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Academia To Industry Technology Transfer: An Alternative To The Bayh-Dole System For Both Developed And Developing Nations, Dov Greenbaum Dec 2008

Academia To Industry Technology Transfer: An Alternative To The Bayh-Dole System For Both Developed And Developing Nations, Dov Greenbaum

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Renewed efforts to bring science and technology to the center of economic revival in developing nations recognize the centrality of the university in the creation and promotion of science and innovation. Many developed nations, following the paradigmatic U.S. technology transfer system, transfer their academic innovations to industry—through licensing intellectual property—for eventual commercialization. While conventional wisdom places the Carter era Bayh-Dole legislation at the center of that successful American system, this Article argues that the U.S. biotechnology and high tech booms are more likely attributable to the confluence of unique and propitious conditions, and that Bayh-Dole played a marginal role in …

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Friends For 50 Years, Vol.22 (2) October - December 2008, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Dec 2008

Friends For 50 Years, Vol.22 (2) October - December 2008, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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New Live Chat; Pubmed Advaced Search, Vol.6 (6) November - December 2008, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Dec 2008

New Live Chat; Pubmed Advaced Search, Vol.6 (6) November - December 2008, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

The Insider (2003-2008)

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Pubmed Advanced Search;Library Holiday Hours, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Dec 2008

Pubmed Advanced Search;Library Holiday Hours, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Insider Express (2003-2013)

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Threshold Levels For Selected Rural South Dakota Retail And Service Businesses, Saileza Khatiwada, Michael Mccurry, Trevor Brooks Dec 2008

Threshold Levels For Selected Rural South Dakota Retail And Service Businesses, Saileza Khatiwada, Michael Mccurry, Trevor Brooks

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

What new enterprise would be most likely to suc¬ceed in your community? Is opening a computer store in Buffalo, South Dakota, a good idea? What about a new church? Or a bar? While the goals of churches and taverns differ, the likelihood of success for either can be described in terms of population thresholds. Retail trade is an important part of a rural county’s economy (Blair, Traynor, and Duan 2004). Dehter (1987) saw shopping as a major contributor to high qual¬ity rural life. Each successful rural business improves the economic and social well-being of rural people. Both entrepreneurs and community …

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Ibm And Germany 1922–1941, Donald W. Mccormick, James C. Spee Dec 2008

Ibm And Germany 1922–1941, Donald W. Mccormick, James C. Spee

Organization Management Journal

In 1941, one of IBM’s most profitable customers was the German government. Germany leased IBM’s punch card tabulation machines (ancestors of the computer), and used them in its war against France, the United Kingdom and others. They were also used to conduct the census, to keep track of Jews and other ‘‘undesirables’’, and to operate the concentration camps. In 1937, Hitler awarded Watson a medal. By 1940, however, US public opinion had turned against Germany and he returned the medal. Outraged, German IBM executives and high-ranking Nazis threatened IBM’s control over its subsidiary. Although its activities were legal under US …

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Team On Teams: A Collaborative Inquiry, Jennifer Sa Leigh, Joy E. Beatty, Paul S. Szwed Dec 2008

Team On Teams: A Collaborative Inquiry, Jennifer Sa Leigh, Joy E. Beatty, Paul S. Szwed

Organization Management Journal

Over the course of an academic year, we collaborated to adopt a new instructional design for teams in our classes. We recount the story of our collaboration, outlining our process of inquiry, reflection, and support. Our simple search for better techniques shifted as our colleagues helped us reveal hidden assumptions about our roles as teachers. Our critical reflection allowed us to increase our self-awareness, specifically considering the following: how power influences our classroom interactions, how we contribute to and reinforce elements of the system that are not in our best interest, and the evolving stages of our own development as …

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Teaching Note: Ibm And Germany 1922–1941, Donald W. Mccormick, James C. Spee Dec 2008

Teaching Note: Ibm And Germany 1922–1941, Donald W. Mccormick, James C. Spee

Organization Management Journal

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The Forum (Volume 38, Number 4), Valparaiso University School Of Law Dec 2008

The Forum (Volume 38, Number 4), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

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Biological Responses In A Dynamic Bouyant River Plume, Mark A. Moline, Thomas K. Frazer, Robert Chant, Scott Glenn, Charles A. Jacoby, John R. Reinfelder, Jennifer Yost, Meng Zhou, Oscar Schofield Dec 2008

Biological Responses In A Dynamic Bouyant River Plume, Mark A. Moline, Thomas K. Frazer, Robert Chant, Scott Glenn, Charles A. Jacoby, John R. Reinfelder, Jennifer Yost, Meng Zhou, Oscar Schofield

