cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International Choice of Law in Trademark Disputes From a Territorial Approach to a Global Approach
Creators: name: Treppoz, Edouard
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: It has been observed that international choice of law in trademark disputes reveals a tension between law and economics.1 From an economic perspective, marks can be exploited on a worldwide scale, and their value may be based on the global market. From a legal perspective, however, the rules are less than uniform. Law does not recognize one worldwide mark. Many trademarks are granted on a local basis, within local protective regimes that are independent of one another. Although the market has become global, the legal protection remains local. This tension has increased with the advent of the Internet. First, the universal access technology provides seems to reduce the relevance of a territorial approach and increase the need for a global economic approach. Second, the Internet has contributed to the creation of certain globally powerful companies. Those companies use, and benefit from, the universality of technology to make services available all over the world. From a technology-oriented point of view, the localized protection of trademark seems parochial. It is likely that the modern world requires a shift from local to international trademark protection.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
Multi-parameter approach to R-parity violating SUSY couplings
Creators: name: Sessolo, E. M.
name: Tahir, F.
name: McKay, D. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce and implement a new, extended approach to placing bounds on trilinear R-parity violating couplings. We focus on a limited set of leptonic and semi-leptonic processes involving neutrinos, combining multidimensional plotting and cross-checking constraints from different experiments. This allows us to explore new regions of parameter space and to relax a number of bounds given in the literature. We look for qualitatively different results compared to those obtained previously using the assumption that a single coupling dominates the R-parity violating contributions to a process (SCD). By combining results from several experiments, we identify regions in parameter space where two or more parameters approach their maximally allowed values. In the same vein, we show a circumstance where consistency between independent bounds on the same combinations of trilinear coupling parameters implies mass constraints among slepton or squark masses. Though our new bounds are in most cases weaker than the SCD bounds, the largest deviations we find on individual parameters are factors of two, thus indicating that a conservative, order of magnitude bound on an individual coupling is reliably estimated by making the SCD assumption.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Typos fixed, two references added and references updated. Eq. (41) removed, Eq. (40) and text modified. Published version
Additional file 1 of Associations between upper extremity functioning and kinematics in people with spinal cord injury
Creators: name: Lili, Lamprini
name: S Sunnerhagen, Katharina
name: Rekand, Tiina
name: Alt Murphy, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mean and standard deviation of the kinematic variables in all participants with SCI. Table S2. Spearman correlation coefficients calculated between kinematic variables and clinical assessments for the subgroup of cervical SCI. Table S3. The final models of multiple regression analysis for the subgroup of cervical SCI (n = 17). Table S4. Spearman correlation coefficients calculated between kinematic variables and clinical assessments for the subgroup of thoracic SCI (n = 8).
MPEC 2023-J173 : S/2019 S 18
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: S/2019 S 18

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Star-shaped cities alleviate trade-off between climate change mitigation and adaptation
Creators: name: Pierer, Carl
name: Creutzig, Felix
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft
subject: urban climate solutions
subject: urban economics
subject: climate change mitigation
subject: urban heat island
subject: transport system
subject: linear city

description: To deal with climate change, cities must reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and at the same time mitigate climate impacts associated with the physical infrastructure of the built environment. One strand of literature demonstrates that compact cities of sufficient density result in lower GHG emissions in the transport and the buildings sectors compared to sprawled cities. Another strand of literature, however, reveals that compactness hinders climate adaptation by amplifying the urban heat island (UHI) effect. As a result, mitigation and adaptation objectives of cities appear to contradict each other. Here, we develop a geometrical optimization framework and model of a three-dimensional city that minimizes this conflict. It makes use of the observation that low-carbon efficient transport can be realized via linear public transport axes, and that GHG emissions and UHI effects scale differently with varying geometric properties, thus enabling design that reflects both the economics and the climate of cities. We find that star-shaped cities, in contrast to radially symmetric cities, are well suited to alleviate the problematic trade-off. We also demonstrate that urban design considerations depend on transport fuel prices. The results are of particular importance for city planners of rapidly urbanizing cities in Asia and Africa who still have the potential to shape urban layout.
