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Sticky Defaults And Altering Rules In Corporate Law, Brett Mcdonnell Jan 2007

Sticky Defaults And Altering Rules In Corporate Law, Brett Mcdonnell

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Corporate law scholarship has long debated the extent to which corporate law rules are default or mandatory. It has paid less attention to corporate law's "altering rules," which prescribe what a corporation must do for its attempt at opting out of a given default rule to be recognized as legally valid. Altering rules may be more or less sticky, that is, they may make it easier or harder to opt out of a given default rule. They also help allocate authority among corporate constituency groups. Descriptively, a focus on altering rules provides a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the …

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The Goldilocks Hypothesis: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights At The Boundary Of The Firm, Dan L. Burk, Brett Mcdonnell Jan 2007

The Goldilocks Hypothesis: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights At The Boundary Of The Firm, Dan L. Burk, Brett Mcdonnell

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Recent scholarship has begun to assess the role of intellectual property rights in the theory of the Coasean firm. Some of this scholarship has looked at the effects of intellectual property on decisions to "make or buy" inputs to production. Other scholarship has looked at the effects of intellectual property on allocation of resources between employees and the firm. In this paper, we integrate these two lines of scholarship, positing a "Goldilocks hypothesis" for the proper disposition of intellectual property rights. We argue that to properly allocate resources within the firm, property rights must be calibrated so as to avoid …

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Patents, Tax Shelters, And The Firm, Dan L. Burk, Brett Mcdonnell Jan 2007

Patents, Tax Shelters, And The Firm, Dan L. Burk, Brett Mcdonnell

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Since the landmark State Street decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, patentable subject matter has encompassed business methods, including tax investment strategies. Patents provide approximately twenty years of exclusive rights in the claimed method, in return for public disclosure in a published patent. Typically, the efficacy of specialized investment strategies will be diminished as they become generally known and so widely practiced; for this reason, many tax investment methods have been implemented under confidentiality agreements in order to prevent them from becoming widely practiced. However, patenting of such strategies may allow them to be …

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Law And Technology: Interactions And Relationships, Daniel J. Gifford Jan 2007

Law And Technology: Interactions And Relationships, Daniel J. Gifford

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The relations between law and technology are both simple and exceedingly complex. At the most elementary level, technology consists in the application of labor to create a product, to generate a service or otherwise to produce a desired result. Technology develops as ways are found to produce new results or to produce old results using fewer or less costly inputs. Law is generally understood to exist as a set of rules adopted by a society's governing institutions that are applicable to all of its inhabitants.' All modern societies have established institutions charged with making determinations about the applicability and interpretations …

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Crime, Criminal Justice, And Criminology In The Netherlands, Michael Tonry, Catrien Bijleveld Jan 2007

Crime, Criminal Justice, And Criminology In The Netherlands, Michael Tonry, Catrien Bijleveld

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Experimental Investigation Of Temperature And Tool Wear In High Speed End-Milling Of Titanium Alloy, Benjamin Nwakile Oguejiofor Jan 2007

Experimental Investigation Of Temperature And Tool Wear In High Speed End-Milling Of Titanium Alloy, Benjamin Nwakile Oguejiofor

Masters Theses

"This thesis presents the results of experimental investigation of temperature and tool wear in high speed end-milling of titanium alloy. The investigation of cutting parameters on temperature in high speed end-milling of thin-walled titanium structure was conducted on Cincinnati Milacron Sabre 750 Vertical Machining Center using a 1/2 Fractional Factorial Design of Experiment with 3 factors at 2 levels each. Data logging of temperature data was carried out using VI logger software. Tool tip temperature at the comers and center of the pocket was estimated. All the factors investigated were found to have a significant effect on workpiece temperature. Radial …

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Method Of Metallurgically Bonding Articles And Article Therefor, Hai-Lung Tsai, P.-C. Wang Jan 2007

Method Of Metallurgically Bonding Articles And Article Therefor, Hai-Lung Tsai, P.-C. Wang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An article suitable for metallurgical bonding having a first part having a lower surface, and a second part having an upper surface is disclosed. The lower surface of the first part is disposed at the upper surface of the second part to provide for a faying surface thereat. The faying surface has a plurality of channels having a depth equal to or greater than about 1 micron and equal to or less than about 1000 microns. The article is suitable for metallurgical bonding at the faying surface.

