Brandright

Trademark law is guilty of overprotection. This overprotection pits both a company’s in-house attorneys against its own marketing professionals and the company itself against its most loyal customers. The result appears illogical, at best, to consumers witnessing the effects of this clash between a company’s marketing needs and perceived legal requirements

The polarographic determination of cobalt in potassium iodide

Not available.Donald Lee KiserNot ListedNot ListedMaster of ScienceDepartment Not ListedCunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana State University.isua-thesis-1961-kiserMastersTitle from document title page. Document formatted into pages: conatins 48p. : ill. Includes bibliography

A common currency for the Americas?

Dollarization ; Banks and banking, Central - Latin America ; Gross domestic product ; Banks and banking, Central - Mexico

Grading Grain Under the U.S. Grain Standards

Crop Production/Industries,

Recovery from a financial crisis: the case of South Korea

Among the countries that were impacted by the 1997 Asian crisis, South Korea (Korea hereafter) has demonstrated the fastest recovery by blocking its downward spiral. Jahyeong Koo and Sherry Kiser examine the recovery process of financial crises, particularly in Korea, in light of the weak-fundamentals and financial-panic views. Since neither of these views adequately explains Korea’s recovery, the authors look at other phenomena for an explanation. Alternative financial arrangements and labor market adjustments are specifically examined. The authors acknowledge that Korea’s recovery was only possible after it gained control of its exchange-rate crisis. Since the recovery process affirms neither the weak-fundamentals view nor the financial-panic view, Koo and Kiser conclude that containing the downward spiral was a combination of factors working together and that much of Korea’s recovery can be attributed to the creation of alternative funding sources and labor adjustments.Banks and banking - Korea

Hey, Mr. Greenspan, can you spare a dollar?

Money ; Dollar ; Latin America

Matrix density effects on the mechanical properties of SiC/RBSN composites

The room temperature mechanical properties were measured for SiC fiber reinforced reaction-bonded silicon nitride composites (SiC/RBSN) of different densities. The composites consisted of approx. 30 vol percent uniaxially aligned 142 micron diameter SiC fibers (Textron SCS-6) in a reaction-bonded Si3N4 matrix. The composite density was varied by changing the consolidation pressure during RBSN processing and by hot isostatically pressing the SiC/RBSN composites. Results indicate that as the consolidation pressure was increased from 27 to 138 MPa, the average pore size of the nitrided composites decreased from 0.04 to 0.02 microns and the composite density increased from 2.07 to 2.45 gm/cc. Nonetheless, these improvements resulted in only small increases in the first matrix cracking stress, primary elastic modulus, and ultimate tensile strength values of the composites. In contrast, HIP consolidation of SiC/RBSN resulted in a fully dense material whose first matrix cracking stress and elastic modulus were approx. 15 and 50 percent higher, respectively, and ultimate tensile strength values were approx. 40 percent lower than those for unHIPed SiC/RBSN composites. The modulus behavior for all specimens can be explained by simple rule-of-mixture theory. Also, the loss in ultimate strength for the HIPed composites appears to be related to a degradation in fiber strength at the HIP temperature. However, the density effect on matrix fracture strength was much less than would be expected based on typical monolithic Si3N4 behavior, suggesting that composite theory is indeed operating. Possible practical implications of these observations are discussed

War and State-Making in Premodern Political Systems

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Edgar Kiser (PhD University of Arizona, 1987) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. His interests include the study of state-building and war, comparative/historical sociology, premodern states, and rational choice theory applied to institution-building. His recent publications include articles in the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology on tax-farming, agency theory, war and bureaucratization in Qin China, early modern tax revolts in France, and taxation and voting rights struggles in medieval England and France. He is currently working on a book on state-building in premodern states and empires, and a second examining ideas drawn from evolutionary biology to the development of historical/comparative methods in the social sciences.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studiesweb page announcemen

CD4+ T-cell derived IL-10 mitigates malarial anemia

2013 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.Individuals living in malaria endemic areas develop effective anti-parasite immunity over several years of repeated exposure, but become resistant to severe disease after just one or two infections. This observation suggests that the acquired immune system plays a role in both processes, but may involve different mechanisms. Using the mouse model of malaria caused by non-lethal Plasmodium yoelii, we test the hypothesis that CD4+ T-cell derived IL-10 contributes to disease resistance by mitigating severe anemia. Here we show that IL-10 deficient mice develop significant anemia despite a very low parasite burden. Anemia in this model is mediated primarily by increased erythrocyte destruction and not from suppressed erythropoiesis. Wild type mice that have recovered from P. yoelii infection have an expanded population of IL-10 producing CD4 T cells, with the majority of these cells co-expressing IFN-γ and display a Th1 phenotype. In the absence of IL-10, there is an increase in IFN-γ+ T cells. We demonstrate that IL-10 competent CD4+ T cells protect athymic nude mice from anemia when compared to CD4 T cells taken from recovered IL-10 deficient mice. Utilizing an ex vivo system that tests the function of APCs in activating CD4+ T-cells, we also determined that APCs exposed to P. yoelii in vivo induced a greater population of CD4+ T-cells that express IL-10 compared to naïve APCs. We also demonstrate that IFN-γ is required, with the possible involvement of IL-10 and IL-12, for efficient IL-10 expression in CD4+ T-cells. Our findings suggest that one mechanism by which the acquired immune system contributes to resistance to severe anemia may be the development of CD4 T cells that co-express IL-10 and IFN-γ, thereby self-regulating IFN-γ levels, which then inhibits pro-inflammatory mediated destruction of naïve red blood cells