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Le goupi (Goupia glabra Aubl), essence forestière d'avenir en Guyane : analyse bibliographique
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Case Study: Potential Trademark Infringements
This is a case study of trademark infringement disputes. One of the authors (Cosgrove) incorporated The Econoclast, Inc. that owns a registered trademark (Econoclast®) that has provided capital market publications to financial and nonfinancial institutions since 1979. Over the years, others have used the same name for similar services. The case study explains the basics of trademark law and the meaning of trademark infringement. The authors describe the practical steps Cosgrove undertook to prevent infringement of his trademark in three different situations. There remains an on-going dispute involving possible international infringement in one of the illustrations
Always Loved but Never Entitled: Professor Intentions to Promote Leadership in Women
This article focuses on three professors from Midwestern University and how their intentions to encourage women to see themselves as leaders play out in their respective classrooms. Through educational connoisseurship and criticism we describe and interpret the ecological impacts of professor intentions in promoting women as leaders. To this end, we find the professors realize these intentions by the way in which they care for their students. In caring for their students, the professors take an “always loved by never entitled” approach, where they balance building a sense of support and confidence among their students with an understanding that leaders are forged through dedication and a willingness to speak up. It is recommended for professors and high education institutions to consider how implicit curricula could help in developing leadership qualities in women and other historically underrepresented populations
Case Study: Trademark Infringement Issues
This is a case study of trademark infringement disputes. One of the authors (M. Cosgrove) incorporated The Econoclast, Inc. in 1979. The company provides capital market publications to financial and nonfinancial institutions, and owns the trademark Econoclast®. Over the years, others have attempted to use the same name for similar services. This case study presents the practical steps that Cosgrove undertook to prevent infringement of his trademark in various cases that occurred since our prior paper was published in 2005 (Cosgrove, Marsh and Chester.) The paper also explains the basics of trademark law, the meaning of trademark infringement, and obligations of the trademark owner.
Two roles of relativistic spin operators
Operators that are associated with several important quantities, like angular
momentum, play a double role: they are both generators of the symmetry group
and ``observables.'' The analysis of different splittings of angular momentum
into "spin" and "orbital" parts reveals the difference between these two roles.
We also discuss a relation of different choices of spin observables to the
violation of Bell inequalities.Comment: RevTeX 4, 4 pages A discussion on relation of different choices of
spin observables to the observed violation of Bell inequalities is added,
some misprints corrected and the presentation is clarifie
A quantum phase gate implementation for trapped ions in thermal motion
We propose a novel scheme to implement a quantum controlled phase gate for
trapped ions in thermal motion with one standing wave laser pulse. Instead of
applying the rotating wave approximation this scheme makes use of the
counter-rotating terms of operators. We also demonstrate that the same scheme
can be used to generate maximally entangled states of trapped ions by a
single laser pulse
Genetic Variants of Milk Proteins - Relevance to Milk Composition and Cheese Production.
End of Project ReportObjectives: (i) to develop rapid screening procedures for the determination of milk
protein polymorphism (genetic variants)
(ii) to determine the frequency distribution of milk protein genetic variants in
a large population of Irish Holstein-Friesians and to determine if there was an
association between κ-casein variant and milk yield and composition in this group
of animals, and
(iii) to make Cheddar and low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheese from
different κ-casein genetic variant milks and to assess any effect on cheese yield,
composition and functional characteristics. Conclusions:Analysis of 6,007 individual Irish Holstein-Friesian milks showed that the
phenotype distribution of the κ-casein BB variant was very low at 1.98%
compared to 53.07% for κ-casein AA and 44.95% for κ-casein AB. While no statistically significant associations were observed between κ-casein
variant and milk yield and composition, κ-casein BB variant milks had superior
rennet coagulation properties to that of the AA or AB variants.
Generally, κ-casein variant had little effect on compositional attributes of cheese
apart from FDM (fat in dry matter) which was significantly higher in cheeses from
κ-casein BB milk than in those from κ-casein AA milk.
Generally, κ-casein variant had no significant effects on either primary or
secondary proteolysis, or on the sensory and/or textural characteristics of Cheddar
or Mozzarella cheese throughout ripening; or on the functional characteristics (e.g.
flow and stretch) of baked Mozzarella on storage for 90 days at 4°C.
However, κ-casein BB variant milk gave significantly higher actual, and moisture
adjusted yields of Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese than either κ-casein AB or AA
variant milks. For example, the moisture adjusted Cheddar yield from κ-casein
BB milk was 8.2% higher than from κ-casein AA milk. In the case of Mozzarella,
the moisture adjusted yield was 12% higher.
Based on the results, it is estimated that the actual yield of cheese in a plant
producing 20,000 tonnes per year from κ-casein AA milk would increase to
approximately 21,180 tonnes of Cheddar, or 21,780 tonnes of Mozzarella if made
from κ-casein BB milk. Where κ-casein AB milk is used instead of κ-casein BB
milk, the estimated yield of Mozzarella would increase to 21,580 tonnes.Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marin
Gravitational waves from self-ordering scalar fields
Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever
the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of
these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively
studied in the literature. In this paper we analyze the shape and amplitude of
the gravitational wave spectrum on scales which are superhorizon at the time of
production. Such gravitational waves are expected from the self ordering of
randomly oriented scalar fields which can be present during a thermal phase
transition or during preheating after hybrid inflation. We find that, if the
gravitational wave source acts only during a small fraction of the Hubble time,
the gravitational wave spectrum at frequencies lower than the expansion rate at
the time of production behaves as with an
amplitude much too small to be observable by gravitational wave observatories
like LIGO, LISA or BBO. On the other hand, if the source is active for a much
longer time, until a given mode which is initially superhorizon (), enters the horizon, for , we find that the gravitational
wave energy density is frequency independent, i.e. scale invariant. Moreover,
its amplitude for a GUT scale scenario turns out to be within the range and
sensitivity of BBO and marginally detectable by LIGO and LISA. This new
gravitational wave background can compete with the one generated during
inflation, and distinguishing both may require extra information.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figures, added discussion about numerical integration and
a new figure to illustrate the scale-invariance of the GW power spectrum,
conclusions unchange
Blackwell-Optimal Strategies in Priority Mean-Payoff Games
We examine perfect information stochastic mean-payoff games - a class of
games containing as special sub-classes the usual mean-payoff games and parity
games. We show that deterministic memoryless strategies that are optimal for
discounted games with state-dependent discount factors close to 1 are optimal
for priority mean-payoff games establishing a strong link between these two
classes
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