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The Unrealized Promise of the Next Great Copyright Act provides a
unique perspective on one of the most active periods of copyright
policy discourse in the United States since the enactment of the
Copyright Act of 1976. Using the then-Register of Copyrights Maria
Pallante's landmark speech of 2013 The Next Great Copyright Act as
a catalyst, Christopher S. Reed documents and assesses the major
issues confronting the U.S. copyright system today. The book offers
an inside view of the Copyright Office's attempts at reform as part
of a comprehensive account of the complex dynamics between key
stakeholder communities, government and legislation. Chapters also
explore relevant areas of copyright such as orphan works and mass
digitization, online copyright enforcement, visual arts and music
licensing, and demonstrate that despite previous difficulties the
time is now ripe for an update to U.S. copyright law. This
insightful book will be of great value to scholars and legal
practitioners with a focus on copyright law and policy, and will
also prove a useful resource for instructors teaching copyright
policy at an advanced level. Others with an interest in
intellectual property, technology and connected culture, or
politics and government will also find this book an engaging read.
In this, the first volume in a new Japanese General Election
Series, an impressive roll call of contributors explores the 2012
Lower House poll, an election that was characterized by the return
to power of the longtime dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),
the growth in popularity of smaller 'outsider' parties as well as
the concomitant demise of Japan's first 'opposition' (Democratic
Party of Japan) government. The volume boasts high-quality,
original analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States,
Canada, Australia, and Europe. With chapters focusing on a variety
of facets of the election, including the major political parties,
important policy issues, and campaign practices, the volume
provides a comprehensive analysis. It is vital reading for anyone
interested in Japanese politics, as well as elections in general.
Blends scholarly expertise with media law practice, enabling
students to develop practical skills Includes pedagogical features
such as interviews with media practitioners, policy pointers, and
an integrated fictional case study of a television media business.
Provides expert coverage suitable for media law practitioners as
part of professional development
The subject of error-control coding bridges several disciplines, in
particular mathematics, electrical engineering and computer
science. The theory of error-control codes is often described
abstractly in mathematical terms only, for the benefit of other
coding specialists. Such a theoretical approach to coding makes it
difficult for engineers to understand the underlying concepts of
error correction, the design of digital error-control systems, and
the quantitative behavior of such systems. In this book only a
minimal amount of mathematics is introduced in order to describe
the many, sometimes mathematical, aspects of error-control coding.
The concepts of error correction and detection are in many cases
sufficiently straightforward to avoid highly theoretical algebraic
constructions. The reader will find that the primary emphasis of
the book is on practical matters, not on theoretical problems. In
fact, much of the material covered is summarized by examples of
real developments, and almost all of the error-correction and
detection codes introduced are attached to related practical
applications. Error-Control Coding for Data Networks takes a
structured approach to channel-coding, starting with the basic
coding concepts and working gradually towards the most
sophisticated coding systems. The most popular applications are
described throughout the book. These applications include the
channel-coding techniques used in mobile communication systems,
such as: the global system for mobile communications (GSM) and the
code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system, coding schemes for
High-Definition TeleVision (HDTV) system, the Compact Disk (CD),
and Digital Video Disk (DVD), as well as theerror-control protocols
for the data-link layers of networks, and much more. The book is
compiled carefully to bring engineers, coding specialists, and
students up to date in the important modern coding technologies.
Both electrical engineering students and communication engineers
will benefit from the information in this largely self-contained
text on error-control system engineering.
Blends scholarly expertise with media law practice, enabling
students to develop practical skills Includes pedagogical features
such as interviews with media practitioners, policy pointers, and
an integrated fictional case study of a television media business.
Provides expert coverage suitable for media law practitioners as
part of professional development
In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened
considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an
increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst
work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that
was previously weak, missing, or functionally inoperative. This
view, which may apply to all patients, but is especially relevant
to the treatment of non-neurotic patients and states of mind,
stands in stark contrast to the more traditional assumption that
the therapeutic task involves the uncovering of the unconscious
dimension of a present pathological compromise formation that holds
a potentially healthy ego in thrall. The contrast which this book
calls attention to is that which exists roughly between
formulations of psychic structure and functioning that were once
assumed to have been sufficiently well explained by the hypotheses
of Freud's topographic theory and those that were not. The former
are modeled on neurosis and dream interpretation, where conflicts
between relatively well-defined (saturated) and psychically
represented desires were assumed to operate under the aegis of the
pleasure-unpleasure principle.
It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly
affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers.
