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We propose a breakthrough technique for ultra rapid, sensitive detection of cancer specific chromosome rearrangements in solution to facilitate bulk quantification of tumor cells for early detection of metastatic tumor cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes,and peripheral blood. Combining two separate, novel techniques (1) hybridization of chromosomes in suspension using (2) Repeat Sequence Depleted D ...

The proposed SBIR Phase II effort to develop a Personal Health and Fitness Wizard (PHFW) will, within the first year, year a fully functional Internet-based site the provides individual users with easily accessible, tailored guidance concerning theirpersonal health and fitness. The PHFW will to beyond simply providing health and fitness advice: it will function as a

The goal of this project is to develop an attention-guided pattern and geospatial analysis system for imagery exploitation. This new technology will be based on the dynamic receptive field model of visual attention that has emerged from neuroscienceresearch. The attention system holds the key to the success of the vision systems of many higher form animals struggling to survive: They see what they ...

Certain weapons produce blast waves capable of trauma to gas-filled organs. There is an immediate need for a blast mitigation jacket to prevent lung damage when training with such weapons, and a similar need for combatants. Our first objective in PhaseII is to complete the research and development of fundamental blast mitigation concepts developed during Phase I. During Phase I, we used analyti ...

Certain weapons produce blast waves capable of trauma to gas-filled organs. There is an immediate need for a blast mitigation jacket to prevent lung damage when training with such weapons, and a similar need for combatants. Our first objective in PhaseII is to complete the research and development of fundamental blast mitigation concepts developed during Phase I. During Phase I, we used analyti ...

Current serum biomarkers for cancer do not approach the ideal of 95% sensitivity andspecificity. Tumor-associated fatty acid synthase (FAS) has been identified as animmunohistochemical marker potentially useful in monitoring tumor aggressiveness andpredicting disease course. FAS can be detected in sera of individuals with pre-neoplasticdiseases, as levels increase as disease progresses. In a fi ...

FSCX will develop a methodology and system design that will lead to a Phase II SBIR prototype, which will provide automated, decision support products to improve collective performance in training and real world operations. The prototype will improveindividual and collective understanding in information intensive, digital environments. FSCX calls this prototype SpectoAgnito, a coined term meanin ...

It was once observed that weather and terrain have a greater impact on battles than any other physical factor - including weapons. The DOD goal of

Information Extraction & Transport Inc. (IET) will develop a revolutionary advance in capability for geospatial information databases that will support future analysts in providing responsive support to military operations. The capability provides acomputational hypothesis space able to support advanced reasoning about features distributed in time and space based on diverse sources of information. ...

Lynne Gilfillan Associates (LGA) Phase I research allowed them to identify and refine a set of foundational constructs on which they propose to build an Integrated Agent Environment. This Phase II research effort will require them to design an integratedsemantic/contextual knowledge representation structure, integrate information retrieval functionality to extract conceptual content from resources ...