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PROJECT SUMMARY Actively involving informal caregivers in direct patient care at the bedside in the intensive care unit (ICU) has the potential to improve patient, informal caregiver, and health care system outcomes. Practice guidelines call for the liberal inclusion of informal caregivers as active partners in ICU care, but there is a critical, unmet need to develop tools that effectively operati ...

Current production methods for tungsten fragmentation warheads are expensive and require significant labor to produce. Needed is a method that can maintain or improve upon the quality of the tungsten components while reducing the amount of time and labor to create the fragmentation warheads. Cold spray has the potential to answer both of these issues. Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) techn ...

Grease is found in a variety of applications ranging from electronics to general mechanical equipment as well as vehicles.  These greases are designed to serve a specific purpose.  Carbon and other nanomaterials, when matched to based oils based upon their chemistry can lead to a dramatic performance in many of these applications.  A key part of our innovation and intellectual property that mak ...

The objective of this research is to create an explainable and structured approach to determining profit or fee negotiations, which accommodates factors that the present weighted guidelines do not. The innovation that this proposal offers is to build an interactive, computational model that simulates these factors—existing and newly identified—and enables negotiators to explore in real-time th ...

NanoCoatings, Inc. (NCI) and our non-profit team member, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), propose a complete in-cylinder engine enhancement for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) multi-fuel engines.  NCI will demonstrate a novel high-voltage anodize process, termed Plasma-Electrolytic-Oxidation (PEO) with specific solid-lubricant nanoparticle additives (e.g., graphite or MoS2), on cast-Al alloy ...

AgilityHealth is the leading Measurement & Continuous Improvement platform that accelerates Digital/Agile/DevOps maturity across teams, programs and the organization level in addition to development of digital talent. The platform offers a variety of team and role based radar assessments that helps teams assess where they are, build improvement plans and measure growth over time. The in depth anal ...

In 2020 alone, pancreatic cancer is estimated to have resulted in 47,050 deaths in the U.S. making it the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) makes up greater than 90% of all pancreatic cancer diagnoses and has an overall five-year survival rate of just 10%. New therapeutic options are needed to improve the poor prognosis for patients with PDAC. Ex ...

ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and comes with a significant economic burden associated with emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Oxidative stress- mediated secondary injury post-TBI is a considerable risk factor for mortality and long-term impairment. Immediately following TBI, a cascade of biological responses leads to i ...

ABSTRACT This STTR Phase I project uses mixed-method formative evaluation strategies to develop, test, and evaluate an alpha prototype of Breezmed, a point-of-care electronic prior authorization web-based platform. Prior authorization burdens the current medical system, hampering a provider’s ability to efficiently prescribe medication and in a timely fashion. This often leads to treatment non-c ...

Structural steels found in bridges and railways are damaged over time due to loading and the environmental conditions in which they operate. VRC Metal Systems, LLC in collaboration with research partners at Northeastern University propose to develop novel protective/repair coating materials that can be applied to bridges and railways by using the cold gas spray (CS) technology to improve the wear ...