The Search for an Author: Shakespeare and the Framers

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Television sport in the age of screens and content

The death of television has been long predicated in the digital age, yet it remains a powerful mediator of live sports. This article focuses on football and examines the implications for the sport of the move to an age of screens and content. These may be large screens in public places or in our homes or those at work or smaller screens carried in the palm of our hands, but what we use them for, how content gets onto those screens, and the implications for sports and sports fans remain compelling questions in the digital age. The article argues that through reflecting on major media sport events such as the FIFA World Cup, we see patterns of continuity in the role played by television as well as evidence of change

Putting it to the test

THE BPS Steering Committee on Test Standards (SCTS) has already developed and introduced standards for testing in occupational settings - the Level A and Level B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing - to encourage responsible test use by psychologists and nonpsychologists alike. Next month, at the Society's Annual Conference in London, the SCTS will launch the Level A Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing. It is envisaged that the Certificate will help to raise standards of test use and promote a wider knowledge of psychology among test users in education

The Hood

Non-fiction by Charlene Boyl

Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond

This article is part of a symposium issue entitled Cultural Environmentalism @ 10, occuring on the tenth anniversary of Prof. Boyle\u27s book, Shamans, Software, and Spleens. In this article Prof. Boyle offers his thoughts on the failings, limitations, occasional promise, and possible future of the ideas discussed in the symposium including both the work on cultural environmentalism and the surrounding ideas on authorship, the rhetoric of economic analysis, the structure of intellectual property scholarship, and the jurisprudence of the public domain

A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property

In this Manifesto, Professor Boyle claims that there are systematic errors in contemporary intellectual property policy and that WIPO has an important role in helping to correct them

Stress relaxation and elastic follow-up using a stress range-dependent constitutive model

Despite the availability of detailed nonlinear finite element analysis, some aspects of high temperature design can still be best addressed through more simplified methods. One such simplified method relates to the problem of elastic follow-up where typically in strain-controlled situations, elastic behaviour in one part of a structure can lead to large strain accumulation in another. Over the past thirty years it has been shown that in regions with significant elastic follow-up a plot of maximum stress against strain (a 'stress-strain trajectory') is virtually independent of the constitutive relation - a characteristic which can be used to estimate elastic follow-up for design purposes without detailed nonlinear finite element analysis. The majority of studies which have reported this independence on material behaviour have used simple constitutive models for creep strain, primarily based on power law creep or variations. Recently studies of the behaviour of high temperature structures with a stress range dependent constitutive law have begun to emerge. This paper examines the problem of elastic follow-up using such a constitutive law for a classic two-bar structure and for a more complex structure using finite element analysis. It is found that the independence of the stress-strain trajectory on constitutive equation is lost with a stress range dependent relation