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Abstract Nearly one in every ten Americans, and one in every three over the age of 65 years, suffers from osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disorder that causes progressive cartilage loss. Current therapeutic options include physical and occupational therapy, acupuncture, medication, intraarticular injection, and surgery. As total joint surgery (arthroplasty) is costly and has a maximum li ...

To address the Air Force’s need for a capability to test a line-replaceable unit or subsystem of ICBMs or air-delivered weapon systems in a benchtop test bed, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Safeguarded Cyber Testing and Training Laboratory for Evaluation of System Security (SCyTTLES), which has been proven feasible in Phase I. This innovative cy ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes the development and feasibility testing of an interactive, web-based drug and alcohol prevention program for college student-athletes. There is a serious need for easily accessible and effective drug and alcohol prevention for this high-risk group. In general, college student-athletes are considered to be at greater risk for abusing al ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): (no more than 30 lines of text) This application proposes to test the feasibility of developing an online training program, Picture Me Alcohol Free (PMAF), intended to empower youth to become active participants in comm unity-based efforts to reduce underage alcohol use and related consequences. Underage drinking continues to be serious public health concern in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): College student-athletes are at increased risk of heavy alcohol use, smokeless tobacco use, and the use of performance enhancing substances as compared to non-athlete college students. Despite recent research underscoring the need for athlete-tailored interventions, there are no evidence-based options for the prevention of substance use among college student-at ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes to build on the successful Phase I Picture Me Alcohol Free (PMAF) feasibility pilot study. PMAF is a community-based program designed to train groups of youth to a) represent contributing factors and consequences (e.g., social availability, alcohol-involved crashes) of underage drinking in their communities through a specific photograp ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Approximately one third of all U S adults and children are obese and at risk for a wide range of related chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease hypertension diabetes stroke osteoarthritis sleep apnea and certain types of cancer The Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and other expert resources recognize that although indivi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant College student athletes are at increased risk of heavy alcohol use smokeless tobacco use and the use of performance enhancing substances as compared to non athlete college students Despite recent research underscoring the need for athlete tailored interventions there are no evidence based options for the prevention of substance use among college student at ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this SBIR project is to develop a method for creating algorithmically generated control groups These will be composed of synthetic cases that have two characteristics pretest similarity to whatever prevention treatment group may present itself and patterns of change over time that closely mimic the normal course of alcohol and drug use d ...

PROJECT ABSTRACTThe goal of this Phase II SBIR project is to develop a method for creating algorithmically generated control groupsvirtual controlsThese will be composed of synthetic cases that have two characteristicspretest similarity to whatever prevention treatment group may present itself andpatterns of change over time that closely mimic the normal course of alcohol and drug use developmentT ...