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Project Summary While studies support the efficacy of comprehensiveschool wide interventions in reducing bullyingthese types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementationresulting in barriers to providing school based bullying preventionespecially in low income and rural communitiesAdditionallyalthough training bystanders to act asdefenderson behalf of targets ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT The objective of this proposal is to move our product forward toward commercialization by improving the quality of life for breast cancer chemotherapy patientsThis will be achieved by the following Specific AimsAimwill optimize differentiation of GMPs and neutrophil lineages in culture in response to G CSFThis will be assessed by flow cytometry to quantify production of ne ...

PROJECT SUMMARYThree of top five causes of death in humans globally are lung relatedchronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCOPDlower respiratory infections and lung cancers collectively account for over eight million deaths annuallyCurrentlyin preclinical settingstatic cell cultures and animal models are the most widely used systems for mechanistic and translational studiesHowevercritical limitation ...

Abstract Diabetic ulcers or pressure ulcers are common for patients with diabetesspinal cord injuriesetcWithout proper managementsuch wounds often lead to infections such as osteomyelitis or sepsisresulting in high mortality and morbidityIn addition to bacterial infectiondiabetic patients are also more susceptible to cutaneous fungal infectionsAdvanced wound dressings and advanced wound therapies ...

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of mortality in the U Sresulting in overdeaths every year and costing more than $billion in loss of productivitySmoking is also the leading cause of cancer and of deaths from cancerAlthough the prevalence of smoking has declined over the pastyearslarge disparities in tobacco use remain across a number of groupsLatino a smokers represent a major health dispari ...

Project Summary Galactic Core LLC aims to develop a robust, scalable, and managed service for performing enterprise-grade biomedical data analysis. The service will be based on the popular open-source Galaxy application (​https://galaxyproject.org/​), offering unlimited data storage and compute capabilities with an extremely powerful, flexible, and collaborative environment for analyzing data. ...

Project Summary AbstractFetal alcohol spectrum disorderFASDis a major public health issue resulting from prenatal alcohol exposurePAEimpacting betweenof the US population and perhaps more thanchildren globally each yearWhen assessing for FASD the following facial features must to be evaluated as part of the diagnostic processpalpebral fissure lengthPFLthinness of the upper vermillionand the smooth ...

Abstract We propose an ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic testRDTto detect exposure to pulmonary flukes of the genus ParagonimusParagonimiasis affects an estimatedmi l l ion people and remains amongst the most neglected of all neglected tropical diseasesNTDsThis trematode is acquired upon ingestion of raw or undercooked freshwater crustaceans and migrates to the lungs where it forms cystsTreatment is ...

Abstract COMBiNATi will work with Stanford University to bring the world s first integrated ID AST UTI diagnostic platform to the market by combining COMBiNATi sone clickcost effective dPCR platform with Stanford s pathogen identificationIDHRMA algorithm for broad detectiondeep characterization and absolute quantification of UTI pathogensBy the end of the Phaseprojectwe will deliver the prototype ...

Defense Health Agency (DHA) is seeking a multi-functional diagnostic to determine blood coagulopathy in real time at point-of-care (POC). Blood coagulopathy, resulting in uncontrolled bleeding, is implicated in 80% of operating room deaths and 50% of trau