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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The congenital long QT syndrome LQTS is thought to occur in in infants and cause of deaths from SIDS sudden infant death syndrome Electrocardiograms ECGs can detect LQTS before fatal cardiac events happen In our Phase I STTR project we successfully developed and tested an ECG device designed for LQTS screening in newborns This device n ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In this STTR project we present EyeMark a set of advanced image analysis tools for automated computation of biomarkers for diabetic retinopathy DR using retinal fundus images Specifically we will develop tools for computation of microaneurysm MA appearance and disappearance rates jointly known as turnover rates for use as a biomarker in quantifying D ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are parathyroid glands in the neck and they are responsible for the production of parathyroid hormone which maintains calcium homeostasis throughout the body They are difficult to identify relative to the other tissues in the neck such s lymph nodes fat thyroid etc This has resulted in the incidence of accidental parathyroid removal ranging from ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Using mouse monoclonal antibodies mAbs raised against the mediators of quorum sensing QS the Auto Inducing Peptides AIPs researchers at The Scripps Research Institute TSRI have demonstrated that S aureus infections can be prevented in animal challenge models This approach known as quorum quenching QQ is unique in at least two significant ways fi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The purpose of this Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer STTR project is to complete development and evaluate usability and effectiveness of the Wraparound Team Monitoring System Wrap TMS a web based electronic behavioral health information system EBHIS for the most widely implemented care coordination model in childrenandapos s behavioral healt ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In Phase our team was able to enhance the ABM B Alert system for use in on the road evaluations by reducing the overall profile of the hardware system introducing real time commenting for marking events in real world activities and assessing and confirming current artifact rejection algorithms for sufficiency in real world environments In addition the ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chest pain in patients presenting to the emergency department ED present a clinical dilemma transfer for emergent coronary revascularization admit overnight for cardiac telemetry and stress testing or discharge home with medical follow up In this proposal we hypothesize that a novel thrombus specific Spectral Computed Tomography Multicolored CT nanopar ...