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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) In the area of cancer, microarray analysis is being used to identify specific differences between normal and disease tissues. Such efforts are leading to the identification of small gene sets, or signatures, that

Our ability to rapidly respond to new chemical and biological threats is limited by a lack of facilities, personnel, and equipment able to conduct precision molecular analysis. We can remove this bottleneck by deploying a protective network of new automated, high performance surveillance equipment around ordinary warfighters and civilians for the first time. Sensitive enough to detect all manner o ...

ABSTRACT Neurodegeneration is implicated in almost all major causes of retinal vision loss and specifically in inherited degenerative eye disease. While visual function tests and major imaging modalities, such optical coherence tomography, are favored diagnostic and treatment management tools for symptomatic patients, these clinical tools are unsatisfactory as prognostic indicators or as endpoints ...

In this Phase I Project, Oceanit will implement a decentralized and distributed blockchain security solution on the vehicle network to enable incorruptable and resilient communications.

Street Smarts VR (SSVR) seeks to conduct Phase I customer discovery process to determine whether adaptation of its existing fully-immersive VR training system can solve the US Navy’s lack of a small arms / anti-terrorism force protection training simulator for use onboard US Navy Ships and Submarines both ashore and at sea. The SSVR system is a fully-immersive VR training tool for non-defense an ...

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The goal of this study is to evaluate the utility of non-invasive and cost-effective digital cognitive biomarkers for concurrent prediction of amyloid positivity in pre-clinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). As AD research has shifted its focus to earlier stages of the disease course, overcoming the economic and logistical barriers of identifying cognitively norm ...

Research efforts of the Poly-Orth International demonstrated feasibility of the novel “Residuum-Integration Prosthetic Technology" to be used in direct skeletal attachment of limb prosthetics. The technology includes a “Skin and Bone Integrated Pylon” (SBIP), which connects the residuum with external limb prosthesis and can be especially beneficial for patients who can not use traditional so ...

This project involves research that supports the development of a prototype system to identify active factors in large complex HSCB simulation models. The approach is based on a Bayesian inference technique for finding active factors in fractionated screening experiments. The project will a) continue research on algorithm enhancements based on the results of Phase I, 2) continue research into s ...

There is a growing recognition that simulations representing social and political phenomena are very useful to today’s military to support planning and execution of operations associated with irregular warfare. While many technical challenges are being addressed by DARPA, social science simulations still present an overarching problem: methods and capabilities to show that a simulation is work ...