More Than an Academic Question: Defining Student Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property is increasingly important due to technology’s rapid development. The importance of intellectual property is also reflected within universities as traditional centers of research and expression, where students and faculty are encouraged to develop inventions and creative works throughout the educational experience. The commercialization potential of the intellectual property that emerges from these efforts has led many universities to adopt policies to determine ownership of intellectual property rights. Many of these policies take different approaches to ownership, and most students are unaware of their rights and are unlikely to consider whether the university has a claim to ownership. The purpose of this Article is to outline how intellectual property rights arise in the academic environment and to analyze how university policies determine ownership rights for students and the university. This Article concludes by urging universities and students to acknowledge the existence of these issues, adopt policies to address ownership rights, and make these policies known to members of the university community

An Analysis of Construction Estimating Software

There are various components that go into building a construction project. And regardless of the size of the project, construction projects have become increasingly expensive with cost escalations on the rise. The cost element of each construction project is critical to the success of the overall project. In today’s current industry, numerous resources are available that strive to assist the built environment with managing construction costs. Currently, construction firms are maintaining a competitive edge by using the technology that has been made available. The basis of this research, conducted using a quantitative survey, was to provide data that indicated which software and techniques construction companies are utilizing. Students in the Construction Management Department at California Polytechnic University of San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) engage in a range of curriculum objectives. The reassurance that students are well prepared and are being educated using the most updated technologies is paramount to student success at the university as well as after graduation. Overall, this research paper will look at the various estimating and quantity takeoff software that some of the most prominent companies are using. This data will then be used to analyze the estimating curriculum at Cal Poly SLO

Dispersive spherical optical model of neutron scattering from Al27 up to 250 MeV

A spherical optical model potential (OMP) containing a dispersive term is used to fit the available experimental database of angular distribution and total cross section data for n + Al27 covering the energy range 0.1- 250 MeV using relativistic kinematics and a relativistic extension of the Schroedinger equation. A dispersive OMP with parameters that show a smooth energy dependence and energy independent geometry are determined from fits to the entire data set. A very good overall agreement between experimental data and predictions is achieved up to 150 MeV. Inclusion of nonlocality effects in the absorptive volume potential allows to achieve an excellent agreement up to 250 MeV.Comment: 13 figures (11 eps and 2 jpg), 3 table

Extreme speech, hate crimes and freedom of expression: A difficult balance

Este trabajo afronta la necesidad de conseguir una definición legal más clara y restrictiva del discurso del odio y se plantea los límites de la libertad de expresión ante discursos intolerantes. Asimismo, estudia las distintas respuestas que ofrece el ordenamiento jurídico y en particular el impacto de las redes sociales y de InternetThis paper addresses the need to a more defined and restrictive legal definition of hate speech and displays the limits on freedom of expression related to extreme speech. Moreover, it studies the different responses offered by the legal system and the impact of social networks and the Interne

Empirical studies of open source evolution

Copyright @ 2008 Springer-VerlagThis chapter presents a sample of empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution. According to these studies, the classical results from the studies of proprietary software evoltion, such as Lehman’s laws of software evolution, might need to be revised, if not fully, at least in part, to account for the OSS observations. The book chapter also summarises what appears to be the empirical status of each of Lehman’s laws with respect to OSS and highlights the threads to validity that frequently emerge in these empirical studies. The chapter also discusses related topics for further research