New grounds for landscape history

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New Grounds in the Patent Landscape for Nanotechnology Inventions from a European Perspective

In 2014, at latest in 2015, extensive changes in the legal environment for patents in Europe are to be expected, having considerable impact on monopolizing inventions e.g. from the nanotechnology environment: With establishing the "European patent with unitary effect”, for the very first time the grant of single patents with uniform coverage of (almost) the entire territory of the European Unio...

New ethical grounds

others were seriously injured. Other workers risked their lives to fetch the smallest cubs from the breeding centre and carry them to safety. Two of the centre’s 53 pandas were injured and six went missing, but four returned later. However, staff managed to transport eight pandas to Chengdu where they were flown to Beijing. Conservationists hope the arrival of the animals at Beijing zoo will hi...

New grounds for ontic trust: Information objects and LIS

The information ethics of Luciano Floridi’s well-known Philosophy of Information (PI) project are explored as potential foundations for a deepening sense of stewardship in library and information studies (LIS) practice. The implications of PI’s world view of “information objects” as having intrinsic value and resulting moral rights within the evolving “infosphere” are discussed in the context o...

a new approach to credibility premium for zero-inflated poisson models for panel data

هدف اصلی از این تحقیق به دست آوردن و مقایسه حق بیمه باورمندی در مدل های شمارشی گزارش نشده برای داده های طولی می باشد. در این تحقیق حق بیمه های پبش گویی بر اساس توابع ضرر مربع خطا و نمایی محاسبه شده و با هم مقایسه می شود. تمایل به گرفتن پاداش و جایزه یکی از دلایل مهم برای گزارش ندادن تصادفات می باشد و افراد برای استفاده از تخفیف اغلب از گزارش تصادفات با هزینه پائین خودداری می کنند، در این تحقیق ...