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This project addresses the need for increased opportunities for customized employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities by developing the Person-Centered Planning ToolKit. The Toolkit will enhance implementation of personcentered planning (PCP), often limited by lack of follow-through on action items and a lack of tools to match career preferences to specific customized employment opport ...

Hematopoiesis, the regulated production of mature blood cells, is a complex scheme of multilineage differentiation which occurs mainly in the bone marrow of adult mammals. Mature cells are continuously produced from progenitor (or precursor) cells. Consequently, assays which detect these progenitor cells are vital in many research and clinical settings. The current assay procedures suffer from a n ...

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Efficient separation and purification of bioproducts on a commercial scale are controlling steps in the bioprocessing of high value-added products such as therapeutics in human health care. This project will examine the feasibility of achieving significant improvement in downstream processing through-put by the use of flow-induced vortices to reduce or eliminate the effect of concentration polariz ...

ABELA LASER SYSTEMS (ALS) PLANS TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND CHARACTERIZE A COMBINATION LASER-ELECTRODE CATHETER FOR PERCUTANEOUS TRANSVENOUS HIS BUNDLE ABLATION. THE CATHETER WILL BE CAPABLE OF SAFELY PROJECTING A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF LASER ENERGY TO THE AV NODE-HIS BUNDLE TO ABLATE OR PERMANENTLY MODIFY THE CONDUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THAT TISSUE. THIS SYSTEM WOULD FIND IMMEDIATE APPLICATION FOR TH ...

AUTOMATED BLOOD CELL ANALYSIS IS A ROUTINE FUNCTION IN THE CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY LABORATORY. HOWEVER, THE FLOW CYTOMETRIC INSTRUMENTATION PERFORMING THESE TESTS MAY HAVE FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS REGARDING MEASUREMENT OF RED BLOOD CELL VOLUME, RED BLOOD CELL HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION, AND ACCURATE CLASSIFICATION OF WHITE BLOOD CELL SUBPOPULATIONS. THE "HIGH-END" INSTRUMENTS HAVE BECOME VERY COMPLEX AND ...

BETWEEN COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AND QUADRI/PARAPLEGICS, THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 700,000 PERSONS IN THE U. S. WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM PROSTHETICS UTILIZING NEURAL OR NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION. SUCH SYSTEMS REQUIRE IMPLANTABLE, HIGH-SPEED, BI-DIRECTIONAL, TRANSCUTANEOUS DATA TRANSMISSION IMMUNE TO VARIATIONS IN THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. TO DATE, DATA LINKS INDEVELOPMENT ARE NOT PROJECTED TO MEET THE COMBINED ...

Endoscopic exploration of the utero-fallopian region is useful and may become a more general observational modality if a viewing instrument can be build with a front end that is disposable and inexpensive, has a small diameter with potential for transcervical introduction without anesthesia, and can provide high image resolution. The goal is the development of a falloposcope with high resolution i ...

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