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Title:
Dog skeletons to Arctic ice - $4.4 million StimUwaste at Utah Univ. Please
note, this does not count the previous articles, or the one
following this with even more waste at UU! Such as studying even
more underground rock formations. A
noun invented by me, John Brown. It means money BORROWED (from
China) and then spent on things that did nothing to CREATE jobs for
Americans, or spent on frivolous things and pork marks. Another
name for Democrats, how about Spend-O-Crats?
This list is
so you have many good reasons to fire everyone
from
both/all parties that voted for the StimUwaste pork
package. ================================================= #91-#100
- Total amount wasted =$4,441,594 Jobs
reported: 9.59 Cost
per job = $463,148 ================================================= There was
so much stupid pork to this university, I decided to look closer and
see how "worthy" some of the projects were, that sounded
good on the surface. A total waste once I dug deeper, one of the
best examples, follows. Of course, I
have including the typical study of Arctic
ice or tectonic plates
somewhere in the world. A real dog of a StimUwaste is at the end.
Real job creators, that! =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #91 Amount:
$859,990
Jobs
Created: 1.01 Cost per
job: $851,475 Translation:
You are paying students to play games. They want
to develop a Wii ! glove that feels real when you touch something in
a virtual reality game. Unfortunately for the American taxpayer, we
have paid for this type of project many times over, not to mention
it has been available commercially for a while. The very hard thing
like typing "tactile feedback glove virtual games" BEFORE
approving this grant would have yielded these ground breaking
results. Like
a glove already on the market for $80! http://www.cwonline.com/store/view_product.asp?Product=1179 A
college with an actual working tactile glove, from FOUR
years ago: "The
Haptic Glove is a wearable device that simulates tactile sensations
of virtual objects!". Not only does it cost $64 to build, they
give schematics and part lists! The most important part of any
glove, the software, is readily available for free. Another
college doing it: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/I.C.ForceTactile.html http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Dictionary.php?Term=Tactile caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/publications/papers/2000_ijdir.pdf I imagine
if I visited a porn site (I don't) from the links pulled up doing
that simple search, the technology they claim is vastly superior in
the listings, is better then anything listed here because what they
bragged about "skin feedback" on an old History Channel
show was more then I care to talk about here. So,
this was a complete waste of money! Link:
recovery.gov
(click) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE This award is
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5). Force-feedback, or haptic, applications in
medicine, engineering, and design are increasing in popularity and
importance based on the advantages of haptic devices in providing
intuitive and realistic interactions with virtual environments.
However, current haptic devices lack integrated tactile feedback,
which communicates contact and sliding between fingertips and an
object. Although a variety of tactile displays have been developed,
most are large bench-top devices and are impractical to place at a
user?s fingertips while exploring a virtual object. Simpler, more
compact devices will solve this problem and provide a means to
create a more compelling virtual touch experience. The overarching
objective of this research is to significantly improve the quality
of touch feedback obtained with haptic interfaces by improving both
the mechanical interface to virtual worlds and the supporting
computational methods that generate touch sensations. These advances
will be informed by and validated through a progression of human
subject experiments that will culminate in two application-based
evaluations in the areas of medical bone palpation and virtual
assembly. These case studies will quantify the improved dexterous
manipulation and exploration capabilities resulting from this
research. Award Number
0904456 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $859,990 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
07/10/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
1.01 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
HCC: MEDIUM: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HAND-MOUNTED TACTILE DISPLAYS
FOR HAPTICALLY INDENTIFYING SHAPE & DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Research underway Jobs Created
1.01 Description of
Jobs Created Job Titles: Assistant Professor;Graduate Research
Assistant;Research Associate; Award Date
07/10/2009 Award Number
0904456 Order Number
Award Type
Grants Funding Agency
ID 49 Funding Agency
Name National Science Foundation Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount of
Award $859,990 Funds
Invoiced/Received $88,537 Expenditure
Amount $88,537 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #92 Amount:
$160,000
Jobs
Created: 0.75 Cost per
job:
Translation:
You are paying a bunch of quacks to develop math routines to study
"quark" theory. In another words, you are paying people to
be students and are not creating any jobs, except the bribes to
academia to reelect Obama. Link:
recovery.gov
(click) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE This award is
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5). This is a group project in computational high
energy physics being carried out by physicsts at the University of
Arizona, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of
Utah, and the American Physical Society. Postdoctoral research
associates are trained in software development and algorithms needed
to effectively use the teraflop and even petaflop scale computers
that are now or will be made available to working scientists. The
very large-scale numerical calculations that are required are widely
recognized as one of the grand challenges of computational science.
