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DESCRIPTION: (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract) Active Signal Technologies, in partnership with the Brain Attack Team of the University of Maryland Medical Center, proposes to develop a novel portable, non-invasive system that will enable rapid identification of stroke. Approximately 750,000 people suffer a stroke each year and over 80 percent of thes ...

Active Signal Technologies proposes to further develop its self applied, electrodeless home monitoring device for sleep apnea with the ultimate goal of making clinical diagnosis available to a much larger population of sleep disorder patients than currently possible. Preliminary results from Phase I have shown that much of the diagnostically rich airflow information captured in the sleep lab with ...

Active Signal Technologies proposes to further develop its self applied, electrodeless home monitoring device for sleep apnea with the ultimate goal of making clinical diagnosis available to a much larger population of sleep disorder patients than currently possible. Preliminary results from Phase I have shown that much of the diagnostically rich airflow information captured in the sleep lab with ...

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of noise imparted to a system actually increase its sensitivity to weak stimuli. SR has been shown to produce a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects - elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers - a notable increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is seen whe ...

Stochastic resonance (SR), a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of environmental noise actually increase the discernability of signals or stimuli, produces a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects- elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers-a significant increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is noted when electrical or me ...

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which slight amounts of noise imparted to a system actually increase its sensitivity to weak stimuli. SR has been shown to produce a demonstrable effect in human sensory cells. In both healthy young and clinical subjects-elderly, diabetics, and stroke sufferers-a notable increase in tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity is seen when el ...

DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract): The applicants will develop statistical SURFACE fractal dimension (S-fd) features, which will discriminate benign from malignant breast masses on MRI and mammographic images. S-fd features derived from three functional representations of breast mass image data will be evaluated: (1) signal intensity of m ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to develop a method to prolong the shelf-life and increase the safety of human platelets with a unique method of sterilization. The method delivers an agent known to kill a range of microbial pathogens in vitro including many bacterial species known to contaminate platelet concentrates, fungi, parasites, and vir ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to develop a method to prolong the shelf-life and increase the safety of human platelets with a unique method of sterilization. The method delivers an agent known to kill a range of microbial pathogens in vitro including many bacterial species known to contaminate platelet concentrates, fungi, parasites, and vir ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):The goal of this proposal is to establish the value of the 3' noncoding region (NTR) of hepatitis C virus ((HCV genome as an amplification target in a viral load assay. HCV is the most prevalent chronic bloodborne infection in the U.S. Although the number of new infections has declined substantially, there are still an estimated 36, ...