Intellectual Property Colloquium Series: Canada and the Three-Step Test: A Step in Which Direction?

Augmented Test Collections: A Step in the Right Direction

In this position paper we argue that certain aspects of relevance assessment in the evaluation of IR systems are oversimplified and that human assessments represented by qrels should be augmented to take account of contextual factors and the subjectivity of the task at hand. We propose enhancing test collections used in evaluation with information related to human assessors and their interpreta...

Horizontal inventive step and international protection of intellectual property

Article history: Received 8 December 2011 Received in revised form 6 August 2012 Accepted 7 August 2012 Available online 21 August 2012 This paper studies the intellectual property protection in a global setting where the protection is based on the patentability requirement. When two countries with similar research efficiencies open trade with each other, the world patentability requirement wil...

VERTOS: A Step in the Right Direction.

The bounded proof property via step algebras and step frames

We develop a semantic criterion for a specific rule-based calculus Ax axiomatizing a given logic L to have the so-called bounded proof property. This property is a kind of an analytic subformula property limiting the proof search space. Our main tools are one-step frames and one-step algebras. These structures were used in [23], [11] to construct free algebras of modal logics via coalgebraic me...

Maximal Step Test: A New Approach to Step Test Improvements

The purpose of this study was to introduce a new maximal step test (NMST) with adjusted step height based on the knee joint angle of 90°. Thirty female students of physical education With (Mean ± SD, ages: 23.6±2.11 yr, height: 164.63±7.14cm, weight: 60.97±4.01 kg, body fat percent: 23.6±2.11) participated in the study and performed both NMST and a maximal graded excise test (GXT) to measure ma...