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Copy Right And Copy Wrong: Dvd Jon And 321 Studios Take On The Movie Industry, Stephen Liu Jan 2005

Copy Right And Copy Wrong: Dvd Jon And 321 Studios Take On The Movie Industry, Stephen Liu

The International Lawyer

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International Intellectual Property, Melvyn J. Simburg, Suong T. Nguyen, Julie Lipscomb, Bruce Horowitz Jan 2005

International Intellectual Property, Melvyn J. Simburg, Suong T. Nguyen, Julie Lipscomb, Bruce Horowitz

The International Lawyer

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Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano Jan 2005

Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Comparative advertising has been widely used for over thirty years in the United States. By contrast, the use of this advertising format has traditionally been-and still is-very marginal in France. The term "comparative advertising" refers to any form of advertising in which a trademark owner draws a comparison between his product, service, or brand and that of a competitor. The central issue of this article is to determine why, despite identical guiding policies, comparative advertising remains unusual in France while it is commonplace in the United States. Attempting to answer that question unavoidably raises numerous related issues: can the two …

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A Deadly Dilemma: The Failure Of Nations’ Organ Procurement Systems And Potential Reform Alternatives, Christy M. Watkins Jan 2005

A Deadly Dilemma: The Failure Of Nations’ Organ Procurement Systems And Potential Reform Alternatives, Christy M. Watkins

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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The Sacrifice Of Jean Kambanda: A Comparative Analysis Of The Right To Counsel In The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda And The United States, With Emphasis On Prosecutor V. Jean Kambanda, Kelly Xi Huei Lalith Ranasinghe Jan 2005

The Sacrifice Of Jean Kambanda: A Comparative Analysis Of The Right To Counsel In The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda And The United States, With Emphasis On Prosecutor V. Jean Kambanda, Kelly Xi Huei Lalith Ranasinghe

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Filtering The Smoke Out Of Cigarette Websites: A Technological Solution To Enforcing Judgments Against Offshore Websites, Michael Kwon Jan 2005

Filtering The Smoke Out Of Cigarette Websites: A Technological Solution To Enforcing Judgments Against Offshore Websites, Michael Kwon

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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International Cultural Property, Patty Gerstenblith, Bonnie Czegledi Jan 2005

International Cultural Property, Patty Gerstenblith, Bonnie Czegledi

The International Lawyer

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Setting A Global Standard: The Case For Accounting Convergence, David Tweedie, Thomas R. Seidenstein Jan 2005

Setting A Global Standard: The Case For Accounting Convergence, David Tweedie, Thomas R. Seidenstein

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

As capital markets play an increasingly central role in today's modern economies, policy-makers are confronted with the question of how to assure the continued effective functioning of these markets and, in particular, how to develop a sound financial reporting infrastructure. Recent experience suggests that such a reporting infrastructure must be built on accounting standards that are consistent, comprehensive, and based on clear principles to enable financial reports to reflect underlying economic reality.

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A Dual Catastrophe Of Protectionism, Sungjoon Cho Jan 2005

A Dual Catastrophe Of Protectionism, Sungjoon Cho

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Suppose that a consortium of wealthy and powerful local industries, acting through lawmakers captured by these industries, managed to pass a statute, damaging to the larger public welfare, purely for a protectionist purpose. Suppose further that this statute victimizes exports from a small, poor country such as Vietnam, to a large, rich country such as the United States, because these imported products are cheaper and thus pose a competitive threat to rival domestic industries. Suppose also that courts in the importing country can do little to stop this chain of events. Rational individuals might find these events objectionable, if not …

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Don (Vomitoxin) In Wheat: Basic Questions And Answers, Dwight G. Aakre, George Flaskerud, Ken Hellevang Jan 2005

Don (Vomitoxin) In Wheat: Basic Questions And Answers, Dwight G. Aakre, George Flaskerud, Ken Hellevang

PP Series – Plant Pathology

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Edison Community College General Catalog 2004-2005, Edison Community College Jan 2005

Edison Community College General Catalog 2004-2005, Edison Community College

FSW Course Catalogs

Edison Community College General Catalog Volume Forty Three. 2004-2005. Scanned by Internet Archive.

