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DESCRIPTION Undesired platelet activation can be result of many common pathologies or interventions Arterial thrombosis and the acute ischemic events that follow such as myocardial infarction and stroke are among the leading causes of death incapacitation and rising health care costs in the developed world Therefore antiplatelet drugs have significant market share and clinical importance ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Errors in the administration of medications to residents of long term care facilities LTCFs threaten resident safety and add significant unnecessary costs to the healthcare system Use of unit dose medications that require LTCF staff to manually sort and assemble specific patient medications times per day can result in error rates as high as with of total errors ha ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the application of brain stimulation devices to treat a variety of movement disorders such as Parkinsonandapos s disease PD and other neuropathologies Present noninvasive brain stimulation technologies suffer from fundamental limitations and have yet to reach the level of efficacy of invasive methods such as de ...

Imagery analysts face a number of challenges that complicate their ability to gain contextual awareness, particularly when exploiting multiple forms of sensor data. Faced with adaptable adversaries, analysts require advanced training tools that span a variety of mission contexts. Because no analyst can be an expert in every sensor platform, what is needed is a training tool that senses and adapts ...

Solid waste disposal and/or destruction are problems that cannot be ignored in patrol base camps or combat outposts and are frequently cited as one of the pressing concerns for established camps. MSW Power has developed a Solid Waste Destruction System (SWDS) consisting of a compactor that mechanically and thermally removes moisture from patrol base camp solid waste, a pyrolysis unit in which the ...