Specifically, the following new initiatives will be launched: (1) a
new, highly improved algorithm for treating light quarks, which will
significantly improve the precision of these calculations, (2) a
new, accurate determination of the strange quark mass, (3) the
development of an improved algorithm for treating heavy quarks, and
(4) a high-precision determination of the energy levels of bound
states of a charm quark and an anticharm quark. This research
addresses fundamental questions in high energy and nuclear physics,
such as finding fundamental parameters like the masses of the
quarks, or the behavior of strong interactions at extreme
temperatures such as those found in heavy ion collisons or in the
very early universe. This work is directly related to major
experimental programs in high energy and nuclear physics including
RHIC at Brookhaven, experiments at Jefferson Laboratory, and at the
large hadron collider. The codes developed by this program are
publicly available and are used by several other groups worldwide.
Some of the codes and algorithms developed, such as those for
solving very large systems of equations, may be applied in other
large scientific simulations. Postdoctoral research associates in
this project develop skills in large-scale massively parallel
computations and state-of-the-art statistical analysis of data. Award Number
0903571 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $160,000 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
09/15/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.75 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
Collaborative research: Human Resources for Computational High
Energy Physics Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Research underway Jobs Created
0.75 Description of
Jobs Created Job Titles: Graduate Research Assistant;Post Doctoral
Research Assoc; Award Date
09/15/2009 Award Number
0903571 Order Number
Award Type
Grants Funding Agency
ID 49 Funding Agency
Name National Science Foundation Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount of
Award $160,000 Funds
Invoiced/Received $23,781 Expenditure
Amount $23,781 Infrastructure
Expenditure Amount $0 I =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #93 Amount:
$541,271 Jobs
Created: .90 Cost per
job: $601,412 Translation:
1/2 a million dollars to study sea ice "to develop methods of
electromagnetically monitoring the internal state of sea ice".
What a
wonderful job creator for someone in Detroit. Wonderful vacation
though for someone in the middle of hot Utah. Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE This award is
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5). Golden 0934721 University of Utah Funds are
provided to develop methods of electromagnetically monitoring the
internal state of sea ice, the thermal evolution of its
microstructure, and the transport processes it controls. The PIs
will conduct fundamental mathematical studies, as well as field
experiments in the Arctic and Antarctic, directed at recovering
microstructual profiles and their evolution at critical phases in
the seasonal cycle of the ice pack. They will develop in situ
tomographic methods to obtain the complex permittivity profile o sea
ice at low frequency, and mathematical techniques to use this data
to reconstruct the evolution of the spectral measure of the
composite microstructure, which contains detailed information about
brine geometry and connectedness. They will investigate the critical
behavior of this measure near the percolation threshold, where fluid
flow turns on or off. Our work will yield novel spectral
representations for fluid and thermal transport coefficients, and
characterizations of the spectral measure as a free energy
minimizer, as in statistical mechanics. They will analyze the
thermal evolution of the distribution of eigenvalue spacings for the
spectral measure as a powerful way of characterizing the
order/disorder transition in the brine microstructure of sea ice, as
motivated by the theory of random matrices. They will also develop
multiscale numerical models of the complex permittivity and other
transport properties from random graph representations of the
microstructure to aid reconstruction calculations. Their results
will yield valuable information on snow-ice formation, melt
processes, and flood-freeze cycling, and provide insights on
parameterizing these processes in climate and biogeochemical models.
