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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in providing state-of-the-art tools allowing anyone to build and deploy domain specific commercial intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) solutions. These tools allow others to understand how IVAs should be architected and integrate IVA technology into their offerings. IVAs have shown promise ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is the development of novel high-brightness fluorescence compounds (fluorophores). These compounds will find applications in flow cytometry, a laser-induced fluorescence technique that can analyze thousands of cells per second. This efficient technique is important for clinical diagnosis, and ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Millions of Americans are suffering from the devastation of cognition decline and other neurological dysfunctions due to one of the neurodegenerative diseases of tauopathy Some of the prominent tauopathies include Alzheimer s disease Pick s disease traumatic brain injury and chronic encephalopathy There is no cure for any of the tauopathies and the actual cause or exogenous r ...

IntroductionSTEL TechnologiesLLC is a Regenerative Medicine company founded in AprilThe founders STEL are researchers at the University of MichiganSTEL s first productthe CGEMgraft is an innovative and paradigm shifting approach to ligament tissue engineering and a unique biological replacement for the anterior cruciate ligamentACLinjuriesSignificanceMore thanACL reconstruction surgeries are perfo ...

The US Navy has been moving towards Integrated Power Systems (IPS) for Naval ships because they separate the prime movers from the propulsion train, maximize the efficiency, reduce acoustic signatures, improve redundancy, improve survivability, and provide compatibility with the increasing power requirements from advanced weapons, sensors, and radar systems. In electric warship design the ability ...

The objective of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to develop a comprehensive RF link analysis tool for modeling air-to-air, air-to-ground, air-to-surface and air-to-satellite tactical communications in a multi-node, physical network environment. The proposed tool will interface with commercially available antenna modeling software and will provide comprehensive electromagn ...

Abstract According to the American Cancer Society in women in the U S will develop breast cancer at some point in their life and of these women will have triple negative breast cancer TNBC an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks the three receptors ER PR HER that current drug treatment targets tamoxifen Herceptin Because of its aggressive nature and lack of effec ...

Spatial Disorientation (SD) is cited as a contributing factor in five to ten percent of all aviation incidents; and has a 90% fatality rate (Heinle & Ercoline, 2002). SD impacts both fixed- and rotor-wing aviators, and SD impacts pilots at every skill level. To combat SD, aviation training provides exposure to SD materials at multiple points in the training process, including classroom-based instr ...

Abstract To evaluate the therapeutic applications of stem cells it is essential to develop translational research using several animal species Rabbit is a useful model for biomedical research It has been used to study a number of human diseases Compared to mice rabbits have a more similar embryology and stem cell biology to those of humans an adult body size comparable to human infants that ...

Whenever premature birth interrupts normal retinal vascularization of the developing eye retinopathy of prematurity ROP can occur When ROP was first reported in the s it was associated with high oxygen delivery to preterm infants Though oxygen delivery to preterm infants is now carefully regulated ROP is still a common occurrence In very low birthweight infants birth weights andlt ...