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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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But all experts have told us, that it is idiocy: low pressure inside a wing makes nothing - elevating force is a result of a difference of pressure around a wing.
L3 is a one-man urban electric vehicle, designed and built for the tourist sector, you won´t need walk long distances. It can also be used in the industrial and business sector to move indoors.
Overview: The Explorer is a backpack gyrocopter and the gateway to safe reliable personal and utility flight. Most commuters going anywhere typically drive alone. This is taking a toll on our environment, road systems, and current economics. If those that were able to would fly to their destinations it would not only reduce emissions,
In recent years, the medical device industry has bloomed and continues to spread out every day. The people's health is most important and a priorty for scientists and engineers. Every day, they have a new discovery to use in the pharmaceutical industry,
It is common in an internal-combustion engine for the piston with rings to move down during the power stroke under the influence of gas pressure. At the same time the piston pushes a connecting rod and thus rotates the crankshaft. Because the connecting rod is connected to the piston and crankshaft by cylindrical hinges,
Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is a sudden and difficult-to-predict severe degradation mode of failure of nuclear, petrochemical, and other industries. This is a development proposal for a methodological software based in: the propensity of SCC failure plus a kinetic model link which better describes the failure evolution.
A New Method of Cardiogram Analysis
The electrocardiograph machine has not changed much over the past 60 or so years. Heart pulse waveforms are difficult to analyze by simple visual examination, and each ECG must be studied by a medical expert who issues a report.
My app is a mobile Internet communication service which helps
the users to communicate, send SMS, MMS, email and chat from his computer without the mobile handset. This type of new operating communication system works when people usually forget their mobile phone at home. Customers can still call their friends from their personal computer,
A Zero Degree Turning Building Periphery Dispenser, an inexpensive method and process improvement for dispensing liquid sealer and liquid tar or any heavy mixed liquidized compound around the base and edge of a home or business structure’s foundation.
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The Challenge
About 90% of nonmelanoma and 65% melanoma skin cancers are associated with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. About 700,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and the numbers are rising despite the increased use of sunscreen. However, the good properties of vitamin D, from sun exposure need to be maintained.
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