Valley of Death

It would be an understatement to call General Dick s notion rather strange. On the other hand, what did I know I thought of Tennyson s description of the brave troops in The Charge of the Light Brigade, riding fearlessly into the Valley of Death Theirs not to question why Theirs but to do and die ... 

Another issue that was raised with regard to the valley of death is the need for companies to perform, and the timeframe for demonstrating performance has been shrinking. Innovative ways for private investment to achieve some short-term returns may be necessary to bridge the investment gap. 

The soil is continually evolving carbon dioxide part of this is no doubt of volcanic origin, and part is due to chemical processes of a more superficial character. As an instance of the former, it is interesting to note that after eruptions of Vesuvius the soil has breathed out such vast quantities of carbon dioxide that game have been poisoned wholesale. The famous Valley of Death in Java, the Death Gulch of Western America, the Grotto del Cane near Naples, and others, owe their poisonous atmospheres to carbon dioxide exhaled by the soil. 

He formed this new degree to cap the existing system of twenty-five degrees.The number thirty-three has many esoteric associations. Chapter 7 showed thirty-three is a cabbalistic symbol of the sacred names of BAL and AUM. It is also the thirty-three year life of Jesus. Thrice three alludes to the Ennead of the Goddess, the Ennead of God and thrice through the Valley of Death, the third being physiological death. 

Algar WR, Susumu K, Delehanty JB, Mediniz IL (2011) Semiconductor quantum dots in bioanalysis crossing the valley of death. Anal Chem 83 8826... 

One way to achieve this thermal disconnect is to remove the buffer gas. This can be done either by cooling the cell walls [5] to lower the saturated vapor density of helium (see Figure 13.3) or by pumping the gas out through an orifice in the side of the cell [19]. In order for the molecule number after buffer gas removal to be large, the timescale for pump-out must be small compared to the valley of death lifetime in Figure 13.5. 

Such a pump-out can introduce two new complications. First, a helium film on the walls of the cell can desorb slowly, leading to longer times spent in the valley of death. The binding energy of the first (bottom) monolayer is typically of order 100 K and the timescale for desorption at 500 mK is extremely long. The binding energy of the least bound (top) monolayer is on the order of the cell temperature... 

National Research Council, Accelerating Technology Transition Bridging the Valley of Death for Materials and Processes in Defense Systems, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2004, p. 16. 

The phase between academic research and bringing the product to market is often called the valley of death. This is where most companies die, not from bad technology, but from running out of money before they are profitable or derisked sufficiently to attract investment. 

The EC s proposal for Horizon 2020 also mentions the use of PPP in the form of a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI). The PPP is an instrument to support industrial research and innovation, to overcome the innovation valley of death , the path from research to the marketplace. It encourages partnership with the private sector to fund and bring together the resources needed to address the challenges involved in commercialising new technologies which have a major impact on society. 

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