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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The yeast Candida albicans is a normal resident of the human digestive tract It is also the most common fungal pathogen of humans causing both mucosal and systemic infections particularly in immune compromised individuals The majority of new C albicans infections arise from the presence of persistent C albicans cells existing in a biofilm These biofilm b ...

Althoughyear olds are onlyof the U Ssexually active populationthey account for nearlyof themillion new cases of sexually transmitted infectionsSTIeach yearAlthough historically lowthe U Steen pregnancy rate continues to be one of the highest in the developed worldEvidence based prevention efforts can help avoid the costs and health consequences associated with STIs and unwanted teen pregnancy amon ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Treatment for depression is a core health disparity for Latinos in the U S Although U S Latinos are more likely than non Hispanic Whites to experience depression Alegria et al U S Latinos are less than half as likely as Whites to receive evidence based care for depression Lagomasino et al Latinos with elevated depressive symptoms are mos ...

ABSTRACT SUMMARY Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex PDC deficiency PDCD is a rare disease of mitochondrial energy failure in which the life of expectancy of affected children is severely truncated Treatment of PDCD remains a serious unmet challenge There has never been a controlled trial of any intervention for PDCD thus there is no proven therapy for affected patients Dichloroacetate DCA ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Clinical treatment of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit NICU is particularly challenging due to their small anatomies medical instability and immature physiological processes Treatment is often complicated by the lack of therapeutic devices and instrumentation designed specifically to accommodate this unique patient population For instance curr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world The demographics of the prison population are shifting In fact the number of sentenced state and federal prisoners age or older grew at times the rate of the overall prison population from The health status of aging inmates does not mirror the free world population In fac ...

The human microbiome has emerged as a hitherto unknown causal factor in a number of disease ranging from cancer cardiovascular disease and obesity To understand the biochemical mechanisms of the human microbiome in these diseases researchers must be able to store biochemical pathway transcriptomic and metabolomic datasets in a coherent and compatible form We propose to construct a cloud ba ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The greatest challenge to auditory communication is background noise especially in the complex acoustic environments that are experienced in daily life This project proposes to develop a novel speech enhancement algorithm that is robust in the presence of everyday environmental interference The algorithm is inspired by recent findings related to the neural c ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant African American men experience health disparities across a number of preventable chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease strokes obesity and diabetes Physical activity PA is a modifiable risk factor for these conditions The few PA promotion studies that have included African American men have resulted in successful short term behavior change ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Vaccinations for adolescents in the U S tetanus diphtheria and acellular pertussis Tdap meningococcal conjugate vaccine MCV Human Papillomavirus HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarex remain well below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC goals and especially so for the HPV vaccines These vaccine deficits are pronounced among minor ...