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Three-Dimensional, Biotemplated Hierarchical Electrodes for Microbattery Applications
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Micro-batteries are essential components in miniaturized systems and portable devices as small scale power sources for electronics as well as for energy storage devices from environmental sources such as vibration energy harvesting and solar energy. As the auxiliary components of such systems decrease in size, their power supplies must scale...
Categories: Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Micro-batteries, Microelectromechanical Systems,micro-pillars
Docket: PS-2011-102
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Method for Extracting Surface Antigens from Pathogens
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012BackgroundOne of the greatest successes in public health in the last century has been the introduction of vaccines to prevent diseases. The mortality rate for many diseases, including smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and measles has been significantly reduced in the United States. However, the morbidity and mortality rates for some diseases...
Categories: Vaccines, Bioengineering
Keyword(s): Antigen screening, High-Throughput
Docket: LS-2011-077
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Separate Sensible and Latent Cooling System with Chilled Panels
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012In the US, over 80% of households have air-conditioning (AC) systems, either central systems or window mounted units. These AC systems consume up to 10% of a home’s entire yearly energy usage. Conventional AC systems provide simultaneous sensible and latent cooling; hence the evaporating temperature of the refrigerant, usually 7° to 10° C, is...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): air-conditioning,separate sensible and latent cooling (SSLC), vapor compression system (VCS)
Docket: PS-2011-056
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Potential Vaccine Candidate Against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PPRSV)
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012BackgroundPorcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) caused by the PPRRS virus (PPRSV) is an economically significant disease in the swine industry, contributing to an estimated $560 million loss per year in the United States (based on 2005 study). Suppression of innate immunity is believed to be an important contributing...
Categories: Vaccines, Agricultural
Keyword(s): livestock, pigs, vaccine development
Docket: LS-2011-054
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Novel Technique for Enhanced Viral Protein Expression: Implications for Vaccine Preparation
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012BackgroundInfluenza or the flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by the influenza viruses. The flu infection may manifest in the form of mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Certain groups of the population, such as infants and the elderly are at high risk for serious complications. The best way, according to...
Categories: Vaccines
Keyword(s): vaccine manufacture, High-Throughput
Docket: LS-2011-048
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Heating Performance Improvement of Heatpump System
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012As cars continue to become more electrified in hybrid, electric, and plug-in hybrid vehicles, the automobile industry is facing a heat source shortage for cabin heating and air-conditioning systems. In conventional cars, the industry has been able to utilize the waste heat from the internal combustion engine in order to keep passengers and...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Thermoelectric module, heat pump, dehumidification, vapor injection
Docket: PS-2011-040
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Microchannel Heat Exchanger with Built In Header Subcooler
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012The two basic demands for air-conditioning and refrigeration systems are improving the efficiency and reducing the size of the equipment. As manufacturing technology advances and has allowed for much smaller heat exchanger tubes, the use of many parallel tubes has led to refrigerant flow malfunction when the microchannel heat exchanger is used as...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): microchannel tubes, Heat exchangers, refrigerant
Docket: PS-2011-032
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Method for Controlling Dexterous Upper Limb Neuromotor Prostheses/Orthoses with Multiple Degrees of Freedom from Neural Activity in Humans
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Recent developments in the fields of robotic prostheses have made it possible to build devices that mimic the human hand in its ability to manipulate multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously. These devices could be important rehabilitation tools in paralyzed patients, in patients after brain injury, or to enhance human motor performance, if...
Categories: Bioengineering
Keyword(s): Brain-Machine Interfaces, electro-encephalography (EEG)
Docket: PS-2011-027
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Solid Polymer Electrolyte for Safer Lithium Batteries
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Batteries have become ubiquitous elements in society powering both small consumer electronics and large hybrid automobiles. The risks of battery leakage and presence of combustible/corrosive components give rise to safety concerns, which have presented an unacceptable risk in the use of lithium batteries in submarines and other underwater vehicles...
Categories: Power Electronics
Keyword(s): Solid electrolyte, Batteries,
Docket: PS-2011-007
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Conservation Dependencies
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2012Many constraints and rules have been used to analyze data quality: functional, inclusion and sequential dependencies, association rules, etc. Additionally, a broad class of tools not covered by existing constraints may be identified, where a “conservation law” exists between related quantities. Conservation laws, however, are obeyed only to...
Categories: Information Technology, Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): Data Analysis, confidence measure, data mining
Docket: IS-2011-006