Shaping successful mega-project investments

The Mega-Word Tagged-Corpus Project

Large corpora with part-of-speech tagging play a very important role in recent statisticsbased and example-based natural language processing systems. However, no such corpora have become widely available for Japanese so far. Because the Japanese language has no explicit word boundaries, it is impossible even to count words without a corpus that has at. least word segmentations. This paper descr...

The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4–50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design that allows for a very wide field of view, permitting a sensitive all-sky survey and the monitoring of transient and variable sources. The key science objecti...

Shaping European Early Dialogues: The Seed Project.

Recommendation by the High Level Pharmaceutical Forum (2008): national authorities and companies to be engaged in early dialogues with the aim of improving the generation of appropriate data for products in development (Recommendation 6). First Early Dialogue Initiatives: ‘single HTA’ advice (since 2009) and parallel regulatory HTA advice organized by the EMA with a limited number of HTA bodies...

Development of a National Mega Research Project on the Integrated Watershed Management for Iran

Shaping Successful and Unsuccessful CD8 T Cell Responses Following Infection

CD8 T cells play a vital role in the immunological protection against intracellular pathogens. Ideally, robust effector responses are induced, which eradicate the pathogen, and durable memory CD8 T cells are also established, which help confer protection against subsequent reinfection. The quality and magnitude of these responses is dictated by multiple factors, including their initial interact...