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Special Operations Forces (SOF) are an integral aspect of the US military. SOF operators are among the most elite and highly qualified individuals in the U.S. military. As such, extraordinary physical and mental demands are placed upon them to excel in extreme environments for extended periods of time. This unrelenting cycle of combat deployments and intense pre-deployment training shortens the fu ...

Face recognition performance using deep learning has seen dramatic improvements in recent years. This improvement has been fueled in part by the curation of large labeled training datasets with millions of images of hundreds of thousands of subjects.This results in effective generalization for matching over pose, illumination, expression and age variation, however these datasets have traditionally ...

In the proposed study we will develop and evaluate a product called My MESSAGE Multimedia Ecopsychosocial Support System for Alzheimer s within Geriatric Environments which will circumvent the limitations of traditional visual cues and also provide unprecedented flexibility and precision for assisting with wayfinding and reducing other challenging behaviors in PWD The target consumer for MM w ...

Herpes simplex viruses and HSV HSV cause a wide range of significant diseases including oral genital lesions corneal blindness and encephalitis HSV and HSV are both transmitted sexually and can infect babies during birth Therapy for HSV relies primarily on nucleoside analogs such as acyclovir ACV which are insufficiently effective and resistant viruses are becoming common amo ...

Project Summary A research plan is proposed to engineer goats that produce fully human immunoglobulinThese animals will be evaluated as a candidate platform system for production of both targeted therapeutic immunoglobulin as well as reagent antibodies for standards and controls of serological assays of human clinical samplesPrevious studies have demonstrated that ungulates such as cattle can prod ...

Abstract To evaluate the therapeutic applications of stem cells it is essential to develop translational research using several animal species Rabbit is a useful model for biomedical research It has been used to study a number of human diseases Compared to mice rabbits have a more similar embryology and stem cell biology to those of humans an adult body size comparable to human infants that ...

The binding sites of proteins include smaller regions called hot spots that are major contributors to the binding free energy and hence are crucial to binding any ligand at that site Hot spots can be determined by screening libraries of fragment sized organic molecules for binding to the target protein by X ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance NMR The computational mapping algori ...

Abstract Gene correction therapy is one of the most important application directions in regenerative medicine Emerging technologies such as CRISPR clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats Cas CRISPR associated protein Zinc Finger Nuclease ZFN and Transcription Activator Like Effector Nuclease TALEN have enabled efficient and precise gene editing in a wide spectrum of ...

Abstract Caveolae at the endothelial cells surface can selectively rapidly and actively pump targeted antibodies out of the bloodstream and into underlying tissue in vivo even when they are conjugated to high molecular weight cargo Based on this exciting recent discovery we also found that caveolae pumping system enables unprecedented tumor specific targeting and penetration Taken together ...

Summary The use of mass spectrometry MS for quantitative protein characterization has increased dramatically identifying and quantifying thousands of proteins is no longer a heroic task nor is characterizing therapeutic proteins in detail Due to widely available software quantitative mass spectrometry has become routine and widely used for addressing questions in basic biology translational ...