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Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski By Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making, Dennis D. Crouch, Robert P. Merges

Faculty Publications

Now that the Supreme Court has decided Bilski v. Kappos, there is an enormous amount of speculation about the case’s impact on patent applicants, litigants, and other participants in the patent system. Most of the commentary is concerned with the holding in Bilski, how this holding will be applied by courts and the Patent Office, and ultimately, the effect of the holding on inventors, and those who hold and seek patents.

Post-Independent Kosovo: From Prescriptive To Descriptive Identities, Marisola Xhelili

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The aim of this study was to uncover the existence, or possibility of, a Kosovar identity in today’s Kosovo. I intend to discuss the role personal experience plays in confirming or challenging one’s identity, and in this light show how the memories and personal experiences of Kosovo Serbs and Albanians endorse their ethnically-based interactions.

The methods of my research were mostly of an experiential nature, and consisted of staying in Kosovo for a two-week period. My research shows that there is no clear idea of what a Kosovar identity means for the people of Kosovo at this time. Their narratives …

Otterbein Towers Fall 2010, Otterbein Towers

Towers Magazine

Young Qingdao students come to Otterbein to learn language, culture; A Lifelong Career Abroad; Choir Performs in China; History of International study; Features: Community Garden Takes Root; The Global Classroom; The World’s His Oyster; The Language of Learning; Voices Bridging Cultures; Towers is 84 Years Old; Regulars: Letters; Otterbein Here & Now; Around the ’Bein; Classnotes; Milestones; Alumni Matters, etc.

Research Project On The Kidney Trust: A Chronic Kidney Disease Self-Management Program, Casey Mckinley, Janine Mason, Lina Park, Sue Pyke

Program Design and Evaluation

Class research project for LEAD 500: Research Design and Evaluation. This project includes a needs assessment, program design and methodology, social marketing, cultural competency, evaluation and budget.

Creating A Cmu Sphinx Based Speech Recognition Book Cataloguing Software, Sekani Tembo

Senior Seminars

This paper describes the design, implementation, and overall process that went into building a book cataloguing software that takes speech input, converts it to an integral ISBN number, looks up the relevant information on Amazon.com, and records said information in a database. It emphasizes the novelty of combining the Sphinx4 open-source speech recognition library and the Amazon Web Services Application Programming Interface in what's called a mashup.

The Doctrine Of Foreign Equivalents At Death's Door, Serge Krimnus

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Sce 6938 Topics In Science Education, Barbara Spector

Service-Learning Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The First Amendment Degraded: Milkovich V. Lorain And A Continuing Sense Of Loss On Its 20th Birthday, Richard H. Weisberg

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Utpa Commencement – Fall 2010, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Why Has Aesthetic Formalism Fallen On Hard Times?, David E.W. Fenner

Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

Nick Zangwill has done more than any person recently to resuscitate aesthetic formalism. I say "resuscitate" because formalism has not been in favor for several decades. Zangwill writes that "Aesthetic Formalism has fallen on hard times. At best it receives unsympathetic discussion and swift rejection. At worse it is the object of abuse and derision." The reasons many today believe aesthetic formalism is not viable have been the subject of discussion since the pendulum swing away from New Criticism, via the work of William Wimsatt, Cleanth Brooks, Clement Greenberg, André Levinson, and Heinrich Wolfflin. Most of these reasons have been …

Auxiliary Be Production By African American English-Speaking Children With And Without Specific Language Impairment, April W. Garrity, Janna B. Oetting

Faculty Publications

Purpose: To examine 3 forms (am, is, are) of auxiliary BE production by African American English (AAE)-speaking children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Thirty AAE speakers participated: 10 six-year-olds with SLI, 10 age-matched controls, and 10 language-matched controls. BE production was examined through samples and a probe. Results: Across tasks, visual inspection suggested that the children with SLI overtly marked BE at lower rates than the controls, and all groups marked am at higher rates than is and are, with few dialect-inappropriate errors. Within the samples, the children also overtly marked is at higher rates when preceded …

Semiotics 101: Taking The Printed Matter Doctrine Seriously, Kevin Emerson Collins

Indiana Law Journal

The printed matter doctrine is a branch of the section 101 doctrine of patent eligibility that, among other things, prevents the patenting of technical texts and diagrams. The contemporary formulation of the doctrine is highly problematic. It borders on incoherency in many of its applications, and it lacks any recognized grounding in the Patent Act. Yet, despite its shortcomings, courts have not abandoned the printed matter doctrine, likely because the core applications of the doctrine place limits on the reach of the patent regime that are widely viewed as both intuitively "'correct" and normatively desirable. Instead of abandoning the doctrine, …

Contributors, Marvels & Tales Editors

Marvels & Tales

No abstract provided.

