REGULATION OF THE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE

The latest “buzz” in Singapore is interactive digital media (IDM), a diverse industry that includes technologies such as video games and interactive advertisements. In January this year, the Singapore government announced that it would target the IDM sector as one of the key growth areas for the future, and provide the infrastructure for Singapore to be educated in and exposed to this new technology.1 The Singapore government has openly committed to setting aside S$500 million over the next five years to develop this industry.2 And to deal with the social, technical, legal and regulatory implications of this industry, on 1 April 2007, the Singapore government also set up a high level advisory council which will make recommendations to the government on how these issues will be managed while keeping pace with the development of this industry in Singapore.3 While the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society4 studies and deliberates on the issues, the existing legal and regulatory framework that continues to apply to new media has been described as based on a “light touch” approach. This paper seeks to summarise the existing position in Singapore, and tries to describe the policies and philosophies behind the “light touch” approach as elucidated from the laws and regulations in Singapore

COPYRIGHTING COPYWRONGS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ERRORS WITH AUTOMATED DMCA TAKEDOWN NOTICES

COPYRIGHTING COPYWRONGS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ERRORS WITH AUTOMATED DMCA TAKEDOWN NOTICE

Voice Control in Calorie Tracker Application using Levenshtein Distance Algorithm

Each food consumed by people contains a number of calories needed by the body to perform an activity. Calories can be described as fuel of engine to move and carry out tasks. Public’s indifference to the food consumed can cause some negative effects on health like, too skinny, obesity, and emergence of various diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to have an application which can provide some information about the calorie needs, so that user can control the calorie intake. This paper describes the development of an application to assist user in controlling calorie intake according to the calorie needs. This application supports voice control feature to improve user comfort in performing certain commands and inputting food consumed. In addition, this application also uses Levenshtein Distance algorithm to correct food recognition errors which is spoken by user. This application is developed using Java programming language for Android with SQLite database

Quasinormal Quantization in deSitter Spacetime

A scalar field in four-dimensional deSitter spacetime (dS_4) has quasinormal modes which are singular on the past horizon of the south pole and decay exponentially towards the future. These are found to lie in two complex highest-weight representations of the dS_4 isometry group SO(4,1). The Klein-Gordon norm cannot be used for quantization of these modes because it diverges. However a modified `R-norm', which involves reflection across the equator of a spatial S^3 slice, is nonsingular. The quasinormal modes are shown to provide a complete orthogonal basis with respect to the R-norm. Adopting the associated R-adjoint effectively transforms SO(4,1) to the symmetry group SO(3,2) of a 2+1-dimensional CFT. It is further shown that the conventional Euclidean vacuum may be defined as the state annihilated by half of the quasinormal modes, and the Euclidean Green function obtained from a simple mode sum. Quasinormal quantization contrasts with some conventional approaches in that it maintains manifest dS-invariance throughout. The results are expected to generalize to other dimensions and spins.Comment: 23 pages. v2: minor edits, matches published versio

Voice Control in Calorie Tracker Application Using Levenshtein Distance Algorithm

Each food consumed by people contains a number of calories needed by the body to perform an activity. Calories can be described as fuel of engine to move and carry out tasks. Public\u27s indifference to the food consumed can cause some negative effects on health like, too skinny, obesity, and emergence of various diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to have an application which can provide some information about the calorie needs, so that user can control the calorie intake. This paper describes the development of an application to assist user in controlling calorie intake according to the calorie needs. This application supports voice control feature to improve user comfort in performing certain commands and inputting food consumed. In addition, this application also uses Levenshtein Distance algorithm to correct food recognition errors which is spoken by user. This application is developed using Java programming language for Android with SQLite database

