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Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual
property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s sustainable
development goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse,
this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law
interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs. This
comprehensive Companion brings together an array of leading
international experts to assess and interrogate how IP law impacts
each specific SDG in turn. Providing in-depth analysis and
invaluable insight, chapters explore IP’s role in ending poverty
and inequality, improving food security, ensuring a sustainable
environment, better regulating gene patents, and supporting health
and well-being through access to medicines. This Companion deftly
explores a variety of models of technology transfer and diffusion.
Ultimately, the book provides a realistic overview of current
progress towards the SDGs and a blueprint to reform IP
institutions, agreements, and laws to achieve a more sustainable
future. The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the
Sustainable Development Goals will be an essential resource for
academics, researchers, regulators and policymakers interested in
the unique intersection between IP law and sustainable development.
It will also prove a highly informative read for researchers
specialising in development studies, as well as legal practitioners
working in private law, technology law, comparative law and
international law.
Enhance learners' confidence as they prepare for PEP Performance
Tasks and Curriculum Based Tests with a science workbook series
crafted around NSC learner outcomes and designed to support both
teacher-led instruction and independent learning. - Encourage the
development of problem solving skills with the application of
science process to everyday problems. - Increase critical thinking
capacity through analysis and interpretation of data. - Ensure
engagement as learners carry out investigations and present
evidence to support conclusions. - Reinforce learning and
scientific discovery with activities focused on process skills and
science practices.
1. The book is a pioneer work in this field, a new view concerning
the old things that seem to be known for all power systems and
control specialists: algorithms related to control parameters and
operation estimation, detection, classification, resolution, and
utilization. 2. The work contains a new algebraic approach to
economic dispatch exploiting as an algebraic system for power
operations realized. 3. The monograph contains a solution to
large-scale power control problems, namely the increasing
development of methods and algorithms of the processing in the
control method of the power system that provides increasing (a)
Operation efficiency under different uncertainty conditions; (b)
system stability rate.; (2) further development of mathematical
fundamentals of power system networks. 4. For the first time, the
traditional method considers the fundamentals of power system
control and operation. Developed algorithms cover many possible
applications and known classic optimal algorithms related to the
algorithms. 5. All obtained results are new, original, and unknown
to English-speaking audiences and verified by the MATLAB program.
Water is intricately linked with food security, energy security,
and sustainable development. As the world is moving towards
sustainable development goals, it is critical to recognize the role
of water in attaining these goals. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
draws attention to the complex and interrelated nature of global
resource systems and forces us to think about how a decision in one
sector impacts other interlinked sectors as well. This book looks
at the three dimensions of sustainable developmentenvironment,
economics and society - and how water is linked with them and
explores the nexus approach as a framework to look at the issues
and identify solutions.
This book discusses Egyptian Muslim women's dress as the social,
political and ideological signifier of the changing attitudes
towards Western modernity. It employs women's clothing styles as a
feminist act that provides rich insights into the power and limits
of legal regulations and hegemonic discourses in constructing
gendered and cultural borders in the modern Egyptian public sphere.
Furthermore, through highlighting marginalized but significant
models and historical moments of cultural exchange between Muslim
and Western cultures through female dress, the book tells a third
story beyond the binary model of an assumed modest oppressed
traditional Muslim woman vis-Ã -vis consumer emancipated
modern Western woman in mainstream Western discourse and literary
representation.
Water is intricately linked with food security, energy security,
and sustainable development. As the world is moving towards
sustainable development goals, it is critical to recognize the role
of water in attaining these goals. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
draws attention to the complex and interrelated nature of global
resource systems and forces us to think about how a decision in one
sector impacts other interlinked sectors as well. This book looks
at the three dimensions of sustainable developmentenvironment,
economics and society - and how water is linked with them and
explores the nexus approach as a framework to look at the issues
and identify solutions.
This collection focuses on the challenges, lessons learned, and
best teaching practices shared by educators in the higher education
system in both the developed and developing areas of Asia.
Organized into three sections, the book covers key factors that
affect the successes of online education in Asia, including
innovations in curriculum design; innovations in communicating with
students; and innovations in assessments. In doing so, it provides
educators important insights into the differences between teaching
and learning in both the developed and developing areas of Asia and
highlights the problems that still need to be addressed as
technologies advance in the twenty-first century in STEM and
non-STEM disciplines.
