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This Phase I project will test and optimize a software system and digital tools designed to promote parent/caregiver-mediated dialogic reading routines in children ages 6 months to 5 years. Early exposure to dialogic reading has been shown to foster virtually all school-readiness indicators from cognitive and social-emotional development to vocabulary attainment and concepts about print. Research ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate novel approaches for biopolymer materials that uniquely enable oxygen incorporation into hydrogel dressings to improve and accelerate chronic wound healing. The proposed work differs drastically from other research programs and commercial efforts to use oxygen in chronic wound healing as it is the first to combine oxyg ...

This SBIR Phase I project will address drug resistance in cancer patients through the advanced analysis of biopsies. Not only is each patient unique but their tumor contains a high level of genetic diversity as well. Overlooked diversity within patient tumors can lead to inadequate treatment and consequently acquired drug resistance, and has also been shown to predict therapeutic response to certa ...

The broader impact/commercial impact of this project will be to create a depth vision system that accelerates the transition to intelligent automation. The intelligent automation movement is driven by the opportunity to increase human productivity, and it can be seen in all domains: from Siemen?s self-organizing manufacturing plants to Amazon?s proposed delivery drones. This project aims to improv ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be to create a user-friendly, universal control system for robots and sensors that for the first time would make it possible for nontechnical service industry professionals to task and control co-robots deployed in their facility. This simplification of software for an end-user will make systems of robots as easy to control as a single r ...

This SBIR Phase I project is to develop and demonstrate novel nanotechnology based flow battery that meets demanding 2020 energy density targets for transportation and stationary storage and offers a cheaper, safer and environmentally friendly rechargeable energy-storing fluid, which could ultimately allow using batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) in the same fashion as gasoline-powered engines. ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a point-of-care (POC) blood chemistry test that can measure multiple analytes simultaneously with a single drop of blood. Blood chemistry tests are the most frequently ordered tests by physicians. This proposed lab-on-a-chip and associated analyzer for blood chemistry tests will benefit society by improving the quality of health care delivery and reducing cos ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project targets the fabrication of X-ray focusing devices for high photon energies in the range from 10 keV to >100 keV, necessary for imaging, microtomography, and elemental and structural analyses of materials in spectral ranges and at resolutions unavailable today. Their primary use is in high-end synchrotron radiation facilities and in X-ray micr ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project lies in helping people cultivate healthy lifestyles. Over the last few decades, an epidemic of lifestyle diseases has developed in the United States. Unhealthy lifestyles, such as inactivity, poor nutrition and sedentary behaviors are driving up the prevalence of chronic disease such as diabet ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project comes from addressing a demand in many parts of the world for a scalable technological solution for managers of nature resources to deal with human-animal conflicts and rapid deforestation. Natural resources have large and sometimes surprising ecosystem impact. Even the direct economic value o ...