published international legal documents : charter rights fundamental european :union: ( 7 december 2000

4 . 2 . 2 Digital Rights Management and Privacy — Legal Aspects in the European Union

As legal phenomena, intellectual property rights and privacy rights have tended to live separate lives. At the same time, regimes for protecting intellectual property have had, up until lately, only a marginal practical impact on the privacy of information users. However, recent developments in Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMS) are bringing to the fore considerable tension between the en...

European Union vs. Spam: A Legal Response

Unsolicited commercial communications now represent more than fifty per cent of the e-mail traffic in the European Union and around the world. This paper is about the legal EU approach to such an issue. Through the analysis of the evolution of the legislative framework, it aims to define, under a legal perspective, what spam is, to explain why the opt-in choice has been adopted by the EU, and t...

Random stretching December 7 , 2000 1 Overview

1 Overview In the previous lecture we emphasized that the destruction of tracer variance by molecular diffusivity relies on the increase of ∇c by stirring. Thus the term κ∇c ·∇c in the variance budget eventually becomes important, even though the molecular diffusivity κ is very small. One goal of this lecture is to understand in more detail how tracer gradients in a moving fluid are amplified b...

Eddy diffusion December 7 , 2000 1 Introduction

2000 IEEE . Published in the 2000 International Conference on Image

An effective real-time post-processing algorithm for error recovery in noise corrupted JPEG bit streams integrated into an existing remote video-surveillance system is presented. The algorithm exploits information extracted by the video-surveillance system in order to detect corrupted frames and to recover them, enhancing the performances of the system, without compromising the real-time behavi...

Patient's rights charter in Iran.

Given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran. Iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. This charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. T...