Yet, despite this, psychologists have only begun to study and think
about the deep connections between values and knowledge. This
volume explores this important area in psychology by offering an
overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation
in the acquisition of knowledge, and also by examining a range of
new ideas for understanding the intricate connection between
evaluation and thinking. More specifically, the text: provides a
historical overview of philosophical and psychological theories
relating the values and knowledge; reviews the importance of values
for infants and their caretakers in the origins of both cognition
and social relations; offers a provocative view of how the
differences among families in their values may have profound
affects on psychological development; explicates the development of
a personal sphere within which one strives to shape one's own
values; emphasizes the heterogeneity of valuation inherent in every
culture and how conflicts of values are likely to be common and
important to human development; presents eye-opening research on
social-cognitive limitations of average people in respecting the
points of view of others; and summarizes and critiques Piaget's
theory of the role of values in development. For practitioners in
the fields of developmental and social psychology, and education,
this volume will introduce a number of important and current
issues, from multiculturality and gender to the differential roles
of temperament and upbringing in development. The emphasis is
placed squarely on developing individuals and how they shape
themselves in a world that is structured by values as well as by
facts.
Although much is known about the processes and effects of land
degradation and climate change, little is understood about the
links between them. Less still is known about how these processes
are likely to interact in different social-ecological systems
around the world, or how societies might be able to adapt to this
twin challenge. This book identifies key vulnerabilities to the
combined effects of climate change and land degradation around the
world. It identifies triple-win adaptations that can tackle both
climate change and land degradation, whilst supporting biodiversity
and ecosystem services. The book discusses methods for monitoring
effects of climate change and land degradation, and adaptations to
these processes. It argues for better co-operation and knowledge
exchange, so that the research, land user and policy communities
can work together more effectively to tackle these challenges,
harnessing the "wisdom of crowds" to assess vulnerability and adapt
to climate change and land degradation, whilst protecting
livelihoods and biodiversity.
Over the past 50 years, the federal government's efforts to reform
American public education have transformed U.S. schools from
locally-run enterprises to complex systems in which federal, state
and local actors jointly construct the educational environment of
U.S. children. Through struggles over school integration, the
growth of special education, the teaching of English learners and
the rise of accountability politics, the federal role in U.S.
education has meant a profound reconstruction of local
expectations, roles and political alignments. Seeking to construct
the federal schoolhouse - an educational system in which there are
common national expectations and practices - has meant the creation
of new modes of education within local institutions. The creation
of this "education state " has also meant that federal educational
initiatives have collided with - or reinforced - local political
regimes in cities and suburbs alike. To the extent that "all
politics is local, " the federal role in public schools has changed
both the conduct and the norms of local educational politics.
Building the Federal Schoolhouse examines how increasing federal
authority over public education in the U.S. changes the practices
of 'operational localism' in education and how local regime
commitments implement, thwart, or even block federal policy
initiatives. The book examines these issues through an in-depth,
fifty year examination of federal educational policies at work
within one community, Alexandria, Virginia. The home of T.C.
Williams High School, memorialized in the Hollywood movie Remember
the Titans, Alexandria has been transformed within two generations
from a Jim Crow school system to a new immigrant gateway school
district with over 20 percent of its students English learners.
Along the way, the school system has struggled to provide quality
education for special needs students, sought to overcome the
legacies of tracking and segregated learning and simultaneously
retain upper-middle class students in this wealthy suburb of
Washington, DC. Most recently, it has grappled with state and
federally imposed accountability measures that seek to boost
educational outcomes. All of these policy initiatives have
contended with the existing political regime within Alexandria, at
times forcing the local regime to a breaking point, and at times
bolstering its reconstruction. At the same time, the local
expectations and governing realities of administrators, parents,
politicians and voters alike have sharply constrained federal
initiatives, limiting their scope when in conflict with local
commitments and amplifying them when they align. Through an
extensive use of local archives, contemporary accounts, school data
and interviews, Reed not only paints an intimate portrait of the
conflicts that the creation of the federal schoolhouse has wrought
in Alexandria, but also documents the successes of the federal
commitment to greater educational opportunity. In so doing, he
highlights the complexity of the American education state and the
centrality of local regimes and local historical context to federal
efforts to reform education.
The Unrealized Promise of the Next Great Copyright Act provides a
unique perspective on one of the most active periods of copyright
policy discourse in the United States since the enactment of the
Copyright Act of 1976. Using the then-Register of Copyrights Maria
Pallante's landmark speech of 2013 The Next Great Copyright Act as
a catalyst, Christopher S. Reed documents and assesses the major
issues confronting the U.S. copyright system today. The book offers
an inside view of the Copyright Office's attempts at reform as part
of a comprehensive account of the complex dynamics between key
stakeholder communities, government and legislation. Chapters also
explore relevant areas of copyright such as orphan works and mass
digitization, online copyright enforcement, visual arts and music
licensing, and demonstrate that despite previous difficulties the
time is now ripe for an update to U.S. copyright law. This
insightful book will be of great value to scholars and legal
practitioners with a focus on copyright law and policy, and will
also prove a useful resource for instructors teaching copyright
policy at an advanced level. Others with an interest in
intellectual property, technology and connected culture, or
politics and government will also find this book an engaging read.
