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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Retinal prosthetic devices currently under development are designed to bypass the non functioning portion of the visual pathway photoreceptor layer in individuals suffering from diseases including retinitis pigmentosa RP and age related macular degeneration AMD Current devices enable patients to only see object positions and read large letters and furth ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Eden Medical proposes to develop a Self Sealing Therapy Ostomy Pouch S TOP to stop leakage that leads to skin breakdown and trauma for ostomy care patients The S TOP will detect leakage inform the patient and prevent leakage occurrence providing better patient comfort and well being and eliminating the cycle of misery due to an ineffective seal and skin br ...

ABSTRACT: Through the Phase II program, NTL will finalize the materials development and demonstrate the ability of a TIM material based on carbon nanotube vertical arrays to meet general requirements for space applications. In addition we will define and initiate tests required for a specific Air Force application. NTL will not only demonstrate a heat transfer coefficient greater than 45,000 W/ ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant As the US population ages Alzheimerandapos s disease and related disorders ADRD will present an emotional and financial burden to an increasing number of families and the U S healthcare system More than of the care for persons with ADRD is provided by family members at home who need ongoing support to manage the daunting physical and psychological demands of care ...

ABSTRACT: Current automatic target recognition (ATR) training processes require expensive data collections or extensive, high fidelity target modeling and validation whose costs and lead times will limit the ongoing sustainability of ATR target databases. Radar based systems for combat identification (CID) suffer from sustainability issues due to the extreme complexity of the target databases an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hypersecretion of mucus into the respiratory airways is a major contributing factor in several lung diseases including chronic pulmonary disease COPD asthma cystic fibrosis allergic rhinitis and bronchiectasis Despite the obvious medical importance there presently are no effective therapies to control excess mucus secretion in these diseases and very ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Phase IIB SBIR application is responsive to NHLBI RFA HL andquot NHLBI SBIR Phase IIB Bridge Awards to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies for Heart Lung Blood and Sleep Disorders and Diseases R andquot This RFA solicits work on andquot basic applied and clinical research on all product and service development related to the ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine malignancy New thyroid cancers patients are identified daily and most patients live for decades following diagnosis Thyroglobulin TG levels in the sera or in fine needle biopsies of thyroid cancer patients are routinely quantified using various agency approved e g FDA immunoassays for diagnostic and p ...

ABSTRACT: SIFT will dramatically improve the Air Force's ability to train using synthetic teammates by leveraging prior synthetic teammate research to develop a generalized and reusable natural language interaction (NLI) development toolkit for constructive agents. We will simplify the creation of constructive agents by making it easy to develop and test the required situation and linguis ...

ABSTRACT: A new knowledge-based approach is proposed to mitigate the corrosion of metallic surfaces. The approach is based on the rational design of molecular coating materials based on a new class of phthalocyanines. While these materials resemble fluorinated polymers in their capacity to prevent the intrusion of moisture associated waterborne ions and the diffusion of oxygen to the metallic ...