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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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This worksheet was developed to calculate the critical frequency of the Ionospheric Layer F2, F1, E, and D. What are these Ionospheric Layers? They are used to make the reflection or return of a wave or radio frequency to the Earth, allowing a radio communication in the frequencies of HF between two points,
The Heavy Duty Aftermarket Super Truck is a revolution in fuel efficient technology. Unique patented system from Enviro-Cool delivers up to 10% reduced fuel consumption, dramatic under hood heat reduction and sound reduction. This is one of the most commercially viable and ready aftermarket upgrades in the industry.
Each year, about 12,500 new individuals experience spinal cord injuries in the U.S. alone. The estimated cost of care after spinal cord injury can range from $2-$5 million per person depending on life expectancy and injury severity. Currently, there are no FDA approved therapies that can significantly recover function in humans. As a result, 
This work details the design and development of a medium endurance unmanned aerial vehicle designed for aerial surveillance, surveys and cartography. Defense Housing Authority (DHA) City is Pakistan’s largest land development project and the first to implement the “smart city” concept. For a holistic smart solution, the suburban city will need an eye in the sky. Moreover,
Aiming at a totally new concept in vehicle suspension systems, this paper leads to a viable alternative of the conventional shock absorbers which are made of steel coils and liquid filled pistons when put together provides required conditions of a suspension system.
Objective:
• To ease out the process of monitoring the progress of tree plantations and tree counting over a certain area by removing manual actions.
• To counter the problem of Deforestation, pollution level and Global warming.
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CubeTech are load sensors for public transportation, especially buses, designed to alert the driver about the number of passengers in that bus. Installed under the seat, it was made for the convenience of the driver to make sure all the passengers are there. Compared to the conventional method,
Until now generating plasmas required large amounts of energy. Cold plasma technology strongly reduced the amount of energy required for plasma generation and modern techniques makes it now affordable.
Our αNC PLASMA technique could even more reduce the energy consumption and separate elements (individual atoms) at molecular level and re-arrange them in other metallic bonding,
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