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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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It's like a smart jump drive that is plugged into the credit card swiper and when purchases are performed the Derk keeps track of the purchase for multiple reasons. For exchange returns emailed to a boss. Keep track of for work deductible. Can be emailed to work for sales reports. Traveling expenses.
The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience demonstrates the potential benefits that next generation of Class 8 over the road truck powertrains can provide through leading edge aerodynamics, improved fuel economy, component electrification, and a fuel neutral capability.
Turbines have been evaluated in the past for their high efficiency at cruise, light weight, low maintenance, and not needing coolant.
Light Tube was developed as a possible solution to produce clean water, without algae formation after exposition under the sun. Until now, optical sterilization by UV involved the use of a tank, in which the liquid must be irradiated for a certain period. These traditional devices are energy and time expensive.
A pseudo-active chemical imaging sensor model embodying irradiative transient
heating, temperature nonequilibrium thermal luminescence spectroscopy, differential hyperspectral imaging, and artificial neural network technologies integrated together.
Biogas digester technology can provide energy needs of local government operations by producing methane. About 1.7 cubic meters of biogas equals one liter of gasoline; the manure produced by ONE cow in one year can be converted to the methane equivalent of over 200 liters of gasoline. Cattle,
We have developed a novel wind turbine that overcomes the solidity limitation of conventional designs, by opening the center of the rotor which allows to increase the number of blades without incurring loss of efficiency. According to our design, it is possible to increase solidity up to 0.25 (the recommended limit for three-bladed rotor is 0.1).
The greatly improved efficiency, power to weight ratio, production costs, emissions, and fuel economy of contemporary Wankel Rotary Combustion Engines allows for its participation in many more uses. So does the progresses accomplished in hydraulic engines, hydraulic power transmission and output devices. In this frame, the possibility can be considered as,
Pottery is one of the oldest traditions of our country. We have been doing it right from the start of the civilizations. The number of people still carrying out these activities has been declining from the start of mid twentieth century and the number continues to grow thinner.
Problem:- We all know that the electric vehicles are more efficient than the oil burning vehicles. They make less noise and are pollution free. But electric vehicles are not frequently used in day to day life.
Reasons:
1. One cannot use electric vehicles on the go. He/she has to stop for some time to charge the batter .
Over 50% of cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatment, resulting in both adverse physical and psychological side effects. The primary side effect of chemotherapy is the suppression of the immune system making patients susceptible to infection, often resulting in death.
The MedPro is a portable drug infusion device which patients can wear comfortably whilst receiving treatments.
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