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Project Summary In the US alone, more than 11 million family caregivers provide care for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia on a daily basis.1 These family caregivers have been estimated to shoulder 70% of the total cost of care over their care recipient’s lifetime, costs which include medical bills and unpaid caregiving hours.2 Caregiving-related stress contributes to social iso ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The goal of this small business innovation research grant is to commercialize a cost-effective and contrast-free intraoperative ureter detection system, which integrates into a laparoscopic vessel sealing device to identify ureters in real-time and prevent iatrogenic injuries. 70% of iatrogenic ureteral injuries are detected postoperatively, up to 30 days after hospital di ...

Project Summary: Over 1.5 million Americans suffer from type 1 diabetes (T1D), an autoimmune disorder involving insulin, a hormone that is essential for blood glucose regulation and overall energy metabolism. When first diagnosed with T1D, it is estimated that the patient’s insulin has been reduced by 70-90%. By this point, the immune system has already targeted and destroyed a vast majority of ...

The objective of proposed research is to demonstrate and validate a prototype of an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) predictive modeling tool to fine-tune Gas Flow (G) and associated parameters for Metal Fusion (M) to attain high-quality AM Process-Structure-Performance (PSP). Validate Additive Manufacturing (AM) part quality using Directed Energy Deposition (DED) to repair ga ...

Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle: Chen, Ridong ABSTRACTAdjunctive antithrombotic treatment with dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + P2Y12 antagonist) plus anticoagulant (heparin or bivalirudin) is an established treatment regimen for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) patients. Despite aggressive antithrombotic therapy, myocardial perfusion after PCI remains inad ...

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Thrive Neuromedical LLC proposes to develop, test, and gain FDA clearance to market a therapeutic device to improve speech sound differentiation in preterm infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). During this project we will complete development of the smallTalk NICU Active system and conduct a clinical trial to prove its efficacy in improving speech sou ...

Conventional shortwave infrared (SWIR), midwave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave (LWIR) III-V (e.g. gallium indium antimonide, or GaInSb) and II-VI (e.g. mercury cadmium telluride, or HgCdTe) epitaxial semiconductor materials show useful performance for various infrared photodetection applications, but their high-cost and substantial cooling requirements seriously limit the wide field deployment of ...

Through a NASA Phase II SBIR Contract # 80NSSC18C0063, CUA developed the 1.7U-32J Fiber-fed Pulsed Plasma Thruster (FPPT), which achieves scalable propellant throughput with its fiber-fed design. During the development process, subsystems were improved and miniaturized. These include the high-density energy storage via multi-layer ceramic (MLCC) capacitors (100x life tested), high-thrust, low-eros ...

The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) is to accelerate the development and deployment of solar technology to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and decarbonized energy sector by 2050. The cost of solar electricity is driven by global economies of scale, materials innovation at the cell level, and disruptive ...

This D2P2 program plans to explore a new refractory coating technology to successfully coat additively manufactured (AM) C103 components that exhibit variability in surface roughness, 3D geometrical complexity and build orientation with precision-engineer