureHoweververy few biomarkers have been validated for rout ...

Project Summary Abstract Universal Adherence is an emerging medical device company dedicated to improving adherence to ocular medications through innovative technical solutionsOur proposed Devers Drop DeviceDwill accurately track when a patient removes an eye drop bottle capcommunicate usage data wirelessly to a database that researchers can accessand send alerts to patients when a medication is d ...

Abstract Deep brain stimulationDBSwith implantable electrodes has been used for reduction of ethanol abuse and drug seeking behaviors in EuropeThe use of such deep brain stimulation procedures has been problematic because of concerns about invasiveness of the procedureApplicant has developed a new noninvasive method of transporting magnetic particles directly to target sites within the brainWe pro ...

Project SummaryThe objective of this supplementation request is to further our recent advances in the development of thewell Immuno CometChip assay results and build a prototypewell preformer giving the assay more utility and increasing commercial viability

AbstractA major shortfall in clinical care for diabetes is a rapid and accurate screen for progression to diseaseCurrent criteria involve HLA haplotypeand the presence of auto antibodiesAAGenome wide associated studiesGWASrevealed only immune associated genes including HLA as T D predictorsThe ability to differentiate from other diseases was very limitedPre typediabetesp T Dis now being identified ...