... stewardship of the advanced thermionics researchanddevelopment program andof the technical progress of the program The NRC accepted the charge of performing this assessment The statement of task ... Design and proof of concept Russian research facilities Microminiature thermionic converter (MTC) Proof of performance and theory Low work function coating validation development device testing Sandia ... believes that a firm understanding of the technical and programmatic history of past thermionic activities, of the technology’s successes and failures, andof programmatic and national policy issues...
... BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Universities and colleges conduct a substantial portion of America’s scientific research Much of this research is funded by federalresearchanddevelopment (R&D) dollars Federal ... cooperative researchanddevelopment agreements See Cooperative ResearchandDevelopment Agreement Cooperative ResearchandDevelopment Agreement (CRADA)—Any agreement between one or more federal ... of Education Statistics, 2002,” June 2003) ResearchandDevelopment (R&D)—Throughout this report, this term refers only to the Conduct ofResearchand Development, as defined above Research and...
... listed at the end of this volume Researching Design Learning Issues and Findings from Two Decades ofResearchandDevelopment By RICHARD KIMBELL Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and KAY STABLES ... Story of Teru process, and we proposed to Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Department for Education and Skills that these technologies should be the explicit focus of a researchand ... with the University of Strathclyde (McLaren et al., 2006) and the Stockholm Institute of Education (Skogh, 2005) THE EMERGING STORY OF TERU The major blocks ofresearchanddevelopment outlined...
... needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers Dr Wm A Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established ... growing interest of DOE in supporting the developmentof technologies for hydrogen production and use This report contains the results of the second National Research Council (NRC) review of the Vision ... role of electricity in domestic uses of coal, and given the competition from petroleum and natural gas as sources of synthetic fuels and chemicals However, the opportunities for coproduction of...
... treatment of prisoners at the hospital, in the research process and the results of the study did not affect the mission and activities of the prison and the hospitals as well as psychological health of ... prisoners; Leaders and Health Administration, the Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security Business, Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Defense; the Board of Directors of the hospital, ... Chapter OVERVIEW 1.1 Demand and medical institutions, medical treatment of inmates 1.1.1 Demand for medical examination and treatment of prisoners 1.1.1.1 Some concepts and terminology - Prisoners...
... 2.2 RESEARCHANDDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITES 2.2.1 Definition ofResearchandDevelopment Activities 2.2.2 The Importance ofResearchandDevelopment Activities 2.2.3 The Nature ofResearchandDevelopment ... 2.3 RESEARCHANDDEVELOPMENT DISCLOSURE 2.3.1 Accounting Disclosure 2.3.2 The Importance of Narrative Disclosures 2.3.3 The Importance ofResearchandDevelopment Disclosure 2.3.4 ResearchandDevelopment ... Impact of Corporate Governance on the ResearchandDevelopment Voluntary Disclosure: UK Evidence Researchanddevelopment (R&D) activities are characterised by unique features and limited mandated...
... as pipes and remote execution OS-based speech software packages are often called command-line packages because usage typically involves providing a sequence of commands to some type of shell ... history of the origin of the data in the file and all the intermediate processing steps The importance of record keeping grows with the complexity of computation chains and the extent of available ... handled, and that complicated algorithms execute efficiently For teaching, on the other hand, these features are less important than simplicity, quick experimentation, and ease -of- use Because of...
... IT interoperability and the developmentof innovative applications Bring together health andresearchanddevelopment IT communities to focus on health IT researchanddevelopment needs 1.2.4 ... Agency (NSA) Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Service Research Organizations o Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) o Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) o Army Research Laboratory ... measurement and understanding for improved models of complex systems of systems, shared control and authority, levels of autonomy, and human-system interactions, and new integrated analytical, and decision-support...
... Jimmy and Judy and Walking Tall; or movies with lots of dialogues and turns (upper-right corner), such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jennifer’s Body Figure 5: Distribution of number of ... dialogues and few turns, as for instance: 1492 Conquest of Paradise and The Cooler In the right side of the figure we find the lots-ofdialogues region There we can find movies with lots of very ... Total number of scripts collected Total number of scripts processed Total number of dialogues Total number of speaker turns Average amount of dialogues per movie Average amount of turns per movie...
... gaps in researchand technology, and the potential impacts of key policy developments, this study was intended to offer a more complete picture of the role of coal in the U.S energy mix, and provide ... including approximate costs, and the relative roles and commitments of the public and private sectors now and into the future difficulty of predicting the prices and availability of alternative energy ... Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Coal: ResearchandDevelopment to Support National Energy Policy http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11977.html COAL researchanddevelopment safety and health,...
... Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Researchand Development, and United States Army Research Office in Far East, and Web Intelligence Laboratory, Inc for their ... following examples of the set E of elementary granules: (i) a set of descriptors of the form (a, v) where a € A and v £ Va for some finite attribute set A and value sets Va, and (ii) a set of descriptor ... eCnnOIOgy ResearchandDevelopment Proceedings erf the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on IAT Intelligent Agent Technology ResearchandDevelopment Editors Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology,...
... Creation of a diversified portfolio of R&D financing Increasing the coordinating role of the Ministry of Education andResearchand the Academy of Sciences The existing research potential of the ... material and technical basis of universities and R&D institutions Integration of academic researchand higher education Cooperation of researchers, support to researcher mobility Support to access of ... governance andfunding systems, the integration ofresearchand higher education; • human resource management andresearch career; • building linkages between researchand industry; • the role of science...
... hundreds of industry association initiatives and thousands of individual company codes providing standards for the social and environmental practices of firms at home and abroad CSR standards ... economies official development assistance Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment process and production method public-private partnership Qatar Investment Authority researchanddevelopment ... classifications of advanced, emerging and developing economies are not the same as the United Nations’ classifications of developed and developing economies Figure I.17 Profitability a and profit levels of...
... girls, particularly in terms of their speech development – 20% of boys were classed as of concern’ in relation to their speech compared with 12% of girls Indeed, parents of male children were more ... gender and by certain measures of advantage and disadvantage Parental level of education is very important and is emerging as a crucial site for intervention if adverse outcomes for parents and ... (1997) “The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note”, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586 Wetherby, A.M and Prizant, B.M (2001), Communication and Symbolic Behaviour...
... collection of extended abstracts of the most important public researchanddevelopment results in printed intelligence technologies at VTT during 2008 and the fi rst half of 2009 EXAMPLE OF AN EMERGING ... bioanalytical devices in the field of diagnostics, drug researchand life science research INTRODUCTION One of the future key areas in the field of point -of- care diagnostics is the use of mass production methods ... three research parties: the University of Tampere (Institute of Medical Technology, IMT), the University of Oulu (Department of Chemistry, UO) and VTT UO and VTT develop functionalised materials and...