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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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Gasoline engines with separately operating injectors, for the direct injection of fuel in each cylinder, represent the present state-of-the-art. The injectors used gasoline engines operate at pressure of up to 200 bar in order to provide fuel sprays with very fine droplet distributions with Sauter diameters of about 20 ?m, generated by round hole nozzles.
Current dry earplugs for water activities (swimming etc.) create a .45lb psi pressure differential between the earplug and the ear drum for every 1' they are submerged below the surface, At 10' underwater there is nearly a 5lb psi pressure problem, seeking to rupture the tympanic membrane.
Employing one of the many new, medical, waterproof, tacky, skin safe,
PaintCan is a product similar to many types of standalone machine interface designed to streamline the process of selecting and purchasing paint in large home DIY stores. PaintCan allows users to customize the paint selection process without overloading service representative desks in paint departments.
Romantaque - Post Hair Removal Hair Minimizing Lotion is a novel cosmetic that when applied to normal & intact skin after hair is removed by TWEP (Threading, Waxing, Epilation or Plucking) inhibits the hair growth increasing time gap between next need to remove hair session. It reduces the rate at which hair grows,
Object Tracking Device is otherwise known as an object selecting device. This can be done by using our eye. At the front of the eye, keep three layers of transparent sheets. The inner most layer has an ordinary transparent sheet. The middle has a transparent display and finally the outer most layer has an ordinary transparent sheet.
If I can to tune a broadcasting station, then I also can tune the sun's light because the light is an electromagnetic wave.
The tuning circuit (coil+capacitor) captures the electromagnetic signal from the light and generate
voltage.
In my country the resources do not exist for this project. Only the United States can do this project,
While there have been many technological advancements in vehicle braking systems over the years (4-Wheel Disc, Anti-Lock, Electronic Stability Control, etc.), widespread advancements in friction materials and their manufacturing processes are few. The problematic nature of today’s resin bonded metallic (“RBM”) materials (including environmental, wear and performance issues, as well as declining quality from offshore production),
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