Among other things, he created the iBot, an all-terrain wheelchair that can climb stairs and balance itself upright on two wheels; an intervascular heart stent used to reduce blockage in arteries (recently used in Vice President Dick Cheney's heart procedure); a portable dialysis machine; and a drug infusion pump.
BBC London was shown how the robot worked on nine-year-old Louie Trevelyan-Lowe who was undergoing an operation to reduce blockage in his left kidney.
Anhydrous lanolin reduces irritation and helps reduce blockage of the sweat glands, fighting the root cause of the heat rash.
"With the collective support of enough people we will be able to reduce the blockages, floods and pollution that cause so much distress".
(3) Straight low-energy grain boundary and the absence of grain boundary triple junctions of continuous columnar-grained polycrystals can significantly reduce the blockage of martensitic transformation at the grain boundaries.
Testing at IFREMER reduced the blockage factor from 17% at CU down to 1%; into the range of unblocked conditions.
We then asked whether H2O2 production at wounds could be reduced by blockage of the calcium wave with the use of trpm 2, inx2 G0118, or inx2 G0036 mutant embryos.
Civil Structures Roads N/A Blockage, reduced traction and visibility Blockage, reduced traction and visibility Blockage, reduced traction and visibility Rail N/A Reduced traction and visibility, short-circuiting of electric signals if ash is wet.
The use of jets as turbulators to reduce the obstacle-blockage ratio may reduce this loss.
In this work, to reduce this undesired blockage on the incoming airflow, oblique planar fins were utilized in heat sink assemblies to improve the overall performance of the heat sink assembly.
