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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law

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    This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume

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    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum

    AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence

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    The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and social problems, and present some existing and potential solutions. At the same time, the contributors highlight the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence

    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    New perspectives in surgical treatment of aortic diseases

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    Development of Quantitative Bone SPECT Analysis Methods for Metastatic Bone Disease

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    Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in males in the United States. Bone is a common site of metastases for metastatic prostate cancer. However, bone metastases are often considered “unmeasurable” using standard anatomic imaging and the RECIST 1.1 criteria. As a result, response to therapy is often suboptimally evaluated by visual interpretation of planar bone scintigraphy with response criteria related to the presence or absence of new lesions. With the commercial availability of quantitative single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) methods, it is now feasible to establish quantitative metrics of therapy response by skeletal metastases. Quantitative bone SPECT (QBSPECT) may provide the ability to estimate bone lesion uptake, volume, and the number of lesions more accurately than planar imaging. However, the accuracy of activity quantification in QBSPECT relies heavily on the precision with which bone metastases and bone structures are delineated. In this research, we aim at developing automated image segmentation methods for fast and accurate delineation of bone and bone metastases in QBSPECT. To begin, we developed registration methods to generate a dataset of realistic and anatomically-varying computerized phantoms for use in QBSPECT simulations. Using these simulations, we develop supervised computer-automated segmentation methods to minimize intra- and inter-observer variations in delineating bone metastases. This project provides accurate segmentation techniques for QBSPECT and paves the way for the development of QBSPECT methods for assessing bone metastases’ therapy response

    Copyright Damages Need To Have a Sufficient Punitive Element To Successfully Deter Infringement

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    Enforcement issues have been very much to the fore in recent years, with increasing emphasis on the need to deter infringing conduct. this thesis will concentrate on the provisions relating to damages, as set out in section 97 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) and will consider the research question, which is whether those provisions contain a sufficient punitive element to successfully deter copyright infringement. The thesis will initially set out the conceptual framework, which identifies the issues that arise with compensation only damages, then go on to consider the purpose and effect of of punitive damages as a deterrent. it will also consider the concept of deterrence. the research explores the international framework that governs an award of copyright damages, to include the TRIPS Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement 2020, as well as any potential Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s) that already apply, or which may apply to the UK following Brexit. the provisions of the Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC will be explored in some detail. There will be an analysis of the existing domestic framework of compensatory damages in the UK, followed by consideration of the existing framework of punitive damages. By comparison, it will be exploring the availability and application of punitive damages in Australia and the United States and finally, it will address the human rights issues which arise from the chilling effect on free speech by the application of punitive damages in that context. the work has doctrinal legal research as well as comparative methods, which have focused upon the existing law and whether and to what extent, either the US or Australia can provide appropriate guidance for a reform of section 97 of the CDPA 1988. The conclusions will show that the UK should explicitly provide for the availability of punitive damages, as they are necessary to deter copyright infringement, but also that any punitive provisions could be clearly set out in the legislation, along with the clear guidance as to their application. The findings of this research may provide a normative basis for reform of the damages provisions for copyright infringement in the UK and will therefore constitute a contribution to knowledge
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