Mission accomplished.

Training the Next Generation of Neurosurgeons in Developing Countries – Mission Possible

One of the main concerns in different countries is training young neurosurgeons to treat patients. Each country is dealing with this issue with a certain strategy considering its goals. Training physicians is far different from many other fields, as it cannot be accomplished in the library or by reading books. This fact becomes even more notable when it comes to the neurosurgery which requires ...

Combination therapy for malaria: mission accomplished?

Preliminary Design of an Advanced Mission to Pluto

A technology assessment and feasibility study is being performed within the ESA Advanced Concepts Team on sending a small-to-medium (700-900 kg) Nuclear Electric Propulsion spacecraft into orbit around Pluto with a mission launch in 2016 using existing or emerging space technology. The objective of the study is to examine which technologies are needed to achieve this objective and to understand...

Reliability of demand-based phased-mission systems subject to fault level coverage

In many real-world applications, a mission may consist of several different tasks or phases that have to be accomplished in sequence. Such systems are referred to as phased-mission systems (PMS). In this paper we consider the demand-based PMS with parallel structure, where the system components function in parallel with different capacities in each phase of the mission and the mission is succes...

A Model-Based Approach for Reliability Assessment in Component- Based Systems

This paper describes a formal framework for reliability assessment of component-based systems with respect to specific missions. A mission comprises of different timed mission stages, with each stage requiring a number of highlevel functions. The work presented here describes a modeling language to capture the functional decomposition and missions of a system. The components and their alternati...

26th Annual Poster Session

1. Mission to Venus Mai-Trinh Pham, Zachary Griggs, Chris Johnson, and Taj Ballinger, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Mission To Venus (MTV) team proposes a planetary mission to: 1) search for evidence of current Venusian volcanic activity; 2) search for specifics about rocks and volcanic activity type at Iduun Mons; 3) identify specifics of Venusian surface structures; in an effort to ...