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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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Computer or Internet video is compressed video in an Elementary Stream. Broadcast video is compressed video in an Elementary Stream wrapped inside an MPEG-2 Transport Stream. Broadcast Decoders do not recognize Elementary Stream video as valid and can not decode it due to the lack of an MPEG-2 Transport Stream.
The eyePad Stand is a tool, which provides hands-free, touch-screen interaction with an iPad. The non-skid base pad in conjunction with the base cone/pole stem process delivers balance and stability. Whether a finger touches in the middle of the iPad or on its corner, interaction continues with little or no readjustment of the tablet position. Yet,
Indwelling urinary catheters are associated with urinary tract infections, discomfort, and pain--especially for males. Note: "Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are the most frequent health-care associated infections in the United States." If the catheter is not secured in a straight line, it irritates the sensitive skin at the end of the penis, causing irritation and abrasion.
Quadrupole phased-array antenna configuration of multiple dipole antenna elements of sinusoidal incremental phase-shifted longitudinal and transverse dimensions; whereby the incremental longitudinal and transverse phase-shifting energization of the quadrupole antenna elements,
The present invention provides a pin & clamp style tool holder mountable on a lathe or other machine tool for supporting a cutting plate relative to a work piece for cutting or shaping the work piece.
Turning polluting emissions into liquid fuel seems rather improbable, doesn't it?
But I have developed a technology which can generate liquid fuel from harmful gases that are produced when fuel is burnt by a vehicle. If commercialized, and further researched, the new technology could lead to a massive reduction in pollution levels of the country.
Electric Field Photo Mask for Photolithography
1/ A –ve charge gun shoots –ve charges at the glass plate & forms a pattern with –ve charges.
2/ The light source for this lithography is a –ve charged ion beam.
3/ This –ve charged ion beam goes through a divergent lens & scatter light onto the glass plate.
Recall the popular SUVs like TOYOTA FORTUNER or HONDA CRV. Do you find a spare wheel on their tailgate? The answer is no, the spare wheel is mounted under the body and the reason is very simple as it may increase the effort of lifting/closing of tailgate if mounted on the tailgate.
Intermittency can be the curse of a solar PV cell, with no internal energy reserves to supply output energy when the radiating sun intensity is interrupted, even partially.
The simple solution is to:
(1) optimise the collection system by physical changes,
(2) include localised cooling and not worry about thickness,
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