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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to render the tedious, time-consuming, and expensive manual process of contract review and negotiation as archaic. The outcome from the proposed research will accurately review and negotiate in-bound contracts based on a user's history of reviewing and negotiating just a handful of similar ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to help environmental engineers identify and delineate the bounds and concentrations of soil and groundwater contaminants with greater speed and accuracy. Over 30,000 contaminant spills have been identified in the United States alone, with thousands yet to be investigated and returned to safe level ...

This SBIR Phase I project will investigate the safety and efficacy of a new type of implantable medical device for cartilage repair in the knee. The implant is based on a novel material that is cartilage-like, as well 3D printed designs. Currently, cartilage damage in the knee is most effectively treated by a metallic joint replacement. However, qualifying patient age is 55 or older. There are sev ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is widespread adoption of a technology with a direct cost-­savings in healthcare. It is estimated that nearly 5,000 patients are harmed each year due to wrong-patient errors in medical imaging. Additionally, even a 10% improvement in efficiency in radiologists' performance would translate to ...

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 ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to improve respiratory protection against ammonia by using novel carbide-derived carbons (CDCs). The outcome of this project will improve the safety and health for industrial workers, firefighters, and first responders that encounter ammonia in industrial settings and emergency situations. Current ...

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 is to Uber-ize and disrupt the home improvement market. This project will increase market efficiency among homeowners and home improvement contractors. The knowledge harvesting and case-based estimation technologies from this project can be applied to a variety of industries in today's knowled ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project will be the alleviation of several current difficulties in the growth measurement of many bacterial species, especially anaerobic and other fastidious organisms. A large number of these species are naturally occurring in the human body, and they have recently been shown to play critical roles in aller ...

THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR SYSTEMS HAS CREATED A NEED TO DEVELOP COMPATIBLE MEASUREMENTTECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERIZE THE ELECTRICAL, STRUCTURAL, ACOUSTIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THESE MATERIALS. ALTHOUGH MANY STANDARD METHODS OF MEASURING CONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS CAN BE ADAPTED TO NEW HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTOR SYSTEMS, EFFECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF CRITICAL PR ...