La Hispanización Y La Identidad Hispana En Filipinas, David Sánchez-Jiménez

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Painting With A Purpose, Keri Suarez, Brian Manley

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Dialogic Fluency - Why It Matters, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Marty Meinardi, Bunny Richardson, Ciaran Mcdonnell, Charles Pritchard

Conference papers

Speech as an LSP: Many dialogues presented to language learners could be better described as ‘interleaved mini-monologues’, their purpose being to provide examples of grammatical sentences in realistic settings. Real dialogues, on the other hand, are worked out ‘live’, with neither speaker knowing in detail where the conversation will lead. Speaker interaction is marked to a large extent by prosody and often even good communicators sound disfluent if their half of the dialogue is judged in isolation. Dialogic fluency: The objective of dialoguing L1 speakers, however, is to realise a social or personal goal, with language only part of effective …

From Constituent Peoples To Constituents: Europe Solidifies Fundamental Political Rights For Minority Groups In Sejdic V. Bosnia, Lindsey E. Wakely

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Contracts In Context And Contracts As Context, Larry A. Dimatteo, Blake D. Morant

UF Law Faculty Publications

The annual Business Law Symposium of the Wake Forest Law Review has a distinguished legacy of noteworthy programs that shed light on seminal issues affecting contemporary business in the United States. This edition builds on that tradition of excellence with a focus on the ubiquitous phenomenon of contracts and bargaining behavior. Contract law appears as a set of policies and rules that provide order for those who transact bargains. Indeed, contract law and the rules that it engenders seemingly facilitate an efficient system of transactional conduct that, on its face, appears objective.

Part II of this introductory Article briefly examines …

A Mission Of Justice, Iwu Magazine

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017

Air Force Capt. Sarah Carlson ’04 helps Iraqis put their criminal court system on a path to success.

October 2010 Newsletter, Career Center, Illinois Wesleyan University

Career Connections Newsletter

Issue Highlights:

• Social Media Strategies Open New Job Markets
• Living and Serving Abroad With The Peace Corps
• Alumni Profile of Martin Ceisel, Class of 2009: Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Sfra Review, Fall 2010, Science Fiction Research Association

SFRA Newsletter (Science Fiction Research Association)

The Fall 2010 issue of the SFRA Review.

Russell Kirk And The Rhetoric Of Order, Eric Grabowsky

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The corpus of historically-minded "man of letters" and twentieth century leader among conservatives, Russell Amos Kirk, prompts one to reflect upon a realist rhetoric of order for conservative discourse in particular and public argumentation in general. In view of building a realist rhetoric of order within the present spectrum of modern to postmodern thought, this dissertation project contains two related layers of study. At one level, the author both builds and departs from the realist approach to communicative epistemology known as "rhetorical perspectivism" toward a theoretical framework for the study of rhetoric that is based upon Aristotle and St. Thomas …

Reading Between The Lines, Rachel Hatch

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017

Professors explore what gets lost and found in translations of great literary works.

Issue 15, Fall 2010, Imagining America

Newsletters - Imagining America

Highlights of Issue #15 (Fall 2010) include: an interview with Gladstone “Fluney” Hutchinson about IA’s relevancy to social sciences; a director’s column on interdisciplinarity and engagement; a feature article on interdisciplinary initiatives at Fordham University, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, University of New Mexico, and North Carolina State University; and an interview with Amara Geffen, Allegheny College.

Review Of Facing The Center: Toward An Identity Politics Of One-To-One Mentoring By Harry C. Denny, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Dialogue And Roles In A Strategy Workshop: Discovering Patterns Through Discourse Analysis, Martin Duffy

Masters

Strategy workshops are frequently used by Executive management teams to discuss and formulate strategy but are under-researched and under-reported in the academic literature. This study uses Discourse Analysis to discover participant roles and dialogic patterns in an Executive management team’s strategy workshop, together with their effect on the workshop’s operation and outcome. The study shows how the workshop participants adopt different roles through their language and content. It then identifies a dialogic pattern in the workshop discourse, with the emphasis on achieving shared understanding rather than winning the debate. The workshop facilitator’s role is shown to bring discussion as a …

Migrant Domestic Workers In Egypt: A Case Study Of The Economic Family In Global Context, Chantal Thomas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the "family" in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the "developmental state." Part II presents the legal framework affecting labor conditions of sub-Saharan African asylum-seekers who are migrant domestic workers in Egypt, and particularly the legal framework that affects their ability to bargain in securing …

The Armewamus Band Of New Jersey: Other Clues To Differences Between The Lenopi And Lenape, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Regarding You: Lacanian Gaze And Ethics In Kiarostami’S Close-Up, Farhang Erfani

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

For Lacan, the gaze is not on the side of the subject; it comes from the object, staring back at us, disrupting our comfort zone within the symbolic. I argue that Abbas Kiarostami’s extraordinary film Close-up is the model of the gaze (as opposed to vision) that is socially disruptive. I bring Seminar XI on the gaze with the Seminar VII on ethics and show that most of the film is the disruption of the symbolic by the gaze but that Kiarostami allows the “encircling” of the real by the main protagonist who “traverses the fantasy” and comes to term …

Me And Betty Crocker, Or, From Waspy White To Mestiza: 75 Years Of General Mills, Linda Heidenreich

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In the late twentieth-century, General Mills, one of the largest producers of baking products in the U.S., changed the image of one of its marketing icons; that icon was Betty Crocker. For almost a century, the company had used the image to promote their baking products and cookbooks. The image, from its inception had been of a white woman, sometimes older, sometimes younger, but always WASPy white. In 1995 this image changed, and General Mills proposed a new Betty, a multi-cultural Betty, to appeal to an increasingly multi-cultural U.S. market (“General Mills Inc. to Create” E3; “General Mills …