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NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The annual U.S. consumption of steel reinforcement in concrete is close to 7 million tons, representing more than $6 billion of annual sales. Close to 35% of steel reinforcement is used in applications such as parking structures, bridges and waterfront structures which are prone to corrosion. These applications represent the targeted markets for the new class of glass fiber ...

The proposed project focuses on development of an inexpensive and field-ready device for rapid detection of perchlorate in water and soil with high sensitivity and selectivity at low LoD. Phase I will result in a field-ready perchlorate nanobiosensor, with 1 ppb LoD. This device will dramatically lower the time and cost of perchlorate analysis. The proposed biosensor will be suitable for field use ...

Wastewater treatment lagoons are the most widespread form of treatment in the United States for animal operations and rural domestic sewage. Treatment lagoons can be effective at removing BOD. They are not effective at reducing ammonia levels. Animal operations with recycled water from lagoons can experience high levels of ammonia in the water. This can result in severe odor problems and potential ...

Selecting crop and forestry plants based on growth performance is a very slow process, requiring as much as 5 to 10 years of observation under field conditions. This process limits the rate that a plant breeder or nursery person can select cultivars or clones with superior growth performance, adapted to particular climates and/or stress conditions. Our methodology employing heat conduction calor ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED MASS PROPAGATION AND FIELD TRANSFER TECHNIQUES FOR HARDWOOD FORESTRY SPECIES, USING EUCALYPTUS AS A MODEL GENUS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH BUILDS ON RECENT BREAKTHROUGHS IN FIELD TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY, MOST NOTABLY, IN THE AREAS OF LIGNIFICATION IN VITRO, DIRECT FIELD ROOTING OF PLANTLETS AND IN VITRO HARDENING TECHNIQUES. ADDITIONALLY, THE PROPOSED RESEAR ...

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The Phase I effort demonstrated that vegetative propagation can be a cost-effective replacement for seed in the production of transplants for seedless watermelon. Mass propagation techniques may now be economically applied to other field-transplanted horticultural crops and the potential benefits for U.S. agriculture can be extended to the rapid introduction of new varieties from several technolog ...

Recombinant subunit vaccines are gaining traction in recent development efforts and will constitute the majority of vaccines in the future. One of the major problems in designing recombinant protein subunit vaccines is that the antigens are often membrane proteins found on the surface of the pathogens. Expression technologies commercially available are not effective in producing correctly folded a ...

This proposal outlines the scope and prospective directions of research into the architecture, technology, methods and algorithms necessary for the building of the practically usable distributed system for dissemination, high-volume transportation, storage and management of large data files in heterogeneous world-wide networks, such as needed by the advanced geospatial computing. The specific topi ...

This small business innovative research proposal is directed to methods for generating hydrogen using anaerobic digestion. This patent pending system differs in three ways form other anaerobic systems now being tried: First the substrate to control PH in the digester for hydrogen production will be a waste product: second the digestion and hydrogen production will be high rate and third the proces ...