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PREVALENCE STUDIES FOR HIV-1 INFECTION IN NEWBORNS ARE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN BECAUSE THE COMMONLY USED ANTIBODY ASSAYS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR TESTING BABIES. BABIES CARRYTHE MATERNAL ANTIBODY FOR UP TO 12 TO 18 MONTHS AFTER BIRTH,SO ALL BABIES BORN TO SEROPOSITIVE MOTHERS WILL ALSO TEST POSITIVE. YET 40 TO 50 PERCENT OF THESE BABIES ARE NOT ACTUALLY INFECTED. IN THIS RESEARCH, POLYMERASE CHAIN REAC ...

THE LONG-RANGE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT ARE: (1) TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL CERTIFICATION SYSTEM WHEREBY PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO WORK WITH ELDERLY PEOPLE IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS CAN RECEIVE UNIFORM AND VALIDATED TRAINING IN FIRE SAFETY, AND (2) TO DEMONSTRATE A DECREASE IN THE RISK OF FIRE, FIRE DEATHS, AND FIRE INJURIES AMONG THE ELDERLY. THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE A TWO-LEVEL TRAINING PROGRAM. LEVEL I IS DE ...

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OF 28 MILLION AMERICANS OVER AGE 65, 8.5 MILLION LIVE ALONE. MORE THAN 50 PERCENT SUFFER FROM SUCH CHRONIC AILMENTS AS ARTHRITIS, HYPERTENSION, AND HEART DISEASE, ALL OFTEN REQUIRING DAILY MEDICATION. U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH RECORDS ESTIMATE THAT 125,000 DEATHS OCCUR EACH YEAR FROM THE MISUSE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS ALONE, AND THAT ONE IN EVERY TWO PATIENTS TAKING MEDICINE REGULARLY MAKES ERRORS SUFFIC ...

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO PRODUCE PDESYS, A SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS THAT PROVIDES AN INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR DEFINING, SOLVING, ANDVIEWING THE SOLUTIONS TO SYSTEMS OF PARABOLIC AND ELLIPTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE'S) ON ARBITRARY ONE- ANDTWO-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL DOMAINS. PDE'S OF THE TYPES TO BE HANDLED BY THE PDESYS SOFTWARE ARE UBIQUITOUS I ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS SUBMITTED JOINTLY BY DYNATHERM AND ITS AFFILIATE THERMACORE. A STUDY IS PROPOSED THAT WILL EVALUATE SEVERAL THERMAL CONTROL CONCEPTS FOR SMALL SATELLITES WITH A NOMINAL THERMAL DISSIPATION OF 1 KW. FIVE CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE PROPOSAL: DEPLOYABLE RADIATORS, THERMAL STORAGE, HEAT PUMPS, VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE HEAT PIPES AND INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL HEAT PIPES. EACH CONCEPT ...

THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE CHANGE IN THE ASSESSMENT OF HANDWRITING SINCE A SCORING SYSTEM WAS DEVISED BY FREEMAN IN 1914. AS A RESULT, LITTLE IS KNOWN REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP OF HANDWRITING TO OTHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A SERIES OF COMPUTERIZED TOOLBOX FUNCTIONS THAT WILL ALLOW THE OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF HANDWRITING. A COMPUTER GRAPHICS TABLET ATTACHED TO A PERSONAL COMPU ...

THIS GRANT WILL SEEK THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED DNA SYNTHESIZER THAT IS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE FASTER AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN CURRENT COMMERCIAL DNA SYNTHESIZERS WHILE UTILIZING STANDARD DNA CHEMISTRY. THE GOAL IS TO AUTOMATE THE SOLVENT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR THE WAFER DNA SYNTHESIS DEVICE AND TO EVENTUALLY AUTOMATE ALL ASPECTS OF THE DEVICE. ONCE COMPLETE AUTOMATION IS ACHIEVED, THE WAFER DN ...

THE CILIARY GANGLION INNERVATES SEVERAL IMPORTANT EYE TISSUES, INCLUDING THE CILIARY MUSCLE AND BODY, AND HAS BEEN SHOWN TO REGULATE AQUEOUS OUTFLOW AND ACCOMMODATION. THE EYE DISORDERS, GLAUCOMA AND PRESBYOPIA, MAY INVOLVE THE CILIARY GANGLION THROUGH ITS REGULATION OF AQUEOUS OUTFLOW AND VISUAL ACCOMMODATION. A SUBSTANCE THAT COULD DIRECTLY AND SPECIFICALLY STIMULATE THE CILIARY GANGLION MAY BE ...

A SOLID-STATE INFRARED SPECTROMETER USING THE ACOUSTO-OPTIC TUNABLE FILTER (AOTF) COUPLED TO FLUORIDE GLASS FIBERS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO MONITOR AIRWAY GASES SUCH AS CARBON DIOXIDE, NITROUS OXIDE, AND THE ANESTHESIA AGENTS. THIS SYSTEM CAN RAPIDLY ACCESS MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS TO IDENTIFY THE VARIOUS ANESTHESIA AGENTS AND DETERMINE THE CONCENTRATION OF THE GASES. FIBER OPTIC COUPLING ALLOWS THE MEASU ...