Key features of the proposed work include: ? Development of
cross-borehole tomography and direct measurement techniques on
cores. Initial testing, validation and refinement in the lab and the
Arctic near Barrow, with Antarctic measurements. ? Development of
cross-property relations connecting EM, thermal, and fluid transport
via the spectral measure, and related methods for EM imaging of
transport processes in sea ice. Award Number
0934721 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $541,271 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
08/25/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.90 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
CMG COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MATHEMATICS & ELECTROMAGNETICS FOR
MONITORING TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN SEA ICE Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Research underway Jobs Created
0.90 Description
of Jobs Created Job Titles: Associate Professor;Graduate Research
Assistant;Professor; =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #94 Amount:
$430,245 Jobs
Created: 0 Cost per
job: $430,245 Translation:
To study the earth's tectonic plates under Antarctica, wonderful job
creation. Must be a wonderful vacation considering all the condoms
they shipped there recently, of course it is almost all guys ... Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE This award is
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5). The investigators will examine competing
hypotheses for the mechanism of extension and creation of the
Transantarctic Mountains, and evolution of the thermal regimes of
rifted West Antarctica and stable East Antarctica using
magnetotelluric (MT) profiles. Surrounded almost entirely by ocean
ridges, Antarctica is a special tectonic situation because of the
need to make accommodation space for rifting in the Transantarctic
region. In the MT method, temporal variations in the Earth's natural
electromagnetic field are used as source fields to probe the
electrical resistivity structure in the depth range of 1 to 200 km,
or more. Geophysical methods, such as MT, are appropriate in
Antarctica because of the predominance of thick ice cover over most
of the Continent and the difficult operating environment. The
proposed effort will consist of approximately 50 sites over a
distance approaching 500 km with a 10 km average spacing, oriented
normal to the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM), in the Beardmore
glacier area. High quality MT soundings will be collected over thick
ice sheets using a custom electrode preamp design, updated from
previous Antarctic projects. Data acquisition will take place over
two field seasons. The primary goals are three-fold: to establish
the location of the deeper tectonic transition between East and West
Antarctica that may be offset from the physiographic transition at
the surface, using deep resistivity structure distinguish between
modes of extensional upwelling and magmatism that may be vertically
non-uniform, depth and magnitude of quasi-layered deep crustal low
resistivity, particularly below West Antarctica, will be used to
estimate crustal heat flux into the ice sheet base. Award Number
0838914 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $430,245 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
08/14/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.00 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
RIFT MECHANISMS & THERMAL REGIME OF THE LITHOSPHERE ACROSS
BEARDMORE GLACIER REGION, CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS FROM MAG Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Equipment purchased. Awaiting summer
in Antarctica to begin site work. Jobs Created
0.00 Description of
Jobs Created n/a TAS Major
Program 49-0101 Funding Agency
ID 49 Funding Agency
Name National Science Foundation Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 49 Awarding
Agency Name National Science Foundation Amount of
Award $430,245 Funds
Invoiced/Received $38,088 Expenditure
Amount $38,088 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #95 Amount:
$496,760
Jobs
Created: 3.67 Cost per
job: $135,356 Translation:
They are going to make computer models of monkey brains. Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE DESCRIPTION
(provided by applicant): This application addresses broad Challenge
Area: (06) Enabling Technologies and specific Challenge Topic:
06-MH-103 New technologies for neuroscience research. Develop
technologies for neuroscience research that are software-based,
(e.g., informatics tools, implementation of data analytic
algorithms), hardware-based (e.g., instrumentation or devices), or
biology-based (e.g., driven by conditional gene expression or
bioactive agents). Contact: Michael F. Huerta, Ph.D., 301-443-1815,
mhuert1@mail.nih.gov Establishing a network diagram of the brain is
one of the major challenges of modern neurobiology and medicine,
particularly a diagram of genetic connectivity. Nowhere is this need
more clear than for the social-emotional system, where dysregulation
of circuitry has been implicated in the most devastating mental
illnesses, depression, schizophrenia and autism. This proposal seeks
to deploy the next generation neurobiologic technologies and novel
software tools needed to generate gene-specific 3-dimensional
reconstructions from serial sections of long range axon projections
or wiring diagrams of the limbic system, at the axon level and on
the size scale of primate brain. This software will fill two
striking gaps that have seriously hindered the generation of maps of
primate brain circuitry. Blocked by lack of existing software for
both aligning sequential sections and for handling large datasets,
current circuit reconstruction methods cannot handle axon
projections that travel through more than a single, typical ~30?m
section. Therefore, although there are elegant emerging approaches
to tract tracing, current technology permits only visualization of
cells in a single section of a mouse hippocampus but prevents
providing answers to the critical questions at the systems level.