The concept of "screen memories" was introduced by Freud for the
first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety.
Although the clinical interest in "screen memories" has perhaps
diminished in recent analytic discussion, there is much to be
gained from revisiting and re-examining both the phenomenon and
Freud's original paper within a contemporary context. To this end,
the authors have invited contributions from eight leading
psychoanalysts on the current meaning and value to them of the
screen memory concept. These comments come from contemporary
psychoanalysts practicing in Italy, Francophone Switzerland,
Argentina, Israel, and the United States of America, each of whom
has been trained in one or another of a variety of psychoanalytic
traditions, among which are ego psychology, a French version of
Freud, an American version of Lacan and at least two variants of
Kleinian thought - one British and one Latin American.
This book provides extraordinary insight into the subtleties and
diversities of contemporary clinical practice by exploring the
problematic and ambiguous concept of the transference neurosis.
It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly
affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers.
Yet, despite this, psychologists have only begun to study and think
about the deep connections between values and knowledge. This
volume explores this important area in psychology by offering an
overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation
in the acquisition of knowledge, and also by examining a range of
new ideas for understanding the intricate connection between
evaluation and thinking. More specifically, the text: provides a
historical overview of philosophical and psychological theories
relating the values and knowledge; reviews the importance of values
for infants and their caretakers in the origins of both cognition
and social relations; offers a provocative view of how the
differences among families in their values may have profound
affects on psychological development; explicates the development of
a personal sphere within which one strives to shape one's own
values; emphasizes the heterogeneity of valuation inherent in every
culture and how conflicts of values are likely to be common and
important to human development; presents eye-opening research on
social-cognitive limitations of average people in respecting the
points of view of others; and summarizes and critiques Piaget's
theory of the role of values in development. For practitioners in
the fields of developmental and social psychology, and education,
this volume will introduce a number of important and current
issues, from multiculturality and gender to the differential roles
of temperament and upbringing in development. The emphasis is
placed squarely on developing individuals and how they shape
themselves in a world that is structured by values as well as by
facts.
First published in 1993. This is Volume 13, No 4 of the
Psychoanalytic Inquiry which focuses on locating transference:
actuality and illusion in the psychoanalytic encounter. The
interrelation between actuality and illusion within the clincal
encounter is a subject that has influenced the tehory and pratcice
of psychoanalysis since its beginnings, particulary with regard to
how clinicians identify and construe the transference.
The concept of "screen memories" was introduced by Freud for the
first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety.
Although the clinical interest in "screen memories" has perhaps
diminished in recent analytic discussion, there is much to be
gained from revisiting and re-examining both the phenomenon and
Freud's original paper within a contemporary context. To this end,
the authors have invited contributions from eight leading
psychoanalysts on the current meaning and value to them of the
screen memory concept. These comments come from contemporary
psychoanalysts practicing in Italy, Francophone Switzerland,
Argentina, Israel, and the United States of America, each of whom
has been trained in one or another of a variety of psychoanalytic
traditions, among which are ego psychology, a French version of
Freud, an American version of Lacan and at least two variants of
Kleinian thought - one British and one Latin American.
In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened
considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an
increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst
work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that
was previously weak, missing, or functionally inoperative. This
view, which may apply to all patients, but is especially relevant
to the treatment of non-neurotic patients and states of mind,
stands in stark contrast to the more traditional assumption that
the therapeutic task involves the uncovering of the unconscious
dimension of a present pathological compromise formation that holds
a potentially healthy ego in thrall.The contrast which this book
calls attention to is that which exists roughly between
formulations of psychic structure and functioning that were once
assumed to have been sufficiently well explained by the hypotheses
of Freud s topographic theory and those that were not. The former
are modeled on neurosis and dream interpretation, where conflicts
between relatively well-defined (saturated) and psychically
represented desires were assumed to operate under the aegis of the
pleasure-unpleasure principle. The latter involve a different level
of psychic functioning and registration, one that is more closely
associated with pre-verbal, and/or massive psychic trauma, as well
as with primitive mental states. It operates "beyond the pleasure
principle." In complementary fashion, psychoanalytic theorizing has
begun to shift from conceiving solely or predominantly of a
universe of presences, forgotten, hidden or disguised, but there
for the finding, to a negative universe of voids where creation of
missing structure, often referred to by the Freudian
metapsychological designation, representation, becomes of necessity
part of the cure.However it is conceptualized psychoanalytically,
representation is the culmination of a process through which
impulse and content, and in favorable circumstances disguised
versions of that part of the content that is unconscious, must all
be linked. It is a term with historical roots in Freud s
metapsychology, and its psychoanalytic usage refers back to that
tradition and theoretical domain. It should not be confused with
the way it or similar terms are used in other disciplines e.g.,
child development or neuroscience nor should references to its
absence be misunderstood to necessarily imply the total absence of
some kind of registration or inscription in the being, i.e., the
psyche or the soma, of the individual."
