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The current effort has been on-going, specifically to address the needs as described in N122-132, Advanced Ballistic Shielding for Crew Served Weapons Stations. The objective of the topic is to develop a series of reconfigurable and non-reconfigurable advanced ballistic shields for crew served weapons stations.

This project will develop a Socially-Assistive Robot (SAR) to provide cognitive training, in the form of learning to play the piano, to improve cognitive functioning and reduce feelings of loneliness in socially-isolated older adults. The SAR will administer cognitive training via guided practice on a set of standard piano lesson tasks designed to reflect particular cognitive functions: memory, at ...

Project Summary/Abstract Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation and our partners propose to develop a Socially-Assistive Robot (SAR) system for persons with dementia (PWD),(mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimerandapos;s disease, or other dementias), who are living in assisted living facilities. The proposed system uses Augmented Intelligence (AI) to communicate with the PWD in natural language. T ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The culture and shipment of islets are an integral part of islet transplant research. Flasks, petri dishes, and bags are the devices used to perform that role. However, these devices have inherent design characteristics that make them poorly suited to the unique needs of islet culture and islet shipping. This results in the use of far too many devices to maint ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Peripheral artery disease and trauma are leading causes of morbidity and amputation in the United States. Recent advances in biomaterials provide for potential development of small diameter vascular grafts as a life-saving treatment. Development of a life-long graft (lt 6 mm id) requires a construct that will not cause significant blood clotting/thrombosis and ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common, significant, life threatening and unaddressed infectious disease problem that occurs in patients who are intubated with an endotracheal tube and require mechanical ventilation. Of the l .6 million patients per year in the US who require mechanical ventilation, 15-25% will develop VAP and 24-71% will die of th ...

Chronic pain affects 116 million Americans at a cost of $560 billion per year according to the Institute of Medicine. 25.3 million adults had pain every day for the preceding 3 months. Current analgesic therapies often fail in chronic pain and can lead to drug abuse. 18,893 Americans died from prescription opioids in 2014, 1.9 million were addicted to them. The enclosed application develops a non- ...

Project Summary/Abstract We propose the development and evaluation of a novel implantable low-energy device, using an innovative low-energy multi-pulse therapy, to achieve well-tolerated treatment of ventricular and atrial tachyarrhythmias. Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) including ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) are responsible for 75-80% of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) ...

ABSTRACT The adoptive transfer of virus specific T cells has produced remarkable clinical results in patients with viral diseaseHoweverbroader implementation of this therapy has been limited by theiprohibitive production costsiicomplexity of manufactureiiiprolonged time for preparation and product releaseandivthe requirement for individualizedpatient specific productsOver the pastyears we have sys ...

Long-duration wide-area surveillance missions increasingly are space-based. MEO orbits offer space-based radar systems more time on station, but require very large array apertures on the order of 100m in diameter. Achieving larger apertures with smaller, lighter launch packages and stable on-orbit pointing is a challenge that E-Textiles promises to meet. Textile processes can be used to achieve a ...