Deciding Finiteness for Matrix Groups Over Function Fields

Let S be any finite subset GLn(F(t)) where F is a field. In this paper we give algorithms to decide if the group generated by S is finite. In the case of characteristic zero, slight modifications of earlier work of Babai, Beals and Rockmore [1] give polynomial time deterministic algorithms to solve this problem. The case of positive characteristic turns out to be more subtle and our algorithms depend on a structure theorem proved here, generalizing a theorem of Weil. We also present a fairly detailed analysis of the size of finite subgroups in this case and give bounds which depend upon the number of generators. To this end we also introduce the notion of the diameter of a finitely generated algebra and derive some upper bounds related to this quantity. In positive characteristic the deterministic algorithms we present are exponential. A randomized algorithm based on ideas of the Meat-Axe is also given. While not provably efficient, the success of the Meat-Axe suggests the randomized algorithm will be useful

A New Theory Framework for the Electroweak Radiative Corrections in Kl3K_{l3} Decays

We propose a new theory framework to study the electroweak radiative corrections in $K_{l3}$ decays by combining the classic current algebra approach with the modern effective field theory. Under this framework, the most important $\mathcal{O}(G_F\alpha)$ radiative corrections are described by a single tensor $T^{\mu\nu}$ involving the time-ordered product between the charged weak current and the electromagnetic current, and all remaining pieces are calculable order-by-order in Chiral Perturbation Theory. We further point out a special advantage in the $K_{l3}^{0}$ channel that it suffers the least impact from the poorly-constrained low-energy constants. This finding may serve as a basis for a more precise extraction of the matrix element $V_{us}$ in the future.Comment: Version to appear in JHE

The sources and characteristics of electronic evidence and artificial intelligence

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence and electronic signatures. This fifth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions

Iskorištavanje borovine (Pinus sylvestris L.) s greškama za proizvodnju kompozitnog drva

This study presents opportunities for the utilization of timber by-products with defects for manufacturing engineered wood panels. Three gluing methods were proposed for this waste raw material derived from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood. The methods used for combining and gluing enabled a more complete and complex utilization of wood with defects. The physical properties (density and moisture content) and mechanical properties (bending strength and modulus of elasticity) of the laboratory-fabricated engineered wood panels were evaluated in accordance with the European standards. The highest density of 643 kg/m3 and bending strength values (28.6 N/mm2) were obtained from the panels manufactured using method 3 and veneered with beech veneer sheets. The modulus of elasticity of the laboratory-made engineered wood panels reached values of up to 5580 N/mm2. This study demonstrated the feasibility of the utilization of defective wood pieces in the manufacturing of engineered wood panels.U radu je predstavljena mogućnost iskorištavanja otpadnog drva s greškama za proizvodnju kompozitnog drva u graditeljstvu. Predložene su tri metode lijepljenja otpadnog drva borovine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Metode kombiniranja i lijepljenja omogućile su potpunije iskorištavanje drva s greškama. Fizička svojstva (gustoća i sadržaj vode) i mehanička svojstva (čvrstoća na savijanje i modul elastičnosti) laboratorijski proizvedenih kompozitnih drvnih ploča za graditeljstvo ocijenjena su prema europskim standardima. Najveću gustoću (643 kg/m3) i čvrstoću na savijanje (28,6 N/mm2) imale su ploče proizvedene metodom 3 i furnirane bukovim furnirom. Modul elastičnosti laboratorijski proizvedenih kompozitnih drvnih ploča za graditeljstvo dosegnuo je vrijednost od 5580 N/mm2. Ovo je istraživanje uputilo na mogućnost iskorištavanja drva s greškama za proizvodnju kompozitnih drvnih ploča namijenjenih graditeljstvu

The first records of Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata for Cambodia

First paragraph: The Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata is a little-known rallid, listed as Least Concern by BirdLife International (2015), with a range extending across most of South-East Asia (Robson 2008, Taylor 2015). However, the species has been rarely recorded, with the exception of a few locations in Singapore and Thailand (Li 2009, Wong 2011, Pierce et al. 2013), partly because of its skulking nature; it is seldom flushed or observed, and very rarely encountered as camera-trap by-catch during wildlife surveys, indicating that it may indeed be genuinely scarce. This note is a compilation of the only three confirmed Redlegged Crake records from Cambodia. Two are new records, whilst the third has been previously reported (Goes 2013) but is presented here with documentary evidence. These records confirm the species’s presence in three protected areas in widely separated parts of the country, and offer limited but important information on its ecology and likely status