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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to improve and automate cognitive health screening mechanisms used in hospital facilities, by designing and validating a smart chair and a smart wearable based health data-centric novel solution. U.S. population has more than 16 million people (this is rapidly growing further) living with c ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the development of software that automatically identifies and labels problems that patients encounter when they receive care. This information tells health care providers exactly what they need to fix to improve patient care. Applications of the software include: a) the developing different ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project will be the expansion of the range of applications of safe, selective, and effective ribonuclic acid interference (RNAi) triggers for use as pesticides. If successful, this biotechnology will contribute to sustainable food production and enhance biodiversity with minimal use of non-selective pesticide ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will not only produce a multifunctional thermal insulation structure that is easy to install onto any existing single-, double-, or even triple-pane windows in reducing total building energy consumption, but also improve water condensation issues and occupant discomfort that are associated wit ...

Wideband Autonomous Cognitive Radios (WACRs) are advanced radios that have the ability to sense state of the RF spectrum and the network and self-optimize its operating mode in response to this sensed state. During the just finished Phase I STTR project, Bluecom Systems was able to develop a comprehensive design for realizing such a WACR and demonstrate the proof-of-concept operation in a hardware ...

This proposal aims to develop highly specific rapid and cost effective immunoassays to detect Zika virus ZIKV infection ZIKV is a single stranded RNA virus in the Flaviviridae family that is transmitted to humans through infected mosquitos blood transfusions and sexual contact As of June around Zika Virus disease cases have been estimated in Brazil alone Recently ZIKV has be ...

Project Summary Extended X ray absorption fine structure EXAFS is a technique that gives element specific structural and chemical information about molecules EXAFS currently requires bright X ray beams from specialized synchrotron light sources for most samples and so its applications are limited by access to these facilities This project will involve improved X ray detectors based on superco ...

Targeting the alternative pathway of complement to treat age related macular degeneration Abstract Age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in the developed world in people over and is a priority research area for the National Eye Institute It is a progressive degenerative disease that causes loss of the central vision due to destruction of the part of the re ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT There are infants born preterm each year in the United States alone Preterm infants often necessitate care in the neonatal intensive care unit One of the final milestones to be achieved in order to be discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit is oral feeding Oral feeding can be a challenge for infants born preterm as they do not have the maturity that all ...

Summary The objective of this project is to develop the Comprehensive Eye Evaluation Algorithm CEEvA a system to achieve blindness prevention in a cost effective way CEEvA uses fundus images and available personal medical data in the electronic medical record medical history and laboratory tests to automatically screen not only for DR but also for POAG and AMD in populations at higher risks ...