Biological Sciences

Buoyant river plumes are highly dynamic and often characterized by marked physical and chemical gradients that interact to drive biological responses. For example, interactions among factors resulting in algal growth (e.g., nutrient and light availability) and algal loss (e.g., sinking and zooplankton grazing) vary with spatiotemporal changes in physics and chemistry. The nature of these interactions profoundly influences the transfer and transformation of materials carried by the plume, including nutrients and metals. In April 2005, during the Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LaTTE), water from the Hudson River recirculated in a nearshore eddy before moving southward to mix with relatively …

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The Best Go Back To Basics, Kevin Cooper Dec 2008

The Best Go Back To Basics, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

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Economic Effects Of Smoking Bans On Restaurants And Pubs, Barrie Craven, Michael L. Marlow Dec 2008

Economic Effects Of Smoking Bans On Restaurants And Pubs, Barrie Craven, Michael L. Marlow

Economics

The United Kingdom has recently enacted smoking bans in public places such as restaurants and pubs. Public health advocates argue that bans are necessary because non-smokers need protection from second-hand smoke. Advocates also claim that bans do not exert harm on owners because of a vast empirical literature showing that restaurants and bars in the United States never suffer harm following bans. This paper examines whether these claims are true by developing a model within the Coasian framework whereby owners of businesses have incentives to deal with smoking disputes between smokers and non-smokers. Our model demonstrates that it is incorrect …

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"Health And Wealth" And The World Wide Web: Leading Renewalist Ministries' Use Of Web To Communicate Social Order, Douglas J. Swanson Dec 2008

"Health And Wealth" And The World Wide Web: Leading Renewalist Ministries' Use Of Web To Communicate Social Order, Douglas J. Swanson

Journalism

Renewalist Christian ministries espouse a “Health andWealth” theology that is embraced by increasing numbers of believers. This study investigated leading renewalist ministries’WorldWideWeb sites to assess their application of visual, operational, and informational enhancements to communicate social order. A content analysis revealed a communication of social order that is consistent with prosperity theology. Much emphasis is placed on the appearance and personality of the ministry leader. Almost no attention is paid to traditional Christian symbolism. Web sites claimed the value of inclusiveness, but offered little visual representation of children, senior adults, the poor, and people of color. Sites communicated the importance …

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Three-Dimensional Microfluidic Devices Fabricated In Layered Paper And Tape, Andres W. Martinez, Scott T. Phillips, George M. Whitesides Dec 2008

Three-Dimensional Microfluidic Devices Fabricated In Layered Paper And Tape, Andres W. Martinez, Scott T. Phillips, George M. Whitesides

Chemistry and Biochemistry

This article describes a method for fabricating 3D microfluidic devices by stacking layers of patterned paper and double-sided adhesive tape. Paper-based 3D microfluidic devices have capabilities in microfluidics that are difficult to achieve using conventional open-channel microsystems made from glass or polymers. In particular, 3D paper-based devices wick fluids and distribute microliter volumes of samples from single inlet points into arrays of detection zones (with numbers up to thousands). This capability makes it possible to carry out a range of new analytical protocols simply and inexpensively (all on a piece of paper) without external pumps. We demonstrate a prototype 3D …

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Polygenic Threshold Model With Sex Dimorphism In Clubfoot Inheritance: The Carter Effect, Lisa M. Kruse, Matthew B. Dubbs, Christina A. Gurnett Dec 2008

Polygenic Threshold Model With Sex Dimorphism In Clubfoot Inheritance: The Carter Effect, Lisa M. Kruse, Matthew B. Dubbs, Christina A. Gurnett

Open Access Publications

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Freeport's Lincoln By Wilbur T. Rawleigh (1930) Reprinted By Freeport Lincoln-Douglas Society, 1988, George W. Geib Dec 2008

Freeport's Lincoln By Wilbur T. Rawleigh (1930) Reprinted By Freeport Lincoln-Douglas Society, 1988, George W. Geib

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

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Untangling The Debate: The Ethics Of Human Enhancement, Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff Dec 2008

Untangling The Debate: The Ethics Of Human Enhancement, Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff

Philosophy

Human enhancement, in which nanotechnology is expected to play a major role, continues to be a highly contentious ethical debate, with experts on both sides calling it the single most important issue facing science and society in this brave, new century. This paper is a broad introduction to the symposium herein that explores a range of perspectives related to that debate. We will discuss what human enhancement is and its apparent contrast to therapy; and we will begin to tease apart the myriad intertwined issues that arise in the debate: (1) freedom & autonomy, (2) health & safety, (3) fairness …