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Query Engine Of Novelty In Video Streams, James Kang Jan 2005

Query Engine Of Novelty In Video Streams, James Kang

Theses

Prior research on novelty detection has primarily focused on algorithms to "detect" novelty for a given application domain. Effective storage, indexing and retrieval of novel events (beyond detection) are largely ignored as a problem in itself. In light of the recent advances in counter-terrorism efforts and link discovery initiatives, the need for effective data management of novel events assumes apparent importance. Automatically detecting novel events in video data streams is an extremely challenging task. The aim of this thesis is to provide evidence to the fact that the notion of novelty in video as perceived by a human is extremely …

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A Function-Based Approach To Establishing Standardization And Flexible Work Cells For High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing, Yamkelani Moyo Jan 2005

A Function-Based Approach To Establishing Standardization And Flexible Work Cells For High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing, Yamkelani Moyo

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Certain types of high-variety, low-volume manufacturing operations employ clusters of machines to execute general classes of operations in the manufacture of their product mix, but those operations differ significantly from job to job. Consequently operations are not standardized and batch and queue operational strategies are employed with all attendant shortcomings. However, closer examination reveals that these operations largely consist of a small number of elemental machine functions that are exercised in various combinations. The functions provide a basis to for defining richly descriptive standardized work at the individual process level using parameters to distinguish the unique settings and characteristics for …

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Surface Modification Of Plga Biomaterials For Site-Directed Immobilization Of Growth Factors, Jessica Bennett Lynn Sharon Jan 2005

Surface Modification Of Plga Biomaterials For Site-Directed Immobilization Of Growth Factors, Jessica Bennett Lynn Sharon

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Biodegradable polymer materials, specifically poly(lactic-co-glycolide) (PLGA) can be used as bone replacements for bone regeneration. Scaffolds can be prepared to be porous to induce bone growth into a scaffold so that it is replaced with natural tissue as the polymer degrades. However, simply using PLGA will result in formation of scar tissue rather than regeneration of natural bone. Therefore focus has turned to attaching growth factors to the PLGA molecules to elicit a specific cellular response when the implant is placed in the body. Site-directed immobilization utilizes specific groups on both the biomaterial and biomolecule so that growth factors can …

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Development Of Protein-Imprinted Polysiloxane Biomaterials: Protein Selectivity And Cellular Responses, Kyoungmi Lee Jan 2005

Development Of Protein-Imprinted Polysiloxane Biomaterials: Protein Selectivity And Cellular Responses, Kyoungmi Lee

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Surface modification is an extensively researched approach in order to overcomethe limitations, and improve the performance of orthopedic and dental implants. It is atthe surface of the implant materials that the initial interactions of tissues or body fluidstake place. Therefore, surface properties of biomaterials are the important factors that cancontrol these biological responses. Molecular imprinting is a surface modificationtechnique that creates specific recognition sites on the surface of biomaterials. Todevelop the recognition sites, a functional monomer is assembled with templatebiomolecule and then crosslinked. After removal of the template, the surface can rebindthe molecules. Therefore, desired reactions can be initiated at …

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Fabrication And Characterization Of Schottky Diode And Heterojunction Solar Cells Based On Copper Phthalocyanine (Cupc), Buckminster Fullerene (C60) And Titanium Dioxide (Tio2), Subhash C. C. Vallurupalli Jan 2005

Fabrication And Characterization Of Schottky Diode And Heterojunction Solar Cells Based On Copper Phthalocyanine (Cupc), Buckminster Fullerene (C60) And Titanium Dioxide (Tio2), Subhash C. C. Vallurupalli

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Organic solar cells are cheaper and much easier to fabricate than the conventional inorganic solar cells, but they suffer from low efficiencies due to low carrier mobilities in organic films. In this study Copper Phthalocyanine (CuPc) and Buckminster Fullerene (C60) based Schottky diodes were fabricated on ITO coated glass substrates to study their performance and a study of the effect of thickness on the cell parameters of CuPc Schottky diodes was made. Also, TiO2 based devices were studied to see the effect of TiO2 layer on the cell parameters. The J-V curves were analyzed for series resistance, diode ideality factor …

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Fabrication And Characterization Of Cupc Based Organic Solar Cells, Balaji Parthasarathy Jan 2005

Fabrication And Characterization Of Cupc Based Organic Solar Cells, Balaji Parthasarathy

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

In this work, organic solar cells of the configuration ITO/Pedot:PSS/CuPc/PTCBI/Al (Indium tin oxide/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene sulfonic acid/copper phthalocyanine/3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic bisbenzimidazole/aluminum) were investigated. A high open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 1.15 V was obtained when the PTCBI layer was 7 nm thick. Lower Voc values were observed for the same structure with silver, copper and gold electrodes instead of aluminum. However, short-circuit current density (Jsc) with these electrodes was much higher (4 mA/cm2) than in the case of aluminum (0.12 mA/cm2). Results were interpreted in terms of a modified CuPc/Al Schottky diode for the thin PTCBI case and a CuPc/PTCBI heterojunction for the thick …

