... with the foundation for our analysis of the case for patent-policy change: the theory and objectives of the U.S patent system The Utilitarian Purpose of the Patent System The Constitution of the ... tools and traits availdevelopment of biotechnology able to public-sector researchers for the benefit of small-scale and subsistence farmers for the use of small-scale and We assume that for the foreseeable ... with an understanding of the objectives and theoretical underpinnings of the U.S patent system because they both underlie the case for policy change and can help shape the analysis and choice of...
Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 22:07
... donor agencies and key informants British Medical Journal 2001, 323:139 51 UNFPA: Donor support for contraceptives and condoms for STI/HIV prevention New York 2001 52 UNFPA: Donor support for ... funding trends and reflect on the consequences of the shifts in these trends and what they actually mean for the people in need for HIV prevention We recommend that increasing funds for developing ... contributions AJTPP coordinated and conducted the study and drafted the manuscript MMS performed the tailor-made data-analysis of the UNFPA/NIDI project “Financial Resource Flows for Population and HIV activities”...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
TURN DOWN THE HEAT CLIMATE EXTREMES, REGIONAL IMPACTS, AND THE CASE FOR RESILIENCE.
... the Turn Down Heat Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience June 2013 A Report for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate ... Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience A report for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics Washington, DC:World Bank License: Creative ... felt on every continent and in every sector Species are being lost, lands are being inundated, and livelihoods are being threatened More droughts, more floods, more strong storms, and more forest...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23
Tài liệu The Case for Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) ppt
... implement the VLAN identity in the switches, the standard calls for the definition of a special kind of switch port called the “trunk port.” The administrator of the switch designates one or more ports ... VLAN information Now, if the workstation on port 16 wants to send information to the workstation on port 23 of the other switch, the switches know the VLAN information, and the data is properly delivered ... switch ports to the two departments In the switch configuration, the administrator configures ports 1-12 for the accounting department and ports 13-24 for the engineering department The configuration...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Antitrust - The Case For Repeal pptx
... and janet Steiger (FTC) both made it clear that they favored a wider and more vigorous enforcement effort than did their Reagan administration predecessors Investigations and enforcement efforts ... reforms will not be sufficient and that the case against antitrust regulation is strong enough to justify the complete repeal of all the laws 'The Case for Repeal The case for the repeal of the ... responsible for the modest antitrust reforms that we have seen to date The majority of important antitrust vii Antitrust: The Case for Repeal critics not support the repeal of antitrust laws; in their...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Marketing Experience Goods on the Internet: The Case for ‘Strong’ Word of Mouth ppt
... as another major motivator for writing reviews as well as the author’s need for selfenhancement in the form of developing a sense of connoisseurship and expertise in the eyes of others Other less ... web platforms provide a forum for reading and writing reviews, Chiang & Dholakia (2003) argue that there are other important reasons for selecting products, such as the convenience, price and product ... outliers The summaries of vendors in the Store Report Cards are mostly for the post-fulfilment stage of the transaction This may mean that the post-fulfilment stage is the most important stage for...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Unsupervized Word Segmentation: the case for Mandarin Chinese" doc
... of the same length Writing ˜ ˜ δh→ (x) and δh← (x) The normalized VBEs for the string x, or nVBEs, are then defined as follow (we ˜ only defined δh← (x) for clarity reasons): for each length k and ... numbers, and therefore “knows” whether to expect such characters or not In setting they add the knowledge of punctuation as clear boundaries and in setting they preprocess Arabic and Latin and obtain ... However, they optimize their parameter for each setting We therefore consider that their system does take into account the level of processing which is performed on Latin characters and Arabic...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20
The Case for Mindless Economics† docx
... in the demand for a good For psychologists, the craving for drugs by seeing drug-dealers in the neighborhood is similar to the craving for cigarettes caused by drinking coffee On the other hand, ... literally.9 The formula encapsulates the behavioral assumptions of the theory in a user-friendly way and thereby facilitates applications of the theory to (more complicated) economic problems The theory ... goods just like forks and knives Forks not generate a craving for knives and therefore psychologists would not consider the fork/knife complementarity to be the same phenomenon as the hamburger/fries...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, HR Professionals and Coaches pot
... understanding and support for the habits of the author who is committed to writing (and exhibits the ebbs and flows of inspiration); and refreshments and diversions when the author left his inner world ... accounts and this caused problems for Mark and for senior management I knew already that Janice did not consistently inform the board about new and significant contracts in the pipeline The directors ... coachees They bombard them, hoping to find a weakness of either perception or thinking that they may attack and cure The performances are breathtaking for all concerned! The transformation of trainee...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
Review of the Need for a Large- scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Extreme Winds on Structures pptx
... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate ... Review of the Need for a Largescale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Extreme Winds on Structures Committee to Review the Need for a Large- scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects ... dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20
