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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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Problem:
It sometimes happens that purses, keys, handbags, cosmetic bags fall out of bags, pockets. That is, people lose money and valuable things due to inattention, rush or distraction.
Benefits:
device named “Standardkey”
People will not lose their purse, keys, handbag, or quickly find what they are looking for.
Air strippers are used for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOC), gasoline range organics (GRO) and chlorinated organic compounds from water. The process involves high air to water contact by forcing air through contaminated process water, groundwater or surface water which allows the volatile contaminants to strip out of the liquid stream.
Climate change is an urgent global challenge, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from metal production contribute to a substantial part of total emissions. However, metals play an essential role in human life and this includes not only the building materials or vehicle body manufacturing but the Free Weights Gym Gears &
It is important in today’s modern age of technology to have pioneers push forward to reach greater achievements. The pioneer must have a vision, determination and not be easily discouraged by lack of project funding or criticism. Without great thinkers whose vision was before their time, where would our current technology stand.
According to the World Health Organization, obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems. An escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity is taking over the world. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, including 650 million who were obese.
1. Pressure from or to seats in vehicles, etc. harnessing and conversion to alternative energy
2. Similarly,
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Common symptoms of neurological disorders include numbness, leg pain, spasticity, muscle weakness, and loss of range of motion, which further lead to impairments in balance, gait, and functional ability.
Toe extension strength (TES) of the big toe, often ignored among other muscle strength outcomes, is an important outcome that has been associated with disturbances in balance, gait,
The mystery has been in the mist. Cryptocurrency has left many in its wake as the future of digital currency makes present its very presence and the only crystal solution in the midst of the plethora of financial instruments this towers as the one.
Grand in its inception,
The UNFCCC Paris Accords have a Climate Neutral Now Initiative program that all vehicles could contribute to; now. One might believe that vehicles can't participate until all issues of battery capacity, renewable electricity generation and distribution infrastructure are in place... However, there are existing technologies that could combine to significantly increase fuel efficiency,
Need of the proposed product:
A healthy or well conditioned machine produces dimensionally accurate high quality products. Undesirable conditions during machining produces tool chatter, wear and breakage consequently leading to reduced tool life and poor quality. Thus, an effective Machine Condition Monitoring (MCM) gadget is extremely important for manufacturing efficiency and economics, increased machine availability,
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