Vol. IX, Tab 46 - Ex. 37 - Expert Report of Dr. Kent D. Van Liere

Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion

Whether he wins or not, Geert Wilders has successfully managed to put Islam at the centre of the Dutch elections

The Netherlands will hold parliamentary elections on 15 March, with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) currently leading in several opinion polls. Lucien van Liere writes on Wilders’ focus on the threat of Islam in the election, arguing that regardless of the result, the PVV has largely set the agenda of the campaign

Vol. IX, Tab 46 - Ex. 70 - Deposition of Kent Van Liere (NERA Expert - Statistical Analysis)

Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion

Southeast Asia - potential world food basket.

It is suggested that southeast Asia has all the necessary prerequisite potentials in terms of land, water, year-round suitable climate and human resources to become a major world food basket. At the moment production is rather low, as is demonstrated for a number of crops by comparing average farm yields with yields obtained under controlled conditions of the experimental stations in the area. Mass application of modern technology, including water control and improvement of soil fertility, would be capable of closing the gap between present and potential production. The programme of agricultural planning and research sponsored by the Mekong Committee represents a major initial step in this direction, aiming to bring about changes from traditional agricultural practices to progressively greater use of modern technology, tailored to suit local conditions, in order to achieve higher sustained yields. ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT: It is suggested that S.E. Asia has all the potential requirements of a major food producer in terms of land, water supply, climatic conditions and labour resources. The large difference between present and potential crop yields under experimental conditions could be reduced by improved agronomic techniques. Lack of water control is the major factor limiting rice production in the lowlands where paddy yields are generally 1-2 t/ha compared with an attainable yield of 6 t/ha. In upland areas, soil fertility is the most important factor limiting yields and the wider use of multi-cropping or inter-cropping could greatly increase production. The potential of water conservation schemes such as the Pa Mong Reservoir on the Mekong River between Thailand and Laos is considered. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission

How Shallow is a Bug? Why Open Source Communities Shorten the Repair Time of Software Defects

A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is instrumental in improving the quality of software. Using a 10-year longitudinal dataset from the Firefox community, I investigate how the size of a community in terms of bug reporters and software developers, the social networks of developers and the quality of user contributions influence the time needed to repair software defects. The results show that a large open source community in terms of bug reporters reduces the time needed to resolve a defect while the addition of new software developers to an open source community takes away resources to fix bugs and increase the time needed to resolve a defect. In addition, software developers occupying dense network positions need less time to solve a bug. Finally, user contributions are beneficial when bugs are lively discussed but there is no support for the prediction that the experience of the bug reporter or the quality of the bug report reduces the time needed to solve a software defect

The imbalanced antiferromagnet in an optical lattice

We study the rich properties of the imbalanced antiferromagnet in an optical lattice. We present its phase diagram, discuss spin waves and explore the emergence of topological excitations in two dimensions, known as merons, which are responsible for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition that has never unambiguously been observed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, RevTe