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Project Summary While studies support the efficacy of comprehensiveschool wide interventions in reducing bullyingthese types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementationresulting in barriers to providing school based bullying preventionespecially in low income and rural communitiesAdditionallyalthough training bystanders to act asdefenderson behalf of targets ...

Project SummarySimulation training is unique in its ability for repetitive practice of a wide variety of scenarios and to reflect on performance without jeopardizing a patient s safetySurgical skills simulators have been successful in bridging gaps of the current training modelhoweverthese simulators fall short of offering a complete operative experienceOperative exposure with live patients still ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project aims to develop a commercial software product, VirtualDoseTM, for calculating and analyzing patient radiation doses from x-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations. Despite its essential role in radiology, CT is responsible for raising the collective medical radiation dose to the American population to a level that is associated with measurable a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Validation of computing algorithms has been a challenging topic over the last few years. In fact, several international workshops in the medical imaging field started to involve the community through grand challenges . A grand challenge involves selecting driving biological/scientific problem and asking experts to submit their best results and methods to solve ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are developing an accommodative - disaccommodative intraocular lens implant (ADIOL) system based on a novel concept of capturing zonular tension and transmitting it unimpeded to a dynamically position intraocular lens system. This is made possible by a zonular capture haptic (ZCH) apparatus. This apparatus lends itself equally well to several possible combin ...