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Brain injury frequently results in cognitive impairment reducing an individual?s ability to judge driving situations accurately. Rehabilitation professionals use on-road tests to determine if an individual is safe to drive, but these tests are typically performed under calm conditions and offer little information on the individual?s responses to typical, real-life driving challenges. STISIM is a r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cryptosporidium parvum is a significant cause of diarrheal disease of human and veterinary importance worldwide. There is currently no effective, specific therapy approved for cryptosporidiosis. The overall goal of this project is to develop safe and effective, carbohydrate-based and lectin-based therapy for this disease ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):Reliable operation of a portable defibrillator depends critically on the "condition" of its battery. This condition is determined by available energy and at what power level this energy can be delivered to a load. With the initiative towards widespread deployment of portable defibrillators, a low-cost device capable of accurately measuring both state-of-charge ( ...

Today, promising new protein targets for small molecule drugs are being discovered rapid. With increasing frequency, the 3D structures of these proteins are available or can be modeled from known protein structures. Demand is therefor growing for software to support structure-based discovery of protein ligands as candidate drugs. However, existing software leaves enormous room for improvement in a ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks support for an STTR Phase II project to complete development of a computer-based product intended for teaching children with moderate to severe mental retardation, autism, and other intellectual disabilities. The product is primarily targeted to those students who lack the behavioral prerequisites to participate in computer-assisted instr ...