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Long-duration wide-area surveillance missions increasingly are space-based. MEO orbits offer space-based radar systems more time on station, but require very large array apertures on the order of 100m in diameter. Achieving larger apertures with smaller, lighter launch packages and stable on-orbit pointing is a challenge that E-Textiles promises to meet. Textile processes can be used to achieve a ...

Our solution is a generic "gateway/edge translation product", for Secure Legacy Application Integration with the NCES Enterprise Network structure (called “SLAIN”), that provides a modular implementation of the following capabilities to enhance Legacy systems and enable them to interact in a more Net-Centric role in support of the Navy and FORCEnet guidance: • IA interoperability (few legacy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hospital acquired microbial infections are the fourth largest killer in America taking lives and adding $ B to hospital costs The emergence of drug resistant microbes has further amplified public health concern Fungi are prolific producers of anti microbial secondary metabolites SM and since the turn of the century have provided of bioactive m ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to apply item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to achieve major advances in the standardization of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) health-related quality of life (HRQOL) metrics, in the efficiency of data collection and processing technologies, and in the usefulness of clinician and patient reports. In contrast to static ins ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a tool for evaluating the functional impact of headaches that uses computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to achieve more practical and more precise assessments by matching the questions to each patient's headache severity level. In previous work, we developed a headache impact item bank that improved score precision and validity and provided measuremen ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing Inter-alpha Inhibitor proteins (lalp) as an effective protective agent against exposure to anthrax, a lethal biological warfare agent. Inter-alpha inhibitor proteins are natural serine protease inhibitors found in relatively high concentration in human plasma. The protein complex h ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing Inter-alpha Inhibitor proteins (lalp) as an effective protective agent against exposure to anthrax, a lethal biological warfare agent. Inter-alpha inhibitor proteins are natural serine protease inhibitors found in relatively high concentration in human plasma. The protein complex h ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Malignant melanoma, with an estimated growth in incidence of about 6% per year for decades, causes considerable loss of life. Yet melanoma can be easily cured if detected early. Digital dermoscopy has shown promise for more accurate detection, particularly at an early stage. Recent conferences have highlighted a general agreement on definition of dermoscopic fe ...

Missiles, use electro-explosive devices (EEDs) to perform mulitple functions during operation. This effort seeks ways to improve on the EED"s reliability and lower the failure or inadvertent activation rate of these devices. During Phase I, SEA CORP investigated replacing EEDs with commercial off the shelf (COTS) automotive airbag inflators to perform the required pneumatic functions of variou ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alternative nanomaterial and gene transfer solutions are needed to access the potential held in intracellular imaging biopharmaceuticals gene therapy and stem cell research Delivery of small and macromolecules including nucleic acids drug molecules imaging agents peptides antibodies and enzymes into cells is criti ...