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The purpose of this Phase I proposal is to investigate the feasibility of developing a comprehensive Failure Engineering and Analysis Toolkit (FEAT) that can be seamlessly integrated with a variety of data tools over ODBC/SQL. The research will focus on mechanical parts failure data and analysis for both the production and design stages of a product's life cycle. Elements of FEAT will include a ...

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The proposed project seeks to identify superior strains of striped bass by evaluating the progeny of five wild strains collected from a broad geographic range. The collections are designed to evaluate genetically distinct strains. In order to control for the effect of family differences, five families will be collected from each of the strains and their performance will be evaluated and compared ...

Open surgical castration is a routine procedure on neonatal boars to prevent the offensive odor known as "boar taint" which is released when meat from affected animals is cooked. Castration produces a predictable incidence of side-effects including stress, hemorrhage, hernia, infection and mortality, which become more prevalent if castration is performed after weaning. Castration also produces a ...

The bacterial disease enteric redmouth (ERM) and the viral disease infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) can cause high mortalities in salmoid fish. Both diseases are of economic significance to the aquaculture industry. Commercial vaccines consisting of lysed Yersinia ruckeri, the etiological agent of ERM, have been highly effective but viral vaccines for salmonid fish are not yet marketed. The ...

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