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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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The Cultural Imperative For Professional Military Education And Leader Development, Allison Abbe, Stanley M. Halpin

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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The Engagement Of Military Voice, Charles D. Allen, Breena E. Coates

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Article Index, Vol. Xxxix, 2009, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Review Essay: War In The Information Age, Robert M. Cassidy

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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From The Editor, Robert H. Taylor

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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The Nfp Strategic Leader, R. Craig Bullis

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Cover, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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In Search Of The Art And Science Of Strategic Communication, Dennis M. Murphy

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Sacred Heart University Fact Sheet - Fall 2009, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

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Trademarks And The Boundaries Of The Firm, Dan L. Burk, Brett H. Mcdonnell

William & Mary Law Review

Coase's theory of the firm has become a familiar tool to analyze the structure and organization of businesses. Such analyses have increasingly focused on property-based theories of the firm, including intellectual property. In previous work we have discussed the application of this model to patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. Here we take up the theory of the firm with regard to trademarks, which act as signals of firm reputation, and so have application and effects that differ substantially from other forms of intellectual property. Using the framework from our previous analyses, we examine the propensity of trademarks to lower transaction …

Statutory Damages In Copyright Law: A Remedy In Need Of Reform, Pamela Samuelson, Tara Wheatland

William & Mary Law Review

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A New Deal For End Users? Lessons From A French Innovation In The Regulation Of Interoperability, Jane Winn, Nicolas Jondet

William & Mary Law Review

In 2007, France created the Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures (lAutoritj de Rdgulation des Mesures Techniques or ARMT), an independent regulatory agency charged with promoting the interoperability of digital media distributed with embedded "technical protection measures" (TPM), also known as "digital rights management" technologies (DRM). ARMT was established in part to rectify what French lawmakers perceived as an imbalance in the rights of copyright owners and end users created when the European Copyright Directive (EUCD) was transposed into French law as the "Loi sur le Droit d'Auteur et les Droits Voisins dans la Socidte de l'Information" (DADVSI). ARMT is both …

Rules And Standards On The Forefront Of Patentability, John F. Duffy

William & Mary Law Review

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Patent Examination Priorities, Michael J. Meurer

William & Mary Law Review

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Developing A Private International Intellectual Property Law: The Demise Of Territoriality?, Graeme B. Dinwoodie

William & Mary Law Review

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Reflections On Lincoln And English Studies, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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Spillovers Theory And Its Conceptual Boundaries, Brett Frischmann

William & Mary Law Review

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Jumping The Pond: Transnational Law And The Future Of Chemical Regulation, Noah M. Sachs

Vanderbilt Law Review

Just as domestic pollution can cause transnational externalities, domestic environmental regulation can create transnational ripple effects in other jurisdictions. In this Article, I show how chemical regulation-long a weak link in the network of U.S. environmental laws-is about to be reshaped and reformed through the extraterritorial ripple effects of new European Union legislation. Contributing to both international law and environmental law scholarship, this Article shows how transnational information flows can be harnessed to end the longstanding drought of data on chemical toxicity in the United States.

Part I of this Article critiques the U.S. chemical regulatory regime, arguing that a …

Men’S Misperceptions About The Acceptability And Attractiveness Of Aggression, Joseph A. Vandello, Sean Ransom, Vanessa E. Hettinger, Kevin Askew

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Male norms about aggression may be perpetuated in part by the belief that aggression is more expected or socially desirable than it really is. This paper explores the accuracy of people’s beliefs about the acceptability of aggression by examining men’s perceptions of descriptive (what their peers do) and injunctive norms (what their peers approve of or desire). Study 1 found that men (but not women) overestimated the aggressiveness of their peers. Study 2 demonstrated that men (but not women) overestimated peer approval of aggression and disapproval when an affront was not responded to aggressively. Study 3 found that men overestimate …

Characterization Of Relevant Attributes Using Cyber Trajectory Similarities, Jordan Bean

Theses

On secure networks, even sophisticated cyber hackers must perform multiple steps to implement attacks on sensitive data and critical servers hidden behind layers of firewalls. Therefore, there is a need to study these attacks at a higher multi-stage level. Traditional taxonomy of cyber attacks focuses on analyzing the final stage and overall effects of an attack but, not the characteristics of an attack movement or `trajectory' on a network.

This work proposes to investigate trajectory similarities between multi-stage attacks, allowing for the characterization of both a hacker's behavior and vulnerable attack paths within a network.

