Factors operate on a similar model, purchasing accounts receivables from a business in exchange for an advanced funding amount for each invoice.

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The technology came out of funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a super capacitor to desalinate ocean water into drinking water for the troops.

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We are particularly pleased that we have now moved beyond offering programs only to those very early in their funding experience to more advanced level week-long programs for more senior funders.

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The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.

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At the time, as Assange later recounted to The Age, the Applied Maths program at the university had received funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as DARPA).

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"As we move to these more new advanced energy saving measures and new policies, there's a definite funding gap, " said Miranda Cumberbatch.

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The DoD's sensor funding can be expected to bear fruit for the medical services industry, as advanced remote physiological sensing and monitoring could have an enormous impact on home monitoring in the nursing industry.

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"You can't keep funding companies indefinitely, " acknowledges Carla Mann Woods, his daughter and a deputy at Advanced Bionics for 12 years.

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Meanwhile, researchers at Advanced Ceramics Research in Tucson, Arizona, are developing rapid prototyping to create replacement bones, with funding from America's Office of Naval Research.

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