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Ridding Ships' Ballast Water Of Microorganisms, Fred C. Dobbs, Andrew Rogerson Jan 2005

Ridding Ships' Ballast Water Of Microorganisms, Fred C. Dobbs, Andrew Rogerson

OES Faculty Publications

( First paragraph) A complex assemblage of microorganisms exists in nearly every aquatic system on earth. In lakes and oceans, every milliliter of water contains about 102 protists (single-celled eukaryotes), 106 bacteria, and 107–109 viruses. Therefore, billions of microorganisms inevitably enter ships’ ballast tanks during normal operations. It has been argued that microorganisms must certainly be frequent invaders of coastal ecosystems, given the high densities of bacteria and viruses in ballast water—108 and 109 organisms per liter, respectively (1)—their potentially high reproductive rates, broad tolerances to physical conditions, and ability to form resting …

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Biophysical Mechanisms Of Larval Fish Ingress Into Chesapeake Bay, Jonathan A. Hare, Simon Thorrold, Harvey Walsh, Christian Reiss, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Cynthia Jones Jan 2005

Biophysical Mechanisms Of Larval Fish Ingress Into Chesapeake Bay, Jonathan A. Hare, Simon Thorrold, Harvey Walsh, Christian Reiss, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Cynthia Jones

OES Faculty Publications

Selective tidal stream transport is hypothesized as a dominant mechanism by which larvae of marine animals move through estuarine openings. For larvae moving from the shelf to estuarine habitats, selective tidal stream transport proposes that larvae are higher in the water column during flood tide and lower in the water column during ebb tide. Although a number of studies conclude that selective tidal stream transport is the mechanism responsible for larval ingress, few studies consider alternative mechanisms or consider passive explanations for tidal patterns in larval distributions. We examined the biophysical mechanisms responsible for larval ingress into Chesapeake Bay using …

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Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Commentary On The Words Of Jesus Christ: Compel Them To Come In, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas Jan 2005

Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Commentary On The Words Of Jesus Christ: Compel Them To Come In, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this defence of religious toleration, Bayle discusses the words attributed to Jesus Christ in Luke 14:23, “And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full.” Bayle contends that the word compel cannot mean “force.” From this perspective, he constructs his doctrine of toleration based on the singular importance of conscience. Bayle argues that if the orthodox have the right and duty to persecute, then every sect will persecute since every sect considers itself orthodox. The result will be mutual slaughter, something God …

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Centennial Bibliography On The History Of American Sociology, Michael R. Hill Jan 2005

Centennial Bibliography On The History Of American Sociology, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

THE CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY is intended as an inclusive clearinghouse for sources, studies, and other references that illuminate the origins and subsequent development of the sociological enterprise in the United States of America.2 As such, this bibliography is necessarily provisional and is envisioned as an on-going project to which further citations may be added as they are discovered and as new works are published. Due to the enormous scope of the project, and the short time frame within which the initial compilation was completed, countless useful and insightful references have been unintentionally omitted. Some portions …

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Publishing Archaeology In Science And Scientific American, 1940-2003, R. L. Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien, M. B. Schiffer Jan 2005

Publishing Archaeology In Science And Scientific American, 1940-2003, R. L. Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien, M. B. Schiffer

History Faculty Publications (Archived)

Many new, or processual, archaeologists of the 1960s argued that Americanist archaeology became scientific only in the 1960s. The hypothesis that the rate of publication of archaeological research in Science and Scientific American increased after about 1965, as new archaeologists sought to demonstrate to their peers and other scientists that archaeology was indeed a science, is disconfirmed. The rate of archaeological publication in these journals increased after 1955 because the effort to be more scientific attributed to the processualists began earlier. Higher publication rates in both journals appear to have been influenced by an increased amount of archaeological research, a …

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Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2004-2005], Georgia Southern University Jan 2005

Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2004-2005], Georgia Southern University

Undergraduate & Graduate Catalogs

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A Study Of The Applicability Of The Theory Of Inventive Problem Solving On Technology Management Of An E -Business Call Center, Aaron C. Goldsmith Jan 2005

A Study Of The Applicability Of The Theory Of Inventive Problem Solving On Technology Management Of An E -Business Call Center, Aaron C. Goldsmith

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The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is being used to solve technology and engineering problems. The goal of theDissertation was to conduct a study to determine the applicability of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) on the technology management for an e-business call center. The variables selected for the research were the Average Calls per 10,000 Subscribers (ACPS) and the Unburdened Billable Hours (UBH). The applicability was determined through the research hypotheses and research questions constructed for the study. The research null hypotheses were tested using a time-series quasi-experiment to determine if four TRIZ-based solutions introduced into the …

