Olfactory dysfunction is a major medical problem affecting many americans. for example, recent studies revealed that over one quarter of persons above the age of 65 are totally anosmic. despite such statistics and the importance of olfaction to human safety and nutrition, only one standardized test… More

Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of americans suffer from allerfies, asthma, polyposis, nasal deformities,and other airway restricting maladies, there is presently no low-cost, commercially available, integrated computerizedsystem for quantitatively assessing nasal airflow function.… More

Not Available The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a generic batch-capable technique for polylithic integration of multiple technologies onto one substrate.

DESCRIPTION: Clinical literature often mentions telephone use as one of the most stressful communication situations for the 1 percent of the population who stutter. We propose a device to modify stuttered speech spoken into a telephone. It uses phonetic classification… More