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First Record Of The White-Flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula Axillaris) In Mexico, Manuel Marin

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Nota Sobre La Dieta De Fulica Leucoptera En El Valle Aluvial Del Rio Parana Medio, Argentina, Eduardo D. Mosso, Adolfo H. Beltzer

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Presencia De Staphyloccocus Aureus En Algunas Especies De Patos (Aves: Anatidae) En El Parana Medio, Argentina, Gabriel Marteleu, Juan C. Rozzatti, Adolfo H. Beltzer

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Apparent Site Fidelity By An Immature Northern Waterthrush Seiurus Noveboracensis In The Virgin Islands, Robert L. Norton

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

New Distributional Records For Ecuadorian Birds, Manuel Marin A., Juan Manuel Carrion B., Fred C. Sibley

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

The Thick-Billed Vireo, Vireo Crassirostris (Aves: Vireonidae), A New Addition To The Cuban Avifauna, Arturo Kirkconnell, Orlando H. Garrido

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Notes On Reproduction Of The Southern Lapwing In Colombia, Luis G. Naranjo

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Additional Record Of The Black-Throated Green Warbler In Puerto Rico, With Some Observations On Foraging Behavior, Bryan Arroyo-Vazquez

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

An Annual Cycle Of Pelagic Birds In The Gulf Of Panama, Horace Loftin

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Nest, Eggs, And Young Of The Blackish Rail, Luis O. Naranjo

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Tropical Bird Species Numbers In Second-Growth Vs Primary Forest Habitats At Large Scales, David A. Wiedenfeld

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Nest And Eggs Of Some Ecuadorian Birds, Manuel Marin A., Manuel Carrion B.

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

The Great Potoo (Nyctibius Grandis) As A Probable Resident In Southern Mexico, J.L. Rangel-Salazar, R. Tercero, P. L. Enriquez

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Predation On Nestling Bare-Throated Tiger-Herons By A Great Black-Hawk, Susan E. Lewis, Robert M. Timm

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Peso Y Biometria De Algunas Aves Del Chaco Humedo (Presidente Hayes, Paraguay), Salvador J. Peris

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Ornitología Neotropical

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Fintech Lending In India: Taking Stock Of Implications For Privacy And Autonomy, Vidushi Marda, Amber Sinha

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

In the last five years, the Fintech sector has thrived in India, with Machine Learning (ML) driven credit scoring based on alternative data, emerging as a growing segment. The credit scoring industry in India needs to be viewed in light of a careful examination of rights, inclusion, appropriate safeguards and discrimination, currently missing from the discourse and practices. In this paper, we explain how ML-based credit scoring works, and the regulatory and commercial factors that have enabled and impeded its growth in India. Through legal and technological analysis, richened by insights from qualitative interviews with entrepreneurs and practitioners, we provide …

Bringing Shadow Libraries Out Of Legal Shadows: An Opportunity For The Delhi High Court, Rahul Bajaj, Anchal Bhateja

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

At the heart of the copyright bargain is the need to strike a balance between fostering creativity, by incentivizing producers of intellectual property and promoting the interests of the public at large. These two are often in tension with each other. Some cases bring this tension into sharp focus. The ongoing litigation in the Delhi high Court, on the legality of shadow libraries - Libgen and Sci Hub - is one such case. The case has seminal importance for ensuring that the right to education is duly respected and fulfilled.

In this paper, we argue that this litigation offers the …

Do Judges Understand Technology? How Attorneys And Advocates View Judicial Responsibility In Cyberstalking And Cyberharassment Cases, Kateryna Kaplun

International Journal on Responsibility

As new technologies emerge and are increasingly used to commit interpersonal cybercrimes like cyberstalking and cyberharassment, the legal system lags in assisting victims in obtaining justice in these types of experiences. This qualitative research study explores how attorney and advocate interviewees from Illinois, New Jersey, and New York view judges’ responsibility to the law in cyberstalking and cyberharassment cases. This study finds three themes: judges’ lack of understanding of technology and its harms, discretion, and law on the books versus law in action as important factors and frameworks that contribute to why judges do not consider the importance of technology …

Artificial Intelligence Assisted Online Interactions, Harikrishna Mallisetty, Bhavikkumar Patel, Kolati Mallikarjuna Rao

Defensive Publications Series

Social media users benefit from a more personalized and interactive connection with public figures and others they engage with via social media. However, such engagement requires active effort from the public figure and can only occur when the celebrity is available for such sessions. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with specific user permission, to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model based on user data of an individual or entity. The trained model can represent the individual’s personality and engage in online interactions on behalf of the individual or entity with users of a social media platform, a messaging/chat service, audio …

Fusing Voice And Gesture Input To Improve Text Transcription Accuracy, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

While speech input, detected by on-device microphones, enables users to provide voice commands or other text at a higher speed than typing, the accuracy of transcription can suffer in certain environments, e.g., in the presence of background noise. Gesture input via a virtual keyboard is convenient but slower and also prone to errors, e.g., when a gesture resolves to multiple words. Per techniques of this disclosure, a user can provide spoken and gesture input at the same time to a user device. Each input is converted to text separately. The stereo text stream is time aligned using word-to-word distance to …

