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Smoking is the most common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States Each year smoking causes the premature death of over Americans and $ billion of economic damage Effective treatment is possible but barriers to its implementation limits the success rate of smoking cessation in the general population to about Notably reward based incentive smoking cessat ...

Despite significance advances in anti retroviral treatments HIV associated neurocognitive disorder HAND remains prevalent and can affect a broad range of everyday activities An effective brief cognitive screen that could be implemented in busy HIV clinics where clinicians have limited time to provide care for patients with complex medical psychiatric and cognitive conditions has the poten ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant A disparity exists between rural and urban suburban children with suspected ASD in the time interval between first identification of a possible problem and a firm diagnosis This project will investigate the effect of a recently developed and validated remote diagnostic method leveraging an evidence based Smartphone Telehealth service called NODA tm for auti ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heavy alcohol use is common and presents a major social economic challenge Although chronic use of small amounts of alcohol is not always harmful heavier use andgt drinks day is generally harmful and frequently leads to alcoholism or as it is termed in ICD Alcohol Use Disorder AUD AUD affects of the U S population and causes over $ billio ...

Approximately million Americans are affected by Alzheimer s disease AD and up to million will be affected by At present there is no preventive or curative treatment for AD or in age related cognitive decline and clinical trials of cognitive modifying compounds have not succeeded in identifying an effective treatment Despite a lot of efforts no candidates are available to slow do ...

Advanced Ceramic Fibers, LLC (ACF) completed the Navy SBIR Phase I Base Program and clearly demonstrated the feasibility of our approach to create a truly robust composite for turbine engines that exceeds the known boundaries for ceramic composites and the Navy performance objectives for this Topic. Our engineered materials approach involved in-depth background experience in ceramic matrix composi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Among men prostate cancer is the most common non skin cancer and second leading cause of cancer death with over new diagnoses expected in Approximately of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime Current treatment options for prostate cancer however have sub optimal incidences of side effects that have a significant impact on pa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lung cancer is responsible for more cancer deaths than breast prostate and colon cancers combined Minimal improvements in the five year survival rate for lung cancer have occurred over the past thirty years Recently a mortality benefit has been demonstrated for lung cancer screening using low dose computed tomography LDCT in people with high cancer risk ...

Liquid metal cooled fission reactors are both moderated and cooled by a liquid metal solution. These reactors are typically very compact and they can be used in regular electric power production, for naval and space propulsion systems or in fission surface power systems for planetary exploration. Liquid metals in fusion reactors can be used in heat exchange, tritium breeder systems and in first wa ...

A cognitive computing natural-language question/answer system for defense contracting documents is proposed. The results of the Phase I effort are discussed. A detailed Phase II technical plan is presented. This includes refinements to the Phase I work, extended build-out and testing of the proposed system. Implementation plans are presented.