ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION Bridging the Valley of Death for Materials and Processes in Defense Systems potx

... on Accelerating Technology Transition, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., November 24, 2003. ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION Bridging the Valley of Death for Materials and Processes ... pressure then forces the new technology into production before it is mature enough. The bridge could then break, and the champions and the technology...

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... RNA. The asterisk indicates the input target RNA; the arrow indicates the digested product bands. The amount of digested product obtained is indicated at the bottom of the lane s as percentage of ... of sequence-independent artefacts, most of which are attrib- utable to their ability to bind a number of heparin-binding proteins [28]. In our search for allele-spec...

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... l −1 ) of hydrogen peroxide in the in u- ent, corresponding to OCMR in of 5.33. At these conditions, the degradation of the parent contaminant was 63.1% and the removal of TOC was 38.36%. These minima ... thin film of liquid car- ried by the disk at the interface of the liquid film and the cata- lyst. The maximum volumetric capacity of the reactor vess...

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... by centrifugation at 20 000 g for 30 min at 4 °C. Binding of the fusion proteins to chitin beads via the intein/ chitin binding domain, cleavage of the fusion protein (in 20 m M Tris/HCl, pH 8.0, ... functions in A. actinomycetemcomitans have an average GC content of 48.0% [43]. The GC content of the region essential for the biosynthesis of SPA in the other se...

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... Specific inhibition of thrombin-induced cell activation by the neutrophil proteinases elastase, cathepsin G, and pro- teinase 3: evidence for distinct cleavage sites within the aminoterminal domain of ... substituting Ser for Cys in substrate 12 as a result of the higher electronegative charge of the O atom of the Ser side-chain compared to that of the sulfur at...

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... entered in log, rather than in numer- ical, form, and we search for the best fitting transformation of the data using the Box—Cox transformation. Second, in Goodhart and Demos (1990), we argue that there ... dynamics of the VAR are now 1.57, 0.86, and 2.13 for the Deutschemark and 1.49, 2.22, and 3.89 for the Yen. Although the systematic dynamics for...

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... to keep in mind the following points. The general evidence-based information on quality is growing, and will increasingly be used – together with other deliberative processes – to inform decision-making ... building a strategy for quality 18 In the case of the last of these three situations, the process of decision- making about quality needs to be held in abey...

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... margins of enrollment, and average cost per student is likely to be a relatively accurate measure of the marginal cost of the student athletes in the program as a whole. Further complicating the ... tuition, then the net cost of athletic aid is simply equal to the size of the student aid award. Otherwise, the average cumulative marginal cost of educating a...

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