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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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The proposed project is about generation of instantaneously Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) [2] to deflect or damp the blast load of the high explosive explosions. This method can be used as standard countermeasure against any type of warfare explosions.
This project aimed to reduce the blast load caused by any type of the weapon explosions.
The Concept for Corgan was inspired as contracting codes begin to implement a plethora of green and health initiatives into per-existing regulations.Pavlich plans to introduce the product into the market to alleviate methane and fecal particles found within bathrooms while simultaneously preserving energy.
Corgan is a consumer product that has the ability to cross residential and commercial barriers.
A system for generating electricity in the offshore oil and gas industry comprises a wind turbine that can easily be moved along with a drilling rig or marine platform. The system provides a renewable and alternative to generating electricity, in the form of wind, and addresses portability demands by industry without using petroleum product to operate offshore.
TITLE OF PROJECT: Front Loader
PROJECT ABSTRACT:
Purpose : To build a front loader with efficient hydraulic system
Method used: SolidWorks 3d modeling software
Procedures: Data collecting ,Solidworks parts ,assembly and other testing techiques
Are you ever on the go and find that your cell phone battery is running low? Isn't it a pain in the butt when this happens? All too often, when we're on the go outdoors we simply don't have access to a plug to charge up.
There is a need for fast, efficient, safe travel over the water. To achieve speeds in excess of 100 knots, the craft will have to employ aerodynamic alleviation to rise above the water surface. Introducing the Bayou Skimmer, a twin hull wing-in-ground effect craft with features of a regular boat,
GREENHOUSE ESCARGOT IN SPACE
Albert Mroz
At astronomical distances away from our home planet, what will be the source of extraterrestrial sustenance for the new pioneers of space? And will “shipping” dried, frozen or preserved food grown on Earth be even feasible in order to provide the distant colonizers adequate nourishment far from the green fields of our home planet?
We present a novel method for the encoding and decoding of multiplexed biochemical assays. The method enables a theoretically unlimited number of independent targets to be detected and uniquely identified in any combination in the same sample. For example, the method offers easy access to 12-plex and larger PCR assays, as contrasted to the current 4-plex assays.
Automobile Car Seat Device: Designed to keep children from suffocating in cars.
•What problem does your design idea solve? There is currently nothing that is used in car vehicles that protect children that are locked up in their cars.
•What are the potential benefits? The benefits are that lives will be saved.
Our Hybrid Power System HPS-1 changes the game in backup / remote power generation:
Incorporating a sealed, absorbed glass mat deep-cycle battery and an industrial full sinusoidal power inverter, we have been able to reduce fuel consumption by more than 50% over a conventional generator.
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