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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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In the recent years, there have been considerable research achievements worldwide by exploring potential applications in hazardous and unmanned environments. The typical applications of climbing robots includes urban search and rescue in civil and military applications, reliable non-destructive evaluation and diagnosis in the nuclear industry, the chemical industry and the power generation industry,
Having human staff at night or in remote rural areas poses several practical difficulties, including health hazards, security problems and also it causes disputes in quantity and payment which lead to crowding at fuel stations. Regardless of the transportation method or type of fuel (electricity or gasoline), future vehicles will still regularly need fuel-filling.
Proposed is a radically simple solution for superior and affordable health care with minimal government subsidies and intervention.
Traditional compromises:
- Reimbursement depends on properly 'coding' services rendered (SR) resulting in increased overhead, delayed and reduced payments.
- Malpractice insurance is major expense,
Left hemiplegia is paralysis of the left side of the body due to brain stroke. In brain stroke, brain cells die due to oxygen starvation. If this happens in the right side of the brain then the left side becomes dysfunctional. But since the left side brain is unaffected, the right side of body remains fully functional. Generally,
Mirror therapy has been found to be a very effective way towards recovering lost functionality. My idea is to use image processing software, where a stroke affected person uses his non-affected limbs (hand or leg) in front of a camera connected to a server machine. This machine captures the motion images,
GEARTURBINE PROJECT
Atypical InFlow Thermodynamic Technology Proposal Submission
Novel Fueled Motor Engine Type
This innovative concept consists of hull and core where are held all 8 steps of the work-flow which make the concept functional. The core has several gears and turbines which are responsible for these 8 steps (5 of them are dedicated to the turbo stages).
Theme of my Design – Reduce water wastage and pollution by the concept of vacu flush in mail express trains
Two major problems in modern toilets in mail express trains.
1. In recent times, some mail express trains do not have modernized toilets and these toilets increases pollution as the excreta (latrine) falls on the tracks of the railways.
A totally new design concept has been applied to the "good old" steam engine that allows this previously very reliable but relatively inefficient machine to drive an electric generator to make enough power to provide the thermal input needed to drive the engine AND have a substantial amount of power left that can be used to power any number
In order for the various participants in our working society to properly understand where they fit in and to appreciate how they can operate in the most effective manner, it is necessary for their education that the can understand HOW OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM WORKS.
Introduction:
Asthma is increasing in all cities of all industrial nations. Asthma affects kids to all ages. The sickness & deaths are increasing all over. Inhalers are the preferred devices for lung drug delivery. Unfortunately, patients are unhappy with inhalers. There are 2 types of inhalers -- MDI (metered dose inhaler) with a propellant &
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