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$526,604Neal L Benowitz · University Of California, San Francisco · P30 · FY2013 · DA
Growing up in a digital world: A synergistic approach to understanding media use in children ages 1-8 years
$526,578Rachel F. Barr · Georgetown University · P01 · FY2024 · HD
Genomic Screen To Identify Alzheimers Disease Genes
$526,492Jeffery M. Vance · Duke University · R01 · FY2006 · NS
Nuclear architecture in C. elegans
$526,469Orna Cohen Fix · National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases · ZIA · FY2015 · DK
THE GALEX ULTRAVIOLET (UV) SKY SURVEYS ARE UNIQUELY SENSITIVE TO CLASSES OF ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS SUCH AS HOT STARS STAR-FORMING GALAXIES AND Z<2.4 QSOS. CLEAN CATALOGS OF UV SOURCES (GUVCAT) WERE RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED (BIANCHI ET AL. 2017) WITH ADDED FLAGS TO FACILITATE SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING E.G. SELECTION OF UV-SAMPLES MAPS OF SOURCE DENSITY LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS AND MATCHING WITH OTHER DATABASES. THE PROPOSED PROJECT LEVERAGES GUVCAT AND GREATLY AUGMENTS ITS SCOPE AND USEFULNESS. BY MATCHING THE UV-SOURCE CATALOG TO COROLLARY DATABASES AT OTHER WAVELENGTHS WE WILL CLASSIFY AND CHARACTERIZE BOTH GALACTIC AND EXTRA-GALACTIC UV SOURCES AND EXTRACT SAMPLES OF HOT WHITE DWARFS (WD) FOR OUR SCIENCE PROJECT. WE WILL PUBLICLY DELIVER MATCHED CATALOGS OF UV SOURCES WITH THE LATEST SDSS RELEASE (DR14) GAIA DR2 PANSTARRS 3? PS1 (PROVIDING AN OVERLAP AREA ABOUT 3.6X THAT OF SDSS AND SOME INDICATION OF VARIABILITY) GSC-II 2MASS ... WE LEVERAGE PREVIOUS RECIPES AND SCRIPTS FOR EFFECTIVE FAST PRODUCTION OF THE MATCHED CATALOGS AND USEFUL SCIENCE TAGS. THE UV-SOURCE CATALOGS UNIQUELY ENABLE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OBJECTS ELUSIVE IN OTHER SURVEYS SUCH AS HOT WHITE DWARFS (WD) BOTH SINGLE AND IN BINARY SYSTEMS WITH A COOLER OPTICALLY-BRIGHTER COMPANION. HOT WDS ARE ELUSIVE AT ALL WAVELENGTHS EXCEPT THE UV OWING TO THEIR VERY HIGH TEMPERATURES TO WHICH OPTICAL COLORS ARE INSENSITIVE AND LOW OPTICAL LUMINOSITIES. FROM THE UV-MATCHED CATALOGS WE WILL EXTRACT AN UNBIASED CENSUS OF MILKY WAY HOT WHITE DWARFS. WE EXPECT AN INCREASE BY TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES OVER KNOWN SAMPLES BUT MORE IMPORTANT TO EXTEND THE PARAMETER SPACE TO THE HIGH T EFF HIGH-MASS REGIME THE MOST ELUSIVE AND MOST RELEVANT FOR THE YIELD OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND TO INCLUDE HOT-WD IN BINARIES IN WHICH THE HOT COMPONENT IS UNDETECTABLE WITHOUT UV DATA. OUR SURVEY CAN REACH SMALL HOT WDS ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE HALO ALONG LOW-EXTINCTION SIGHT-LINES. WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE UV-SELECTED HOT WDS WITH ANALYSIS OF THEIR OBSERVED SED (AND COROLLARY DATA WHEN AVAILABLE) AS WELL AS ANALYZE THE GLOBAL SAMPLE WITH MILKY WAY MODEL POPULATIONS. OUR ANALYSIS WILL PROVIDE SORELY NEEDED CONSTRAINTS TO POST-AGB STELLAR EVOLUTION IT WILL CLARIFY STILL UNCERTAIN ASPECTS SUCH AS THE INITIAL-FINAL MASS RELATION INDISPENSABLE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE YIELD OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS FROM INTERMEDIATE-MASS STARS AND THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES. OUR PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE STATISTICS ON THE FRACTION AND PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION OF BINARIES IN EVOLVED STAGES COMPLEMENTING THE ABUNDANT RECENT STUDIES OF BINARITY FOR STARS IN EARLY EVOLUTIONARY PHASES WITH INFORMATION ON AS-YET UNEXPLORED MASS RANGES AND LATE EVOLUTIONARY PHASES. THE RESULTS WILL INFORM FUTURE STELLAR EVOLUTION MODELS WHICH IN TURN UNDERPIN POPULATION SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL EVOLUTION MODELS. THE SED ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL SOURCES AND THE GLOBAL COMPARISON WITH MILKY WAY MODELS WILL ALSO YIELD A MAP OF THE MILKY WAY DUST EXTINCTION TO WHICH UV DATA ARE ALSO VERY SENSITIVE. THE PROJECT IS TIMELY GIVEN THE READINESS OF OUR UV-SOURCE CATALOG AND COMPLEMENTARY DATA AND THE RECENT RELEASE OF GAIA DR2 WHICH PROVIDES DISTANCES FOR MOST OF THE UV-SELECTED STELLAR OBJECTS AND ENABLES US TO DERIVE 3D CATALOGS OF THIS OTHERWISE ELUSIVE STELLAR POPULATION. THE COMBINATION ALLOWS US TO BUILD PRECISE POST-AGB H-R DIAGRAMS ENABLING A MAJOR STEP FORWARD TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING POST-AGB EVOLUTION AND BINARY EVOLUTION. UV-SOURCE CATALOGS WITH MATCHED COROLLARY DATA SOURCE CLASSIFICATION AND INFERRED PARAMETERS AS WELL AS ANALYSIS TOOLS AND MODELS COMPUTED FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE PUBLICLY RELEASED ON THE PI WEB SITE AND ON MAST AND SIMBAD/VIZIER PUBLIC DATABASES FROM WHICH THEY WILL REMAIN PERMANENTLY AND WIDELY ACCESSIBLE AT NO COST TO THIS PROJECT.
