"Equity investments, and sometimes debt instruments, are ways to tap into the private sector when we think it will add to the work we are doing and leverage private flows of capital to advance our work in global health, global development and U.S. education," said Jeff Raikes, chief executive of the Gates Foundation.
"Basically we have this airplane instrumented six ways to Sunday!" he exclaims.
This could take the form of an instrument lesson, finding ways to buy new or used instruments or learning techniques for dealing with unruly students.
Proteomic application of mass spectrometry (MS) is constantly growing as more improved instruments and smarter ways to couple them become available.
Group projects included an inexpensive, solar-powered autoclave that would sterilize medical instruments; a way to collect flare gas, clean it and turn it into natural gas to power a fleet of FedEx vehicles in the Bakken oil fields region in North Dakota; a novel approach of using methane from flare gas to grow animal food stock; and a solar refrigerator.
Curious behaviour towards cranial nerve assessment, characterised by sniffing and nibbling of animal handlers and instruments, gave way to increasingly aversive behaviour, such as head twisting and tossing or jerky head movements.
With the help of this instrument, Swanson found ways to use oxidation and hydrogenation to neutralize the defects at the wafer surface and increased the minority-carrier lifetimes by three orders of magnitude.
By playing the oud, not a traditional Nubian instrument, he found ways to expand the boundaries of his native music.
The monitoring instrument offers two ways to deal with this potential bias.
Deception is a complex thing, evanescent and difficult to pin down; it's no accident that the poets describe it with diaphanous imagery like "tangled web" and "tissue of lies". But the federal push for a new device for credibility assessment leaves little room for complexity; the government is looking for a blunt instrument, a way to pick out black and white from among the duplicitous grays.
