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Overmillion Americans are currently providing unpaid care to a family memberrelativeor friend with Alzheimer s disease or related dementiaWhile caregiving can be a positive experience that brings meaning and an increased sense of purposeit can also take a tollNearlyof Alzheimer s and dementia caregivers rate their emotional distress as high or very highand as many assuffer from depressionCaregiver ...

Response Technologies will attempt to qualify to MIL-DTL-27422Fs phase I performance testing criteria for thefuel cell test cubes[Class BSemi rigid or self-supporting fuel construction, Type ISelf-sealing, and Protection Level CFull self-sealing against 50 caliber and partial self-sealing against 14.5 mm] .Response Technologiesuses an additive manufacturing process that initially creates a textile ...

Project Summary Abstract We propose a new approach to the decontamination of central venous catheters and the prevention of central line associated bloodstream infectionsCLABSIan important healthcare associated infectionCLABSIs cost the US healthcare system approximately $billion annuallyPronovostNEJMAdditionallyCLABSIs can be life threateningespecially in the very young and critically illEven whe ...

Nearlymillion Americans ageand olderneed treatment for a substance use disorderSUDWhile onlyof individuals requiring treatment for a SUD receive itan estimated two thirds see a primary care or urgent care provider everymonthsPrimary care providers are in a unique position to perform ScreeningBrief Interventionand Referral to TreatmentSBIRTWith Phase I contract fundingPro Change developed and pilot ...

Response Technologies (RT) seeks to determine the technical feasibility of a: scalable, economical, repeatable, and optimized polymeric matrix (RTPM). RTPM shall have universal fuel compatibility and could replace incumbent reticulated polyurethane foams in explosion suppression fuel tanks. RT’s process utilizes additive manufacturing to produce polymeric parts from 0.5 to 20 PCF. This will be f ...

Due to growing requirements for weather exploitation across a wide variety of mission applications, coupled with high perishability of the environmental data, the dissemination of data for use in weather impact analysis is putting an increasing strain on the bandwidth connecting the AFW to its consumers. Additionally, the AFW Enterprise has not yet taken full advantage of emerging DoD cloud platfo ...

Propel LLC will develop novel and innovative low cost fire resistant (FR) polymers and yarns. These FR materials will be spun with cotton, and new innovative low cost FR NYCO textiles produced. The performance objective will be to meet the physical performance requirements for the USMCs Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform, with FR properties based on those for the USMCs Fire Resistant Organization ...

Seam failures of flexible inflatable hulls is the primary reason for failures of military RHIBS and CRCs.These failures are a result of the current manufacturing methods being used, and which have been in place for over fifty years.Whats more, the manufacturing methods and fragmented supply chain of these hulls result in very long and unreliable lead times.These shortcomings impact the survivabili ...

The primary goal of this proposed research is to develop a rapid point of care test that assesses the risk of neonatal sepsisNSand or necrotizing enterocolitisNECin infants based on Inter alpha inhibitor proteinsIAIPlevels in bloodThe test is expected to be simpleuser friendlyportable and suitable for use in the NICUNS and NEC are associated with high mortality and morbidityincluding adverse neuro ...

The Phase I of the SBIR “Smart Fault Management” project aims to demonstrate how the fault management process can be innovated by exploiting concepts from a combination of well-established and emerging disciplines such as Bayesian Statistics, GPU-accelerated numerical simulations, Data Science, and Machine Learning that are disrupting the current status quo in many scientific and engineering f ...