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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 ...

The long term goal of the project is to use malaria parasite specific low-molecular-weight metabolites as biomarkers for development of sensitive, low-cost, simple, battery-operated field-deployable urine or saliva diagnostic biosensor for detection of malaria infection. Four malaria parasite-specific metabolites (3-Methylindole, Succinylacetone, S-Methyl-L-thiocitrulline, O-Arachidonoyl Glycidol ...

Phase II goals will be to: 1. To develop a production version of an Integration toolkit (ITK) that can deployed at low cost to clinics using spina bifida EMR (to improve the efficiency of their participation in the NSBPR) 2. To pilot the ITK at selected SB-EMR clinics 3. To evaluate the impact of the production version of the ITK The ITK will be developed based on design principles & specifica ...

Increasing girls' access to medically accurate, comprehensive & confidential sexual health information is critical in sustaining the momentum in teen pregnancy reduction. Our goal is to put the power of sexual health information in English & in Spanish in the hands of millions of girls through Crush 2.0 a youth-engaging mobile application grounded in the Theory of Planned behavior and self-effi ...

The human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most common intrauterine transmitted viral agents, leading to congenital CMV infection in three to ten newborns per thousand. Depending on the preexisting status of the mother, this infection leads to more or less severe symptoms and in about 2-6% the infected children die as a consequence of the infection. Beside this, sequelae occur in a number of ...

This proposal will use interactive mobile technology decision aids for in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients. Phase I will focus on education patients on appropriate embryo transfer numbers. The advent of assisted reproductive technology methods has increased the incidences of high-order multiple births, which are a leading cause of long-term child morbidity, gestational hypertension, placenta p ...

The development & commercialization of an innovative, simple-to-use, durable & cost-effective system capable of delivering fluoride to small & med-size potable water systems is essential to increase the availability of fluoridated water to 80 percent of the nation's population by 2020 (CDC's Health People goal). To achieve this goal, a research & development Plan has been created using sodium flu ...

Physical vulnerability, visual impairment, mobility limitations, and cognitive disorders can make selecting a safe & accessible walking route very challenging for many older adults. Familiar online mapping & wayfinding services can be helpful, but they do not answer important questions about the built environment that older & disabled adult face on a daily basis. What are the sidewalks like alon ...

Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection causes more cases of congenital disease than 29 currently screened conditions in the US combined & several newborn screening disorders in EU countries. Congenital CMV infection rate is 0.7% in developed countries with 18% of infected newborns developing permanent hearing & vision loss, or intellectual disability (5,000 in the US each year). Ninety percent of ...

HCV infects about 3% of the world's population and most people are unaware of the infection status. About 80% of individuals with HCV infection develop chronic hepatitis and many progress to have cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). An early diagnosis in the course of the disease not only increases the chances successful treatment, but also effectively limits further transmission of HCV ...