Asian IP Law: An Area of Rising Importance

When Is an Area Law Not an Area Law?

Entanglement entropy is typically proportional to area, but sometimes it acquires an additional logarithmic pre-factor. We offer some intuitive explanations for these facts.

The rising importance of Triatoma rubrofasciata

The migration of invasive vector species has contributed to the worldwide extension of infectious diseases such as dengue (Aedes aegypti) and chikungunya (Aedes albopictus). It is probably a similar behaviour for certain vectors of Chagas disease which allowed it to become a continental burden in Latin America. One of them, Triatoma rubrofasciata has also been spreading throughout the tropical ...

Principles of Asian Contract Law: an Endeavor of Regional Harmonization of Contract Law in East Asia

FOLLOWING the development of the globalized economy, it was inevitable that relevant private law rules would be harmonized and unified. This kind of harmonization and unification is both a global and a regional endeavor. In Asia (especially in East Asia) there is a private initiative by scholars trying to harmonize rules of contract law, and the aim is to create a model law called Principles of...

IP on ATM Local Area

Pricing Law to Charge IP Guaranteed Services

This paper presents a usage-based tariff model to charge IP guaranteed network services. We consider a future business scenario where the Internet can support application services that need performance guarantees. In this scenario we define the concept of network commodity, that is the transfer of information units between two points of the network. This commodity is associated with a measure a...