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Cybersquatting: The Latest Challenge in Federal Trademark Protection
The explosion in Internet technology in the past decade has drawn the Lanham Act into the realm of electronic commerce. Trademark owners seeking to register domain names have recently found themselves entwined in a number of disputes, such as disputes involving claims to multiple domain names and disputes over whether the domain name registration system is fairly administered. One important legal issue that has recently come to the fore is over the practice of cybersquatting. Today, courts must contend with the cybersquatter, a speculator who reserves trademarks as Internet domain names for the sole purpose of selling or licensing them back to trademark owners willing to pay a considerable price for their use. Complicating matters, the most potent weapons in the Government\u27s anticybersquatting arsenal--the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA)--each give rise to grave constitutional concerns
EXAMINING ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON SEXUAL BEHAVIORS IN ADULTHOOD
The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between anxious attachment and adult sexual behaviors. The study utilized pairfam, a nationally representative German sample, as a secondary data set for its quantitative analysis. Participants responded to two anxious attachment scales and questions regarding sexual desire, sexual confidence, and age at first sexual experiences. Analyzing data from 5561 individuals, averaging 29.27 years old, a path analysis was conducted to assess variable effects. Findings indicate that higher anxious attachment correlates with reduced sexual confidence and earlier onset of sexual intercourse. Future studies should investigate additional attachment scales and include a more diverse range of participant demographics. In a clinical context, it is suggested to prioritize attachment anxiety treatment during therapy sessions. Further research should also consider comparing self-reports with partner perceptions and examining the relationship between sexual desire and age at first intercourse
Cybersquatting: The Latest Challenge in Federal Trademark Protection
The explosion in Internet technology in the past decade has drawn the Lanham Act into the realm of electronic commerce. Trademark owners seeking to register domain names have recently found themselves entwined in a number of disputes, such as disputes involving claims to multiple domain names and disputes over whether the domain name registration system is fairly administered. One important legal issue that has recently come to the fore is over the practice of cybersquatting. Today, courts must contend with the cybersquatter, a speculator who reserves trademarks as Internet domain names for the sole purpose of selling or licensing them back to trademark owners willing to pay a considerable price for their use. Complicating matters, the most potent weapons in the Government\u27s anticybersquatting arsenal--the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA)--each give rise to grave constitutional concerns
A Coloring Problem for Sturmian and Episturmian Words
We consider the following open question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given
an aperiodic infinite word , does there exist a finite coloring of its
factors such that no factorization of is monochromatic? We show that such a
coloring always exists whenever is a Sturmian word or a standard
episturmian word
Pseudomorphic growth of InAs on misoriented GaAs for extending quantum cascade laser wavelength
The authors have studied the impact of epilayer strain on the deposition of InAs/GaAs on (100) and (111)B with 2 degrees offset toward 2-1-1 surfaces. Consequences of a 7% lattice mismatch between these orientations in the form of three-dimensional growth are less apparent for (111)B with 2 degrees offset toward 2-1-1 surfaces compared to (100). By exploring a range of molecular beam epitaxy process parameters for InAs/GaAs growth and utilizing scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy to evaluate the quality of these strained layers, the authors develop empirical models that describe the influence of the process conditions in regards to surface roughness with \u3e92% accuracy. The smoothest InAs/GaAs samples demonstrated average surface roughness of 0.08 nm for 10 um-squre areas, albeit at very low deposition rates. The authors have found the most important process conditions to be substrate temperature and deposition rate, leading us to believe that controlling diffusion length may be the key to reducing defects in severely strained structures. InGaAs/AlGaAs quantum cascade laser structures were also produced on (111)B with 2 degrees offset toward 2-1-1 to take advantage of the piezoelectric effect, and the modified laser transitions due to these effects were observed
Verifying Computations with Streaming Interactive Proofs
When computation is outsourced, the data owner would like to be assured that
the desired computation has been performed correctly by the service provider.
In theory, proof systems can give the necessary assurance, but prior work is
not sufficiently scalable or practical. In this paper, we develop new proof
protocols for verifying computations which are streaming in nature: the
verifier (data owner) needs only logarithmic space and a single pass over the
input, and after observing the input follows a simple protocol with a prover
(service provider) that takes logarithmic communication spread over a
logarithmic number of rounds. These ensure that the computation is performed
correctly: that the service provider has not made any errors or missed out some
data. The guarantee is very strong: even if the service provider deliberately
tries to cheat, there is only vanishingly small probability of doing so
undetected, while a correct computation is always accepted. We first observe
that some theoretical results can be modified to work with streaming verifiers,
showing that there are efficient protocols for problems in the complexity
classes NP and NC. Our main results then seek to bridge the gap between theory
and practice by developing usable protocols for a variety of problems of
central importance in streaming and database processing. All these problems
require linear space in the traditional streaming model, and therefore our
protocols demonstrate that adding a prover can exponentially reduce the effort
needed by the verifier. Our experimental results show that our protocols are
practical and scalable.Comment: VLDB201
Senior Recital: Janna Graham, drum set, vibraphone, percussion
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Ms. Graham studies jazz percussion with Justin Chesarek.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1654/thumbnail.jp
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