The long range links to other cortical or subcortical structures
involved in regulation of emotion or cognition, particularly at the
scale needed for primate systems cannot yet be visualized. Moreover,
there are no programs for making the leap between axon projections
and larger tracts defined by DTI or MRI. The current proposal takes
advantage of a unique multidimensional collaboration among the
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) experts in image
reconstruction and three-dimensional visualization (Tasdizen, Jones)
who have recently (Anderson, 2009) developed a computational
framework for 3-dimensional neurocircuitry of the retina and in
fluorescence image reconstruction (Roysam), experts in non-human
primate brain circuitry and neuroanatomy (Angelucci, Hof), experts
in animal and human DTI/ MRI (Hsu), and experts in multicolor
fluorescence imaging of axon projections (Korenberg, Angelucci).
This unique collaborative project will help to maintain two junior
investigators and three early career investigators, and will create
seven new research jobs in the fields of neurobiology and
computation. The four aims will: 1) Generate high signal- to-noise
multicolor fluorescence images of neuropeptide projections in the
macaque limbic system (hypothalamus- a subset of limbic targets) at
axon resolution, 2) Acquire and store images of more than 400 serial
sections in mosaic 2 ?m stacks equal to158 terabytes, 3) Reconstruct
the hypothalamic- projections found with arginine-vasopressin and a
Williams syndrome gene product to a subset of limbic targets from
serial images into a single continuous dataset, and 4) Automatically
reconstruct axon pathways to their targets. The goal is to create
and integrate this novel set of software and neurobiologic
technologies that will accelerate wiring the brain of mammals. These
technologies will provide the critical missing framework necessary
for image acquisition, manipulation of terabyte datasets, serial
section reconstruction, automatic and manual tract tracing, and gene
specific wiring diagrams or connectomes at the scale of primate
brains and for bridging the gap between axon pr Award Number
1RC1NS069152-01 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award
Amount $496,760 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
09/25/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
3.67 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
A COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MAPPING LONG RANGE GENETIC CIRCUITS Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION Jobs Created
3.67 Description
of Jobs Created Job Titles: Assistant Professor;Associate
Professor;Computer Professional;Graduate Research Assistant;Post
Doctoral Fellow (E);Post Doctoral Research Assoc;Professor;Research
Assistant Professor;Research Scientist; =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #96 Amount:
$255,850 Jobs
Created: 1.76 Cost per
job: $145,369 Translation:
1/4 of a million dollars to study dog skeletons, worse make healthy
ones sick. Yes, that is putting America back to work. The economy
might get bad enough where eating a dog looks like a solid meal. Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY
OF UTAH, THE DESCRIPTION
(provided by applicant): This proposal builds on previous research
that developed the dog as a model for the genetic analysis of
complex traits. A working relationship with owners and breeders of
Portuguese Water dogs (PW dogs) has led to a database of more than
1000 animals that have been genotyped with molecular markers and
more than half of these have been phenotyped for skeletal
morphology. Results from that genetic analysis were instrumental in
securing the necessary priority leading to the sequencing of the
canine genome. Most recent research on this project demonstrated
that conclusions from this database could be validated using other
breeds of dogs leading to haplotype sequences of reduced length,
focused on specific genes. In the current proposal, genetic analysis
focuses on disease related phenotypes: Genetic loci will be
identified that regulate the serum chemistry of healthy dogs
(biomarkers related to disease states) and that regulate the state
of health of PW dogs at time of death determined by autopsy. The
