Abstract Since the announcement and establishment of Oversight Board (OB) by technology company Meta as an independent institution reviewing Facebook Instagram’s content moderation decisions, OB has been subjected to scholarly scrutiny ranging from praise criticism. However, there is currently no overarching framework for understanding OB’s various strengths weaknesses. Consequently, this artic...

Stories pervade our mental lives. We use stories to explain the state of the world, to provide context for objects and actions, to persuade others, and especially to predict the outcomes of our actions. If we wish to build programs that interact with and think about the world as intelligently as we do, we must allow them to understand and reason about stories. For proper reasoning and inference...

The NREFS project is re-evaluating the management of radiation accidents, paying attention to environmental, financial and safety issues and to the threat and response phase. In designing our project some two years ago, we were concerned to avoid any assumption that a future accident will be similar to a past accident, in particular the Chernobyl and Fukushima Accidents. After a year of researc...

The TREAT paradigm and the doctrine of explanatory synthesis are both organizational methodologies and substantive theories designed to improve the substance of legal writing. The TREAT paradigm doctrine holds that the presentation of legal discourse in a carefully constructed order not only promotes clarity and satisfies audience expectations but also maximizes the communicative potential and ...

This paper is a continuous extension of the paper Maggi and Staiger (2011) in two aspects that both the state space and trading policy space are continuous instead of binary discrete. And the WTO Dispute Settlement Body(DSB) will have the binary ruling-free trade or notonce a dispute is invoked between importing and exporting countries. In the static game, the findings are basically a refinemen...

An evidence-based systematic review of gymnema (Gymnema sylvestre R. Br.), including written and statistical analysis of scientific literature, expert opinion, folkloric precedent, history, pharmacology, kinetics/dynamics, interactions, adverse effects, toxicology, and dosing.

Axiomatic bargaining theory (e.g., Nash’s theorem) is static. We attempt to provide a dynamic justification for the theory. Suppose a Judge or Arbitrator must allocate utility in an (infinite) sequence of two-person problems; at each date, the Judge is presented with a utility possibility set in R+. He/she must choose an allocation in the set, constrained only by Nash’s axioms, in the sense tha...

BAC THIS DISPOSITION IS NOT CITABLE AS PRECEDENT OF THE TTAB AUG. 18, 99 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________ Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ________ In re Liebel-Flarsheim Company ________ Serial No. 75/094,858 ______ Donald F. Frei of Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. for LiebelFlarsheim Company. Jennifer Stiver Chicoski, Trademark Examining Attorney, Law Office 105 (...