INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 523 I. BACKGROUND ........................................................................... 525 A. Common Law Research Exception ......................................... 525 B. The Statutory Safe Harbor Provision: 271(e)(1) .................... 528 II. CASE LAW: THE SAFE HARBOR STATUE PROTECTION ...

Wireless medical body sensor networks enable a new way of continuous patient monitoring, extending the reach of current healthcare solutions. They improve care giving by a flexible acquisition of relevant vital sign data, and by providing more convenience for patients. Applying the general concept of sensor networks to the medical domains requires development of reliable, distributed microsyste...

The development and management of alliances is a critical strategic skill in hospitality and tourism. Very little can happen in these sectors without multiple firms working collaboratively with one another to serve the consumer. All over the world companies are entering into alliances (see Table 1). However, research in this and other sectors suggest that most will fail leaving both partners sa...

Objective: Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) experienced a significant surge during the last decades due to increase of early breast cancer detection. Central discussion is margin adequacy which represents one most predictive factors for local relapse. This paper aims shed light on problem margins in surgery. Mechanism: We performed systematic narrative review literature by conducting search usin...

A method for the realization of fail-safe sequential circuits is presented where flip-flops are employed for representing the internal states. First, such a design technique where the circuit will be trapped in an erroneous state into which it is transferred by a fault is shown. Further, the condition for assuring that the circuit will be dropped into the particular (predetermined) final state ...

One of the relevant tasks of the teaching-learning process is that of evaluation. In this sense, estimating the academic performance exhibited by the final evaluation of a student, at the end of the current semester, has become of particular interest for students, parents, educators, educative managers and researchers alike. More specifically, the current paper is focused in determining whether...

Abstract Background Guidelines recommended for resection of oral cancer define a free margin ≥5 mm as clear and safe (R0). This statement was questioned recently based on the assumption that different surgical margins may hold risk categories. The aim this study to investigate impact stratification survival outcome patients with cancer. Methods In cohort 753 patients, hazard ratio local recurre...

With the increasing scale of power systems and large-scale application new energy technologies, planning construction future grids stable operation face severe challenges. Among them, transient stability short-circuit current are two key factors that determine safe a system. However, in traditional power-grid planning, there is little research on strategy coordinating solution between stability...

A fundamental aspect of any concurrent system is how processes communicate with each other. Ultimately, all communication involves concurrent reads and writes of shared memory cells, or registers. The stronger the guarantees provided by a register, the more useful it is to the user, but the harder it may be to implement in practice. Thus it is of interest to determine which types of registers c...