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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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For safety critical airborne systems, the minimum reliability requirements are of the order of one allowable failure in one million flight hours. This implies that almost two thirds of cost and time for design and development is devoted to complying with certification requirements of the aviation regulatory authorities. The recommended design practices have two distinct categories.
This invention relates to a modified firefighter truck, in which a telescoping ladder has been repurposed with multiple spinning wheels to launch a shell consisting of a fire retardant powder with an explosive core. Set to detonate right on top of the fire, it can fire 2 shells every 3 seconds.
The over-application of chemical-based toxic pesticides and insecticides has caused great health concerns for consumers. Some sources claim around 385 million cases of UAPP (Unintentional Acute Pesticide Poisoning) occur annually worldwide including around 11,000 fatalities, which is based on a worldwide farming population of approximately 860 million.
Sweeping is often a hassle especially when dustpans don’t scoop up all the debris leaving unpolished floors. Traditional vacuums are bulky and can scratch floors. And the new autonomous vacuums, such as Roomba, are great but time consuming, do not climb up stairs, and are limited by the size of the debris they can pick up.
In today’s generation, having a camera for observation is not important to observe and recognize it but use it for more realistic view to observe is important now. Our projects aim is that this system will help us to see every corner of the area where our camera is mounted.
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In the realm of battery technology, thermal management plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and efficient operation of energy storage systems. To address the pressing need for improved thermal management solutions, a novel material has been prepared - an anisotropic thermal material with unique properties.
DOWSIL™ TC-6032 Thermally conductive encapsulant affects manufacturing key parts of FCEV and BEV and acceleration of new clean energy era by providing excellent process-ability and productivity improvement with higher thermal conductivity around 3.0 W/m·K and lower viscosity around 6,500 mPa·s, which is almost the lowest in similar product groups thanks to DOW’s filler combination and treating technology.
Mankind is almost out of fossil fuels as witnessed by companies trying to squeeze oil out of sand, “Fracking” destroying the Earths crust. Wind and solar will not be able to keep pace with our need for energy and fusion power will not be available until the next century, if at all.
The Variable Flow Baffle System represents an innovative approach to optimizing rocket propulsion systems by dynamically controlling the flow patterns and distribution of propellants within the combustion chamber. This system incorporates movable baffles that can be adjusted during operation to improve propellant utilization, enhance combustion stability, and increase thrust efficiency. By harnessing the advantages of this design concept,
The electric demand reducer is made to operate with two air conditioners/heat pumps. The device will monitor the 2 units request's to run from the thermostats. Electric demand is the amount of power used instantaneously. Electric generation has be sized to handle the demand. Thus when two units are running,
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