Globalizing Solidarity: The Case for Financial Levies potx
... support for innovative financing for a focus on achieving results, developing the information and audit trails and performance monitoring Limiting the fund to a clear mandate for receiving and ... corporate entities and other non-bank financial institutions Therefore, the scope of the CLS bank network is broad and the scope of its foreign exchange settlement service extends as well to the ... recouping the cost of support for the financial sector and reducing the probability of future crises, the Fund’s Interim Report suggested the need for two mechanisms, alongside better regulation and...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20
Anything That’s Peaceful - The Case for the Free Market docx
... equal before the law, as before God The life and the livelihood of a minority of one enjoys the same respect as the lives and livelihoods of majorities, for such rights are, as set forth in the Declaration ... sector And they also discovered that if they incurred any deficits by their interventions, the same police force could be used to collect the wherewithal to pay the bills The very same force ... exchange for votes; they sell their souls for political power and become the darlings of the very people on whom their wiles are practiced Business and professional men and women, farmers and workers,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Preparing the Army for Stability Operations - Doctrinal and Interagency Issues docx
... Planning Framework for Reconstruction, Stabilization, and Conflict Transformation, version 1.0, issued by the U.S Joint Forces Command J-7 and the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, ... operations, the issues and problems encountered, and the implications of the overall process for the Army The research and analysis for this project began in the fall of 2005 and ended in the fall ... Department of the Army, G-3/5/7, for monitoring the progress of the study Many people in the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Joint Forces Command, and the Department of the Army...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
Can DREs Provide Long-Lasting Security? The Case of Return-Oriented Programming and the AVC Advantage docx
... candidate to another We have tested that this exploit works on the actual hardware; but in developing our exploit we used a simulator for the machine See Sections and for more on the exploit and ... operator input The op- erator selects the Setup Diagnostics choice and the corresponding Setup Diagnostics program is run This performs various software and hardware tests before transitioning to the ... obviates the need to save and restore state in the interrupt handler See [28] for more details Due to the limited ROM space for code and data, compiler-generated functions which take arguments or have...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Less Than Zero -The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (Hobart Papers) docx
... rate had both they and creditors been equipped with perfect foresight 34 Therefore the debtors' only possible cause for regretting the (unexpected) drop in prices is their missed opportunity to ... wage-rate, and N stands for man-hours of employment The nominal demand for labour (LD) is assumed (for simplicity's sake) to reflect the state of aggregate demand, while long- and short-run labour ... the short run, however, workers may engage in some 'intertemporal substitution' of labour for leisure or vice-versa, for example, by working less today with the intention of working more tomorrow...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20
The Case for Determinism in Database Systems doc
... allow users to adjust the isolation level of their transaction in order to improve performance This is because there is a straightforward optimization that can be performed for dependent reads that ... execution and replication scheme The prospect of a seamless, on -the- fly protocol for shifting between execution models presents an intriguing future avenue of research THE CASE FOR NONDETERMINISM Before ... before requesting it) and would complete its execution, moving ahead of T0 and T1 in the equivalent serial order Therefore, as long as the system requires equivalence only to some execution order,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20
The Case for Controlled-Atmosphere Killing of Poultry in Transport Containers Prior to Shackling as a Humane Alternative to Electrical Stunning doc
... consequences for birds who are paralyzed but still alert after passing through the stun bath and for those who miss the “killing machine” altogether and fully recover by the time that they reach the “killer” ... uncrating and shackling of the birds and neck cutting would be performed more easily on the dead and hence relaxed carcasses.” III Advantages of the Controlled-Atmosphere Killing Model for Producers ... both these problems, and the resulting reduction in bruising would have important implications for the producer because it would “improve the yield and the value of products” (EIPPCB 2003) and...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20
the deacons for defense armed resistance and the civil rights movement
... self-reliance rather than dependence on the government for rights and freedom; they sought reform by force and coercion rather than by pacifism and moral suasion; and they repudiated the strategy ... men in the South frequently belonged to several fraternal orders and social clubs, such as the Prince Hall Masons and the Brotherhood for the Protection of Elks These formal and informal organizations ... muster with the black rank and file: the working class, the poor, and the youth.∞≥ There were good reasons for the suspicions exhibited by the rank and file Black leadership was more complex and divided...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:57
The case for Cultural Revelance: When the Times has really gone wrong
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 16:40
a world for us the case for phenomenalistic idealism dec 2008
... blank A World for Us The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism JOHN FOSTER 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers the ... presence or the relevant (displayed) aspects of its character (character and location) Rather, the item and, in their concretely realized form, these aspects are before S’s 18 A World for Us mind ... conditions, together with the relevant facts about the character of the subject’s mind and the form of its cerebral embodiment In other words, the causal process works in a standard serial way,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:33