latter analysis should provide genetic data on degenerative diseases
that occur as part of the aging process. Autopsy data also provides
analysis of the genetic regulation of organs and soft tissues
avoiding invasive procedures performed on living animals. Genetic
analysis will utilize two approaches developed in the last three
years: Analysis of segregating haplotypes within a single breed (PW
dog) in which heritable variation has been documented; and analysis
of fixed haplotypes that differ between breeds (genetic isolates)
that exhibit different breed-wide fixed phenotypes. In PW dog sera,
various aspects of serum chemistry are heritable and segregating
loci have been demonstrated for several biomarkers. Differences
between breeds (fixed phenotypes) also have been demonstrated for
mean values of serum biomarkers. Values of serum biomarkers as well
as frequency of diseases are available from extensive public
databases. Autopsy data are obtained on PW dogs sent to the Utah
performance site. More than 100 such autopsies have been carried out
demonstrating the viability of this approach. Approximately 50 organ
and tissue phenotypes are obtained from gross autopsy and a similar
number from histopathology of tissue sections. Genotyping is carried
out using the Affymetrix SNP chip. The analysis of this increasing
database is a collaborative effort between the Utah site and the NIH
laboratory of Dr. Elaine Ostrander. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Dogs
share more than 200 genetic diseases in common with man, which are
diagnosed with similar serum biomarkers and present most of the same
histopathologies as in humans. This research will identify genetic
loci that regulate variation in serum biomarkers of the dog and that
control disease pathology. Results will be directly applicable to
the diagnosis of human genetic diseases and the predisposition to
genetic disease. Award
Number 2R01GM063056-08 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total
Award Amount $255,850 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award
Date 09/30/2009 Project Location - State UT Project
Status More than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs
Reported 1.76 Congressional District 02 Recipient
Name UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient
DUNS Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient
City SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient
Zip 841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place
of Performance Country US Required
to Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects
and Jobs Information Projects
and Jobs Information Project
Title GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE MAMMALIAN (CANID) SKELETON Project
Status More than 50% Completed Final
Project Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION Jobs
Created 1.76 Description
of Jobs Created Job Titles: Lab Assistant;Research Associate; =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #97 Amount:
$489,900 Jobs
Created: 0 and there never will be Cost per
job: $489,900 Translation:
For all the BS, they are going to buy an unneeded piece of equipment
for their lab to replace one that works. If you do a search for "
mass spectrometer" you will see this is a dying need for almost
every college in the country, that already has one! The listings
now stand at 12,424 hits.
Either they
all broke and went obsolete in 2008 or it is the "free"
money, borrowed from China, for more toys. I bet it is not even
made in the USA. "This
mass spectrometer will play a major role in accelerating research
and development for a broad range of biomedical applications for
many years to come." Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE DESCRIPTION
(provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for funds to
purchase a Maldi/ToF/ToF mass spectrometer (Ultraflex-III, Bruker
Daltonics) to upgrade the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Core
Facility at the University of Utah. The instrument will serve two
primary purposes: 1) replacement of an old, low-performance
Maldi/ToF instrument and 2) provide a significant performance
upgrade and new MS/MS capabilities with the Maldi/ToF/ToF design.
