Protecting the Right to Exist as a People: Intellectual Property as a Means to Protect Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Culture

The dominant Western culture has created a legal system premised upon an individualistic and commercial foundation for intellectual property rights (IPR). This system necessarily excludes the protection of traditional knowledge and other components of Indigenous cultures, as well as concepts of communal responsibility for the keeping and transfer of such ideas and knowledge. These concepts are foundational to Indigenous knowledge systems in Alaska, as well as throughout the world. Today, a focus on this issue is critical to the preservation of indigenous cultures and their ways of knowing. We examine where national and international intellectual property rights systems are in addressing Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights (Indigenous CIPR). We also examine opportunities for expansion of such rights in Alaska and around the world.Ye

Tools for Controlling Activity of Neural Circuits Can Boost Gastrointestinal Research

We thank Prof U. G. Knaus and T. C. Collin for critical reading of the manuscript. GA is supported by the European Crohn's and Colitis Organization (ECCO) (J/15/2) and by the National Childrens' Research Centre (K/12/1). GD is supported by the University of Aberdeen Wellcome Trust Institutional Support Fund (105625/Z/14Z).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Obscuration model of Variability in AGN

There are strong suggestions that the disk-like accretion flow onto massive black hole in AGN is disrupted in its innermost part (10-100 Rg), possibly due to the radiation pressure instability. It may form a hot optically thin quasi spherical (ADAF) flow surrounded by or containing denser clouds due to the disruption of the disk. Such clouds might be optically thick, with a Thompson depth of order of 10 or more. Within the frame of this cloud scenario (Collin-Souffrin et al. 1996, Czerny & Dumont 1998), obscuration events are expected and the effect would be seen as a variability. We consider expected random variability due to statistical dispersion in location of clouds along the line of sight for a constant covering factor. We discuss a simple analytical toy model which provides us with the estimates of the mean spectral properties and variability amplitude of AGN, and we support them with radiative transfer computations done with the use of TITAN code of Dumont, Abrassart & Collin (1999) and NOAR code of Abrassart (1999).Comment: to appear in Proc. of 5th Compton Symposium on Gamma-Ray Astronomy and Astrophysic

Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb

A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of TAD A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary

Pluralidad en la diferencia

En ocasión del fallecimiento de la filósofa y escritora Françoise Collin el 1 de septiembre de 2012, el consejo de redacción ha considerado oportuno reeditar el posfacio que Fina Birulés hizo al volumen de ensayos de Collin Praxis de la diferencia. Liberación y libertad (Icaria Editorial, "Mujeres y culturas", 2006)

McKinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (SC 232)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 232. Photocopy and typescript of dismissal in good standing of Collin McKinney and his wife, Betsy, from Hurricane Creek Meeting House, Baptist Church of God, Southern Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists, Casey County, Kentucky. Also includes photocopy of a picture of Collin McKinney and photocopy of a picture of his home in Texas

Quasars and Galactic Nuclei,a Half-Century Agitated Story

I recall how the discovery of quasars occurred more than forty years ago, and the strong debates marking out their story. It led to the discovery of Massive Black Holes, which are now known to be present in almost all galaxies, and it opened on a coherent physical model and on a new vision of galaxy evolution.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, talk given at the Albert Einstein Century International Conference, held in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2005, submitted to publication in AIP, Eds J.-M. Alimi and A. Fuzfa, replaced to add few references and to correct a mistak