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In the context of post-combustion CO2 capture processes, solvents with fast CO2 absorption rates will require more energy for regeneration. This challenge is exacerbated when aqueous solvents are applied to the capture of post-combustion CO2 from a utility gas stream, which contains such unique characteristics as high volumetric flow rate, low CO2 vapor pressure, and the presence of gas contaminan ...

The current development of an electric power generation system for the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) is based on a low-risk extension of existing three-phase, switched reluctance machine (SRM) technology. This research program proposes to study an alternate two-phase SRM and its associated power-conditioning converter. By the nature of the proposed machine, it has 50% of its stator coils active at ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims of this proposal are to use a newly developed intracellular energy delivery technique to enhance resuscitation, and to study the relationship between tissue high-energy phosphate supplementation and tissue necrosis and apoptosis during hemorrhagic shock. In most western countries, trauma/hemorrhage is the leading cause of death up to the age ...

ABSTRACT: ADI and ASU propose to develop a novel methodology for blade peak stress prediction from limited strain gage/tip-timing measurements when multiple vibratory modes are present. The current protocol assumes that only one mode is present and only provides upper and lower bound estimates of the blade peak stress when multiple modes are important. It is proposed here to construct the blade m ...

ABSTRACT: In the future, numerous military database, documentation, and mission-critical information systems will be migrated to the clouds, due to cloud cost-efficiency and accessing flexibility. However, the cloud servers are generally untrusted either for data owners or users. In this proposal, A3IS (Attribute-based Algorithms for Assured Information Sharing) is proposed for dynamically and se ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the absence of effective, approved vaccines or therapeutic measures against dengue and other mosquito borne pathogens, public health efforts must focus on the control of mosquito vectors that are required for transmission. Unfortunately, effective control measures are not available against the invasive and medically important Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In the absence of effective approved drugs or vaccines vector control remains the only means of intervention for many against mosquito borne diseases This problem grows more complex with the recent establishment of multiple exotic mosquito species and mosquito borne pathogens Furthermore changing climate conditions are predicted to alter the traditional ra ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are an estimated 26 million Americans with early chronic kidney disease (CKD). Early diagnosis and treatment are the only cost-effective means to reverse this growing problem. NIH recognizes the challenge to diagnose CKD early during its initiation and development phases in order to prevent further renal damage, reduce cardiovascular risk, and minimize th ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative and malignant diseases of the central nervous system affect millions of Americans These diseases are often devastating and difficult to treat and effective drug delivery remains a significant challenge Infusion of drugs nto the brain parenchyma using convection enhanced delivery CED allows direct treatment of lesions circumventing the bl ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This project aims to generate blood tests for mild cognitive impairment MCI and conversion risk from MCI to full blown Alzheimerandapos s disease AD We have reported that systemic footprints increases in key micro RNA miR levels are identifiable in AD blood samples here we suggest that this is also true for MCI the pre AD phase Our recent ...