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Southern Anthropologist

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Southern Anthropologist

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Protection Of Cultural And Intellectual Property Rights Of Indigenous Peoples, Kamal Puri

National Law School Journal

For indigenous peoples all over the world, the protection of cultural and intellectual property is a fundamental issue. At present, Aboriginal communities are principally governed by the same intellectual property regime as all Australians. While this is effective in some cases, it does not cater for the unique relationship which indigenous peoples have with their cultural heritage. The social organisation of Aboriginal societies reveals the Aboriginal system of collective ownership. The refusal of Australian law to recognise Aboriginal customary laws regarding ownership of land and intellectual property rights, including the use of ancestral designs, finds its roots in the operation …

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An Examination Of Distributional Assumptions In Landsat Tm Imagery, Elizabeth Frey

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The first portion of this study checked water, vegetation, and urban class features of LANDSAT TM data for univariate normality using Pearson's system of frequency curves. Results indicated that of the 144 image bands tested 135 were determined to be normal in distribution. The second part of the study developed an image generator that uses the mean, covariance matrix and intraband correlation of LANDSAT TM images to create synthetic class scenes. Imagery composed of multiple synthetic class scenes, which ranged from normal to non-normal in their distributions, were classified using a maximum likelihood classifier. No significant difference in classification accuracy …

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The Relationship Among Self-Reported Aggression, Locus Of Control, Expectancy For Success, And Dream Content, Stephen James Mccullough

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between elements of two dream content analysis systems, and between dream content variables and self-report measures. One hundred and five college students from two universities in Virginia completed the following self-report measures: Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale (Fibel & Hale, 1978), Internal Control Index (Duttweiler, 1984), Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus, 1979), Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (Infante & Wigley, 1986), and Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis & Spencer, 1982). They recorded any dreams they could remember over the subsequent three weeks in a dream journal. Only the data of participants who reported five or more dreams were included …

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Hesban 13: Faunal Remains: Taphonomical And Zooarchaeological Studies Of The Animal Remains From Tell Hesban And Vicinity, Oystein Sakala Labianca Editor, Angela Von Den Driesch Editor

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"This volume is devoted to the presentation of the zooarchaeological analysis of the nearly 100,000 animal bones uncovered in the excavations at Tell Hesban." AU Press catalogue

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