In this paper, we seek to identify the major determinants of the length of period between filing and examination request for Japanese patent. We consider three factors that may influence request, i.e., value index options for patent, strategy of patent filing and innovation, and environment changes faced by Japanese companies. Our sample covers over 214 listed companies in Japanese electrical a...

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Current profile control by ac magnetic helicity injection is computationally investigated in a reversed field pinch ~RFP!. Three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics ~MHD! computation is employed to study the nonlinear MHD. During ac helicity injection, when toroidal and poloidal surface voltages are oscillated out of phase, the parallel electric field is maintained positive over a majori...

Background Insurance companies are key stakeholders in the health care industry but they have not generally participated in proactive research and innovation in order to simultaneously increase the affordability, simplicity, and accessibility of healthcare. In 2013, CMU announced the formation of the Disruptive Health Technology Institute (DHTI) that has been launched with support from Highmark...

Developing professional competencies require learning experiences that simulate authentic practice. A wastewater treatment course at a large, research university converted a portion of its traditional lecture and homework model of instruction to a challenge-based model of instruction culminating in a redesign project. The course used a series of challenge-based modules as a precursor to learner...

This paper describes a machine learning method, called Regression on Feature Projections (RFP), for predicting a real-valued target feature, given the values of multiple predictive features. In RFP training is based on simply storing the projections of the training instances on each feature separately. Prediction of the target value for a query point is obtained through two averaging procedures...

I can’t believe this is happening to me again. I find myself working on a grant when I wasn’t really planning on doing that this month, frantically re-writing and analyzing preliminary data in order to make the best case possible, to convince the NIH to give me funds for a new series of experiments. Why is it always like this? Why, every time I write a grant proposal, does the writing project g...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess attitudes amongst librarians and system vendors towards the use of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for selecting a library management system; and to use the results as the basis of recommendations for best practice. Design/methodology/approach – A focus group of librarians and a focus group of system vendors were asked open-ended questions...

Instituto de Saúde da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde. São Paulo, SP Brasil (MMLE); Departamento de Epidemiologia e Estatística da Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP Brasil (NNS); Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Estatística do Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia. São Paulo, SP-Brasil (JCRP); Departamento de Pediatria da Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Sã...

One of the most promising applications of rapid freeze prototyping (RFP) is making metal parts by investment casting with the built ice parts. The integration of RFP and investment casting allows fast creation of complex net-shape metal parts directly from their CAD models. The advantages of doing so include no part geometric complexity limitation, no experience of parting line design and assem...