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The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership: An Incremental Improvement to University-Industry Collaboration
The cover of the July/August 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review has two phrases that sum up the goals of university-industry collaboration: ‘Managing for the Long Term’ and ‘Going the Distance’. Although those phrases were meant for companies, these phrases accurately reflect what university-industry collaborations and the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) are all about. Put another way, university-industry collaborations are critical long-term infrastructure developments. Managing for the long term should be a goal for all managers of these partnerships. This chapter addresses a number of topics. First, it discusses recent initiatives in the United States to strengthen these collaborations, particularly the University-Industry Partnership Project (UIPP). Then, it transitions to discuss the UIDP and its first demonstration project— TurboNegotiator (TN). Lastly, the chapter makes some concluding observations about the UIDP, TN, and university-industry collaborations in general
Developing Harmonious University-Industry Partnerships
Special issue: Intellectual Property and Technolog
The GUIRR International Research Collaborations Project: Towards a Greater Understanding of International Collaboration
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Physiological, behavioral and subjective sadness reactivity in frontotemporal dementia subtypes.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disease broadly characterized by socioemotional impairments, includes three clinical subtypes: behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA). Emerging evidence has shown emotional reactivity impairments in bvFTD and svPPA, whereas emotional reactivity in nfvPPA is far less studied. In 105 patients with FTD (49 bvFTD, 31 svPPA and 25 nfvPPA) and 27 healthy controls, we examined three aspects of emotional reactivity (physiology, facial behavior and subjective experience) in response to a sad film. In a subset of the sample, we also examined the neural correlates of diminished aspects of reactivity using voxel-based morphometry. Results indicated that all three subtypes of FTD showed diminished physiological responding in respiration rate and diastolic blood pressure; patients with bvFTD and svPPA also showed diminished subjective experience, and no subtypes showed diminished facial behavior. Moreover, there were differences among the clinical subtypes in brain regions where smaller volumes were associated with diminished sadness reactivity. These results show that emotion impairments extend to sadness reactivity in FTD and underscore the importance of considering different aspects of sadness reactivity in multiple clinical subtypes for characterizing emotional deficits and associated neurodegeneration in FTD
The preparation of metallic boron
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1940.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 31).by James F. Levis.B.S
Lessons in matchmaking : conflicts in job assignments for China's scientists and technicians
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.Includes bibliographical references.by J. Casey Hammond.M.C.P
Deep proteogenomics; high throughput gene validation by multidimensional liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry of proteins from the fungal wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum
BACKGROUND: Stagonospora nodorum, a fungal ascomycete in the class dothideomycetes, is a
damaging pathogen of wheat. It is a model for necrotrophic fungi that cause necrotic symptoms via
the interaction of multiple effector proteins with cultivar-specific receptors. A draft genome
sequence and annotation was published in 2007. A second-pass gene prediction using a training set
of 795 fully EST-supported genes predicted a total of 10762 version 2 nuclear-encoded genes, with
an additional 5354 less reliable version 1 genes also retained.
RESULTS: In this study, we subjected soluble mycelial proteins to proteolysis followed by 2D LC
MALDI-MS/MS. Comparison of the detected peptides with the gene models validated 2134 genes.
62% of these genes (1324) were not supported by prior EST evidence. Of the 2134 validated genes,
all but 188 were version 2 annotations. Statistical analysis of the validated gene models revealed a
preponderance of cytoplasmic and nuclear localised proteins, and proteins with intracellularassociated
GO terms. These statistical associations are consistent with the source of the peptides
used in the study. Comparison with a 6-frame translation of the S. nodorum genome assembly
confirmed 905 existing gene annotations (including 119 not previously confirmed) and provided
evidence supporting 144 genes with coding exon frameshift modifications, 604 genes with
extensions of coding exons into annotated introns or untranslated regions (UTRs), 3 new gene
annotations which were supported by tblastn to NR, and 44 potential new genes residing within
un-assembled regions of the genome.
CONCLUSION: We conclude that 2D LC MALDI-MS/MS is a powerful, rapid and economical tool to
aid in the annotation of fungal genomic assemblies
Clinical Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Response to Treatment of Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2005-2007
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