Purpose: Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis (HKOA) is a leading cause of disability worldwide and pain the most common symptom for seeking health care due to its interference on daily living activities, social occupational participation. Although, internationally, literature suggests that outcomes current interventions are suboptimal in control people with OA, great proportion OA lives Inadequate Pain ...

This paper presents a background of a project undertaken at Sohar University to implement a web based plagiarism detection system for academic activities. Digital content in academic environments are created by academics and students. This Digital content is research publications and assessment submissions – assignments. Academic Digital content once created needs to be verified for non-violati...

The impact of patents and patent royalties are a major concern of standards setting organisations. Here we examine the patents filed in the UMTS 3rd generation mobile phone standard, governed by the ETSI IPR policy in response to patent issues faced during the earlier GSM standardization. We contrast firm strategies and policy effectiveness between the GSM and UTMS efforts, and review the poten...

Only a single thorium fullerene, Th@C84, has been reported to date (Akiyama, K.; et al. J. Nucl. Radiochem. Sci. 2002, 3, 151-154). Although the system was characterized by UV-vis and XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure) spectra, its structure and properties remain unknown. In this work we used the density functional calculations to identify molecular and electronic structure of the Th@...

December 31, 1999, in addition to being the last day of the 20 century, was the deadline for all but the least-developed countries to comply with the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) requirements of the WTO for extending and harmonizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Many countries have complied in full while others are in process in some regards, but virtually...

In this article we present the supervised iterative projections and rotations (s-ipr) algorithm, a method for learning discriminative incoherent subspaces from data. We derive s-ipr as a supervised extension of our previously proposed iterative projections and rotations (ipr) algorithm for incoherent dictionary learning, and we employ it to learn incoherent sub-spaces that model signals belongi...

The role of foreign direct investment and intellectual property rights in economic development is discussed widely in the literature. However, an integrating framework is missing to assess the role of FDI and IPR for agricultural development. This paper establishes a framework to assess the role of FDI and IPR for seed sector development in developing countries. The impact assessment is carried...

This work in progress paper argues that a reason why reuse of software components in information systems development is not more common and why users do not and cannot understand the systems they use partly depends on the implementation of the current IPR system and the repercussions it has for the proprietary software model. A full blown anti-IPR system, modified from the GNU GPL and CC Attrib...

The title compound, C(24)H(30)N(2)P(2)S(2), was obtained by the reaction of Ph(2)PN(iPr)P(Ph)N(iPr)H with elemental sulfur in tetra-hydro-furan. In the solid state, intra-molecular N-H⋯S hydrogen bonding influences the mol-ecular conformation; a P-N-P-N torsion angle of 2.28 (9)° is observed. The two phenyl rings attached to one P atom form a dihedral angle of 74.02 (4)°.

[((Ar) PMI)Mo(CO)4 ] complexes (PMI=pyridine monoimine; Ar=Ph, 2,6-di-iso-propylphenyl) were synthesized and their electrochemical properties were probed with cyclic voltammetry and infrared spectroelectrochemistry (IR-SEC). The complexes undergo a reduction at more positive potentials than the related [(bipyridine)Mo(CO)4 ] complex, which is ligand based according to IR-SEC and DFT data. To pr...