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Special Operations Forces (SOF) are an integral aspect of the US military. SOF operators are among the most elite and highly qualified individuals in the U.S. military. As such, extraordinary physical and mental demands are placed upon them to excel in extreme environments for extended periods of time. This unrelenting cycle of combat deployments and intense pre-deployment training shortens the fu ...

Face recognition performance using deep learning has seen dramatic improvements in recent years. This improvement has been fueled in part by the curation of large labeled training datasets with millions of images of hundreds of thousands of subjects.This results in effective generalization for matching over pose, illumination, expression and age variation, however these datasets have traditionally ...

Recognizing faces in low-light and nighttime conditions is a challenging problem due to the noisy and poor quality nature of the images.Thermal imaging is often used to obtain facial biometric in such conditions. Thermal face images, while having a strong signature at nighttime, are not typically maintained in biometric-enabled watch lists and so must be compared with visible-light face images to ...

Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathyCIPNcan be a chronicseverely debilitating consequence of cancer therapy for which there are no effective management strategiesMoreoverupwards ofof CIPN patients reported using prescription opioids for pain management despite the fact that there is only weak evidence that long term continuation of opioids provides clinically significant pain relief in these ...

Project Summary Abstract PreDxion BioLLC is a precision medicine diagnostic company developing an assay platformthe MicroKineassay cartridge and readerthat measures serum proteins in less thanminutes from a single drop of bloodThis fastactionable information allows for the first time individualized precision medicine aimed at reducing pediatric morbidity and mortality in pediatric sepsisthe number ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Melanoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and is estimated to account for overdeaths inin the United States aloneAlthough highly curable when detected earlytheyear survival rates decline precipitously for patients with regionaland metastaticmelanoma indicating a lack of efficacy of conventional therapiesand a strong need for novel therapies for this patient populationIn respons ...

ABSTRACT The Zika virusZIKVis the cause of an explosive pandemic of infections across South and Central Americathe Caribbeanand the southeastern region of the United StatesZIKV is a flavivirusa family of small positive strand RNA viruses that includes Dengue virusDENVWest Nile virusWNVYellow fever virusYFVand hepatitis C virusHCVZIKV is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the Aedes genusFor the ...

There is increasing interest in the use of biomarkers in clinical drug developmentwith much of thest Century Cures Act focused on encouraging this approachIdeallybiomarkers could provide and acute and objective read out of drug mechanism of actionpharmacodynamic biomarkersor prediction of later clinical benefit or harmsurrogate outcome measureHoweververy few biomarkers have been validated for rout ...

Project SummaryChildhood TB is estimated to contributeof the disease burden in high burden settingswith approximately a million cases per year inworldwideExisting gold standard diagnostic culture tools fail to confirm TB in most childrenwho typically have low bacterial counts and cannot produce sputumMore sensitive and child friendly diagnostic tools are urgently needed to diagnose TB in childrenC ...

Abstract Deep brain stimulationDBSwith implantable electrodes has been used for reduction of ethanol abuse and drug seeking behaviors in EuropeThe use of such deep brain stimulation procedures has been problematic because of concerns about invasiveness of the procedureApplicant has developed a new noninvasive method of transporting magnetic particles directly to target sites within the brainWe pro ...