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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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Presently, all the coolant control valves (CCV) are used on engine/vehicle applications to precisely control the coolant flow, by using electric actuators. These actuators require electric energy as an input during continuous operation.
Let’s sit down for a minute and give this thing a thought!
How many liters of water are you consuming in a day? Is it enough to help your body cope up with the blazing heat the sun has been nourishing yet killing us with?
For decades, seeing eye dogs have been used by visually impaired or blind individuals. These highly trained dogs specialize in keeping the user safe from obstacles and hazards during their daily lives when they travel. While these exceptional animals are a valuable companion to the user, they cannot assist in directing the user during these activities.
The growing globalization of our society, the difficulty of communication because of the language barrier the new technologies possibilities from different software platforms requires a new and updated communication system that could improve represent our society communications. Such system could simplify our communications ,
Once at Government, the L.A. politicians seem to treat their national economies as if they were a large version of their own households. For decades L.A. economies have run on peaks and troughs or at pilgrim´s pace.
A January 2016 report from the World Economic Forum projected plastics production, which was 311 million tons in 2014, will double by 2034. Production of ethylene, the basic building block for these materials, represents the single most energy-consuming process in the chemical industry.
LoTempLene has the potential to modernize these industrial processes and scale back their energy consumption.
Numerous studies done in the area of cold temperature impact on the hands’ dexterity site serious implications of effects from working in these types of environments. Even after a short period of exposure, workers exhibit a reduction of manual dexterity which could lead to an increased number of accidents as well as possible physical tissue damage. In general,
In tune or not, we humans sing and hum; in time or not, we clap and sway; in step or not, we dance and bounce. The human brain is hard-wired to distinguish music from noise and to respond to rhythm and repetition, tones and tunes. This is not a biologic accident, and it serves a purpose. Hence,
Current wound care and treatments require the removal of dressings, resulting in further disruptions to the surgical site or wound bed that can lead to severe discomfort, compromised healing and other complications. New objective approaches for monitoring and treating wounds are needed to improve surgical outcome and wound healing for both military personnel and civilians. To address these needs,
Every year, wildfires destroy important ecosystems as well as valuable properties around the world. The cost of the damage caused by wildfires is estimated in the tens of billions of dollars every year, and the method used to put out these fires are very rudimentary; as they rely mostly on firefighters physical strength.
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