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This SBIR Phase II proposal provides a sustainable solution for two major environmental challenges in the agriculture and building industry. In the agriculture industry, swine manure treatment is a major problem, both environmentally and economically. Currently, more than 120 million hogs being produced in the US per year, generating more than 6 billion gallons of swine manure that must be treated ...

For 50 years Babington has pioneered the field of ultra-clean combustion for home and off-grid heating and cooking. Our unique air-atomization and burner technology provides for near perfect combustion of liquid fuels with variable heat outputs. Babington burners have heated homes and millions of meals for U.S. militaries and disaster relief organizations worldwide. Recently, we reengineered ou ...

Vadum will develop and simulate a new communications protocol for Distributed Coherent Beamforming (DCB) that will implement bi-directional distributed TX and RX beamforming algorithms between two or more groups of wireless nodes with no prior spatial awareness (i.e. GPS not required). The Vadum approach uses an innovative Master-Slave architecture to implicitly achieve frequency and timing synchr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alzheimerandapos s disease AD occurs in one out of eight Americans of age and affects of the elderly over Current FDA approved drugs provide short term symptomatic relief of AD There is a pressing need to discover new disease modifying medications AD is multifactorial in origin and progression A drug attenuating several underlying factors is a p ...

ABSTRACT In the US and other developed countries increased life expectancy has led to increases in aging related bladder dysfunction and associated lower urinary tract symptoms Aging and diabetes as well as many neurological conditions can result in underactive bladder UAB which can cause inefficient voiding discomfort and psychological distress as well as serious complications such as u ...

Glaucoma is a diverse group of chronic diseases that causes irreversible damage to the optic nerve and is a leading cause of blindness affecting million people worldwide It is estimated that in people who receive proper treatment for glaucoma still experience loss of vision The only proven method of treating glaucoma is to reduce the pressure in the eye Intraocular Pressure IOP Advanced glaucoma m ...

Abstract Neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis Parkinson s disease dementia spina bifida diabetes stroke and spinal cord injury SCI can result in loss of voluntary voiding of urine and require intermittent bladder catheterization for voiding Catheter use is associated with increased incidence of health problems predominately repeated urinary tract infections sepsis ureth ...

We propose to develop the Quality Cost Value Calculator (QCVC) to automatically evaluate the value of cycles of care by measuring the cost and quality (in terms of outcomes defined from the patients perspective and the commanders perspective) of care. QCVC will enable DoD health care providers to achieve higher reliability of care and will enable leadership and decision makers to guide process imp ...

The DoD desires prognostics and diagnostics tools to proactively address the degradation of microgrid equipment legacy infrastructure for installation energy. Specifically in this SBIR, the tools should be able to identify long-term generator and power distribution performance degradation.It is not cost-effective nor is the data available to develop physics-based performance models on the myriad o ...

Miya Model Simulator Phase II Abstract OB GYN Residents must develop numerous skills including pelvic exams child birth open surgery laparoscopic surgery and vaginal surgery Studies demonstrate that OB GYN Residents lack training in vaginal surgical techniques including Vaginal Hysterectomy VH Vaginal Hysterectomy is the desired technique recommended by The American College of Obstetric ...