This paper investigates the recently-practiced method of taxing hardware and transferring the proceeds to software makers, or artists in general. We demonstrate that this policy of compensating copyright owners for infringements on their intellectual property using hardware taxation is inefficient. Presented at the conference “Competition Strategies and Competition Policy in the Information Eco...

Dialyzable Leukocyte Extract (DLE) is an extract obtained from immune lymphocytes capable of transferring antigenspecific information for cell-mediated immunity (CMI) from an immunized donor to a naïve recipient. Those products, also called Transfer Factors (TF), are peptides of 3500-6000 kDa in molecular weight; light yellow fluid with pH 6.5-7.0, composed of oligoribonucleotides attached a pe...

Acoustics of a simplified, non-adiabatic combustor chamber, including a duct followed by a downstream exit nozzle, are considered. This system features heat transfer to the environment and, therefore involves mean axial temperature gradient along the duct and the nozzle. The effect of heat transfer on the dynamics of the acoustic reflection and transmission in the duct and nozzle is investigate...

Although facility scale thermal energy storage of sensible heat in the range of 200-550°C has achieved a high maturity, state-ofthe-art approaches are still not very cost effective. An innovative storage concept is thus proposed that avoids the two major costdriving factors of the concrete storage and 2-tank molten salt systems. First, the storage volume is comprised of low-cost sensible storag...

The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of enterotoxigenic and enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains and antibiotic resistance of the isolates in raw milk and unpasteurized cheese. Out of 200 samples of raw milk and 50 samples of unpasteurized cheeses, 96 and 24 strains of E. coli were isolated, respectively. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detect the genes encodi...

Ultrasonic vocalizations, emitted by rat pups when separated from their mother, littermates, and home cage, have been used as a measure of isolation distress. Recently, we demonstrated that cold exposure is the primary component of isolation that induces the vocalization. We were unable, however, to suppress all ultrasound production when transferring pups to a thermoneutral (35 degrees C) envi...

In this paper there are reported observations on a certain new reactivating property of normal and immune blood sera of various animal species. The effect of the reactivating sera consists in restoration of the toxicity in vivo and in vitro of completely neutralized meningococcus and B. coli reacting factors. The property is apparently non-specific, heat-labile, lessens on storage, and has no r...

Recent studies in psychology suggest that novelty-seeking trait is highly related to consumer behavior, which has a profound business impact on online recommendation. This paper studies the problem of mining novelty seeking trait across domains to improve the recommendation performance in target domain. We propose an efficient model, CDNST, which significantly improves the recommendation perfor...

One of the prerequisites for sustainable development is knowledge, in order to inform coping with sustainability threats and to support innovative sustainability pathways. Transferring knowledge is therefore a fundamental challenge for sustainability, in a context where external knowledge must be integrated with local knowledge in order to promote user-driven action. But effective local co-prod...