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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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As we all know that because of the Coronavirus the world is in social isolation and this has disrupted life as we know it. One of the main disruptions caused by this crisis is delaying sport tournaments like athletics indefinitely until unknown date which is likely when the Coronavirus crisis is over.
Elevators are a critical element of "last mile" transportation infrastructure in high population density environments whose carrying capacity is severely constrained by recent social distancing recommendations. The design presented here aims to mitigate this loss by employing a system of disinfected downward airflow to effectively reduce the social distancing length scale.
In support of Wireless Access Points and Wireless Networks I propose utilizing the T-Bar grid as zone antennae. A designed T-Bar element that is connected to the Access point to provide coverage.
PROBLEM 1: Global climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges.
Climate change is recognized as a major issue worldwide. The rising atmospheric temperatures and rising ocean levels are largely attributed to increases in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
GHG mostly consist of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) The GHG absorb heat and release it gradually over time.
There is an urgent need to develop a cost-effective and portable electrochemical biosensor for the early-stage detection of ARS-Corona Virus-2 (Sars-CoV-2). It would play a crucial role in the rapid screening of the Sars-CoV-2 carriers and can help to reduce the further spread of COVID-19 disease.
Conditions in space such as microgravity and no extreme wind conditions allow the construction of a big umbrella with a parabolic profile shape to focus sun rays in a small area to achieve high temperatures in order to analyze and process materials on space.
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The maturity of the technologies for the guidance and control of UASs allows proposing innovative operational options such as the ability to spray a significant amount of an agent of any sort at a pre-established point in the atmosphere.
This is the case of NitroFirex,
Relevance and novelty: for the first time ever, rocket and space equipment production and extraterrestrial macro engineering will be moved off of the Earth. This is like sending the first man into Space.
No proactive short- or long-term space exploration is possible without developing special-purpose earth orbital infrastructure: cargo platforms, storage, production, residential, scientific,
Most teabags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal them shut. But some premium brands have switched to using greater amount of plastic mesh for their product instead. This is usually so that the tea bag held in a pyramid shape, which producers claims helps the tea leaves infuse better.
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