Andre Green was a leading voice in French psychoanalysis, a
brilliant thinker and an innovative contributor to our field. His
writings sit at the crossroads of contemporary psychoanalysis,
where the challenges posed and the opportunities presented by the
work of Lacan, Klein, Winnicott and Bion meet the still generative
insights of Freud, many of which Green reminded us have yet to be
fully developed or appreciated. Green's expansion of Freud's theory
of psychic representation and his own formulation of the work of
the negative exemplify his idea of clinical thinking and herald
what many believe is a new paradigm for psychoanalysis. This volume
of essays, written by an international group of scholars in
response to and appreciation of Green's contributions, continues to
explore the tension between presence and absence, loss and
remainder, fort and da and the creative, dialectical arc that
exists between these pairs in psychic development and the analytic
process. It aims to expand the reach of our theory and practice to
patients whose difficulties lie at the limits of analyzability,
beyond the spectrum of neurotic disturbances for which classical
psychoanalysis was originally intended, and to place the reader at
the frontiers of contemporary clinical thinking and analytic
technique.
The 2012 election in Japan ejected the governing DPJ and returned
the LDP overwhelmingly to power while brand new parties pulled in
millions of voters. This book explains what happened, why it
happened and what it means. International experts analyze the
election results, parties strategies, gender issues, policy
implications and more.
The subject of error-control coding bridges several disciplines, in
particular mathematics, electrical engineering and computer
science. The theory of error-control codes is often described
abstractly in mathematical terms only, for the benefit of other
coding specialists. Such a theoretical approach to coding makes it
difficult for engineers to understand the underlying concepts of
error correction, the design of digital error-control systems, and
the quantitative behavior of such systems. In this book only a
minimal amount of mathematics is introduced in order to describe
the many, sometimes mathematical, aspects of error-control coding.
The concepts of error correction and detection are in many cases
sufficiently straightforward to avoid highly theoretical algebraic
constructions. The reader will find that the primary emphasis of
the book is on practical matters, not on theoretical problems. In
fact, much of the material covered is summarized by examples of
real developments, and almost all of the error-correction and
detection codes introduced are attached to related practical
applications.Error-Control Coding for Data Networks takes a
structured approach to channel-coding, starting with the basic
coding concepts and working gradually towards the most
sophisticated coding systems. The most popular applications are
described throughout the book. These applications include the
channel-coding techniques used in mobile communication systems,
such as: the global system for mobile communications (GSM) and the
code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system, coding schemes for
High-Definition TeleVision (HDTV) system, the Compact Disk (CD),
and Digital Video Disk (DVD), as well as the error-control
protocols for the data-link layers of networks, and much more. The
book is compiled carefully to bring engineers, coding specialists,
and students up to date in the important modern coding
technologies. Both electrical engineering students and
communication engineers will benefit from the information in this
largely self-contained text on error-control system engineering.
This text provides a fresh, accessible introduction to human
metabolism that shows how the physiological actions of selected
organs can be explained by their particular biochemical processes.
Focusing on metabolic integration, rather than pathways, this
book opens with three introductory chapters that explore the
principles of metabolism and its control before moving onto
'themed' chapters that investigate liver, communication systems
(endocrine and neurological), blood and vascular system, muscle and
adipose tissue and renal biochemistry.
Targeted at non-biochemistry majors who need to get to grips
with key biochemical concepts and ideas, this textbook is an
essential guide for all undergraduate biomedical science, sports
science, nutrition and other allied health students.
Key features: A fresh, accessible primer that adopts a unique,
organ-system based approach to human metabolism.Assumes only a
basic understanding of chemistry.Chapters are arranged specifically
to enable readers to grasp key concepts and to aid
understanding.Some chapters include 'Case Notes, illustrating key
aspects of metabolism in cells, tissues and organs.
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