I present the science goals and give a brief summary of the Wide Angle X-ray survey with a Wide Field X-ray Telescope (WAXS/WFXT) mission proposal (Phase A) which will be submitted to the Italian Space Agency (ASI) following the call for proposal under the Small Satellite program. The text points out the uniqueness of the mission for the study of the evolution of clusters of galaxies and of the...

The SIP "Caller Preferences" extension defined in RFC 3840 provides a mechanism that allows a SIP request to convey information relating to the originator’s capabilities and preferences for handling of that request. The SIP REFER method defined in RFC 3515 provides a mechanism that allows one party to induce another to initiate a SIP request. This document extends the REFER method to use the me...

Doctoral students are required to prepare and defend a research proposal. In this paper, we present five steps for doctoral students to identify the questions that are worthy of investigation and thence to develop a research plan and proposal. Our method involves five steps, namely, Step 1: Frame the problem Step 2: Develop a research plan Step 3: Verification and validation Step 4: Proposal te...

Microelectronics thermal experts from four continents met in he fall of 2009 at the 15th THERMINIC Workshop in Leuven, elgium. The event was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society est Technology Technical Council and the CMP Laboratory, in ooperation with the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manuacturing Technology Society, and the European Test Technology echnical Committee. The Workshop had pa...

In the Fall of 2007, ten neuroscientists published a proposal for an interdisciplinary research initiative, the Decade of the Mind, that would focus on four "broad but intertwined areas": mental health, research on high-level cognitive functions, education, and computational applications (such as intelligent machines). I review the basic ideas behind the proposal and discuss the four proposed a...

The objective of this work is to assess the qualities of the MOFScript language, which has recently been submitted to the OMG as a proposed model to text transformation language. This is done by identifying requirements for this type of language and evaluating the MOFScript language with regard to these. The language is presented along with a tool implementation and compared with the alternativ...

[Note: This sample proposal is based on a composite of past proposals, simulated information and references, and material I’ve included for illustration purposes – it is based roughly on a fairly standard research proposal; I say roughly because there is no one set way of creating a quantitative research proposal. Much of its design is based on the nature of the research, your preferences, and ...

Supported in part by the following grants: a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society (BEH); a Faculty Scholar Award, Project on Death in America, Open Society, New York (TJS); the Office of Cancer Communications, National Cancer Institute (RFP CO 94388-63) (TJS); the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Outcomes Rese...