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Fracture Toughness Of Ceramic Moulds For Investment Casting With Ice Patterns, Qingbin Liu, Ming-Chuan Leu, Von Richards Jan 2007

Fracture Toughness Of Ceramic Moulds For Investment Casting With Ice Patterns, Qingbin Liu, Ming-Chuan Leu, Von Richards

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Ice patterns can be used to make ceramic investment moulds for metal castings. Owing to the characteristics of ice, the ceramic mould must be made at subzero temperatures and consequently, requires a different formulation than shells built at room temperature. Success of this process depends greatly on the fracture toughness of mould materials. The present paper describes the experimental results of fracture toughness of mould materials processed from different compositions. The Taguchi method was used to reduce the trial runs. The parameters considered included the ratio of fibre containing fused silica and aluminosilicate powders, the volume of binder and the …

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Robust/Optimal Temperature Profile Control Of A High-Speed Aerospace Vehicle Using Neural Networks, Vivek Yadav, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2007

Robust/Optimal Temperature Profile Control Of A High-Speed Aerospace Vehicle Using Neural Networks, Vivek Yadav, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An approximate dynamic programming (ADP)-based suboptimal neurocontroller to obtain desired temperature for a high-speed aerospace vehicle is synthesized in this paper. a 1-D distributed parameter model of a fin is developed from basic thermal physics principles. ldquoSnapshotrdquo solutions of the dynamics are generated with a simple dynamic inversion-based feedback controller. Empirical basis functions are designed using the ldquoproper orthogonal decompositionrdquo (POD) technique and the snapshot solutions. a low-order nonlinear lumped parameter system to characterize the infinite dimensional system is obtained by carrying out a Galerkin projection. an ADP-based neurocontroller with a dual heuristic programming (DHP) formulation is obtained with a …

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Opportunities For Undergraduate Research Experiences (Oure) Research Papers 2006-2007 Vol. I, Ryan Abington, Sunil Aggarwal, Emily Bahram-Ahi, Lia Raquel Otal Bartnicki, Navarre Bartnz, Matthew Beyer, Devin Boyle, Joshua Bunch, Adam Bunton, Joshua Cardenzana, Joshua Carey, Brandi Clark, Cary Cooper, Ryan Dusheke, Agatha Dwilewicz, Joshua Eads, Josiah Elliott, Justin Enderle, David Erdos, Tyler Fears, Nathaniel Goss Jan 2007

Opportunities For Undergraduate Research Experiences (Oure) Research Papers 2006-2007 Vol. I, Ryan Abington, Sunil Aggarwal, Emily Bahram-Ahi, Lia Raquel Otal Bartnicki, Navarre Bartnz, Matthew Beyer, Devin Boyle, Joshua Bunch, Adam Bunton, Joshua Cardenzana, Joshua Carey, Brandi Clark, Cary Cooper, Ryan Dusheke, Agatha Dwilewicz, Joshua Eads, Josiah Elliott, Justin Enderle, David Erdos, Tyler Fears, Nathaniel Goss

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

No abstract provided.

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Psychosocial Characteristics Related To Internet Behavior, Lia Bartnicki Jan 2007

Psychosocial Characteristics Related To Internet Behavior, Lia Bartnicki

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

The idea that one can suffer from Internet Addiction (IA) is currently being debated in the field of psychology, with mounting evidence to suggest that such and addiction is possible. The goal of this study is to investigate whether several common psychosocial characteristics are associated with IA behavior. Forty-five people participated in the study by completing a battery of questionnaires on IA, personality, and aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Significant correlations were found between IA behavior and self-esteem, loneliness, age, conscientiousness, and sleep deprivation. Such findings suggest that people who report high amounts of IA behavior may be experiencing significant psychosocial …

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Durability Performance Of Polyurea Confined Concrete Cylinders, Matthew Beyer Jan 2007

Durability Performance Of Polyurea Confined Concrete Cylinders, Matthew Beyer

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

No abstract provided.

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Unleaded Drinking Water: Equilibrium Potential Measurements For Monochloramine Disinfectant, Brandi Clark Jan 2007

Unleaded Drinking Water: Equilibrium Potential Measurements For Monochloramine Disinfectant, Brandi Clark

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

The strength of monochloramine, NH2CI, as an oxidizing agent can be linked to its effect on Pb levels in drinking water. In this study, the equilibrium potential was measured as a function of pH from pH 8 to 12 and compared to a theoretical plot of formal potentials derived from the Nemst equation. The measured equilibrium potential was consistently about 300 mV more negative than the calculated potential - NH2CI is a weaker oxidizing agent than predicted. When the measured potentials are plotted on a Pourbaix diagram, it is found that NH2CI can oxidize …

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