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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Periodontal bone regeneration requires attention to a the need of a physical barrier to restrict the entry formation of fibro epithelial tissue b he cause of bone loss that is due to hostandapos s inflammatory response to pathological cause and not due to the causative pathogen directly so along with bone regeneration strategies the process also equally ...

THE TOPIC OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THE DESIGN OF AN ENVIRONMENTALCONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE MORE THAN TWO MILLION INDIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED STATES WHOSE PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL IMPAIRMENTS ARE SO SEVERE THAT THEY ARE UNABLE TO FUNCTION IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT IN A NORMAL AND EFFECTIVE MANNER. A TWO-YEAR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EFFORT BETWEEN THE BIOENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE ASSOCIA ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The overall goal of the present study is to resurface a diseased femoral condyle in an ovine model of unicompartmental osteoarthritis OA For patients suffering from unicompartmental OA of the knee unicondylar knee arthroplasty UKA is an available first line treatment option that provides many potential advantages over more common total knee replacement p ...

More than 1,500 Americans have lost a limb due to traumatic injury in combat in recent years.Upper limb loss can be treated with myoelectric prostheses, but such devices require intensive training to effectively operate. The need to concentrate and continuously react during training often takes amputees many months, with the result that many patients abandon use of the prosthesis. In the Phase I e ...

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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Modern day radiotherapy has developed in complexity to the degree that significant treatment errors are both difficult to detect and difficut to completely avoid In the current day radiotherapy department it is common to have a large number of patients being treated with Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy IMRT techniques When treating patients with these tec ...

THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP A FUZZY SET METHODOLOGY FOR UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. FUZZY SET LOGIC WILL BEUSED FOR COLLECTING, QUANTIFYING AND PROPAGATING SUBJECTIVE,ENGINEERING JUDGEMENT USED IN THE UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS. IN PHASE I, FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH WILL BE DEMONSTRATED BY APPLYING IT TO SELECTED PARTS OF A PROBABI ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThis project is an evaluation of a novel devicethe Air Barrier SystemABSto reduce the risk of prosthesisrelated surgical site infection in a multi center clinical trialThe ABS shields surgical incisions intra operatively by creating a field of high purity air surrounding an incision that prevents airborne microorganisms from entering the incisionPreliminary findings ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Albus Imaging Community hospital identification of high CV risk patients during cancer treatment Project Summary Abstract The goal of this research is to enable community hospitals to detect cardiovascular injury very early in breast cancer patients using our advanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging MRI procedures This is very significant because near ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Severe loss of vision occurs due to age related macular degeneration AMD and approximately million people in the US have some form of AMD which is expected to double by Most of the current clinical treatments are primarily focused on slowing down the progression of the disease as there is neither a cure that can stop the degeneration nor a therapy ...