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Promoting Recreation Time among Individuals Incarcerated in Jail
PROJECT SUMMARY More than 9 million Americans are incarcerated in jail each year. Of these individuals, 60% are racial/ethnic minorities and are from socioeconomic disadvantaged po...
Identifying Novel Photic Inputs to the Drosophila Circadian/Arousal Neural Network for Behavioral Manipulation
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Mosquito disease vector control relies mostly on toxic insecticides.A more environmentally friendly alternative is to make use of light-based behavioral ma...
Promoting Recreation Time among Individuals Incarcerated in Jail
PROJECT SUMMARY More than 9 million Americans are incarcerated in jail each year. Of these individuals, 60% are racial/ethnic minorities and are from socioeconomic disadvantaged po...
Clock modulation in circadian desynchrony induced diabetes and atherovascular disease - mechanisms and interventions
Circadian disruption, such as that seen in shift workers, predisposes to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D), and increases the rates of coronary and carotid atherovascula...
The Neural Basis of Active Sensory Gain Suppression in the Somatosensory System
PROJECT SUMMARY The candidate: Dr. Manuel Gomez-Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the University of Rochester, whose over...
Antimicrobial-Membrane Interactions in Living Bacteria
With the support of the Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) Program in the Division of Chemistry, Professor Hai-Lung Dai of Temple University is studying how bacterial membranes regu...
Collaborative Research: Influence of pressure on microbial communities in subseafloor sediment at hadal, abyssal, bathyal, and shelf water depths
The globe-spanning realm of subseafloor sediment is Earth’s least-explored large biome. This project addresses a fundamental question about the microbial communities that inhabit t...
Collaborative Research: Influence of pressure on microbial communities in subseafloor sediment at hadal, abyssal, bathyal, and shelf water depths
The globe-spanning realm of subseafloor sediment is Earth’s least-explored large biome. This project addresses a fundamental question about the microbial communities that inhabit t...
Topics in Threshold Models: Efficient Procedures under Endogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs and Distributed and Robust Estimation of Change-Points
The project concerns two different kinds of challenges. The first challenge involves a class of regression discontinuity designs where the question is whether a treatment, like a g...
Molecular mechanism of touch sensitivity in the Schnauzenorgan of the Elephant Nose Fish
This research focuses on the sense of touch – a fundamental physiological capacity present in all animals, including humans, which endows them with the ability to sense the physica...
IUCRC Planning Grant Arizona State University: Center for Concrete Advanced Network - CAN
The Concrete Advancement Network (CAN) is a consortium of academic and industrial researchers engaged in bringing cutting-edge technologies to the cement and concrete materials ind...
The Training Program in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Life Course Epidemiology
Program Summary: The Training Program in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric (RPP) Life Course Epidemiology – sponsored by the Departments of Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral...
Pre-doctoral Training in Fundamental Approaches to Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology
This proposal is for support of the pre-doctoral program in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Our mission is to train...
Molecular Mechanisms of Reactive Epithelial Changes in Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis
PROJECT SUMMARY Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a newly described immune-mediated disease and a leading cause of esophageal morbidity in children and young adults. Histologically...
Topics in Information Economics: Deception, Damage, and Privacy
This research project will consist of two studies. The first study will investigate the relationship between deceptive practices and negative consequences. Public policy has a role...
Carbon Storage in Mangrove Ecosystems via Abiotic Sulfurization
Mangrove forest sediments are important hotspots of organic carbon preservation, and they have the potential to sequester substantial amounts of atmospheric CO2. Currently, however...
IUCRC Phase I: University of Tennessee: Center for Composite and Hybrid Materials Interfacing (CHMI)
The Center for Composite and Hybrid Materials Interfacing (CHMI) seeks to generate knowledge and capabilities in joining, bonding, and maintenance of composite and hybrid material...
Understanding how charged biopolymers destabilize membranes
Cell membranes form the barrier by which cells interact with the external environment. As such, understanding the nature of how biopolymers interact with the membrane and the mecha...
Investigating the Role of Collaboration on the Development of Student Ideas using a Learning Progression for the Function Concept
Collaborative problem solving is a valued 21st century skill that can enhance learning outcomes. Learning progressions, which are models of how student thinking develops within a d...
CAREER: Mechanics of Recyclable Thermoset Polymers
This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant will aim to fundamentally understand the microstructure-property linkages of novel recyclable thermoset polymers (vitrimers). T...