Twelve major users from the University of Utah with 28 active
NIH-funded projects have been identified with current and future
projects that ensure immediate and continued full-capacity long-term
usage. There are about 35 to 40 additional minor users. The group of
major users will utilize different capabilities of the Maldi/ToF/ToF
instrument. Several major users will require MS/MS capability for
their research projects, while many of the major users will benefit
from high performance and high sensitivity for analysis of large
biomolecules, such as polymers and intact proteins. MS/MS with
either low-energy LID fragmentation or high- energy CID
fragmentation will be utilized for different applications. For
instance, some users need high-energy CID for studying sulfated
disaccharides and sulfation patterns in proteoglycan molecules;
other users require LID fragmentation to characterize complex
structures of modified peptides. Research applications for the
requested Maldi/ToF/ToF instrument are wide and diverse, including
topics such as polymer investigations for drug delivery systems,
intact receptor proteins, development of fluorogenic peptide probes,
discovery of novel neuropeptides from venomous snails, the role of
sulfation patterns in proteoglycans, and discovery of unknown
protein metal/ligand complexes. The Maldi/ToF/ToF instrument will be
housed in the MS Core Facility, a central mass spectrometry shared
resource that has been in operation at the University of Utah for
nearly 30 years. The MS Core is administered by the Institution
within a well-structured Core Research Facilities framework,
including Oversight and Advisory committees. There is very strong
Institutional financial support for long-term utilization of the
instrument, including service agreements and full-time PhD mass
spectrometrists. The long-term impact to the University of Utah and
regional institutions is bringing a technologically-advanced
resource to the scientific and medical research community that will
provide state-of-the-art mass spectrometry for many years and will
stimulate new research projects. The analytical power of the
Ultraflex-III Maldi/ToF/ToF instrument will play a major role in
accelerating research in many areas, particularly polymer- based
drug delivery systems and many small molecule structure
characterization projects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The requested
Maldi/ToF/ToF instrument is a high-performance mass spectrometer
that will provide a significant upgrade to the mass spectrometry
capabilities of the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Core Facility
at the University of Utah, a University shared resource. The
instrument will replace an obsolete Maldi/ToF mass spectrometer and
bring powerful technology to advance the research of potentially
more than 100 NIH-funded investigators at the University of Utah and
regional institutions. This state-of-the-art mass spectrometer will
have a long-term impact to the University of Utah by bringing a
technologically advanced resource to the scientific and medical
community which will help investigators make new discoveries and
stimulate innovate research ideas in areas such as: drug delivery
systems through biopolymer research and discovery of new medical
uses for novel neuropeptides from venomous snails. This mass
spectrometer will play a major role in accelerating research and
development for a broad range of biomedical applications for many
years to come. Award Number
1S10RR025532-01A1 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award
Amount $489,900 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
04/01/2010 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Not Started Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.00 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Projects and
Jobs Information Projects and
Jobs Information Project Title
MALDI/TOF/TOF MASS SPECTROMETER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Project Status
Not Started Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION Jobs Created
0.00 Description of
Jobs Created n/a =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #98 Amount:
$246,140 Jobs
Created: 0.02 Cost per
job: $246,140 Translation:
You paid for the University to become a member of the "NICHD",
with money borrowed from China. It only cost you $211,854 ! That was
job creation, not! Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE DESCRIPTION
(provided by applicant): This is an application to become a member
of the NICHD Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit Network to
increase the study of medications in pediatric subjects, increase
understanding of developmental changes in drug metabolism, and
increase labeling of drugs for the pediatric population. As part of
this application, we propose to study the pharmacokinetics of
morphine and its metabolism into glucuronides during a 72 hr
infusion. The efficacy of morphine will be determined with validated
pain scales and bispectral analysis of infant EEG. Another study
