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PROJECT SUMMARY Cholera is an acute and severe disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae that is spread primarily through contaminated water sources due to a lack of adequate sanitation infrastructure. The World Health Organization estimates that there are at least 3 million cases globally per year, 40 percent of which are spread through household transmission. Current prevention methods req ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In this Phase I Small Business Technology TransferSTTRprojecta team of researchers at Cincinnati Childrenandapos s Hospital Medical CenterCCHMCwill work with the engineering team at NeoViewIncto design and build novel body coil and incubator prototypes for aTesla Neonatal Intensive Care UnitNICUMRI systemThese components will play a central role in NeoViewandapos s neonatal MRI pro ...

Project Summary Morphometric analysis is a primary algorithmic tool to discover disease and drug related effects on brain anatomy. Neurological degeneration and disease manifest in subtle and varied changes in brain anatomy that can be non-local in nature and effect amounts of white and gray matter as well as relative positioning and shapes of local brain anatomy. State-of-the-art morphometry meth ...

Project Summary Abstract Bacterial infections such as those of prosthetic jointsbonesosteomyelitisand heart valvesinfective endocarditisare difficult to difficult to diagnose and treatand are a major cause of mortalitymorbidity and health care costsThe long term goal of our program is thus to develop positron emission tomographyPETradiotracers that can be used for non invasive PET imaging to detec ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Polychromatic flow cytometryFCis one of the most powerful analytical techniques used in immunologybasic researchand clinical medicineIn basic researchFC is a primary tool for understanding disease development at the cellular and subcellular levelsIn the rapidly developing field of immunotherapyFC is an indispensable tool for monitoring the effectiveness of new therapies an ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Payment Program is designed to motivate healthcare providers to adhere to best practices in clinical healthcare and patient safetyUnfortunatelyextracting quality measures data from the clinical record is burdensome and as suchparticipation among clinical healthcare providers is suboptimalOur aim is to develop a system to facilit ...

Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimerandapos s diseaseADinclude extracellular deposits of Apeptidesintraneuronal aggregates of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein and neuroinflammationMost proposed AD disease modifying therapies have focused on strategies that reduce brain Aamyloid or tau pathological accumulationHoweversuch approaches have been unsuccessful in late stage AD clinical trials and ma ...

Abstract Overmillion Americans are currently affected by Alzheimerandapos s diseaseADwith an economic burden estimated at andgt$billion year inthat is projected increase at least four fold over next several decadesIn spite of the dearth of pharmacological options to modify the course of the disease at presentthe field has developed accurate biomarkers that demonstrate that the pathology of AD is p ...

Project SummaryA significant cause of mobility impairment in the elderly is peripheral arterial diseasePADPAD results in significant functional declinereduced walking speed and distanceand lower physical activity levelsresulting in a loss of independence and impaired quality of lifeThe most effective therapy for PAD is rigorous exercisee gwalkingHowevermost PAD patients will not participate in sup ...

Project Summary Abstract This project will develop a Socially Assistive RobotSARto provide cognitive trainingin the form of learning to play the pianoto improve cognitive functioning and reduce feelings of loneliness in socially isolated older adultsThe SAR will administer cognitive training via guided practice on a set of standard piano lesson tasks designed to reflect particular cognitive functi ...