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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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When human skin is exposed to a great deal of UV damage can happen in the nuclei of cells
Foreign epidermis of the skin center DNA
• occurrence of premature aging and poisoning the blood and nervous exhaustion :::
• weakness of the immune system in the body and not Mquaomaonchar tumors ::
After a grand success in America this innovative model was introduced to the other parts of the world. This module and mechanism was mainly implemented by farmers in the agricultural sectors, and in areas of water supply for domestic purposes. According to the survey we Indians are using it meagerly.
VARIOUS MODELS
1. Economic wood stove - Single stove method
2. Economic wood stove - Single stove method with water boiler (steamer)
3. Economic wood stove - working procedure of a stove with three uses
The BiModal Glideway (BMG) project is a new incarnation of the 60 year old possibility of bimodal transportation. Bimodal transportation involves vehicles that can operate on conventional streets and highways and on separated guideways. In the former they are driver controlled; in the latter they are system controlled and travel without driver intervention.


Practical manned Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft have yet to develop from multi-rotor technology. Although small-scale multirotor vehicles are now common, they do not scale well to viable manned systems and lack endurance for hover and cruise. Current multi-rotor vehicles generally use direct-drive differential rotor stabilization. They “cruise” by negatively pitching the entire vehicle,

Amputation has long been a problem for humankind, but thanks to prosthetics this isn't as much of an issue now. But a solution with a glitch isn't much of a solution. Prosthetic legs available in India are known popularly as Jaipur Foot or Jaipur Leg.
These are made with a Solid Ankle Cushioned Heel technique,
For reducing global warming, many efforts have been made to create new green reliable devices that can be used for the life of people. These devices normally use the power from the natural resources such as the sun, rivers, lakes, ocean, rain, geothermal activity and so forth. In addition to generate electricity,
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Problem:
Howdy readers. As a common automobile user (a common car owner, car fleet owner, or a construction company owning a fleet of cars), we all are used to ensuring that our vehicle is parked in a safe place if it is a public place or even in a multiple dwelling area(apartment, condo, hotels, etc..).

* NOVAlert/DAS is a Driver Alertness Sustainer built into a modified watch strap.
* NOVAlert was developed to reduce road accidents due to fatigue, drowsiness and inattention and validated in Canadian and Israel sleep labs as well as on Sweden roads.
* A driver may not be aware of how close s/he is to unintentionally falling asleep at the wheel,
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