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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alzheimerandapos s disease and related dementias ADRD are an urgent healthcare challenge facing st Century America In the U S in one person received an ADRD diagnosis every seconds by that number will be one every seconds Alzheimerandapos s Disease Facts and Figures ADRD are the third most costly disease sets in the U S In spi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This project develops a novel social support aid SSA to allow persons with dementia PWDs to more fully engage in their social network and enhance their quality of life The SSA will assist people in an early stage of dementia e g Alzheimerandapos s disease or related dementia who desire social interaction but struggle to remember names and relationship ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation MHS proposes to develop and evaluate a program to motivate and monitor people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD to complete home exercise as part of pulmonary rehabilitation PR COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the U S and a very significant cause of morbidity in the elderly which results i ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We seek to develop and commercialize a powerful technology platform to increase dramatically the effectiveness of drug discovery using high throughput screening HTS based on fluorescence lifetime FLT readouts of FRET in live cells This breakthrough is enabled by a combination of two complementary and synergistic technologies fluorescent biosensor engineer ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose to develop and evaluate the utility of a novel input camera system for retinal prosthetics that allows users to filter optical imagery based on distance from the observer We call this andquot depth filteringandquot which can be accomplished with a depth sensing stereoscopic camera system Retinal prostheses can restore partial vision to people bli ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Radio Frequency RF catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation AF may prevent stroke but paradoxically the procedure itself can cause stroke or other ischemic cerebrovascular events Cognitive dysfunction may arise in to of cases after cardiac ablation procedures and MRI studies have identified between and incidences of andquot silentandquot ...

Mission planning is an error prone and labor intensive process requiring similar data to be entered multiple times through various JMPS UPCs. The Navy is requesting a software solution to expedite and unify the operational mission planning process. Architecture Technology Corp (ATCorp) proposes MoMiP (Mobile Mission Planning) to incorporate mobile hardware platforms (Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In band artifact and noise present a major obstacle to efficient extraction of accurate reliable and repeatable information from ambulatory recordings of subcutaneous and surface ECGs With more than million patients a year experiencing ambulatory evaluations for cardiac arrhythmia in band artifact and noise is an urgent wide reaching challenge In clinic ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ultimate goal of this project is to develop a simple product Partial Cuff PC to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD or acid reflux Of the million U S GERD sufferers managing their symptoms by life time medications million will require treatments due to failure of their prescriptive medications The revelation of significant side effect ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Twenty percent of the U S population resides in rural communities In rural areas residents need to travel greater distances to access specialty services of the healthcare system Typically healthcare facilities in these rural areas are small and provide limited services Often due to geographic distance extreme weather conditions environmental and climat ...