“It’s Been a Hard Day’s Night” for Songwriters: Why the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees Must Undergo Reform

In order to guarantee reasonable fees for songwriters, composers, and publishers, the consent decrees must undergo critical reform to account for how music is licensed in new media. Part I of this Note will provide background on the mechanics of music licensing, both traditional and through modern mediums, in order to explain why the two largest PROs initially entered into governmental consent decrees. Part II will discuss recent judicial determinations of “reasonable” licensing rates for public performances in new media and demonstrate the discrepancy in compensation between songwriters and their sound recording counterparts, namely record companies and recording artists. Finally, Part III will argue that the solution to this problem is through consent decree reform. The decrees should be modified to allow songwriters to withdraw their digital rights in order to separately license songs in new media. A new PRO should then emerge in the market place to account solely for public performance rights in new media, leaving traditional licensing to the existing PROs. Additionally, the current judicial process for setting rates, known as the “rate court” system, should be replaced with expedited, binding arbitration. Making these important changes to the music-licensing system will work towards bridging the gap in compensation inequality between songwriters and recording artists

Jane Eyre

Join Jane on her journey from poor orphan child to independent woman.https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/mst-programs/1021/thumbnail.jp

Justice Might be Blind but Many Jurors are Not: Exploring the Mechanisms of Aversive Racism and Normative Decision Making in Juridical Decisions

Although juries exist within the American justice system to guard against “the corrupt or overzealous prosecutor and against the compliant, biased, or eccentric judge” (United States, 1968), psychological researchers have been divided over whether mock jurors do indeed demonstrate biased decision making due to the mixed results of past meta-analyses (Devine & Caughlin, 2014; Mazzella et al., 1994; Mitchell et al., 2005). In order to address what has caused these variable results, researchers must begin to explore complex paradigms for juror decision making. As such, these present studies sought to test the theoretical mechanisms of one of these possible paradigms, the aversive racism paradigm, which proposes that mock jurors feel better able to act in biased ways when their defendant has a negative secondary characteristic (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2004; Pearson, 2007; Minero & Espinoza, 2016). If the mechanisms of this paradigm could be experimentally related to a defendant’s secondary characteristics, then the aversive racism paradigm could be used to explain the variable results of past meta-analyses. In result, Study 1 supported the mechanistic validity of aversive racism paradigms. Further, it clarified that certain theoretical mechanisms of aversive racism, including mock jurors’ preferencing of normative decision making modes and increased willingness to communicate explicit biases, actually preceded any influence of a defendant’s race, suggesting that this paradigm might even begin to explain the biases of mock jurors in studies that are unrelated to race. However, mock jurors in Study 2 failed to operate under an aversive racism paradigm, instead reflecting the decision making processes of an incredibly unusual population. Overall, both of these studies provide a unique mechanistic exploration into possible reasons why different juror decision making studies might arrive at incredibly variable results. In turn, the findings of these studies provide information about the biased decision making processes of a variety of mock jurors that should be considered for future research or for future juridical reforms

Intervention for School Anxiety and Absenteeism in Children (ISAAC):Co-designing a brief parent-focused intervention for emotionally-based school avoidance

Emotionally-based school avoidance (EBSA) is an important driver of persistent school absenteeism and may have worsened in the context of COVID-19. This paper describes the development of a brief parent-focused psychosocial intervention with the goal to address the lack of accessible early interventions for EBSA. The developmental process used a person-centred approach (Yardley, 2015) with two phases. In Phase 1, qualitative data were collected about intervention preferences and priorities from N=10 parents and N=7 practitioners in a series of co-design workshops. Phase 2 refined an intervention blueprint based on iterative consultations with N=4 parents and N=3 practitioners. Framework analysis was used to organise findings around key intervention parameters, including relevant mechanisms, content, and delivery methods needed to provide effective, acceptable and feasible support for families affected by EBSA. The resulting blueprint incorporates three online modules to be delivered over three weeks with each module consisting of psychoeducational videos, self-completed learning tasks and a corresponding coaching session. Respective module content includes: (i) self-care strategies to increase parent wellbeing and self-efficacy; (ii) parenting strategies to change behavioural patterns that maintain child distress and avoidance of school; and (iii) strategic communication strategies to increase the quality of home-school relationships. The blueprint has been developed into a full prototype for a forthcoming feasibility study