Magnetothermal cooling with a phase separated manganite
Creators: name: Rebello, A.
name: Mahendiran, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that temperature of a current (I = 20 mA) carrying manganite (Nd0.5Ca0.5Mn0.93Ni0.07O3) in presence of a magnetic field (H) decreases abruptly as much as deltaT = 45 K (7 K) accompanied by a step like decrease in magnetoresistance at a critical value of H when the base temperature is 40 K (100 K). The magnitude of deltaT and the position of magnetoresistance step decrease towards lower H with decreasing amplitude of the current. We discuss possible origins of the current and magnetic- field driven temperature change which may find applications in magnetothermal refrigeration besides magnetocaloric effect.
description: 16 pages, 4 figure
Additional file 1 of The role of physical activity on healthcare utilization in China
Creators: name: Lei, Xiao-Lin
name: Gao, Ke
name: Wang, Huan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Chen, Gen-Rui
name: Wen, Xing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: S1 Table. Basic information about the participants. Supplementary fig 1. Restricted cubic splines to flexibly model adjusted covariates (age, sex, BMI, the number of non-communicable diseases, marital status, education, residence, socioeconomic status, smoking status, drinking status) showed  the association between the time of TPA per week and risk of the number of outpatient visits in China 2015. IRR=incidence rate ratio. Supplementary fig 2. Restricted cubic splines to flexibly model adjusted covariates (age, sex, BMI, the number of non-communicable diseases, marital status, education, residence, socioeconomic status, smoking status, drinking status) showed the association between the time of TPA per week and the risk of outpatient service cost in China 2015. IRR=incidence rate ratio. Supplementary fig 3. Restricted cubic splines to flexibly model adjusted covariates (age, sex, BMI, the number of non-communicable diseases, marital status, education, residence, socioeconomic status, smoking status, drinking status) showed the association between the time of TPA per week and risk of  the cost of hospitalization in China 2015. IRR=incidence rate ratio. Supplementary fig 4. Sankey diagram to visualize total time of moderate-intensity physical activity per week. 2300 objects had full  physical activity records for three time slices: 2011, 2013, and 2015. Supplementary fig 5. The association between physical activity and number of outpatient visits. Supplementary fig 6.  The association between physical activity and outpatient service cost. Supplementary fig 7. The association between physical activity and cost of hospitalization.
Road transport infrastructure development program of the region: improvement of main areas
Creators: name: Britchenko, Igor
name: Mordovtsev, Oleksandr
name: Tripak, Marian
name: Levchenko, Yaroslava
name: Dmytriieva, Oksana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transportation, logistics and supply chains not elsewhere classified
Infrastructure engineering and asset management
Transport economics

description: As evidenced by the research results of Chapter 1, the practical component of financial relations in the conditions of recovery and post-war transformation processes, high variability of the environment requires the maximum involvement of every member of society in the functioning of the financial system and the accumulation of the financial potential of Ukraine. Road transport infrastructure is a powerful lever, therefore the search for ways to improve the main directions of its development program is a priority vector. Insufficient provision of the transport infrastructure with the resources necessary for its functioning leads to a decrease in the efficiency of its development, and the unbalanced development of modern types of transport in conditions of limited resources. The role of transport infrastructure in the system of socio-economic development of the region is determined. A detailed author's definition of the term "transport infrastructure of the region" is provided. Factors influencing the transport infrastructure of the region and the economic consequences of their implementation are systemized. The supporting subsystems of the motor transport infrastructure were studied, and on this basis the definition of the category "motor transport infrastructure" was given. A management system for the region's motor vehicle infrastructure has been developed. The stages of the formation of the program for increasing the efficiency of the development of motor transport infrastructure have been determined. Variations regarding the formation of the basic principles of the program for increasing the efficiency of the development of the motor transport infrastructure of the region re analyzed. Ways of improving directions for increasing the efficiency of managing the development of motor vehicle infrastructure at the state, regional and local levels are proposed and substantiated.
Additional file 1 of Corneal collagen cross-linking epithelium-on vs. epithelium-off: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: D’Oria, Francesco
name: Palazón, Antonio
name: Alio, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Quality evaluation and bias assessment of the included studies. a Quality evaluation and bias assessment of randomized controlled trials; b Quality evaluation and bias assessment of non-randomized studies of interventions.
