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Fundació URV posted this:
α-ketoglutarate as a predictor of morbid obesity-associated nonalcoholic fatty liver disease• Use of α-ketoglutarate as a novel biomarker of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). • α-ketoglutarate analysis is a non-invasive quantitative measure of liver steatosis. • This method may reduce the need for liver biopsy, particularly in patients with metabolic risk factor. • The method could be used to design a kit to detect and quantify plasma α-ketoglutarate concentration. • Measurement of this biomarker may be useful in the assessment of NAFLD progression.
UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS posted this:
‘eEarlyCare’ therapeutic intervention programThe tool allows the automation, registration and evaluation of the “Functional Skills Detection Scale in children 0-6 years old” (e-EarlyCare) and the development of personalized programs through a web application. This application is aimed at professionals from Early Care centers, specific to Special Education and other centers that carry out interventions at an early age. In addition, it can be applied in other centers such as Nursing Homes, Modular Injury Rehabilitation Centers, etc.Laser Consult Ltd. posted this:
“Air filter integrated in a bicycle’s wheel” – giving bicycles the power to provide cleaner urban airThis product offers a simple, end user inclusive, and inexpensive way of filtering the air from particulate matter particles (PM 10, PM 2.5 and similar). This product is integrated in a bicycle wheel. The basic concept of the product is using the rotation of the wheel, combined with the axial motion of the bicycle to push air through the filter material, thus filtering the air. The device itself is actually quite simple, and it has a goal of helping towards the solving the problem of air pollution in urban areas. Everyone who has a bicycle is a potential user of the product, but the users that would benefit the most are people living in urban areas that face the problem of air pollution. The best possible way to implement this device is to integrate the filters on bicycles sharing or renting systems that have a significant number of users, for example such systems are common in East Asia. Another way to implement the product is offering it to people as a product that can be added to their bicycle while buying a new one, or fixing their old bicycle. With all of the statements above, the ideal partnership would be with a company, but it is not exclusive to other companies, that works in the mentioned fields. The partnership could be via licensing the product, or selling the rights together with the complete documentation.Universidad de Alicante posted this:
“No-Noble-Metal” Catalytic trap to remove Hydrocarbons, NOx and CO emissions from combustion enginesBasically, the catalytic trap bed is composed of a zeolite with a Si/Al ratio between 10 and 20. The zeolite is partially interchanged with cations of one or several non-noble metals. In order to achieve an optimum performance of the catalytic trap, these metals should be interchanged in the internal zeolite structure, and never on its external surface. In this way, the outflow of the exhaust gases passes through the catalytic trap bed to adsorb the HC at low temperatures. The material has been developed at laboratory scale. Different compositions of this material have been tested with simulated streams of internal combustion engines (cold starts). As a result, the material is able to reduce HC emissions in internal combustion engines operating with both mixtures almost stoichiometric and low fuel mixtures. The main difference between this invention and other existing materials is that this catalytic trap avoids any element or additional layer composed of an oxidation catalyst based on noble metals. Consequently, HC emissions could be totally removed through a single bed without using high-cost materials (noble metals) or further stream treatments. This fact allows the catalytic trap to be placed in any position according to the different control systems employed for decreasing other pollutant emissions existing in the gases stream, since the total elimination of HC takes place on the catalytic trap. Thus, this technology development results in a solid material where coexists metal(s) and protons in an optimum ratio inside of the zeolite channels, leading to a system that can act as a HC trap and as an oxidation catalyst in only a single bed, during the whole cold start cycle. The main innovative aspect of this catalytic trap is that the adsorbent material can capture the hydrocarbons in the cold start of the engine and oxidize gases during its warmed-up operating conditions without using noble metals, which are frequently used as oxidation catalyst. At high temperatures, this material is able to carry out total oxidation of both hydrocarbons retained by the catalytic trap and those present in the exhaust gas stream. Consequently, the resulting gas stream released to the atmosphere is innocuous in hydrocarbons. • Noble metals are not used. • Structural advantages, since the control systems are simplified and pollutants in internal combustion engines are reduced. • Economic benefits (The price of noble metal is approximately 100 times more expensive than the materials employed by the researchers). • The catalytic trap can be placed in any position with regard to different control systems. • Besides its hydrocarbon trapping role, the system can also act as oxidation catalyst during the cold-start cycle.Javier Montiel Bonmatí posted this:
“PresbyCustom”: New customizable contact lenses to correct presbyopiaThe research group of Optics and Visual Perception of the UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE, with the collaboration of the company LABORATORIOS LENTICON SA, has developed a new multifocal scleral contact lens to compensate presbyopia (age-related near vision deterioration) which has the peculiarity of being optically customizable according to the specific needs of each patient. The new contact lens has been developed combining different types of stable optical aberrations that have allowed us to optimize the depth of focus, providing excellent levels of visual quality as well as very comfort wear, easy fitting process and greater stability than current multifocal contact lenses. Some prototypes have been manufactured at laboratory level and they have been validated successfully in patients. Currently, CE marking is being processed which will allow its international commercialization. We are looking for companies interested in acquiring this technology for commercial exploitation.
Universidad de Alicante