Jane Eyre

Localització: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Arb 239.Text mecanoscrit amb anotacions manuscrites.Enquadernat amb tapes de cartr

What It Takes To Fly: Exploring The Effect Of Variant Propeller Pitches And Lengths On The Efficiency Of Propeller-Powered Hover Boards

This paper details the modeling of a propeller-powered hover board and provides an investigation into how the pitch and diameter of the propellers impacts the efficiency of the device. Hover boards are a potentially valuable technology, and the most accessible means of producing lift on hover boards is with propellers. It is important to understand how the pitch and diameter of a propeller impact the amount of weight a hover board can lift, but due to the overwhelming range of propellers that exist, it is difficult to choose the most efficient variation. Thus, we determine a propeller’s maximum upward force at a given current and the effect of pitch and diameter on its performance to ultimately forward the development of this technology. A testing apparatus was constructed to investigate each propeller and measure both the maximum mass the propeller could lift, as well as the current that was drawn at this maximum point. Our results found that the propellers with a greater pitch were more efficient when their diameter was greater and the propellers with a smaller pitch were more efficient when their diameter was smaller. Through extrapolating using the trend line, it is possible to calculate how many 3.8-pitch or 6-pitch propellers of any diameter would be needed to lift a human being. Through these equations, if the diameter of a 3.8-inch pitch or 6-inch pitch propeller is known, then the maximum lift and the current drawn to achieve said lift can be found. Future investigation into these trends over a greater range of propeller diameters and pitches is recommended in order to gather more conclusive results. Cet article discute de la modélisation d’un aéroglisseur propulsé par une hélice, et fournit une enquête de l’effet du pas et du diamètre des hélices sur l’efficacité de l’appareil. Les aéroglisseurs sont une technologie potentiellement valable, et la façon la plus accessible à produire de la portance sur les aéroglisseurs est l’utilisation d’hélices. Il est important de comprendre l’impact du pas et du diamètre sur la quantité de poids que l’aéroglisseur peut soulever, mais à cause de la gamme écrasante d’hélices qui existe, il est difficile de choisir la variation la plus efficace. Donc, une expérience fut créée pour déterminer la portance maximale d’une hélice avec un certain courant et l’effet du pas et du diamètre sur sa performance, menant en fin de compte au progrès dans le développement de cette technologie. Un model d’expérimentation a été construit pour évaluer chaque hélice et mesurer le poids maximale qu’il peut supporter, ainsi que le courant maximale à ce point. Nos résultats montrent que les hélices avec un pas plus grand étaient plus efficaces lorsque leur diamètre était plus grand, alors que les hélices avec un pas plus petit étaient plus efficaces lorsque leur diamètre était plus petit. En extrapolant les données en utilisant la ligne de tendance, il est possible de déterminer combien d’hélices d’un pas de 3,8 pouces ou de 6 pouces, de n’importe quel diamètre, seraient requises pour soulever un être humain. Avec ces calculs, si le diamètre d’une hélice d’un pas de 3,8 pouces ou d’une hélice d’un pas de 6 pouces est connu, la portance maximale et le courant requis pour atteindre cette portée peuvent être déterminés. Une investigation future dans ces tendances à travers une gamme plus large de diamètres et de pas d’hélices est recommandée afin de recueillir des résultats plus concluants.

What it Takes To Get Off The Ground

This coop experience has opened my eyes to the role that scientic research plays in the development of new inventions and technology. I have learned that in order to ensure your idea will work, you have to first test the science on a smaller scale (especially if you are new to the nature of the science you plan to explore). I went into this program intending to build a hover board, but I quickly realized that I was entering a foreign field of engineering and I had oversimplied the development process.