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on
working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging
first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis,
the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an
ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In
a structure that creates a space for relational dialogue, each
chapter is followed by a response from another author,
demonstrating the varied interpretive possibilities of social
theory. Collectively the authors invite the reader to engage with
them in questioning the usefulness of social theory in higher
education teaching and research, in considering its possibilities
and limits, and in experiencing the opportunity it offers to
understand ourselves and our work differently. Written in a way
that is scholarly yet accessible, the contributors explore how
social theories can be used to think through issues that are
emerging as key social and political concerns in higher education
and beyond. The book will be of interest to advanced
undergraduates, postgraduates, and early-career academics, as well
as established scholars.
How should a state respond to competing international obligations
where the patenting of life is concerned? Following the
institutionalization of Intellectual Property in the world trading
system under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS), states face differing challenges and
restraints on their freedom to develop biopatenting programmes.
Through a comparative review of patenting in two key but diverging
jurisdictions, Canada and the US, this book considers how states
might exercise the right of self-determination in their domestic
law and policy over biopatenting to promote objectives of human
welfare and fair competition. Departing from existing studies, this
timely and important volume offers a pragmatic two-step approach to
state agency to resolve apparent conflicts between the regulatory
options afforded by economic globalization and the need to forge
domestic laws that reflect community values. In this approach, rich
and poor countries alike are invited to assert the primacy of human
rights in their industrial and cultural policies.
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Cedric's Tail (Hardcover)
Amani Uduman; Illustrated by Agnes Ernoult
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In this New York Times Editor's Pick, the brilliant founder of
MuslimGirl.com shares her harrowing and candid account of what it's
like to be a young Muslim woman in the wake of 9/11, during the
never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual
racism.At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home
in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial
slur. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father's native
homeland of Jordan, and Amani experienced firsthand a culture built
on the true peaceful nature of Islam in its purest form, not the
Islamic stereotypes she heard on the news. Inspired by her trip and
after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was
marginalized during a time when it seemed all Western media could
talk about was, ironically, Muslim women, Amani created a website
called Muslim Girl. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team
of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism. Muslim
Girl: A Coming of Age is the extraordinary account of Amani's
journey through adolescence as a Muslim girl, from the Islamophobia
she's faced on a daily basis, to the website she launched that
became a cultural phenomenon, to the nation's political climate in
2016 as Donald Trump wins the presidency. While dispelling the myth
that a headscarf signifies neither radicalism nor oppression, she
shares both her own personal accounts and anecdotes from the
"sisterhood" of writers that serve as her editorial team at Muslim
Girl. Amani's "blunt...potent message...is a skillful unraveling of
the myth of the submissive Muslim woman" (The New York Times Book
Review) and a deeply necessary counterpoint to the current rhetoric
about the Middle East.
How should a state respond to competing international obligations
where the patenting of life is concerned? Following the
institutionalization of Intellectual Property in the world trading
system under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS), states face differing challenges and
restraints on their freedom to develop biopatenting programmes.
Through a comparative review of patenting in two key but diverging
jurisdictions, Canada and the US, this book considers how states
might exercise the right of self-determination in their domestic
law and policy over biopatenting to promote objectives of human
welfare and fair competition. Departing from existing studies, this
timely and important volume offers a pragmatic two-step approach to
state agency to resolve apparent conflicts between the regulatory
options afforded by economic globalization and the need to forge
domestic laws that reflect community values. In this approach, rich
and poor countries alike are invited to assert the primacy of human
rights in their industrial and cultural policies.
This unique collection of research papers offers a comprehensive
and up-to-date guide to algebraic approaches to rough sets and
reasoning with vagueness. It bridges important gaps, outlines
intriguing future research directions, and connects algebraic
approaches to rough sets with those for other forms of approximate
reasoning. In addition, the book reworks algebraic approaches to
axiomatic granularity. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable
resource for researchers and teachers in the areas of rough sets
and algebras of rough sets, algebraic logic, non classical logic,
fuzzy sets, possibility theory, formal concept analysis,
computational learning theory, category theory, and other formal
approaches to vagueness and approximate reasoning. Consultants in
AI and allied fields will also find the book to be of great
practical value.
When a child loses a parent, it leaves a large void that is filled
with many questions. This book provides a gentle introduction to
opening up the discussion about death and what it means from an
Islamic perspective. Journal pages have been included at the end as
a means to encourage children to express their own thoughts and
feelings through writing or drawing.
