In all relevant patent systems an adversely affected party has the possibility to appeal the patent office’s decision in front of a patent court or Board of Appeal (BoA). Within a European context, the EPO is, in a way, even engaging in de facto competition with national patent offices. As an example, the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) provides quasi identical patent products and off...

1 Wen-Kuei Hsieh, Sze-Hai Instit ute of Technology and Commerce, Department of Banking and Insurance, [email protected] 2 Lin Hsiao, Sze-Hai Institute of Technology and Commerce, Department of Banking and Insurance Abstract -The purposes for founding Junior Colleges of Commerce in Taiwan were to cultivate intermediate business technicians to meet the needs of national economic development and...

A suitable knowledge of the orientation and motion of the Earth in space is a common need in various fields. That knowledge has been ever necessary to carry out astronomical observations, but with the advent of the space age, it became essential for making observations of satellites and predicting and determining their orbits, and for observing the Earth from space as well. Given the relevant r...

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• SRA-Europe • SRA-Japan • American Chemistry Council • American Physical Society • German Commission on Harmonizing Risk Standards • German Foundation for Environment and Risk Management • International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management • Int’l Council on Systems Engineering • International Union of Toxicology • National Science Foundation • Society of Environmenta...

In the framework of the Computers in Education international study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), data have been collected concerning the use of computers in 21 countries. This article examines some results regarding the involvement of women in the implementation and use of computers in the educational practice of elementary, lower secondar...

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This volume contains extended versions of the selected papers presented at the 13th GAMM-IMACS International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Verified Numerical Computations SCAN’2008 that took place at the University of Texas at El Paso on September 29 – October 3, 2008. The conference continues the series of international SCAN symposia held under the joint sponsorshi...

Determination of the most important problems on medicinal plants in Iran in relation to Education, Management, Research and Development and Domestication of endemic and exotic medicinal plants. This study was a measuremental study in 2002 based on 36 filled questionnaire distributed among researchers and professionals in Iran. - 89 percent of researchers and professionals believed in a lack of ...