Whose body is this?

Whose Nickname is This? Recognizing Politicians from Their Aliases

Using aliases to refer to public figures is one way to make fun of people, to express sarcasm, or even to sidestep legal issues when expressing opinions on social media. However, linking an alias back to the real name is difficult, as it entails phonemic, graphemic, and semantic challenges. In this paper, we propose a phonemic-based approach and inject semantic information to align aliases with...

Characterization and axiomatization of all semigroups whose square is group

In this paper we give a characterization for all semigroups whose square is a group. Moreover, we axiomatize such semigroups and study some relations between the class of these semigroups and Grouplikes,introduced by the author. Also, we observe that this paper characterizes and axiomatizes a class of Homogroups (semigroups containing an ideal subgroup).  Finally, several equivalent conditions ...

Whose body is it anyway? Disputes over body tissue in a biotechnology age.

In this changing context, developments in the removal, storage, and transformation of human tissue have created new opportunities for medical research and biotechnological applications that have increased demands for tissue. Body tissue has become a part of an international market. For example, a company has obtained American and European patents on the process of extracting stem cells from cor...

"Whose Game Is This Anyway?": Negotiating Corporate Ownership in a Virtual World

This paper explores the ways the commercialization of multiuser environments is posing particular challenges to user autonomy and authorship. With ever broadening defi nitions of intellectual property rights the status of cultural and symbolic artifacts as products of collaborative efforts becomes increasingly problematized. In the case of virtual environments – such as massive multiplayer onli...

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