The growth of new drugs entering the practice of ophthalmology
requires both the resident and established ophthalmologist to
understand and accurately prescribe the new pharmacologic
armamentarium. This excellent handbook a ~Drugs in Ophthalmologya
(TM) contains drug information compiled by experts from the United
States (Kaiser Permanente and Jules Stein Eye Institute/ UCLA) and
Europe (University of Vienna). It is concise, well-structured and
easy to use. With separate sections for antibiotics, antivirals,
antifungals, anesthetics and immunosuppressants, it provides
following subsections for each drug: Class of the drug,
Indications, Dosage, Contraindications, Warnings, Adverse
reactions, Drug interactions. Practitioners may want to have
multiple copies of the book for easy reference.
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on
working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging
first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis,
the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an
ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In
a structure that creates a space for relational dialogue, each
chapter is followed by a response from another author,
demonstrating the varied interpretive possibilities of social
theory. Collectively the authors invite the reader to engage with
them in questioning the usefulness of social theory in higher
education teaching and research, in considering its possibilities
and limits, and in experiencing the opportunity it offers to
understand ourselves and our work differently. Written in a way
that is scholarly yet accessible, the contributors explore how
social theories can be used to think through issues that are
emerging as key social and political concerns in higher education
and beyond. The book will be of interest to advanced
undergraduates, postgraduates, and early-career academics, as well
as established scholars.
When a young girl tries to read surrounded by elephants, lions,
monkeys and zebras, she is surprised, scared, and amused. When the
animals want to read, the tables are turned. A fun-filled picture
book that will earn giggles and laughs from children of all ages.
This book contains select chapters on support vector algorithms
from different perspectives, including mathematical background,
properties of various kernel functions, and several applications.
The main focus of this book is on orthogonal kernel functions, and
the properties of the classical kernel functions-Chebyshev,
Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi-are reviewed in some chapters.
Moreover, the fractional form of these kernel functions is
introduced in the same chapters, and for ease of use for these
kernel functions, a tutorial on a Python package named ORSVM is
presented. The book also exhibits a variety of applications for
support vector algorithms, and in addition to the classification,
these algorithms along with the introduced kernel functions are
utilized for solving ordinary, partial, integro, and fractional
differential equations. On the other hand, nowadays, the real-time
and big data applications of support vector algorithms are growing.
Consequently, the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)
parallelizing the procedure of support vector algorithms based on
orthogonal kernel functions is presented. The book sheds light on
how to use support vector algorithms based on orthogonal kernel
functions in different situations and gives a significant
perspective to all machine learning and scientific machine learning
researchers all around the world to utilize fractional orthogonal
kernel functions in their pattern recognition or scientific
computing problems.
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Co-creating for Context in the Transfer and Diffusion of IT - IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2022, Maynooth, Ireland, June 15-16, 2022, Proceedings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Amany Elbanna, Shane McLoughlin, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Brian Donnellan, David Wastell
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This volume, IFIP AICT 660, constitutes the refereed proceedings of
the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference "Co-creating for
Context in Prospective Transfer and Diffusion of IT" on Transfer
and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2022, held in Maynooth, Ireland, during
June 15-16, 2022. The 19 full papers and 10 short papers presented
were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The
papers focus on the re-imagination of diffusion and adoption of
emerging technologies. They are organized in the following parts:
Shirin has just arrived from war-stricken Iran to Sweden - her new
home. Her and her family must learn to acclimatise to the weather,
culture and socialisation of Sweden whilst still staying in touch
with their Iranian heritage. Along with her response to such things
as a traditional Swedish Christmas lunch, the dating rituals of
European teenagers or the social dynamics of an unfamiliar and not
always friendly classroom are fascinating glimpses into the lives
of a varied community of refugees, eccentrics and drop-outs. These
are interspersed with traditional Persian fairy tales and nostalgic
memories of her beloved grandmother, which sustain her in her new
life. Once Upon A Time in Uppsala is a remarkable, candid and
moving account of a sensitive child on the verge of adolescence
transplanted from her beloved but suffering homeland into a country
which, although politically safe, offers unexpected challenges of
its own.
Current LCA methodologies employed to assess the intensity of
environmental impacts lack a regional view, even though the
sensitivity of the receiving environment is important in
determining the specific levels of risks. This book seeks to
redress the balance and develop a globally applicable, affordable
and feasible approach to determine differentiated sets of possible
impacts with higher environmental burdens derived from food supply
chain processes. To this end, the earth's land surface is divided
into so-called "ecoregions", defined by their specific
characteristics such as soil, climate, and topography/physiography,
and associated with the relevant risks for each ecoregion. The use
of ecoregions and respective environmental risks can help
enterprises recognize the environmental effect of their products
but also help improve the reliability of comparisons between LCA
results in different regions.
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