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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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In order for a jet engine to become multistage it must have a multistage afterburner or a multistage combustor. In order for a combustor to become multistage it must actually operate through the combination of uninterrupted and pulsating combustion. Uninterrupted combustion in stage 1 and pulsating combustion in higher stages through pulsating fuel feed.
Metabolic towers are unmanned facilities located in in an urban environment . Their functions are as follows:
Collect differentiated waste (paper, glasss, plastic, metal, other) for processing and recycling
Collect organic wastes for incineration process to generate energy
Collect sanitary water from neighbouring buildings for decontamination,
The components of wind turbines are a Generator, Gear box, Controller, Power Cable, Brake, Blade, Rotor and others. Each of these components has high cost and electric power will not be generated without each one. So each wind turbine tower is expensive to erect,
U.S. turbines kill 234,000 birds per year on average. When a bird flies into a patch of air immediately after a blade tip has passed by, the sudden drop in pressure can reportedly rupture its lungs, a condition known as "barotrauma.
Do you know that people in many part of the world wash their clothing in a river, lake or a stream? If you are not aware, well you are about to be.
Facemasks are essential product that are needed to sustain our lives equal to food and water because it is the first line of defense against respiratory diseases like COVID-19 by providing a filtration system of the air we breathe preventing us from getting infected and transmitting our infectious virus.
Do you know that there is no one who is responsible for evacuation of wheelchair users in case of emergencies like fire in buildings?
As outlined in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 which is adopted by many countries,
Do you know that people in many part of the world travel many kilometers carrying water jerry can every day or few times a day to bring water for drinking, cooking, watering their plants and many other reasons? If you are not aware, well you are about to be.
In 1923 Professor Paul Biefeld and his student Thomas Townsend Brown discovered this effect during the test of a new type of capacitor. Basically the Biefeld Brown effect is electro gravitation.
3D Precision Irrigation™ (3PI™) is an autonomous, sensor-based, data-driven, irrigation system that automatically adjusts irrigation cycles to the changing needs of the plants and trees that it monitors.
My mission is to help farmers and other growers maximize their return on resources while conserving water, preserving soil,
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