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Adopter Characteristics And Teaching Styles Of Faculty Adopters And Nonadopters Of A Course Management System, Cheryl A. Dugas Jan 2005

Adopter Characteristics And Teaching Styles Of Faculty Adopters And Nonadopters Of A Course Management System, Cheryl A. Dugas

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the effects of innovativeness and teaching style on the decision by higherEducation faculty to adopt or not adopt a newEducational technology. The study attempts to determine a relationship between adoption or nonadoption of a course management system and either degree of innovativeness or teaching style. The study was influenced by Everett Rogers's Diffusion of Innovation theory and Anthony Grasha's Teaching Styles research. The research was undertaken on the campus of a small, private engineering institution in Indiana in the spring of 2005. A purposive sample of 30 faculty adopters and 31 faculty nonadopters of a course management …

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Cognitive, Personality, And Demographic Attributes Of Student Change, Jeanne Marie Henry Jan 2005

Cognitive, Personality, And Demographic Attributes Of Student Change, Jeanne Marie Henry

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This study was an examination as to whether cognitive, personality, and demographic attributes of students have changed over time. Archival data for 10 cohorts of freshman students from a private Midwest engineering institution were used. Data consisted of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results, Learning Environment Preferences (LEP) results, and demographics. ANOVAs were performed for all interval data and Chi-Square analyses for all nominal data. Statistical significance was found for MBTI Thinking-Perceiving and Sensing-Intuition scales, LEP Cognitive Complexity Index scores, and demographic variables including age, parentalEducation level, and SAT scores. Results are discussed in terms of practical significance, trends evidenced in …

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Quality Costs And Enterprise Size In The Manufacturing Industry: A Survey Of American Society For Quality (Asq) Members, Suhansa Rodchua Jan 2005

Quality Costs And Enterprise Size In The Manufacturing Industry: A Survey Of American Society For Quality (Asq) Members, Suhansa Rodchua

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Companies can lose money because they fail to use significant opportunities to improve their costs of quality. Most cost accounting data are not revealed to the public and are rarely exchanged among businesses, and there is no known study testing the effect of organization size, i.e., small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large organizations, on quality costs. The study identified important factors and measures contributing to a successful quality cost program implementation and developed an empirically based model for quality costs in the manufacturing environment. The study used the Quality Cost Model, or PAF (prevention, appraisal, and failure costs) model …

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Reliability Analyses And Predictive Modeling: Voltage Regulators On Electric Systems, Damon W. Holladay Jan 2005

Reliability Analyses And Predictive Modeling: Voltage Regulators On Electric Systems, Damon W. Holladay

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The study performed reliability analyses and predictive modeling of voltage regulators at a midwestern electric transmission utility to improve its maintenance program. It determined the reliability of equipment in service by studying the number and types of failures occurring on the different types of voltage regulators. The research questions addressed in this study were: What type of voltage regulator had the most failures, what type of failures occurred most frequently, and what are the correlations between types of voltage regulators and failures? In addition, the study determined regression equations for the failures based on the operational variables of the voltage …

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Student Involvement Effects On Civic Engagement In The Faith -Based College Setting: An Empirical Study, Timothy W. Herrmann Jan 2005

Student Involvement Effects On Civic Engagement In The Faith -Based College Setting: An Empirical Study, Timothy W. Herrmann

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a series of collegiate experience factors on the civic engagement of seniors in faith-based colleges and universities. The independent variables for this study included freshman level of civic engagement, academic major, participation in leadership, faculty interaction, service participation, diversity experiences, and spirituality and religious activity. The definition of civic engagement guiding this study implies morally motivated and informed, active, committed, and skillful participation in the processes necessary for the sustenance and promotion of social and civic welfare. The experiences examined in thisDissertation are understood in light of Astin's involvement …

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The Contributions Of Congressman John Joseph Moakley To Historical Preservation In Boston, Laura Muller Jan 2005

The Contributions Of Congressman John Joseph Moakley To Historical Preservation In Boston, Laura Muller

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

As a Democrat representing Massachusetts’ ninth congressional district, Congressman John Joseph Moakley is most often remembered for his dedicated constituent service, working tirelessly to help get “Mrs. O’Leary’s social security check” with hopes of getting, in return, the votes of his constituents. It is thanks to him, however, that, since the 1970s, many of Boston’s most significant historical sites have been preserved. Despite the fact that many of these structures have existed since the 18th century, they were not properly maintained or renovated until Moakley, knowing that historical preservation is not an issue that normally draws in election votes, …

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