Internet Service Provider Liability: Imposing a Higher Duty of Care
Creators: name: Larson, Wendy C.
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: Today’s Internet is exploding with creativity and innovation, and it has spurred new markets and industries in an unprecedented period of time. Such progress is inevitably accompanied by intellectual property rights violations, particularly as the law struggles to keep pace with the exponential growth in technology. Moreover, online actors are becoming increasingly skilled at hiding their identities to evade responsibility. The service providers that these actors employ to host their Web sites, auction their domain names, provide their advertising content, process their payments, promote their businesses—and even hide their identities—have limited exposure to liability for their customers’ actions. As a consequence, service providers have little incentive to cooperate with brand owners or to voluntarily identify trademark violations. In fact, such cooperation or voluntary participation may place service providers at a competitive disadvantage. Law and practice should be revised to create incentives for service providers to work with brand owners to effect the primary purpose of trademark law: preventing consumer confusion. This Article identifies the types of online services most often involved in trademark violations. It provides a brief review of the current statutory framework and the evolution of the common law concerning liability of online service providers. Borrowing from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and traditional tort concepts, this Article explores avenues for legislative change and the best practices to address the issues.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
Infinitely many shape invariant potentials and new orthogonal polynomials
Creators: name: Odake, Satoru
name: Sasaki, Ryu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Three sets of exactly solvable one-dimensional quantum mechanical potentials are presented. These are shape invariant potentials obtained by deforming the radial oscillator and the trigonometric/hyperbolic Pöschl-Teller potentials in terms of their degree \ell polynomial eigenfunctions. We present the entire eigenfunctions for these Hamiltonians (\ell=1,2,...) in terms of new orthogonal polynomials. Two recently reported shape invariant potentials of Quesne and Gómez-Ullate et al's are the first members of these infinitely many potentials.
description: 4 pages; published in Phys.Lett.B, two references and comments added, eqs.(34)(35)(45)(46) simplified
Understanding The Role of Ableism in Higher Education
Creators: name: LaRoche, Vanessa Lynn
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420318
subject: People with disability
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education
classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390305
subject: Professional education and training
classificationCode: 390307
subject: Teacher education and professional development of educators
classificationCode: 440706
subject: Health policy

description: Institutions of higher education within the United States have not had a reputation of inclusivity. The discrimination and oppression of people with disabilities is an important topic of conversation within these educational spaces, not only to change the way that society thinks of disability on a whole, but to incite discussions surrounding the best ways to support students with disabilities and their educational goals. This paper will provide a deconstruction of what ableism is, how it impacts mental health and wellness and how it shows up within institutions of higher education. This paper will also provide details on a training course for higher education faculty members that provides practical applications of the ethical ways of creating a supportive learning environment for students with disabilities. This paper will explore how critical disability theory, the social model and some aspects of the medical model can be utilized to provide faculty and staff with the competency to understand and interact with students with disabilities in ways that not only support their learning but contribute to positive social change and the deconstruction of ableist actions.
Additional file 2 of Corneal collagen cross-linking epithelium-on vs. epithelium-off: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: D’Oria, Francesco
name: Palazón, Antonio
name: Alio, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Search terms used in the MEDLINE/PubMed database and the EMBASE database.
Leveraging Notice and Takedown to Address Trademark Infringement Online
Creators: name: Rubin, Thomas C.
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: As my background demonstrates, I understand the importance of effective enforcement for brands, and the challenges brands face in getting the job done. For that reason, I believe that we should carefully consider all reasonable proposals that would protect against consumer harm and enable trademark owners to more effectively protect their brands from commercial threats. But before turning to legislative solutions that disrupt the current legal regime, I think we must consider two big picture questions: (1) What have been the results of the current regime? Are platforms being rewarded for good behavior and held liable for bad? Are there greater opportunities for effective enforcement under current law, or is the system inherently broken? (2) What are the likely results of a change? How would a higher duty of care impact the vitality of the Internet? What is the likely impact on the integrity of the intellectual property system? What will the economic impact be? Reviewing the answers to these questions will help us to evaluate the potential pros and cons of a change to the current legal standard.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
Born-Infeld black holes coupled to a massive scalar field
Creators: name: Stefanov, Ivan Zh.
name: Georgieva, Daniela A.
