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New Laboratory and Pilot Techniques Applied at Mintek in Aid of Furnace Containment System Designs

containment perspective, either an insulating or a conductive design philosophy can be applied, irrespective of the raw material being processed. In the initial stages of a project, desktop studies are ... associated with incorrect selection of a design philosophy and/or furnace containment system components, it is prudent to conduct tests on laboratory and pilot scale and to transfer the knowledge gained to

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board: A Heightened Call for Transparency

Article III court: insulated from political concerns, with the current President’s patent policy (via the Director, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate) independent from the PTAB’s ... review of issued patents.2 However, the PTAB differs from Article III courts in that respect because Congress intentionally placed the PTAB under the Executive Branch’s control.3 And to “preserve political

Exploring the Role of Patent Offices in Climate Change Mitigation

in tampering with substantive patent rights is the conflict it creates with the WTO framework and the TRIPS Agreement and, hence, the legal and political difficulty of adopting such measures.69 ... CONCLUSION Patent office initiatives are small policy tools among more significant political questions regarding climate change.162 This does not mean we should not further adopt and develop them. Their

The Disappointments of Networks

political goals such as: promoting democracy, individual self-authorship, expressive diversity, and more inclusive power distribution in shaping culture and discourse. The prevailing view among proponents of ... paradigm characteristic of the cultural turn is rooted in what John Dryzek describes as a ‘deliberative turn’ in political philosophy. See JOHN S. DRYZEK, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND BEYOND: LIBERALS, CRITICS

Expanding Opportunities: Promoting Accessible Higher Education for Non-Traditional Learners

problems which have no regard for political, socioeconomic, or cultural boundaries. This is a direct outcome of my time in the military and Fujimoto: What advice would you give to other non-traditional

Cancel [© opyright] Culture: A Legal Analysis of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

created a social and political chasm that continues to wedge a deep divide within the cultural framework of the United States. Its proponents argue that Cancel Culture is “about establishing new ethical and ... , muting citizens, and violating free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and speech.”4 Regardless of where along the political spectrum one sits with respect to the phenomenon of Cancel Culture, it is without

Engaging With Outlaw Art

, whereas peddlers of kitsch, might amass a fortune.41 Traditionally, the market has shunned the works of women and minorities.42 Furthermore, AESTHETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART, THE ANALYTIC TRADITION: AN ... , the Public and Modern Art, in ADMINISTRATION OF AESTHETICS: CENSORSHIP, POLITICAL CRITICISM, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 15 1 (Richard Burt, ed., 1994 ). 36. See CLARKE, supra note 16 at 141. 37. See HANS

Riding the Tiger: A Comparison of Intellectual Property Rights in the United States and the People's Republic of China

cultural and political structure. Guanxi tempers the rule of law. Confucian philosophy teaches “the rule of law becomes necessary only when individuals wish to act outside their assigned roles.”86 Therefore ... and respected political philosophy adhered to by the Chinese people to enforce its laws. With a loosened national grip, the Communist party relies on the continued conviction and subsequent action of

Criticality in Bulk Metallic Glass Constituent Elements

. The compositions of BMGs typically include four to six elements. Various political and geological factors have recently led to supply disruptions for several metals, including some present in BMG

Protecting Data Privacy for Mobile Payments Under the Chinese Law: Comparative Perspectives and Reform Suggestions

, Montreal , Canada; Honorary Professor, East China University of Political Science and Law , Shanghai , China. This research project (Project Number: 14613219) is funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants ... GEORGE WASHINGTON L. REV. 996 (2014). political advertisements to potential voters so as to influence their voting.51 This infringement quickly aroused worldwide outrage.52 The FTC eventually settled with

Disputing the Wreckage: Ideological Struggle at the Vietnam Veterans Museum

. These early reports, and the Memorial itself, helped initiate what political elites had long avoided: an ideological struggle over the meaning of the Vietnam War, the symbolic political function of ... '. On the contrary, the Memorial provides a locus of ideological struggle, revealing the political nature of the current rejntegrative phase of Vietnam 's "social d ra m a '3 as various ideological blocs

Frand Royalties: Rules V Standards?

legislators too. Returns on investments into highly specialist areas of the law are quite limited for political agents subject to an electoral constraint.156 With eyes on FRAND, there is an additional cost to ... replacement of political personal. In light of the multiple use cases for FRAND rules as well as the dynamicity of the technology, the sunk costs of FRAND legislative rules are likely to deter lawmakers to ever

Women for Peace or Women's Liberation? Signposts from the Feminist Archives

LibERATioN? SiqNposTs From t He F eminist ARchivEs Jenny B rown For RsdsTOckiNqs Understanding the essence of what makes a good political organizer is especially vital to feminists at a time when our most ... encompasses a key body of social change activist experience (i.e. revolutionary “practice”)—with successes and failures to analyze—on the political questions of “gender and war.” Feminism, after all, revived in

Vietnam Generation Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 3

, for the Study of Soc. Change. UC Berkeley Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain Political Science Dept. Vanderbilt University Dr. David Hunt Co-Chairman Wiliam Joiner Center History Dept. Univ. of Mass, at ... Australian National University Jock Reynolds Executive Director Washington Project for the Arts Dr. Robert Slabey English Dept. University of Notre Dame Dr. Nancy Wegersma Political Science & Economics

Patent, But Where is Home and Global Justice? A Rawlsian and Senian Inquiry

merely one factor, and indeed, western donors to Africa often press this issue, but 242. Jonathan Wolff, Social justice and public policy: a view from political philosophy, in SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC ... employed to develop this area of law as the U.S. Supreme Court stated in Mazer v Stein that the economic philosophy is applied to explain the U.S. Constitution clause of intellectual property law.10 Lemley

Artificial Meat Industry: Production Methodology, Challenges, and Future

has been the public’s perceptions of cultured meat. Occasionally, a few limit this to a question of consumer acceptability. However, this issue should be phrased generally, to include more political and ... cultured meat to include the associated political, social, and institutional ramifications. These concerns are mutually reinforcing, and they must be examined concurrently. Numerous arguments favoring

Against Progress: Interventions About Equality in Supreme Court Cases About Copyright Law

human and digital networks of the 21st century, which are reinvigorating and reconfiguring twentieth-century social and political values for our internet age. These values, such as equality, privacy, and ... White Supremacy and misogyny, both which structure political, social, and economic institutions to keep people of color and women on the margins of power and opportunity. In these cases, courts demand

Three Lessons and A Question: Experiencing the Year 2020 on Capitol Hill

political landscape change. During my year on the Hill, I have had Brian Schatz of Hawaii, serving alongside an excellent and committed group of environment issues. Along the way, I have communication styles ... political campaign where she trained and organized volunteers to engage with the public on policy-related issues. Influenced by her Rust Belt upbringing, Malara has policy interests in translating research to

First Blood Redrawn

Rambo is a veteran. Infact, they have been so conditioned to expect trouble from the opposite end of the political spectrum — counterculture war protesters — that they mistake Rambo for one. Isolated and ... from the many individual veterans with whom we share the movie theater, and onto a few more distant political and military decision makers. This Rambo. then, rehabilitates the reputation of the Vietnam

Point Blank: Shooting Vietnamese Women

is accomplished is to depict women's battles as divorced from explicitly nationalist or political struggles and instead link them to more short-term, self-contained, even personal activities. So, for ... example Co Bao’s political motivations for working against a communist Vietnamese government in Rambo are explained through her continuation ofher father's work, not out of any conclusions she might have