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Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity In Spite Of U.S. Trade Restraints - Recommendations For Economic Revitalization In Indian Country, Angelique A. Eaglewoman Dec 2008

Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity In Spite Of U.S. Trade Restraints - Recommendations For Economic Revitalization In Indian Country, Angelique A. Eaglewoman

Tulsa Law Review

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Creative Civil Remedies Against Non-Indian Offenders In Indian Country, Hallie Bongar White, Kelly Gaines Stoner, James G. White Dec 2008

Creative Civil Remedies Against Non-Indian Offenders In Indian Country, Hallie Bongar White, Kelly Gaines Stoner, James G. White

Tulsa Law Review

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Indian Country In The Northeast, Dale T. White Dec 2008

Indian Country In The Northeast, Dale T. White

Tulsa Law Review

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Dayton Engineer, Winter 2008-09, University Of Dayton Dec 2008

Dayton Engineer, Winter 2008-09, University Of Dayton

Dayton Engineer

The Dayton Engineer, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Engineering to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.

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Dayton Business Leader, Winter 2008-09, University Of Dayton Dec 2008

Dayton Business Leader, Winter 2008-09, University Of Dayton

Dayton Business Leader

The Dayton Business Leader, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.

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A New Man: Masculine Confusion And Struggle In The Works Of Edith Wharton, Gary L. Crump Dec 2008

A New Man: Masculine Confusion And Struggle In The Works Of Edith Wharton, Gary L. Crump

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in The House of Mirth and Ralph Marvell in The Custom of the Country display the same characteristics of fear, passion, and vulnerability as do many of her primary female figures. Wharton’s societal concerns do not merely extend to that of her own sex but to that of the male in society who struggled with …

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Saari’S Homographic Conjecture Of The Three-Body Problem, Florin Diacu, Toshiaki Fujiwara, Ernesto Pérez-Chavela, Manuele Santoprete Dec 2008

Saari’S Homographic Conjecture Of The Three-Body Problem, Florin Diacu, Toshiaki Fujiwara, Ernesto Pérez-Chavela, Manuele Santoprete

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Saari’s homographic conjecture, which extends a classical statement proposed by Donald Saari in 1970, claims that solutions of the Newtonian n-body problem with constant configurational measure are homographic. In other words, if the mutual distances satisfy a certain relationship, the configuration of the particle system may change size and position but not shape. We prove this conjecture for large sets of initial conditions in three-body problems given by homogeneous potentials, including the Newtonian one. Some of our results are true for n ≥ 3.

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Cpa Client Bulletin, December 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Dec 2008

Cpa Client Bulletin, December 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Ousmane Sembène Ou L’Art De Se Jouer Du Destin, Boubacar Boris Diop Dec 2008

Ousmane Sembène Ou L’Art De Se Jouer Du Destin, Boubacar Boris Diop

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Valentin Yves Mudimbe (2006). Cheminements. Carnets De Berlin (Avril-Juin 1999), Kasereka Kavwahireh Dec 2008

Valentin Yves Mudimbe (2006). Cheminements. Carnets De Berlin (Avril-Juin 1999), Kasereka Kavwahireh

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Un Autre Monde Est Possible: Création Et Résistance Dans L’Oeuvre D’Ousmane Sembène, David Murphy Dec 2008

Un Autre Monde Est Possible: Création Et Résistance Dans L’Oeuvre D’Ousmane Sembène, David Murphy

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

During an artistic career that spanned half a century, Ousmane Sembène often played a pioneering role. However, although the many awards he received constitute recognition of the artistic quality of his work, his literary and cinematic output is best known for its denunciation of colonial and neo-colonial injustices. This article argues that Sembène’s importance is not solely political, and nor should it be limited to his role as a pioneer of African cinema. Sembène was also a great artist who developed a profound refl ection on his practice both as a writer and as a filmmaker. The article will trace …

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Du Néoréalisme En Afrique: Une Relecture De Borom Sarret, Sada Niang Dec 2008

Du Néoréalisme En Afrique: Une Relecture De Borom Sarret, Sada Niang

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Critical evaluations of African cinema have tended in the past to confi ne the analysis of this corpus to its content. In books and articles published earlier, the colonial and postcolonial history of the continent abound, social dramas are explained at length, thefts at all levels, cultural mystifi cation, corruption as well as violence are amply described. The insights of such an approach notwithstanding, the aesthetic sources of African cinema are not limited to the rural and the traditional. Through a comparison of Vittorio De Sica Bicycle Thief and Sembène’s Borom Sarret, this paper argues that african cinema inserted itself …

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 71 (2008) Dec 2008

Présence Francophone, Numéro 71 (2008)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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