name: Yazadjiev, Stoytcho S.
name: Todorov, Michail D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Born-Infeld black holes in the Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity, in the case of massless scalar field, have been recently obtained. The aim of the current paper is to study the effect from the inclusion of a potential for the scalar field in the theory, through a combination of analytical techniques and numerical methods. The black holes coupled to a massive scalar field have richer causal structure in comparison to the massless scalar field case. In the latter case, the black holes may have a second, inner horizon. The presence of potential for the scalar field allows the existence of extremal black holes for certain values of the mass of the scalar field and the magnetic (electric) charge of the black hole. The linear stability against spherically symmetric perturbations is studied. Arguments in favor of the general stability of the solutions coming from the application of the "turning point" method are also presented.
description: 26 pages, 16 figures
Reading the Tea Leaves in Singapore: Who Will Be Left Holding the Bag for Secondary Trademark Infringement on the Internet?
Creators: name: Calboli, Irene
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: This Article explores the issue of secondary liability in Singapore trademark law, with particular attention to intermediaries on the Internet, including Internet service providers (ISPs), e-commerce companies, search engines, website operators, online financial service providers and social media sites.1 Section 27(5) of the Singapore Trade Marks Act attributes liability to those who use a mark “knowing or having reasons to believe” that such use is not authorized by the trademark owner or licensee.2 More precisely, the provision excludes trademark liability for those “persons” who use a trademark in the course of trade, namely “for labelling or packaging goods” or as “a sign” on commercial documents or in advertising, provided that they “do[] not know nor ha[ve] reason to believe” that the owner of the mark or his licensee has not consented to such use.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
MPEC 2023-J174 : S/2019 S 19
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: S/2019 S 19

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
ARGO-YBJ constraints on very high energy emission from GRBs
Creators: name: YBJ Collaboration
name: Aielli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ARGO-YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) experiment is designed for very high energy $γ$-astronomy and cosmic ray researches. Due to the full coverage of a large area ($5600 m^2$) with resistive plate chambers at a very high altitude (4300 m a.s.l.), the ARGO-YBJ detector is used to search for transient phenomena, such as Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Because the ARGO-YBJ detector has a large field of view ($\sim$2 sr) and is operated with a high duty cycle ($>$90%), it is well suited for GRB surveying and can be operated in searches for high energy GRBs following alarms set by satellite-borne observations at lower energies. In this paper, the sensitivity of the ARGO-YBJ detector for GRB detection is estimated. Upper limits to fluence with 99% confidence level for 26 GRBs inside the field of view from June 2006 to January 2009 are set in the two energy ranges 10$-$100 GeV and 10 GeV$-$1 TeV.
description: accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Converging Standards of Protection from Secondary Liability for Trademark and Copyright Infringement Online
Creators: name: Peguera, Miguel
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: Secondary liability remains perhaps the only meaningful remedy for rights owners when it comes to the widespread copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet. It is often extremely difficult and costly to reach the direct infringers. Right holders thus seek, under various theories of indirect liability, to hold liable those who provide the means that enable the violations. While trademark and copyright doctrines of secondary liability stem from the same roots in common law, they have evolved separately. Courts have applied secondary liability differently depending on whether the infringement pertains to copyright or trademark, with secondary liability construed more narrowly in trademark than in copyright.3 In addition, the safe harbors enacted in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) grant Internet service providers liability limitations for monetary and injunctive relief. These safe harbors apply to certain types of intermediary activities—namely, mere conduit, caching, hosting and linking. While the DMCA’s safe harbors scheme has been successful in shielding intermediaries from liability (and thus allowing new services to flourish), the statute lacks clarity and coherence, which sometimes makes the outcomes difficult to predict. Moreover, the statute’s lack of clarity may lead to unintended consequences, particularly in connection with potential abuses of the “notice and takedown” procedure. On the other hand, activities that fail to qualify for safe harbors are analyzed under the ordinary rules of secondary liability, which continue to evolve in courts.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
Emissivity: A Program for Atomic Emissivity Calculations
Creators: name: Sochi, Taha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we report the release of a new program for calculating the emissivity of atomic transitions. The program, which can be obtained with its documentation from our website www.scienceware.net, passed various rigorous tests and was used by the author to generate theoretical data and analyze observational data. It is particularly useful for investigating atomic transition lines in astronomical context as the program is capable of generating a huge amount of theoretical data and comparing it to observational list of lines. A number of atomic transition algorithms and analytical techniques are implemented within the program and can be very useful in various situations. The program can be described as fast and efficient. Moreover, it requires modest computational resources.
