FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Described herein are compositions and methods for treating P. falciparum malaria by specifically activating apoptosis in cells that express PfGARP without activating apoptosis in subject host cells or parasite cells that do not express PfGARP.

Underwater Deployable Structures (UDSs) capable of achieving inflation via mechanical pumps, moisture-activated expanding foams, water swelling material, or a hybrid of a mechanical pump and water swelling material. Moisture expanding foams begin as polyurethane-based resins of low viscosity, and react in the presence of water to become solid foam. In their final forms, the foams exist as open- or closed-cell, and vary in strength, elasticity, and rigidity. Water swelling material is also disclosed wherein the water swelling material is capable of achieving expansion numerous (e.g., up to about 250) times its initial volume when in contact with water and can shrink back to its initial volume upon dehydration, making the UDSs reusable. A mechanical pump may optionally be used to assist in initial inflation until the water swelling material reaches full expansion.

Methods for identifying agents or manipulations that modulate copper (Cu) dyshomeostasis in an Mblac1- or swip-10-dependent manner, and for identifying agents that support Cu-dependent neuronal health in a subject are provided.

The exemplary system and method configured to perform benthic flux incubation and measurement in an on-going continuous manner via motorized or non-motorized actuators that moves one or more sampling chambers (i) between different sampling regions or (ii) maintains the sampling chamber over a single region, for long term repeated measurements. The exemplary system and method can incubate and sample over multiple benthic sampling regions to acquire repeated measurements of both (i) fluxes and (ii) background processes and conditions (e.g., via ambient water incubations or ambient water concentration measurements), the results of which can be combined and processed by the exemplary system to generate data requiring minimal post-processing.

Systems and methods including expandable mix-zones as a deception technique for providing location privacy on the Internet of Things (IOT) are disclosed herein. A computing device can be configured to receive geographical information corresponding with a geographical location, wherein the geographical information defines at least one expandable mix-zone; and responsive to determining that the at least one computing device is located within the at least one expandable mix-zone, activate location masking operations to conceal (e.g., anonymize, obscure) the location of the computing device while it is within the at least one expandable mix-zone.

Low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C), flexible programmability and rapid run-time reconfigurability are desired features for the design of adaptive, underwater wireless communication modems for micro autonomous underwater vehicle (μAUV) swarms. Disclosed herein are first-generation and second-generation software and hardware design of a new class of low SWaP-C underwater modems that can accommodate wide-band acoustic front-ends and achieve s-level reconfigurability during run-time. By dynamically mapping certain signal processing operations of the acoustic communication stack to the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and others to the embedded processing system of the modem's System-on-Chip, data rates of up to 2000 bps can be achieved in ranges up to 50 m with the implementation of custom programmable logic.

An optical communication receiver system for a mobile platform includes: a surface having an entrance aperture for entry of an optical communication signal from a remote source; an optical receiver to receive the optical communication signal through the entrance aperture; a reflective layer over at least a portion of the surface to at least partially reflect an alignment beam that is substantially coincident with the optical communication signal; a camera positioned to detect the reflected alignment beam; a processor to determine alignment information about the alignment beam relative to the entrance aperture based on the reflected alignment beam detected by the camera; and a transmitter to transmit the alignment information to the remote source to enable the remote source to center the optical communication signal in the entrance aperture.

Described herein are compositions and methods for treating P. falciparum malaria by specifically activating apoptosis in cells that express PfGARP without activating apoptosis in subject host cells or parasite cells that do not express PfGARP.

The present disclosure provides recombinant vectors encoding a choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) polypeptide, compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.

An adaptive cyber manufacturing facility method and system is disclosed for performing a task remotely on an object at an adaptive cyber manufacturing facility having a robotic device. The method may include receiving, via a computing device, cyber manufacturing system data; reporting the cyber manufacturing system data to a remote user of the robotic device via a user interface; acquiring user condition data regarding a condition of the user via the computing device; acquiring instructions from the user interface for remotely operating the robotic device to perform the task; automatically selecting a cyber manufacturing system operational mode from a plurality of pre-defined cyber manufacturing system operational modes based on the user condition data; and causing control of the robotic device to perform the task on the object according to the instructions from the user interface based on rules associated with the selected cyber manufacturing system operational mode.