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Work related injuries and illnesses have risen to their highest level in ten years. Recent Departmestatistics indicate that a total of 6.8 million cases were reported in 1992 at a rate of 8.9 cases pfinancial cost of occupational injuries are in $60 billion range and include such things as medicallegal fees, and lost productivity. These data provide compelling evidence that work-related injuriesas ...

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A bearingless disposable centrifugal blood pump will be developed in this project, together with ainexpensive driver and controller. The rotor of the pump will be suspended by a combination of magnethat it is washed on all surfaces by moving blood. The elimination of bearings and shaft seals removheating and blood stagnation, making such a pump safer and more reliable for short to medium term usp ...

Our objective is to develop a laser welding technique for applications in urologic anastomotic repalaparoscopic procedures in which conventional suturing techniques are difficult. The project is desistrength of welds in a bladder augmentation procedure (enterocystoplasty) under feedback controlledmode to achieve desired preset surface temperature of the tissue favorable to reproducible weld intewi ...

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Unsteady buffet forces excite the vertical tails of aircraft flying at high angles of attack and cause excessive stress and vibration in the tail structure. This results in increased fatigue which ultimately reduces aircraft life. It has been shown by ACX that distributed piezoceramics can significantly reduce the buffet loads on the tail structure of an F/A-18. ACX proposes to develop a simila ...