description: 20 pages, 0 figures, 0 tables
Combating Trademark Infringement Online: Secondary Liability v. Partnering Facility
Creators: name: Lev-Aretz, Yafit
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: Although trademark infringement is not a recent phenomenon, it was not until the inception and explosive growth of the Internet marketplace that brand owners had to face new, titanic and virtually inexorable infringement challenges. Trademark infringement online takes place in various forms—from cybersquatting and typosquatting that capitalizes on the goodwill surrounding an existing trademark1 to the rampant sale of counterfeit goods in online stores and auction houses.2 Trademark holders filed 2884 cybersquatting cases in 2012, covering 5084 domain names, with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)— an increase of 4.5% more than cases filed in the previous year. 3 The sale of counterfeit goods online is constantly rising, and the value of those goods is expected to top $1.7 trillion by 2015.4 The lack of a physical sales venue, the anonymizing blanket offered to counterfeiters online, the increased international supply chains and the production of goods in countries with poor intellectual property protection, together with the low-cost communication and worldwide reach of the Internet, have made counterfeiting a thriving undertaking and put trademark owners’ businesses and reputations at risk.5
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 4 (2014)
To Bully or Not to Bully: Understanding the Role of Uncertainty in Trademark Enforcement Decisions
Creators: name: Kiser, Jessica M.
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: Companies like Starbucks and Chick-fil-A are routinely labeled trademark bullies. The term “trademark bully” is typically used to describe a large company that uses aggressive intimidation tactics and threats of prolonged trademark infringement litigation to stop small businesses and individuals from using their own trademarks where the stated claims of infringement are likely spurious or non-existent. Trademark bullying harms competition and chills the free speech interests of those seeking to use trademarks for criticism and parody as permitted by the fair use doctrine. This Article identifies two fundamental causes that interact to encourage the aggressive tactics used by trademark bullies. First, trademark law imposes a vague duty on trademark owners to “police” third party trademark use for potential infringement. This uncertain duty renders trademark owners unable to accurately predict the risk of harm that third parties pose to their trademarks. Secondly, inherent cognitive biases affecting evaluations of such risk lead to systematic judgment errors and overestimation of the risk involved, thereby encouraging aggressive trademark enforcement. This Article uses prospect theory, an empirical social science approach to understanding human decision making, to characterize the psychological phenomena, including loss aversion and overestimation of risk, that motivate trademark bullies. Prospect theory explains apparently irrational decision making by trademark bullies. Recently proposed solutions for trademark bullying mistakenly assume that the trademark bully conducts a rational cost-benefit analysis prior to acting. Better solutions require an understanding of the actual psychological processes that underlie these aggressive tactics.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 2 (2014)
Constitutional Obstacles? Reconsidering Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
Creators: name: Subotnik, Eva E.
name: Basek, June M.
