Risks, Rights, and Needs: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection?

Disability equality and prenatal testing: contradictory or compatible?

I. WHAT IS DISABILITY “REALLY” LIKE, OR HOW MISINFORMED ARE PEOPLE ANYWAY?.............................................................................................................. 318 A. Models of Disability ...................................................................................... 318 B. Disability and the Normal Opportunity Range........................................... 322...

Digital Rights Protection Digital Rights Protection *

Digital Rights Protection (DRP) is the broad class of technological, legal, and other regulatory means used to protect the rights of the owners of digital content, while simultaneously protecting the usage rights and the privacy of the users. This article briefly discusses the technological aspect of the issue.

A Mechanism for Creating Knowledge Bases Supporting Contradictory Models

In many domains, users from varying backgrounds (and with varying conceptualisations of the domain) seek advice from an expert and the expert adapts their reasoning and explanation for the background of each user, using stereotypical categories of user (for example physicist or engineer). In earlier papers, the viewpoints mechanism was presented as a means of replicating this behaviour in knowl...

Animal Rights and Ecoholism Are Not Compatible

Resilient Rights Protection for Sensor

Today’s world of increasingly dynamic computing environments naturally results in more and more data being available as fast streams. Applications such as stock market analysis, environmental sensing, web clicks and intrusion detection are just a few of the examples where valuable data is streamed to its consumer. Often, streaming information is offered on the basis of a non-exclusive, singleus...