Privacy-Friendly Personalization Of Llm Responses Using Hashed Entity Injection, Keun Soo Yim

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques that enable a server-side large language model to provide personalized responses to user queries while protecting user personal data that is used in a request sent to the LLM from a user device. With user permission, entities from personal data stored locally on a user device are retrieved and hashed using a hash function at the local device. The hashed values are injected in a request sent to the LLM that is located in the cloud or other network location distinct from the local device. The LLM generates a response including one or more hashed values …

Universal App For Receiving Payment Notifications From Digital Payment Providers, Ankit Aggarwal

Defensive Publications Series

Merchants that receive digital payment notifications on a smartphone that is additionally used for other tasks may miss the incoming notification, may not have time to look at the notifications, or may not be able to verify payment receipt when the payment app is turned off or the smartphone loses connectivity. While dedicated speaker devices that provide audible notifications are available, these are proprietary, expensive, difficult to upgrade, and limited to a specific merchant account provider. This disclosure describes techniques that use a lightweight messaging protocol such as Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) to provide enhanced digital payment notifications. A …

Converting Analog Objects Into Speakers Using Intelligent Hrtf Aware Panning, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

While multiple smart devices may be present in a home environment and respond to spoken commands from a user, in current configurations, users can interact with only one smart device at a time. Based on detecting a spoken command from a user, a smart device that is close to the user’s current location within the home. generates and provides a response. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to provide a spoken command while facing or being near any object (an analog object or a non-smart device) in their surroundings, not necessarily a smart device, and to receive an …

“That’S Because Of The Trauma”: Repetition, Reflection And Refraction In Social Media In Louise O’Neill’S Asking For It (2015), Eugene O'Brien

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

This essay will look at different modes of trauma that are represented in Louise O’Neill’s novel Asking For It (2015). These modes of trauma will be looked at in terms of how the repeated visualization and production of an initial act of violence and rape across social media platforms actively transforms post-traumatic stress into a repeated and ongoing sense of traumatic stress which has profound implications for the sense of selfhood and identity of the protagonist of the novel Emma O’Donovan. Emma is not remembering a repressed experience; she is re-living it virtually in the present as the images are …

Trauma And Stigma In Aids Literature: Tony Kushner’S Angels In America (1995) And Colm Tóibín’S The Blackwater Lightship (1999), J. Javier Torres-Fernández

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

This paper explores the representation of trauma and stigma tied to HIV/AIDS in The Blackwater Lightship (1999) by Colm Tóibín and Angels in America (1995) by Tony Kushner. Both works arguably respond to the socio-political and biomedical crisis that affected queer identities and international politics. These experiences of health and illness highlight the silenced and marginalized voices of those infected with HIV during the 80s and 90s. HIV/AIDS-related stigma and shame marked the LGBTQ+ community under the illness as punishment metaphor for their sexuality. The role of politics and religion remains fundamental in the historical silence around this illness and …

Dealing With The Trauma Of Undiagnosed Dyslexia, Aisling Dolan

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

The theme of my Master’s by research is an investigation into the condition and effects of dyslexia on one’s personality, academic experience and professional growth. I wish to examine and acknowledge the effects dyslexia has on an individual’s ability to learn and grow in a “typical” twenty-first-century society. I intend also to highlight the emotional impact this disability can have on a person’s sense of self and how they develop through childhood. I hope to demonstrate the link dyslexia has in fostering a visual form of thinking and expression. I also hope to evaluate how one’s dyslexia reveals itself in …

Testimony In Support Of Sb 394/Ab 407 Advertising Without Agency Agreement Or Written Consent, Roger P. Alford

Congressional Testimony

Before the Wisconsin State Senate Committee on Government Operations

From the Conclusion:

In light of the established price fixing behavior of NAR and major real estate brokerage companies with respect to real estate commissions, it is essential to promote alternatives such as FSBO home sales that facilitate price competition. I encourage this Committee to weigh the arguments of both sides and vote in favor of the position that actually protects Wisconsin consumers. I encourage you to vote in favor of SB 394.

“The Road Less Travelled”: The Longevity Of Anti-Apartheid Activism In The Life Of Helen Joseph (1905-1992), Sadie Marchesseault

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Leading For What, Leading For Who? An International Comparative Analysis Of University Presidents’ Leadership Amid Covid-19, Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez, Jon Mcnaughtan, Sarah Maria Schiffecker, Hugo A. García

Journal of Research on the College President

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique shared challenge for all HEIs leaders around the world. Besides balancing institutional tasks and ensuring the health and safety of the campus community, university presidents were challenged with promoting equity and showing empathy in their leadership. Framed by Henry Mintzberg’s (1973) theory on managerial roles, this study uses in-depth interviews of 14 university presidents in eight countries, to understand how they enacted different roles in leading their institutions through a global crisis. Despite differences among presidential leadership styles in diverse contexts, findings from the study show that leadership roles shifted from securing their institution’s …