Currently, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) …

Kid Smart, Inc., Lauren Anne Scarpello

Arts Administration Master's Reports (1984-2016)

This internship report contains an organizational analysis of KID smART, inc., a nonprofit arts education organization located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as a description of the author's duties as intern from August to November 2009. Included are organizational histories, management analyses, a description of the intern's duties as the Program Assistant, a SWOT analysis, best practices and recommendations for organization growth and improvement.

More Cooperation, Less Uniformity: Tax Deharmonization And The Future Of The International Tax Regime, Steven A. Dean

Faculty Scholarship

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Designing For Digital: Skill Sets Needed To Design For Variable Data, Jessica Jordan

Theses

Variable data printing (VDP) is a key technology in the production of unique and personalized products. Derived from digital printing, the three key components in a successful VDP workflow are the creative aspect, the database management, and the print production. A designer needs to be familiar with all three in order to obtain the skills needed to design for VDP. However, VDP's trend for growth is not as rapid as the industry had projected. This research examined how a variable data workflow was set up in a print production environment. The production workflow and the skills needed to properly design …

Schools For Strategy: Teaching Strategy For 21st Century Conflict, Colin S. Gray Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

All would-be strategists would benefit by some formal education. However, for education in strategy to be well-directed, it needs to rest upon sound assumptions concerning the eternal nature yet ever shifting character, meaning, and function of strategy, as well as the range of behaviors required for effective strategic performance. The author emphasizes the necessity for strategic education to help develop the strategic approach, the way of thinking that can solve or illuminate strategic problems. He advises that such education should not strive for a spurious relevance by presenting a military variant of current affairs. The author believes that the strategist …

Youtube War: Fighting In A World Of Cameras In Every Cell Phone And Photoshop On Every Computer, Cori E. Dauber Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer depends on traditional media. This is the “YouTube War.” This monograph methodically lays out the nature of this new environment in terms of its implications for a war against media-savvy insurgents, and then considers possible courses of action for the Army and the U.S. military …

A Case Study In Security Sector Reform: Learning From Security Sector Reform/Building In Afghanistan (October 2002-September 2003), Jason C. Howk Captain

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This paper provides a case study to help explain the SSR concepts that were recently formalized in U.S. Army Field Manual 3.07, "Stability Operations Doctrine." It provides insights into how the military interacts with host-nation governments, the United Nations, the State Department, and national embassies to solve today’s complex problems. The author’s experience revealed many pitfalls in security sector building and international team-building that we are trying to avoid today. The author points out the synergy that was lost because of a lack of coordination and understanding between government officials and nongovernmental organizations like aid groups, academia, and think tanks.

Talent: Implications For A U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy, Casey Wardynski Colonel, David S. Lyle Colonel, Michael J. Colarusso Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

In our proposed Army Officer Corps Strategy, we established the interdependency of accessing, developing, retaining and employing talented leaders. Before exploring each of those functions in greater detail, however, we must first define “talent.” In our view, talent is something possessed by everyone. In fact, each individual has a unique distribution of talent across three dimensions—skills, knowledge, and behaviors. Effective organizations understand this. They successfully access and retain a depth and breadth of talent that can be developed and employed against current and future requirements.

Smartstore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm With Semantic-Awareness For Next-Generation File Systems, Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Dan Feng, Lei Tian

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Existing storage systems using hierarchical directory tree do not meet scalability and functionality requirements for exponentially growing datasets and increasingly complex queries in Exabyte-level systems with billions of files. This paper proposes semantic-aware organization, called SmartStore, which exploits metadata semantics of files to judiciously aggregate correlated files into semantic-aware groups by using information retrieval tools. Decentralized design improves system scalability and reduces query latency for complex queries (range and top-k queries), which is conducive to constructing semantic-aware caching, and conventional filename-based query. SmartStore limits search scope of complex query to a single or a minimal number of semantically related groups …

Sensor Integration For Low-Cost Crash Avoidance, Stephane M. Roussel

Master's Theses

This report is a summary of the development of sensor integration for low-cost crash avoidance for over-land commercial trucks. The goal of the project was to build and test a system composed of low-cost commercially available sensors arranged on a truck trailer to monitor the environment around the truck. The system combines the data from each sensor to increase the reliability of the sensor using a probabilistic data fusion approach. A combination of ultrasonic and magnetoresistive sensors was used in this study. In addition, Radar and digital imaging were investigated as reference signals and possible candidates for additional sensor integration. …