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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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A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funded research program was performed to develop different technologies to improve the intelligence and reliability of aircraft electrical wiring and interconnector systems. One of the developed technologies is referred to as the SMART (Status and Motion Activated Radiofrequency Tag) sensor.
This concept enriches the user of a manual wheelchair by offering an ergonomic alternative to the present method of grasping & pushing a cold slippery hand rim.
The concept answers the need of the wheelchair-bound who have reduced hand & arm capacity or prehension problems.
A strategic telecommunications device(s) situational management command chair, tactical management overview advantage, and authoritative hot seat position combination for advantageous command, control, power and influence; accordingly,
I am an undergraduate student. I often work with computers but the thing is I hate to type the materials or assignment, class notes, permission letter etc. and the book author will write the book and then they prepare a digitized book by approaching any publication.
Centrifugal Separator Media.
This Device can be used on a vast scale for:
The separation and purification gases, liquids, powders;
Extraction of SO from exhausts of power-plants for prevention acid rains;
Extraction of toxic gases from chemical plant exhausts;
The invention relates to some rotary valves for heat engines, pumps and compressors to replace known valves – with go forth alternative motion - from existing engines, pumps and compressors, and all installations and devices that can benefit from this solution.
The rotary valve comprises a valve block,
A new concept in the use of integrated Aeolian energy–even for light winds under the speed of 2.5 m/s,-with the assistance of a turbine that has double synchronized rotors with multiple folding palettes of the new type, with auto-regulating in wind and self protection on wind gust (flurry), for the eolian turbines with horizontal ax and also vertical.
SunPax– The Mass-producible, IT-integrated, Solar-Energy Appliance
Solar energy systems need to move from custom-engineered installations to a mass-produced modularized energy appliance containing all related electronics, storage and monitoring functions within a single, UL approved, energy appliance. The SunPax system will do just that.
The rapid deployment of solar energy is inhibited by several issues.
1.Today,
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The Passive Car Cooler (PCC or Cool-A-Car) purpose is to prevent the car from heating up noticeably hotter than the ambient temperature of the outside air.
Today, there are no physical or virtual boundaries to prevent intruders from gaining access to any sensitive data include Biometric data in free space, private sector, or government storage areas. The reason for using Biometric is to bridge the verification gap between human and machines. The latest cyberattacks proves: “One Time Password” (SecurID) has failed to protect faked access.
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