Spamming along A federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, has held that spammer LGCM, Inc. was liable to America Online (AOL) for fraud. LGCM thwarted AOL’s anti-spam software, the court found, and sent out over AOL’s system millions of unsolicited emails that solicited business for pornographic Web sites. The court’s November 1998 order of summary judgment required LGCM to cease abusing AOL’s sy...

Summer 2005 ■ Volume 83 292 The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 10.4% of the U.S. population, or approximately 28 million individuals, are immigrants (Schmidley, 2001). Immigration is undoubtedly the strongest force that has shaped U.S. history, and current global changes account for unprecedented movements of individuals across the world in search of better life opportunities and conditions (M...

IN its technical aspects medical education in the United Kingdom is traditionally amateur. Curricula conform only within the widest of guidelines; teaching methods and performances are rarely assessed; examinations are often antiquated in concept and execution and the results rarely validated; the syllabus is organised frequently with the convenience of teachers the overriding desideratum and i...

The combination of rapid innovation and high risk obstetric sonography has resulted in increased potential for litigation: 80% of suits in sonography are obstetric-related. These suits come under the category of tort law, where damages are sought to compensate those whose interests have been harmed. To win a claim the plaintiff must prove that a legal duty has been breached, that damages hav...

In the UK schools are required by law to protect students from bullying; the responsibility of teachers to govern such behaviour has been extended outside the school setting to include cyberbullying. In this investigation, cyberbullying in secondary education is explored from the student perspective using a qualitative method of enquiry. Reported awareness and understanding about the legal aspe...

This paper offers new insights into the role of firms versus individuals in driving technology directions, and the extent to which human capital may be lost during industrial shifts. We explore in particular whether (1) due to different offshore production economics, firms who move manufacturing offshore slow U.S.-based R&D activities in an emerging technology and (2) the inventors originally w...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Introduction Litigation can be seen as a reflection of medical error and harm to patients. Studying litigation may reveal trends from which lessons can be learned, leading to improvements in patient safety.1 The threat of litigation may be of some value in increasing investment in safety.2 An alternative to costly litigation is a no-fault compens...

T HE PATIENT with coronary disease comes into court, or his descendents for him, mainly under 3 major conditions: (1) it is claimed that he has received a personal injury which caused or aggravated his heart disease; (2) his cardiac mischief has been produced or worsened by his employment (Workmen's Compensation); or (3) he is entitled to premature pension payments, governimental or private, by...

eco-innovation is an actual topic as it links two key issues, innovation and sustainability. theenvironmental respect and innovation are important drivers of competitiveness. firms are willing to knowwhat to do to improve their eco-innovative capacity. the objective of this paper is to empirically determinewhat common characteristics have the most environmental oriented innovative firms. we ana...