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z02025 – The bioreactor creates "designer organisms" that utilize renewable resources to produce cellulosic fuels, cellulosic chemicals, and cellulosic ethanol. Microbe growing bioreactors are vital systems in the development of these organisms that must be able to consume a variety of feedstocks, survive the toxic by-products of the production process, and must withstand a variety of... Read More
z06043 – This mobility aid helps the visually-impaired, or those working in low visibility areas, navigate indoors by assisting in the identification and avoidance of obstacles. The typical support instrument for the visually impaired is the "white cane", which is used for the detection of obstacles by providing a limited degree of feedback to the user. The portable indoor navigation aid alerts... Read More
z08194 – SALSA is a software program that automates quantitative analysis of spontaneous speech and language for use in assessing neuropsychological cognitive impairment caused by a variety of factors. SALSA speech assessment software analyzes spontaneous speech samples produced in response to several types of stimuli including picture descriptions, recall of a story, or a spontaneous... Read More
z00053 – The Driver Assistive System is a set of technologies that provide navigation assistance for road going vehicles in low visibility conditions. This system facilitates accurate navigation, lane keeping, and collision avoidance in poor conditions such as fog, snow, rain, and darkness. The surrounding environment is revealed to the driver through a Head Up Display (HUD), allowing drivers to... Read More
z09041 – ParMETIS is an MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning and repartitioning unstructured graphs and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices. ParMETIS is particularly suited for parallel numerical simulations involving large unstructured meshes. In this type of computation, ParMETIS dramatically reduces the time spent in... Read More
monoclonal-antibodies – Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies are antigen-specific targeting proteins useful as important research tools in the fields of immunology, cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, neurology, and medicine. It is possible to create monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to nearly any biologically-relevant substance, which can then be identified and/or purified using common laboratory... Read More
88106 – Explosively Crisp! The Honeycrisp Apple, known in Europe as the Honeycrunch Apple™, is one of the University of Minnesota's best-known apples. They are widely grown around the world. Millions have been sold to people who love the well-balanced sweet-tart taste, and explosively crisp, juicy texture. Honeycrisp was named the Minnesota State Fruit in 2006 and was even selected as one... Read More
z03217 – Wende is a "Beginning German" college curriculum that consists of a textbook, a corresponding workbook and culturally relevant, web-based, interactive, learning activities. These materials are integrated to help students learning german to gain listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills, while the content familiarizes them with contemporary German culture. Informed by current... Read More
94019 – The Minnesota LIVING WITH HEART FAILURE Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is a reliable and valid patient-oriented measure of the adverse effects of heart failure on a patient's life. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire as Medical Device Development Tool (MDDT) for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test... Read More