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: This Article examines the constitutional implications of legislation to bring pre-1972 sound recordings under federal copyright protection (referred to hereafter as “federalizing legislation”). In particular, we consider whether such an amendment could violate due process or constitute a taking pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. Using the Copyright Office’s approach as a springboard, we consider the issues that would likely arise under any federalizing legislation. These issues, however, have implications far beyond the context of federalizing legislation for pre-1972 sound recordings. Given the proliferation of assets subject to intellectual property laws and the increasing role those assets play in the U.S. economy, the questions addressed in this Article may bear on Congress’ overall ability to amend those laws.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 3 (2014)
Preventive anti-crisis management of road enterprises in conditions of sustainable development
Creators: name: Britchenko, Igor
name: Dohadailo, Yana
name: Levchenko, Yaroslava
name: Shevchenko, Inna
name: Nesterenko, Valentyna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transportation, logistics and supply chains not elsewhere classified
Information security management
Transport economics

description: Chapter 3 of this monograph discussed sustainable development and its management mechanisms. In continuation of the development of the direction of sustainable development, this chapter will discuss the justification of its indicators. Clarifying the results of the research of existing approaches to considering the features of the modern world showed that as a key tool of anti-crisis management, it is still advisable to use continuous CVP analysis. Therefore, the basis for the formation of indicators of preventive anti-crisis management of enterprises of Ukraine in conditions of sustainable development in the VUCA-, DEST-, BANI-, RUPT-, TUNA-world are the indicators calculated during the implementation of operational analysis. The work improved the methodical approach to the development of a system of indicators of preventive anti-crisis management of the enterprise based on the implementation of a set of actions, which ensures a justified choice of indicators of effective management of the enterprise due to the comprehensive consideration of the results of the study of the quantitative and qualitative composition of the CVP analysis indicators; the specifics of the industry in which the enterprise operates and the distribution of responsibility for each selected indicator. Approbation of the methodical approach for road enterprises of Ukraine allowed, firstly, to improve the list of indicators of operational analysis, which allows not only to fulfill all the main tasks of CVP analysis, but also new ones that arise in the conditions of sustainable development of society, and secondly, to substantiate the list of indicators preventive anti-crisis management of modern road enterprises, which corresponds to the principles and essence of controlling. The presented research results can be useful to specialists who are interested in effective en
What do we talk about when we talk about genre film? : a case for the cinephilm as subgenre
Creators: name: Hanstke, Tamar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: What do we talk about when we talk about cinephilia? Until recently, we did not talk about it much at all in academic film studies: there is a longstanding bias against cinephilia in academia, and this has led to a noticeable gap in our literature. In this thesis, I seek to fill a niche within this gap by analyzing the representation of cinephiles in six primary film texts: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (2015); Todd Strauss-Schulson’s "The Final Girls" (2015); Wes Craven’s "Scream" (1996); Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Dogtooth" (2009); Chandlwrighter Levack’s "I Like Movies" (2022); and Bernardo Bertolucci’s "The Dreamers" (2003). I analyze these films through the lenses of genre film theory, spectatorship theory, and developmental psychology, ultimately arguing for the cinephilic film as an emerging subgenre in cinema: the cinephilm. In arguing for the validity of the cinephilm as a distinctive subgenre, I draw on such genre film theorists as Robert Altman, David Bordwell, John G. Cawelti, Carol Clover, Barry Keith Grant, and Linda Williams to sketch a history of the genre film, and then identify how the cinephilm both draws on this tradition and disrupts it. In particular, I examine how the cinephilm productively interacts with such established genres as the teen film, the horror film, and the arthouse film, while failing to reaffirm dominant ideology in the way that is so characteristic of the genre film. The cinephilm’s resistance to dominant ideology creates an interesting contradiction in terms of representation: all of the cinephile characters examined in this thesis are white and heterosexual, and the majority are male, an apparently clear case of a group of films that do not prioritize racial, sexual, and/or gender diversity. I thereby draw upon alternative modes of spectatorship proposed by Carol Clover, bell hooks, and José Esteban Muñoz, as well as Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, to conceive of these films as diverse in an alternative way, presenting psychologically complex characters who provide a uniquely cinephile-addressed mode of representation. Possessing both generic conventions and an audience, the cinephilm is ultimately justified as an emerging subgenre.
A Novel Chaos-Based Cryptographic Scrambling Technique to Secure Medical Images
Creators: name: Sanaboina, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: These days, a tremendous quantity of digital visual data is sent over many networks and stored in many different formats. This visual information is usually very confidential and financially rewarding. Maintaining safe transmission of data is crucial, as is the use of approaches to offer security features like privacy, integrity, or authentication that are tailored to certain types of data. Protecting sensitive medical images stored in electronic health records is the focus of this article, which proposes a technique of encryption and decryption. In order to safe-guard image-based programs, encryption methods are applied. Privacy, integrity, and authenticity are only few of the security elements investigated by the proposed system, which encrypts medical pictures using chaos maps. In all stages of the protocol, the suggested chaos-based data scrambling method is employed to mitigate the short-comings of traditional confusion and diffusion designs. Bifurcation charts, Lyapunov exponents, tests for mean squared error and peak-to-average signal-to-noise ratio, and histogram analysis are only some of the tools we use to investigate the suggested system's chaotic behavior.
