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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary This Phase I SBIR project is designed to develop new zwitterionic graft methodology for orthopedic surfaces with enhanced durability. As Americans live longer and more active lives, total joint replacement is becoming more common. Current orthopedic joints have average lifespans of approximately 20 years. By that point wear on the joint causes p ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation (AME) proposes to develop a wireless system-on-a-chip (SOC) electroencephalograph (EEG) integrated circuit (IC) for use in small animal studies. Advances in SOC design tools and foundry processes make the proposed system economically feasible at this time. The proposed 1C will advance the state-of-the-art in ambulatory ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hearing loss is a leading public health concern, with about 17% of American adults reporting some degree of impairment. Of those, fewer than 20% seek help for their condition for a variety of reasons. To address this issue, the National Institue of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is seeking solutions to improve hearing healthcare access and l ...

The objective of the Phase II project is to prove that Creare's innovative Web-Enabled Cognitive/Neuropsychological Evaluation System for Substance Abusers improves clinical outcomes and provides the enabling infrastructure to collect data from large cohorts of subjects involved in human subject tests that required or would benefit from frequent evaluation and monitoring.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol and drug (AOD) abuse by employees causes many costly problems for business and industry including absenteeism, injuries, health insurance claims, loss of productivity, employee morale, theft, and fatalities. The loss to companies in the United States totals 184.6 billion a year. There are 150 million Americans in the labor force, of whom 10.5 percent o ...

Current offensive solutions to neutralize chem/bio agent facilities rely on blast and/or short-burst high-temperature neutralization but have the potential to produce severe collateral damage via agent release. Our team proposes the Dispersed Energetics Coupled for Optimized Neutralization (DECON) Concept, an alternative concept to perform bulk neutralization of agents. The DECON concept can be s ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of the project in Phase II is to develop and evaluate a stand-alone, Web-based serious game titled Vstreet-G, and to complete the interactive multimedia instruction on money management by adding a component on investment skills. Emancipation from dependence to living independently is one of the most challenging and feared life events for youth, especial ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this research is to create custom analog VLSI semiconductor technology to provide a lightweight, compact implementation of a data acquisition system for ambulatory EEG recording using EGFs Geodesic Sensor Net, an electrode system noted for its comfort and ease of installation even with very high channel counts (to 256 electrodes). Recent high-perfo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (SCCHN) is locally invasive, and frequently spreads to the cervical lymph nodes. Locally advanced disease is treated with radiotherapy plus chemotherapy and/or cetuximab (an anti-EGF receptor antibody), but the cure rate is less than 40% and toxicities are severe. The overall goal of this SBIR grant proposal is to enhan ...