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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

MicroLink Devices in collaboration with University of Notre Dame will develop composite lightweight, high-efficiency, epitaxial lift-off (ELO) inverted metamorphic (IMM) triple junction solar cells ideally suited for retrofitting current generation UAVs and integration with next generation platforms in order to substantially increase mission duration beyond current battery only technologies. Micro ...

Project Summary Crystallization followed by subsequent structure determination is a major step in understanding the structure function relationship of macromolecules Understanding macromolecule structure has become a key part in the development of new pharmaceuticals and is a major area of NIH research Crystallization however is also the rate limiting step despite technological efforts to a ...

Project Summary! This STTR Phase II project continues the development of the Newborn Acuity Cardstm and the Newborn Contrast Cardstm Together these Newborn Cards form a new clinical test of visual acuity and contrast sensi tivity for use on newborn full term and preterm infants The stimuli are square wave gratings which the examiner presents to the infant in a fixation and following protocol ...