$526,459The Johns Hopkins University · · FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Overview: Multisystemic Approach to Early Math Development and Math Learning Disability
$526,396David C Geary · University Of Missouri-Columbia · P20 · FY2025 · HD
Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: Rupture-Risk Assessment by Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging
$526,303Alexei A Bogdanov · Univ Of Massachusetts Med Sch Worcester · R01 · FY2017 · NS
Growth differentiation control in primary keratinocytes
$526,288Gian Paolo Dotto · Massachusetts General Hospital · R01 · FY2007 · AR
BRIEF SUBSTANCE USE INTERVENTION FOR YOUTH IN TEEN COURT
$526,227Elizabeth J D'amico · Rand Corporation · R01 · FY2008 · DA
TMEM106b as a lysosomal adaptor to influence brain aging and tau pathogenesis
$526,207Joanna L Jankowsky · Baylor College Of Medicine · P01 · FY2021 · AG
TMEM106b as a lysosomal adaptor to influence brain aging and tau pathogenesis
$526,207Joanna L Jankowsky · Baylor College Of Medicine · P01 · FY2023 · AG
TMEM106b as a lysosomal adaptor to influence brain aging and tau pathogenesis
$526,204Joanna L Jankowsky · Baylor College Of Medicine · P01 · FY2024 · AG
Transcriptional Regulation Over Neurogenesis of Cortical Output Neuron Segmental Identity and Diversity
$526,189Vibhu Vinodchandra Sahni · Winifred Masterson Burke Med Res Inst · R01 · FY2025 · NS
CRAFT Behavior Therapy Phase 2 Study: Tx Entry Component
$526,170Treatment Research Institute, Inc. (Tri) · R01 · FY2004 · DA
2/3 Genomics of Schizophrenia in the South African Xhosa
$526,162Ezra S. Susser · Columbia University Health Sciences · U01 · FY2025 · MH
Mechanisms regulating lncRNA short and long range signaling
$526,157Jhumku Dutt Kohtz · Lurie Children'S Hospital Of Chicago · R01 · FY2020 · MH
FACILITATING ADOLESCENT SELF CHANGE FOR ALCOHOL PROBLEMS
$526,067University Of California San Diego · R01 · FY2001 · AA
Prolonged Smoking Cessation Using Prescription Step Care
$526,064Robert C Klesges · University Of Tennessee Health Sci Ctr · R01 · FY2007 · CA
Regulation of Neuroinflammation by Meningeal Lymphatics
$526,025Zsuzsanna Fabry · University Of Wisconsin-Madison · R01 · FY2024 · NS
Effectiveness of a Web-enhanced Parenting Program for Military Families
$526,005Abigail Gewirtz · University Of Minnesota · R01 · FY2014 · DA
Innate Determinants of Microbial Immunity
$525,930Alan Sher · National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases · ZIA · FY2018 · AI
Vulnerability to Prenatal Glucocorticoids Programs Infant Development
$525,871Elysia Poggi Davis · University Of California-Irvine · R01 · FY2011 · HD
Diet, Insulin, Dopamine, and Reward.
$525,864Margaret E Rice · New York University School Of Medicine · R01 · FY2012 · DA
Diet, Insulin, Dopamine, and Reward.
$525,864Margaret E Rice · New York University School Of Medicine · R01 · FY2014 · DA
Decision Making &Substance Abuse Among Inner-City Youth
$525,816University Of Alabama In Tuscaloosa · R01 · FY2004 · DA