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Evolution of an Adaptable Prosthetic Foot Design for Normalization ofBiomechanics During Community Participation Summary/AbstractThe vision of this project is to improve the functional physical mobility of people with lower extremity amputations especially on uneven ground, side-slopes or when foot placement varies from side-to-side. People with amputations will be enabled to confidently participa ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low-cost, point-of-care, mobile device-based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos;s murmur, the most common innocent (benign and harmless) heart murmur of childhood. This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over half a million children unnecessarily referred to ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal develops a novelartificial intelligenceAIenabledmobile treatment delivery method that fulfills the need for a robustsecuretechnology based peer support platform to support patients with opioid use disordersOUDsThe majority of individuals with OUDs in the United States do not receive any formal substance use treatmentand growing evidence suggests that many OUD patients ...

Methamphetamine use disorder is associated with damage to regions of the brain that control cognitive and psychiatric functionOne third to one half of adults with methamphetamine use disorder experience cognitive impairments and other psychiatric symptoms that significantly impact treatment outcomesincreased relapse and lower treatment retention ratesMounting evidence demonstrates how immune facto ...

Project Summary Abstract The advent of the Zika virusZIKVepidemic around the world has and will cause problems for the correct diagnosis of flavivirus infectionsFor many yearsDENV serological diagnosis was relatively straightforwardHoweverafter the recent ZIKV epidemiccross reactive antibodiesAbsgenerated after ZIKV infection will bind to DENV even if the patient has never had DENVThe only FDA app ...

Fluorescent nanoparticlesFNPare becoming increasingly popular in biomedical imaging and taggingCompared to molecule based fluorophoresFNP are typically brighter and more photostableThey can be functionalized with more than one tagging moleculeused for the tagging and tracing of specific moleculescellstissuesBrighter fluorescence facilitates more sensitive labelingand in many casesa lower limit of ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Genomic instabilityinduced by DNA damageand partly mitigated by DNA repair and antioxidantsplays a critical role in the pathogenesis of many major human diseasessuch as neurodegenerationcancer and cardiovascular diseasetogether with agingThere is a critical need for automated assays that can perform these assessmentsand bring them into greater routine usewhich will help advance our ...

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) affects an ever growing population. While this disease typically has been associated with juveniles, the disease in adult populations is rapidly increasing. The defining clinical component is insulin loss, which occurs because of sustained inflammation in the islets. At present there is no means to prevent or reverse insulin loss. A major inflammatory pathway in T1D that cont ...

Most standard-of-care tools and techniques for evaluating neck disorders are subjective, unreliable, and do not provide actionable information for providers, payers, and organizations to deliver efficient and effective care. This lack of objective neck he

Thegoal is to develop asoftwaretool that implementsa novelapproach applicableto fitgeneral pharmacologic, toxicology, or other biomedical data, that mayexhibita non-monotonic dose-responserelationship for which thecurrent parametricmodels fail. Thesoftwareexplores dose-responserelationships using both monotonicand non-monotonicmodels,and estimates theassociated doseresponsecurves,which can further ...