description: 9 Pages Research article
Isolation, structural elucidation, and antimicrobial evaluation of the metabolites from a marine-derived fungus Penicillium sp. ZZ1283
Creators: name: Kaleem, Sidra
name: Ge, Hengju
name: Yi, Wenwen
name: Zhang, Zhizhen
name: Wu, Bin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: A crude extract prepared from a culture of marine-sourced fungus Penicillum ZZ1283 in the medium of potato dextrose broth was found to have antimicrobial activities. Chemical investigation on this active extract resulted in the isolation of eighteen metabolites, including purpuride D, a new analogue of drimane-type sesquiterpene lactones conjugated with N-acetyl-L-valine. Structure of the new purpuride D was determined based on its HRESIMS data, NMR spectroscopic analyses, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and ECD calculation. Purpuride D showed activities in inhibiting the growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Candida albicans with MIC values of 4, 3 and 8 μg/mL, respectively.
Atomistic modeling of the electrostatic and transport properties of a simplified nanoscale field effect transistor
Creators: name: Zhao, Li-Na
name: Wang, Xue-Feng
name: Yao, Zhen-Hua
name: Hou, Zhu-Feng
name: Yee, Marcus
name: Zhou, Xing
name: Lin, Shi-Huan
name: Lee, Teck-Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first-principle model is proposed to study the electrostatic properties of a double-gated silicon slab of nano scale in the framework of density functional theory. The applied gate voltage is approximated as a variation of the electrostatic potential on the boundary of the supercell enclosing the system. With the electron density estimated by the real space Green's functions, efficient multigrid and fast Fourier Poisson solvers are employed to calculate the electrostatic potential from the charge density. In the representation of localized SIESTA linear combination of atomic orbitals, the Kohn-Sham equation is established and solved self-consistently for the wavefunction of the system in the local density approximation. The transmission for ballistic transport across the atomic silicon slab at small bias is calculated. The charge distribution and electrostatic potential profile in the silicon slab versus the gate voltage are then analyzed with the help of the equivalent capacitive model. Quantum confinement and short gate effects are observed and discussed.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
In-hospital trends of non-communicable disease mortality during the pandemic for patients without COVID-19 at a regional referral hospital in southwestern Uganda
Creators: name: Nuwagira, Edwin
name: Atimango, Lorna
name: Olds, Peter K.
name: Okii, Ronald Awani
name: Obwoya, Paul S.
name: Haberer, Jessica E.
name: Ssempiira, Julius
name: Okello, Samson
name: Kansiime, Grace
name: Musinguzi, Nicholas
name: Tumwekwatse, Lenus
name: Mujuni, Daniel
name: Ninsiima, Racheal
name: Mwesigwa, Shadia
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2025

description:
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a growing health burden in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for the Ugandan healthcare system, though changes in hospital admissions and outcomes for adults with NCDs and without COVID-19 infection remain unknown. We evaluated trends of NCD-related in-hospital mortality among patients without COVID-19 in a large regional referral hospital in Uganda from March 2019 through August 2021. Methods Between March 1, 2019, and August 31, 2021, we conducted a chart review of Ugandan adults who carried a history of or were admitted for an NCD to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Based on mortality trends, we broke admissions into three periods: Pre-Pandemic (March 1, 2019, to May 31, 2020), Early Pandemic (June 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021), and Late Pandemic (April 1, 2021, to August 31, 2021), and calculated admission and mortality rates for the most common NCD diagnoses. A multivariable logistic regression model was fitted for a primary outcome of in-hospital mortality. Results Of 3777 total individuals, 1655 were admitted Pre-Pandemic, 1423 in the Early Pandemic, and 699 in the Late Pandemic. We found a five-fold increase in mortality in the Early Pandemic period compared to the Pre-Pandemic and Late Pandemic periods (15.4 vs 2.9 vs 2.4, p < 0.001). Factors associated with increased odds for in-hospital mortality included admission during the Early Pandemic period (odds ratio [OR] 5.59; 95% CI 3.90, 8.02; p < 0.001), admission with hypotension (OR 2.13; 95% CI 1.40, 3.24; p < 0.001), admission diagnosis of malignancy (OR 1.79; 95% CI 1.06, 3.01; p = 0.028) and stroke (OR 1.75; 95% CI 1.06, 2.88; p = 0.028), and each unit increase in SOFA score (OR 1.41; 95% CI 1.30, 1.52; p < 0.001). Length of stay greater than 7 days was associated with decreased odds of in-hospital mortality (OR 0.56; 95%CI 0.40, 0.79; p = 0.001). Conclusions NCD-associated in-hospital mortality was high in the early COVID-19 pandemic period. Disruptions in longitudinal NCD care that occurred due to the pandemic may have been contributory, though this requires further investigation. Future work should focus on NCD care for hospitalized individuals in resource limited settings and developing more resilient systems of NCD care.
