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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing evidence indicates that systemic inflammation and the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which becomes the target of overreacting or misguided immune cells that determine BBB failure and immune extravasations into the brain parenchyma, are involved in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases such as meningitis, inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, and multipl ...

Vibrant Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) propose to apply Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) to the DLA's need for an NDI method to detect counterfeit, nonconforming and improperly processed materiel. PCRT collects and analyzes the resonance frequencies of a component to detect structural defects, characterize material, analyze population variation, monitor manufacturin ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past decade, an investigation of how family members talk through cancer on the telephone has resulted in the recent publication of a lengthy volume entitled A Natural History of Family Cancer: Interactional Resources for Managing Illness (NH). Based on the conversations analyzed for this volume, and related research on the psychosocial impacts and con ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The EPA estimates that one out of every four Americans lives within three miles of a hazardous waste site Over brownfield sites are awaiting remediation and sites on the National Priorities List Potential Responsible Parties or the Superfund program are tasked with remediating these sites but insufficient funding and growing number of sites hav ...

The proposed research and technical objectives in this project deal with computerized automatic delayering and polishing system that would be applicable to both commercial and government semiconductor device research and development with applications including Failure Analysis (FA), Fault Isolation (FI), and Reverse Engineering (RE) of semiconductor microelectronic devices. This project could hel ...

Commercial Polymerases to Create Receptors Ligands and Catalysts on Demand Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC University of Texas Steven A Benner Andrew D Ellington ABSTRACT Innovators at Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC have created several generations of an artificially ex panded genetic information system AEGIS that adds eight nucleobases that form four additional pairs Z P S ...

ABSTRACT Detecting change in neuropsychological functioning over time is critical for proper diagnosis and management of many neurological psychiatric and psychological conditions It is well documented that most commonly used cognitive assessments produce significant retest effects such as practice and regression to the mean effects Retest effects can cause substantial changes in test score ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Surgical resection of brain neoplasms aims at maximizing long term survival by gross total resection of tumor tissue while preserving the patientandapos s functional status Task based functional MRI fMRI is increasingly used as an adjunct to intra operative electrocorticography for mapping eloquent cortex but suffers a significant failure rate due to funct ...

Summary We will create a preclinical quantitative Cancer Imaging and Therapy Platform CITP which will allow one to study cancer biology and optimize pipelines of technologies imaging agents imaging methods targeted nano therapeutics tumor models etc especially for metastatic and invasive cancers Today primary tumor mass es are clinically controlled with surgical drug and radiatio ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and the third leading cause of death in the United States. Approximately 15 million people in the world, and more than 700,000 people in the United States, experience a stroke each year. Following a hemispheric stroke, motor control of extremities on one side of the body is usually affected. Many patients suffer a ...