The debate in forensic science concentrates on issues such as standardisation, accreditation and de-contextualisation, in a legal and economical context, in order to ensure the scientific objectivity and efficiency that must guide the process of collecting, analysing, interpreting and reporting forensic evidence. At the same time, it is recognised that forensic case data is still poorly integra...

Sketching provides a natural and compact means for a user to outline a plan for a high-level objective. Previous work on plan sketching required that sketches be valid, meaning that there be at least one legal completion of the sketch relative to predefined planning knowledge. This paper addresses the problem of plan sketch interpretation when the validity assumption does not hold. We present a...

I. THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R A. Classical Economics and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . 5 R B. Behavioral Challenges to the Rational Choice Model: The Endowment Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 1. The Strength of the Endowment Effect . ....

The Supreme Court of India has used its constitutionally mandated task of interpreting the enforceable fundamental rights enumerated in Part III of the constitution to extend its own powers. This extension in my view poses a dangerous threat to the Constitutional democracy of India. I argue below that the situation not only impacts the spillover effects beyond each case, but the learned justice...

The written report (or its electronic counterpart) is the primary mode of communication between the physician interpreting an imaging study and the referring physician. The content of this report not only influences patient management and clinical outcomes but also serves as legal documentation of services provided and can be used to justify medical necessity, billing accuracy, and regulatory c...

Traditional methods for image scene interpretation and understanding are based mainly on such single threaded procedural paradigms as hypothesize-and-test or syntactic parsing. As a result, these systems are unable to carry out tasks that require concurrent hypotheses. In this paper we describe a hierarchical, network-of-frames system for symbolically interpreting images. The system is able to ...

Economic theory suggests that, although the holdup and holdout problems arise in different contexts and are typically treated as disparate, they represent the same underlying economic problem. In particular, both involve an up-front investment that reduces the investor’s bargaining power with the seller of a necessary input and thereby lead to under-investment. This paper explores the implicati...

This paper investigates the decisions and factors affecting the implementation of a corporate portal to support knowledge management processes in a global IT-Management consultancy firm. Employing a conceptual framework based on Activity Theory, this study offers some new insights into the implementation of a portal with due consideration of the case organisation’s global operational context wh...

This article highlights recent and pending United States Supreme Court cases interpreting employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and discusses their implications for spine professionals. The implications include how Spine readers approach evaluations of employees and job applicants with disabilities and workplace accommodations in light of the recent decisions. The cases p...