Moral intuition and international order : on change, progress, and threat
Creators: name: Klein, Lilit Anna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: The sheer variation in conceptualizations of international order by international relations scholars and practitioners leads to vastly different interpretations of the nature of that order and, from that, the extent to which the international order is under threat. Traditionally, this has been attributed to dissimilar emphasis of empirical developments, theoretical commitments, ideological, organizational, national, and cultural influences. To date, intuition has largely been undervalued as a contributing source to analyses of the international realm. This dissertation investigates the role of moral intuition in shaping scholars’ and practitioners’ conceptualizations of international order to show that the six core moral intuitions identified by moral foundations theory have notable impact on experts’ arguments about the international arena. Drawing on findings from fifty-two interviews of international relations experts, supplemented with archival research, I argue that moral foundations impact scholars’ and practitioners’ conceptualizations of international order, including via their tolerance of change, view of progress, and threat perception. I also posit that they shape, at least to some extent, which theories of international relations scholars adopt and the policies practitioners select into. I present evidence that moral foundations sufficiently overlap with variation in conceptualizations of international order. I complement my interview project with a historical case study of three American statesmen to show how moral intuition can be argued as one of the drivers of their foreign policy preferences during a significant moment of change in the international order at the end of the Cold War. Alongside, in the case study, I take first steps towards establishing that moral intuitions might matter for being selected, or self-selecting, into specific professions and/or administrations. By mapping moral intuition onto conceptualizations of international order, this dissertation contributes to the growing body of international relations psychology literature emphasizing intuition as an important force in the field. This project lays the groundwork for future research to test the impact of intuition against alternative sources of conceptualizations of international order. I also find that experts’ theorizing and decision-making, like laymen’s, is impacted by their moral intuitions, further contributing to scholarship that highlights intuition as an equally important cognition as rational reasoning.
title: 2012 Social Media Survey
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Larcker, Sarah M.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2012

description: New research finds a serious gap between executives’ knowledge about social media and its use at their companies. Less than a third of companies today use social media to support their corporate strategy and risk management practices, according to new research conducted by Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford GSB, and The Conference Board. In the report titled “What Do Corporate Directors and Senior Managers Know about Social Media?” the authors detail the results of a survey of more than 180 senior executives and corporate directors of North American public and private companies. The findings reveal a disconnect between companies’ understanding of social media and the actions they are taking to apply it to their business. The report appears in the latest Directors Notesopen in new window published by The Conference Board.
Successes and Failures of Self-Regulatory Regimes Governing Museum Holdings of Nazi-Looted Art and Looted Antiquities
Creators: name: Thompson, Erin
Publisher: name: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
Year: 2014

description: American museums have long recognized that their collections sometimes include two categories of artwork whose prior owners parted with the pieces unwillingly: Nazi-looted art and illicitly exported archaeological objects. The relevant industry associations—the American Alliance of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors—have promulgated self-regulatory regimes that purport to ensure that museums return any objects to their rightful owners when they do not hold good title. However, the success of these regimes has varied widely based on whether the artwork is an archaeological antiquity or a Nazi-looted piece. This Article identifies the ways in which the regimes and the contexts in which they were created diverge. It argues that museums dealing with looted antiquities require outside scrutiny and internal convergence of opinion, elements present in the effective self-regulatory regime surrounding Nazi-looted art. These factors would assure the compliance that is lacking in antiquities regimes, which have little outside scrutiny and are fraught with extreme differences in opinion within the museum community as to how to solve the problem, or whether there is a problem at all.
description: The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 37 No. 3 (2014)