proposes a randomized, blinded comparison of the development of
tolerance and abstinence during treatment of neonates with fentanyl
and morphine for sedation and analgesia during mechanical
ventilation. Predictors of tolerance will be determined based on
pharmacologic measures of exposure. The effectiveness of clonidine
for treatment of abstinence syndrome in neonates will be determined
in an open-label treatment. A third study will determine the
systemic exposure to local anesthetics contained in the S-Caine
topical local anesthetic patch. Clarification
of Codes Award Number
3U10HD045986-05S1 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award
Amount $246,140 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
07/16/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
More than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.02 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PEDIATRIC PHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT Project Status
More than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION Jobs Created
0.02 Description of
Jobs Created Job Titles: Clinical Research Coordinator; TAS Major
Program 75-0840 Award Date
07/16/2009 Award Number
3U10HD045986-05S1 Order Number
Award Type
Grants Funding Agency
ID 75 Funding Agency
Name Department of Health and Human Services Funding Office
Name Not Available Awarding
Agency ID 75 Awarding
Agency Name Department of Health and Human Services Amount of
Award $246,140 Funds
Invoiced/Received $211,840 Expenditure
Amount $211,854 Infrastructure
Expenditure Amount $0 =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #99 Amount: $
563,115 Jobs
Created: 0.29 Cost per
job: $ 563,115 Translation:
They are going to take a theory to "attempt" (I am sorry
... AIMS) to develop a microscope to study the spin of atoms. John
Atoms must be spinning in his grave over this selling of America
into slavery. ""There
are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword.
The other is by debt" President John Adams "The
proposed project aims to develop a new microscope which is
able to detect individual electron spins with atomic scale precision
over a range of temperatures. This instrument is called the Single
Spin Tunneling Force Microscope." Link:
recovery.gov
(link) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE This award is
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5). Spin is a fundamental property of electrons and
some nuclei, which causes them to act like tiny bar magnets.
Techniques allowing the observation of spins have had a profound
impact in the past. The most prominent examples are based upon
magnetic resonance, which is employed in medical diagnostics and
analytical methods for chemistry and materials science. Most of
these techniques detect many billions of spins. A few previous
experiments conducted on very selective spin systems have
demonstrated single spin detection. Most of these however could not
resolve the spatial location of the spins very well, while others
required extremely low temperatures. The proposed project aims to
develop a new microscope which is able to detect individual electron
spins with atomic scale precision over a range of temperatures. This
instrument is called the Single Spin Tunneling Force Microscope. It
is based on the quantum mechanical tunneling effect, a phenomena
that allows electrons trapped in one region to traverse an
impenetrable barrier and reappear on the other side. Tunneling of
single electrons has already been observed with force microscopy.
Tunneling can be influenced by electron spin. In the proposed
instrument, spins are detected using the principle of spin dependent
tunneling. The development of the proposed microscope could lead to
dramatic progress in many research fields. The ability to observe
individual spins in many materials and molecular systems could lead
to breakthroughs for future spintronic devices. It could also
significantly contribute to the development of quantum computers and
help to understand atomic scale defects which influence conventional
electronic materials and devices. The study of these defect spins
can lead to insights into strategies for improvements in solar
cells, semiconductor lighting devices, displays and computer
applications. Clarification
of Codes Award Number
0959328 Funding Agency National Science Foundation Total Award
Amount $563,115 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
01/21/2010 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
0.29 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
DEVELOPMENT OF SPIN MICROSCOPE Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description Research underway Jobs Created
0.29 Description of
Jobs Created Job Titles: Assistant Professor;Graduate Research
Assistant; =================================================== Congressman
linked to this waste: #100 Amount:
$398,323 Jobs
Created: 1.19 Cost per
job: $334,725 Translation:
Major medical companies are spending tens of millions of dollars for
long life hip and knee joint replacement products and I have seen a
company on Fox News now advertising their knee joints (which are
subject to the most abuse) being tested for a 30 year life. So, in
reinventing the wheel, they are either doing Under The Counter
research for a private company, which is where they get the
"Biomedical Engineer" or this study is nothing more then
another expensive bribe for academia to vote for Obama, while
destroying our nation under debt as planned by the radical hippies
at the Apollo Alliance. Because it produces nothing that can be
sold. Especially since colleges don't make the joints and the
smartest people in the field are already working for obscene amounts
of money for private companies. Link:
recovery.gov
(click) UNIVERSITY OF
UTAH, THE DESCRIPTION
(provided by applicant): Wear of bearing surfaces is possibly the
greatest limitation to the longevity of hip joint replacement
components. The bearing stresses from normal joint loading may be
well studied; however, load cases involving edge loading are less
well understood, though they appear to be closely linked to
important failure modes such as rim cracking in polyethylene liners
and stripe wear and squeaking in ceramic bearings. This proposed
research will elucidate the bearing stresses in cases of edge
loading involving both polyethylene and ceramic bearings. Further,
it will induce these stresses in wear tests developed for finished
components and for research material samples. Replacement of worn
implants is not only traumatic for patients, but is also a
significant cost in the nation's healthcare budget. Mitigating these
problems hinges upon improving the durability of implant bearing
materials, because reducing wear and its resulting debris is
essential to maximizing implant longevity. This proposed research
will address these important health needs by its attention to
bearing load and stress cases that are poorly understood but which
are responsible for serious and current wear- based failure modes.
The project will examine two examples of edge loading. The first is
a relatively static case called subtle subluxation, and the second
is a more dynamic case involving microseparation and impact. For
both cases, the first aim is simulate the load case in a laboratory
contact study, and then to analytically model the load case to
calculate immeasurable quantities such as the contact stress. Both
Hertzian and finite element analytic models will be evaluated, and
the models will be validated by comparing the calculated contact
area with the experimental results. With the contact stresses
identified, two different wear tests will be developed for each load
case. The first test will apply to real components, and it will
impart repetitive loads similar to the single-instance load from the
first aim. The second test, also a repetitive-load wear test, will
apply to surrogate test samples that are more simply shaped than
finished components. The validity of the second test as a simpler
proxy for the first test will be predicated upon establishing
closely equivalent contact stress fields between the two test
methods, and will be evaluated by comparison of empirical results.
PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Revision surgery to replace failed or
worn-out artificial joints is traumatic to patients and is a
significant drain on heath-care resources. Rim cracking of
polyethylene acetabular liners and squeaking in ceramic components
are two important potential failure modes of hip implants, but the
loads and stresses that cause such failures are not well understood.
This research project will analyze contact stresses in hip implants
under worst case load conditions and will develop new wear test
methods to improve the pre-clinical evaluation of next-generation
implants and their materials. Award Number
1R21AR056374-01A1 Funding Agency Department of Health and Human
Services Total Award
Amount $398,323 Project Location - City SALT LAKE CITY Award Date
07/17/2009 Project Location - State UT Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Project Location - Zip 841128930 Jobs Reported
1.19 Congressional District 02 Place of
Performance Country USA
Recipient Name
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE Recipient DUNS
Number 009095365 Recipient
Address 201 PRESIDENTS CIR RM 408 Recipient City
SALT LAKE CITY Recipient
State Utah Recipient Zip
841129023 Congressional
District 02 Place of
Performance Country US Required to
Report Top 5 Highly Compensated Officials No Project Title
TESTING TO RANK ORTHOPAEDIC HIP IMPLANT MATERIALS FOR THEIR
RESISTANCE TO SQUEAKING, WEAR, AND RIM CRACKING Project Status
Less Than 50% Completed Final Project
Report Submitted No Project
Activities Description Research & Public Policy Analysis Quarterly
Activities/Project Description SEE AWARD DESCRIPTION Jobs Created
1.19 Description of
Jobs Created Job Titles: Associate Professor;Graduate Research
Assistant; Biomedical Engineer; =================================================== www.obamasucks.tv ►
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